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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prospero63" data-source="post: 4115763" data-attributes="member: 16014">I do that with *all* named bad guys. I too have a relatively large party, and if I don't it's absolutely no challenge at all to them. And to add on the pile, quantity, quantity, quantity. If 2 bone devils are a pushover, throw 4 at them. Also, play the bad guys smart - especially on their home turf. I'll give you an example:[IF YOU ARE ONE OF MY PLAYERS, STOP READING NOW]The party had gotten pretty lazy with a warlock that can cast d-door (limited range) at will. Basically every encounter they ran into they could d-door the tanks into the middle of the bad guys and start tearing the place up. Well, they left some bad guys alive, rumors started getting out and the word was sent to capture "whoever is harassing us. We want to talk to them". This is RttToEE. Well, low and behold to my surprise the party decides to go back to the main gate (where they slaughtered the entire defenses of when they first entered) for the easy pickings of what they (correctly) assume is the Earth Temple. Except that the main gate has been reinforced... by a half-fiend troll with unhallow as a spell like ability. So I'm thinking "the goal is to capture, what's an easy way to do that". Aha!! Throw unhallows with dimensional anchor tied to them. And since there's no cost involved, he might as well blanket the whole damned area. As expected the party split in two (can't bring them all in one shot) and half of them got caught with no exit, while the other half got caught with no entrance. It got dangerously close to a TPK, but in the end the party prevailed (with some assistance from an NPC that had been following them... long story). It was one of the tougher challenges they have had to face (at one point only one PC was functioning) and I think it the players had more fun than they have had in a while. Why? Because I played up that the area the bad guys were in was *their* home turf.</blockquote>

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