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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 4776741" data-attributes="member: 35909">Quotes because I think this is legal.I've long had to wonder how the heck the Remorhaz is CR 7, even played dumb and just attacking mindlessly.  I've avoided using it, and never at level 7, but in this game, the party is high powered gestalt and level 8...maybe I can take off the kiddie gloves. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I was reading the description and aside from the insane fire damage, two things stuck out to me: swallow hole + burrow speed.  Seems to me like the creature's natural instinct would be to swallow one unlucky person, then burrow underground until he's digested.  Or just leave if that was enouh of a meal.  Doing that seems inherently...rat bastardy, though...Am I right in assuming this combo "works"?If someone clawed their way out only to find themselves 20-50 ft underground...what happens?I've always liked the idea of burrowing enemies doing hit and run attacks, any advice specific to the remorhaz to make it fun and less deadly?Finally, it is rotating DM, and while i'm the main DM, I still have a PC that I run during my sessions.  He's a cleric and the only healer in the group, so thus far, it's been easy to put him in a support role and not hog the spotlight.  But in this instance, the remorhaz becomes a LOT less deadly w/ mass energy resist prepared.  The characters should have no idea of expecting this thing, so he probably shouldn't prepare it.  But then i wonder if they'll think I "hijacked" my spells prepared list to make the fight artifically difficult.  They're normally pretty laid back, it's probably not a big deal, still a worry for me though.  Also, mass resist energy is SO good, a case could be made of "why wouldn't you prepare it every day?"  Hmm....EDIT: Since the view of what is and isn't a RBDM varies widely, my personal stances include:1. The Bodak should never be used in any game.2. Generally enemies should not place precedence in attacking a character who's dying but not dead.3. Sundering as it currently exists is patently unfair to use against the PCs.</blockquote>

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