Traveler
2011-07-26, 11:55 PM
My group is currently running through an adjusted Fortress on the Yuin-Ti in the Eberron setting, and we are getting beaten up by everything and we are on a timelimit. Normally I'd just think of another plan or something but all of my tricks have been used up already and new plans don't seem to function well either. So I humbly ask the creative and helpful of the playground to lend ideas to help me level the playing field, preferably in a creative way. Backstory is as follows.
Short version,
BBEG literally handwaved us away (teleported 900 miles to the west), we got our hands on the only weapons that can hurt him, returned to the fortress where he is (we think), and have slowly fought though several powerful allies BBEG has gathered. The last fight (one cleric vs 6 of us) ended in a near TPK. The enemy also is gathering armies and will launch a new war should we fail.Long and detailed version.
Our party worked through part of the fortress without that much trouble. Eventually we come across a room where the BBEG Sertrous (or rather a fragment) comes into existance moments after we kill several priests. We talk, he handwaves part of the party 900 miles away. I throw 2/3 wishes at him off a ring I found (he forceably took the ring before I could use the last) to little effect. I wished him Destroyed (something happened to him but I don;t know what) and tried banishing him to another plane. That did not work either. The rest of the party gets teleported away.
We stock up on supplies, chase down some information, and return for payback. We discoverd that there are several items that can hurt him and we have some. He and his followers have the others at his fortress.
We return to the fortress, free some prisoners (sacrifices) and fight two of his new twelve generals. The first fight wasn't bad. Vorpal sword made the fight go quick. It could have been far worse given the enemy was a madusa. Second general killed all but two party members. One was elsewhere and the other was dropped to two hit points. These have been one on six/seven fights, but now I believe that we are going to start fighting more than one general at a time and we a being beat up already. Also, several documents we found say that he (sertrous) has gained the support of a large yuin-ti cult in Xen'drik, the Emerald Claw has lent some of it's forces, and Droam will also back Sertrous up in what has been hinted at a new war should we fail. And this is just from what we found so far. I can only assume that given there are 12 generals that they each have a force behind them.
Now, based on what I have explained (or tried to) we are out numbered (used to that), over matched (used to that), and bad things happen each time we retreat (used to that). But now all of these things are applied at the same time and it is straining the group's resoures and moral. So I could use some creative ideas to help us change up how this is going. The only idea I have aside from plow through and hope for the best is raise an opposing army, but who is going to believe 7 random adventures and lend troops?
So if you have taken the time to read this I thank you for that alone. It's late and I'm tired so this probably isn't as clear or detailed as it should be. If you have any ideas to change the direction of how this is going I'm fully open to whatever you might have to say, including "solve your own problems". If you have played this mod, please do not give spoilers if you can help it.
Short version,
BBEG literally handwaved us away (teleported 900 miles to the west), we got our hands on the only weapons that can hurt him, returned to the fortress where he is (we think), and have slowly fought though several powerful allies BBEG has gathered. The last fight (one cleric vs 6 of us) ended in a near TPK. The enemy also is gathering armies and will launch a new war should we fail.Long and detailed version.
Our party worked through part of the fortress without that much trouble. Eventually we come across a room where the BBEG Sertrous (or rather a fragment) comes into existance moments after we kill several priests. We talk, he handwaves part of the party 900 miles away. I throw 2/3 wishes at him off a ring I found (he forceably took the ring before I could use the last) to little effect. I wished him Destroyed (something happened to him but I don;t know what) and tried banishing him to another plane. That did not work either. The rest of the party gets teleported away.
We stock up on supplies, chase down some information, and return for payback. We discoverd that there are several items that can hurt him and we have some. He and his followers have the others at his fortress.
We return to the fortress, free some prisoners (sacrifices) and fight two of his new twelve generals. The first fight wasn't bad. Vorpal sword made the fight go quick. It could have been far worse given the enemy was a madusa. Second general killed all but two party members. One was elsewhere and the other was dropped to two hit points. These have been one on six/seven fights, but now I believe that we are going to start fighting more than one general at a time and we a being beat up already. Also, several documents we found say that he (sertrous) has gained the support of a large yuin-ti cult in Xen'drik, the Emerald Claw has lent some of it's forces, and Droam will also back Sertrous up in what has been hinted at a new war should we fail. And this is just from what we found so far. I can only assume that given there are 12 generals that they each have a force behind them.
Now, based on what I have explained (or tried to) we are out numbered (used to that), over matched (used to that), and bad things happen each time we retreat (used to that). But now all of these things are applied at the same time and it is straining the group's resoures and moral. So I could use some creative ideas to help us change up how this is going. The only idea I have aside from plow through and hope for the best is raise an opposing army, but who is going to believe 7 random adventures and lend troops?
So if you have taken the time to read this I thank you for that alone. It's late and I'm tired so this probably isn't as clear or detailed as it should be. If you have any ideas to change the direction of how this is going I'm fully open to whatever you might have to say, including "solve your own problems". If you have played this mod, please do not give spoilers if you can help it.