Jeff the Green
2013-05-17, 01:02 AM
My players please stay out/leave.
The characters in my Ravenloft campaign are soon approaching an encounter with Baba Zelenna and her coven of witches who have summoned the aspect of their demonic master, Czernobog. As written in the module, Baba Zelenna is an advanced (11 HD) green hag, there are six witches that are all level 4 adepts, and Czernobog is a 10 HD outsider with most of the abilities of a level 10 warlock. They'll be encountered on top of a hill in a burned out fort, with a holy circle granting everyone inside a +2 bonus on attack rolls.
As they are, they would almost certainly be massacred by the PCs:
{table=head]Player|Character|World|Race/Class
al'Lan Mandragoran|Arya Skye (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=392015)|Far Plains|Catfolk Knight/Swordsage
Fireheart|T'rissaste Xorlarrin (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=391911)|Forgotten Realms|Drow Scout/Ranger
Mahrke|Isaac Pellivander (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=391905)|Earth (Shadowrun)|Human Chronomancer (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mDL6oVkpiTNyjmr3OvN8V1NIqJ8uyUdcWMcSsXOreCM/edit)
The Fallen One|Aswin Vigunnarson (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=392225)|Earth (Norse)|Goliath Harmonious Knight of Freedom
Sallera|August (http://www.thetangledweb.net/forums/profiler/view_char.php?cid=59167)|Earth (European Fairy Tale)|Aasimar Shadowcaster
Lateral|Mireann nic Ciarán (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=525427)|Earth (Mythological Irish)|Dark Human Evolutionist (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=13115715)
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Arya is a fairly bog-standard strength-based swordsage, but makes good use of her ability to create difficult terrain around her.
T'riss has had damage difficulties in the past, but shouldn't be a huge problem in this fight; she'll probably be skirmishing reliably.
Isaac basically gives everyone Haste and gives extra attacks out like candy, and uses tactical teleportation well.
Aswin is a melee beast, who will ignore even Czernobog's DR/Epic and whose dire wolf mount basically trips everything.
August is pretty good at basic battlefield control, and can do a reliable 30 damage on a ranged touch attack virtually at will.
Mireann is new, so I've yet to see exactly how she plays, but she gives unlimited healing (6d6 at long range in a 20' radius area as a standard action, plus CMW as an at-will SLA), plus so-so ranged damage.
I'm thinking about switching the witches to Biders, with one or two in Sorcerer/Anima Mage, Favored Soul/Anima Mage, or Spirit Shaman/Anima Mage. I'm not sure what vestiges would be most useful or appropriate, though. Baba Zelenna and the aspect, I'm not sure about. Czernobog is a dark deity, with ties to human sacrifice, curses, and unluck.
What do you guys think? I'd like to make this pretty challenging, since they've had some easy encounters the last few times, but not a TPK.
The characters in my Ravenloft campaign are soon approaching an encounter with Baba Zelenna and her coven of witches who have summoned the aspect of their demonic master, Czernobog. As written in the module, Baba Zelenna is an advanced (11 HD) green hag, there are six witches that are all level 4 adepts, and Czernobog is a 10 HD outsider with most of the abilities of a level 10 warlock. They'll be encountered on top of a hill in a burned out fort, with a holy circle granting everyone inside a +2 bonus on attack rolls.
As they are, they would almost certainly be massacred by the PCs:
{table=head]Player|Character|World|Race/Class
al'Lan Mandragoran|Arya Skye (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=392015)|Far Plains|Catfolk Knight/Swordsage
Fireheart|T'rissaste Xorlarrin (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=391911)|Forgotten Realms|Drow Scout/Ranger
Mahrke|Isaac Pellivander (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=391905)|Earth (Shadowrun)|Human Chronomancer (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mDL6oVkpiTNyjmr3OvN8V1NIqJ8uyUdcWMcSsXOreCM/edit)
The Fallen One|Aswin Vigunnarson (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=392225)|Earth (Norse)|Goliath Harmonious Knight of Freedom
Sallera|August (http://www.thetangledweb.net/forums/profiler/view_char.php?cid=59167)|Earth (European Fairy Tale)|Aasimar Shadowcaster
Lateral|Mireann nic Ciarán (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=525427)|Earth (Mythological Irish)|Dark Human Evolutionist (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=13115715)
[/table]
Arya is a fairly bog-standard strength-based swordsage, but makes good use of her ability to create difficult terrain around her.
T'riss has had damage difficulties in the past, but shouldn't be a huge problem in this fight; she'll probably be skirmishing reliably.
Isaac basically gives everyone Haste and gives extra attacks out like candy, and uses tactical teleportation well.
Aswin is a melee beast, who will ignore even Czernobog's DR/Epic and whose dire wolf mount basically trips everything.
August is pretty good at basic battlefield control, and can do a reliable 30 damage on a ranged touch attack virtually at will.
Mireann is new, so I've yet to see exactly how she plays, but she gives unlimited healing (6d6 at long range in a 20' radius area as a standard action, plus CMW as an at-will SLA), plus so-so ranged damage.
I'm thinking about switching the witches to Biders, with one or two in Sorcerer/Anima Mage, Favored Soul/Anima Mage, or Spirit Shaman/Anima Mage. I'm not sure what vestiges would be most useful or appropriate, though. Baba Zelenna and the aspect, I'm not sure about. Czernobog is a dark deity, with ties to human sacrifice, curses, and unluck.
What do you guys think? I'd like to make this pretty challenging, since they've had some easy encounters the last few times, but not a TPK.