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HajiTheMad

2017-08-11, 08:08 PM

I'm GMing a new campaign soon with veteran players, and looking for an original antagonist: the Tall Man from the Phantasm film franchise. I'm drawing a complete blank on a build. Any ideas?

HajiTheMad

2017-08-11, 10:45 PM

Other (pertinent?) Info. It's a 3.x game. He's a CE outsider, CR 15ish

Nifft

2017-08-11, 11:17 PM

I don't know that character off the top of my head.

Could you list his necessary abilities, his known special defenses, and his potential weaknesses?

Demidos

2017-08-11, 11:25 PM

A glance at Wikipedia, I would guess to emulate that you could use....A nightwalker?

NontheistCleric

2017-08-12, 01:02 AM

A glance at Wikipedia, I would guess to emulate that you could use....A nightwalker?

It's not an Outsider, though.

Inevitability

2017-08-12, 04:03 AM

It's not an Outsider, though.

Is that the only issue? Because that'd be easy to change to literally almost anything.

Thurbane

2017-08-12, 06:46 PM

Been many years since I've seen the movies, but the Tall Man was a very interesting character.

He uses animated spheres to attack, and micromanages the trafficking of souls in the afterlife, from memory.

Maybe an Unholy Scion (HoH) Human, with levels in Artificer? Maybe Sorcerer or Wizard, or even Psion. Can't remember if he created the balls or just uses them.