Seatbelt
2008-05-01, 04:32 PM
I have a BBEG Vampire Wizard with 16HD, he's a straight Wizard, necromancy specialist, with banned schools of Abjuration and Illusion.
He's got Fell Drain, Fell Weaken, and Enervate Spell as metamagic (with room for one more feat, currently used for a homebrew "wisdom to fortitude" feat).
The party is all level 11 and 12, a level 11 half-vampire Cleric of Lathander, an Argent Savant generalist wizard (force specialist?) and a Paladin/Fighter/Generic Paladin Prestiege class who specializes in smite damage. Because of some items and spells they have floating around, at any one time at least one of them is immune to energy drain/ability drail/etc. I've got the cleric pretty well spoofed already with something happening in the battle. So he shouldnt be a problem.
The last time this vampire fought the party they were uberbuffed and he got destroyed. So I leveled him up, and applied templates etc. But I'm not that experienced with high level arcane magic. Can anyone give suggestions on spells or combos that would make him extra-specially interesting? Or ways to handle spellcasters? He has no access to dispel magic as far as I know, because abjuration is banned. I dont want a TPK or anything, but ways to just generally infuriate and spoof the party before they kill my BBEG would be awesome. :P
Also, this battle is taking place on the astral plane. So he gets two spells a round.
He's got Fell Drain, Fell Weaken, and Enervate Spell as metamagic (with room for one more feat, currently used for a homebrew "wisdom to fortitude" feat).
The party is all level 11 and 12, a level 11 half-vampire Cleric of Lathander, an Argent Savant generalist wizard (force specialist?) and a Paladin/Fighter/Generic Paladin Prestiege class who specializes in smite damage. Because of some items and spells they have floating around, at any one time at least one of them is immune to energy drain/ability drail/etc. I've got the cleric pretty well spoofed already with something happening in the battle. So he shouldnt be a problem.
The last time this vampire fought the party they were uberbuffed and he got destroyed. So I leveled him up, and applied templates etc. But I'm not that experienced with high level arcane magic. Can anyone give suggestions on spells or combos that would make him extra-specially interesting? Or ways to handle spellcasters? He has no access to dispel magic as far as I know, because abjuration is banned. I dont want a TPK or anything, but ways to just generally infuriate and spoof the party before they kill my BBEG would be awesome. :P
Also, this battle is taking place on the astral plane. So he gets two spells a round.