Hey remember that Damn Crab?

[The Deej]

This one, remember?

I ran a one-shot earlier this week just to see how tough it was. Turns out, it's CR was a little overrated. It was brought down by a Beguiler 20/Striped servant 10 (hereafter referred to as Player 1) using some energy substituted [cold]+admixtured [cold] fire seeds spells. It went down something like:

Prologue:

A deity warps the party in from wherever they were, basically says "I'm bored", and then warps them to a beach where the crab is.

Player 1 makes sense motive to get the gist of what's going to happen and has enough wits about him to cast superior invisibility.

Surprise round:

Player 1 makes DC 30 spot check to see crab coming out of waves, so does Player 2.

Player 1 casts several iterations of fire seeds

Crab charges and grabs player 3

Player 2 casts a quickened haste and lands small blow on crab (relative to crab's HP)

Round 1

Player 1 full attacks with fire seeds, missing once, deals something like 573 cold damage. Crab is an ice cube.

[Fax Celestis]

Did you run the divine crab, or just the pseudonatural paragon one?

EDIT: and for danger, you may be better served with Helcaerfax, the PPDC on crack.