Encounter: "The mage's bane" [Archive] - Wizards Community

Encounter: "The mage's bane" [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Retinal Haze
03-12-04, 03:31 AM Hey everyone, i wanted to get some input on an encounter im working up for my players. Im worried it might be unballanced, and maybe fundementally to munchy.

The story goes: Way in the past a crazy high level mage decided he was the only being "worthy" of handling magic. So he went on a quest to vanquish all other magic users. To further this goal he created a powerful iron golem (maybe a few more hd than a standard golem). He also created a powerful inteligent amulet thats goal was to kill all spell users, it would have above average intelligence and magic powers that would be good against magic users (dispell magic, hold person, etc..) In addition, when he created the golem he made it so the golem would only accept commands from the amulet, and when he joined the amulet to the golem it promptly killed him (did i mention he was crazy?)

So thats the history i came up with, and now this "Mage's Bane" has been wandering around killing mages, sorcerers, bards, anyone who uses magic, even magical abilites. So im thinking of hinting at it a few sessions before they actually encounter it. Like stories of local mages being brutally killed, houses smashed nothing left of them.... stuff like that.

my party is pretty much 15th lvl, an iron golem is cr 13, is that a good match or should i let some more time pass before they encounter it?
Juca
03-12-04, 09:34 AM An iron golem is hardly a challenge for your group now. An amulet with hold person is more challenging against fighter types (will save) and not that usefull agains magic users (very good will save), maybe if the amulet simply encases the golem in an antimagic field, now that is a challenge.
Archangel
03-12-04, 09:42 AM First advance that Golem some more(so he is CR 15+2 for amulet=CR17 encounter), then give that amulet a really usefull spells like Dimensional Anchor, Feeblemind, Greater Dispel, Fly for the Golem, Evard's Black Tentacles, True Sight etc. all at CL 15(or if CL of that wizard was higher then his CL). Make it able to cast spell in the same round as the Golem attacks(that gives it +2 CR)!

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Retinal Haze 03-12-04, 03:31 AM	Hey everyone, i wanted to get some input on an encounter im working up for my players. Im worried it might be unballanced, and maybe fundementally to munchy. The story goes: Way in the past a crazy high level mage decided he was the only being "worthy" of handling magic. So he went on a quest to vanquish all other magic users. To further this goal he created a powerful iron golem (maybe a few more hd than a standard golem). He also created a powerful inteligent amulet thats goal was to kill all spell users, it would have above average intelligence and magic powers that would be good against magic users (dispell magic, hold person, etc..) In addition, when he created the golem he made it so the golem would only accept commands from the amulet, and when he joined the amulet to the golem it promptly killed him (did i mention he was crazy?) So thats the history i came up with, and now this "Mage's Bane" has been wandering around killing mages, sorcerers, bards, anyone who uses magic, even magical abilites. So im thinking of hinting at it a few sessions before they actually encounter it. Like stories of local mages being brutally killed, houses smashed nothing left of them.... stuff like that. my party is pretty much 15th lvl, an iron golem is cr 13, is that a good match or should i let some more time pass before they encounter it?
Juca 03-12-04, 09:34 AM	An iron golem is hardly a challenge for your group now. An amulet with hold person is more challenging against fighter types (will save) and not that usefull agains magic users (very good will save), maybe if the amulet simply encases the golem in an antimagic field, now that is a challenge.
Archangel 03-12-04, 09:42 AM	First advance that Golem some more(so he is CR 15+2 for amulet=CR17 encounter), then give that amulet a really usefull spells like Dimensional Anchor, Feeblemind, Greater Dispel, Fly for the Golem, Evard's Black Tentacles, True Sight etc. all at CL 15(or if CL of that wizard was higher then his CL). Make it able to cast spell in the same round as the Golem attacks(that gives it +2 CR)!