Wolf Kanno
is a Level 99 Chocobo
Memento Mori
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...And a botched attempt to enter the mercenaries hid out ends with one Hostage.

The Parties Sorcerer/Ninja tried marching up to the third floor alone to investigate, smurfs up, and botches' a will save against a bards sleep spell, and the Paladin is not involved in this encounter. XD

So long as I get someone separate from the Paladin, who's freakin' Smite evil will overcome all of it's defenses, shouldn't be need more then one to crush at least one of my players.

And with one death and my Paladins smite used up, they must then escape. No need to use two bears to make the suffering end sooner I say.

It's when they are full of hope I pull out the Sentient, Devil possessed Clockwork bear.

Well if I'm not being fair about it where is the fun in it for me? Being unfair and I'd have not challenge in killing my players the first encounter.

Well I'm not going to give them warning about the upcoming dungeon, but as I said I want to be fair. If I was just going to flat out kill them I'd just bring in a Kyton already.

Hey, I posted the LP poll up in the forum! Would you please vote?

It sounded like that particular group was pretty aware of the dangers of the level one kobolds by that point, at least with how fearful they sounded right off the back.

And I was referring to the Kobold area being handled fairly easily by an illusionist, not the DM using illusions. Of course this would require one of the players to have a focus on illusions. Conjuration could also come in handy, ore a clever Transmutation specialist.

Maybe not Transmutation, the spells to clear it may be higher level then what I'm remembering, never really did much with Transmutation when I played casters. Of course these all involve going in intentionally building the types of casters who can handle pretty much any situation with ease, so it depends if those are your kind of players or not.

Regardless, I'm probably leveling up my PC's once more before running my clock work dungeon on them, I realized when building it they probably aren't quite equipped to handle what I'm wanting them to do yet.

The difference here is rather then being crafty, my discovery has more to do with some bizarre oversight the writers didn't see, where as the Kobold thing is the DM being an both clever and an asshole.

I'm pretty sure some of the scenarios described in tuckers Kobolds could be handled by an illusion based spellcaster though, or at the very least a few of them.

...Oh god. Oh dear god I just found something horrifying and beautiful.

Clockwork Bat Swarm. Immune to normal weapon attacks, single target spells, mind effecting effects, 50% damage off of any area of effect spells or attacks, Immune to anything with a Fort save (Even Disintigrate, due to that not working on swarms) Damage Reduction 5/Adamanting (For the very few things that can hit it), and a 9 SR.

Only a 3 CR creature.

I don't think they thought about a person applying the CLock Work Template to a swarm. XD

Well, currently there target is going to be a gnomish convict whose working with devils. Basically he's on the evil side of gnomish curiosity, not caring what the things he uncovers are used for.

SO next up my party is going into an anctient ruins that is producing clock work monstrosities. The Gnome himself isn't actually there, but a devil is left in charge of the facility in his place.

I'm sure I can conjure up some fun things to do to my party in this place.