You can Misty Step halfway down the steps. The stairs are 60' long, and Misty Step allows for a 30' teleport. Moving down first, Misty Step will stop in front of the magical darkness.
Dark vision does not see through the magical darkness.
Knowing this, you can hold off on the announcement and lightning.
That does it!
The darkness disappears, and you're immediately bombarded with dazzling lights in a multitude of colors. In front of you is a multicolored wall that stretches the full width of the stairs and stretches 30 feet up!
DC 17 Con Save or be blinded for one minute.
You manage to shield your eyes from the brilliance.
Now pauses to see the issue, there is a shimmerimg multicolored wall in front of you, stretching the entire width of the stairwell and going 30' up.
What do you do?
Again, Narzor calls upon his magical expertise to unmake this magic.
The spell seems to have no effect. (No roll needed, auto fail).
Narzor takes a deep breath and holds it before stepping through the wall.
Stepping into the wall, your world becomes red and your skin starts to burn.
Dex Save DC 17, Save for half
The wall is opaque, and you can't see through it. A dimension door spell (if you have it) doesn't have the "must see the destination" requirement and could be used to bypass the wall.
Studying the wall, you also see that the wall is 30' high, but the stairwell is 40' high. You could Misty Step to the top of the wall and then fall back down the other side.
Once on the other side, it's a whole new world. The gigantic room is filled with crackling magical and necrotic energy starting at the center of the room and filling into each of six alcoves raound the room. The energy is filling giants, who squirm and writhe in pain from the magic.
Each alcove is sixty feet wide and sixty feet deep. They evenly surround the main room, which is about 150 feet in diameter.
In the center of the room is a large dias with four ritual priests surrounding it equidistant. Surrounding each ritual priest is a small shimmering globe and ghostly apparitions flying around them. The closest priest is about 60 feet from you, with one each to his left and right about 80 feet from you, and the final one opposite the first about 90 feet from you. In the far back right corner there's is a circle with magical symbols drawn on the ground.
Other creatures in the room: an elven wizard in elaborate robes, a skeletal wizard in necromantic robes, a giant Zombie, and a Dreagloth (a large creature that looks like this.
Ok, I laid down a grid on the map with my map program, and it turned out that the distances I mentioned in my previous post don't like up with how the grid ended up.
So here's the new distances:
There's that large creature with four arms and clawed feet about 20' I'm front of you. The nearest ritual priest is 55 feet in front of you, with the priest opposite them is 85' from you. The giant Zombie is 55' from you, towards the right. The skeletal magic user is ten feet behind the furthest priest. The drow wizard is 70' from you and to the left of the priests.
I'll include the map at the top of the screen.
Narzor smiles and then calls upon his wizardly magic, determined to end whatever shenanigans are going on here.
The bolt of lightning arcs out towards the monstrous creature in front of him, which instinctively moves out of the way. This, however, reveals Narzor's true targets: the 4 priests conducting the ritual. Lightning smashes into the nearby one, then arcs to the other three priests, the Draegoloth and the Giant zombie as well
You prepare to target the priests in front of you, but you can't quite seem to complete that magical tether which links you and the target of your spell! Something is blocking your magical path!
You move up to the Dreagloth and slam your mace into an invisible wall! There's a wall of force in front of you!
Narzor is surprised when the invisible wall blocks his attack, but he is undeterred. putting his off hand on the wall, he follows it to his left.
The Archmage moves forward and casts Finger of Death.
The lich and giant Zombie will move to get into position.
The Dreagloth will move and attack, claw claw bite.
Success! The death Ray comes flying towards you, but you force the tendrils of magic to unwind and dissipate before your eyes.
"Give up your evil ways, lest you learn what it truly means to face a servant of the gods!"
Forgoing casting a spell, Narzor turns his mace on the Draegoloth, deciding to teach it a lesson in pain.
I'm so used to dealing with fighters, that I was expecting more. :)
Got anything to use for your bonus action?
The attack hits, and he's not quite bloodied.
The lich fires a Finger of Death.
DC 20 Con Save, for half.
The Archmage casts stoneskin on himself.
The zombie giant rushes forward and squeezes in, unleashing a storm of lightning.
DC 17 Dex for half, 6d8 lightning and 6d8 necrotic.
The Dreagloth takes 12 lightning and 26 Necrotic for a total of 38 damage. He's now at 71 damage and he's bloodied.
The Dreagloth does a claw claw bite, with disadvantage because he's squeezing with the giant.
None of those hit, even without disadvantage.
Meanwhile, the priests chanting causes one of the storm giants chained to the table to rise up as a Death Giant (Undead, Storm).
Narzor smashes his mace into the Draegoloth again, then steps behind the Wall of Force.
Arcane Ward.. that's double wizard level plus int mod, right? So 27 HP ward.
60-27 = 33. 33 + 12 + 13 = 58 total damage.
Your hit strikes true and the Dreagloth falls.
The giant Zombie screaches as it tries and fails to squeeze past the wall of force. The Archmage and lich both double move - the mage to get a better angle and the lich practically right next to you.
Meanwhile, the death giant starts to move out of its chamber.
Narzor, not being threatened by any enemies now, arcs an Firebolt at the Zombie.
fire
I think there's been a miscommunication. The Lich is ten feet from you, behind the wall of force. He did a double move (with difficult terrain for moving through the giant zombie's squares) to get up close and personal.
You can restate your actions.
Also, the giant Zombie was formed from a Storm Giant, and is *really* tough. Your mission is to defeat the spell casters, I'd ignore him and just keep away.
Are you able to see the map, or should I use a different format to host it? I'm using Google pics right now but I can put it on a PowerPoint document or even upload the image to an image hosting site.
The fire piffs against the giant Zombie, barely making a dent. -7 HP.
The giant Zombie still struggles to get to you. It's a dumb creature.
The lich moves up and tries to touch you.
The Archmage moves up and casts Cone of Cold. DC 17 for half.
The priests continue their ritual, and a new death giant emerges. Another struggling storm giant has been converted! The previous death giant makes its way towards the back corner of the room.
From the center of the ritual priests, a Necrotic Beam Lance's out and strikes the Giant Zombie, closing his wounds and repairing the dead flesh.
[Ooc]You're up!
Narzor staggers under the weight of the biting cold, then summons his magic to teleport next to one of the priests conducting the ritual.
Inside the circle or outside? And which one? N, E, S, W?
Success!
From here, there's a couple of savig throws to be made.
1) DC 20 Charisma Save. You've entered into an area under the Hallow spell effect. Before now, you've been behind the Wall of Force, and the Hallow effect was on the other side of it. Failure means you're now vulnerable to Necrotic damage. Success means you ignore it.
2) DC 18 Wisdom save. You've entered a location next to one of the priests, who are protected by spiritual guardians surrounding them. Failure means you take . Success means you take half. Double these numbers if you failed the above charisma save.
You also see a shimmering field surrounding them. They're protected by a Globe of Invulnerability. Take an action to study it and you'll know what level it's cast at.
Your magical knowledge tells you that if you take out two of these ritual priests, these three protective spells will end.
Death Giants: Each moves their distance closer to the drawn circle in the upper right corner of the room. One of them makes it there and waits, while the other just emerges from his room.
Giant Zombie: He takes a double move and ends up right next to you.
Lich: He moves out from behind the wall of force and casts Ray of Frost.
The archmage moves closer and around (double move).
Narzor swings his hammer at the Priest he teleported next to.
You land a solid blow, dealing about 1/5 of his total HP. The priest runs away over to the death giant in the back corner.
The giant Zombie makes two slam attacks.
The Archmage casts Lightning Bolt. Dex DC 17 for half. (3rd level spell).
The lich fires a Ray of Frost.
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This is a really tough adventure for a single PC. The champion managed to kill the lich and Archmage, plus three of the priests before getting taken down. His solution to the Prismatic Wall was to walk right through it - made every save!
Would you like to make a single class level 20 and try again? We can skip the RP for most of it and just go through the rolls.
I've always believed that single classed - multiclassed - any class, they're all roughly the same. That 5e is balanced out pretty well. Others say that 6+ level spells are the "game changers."
So far, I've run three games. Level 20 Necromancer with a huge minion army. This PC I had used the Level 15 adventure, and it was so simple for him. Having that army was really powerful. I'm one who sides with the player more often than the NPCs when I GM, but I think if I ever had an undead army like that I'd be role-playing them as mindless as they are and treat them like computer commands (it does exactly what you *say* to do, not necessarily what you *want* it to do).
After that, I felt the level 15 wasn't a good enough test, so I bumped it up to the Level 17 for the champion and yourself.
I'm not sure even the necromancer could defeat this adventure solo, but I do think that he could get further that anyone else.
Actually, I'll rescind that offer. I'm going to put up a new game on the forums, and I don't want to overload myself. Thanks for playing!