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I am playing this campaign in one game and running it in another and I just wanted to comment on how disappointing and easy the final batle with adimarchus was. First, the presence of Nidrama seriously altered the battle. She gave all the bonuses from prayer and aid at will, she could raise dead, and she could give the party death ward which makes adimarchus's tentacles completley useless and she can bless weapons making it easier to pass the dr.

Adimarchus also doesn't have true seeing which made spells like mirror image and displacement priceless and gave us a major advantage.

we entered this combat with an
18th level theif/cleric
18th level rage mage
18th level archmage/paladin
17th level fighter
18th level shapechanging something or other (not really sure)
nidrama

only the fighter died on a first turn implosion and she was raised back by nidrama, no one else during the fight was truly ever threatened and all in all, we made short work for him (or at least as short of work as can be for a guy with over 1000 hp.

disappointing for an el 27

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