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Okay. I am reading through the modules so I understand the full path before I run them as a DM. At the same time I am looking at the new Bestiary.

There is no way I can just swap out the old Rakshasa for the new. They have the same defenses, better offense, and double the hitpoints. Not counting the lord Rakshasa, or the Monk Rakshasa, there are several times when the party encounteres two or three at once.

I know they do not deal insane damage. But I fear that with their strong defense they will easily wear down a party or best case turn into very long very boring very unexciting nibble fests as the party slowly wears them down through the DR.

Even if they have align weapon the odds of them having several available (or even one this will be a surprise foe and how often does a cleric mem this spell just for the hell of it) it wont be enough to deal with the sheer number of foes.

What do other poeple think?

Okay. Looking through the new Bestiary and one thing really jumped out at me. The Rakshasa. I say this because I am reading the Curse of the Crimson Throne series in prep to run it as a DM.

The 3rd module "Escape from Old Korvosa" has a large number of Rakshasa in it. I certainly cannot use them as modified in the Bestiary. They have the same DR and SR but have had their hitpoints pretty much doubled and their offensive melee ability heavily increased as well.

While the module knocks them down to CR8 by calling them glass cannons that were overrated at CR10 I think the Bestiary has now done the opposite. Now Rakshasas are going to be killing machines. Even when a party figures out the vulnerability a Rak is still going to do huge damage since they will have double the staying power. This doesnt even account for the Shield and Mage Armor spells that a party will be hard pressed to dispel and will give the Rak a 30 plus AC that only the chief tank will be able to barely hit.

So was it intentioal for them to go from the weaknes CR10 foe to easily the srongest? Also any suggestions on how to use them in COTCT without total TPK?