Hi All,
So currently we are playing Wrath of the Righteous at 4 level and the party composition is:
Goblin, Barbarian (Mad Dog) [Damage dealer]
Half Elf, Summoner (Synthetist) [Tank]
Duergar, Zen Archer [Rogue/Scout, Damage Dealer]
Half-Orc, Scarred Witch Doctor [Healer, Debuffer, Buffer, CC]
As you can see the party is quite powerful, we dont mess around, we build powerful characters always. Our DM knows it and allow us to pick almost anything (even if is banned in most games), but in exchange he throws everything at us and rises the CR as much as he see fit.
We have play like this for some years and we love it [have lost plenty of chars my self but I see it as challenge], but currently we have a problem: Stacking Fear Effects are killing us and I have not figure out how to protect the party from them (without making a Paladin of course).
Lets create a hypothetical scenario, assume the above party at level 9, we are going trough a narrow dungeon corridor and we get surprised by 4 shadow demons. The 4 shadow demons use their "Fear" at will, and hit the party with it (to make it easy assume everyone saved all 4 fear effects, although this is highly unlikely).
Since Fear gives you Shaken for 1 round even if you save, and fear effects stack, the 4 shadow demons will move the hole party to Cowering (you take no actions, have no Dex to ac and -2 to ac) 1 round. Next round one of the shadow demons keeps using his fear at will maintaining the cowering status to all the party, the other 3 shadow demons proceed to "Clean Duty", party wiped, nothing you could do about that.
The only spells I have found that makes you immune to fear effects are "Greater Heroism" for which I have to wait until level 11, and Mind Blank which is even higher. So my question is, how do you protect your party against stacking fear effects?? (and before you suggested it, protection from evil will not work, and Remove Fear is a "Reactive" spell, no "Proactive" so it will not prevent the above tactic either).
