When they encountered Krathanos at our last session they almost wet their pants and spent the rest of the session kissing up to him to try to get him to give them the belt. Rather than slug it out, they eventually managed to take him to the Outlands where he gave them the belt. I figured after being a prisoner for hundreds of years, despite being CE, he would at least have had the decency not to look a gift-horse in the mouth. Besides, why waste time killing the PCs when there is the entire Outlands to conquer! He trotted off to go build an empire, happy as could be.
I was bit disappointed that they shied away from conflict though. It would have been fun, especially since he can deal massive damage quite easily.
When they encountered Krathanos at our last session they almost wet their pants and spent the rest of the session kissing up to him to try to get him to give them the belt. Rather than slug it out, they eventually managed to take him to the Outlands where he gave them the belt. I figured after being a prisoner for hundreds of years, despite being CE, he would at least have had the decency not to look a gift-horse in the mouth. Besides, why waste time killing the PCs when there is the entire Outlands to conquer! He trotted off to go build an empire, happy as could be.
I was bit disappointed that they shied away from conflict though. It would have been fun, especially since he can deal massive damage quite easily.
I can see how that would be disappointing. Titans are a pretty fatal encounter for a 16th-17th level party, though. A buddy of mine who is now running Savage Tide just finished up a high-level homebrew that featured a titan as one of the final encounters, and he said it was one of the few solo monster encounters that he's ever been able to give the PCs a run for their money with. They are bad mamajammas.
If you really want them to fight a titan though, just slap the Favored Spawn of Kyuss template on one and insert it into the first part of 'Dawn of a New Age'. Seeing one of those rampaging through Alhaster would be pretty frightening, and they wouldn't have any choice but to fight it. If you do this, make sure to trade one or two of its new abilities from the template for unholy toughness. A hallmark of titans is their massive hit point count.