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Hmmm. The Lord Adjudicator doesn't seem to get out and about much, as he doesn't ever leave this room; I wonder if the 'curse' would translate into a small elven mythal (almost certainly not SRD) which covers just this room- with three minor powers and one major power....
One of the first boxed-sets of my gaming career was Myth Drannor - I love, love, LOVE the idea of the Impartial Lord Adjudicator's curse being a similar effect!
One of the reasons for not making the curse specific only to the room was that I had briefly considered setting up a way for the Impartial Lord Adjudicator to leave - perhaps to follow the PCs if they stole or destroyed something of significant importance.
An interesting twist on this encounter, one leading toward an larger adventure, would be to include a caveat that the Impartial Lord Adjudicator possesses Regeneration 5 (instead of Fast Healing 5), meaning that even if he's deduced to -100 hp, he'll rebuild himself.
In that instance, he's LITERALLY unkillable - immune to Constitution drain and starvation and drowning and all of the other stuff that we usually use on things that can regenerate with no way to cut through it. Now: he won't leave the room . . . until there isn't a room left. Break enough stuff, collapse enough of the walls so that the "room" is no longer definable, and then steal the Throne (or whatever), and he becomes the Terminator.
He's wandering around, fresh out of the ruins of the Tribunal after regenerating umpteen-gazillion hit points, trying to diplomatically ask people where the PCs went with his Throne, so that he can rebuild his courtroom.
Of course, everyone just stares at him like they've gone crazy. And lies to him. And hits him with Anarchic, Construct-Bane Weapons, so he has to kill them - and he builds up a small army of Wraiths and Dread Wraiths that follow after him, gunning for the PCs.
The curse name...well, Boomer is/strikes me as a man raised in Planescape, hence the three and one title. As in, the rule of three.
I should probably admit to everyone right now that I have the Lady of Pain tattooed on my back.
First Boomer, let me apologise for not voting this round, which was an inexcusable mental failure on my part. So I am very much heartened that even without my vote, you got through.
Once again, you have done a superb job. Some interaction, a combat with suitably appropriate tactics (and one that will challenge a wide range of parties, including the non-typical).
I look forward to your final submission, which I suspect will be earth-splinteringly Awesome.
An interesting twist on this encounter, one leading toward an larger adventure, would be to include a caveat that the Impartial Lord Adjudicator possesses Regeneration 5 (instead of Fast Healing 5), meaning that even if he's deduced to -100 hp, he'll rebuild himself.
In that instance, he's LITERALLY unkillable - immune to Constitution drain and starvation and drowning and all of the other stuff that we usually use on things that can regenerate with no way to cut through it. Now: he won't leave the room . . . until there isn't a room left. Break enough stuff, collapse enough of the walls so that the "room" is no longer definable, and then steal the Throne (or whatever), and he becomes the Terminator.
He's wandering around, fresh out of the ruins of the Tribunal after regenerating umpteen-gazillion hit points, trying to diplomatically ask people where the PCs went with his Throne, so that he can rebuild his courtroom.
Of course, everyone just stares at him like they've gone crazy. And lies to him. And hits him with Anarchic, Construct-Bane Weapons, so he has to kill them - and he builds up a small army of Wraiths and Dread Wraiths that follow after him, gunning for the PCs.
Okay, now you're just being unfairly Awesome, dude. That right away conjurored up the image with the Terminator theme running in my head. Ooer.
It brings to mind one of my old favourites, the Greater Black Reaver from Rolemaster, which was stupidly high level and ludicrously hard (being basically a golem created from a fusion of greater demon with greater Undead) whihc had a "follow the PCs...forever" vibe going for it.
Woah. I just had the most Awesome Idea Ever; combine this with Christine's Chase on Charred Ground, and you have the PCs fleeing downhill from the flaming, flying Orcs and lava - while the Adjudicator goes all Terminator 2 on them and runs down the lava chute after them... Glarrg.
Too...much...Awesome...can't...cope...mind...shutting down...
Awesome encounter. This really makes for epic storylines.
Of course, the Three Peerless Judges seems like an odd name. I mean, there are three of them, so obviously they have peers--each other. :-P
Awesome encounter. This really makes for epic storylines.
Of course, the Three Peerless Judges seems like an odd name. I mean, there are three of them, so obviously they have peers--each other. :-P
Irony! Awesome!