Last session my group got thoroughly spanked by Xanesha resulting in a TPK. Seeing this as the likely outcome given how they approached I was ready for the eventuality and had the Lord Mayor pay for raise dead castings based on some advice I read in another thread on this board.
Anyway, they are pushing into the Kreegwood now - they're about to assault the Graul's farmstead - and I am thinking we might make it as far as Fort Rannick next session. I definitely want Xanesha to show up again, and having her hanging out with her sister seemed quite logical.
At this point I'm trying to figure out where I want to place here. I was thinking I might incorporate her into the force at Ft. Rannick, but I don't want to overwhelm the PCs again. The other option I was thinking was to have her toward the end of the adventure - already back with Barl.
Of course, if I place her well in the Fort, there is a good chance she may escape using dimension door and fly. Xanesha is a great villan and my players HATE her - so I'm looking forward to teasing them with here a bit more.
Any thoughts? Thanks!
Last session my group got thoroughly spanked by Xanesha resulting in a TPK. Seeing this as the likely outcome given how they approached I was ready for the eventuality and had the Lord Mayor pay for raise dead castings based on some advice I read in another thread on this board.
Anyway, they are pushing into the Kreegwood now - they're about to assault the Graul's farmstead - and I am thinking we might make it as far as Fort Rannick next session. I definitely want Xanesha to show up again, and having her hanging out with her sister seemed quite logical.
At this point I'm trying to figure out where I want to place here. I was thinking I might incorporate her into the force at Ft. Rannick, but I don't want to overwhelm the PCs again. The other option I was thinking was to have her toward the end of the adventure - already back with Barl.
Of course, if I place her well in the Fort, there is a good chance she may escape using dimension door and fly. Xanesha is a great villan and my players HATE her - so I'm looking forward to teasing them with here a bit more.
Any thoughts? Thanks!
I had Xanesha bunking with her sister--she started in the rooms west of where Lucrecia was encountered, but when Lucrecia managed to hoodwink the PCs into thinking she was not a threat, the two raised an alarm and tried to come up behind the PCs in a pincer. Unfortunately, by that point the PCs' loud blundering had already filled the hallway with ogres, and they had to Dimension Door just to get through the press of Humanoid[Giant]ity. Fighting Jaagrath, Dorella, and Hookmaw on one floor, with X and L appearing on round 4, plus on another floor staving off all the other ogres in the main complex nearly killed all my PCs, even with all the rangers as backup and the huge boost rangers got against their favoured enemies in Pathfinder, but a few PCs survived to tell the tale.