Out of curiosity, how did the wizard cheat? (I just gotta know!)
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Yeah, you need to talk to your wizard player offline and make sure he realizes that he was cheating. Unless he was blatantly lying about his die rolls or something, it could have been an honest mistake.
As for challenging the party, add 4 to every ability score on all your monsters. In some cases, do it twice.
What LazarX, and TriOmegaZero said...
Though I will give you this idea I used a while back as a fun wake up call random incounter.
A high level kobold fighter. Preferably double the average party level, possibly more, as you don't want him obviously well equipped. If you have the advanced player's guide, you might want to use the barbarian archtype that doesn't use armor.
I'm not very familiar with the Shackled City Path, but from the little I've heard of it you should be able to fit him in somewhere.
I used this idea in second ed. We were playing a high level underdark campaign, and the party was in a duergar market where a lot of underdark races would come to trade. The fighter had just gotten done getting some stuff identified by a drow wizard, when he realized he forgot to find out about the new magic sword he picked up a few encounters ago (the whole reason he was talking to the drow in the first place). By the time he got back to the wizard there was a kobold getting his stuff IDed, so the fighter "kicks the runt out of the way". The kobold retaiated by climbing up the fighter (after dusting himself off) and laying him out with a single high damage punch. Beautifull thing was I'd told that player (and that player only) about this great idea I had to throw a high level kobold at them about a week before we started playing...so right after he declared his action he turned sheet white as the conversation came back to him.
