
Midnight_Angel |

What do you think? Do you think I am about to pretty much hose the Paladin, or is this a viable option from your point of view?

Midnight_Angel |

Granted,
Problem is the complete binarity. Without Pally, this encounter pretty much spells TPK. With Pally, it becomes almost ridiculously easy.

Banesfinger RPG Superstar 2015 Top 16 |

No Pally in our group - but the player running the party's cleric said he finally LOVED his character. It is his moment to shine (up to now, the group's rogues and urban rangers had been in the spot-light).
Let your Pally have his moment to shine, because it will be back to the 'big city' soon enough...

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Also, there is so much here that the pally will be good at, eventually he will run out of smites and be stuck along with everyone else. If you are worried about the awesome power of smite, fall back on it's glaring weakness. It is usuable x/day. Just make sure there are more encounters than x. Perhaps x+3 with encounters that smite would make easy.

wraithstrike |

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What do you think? Do you think I am about to pretty much hose the Paladin, or is this a viable option from your point of view?
Paladins are over rated. You just don't fight their fight is all. If you go blow for blow it will be a short fight for your bad guy. Have minions there to get in the way. Use illusion spells to send him to one side of the room, while you(your BBEG) is really on the other side. Use wall spells to trap him on that side of the room. Etc....

Revan |

I wouldn't worry about it...except for the

CaroRose |

I am going to agree with letting the Paladin do what he or she was ordained to do. Yes, he/she is going to cream a couple bad guys, but there are a lot of them in the castle and a limited number of smites. Hopefully they will be duly scared by the variety of evil that has been attracted here, and be cautious. If not, well, teach them a good lesson. Have a bad guy come out after them as they try to leave to rest. If Belshallam hasn't been destroyed, he is a good candidate.
I agree with the others on the D though, without a Paladin in the party doing the big smitey, it will kill a few PCs before they're done. Not a good time for anyone. I wanna try to kill my party like any good GM, but the operative word is try, right?