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My party is wrapping up a three year run with Kingmaker. Heading in to the House at the Edge of Time, my party is 8 in number including henchmen from leadership and are level 16-19. Going back several volumes I have been increasing the challenge ratings of every encounter by 4 to account for their large party size and higher than intended level for the material. Near the end of volume 5 this was still becoming too little challenge.
In response, I've re-worked nearly all entities from the first world pocket dimension with the Mythic rule set. I have kept the +4 CR advancement but attained this by adding mythic ranks rather than traditional class levels, templates or hit dice. My players have no access to mythic resources of their own other than I have given Briar the mythic quality for the purposes of overcoming DR.
The mythic addition to my campaign has done a wonderful job of creating appropriate challenges for my min/max happy players. It has been very successful in ending long standing combat strategies that have become a "win" button and force my players to re-assess the path to victory for every encounter. As a game master, it has been immensely satisfying.
I've decided to share my stat blocks for others to enjoy. Note that some encounters have been replaced with entirely different creatures providing a greater challenge, but preserving the original spirit of the encounter.
Nyrissa is equipped with gear appropriate in value to a 25th level PC.
