Players reached level 6 .....in need a good Npc boss battle


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The players are

1: WHITE MAGE ARCANIST (SAMASARAN)
2: TENGU SLKAD
3: STALKER HUMAN (RANGE IS HIS SPEALITY)
4: GNOLL BARBARIAN (Forgets she has power Attack all the time)
5: Half Elf Hunter (rides an Axe Beak)

The NPC 1 OR MORE SHOULD BE BUILT USING PC BUILDING RULES AS IT IS JUST HOW MY GROUP DOSE THINGS.

THE PARTY HAS STATED IS LEVEL 6

AND I'D LIKE TO FORCE THEM TO COME UP WITH SOME GOOD PLANNING TO BEAT THIS FIGHT AND I'D LIKE NPC TO HAVE GOOD COUNTERS TO THE PARTY


Lots of yelling...

Anyways, what have they been doing up to this point?

Who/what have they been pursuing or fighting thusfar?

What environment are they in that can be used to the enemy's advantage?

Is the Human Stalker a Path of War Stalker class? As in, you are allowing Path of War content?


VoodistMonk wrote:

Lots of yelling...

Anyways, what have they been doing up to this point?

Who/what have they been pursuing or fighting thusfar?

What environment are they in that can be used to the enemy's advantage?

Is the Human Stalker a Path of War Stalker class? As in, you are allowing Path of War content?

Sorry about the caps lol

Any ways the story is basically them going from island to island kinda one picec like each with a small story

There trying to purse the meat a ledgenday beast.

The island there on is a jungle island that is known for two things there pit fights and food from a local tavern called the pit, where when you in you see dwarfs orc half orc and big beefy humans chanting MEAT MEAT ...MEAT!

The hunts master is a centaur who can out run fire boar and throw a devasting spear

There is a Grappler in the pit and in the jungle I want some NPC who want to hunt the beast so there fat prime minister who is chaotic evil to the max can eat it. Thing is there rare and my players only need one they want all of them

As to what the players do

1: Arcanist deals damage via wand of magic missle
2: Skald fights in melee and all most never uses her Skald songs
3: the barbarian as state trys but she could of ended more battles if she uses power Attack
4: the stalker uses CBM with the game tempest style
5: the Hunter is all about taking of average of flanking and team work feats. He gave the axe been mule back cords to help carry stuff

They fought so pirates and the AC of enemy may have been a bit to high at the time and so I had to hand waves mission 1 TPK


So you're asking for a "boss battle" here. You're already talking about using an NPC. What do you want the NPC to do? Even at level 6, monsters between level 6-9 are still kind of big sacks of HP. The really intelligent, spellcasting monsters aren't a threat on their own at this level unless designed by you as the GM. My suggestion? Make this a CR 10 fight by pairing a CR 9 "brute" monster with a CR 7 NPC.

Imagine a Large Fire Elemental somehow under the control of a Kobold Adept 5/Warrior 5. The kobold has 5 feats and a flying Familiar with the Mauler archetype. Said kobold flies around firing off scrolls of Scorching Ray, drops an Intensified Burning Hands (thanks to maybe a rod you include as part of the treasure) and said Burning Hands can deliver 10d4 +1 (thanks to an alchemical power component) for an average of 26 damage to the melee types foolish enough to bunch together (like a Hunter and their Axe Beak AC using Flanking), doesn't do anything to the elemental and carries at least a DC 16 Ref save for half damage, perhaps more depending on the magic items you give him.

The elemental is tough on it's own to beat down going toe to toe with it. Add in a Small sized, armor-wearing, decent Dex Kobold Adept 5/Warrior 5 who is tanking from range, flying around and dropping spell attacks and you've got a couple rounds of serious peril for this party. The kobold will be low HP so you'll really need to keep them tanked up as well as the mauler; maybe give them a couple rounds to pre-buff before they face the PCs.

As for the plot-line? Simple: the centaur has been indiscriminately hunting Dragon-type monsters for all that MEAT MEAT MEAT! At one time there was a bargain between the centaur and a band of kobolds to ignore tatzlwyrms, drakes and such on neighboring islands but the canny hunter has engaged other adventurers to attack kobolds and dragons for him!

Word got back to the kobolds that the accord they'd struck has been broken, that dragon meat is now on the menu of The Pit. Now they've come to burn it all down. Every. Last. Bite.

So Bobbyflaymaster, the kobolds' premier red-scaled bbq chef-turned shaman has summoned up a terrifying dragon-shaped fire elemental and is burning down the jungle on their way to The Pit. He has sent word ahead - deliver to Bobbyflaymaster the head of the centaur, mounted on his favored spear, and the burning will end. Otherwise, it's barbeque time!

The PCs might save the hunter for altruistic reasons, or maybe to settle their bar tab at The Pit. Whatever the plot hook they must meet the kobold and his pet elemental at the edge of an active volcano. There are islands of solid ground floating in a sea of rapidly cooling magma, the elemental power of which is sustaining the kobold's otherworldly summons. Since it's impossible for an APL 6 party to shut off a volcano there's only one way to destroy the elemental once and for all: Bobbyflaymaster must DIE!

Cue the fight music...

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