Dragon's Demand - Tula's Blessing and the Wraith

[Toshy]

First of, if you are a player of my group "Sonntagsrecken", stop reading, or you'll spoiler yourself.

Question:

Fellow DMs who have run the dragons demand module (or just want to share their 2c to the following), I have a question regarding my coming sessions:

In the crypt of lady tula the final boss is the wraith of her husband.
If the group find/go to lady tulas tomb before fighting it (which is a possibility or even intended according the module), they recieve her blessing - including the effect of Death Ward.

The rules forums are split between saying death ward only negates a wraith's 1d6 negative energy damage and NOT the 1d6 con drain or death ward negating both.

Nevertheless tulas blessing would make the PCs almost (if not completely) immune to everything the enemies in arturics tomb could do to harm them. But beeing immune to everything your enemies can do in the final fight of the dungeon would be rather anticlimactic and boring.

Otherwise not receiving the blessing at all, could lead to the wights and arturics wraith beeing pretty deadly.

How would/have you run this?
Simply not allowing them to reach lady tulas tomb before the fight?
Just give them the good hope effect and scratch the death ward effect of the blessing?

Your adivce is much appreciated.

[Azothath]

GM Advice:

Writer's aren't always aware of spell specifics or interactions.
Look at the APL(avg party level) of the party, could they cast the spell? If not basically it is 'out of tier'. You can choose something like Circle of Prot vs Evil (just extend the dur). That gives a bunch of bonuses but isn't up to Death Ward's power.
You can also make the effect specific to a single creature limiting its scope but you need other critters which could affect the PCs to make that limitation real.

Story/Drama: You might want to make the blessing a physical object or token(my precious!), like a lily which the wraith might recognize or give it pause. It also means the PCs have to take care of it. It can turn the encounter into a more social encounter about redemption than martial challenge.
Once that dramatic scene fades so does the lily.

there's also the GM forum under the product line/name.

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