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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Chosen of Bane[/i] [br]Looking for some help from some rules gurus. I have an encounter coming up in my game where a number of monsters aren’t going to be used to their fullest ability and don’t really know what the appropriate EL would be for this encounter. Okay, a group of evil cultists wish to destroy a sacred artifact that, because of its significance, is protected by numerous magical wards. In the encounter I have planned, a a necromancer will be teleporting in with 2 Death Tyrants and 4 Hill Giants wielding adamantine greataxes. The Death Tyrants are there to use their antimagic field on the artifact so the spell wards don’t kill the Hill Giants, while the Hill Giants spend all their energy cleaving into the artifact. (It has a hardness of 20 so the Adamantine won’t cut through it immediately) The Necromancer (Level 13) that teleported in will attempt to protect the Death Tyrants and Hill Giants from any of the opposition (the party). So… Level 13 Necromancer CR 13 2 Death Tyrants CR 13 each 4 Hill Giants CR 7 each The Encounter level calculator I use (http://www.d20srd.org/encounterCalculator.htm) says that this should be an EL 17 encounter. However, the Hill Giants will not be attacking the party and the Death Tyrants will be shooting eye rays at the party but one of their major powers (anti-magic) is used solely on the artifact. The level 13 necromancer is really the only opponent being used to its fullest against the party. We have 7 PC’s in the party so its obviously a huge group and can handle encounters at a much higher level. So, what level encounter would you consider this and what level do you think the 7 PC’s should be when I throw this at them? I can throw this encounter at them at a number of different points in my adventure so I’m trying to figure out what level to place it at. Any help would be much appreciated. [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.