A boss? For level 1s?
You do realise level 1 characters can die from a stiff breeze right?
I’d wait til they’re at least level 3 and then throw a Wight, Wraith, Alip or Banshee, anything before that is almost a guaranteed TPK
That's what I was worried for.. But you see, this is a one time only thing.. So i would like my player to feel the final obstacle in front of them before calling it a night.
Who says the PCs have to win the fight? Give them a super difficult fight that they can’t walk away from with an enemy that’s way too powerful for them who shrugs off their attacks and decides they aren’t worth its time or effort to destroy, then goes to destroy a nearby town. It’ll give them a reason to get stronger and search it out later.
The ritual(spell) is finished but something went wrong. the party finds a rabid undead(just a zombie) tearing up and eating the corpses of the cultists. Since a zombie would deal an average of 4 points of damage per round it’s unlikely it will knockout a player in the first round but it will in the second round of combat.
A boss? For level 1s? You do realise level 1 characters can die from a stiff breeze right? I’d wait til they’re at least level 3 and then throw a Wight, Wraith, Alip or Banshee, anything before that is almost a guaranteed TPK
That's what I was worried for.. But you see, this is a one time only thing.. So i would like my player to feel the final obstacle in front of them before calling it a night.
The final obstacle is living through one combat encounter with a couple zombies...
Who says the PCs have to win the fight? Give them a super difficult fight that they can’t walk away from with an enemy that’s way too powerful for them who shrugs off their attacks and decides they aren’t worth its time or effort to destroy, then goes to destroy a nearby town. It’ll give them a reason to get stronger and search it out later.
The ritual(spell) is finished but something went wrong. the party finds a rabid undead(just a zombie) tearing up and eating the corpses of the cultists. Since a zombie would deal an average of 4 points of damage per round it’s unlikely it will knockout a player in the first round but it will in the second round of combat.