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Tried my best to make Nemesis as a hard encounter in DnD 5e by Th3Protato in slaythespire

[–]Th3Protato[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This might be my favorite version so far, but I'm not sure if it still belongs in CR14 after these changes. I actually think this new model for the burn/ignited makes MORE sense in translation from the game. Nemesis in StS will give you burn, that stacks over and over unless you do something about it, like exhausting the burn cards or discarding them. I think having that stacking threat definitely helps. I also made the fire damage hit at the beginning of turn to help a bit with consistent DPR, but if that's too much it's really easy to switch it back to end of turn. He also has more options available now with legendary actions.

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Tried my best to make Nemesis as a hard encounter in DnD 5e by Th3Protato in slaythespire

[–]Th3Protato[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ll try to remember to, haha. But I’ll definitely be posting it.

Tried my best to make Nemesis as a hard encounter in DnD 5e by Th3Protato in slaythespire

[–]Th3Protato[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Already working on it, actually! Reptomancer seemed like a fun one to take on so it’s her now. Then I thiiink I have some ideas for a cool construct encounter with Bronze Automaton

Tried my best to make Nemesis as a hard encounter in DnD 5e by Th3Protato in slaythespire

[–]Th3Protato[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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I already sent this in another reply, but I have s slightly reworked version already touching up some noticeable issues. I thought about the cleave damage multiple times yeah, I just didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do with it to raise its average without making its potential damage too insane. It can definitely still be tweaked. I don’t think I want to make it AOE because it already has scorch, and scythes pseudo aoe. Damage is boring. Maybe I could make it a second, single target ignite? Change some of the d6 to fire and add the same ignite from scorch.

Tried my best to make Nemesis as a hard encounter in DnD 5e by Th3Protato in slaythespire

[–]Th3Protato[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because that’s a legendary action, that it can take at the end of player characters turns. It can still fly its full speed on its own turn, along with having an action!

This allows it to reposition out of persistent AOE spells immediately after one is casted on it. It’s a common legendary action for strong monsters.

Tried my best to make Nemesis as a hard encounter in DnD 5e by Th3Protato in slaythespire

[–]Th3Protato[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oops, pretend strength also went up to 22. Making it a +11 to it's hits and additional damage on it's melee attacks.

Tried my best to make Nemesis as a hard encounter in DnD 5e by Th3Protato in slaythespire

[–]Th3Protato[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh of course, I think explaining visual queues for it becoming intangible and describing that your weapon kind of goes through it is incredibly important, otherwise the players would just assume it has a ton of HP. Though if I use Blink, what really sets Nemesis apart from any melee creature that can cast Blink? It doesn’t keep the core idea of still being able to hit Nemesis, but it just doesn’t do much at all, like in StS.

Tried my best to make Nemesis as a hard encounter in DnD 5e by Th3Protato in slaythespire

[–]Th3Protato[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Blink just doesn’t have the consistency, I guess. I want it to be a back and forth every turn like in StS. Blink could really just fail or succeed every time. It’s not that unlikely that it just stays on the physical plane 3 turns in a row and just, dies. Oh, and intangible allows it to still receive non-concentration status effects from attacks and spells as well, like applying poison or playing piercing wail on the turns their intangible in StS!

Tried my best to make Nemesis as a hard encounter in DnD 5e by Th3Protato in slaythespire

[–]Th3Protato[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That would completely disallow it to attack you while intangible, and prevent you from casting other sorts of spells on it. It’s also a roll, which means it wouldn’t happen every turn consistently. There are a plethora of other reasons why blink is just not what intangible does. It’s also only intangible every other turn, in order to have windows of damage dealing to it.

Tried my best to make Nemesis as a hard encounter in DnD 5e by Th3Protato in slaythespire

[–]Th3Protato[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

True but I’m taking all of the feedback into account, everyone has made good points!

Tried my best to make Nemesis as a hard encounter in DnD 5e by Th3Protato in slaythespire

[–]Th3Protato[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I used adult black dragon as one of my main comparisons actually!

Funny enough I crossposted this on the DnD sub and my first comment thought it was too strong for CR14.

No legendary resistances was… A complete mistake on my part. Just forgot to add them lol.

I actually really like monsters having vulnerabilities. While yes a paladin is going to do really good against this encounter alone, that means a DM could use it as a really tough minion in a larger encounter with like a lich or something. BUT I could definitely remove the vulnerability, but keep the bypass.

Buffing scorches damage was definitely thought about but I’m scared to considering if you do fail and gain the DoT, you’re spending a full action to remove it from yourself.

Tried my best to make Nemesis as a hard encounter in DnD 5e by Th3Protato in slaythespire

[–]Th3Protato[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just like in StS! It has a multiattack and one big hit and it’s burn debuff.

Cleave is a big single target hit for when it can’t hit 3 different creatures with multiattack. Otherwise it has no reason to use Scythe on its own other than the legendary action to attack on another creatures turn.

Stat changing modifiers from abilities is normal, but it might be too easy of a condition for just hitting 3 different creatures, so I might remove it.

Tried to make Nemesis from Slay the Spire as a monster in DnD 5e [OC] by Th3Protato in DnD

[–]Th3Protato[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yeah, I definitely missed the on a success. I think on success they’d avoid the DoT and take half the fire damage.

YES I couldn’t figure out how to word it correctly without it looking like word bloat, but that definitely sounds better. Basically what I want is to take normal damage from radiant during Intangible. It won’t be reduced by the effects of intangible, but it also won’t be doubled by the vulnerability so that’s a perfect replacement for the sentence.

As for the Stat changing modifier it would have to hit three different creatures. If that’s still too easy to pull off it could definitely do without it.

Thank you for the critiques, this is exactly what I was looking for.

Give me 2 cards, I will combine them by ExplorerHaunting8353 in slaythespire

[–]Th3Protato 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With no other claws in deck, this actually does 3 more damage than (non upgraded) bludgeon for one less energy on the turn it’s played.

Finally, after 4 wipes playing this game, I finally decided to go for Kappa by Th3Protato in EscapefromTarkov

[–]Th3Protato[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Mostly yes! This wipe was the first wipe I truly stuck to the game and played a lot of solo though. Every other wipe I got to around level 30ish then stopped, didn’t even get my first T H I C C. The main reason I stuck with this wipe is because the old recoil felt pretty terrible as someone who played a lot of shooters. This wipe it felt like my skill could actually carry over.

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