Posted By gss_000 on 07/15/2007 5:15 PM
What level are the PC's? Off the top of my head though, if people are close enough for mass inflict spells, flame strike also works. But they are suggesting inflict moderate wounds, not light.

However, this is a very dicey situation. How do you retcon the situation? You said you already failed the save, so the encounter is over, right? Are you going to redo the combat?

Posted By gss_000 on 07/17/2007 11:55 AM
Maybe he is a more appropriate level, but then he'd have to make a caster level check.

Posted By gss_000 on 07/17/2007 11:55 AM
6th level characters facing at minimun an 11th level cleric? Wow. That seems really brutal and an overpowered encounter.

Posted By zenthrus on 07/17/2007 1:15 AM
1st Option (and the one offered in the errata): Change Evil domain to Undeath domain. Danovich now has access to Circle of Death as a divine spell and therefore no issues casting it from a scroll.

Posted By gss_000 on 07/17/2007 11:55 AM
6th level characters facing at minimun an 11th level cleric? Wow. That seems really brutal and an overpowered encounter. Maybe he is a more appropriate level, but then he'd have to make a caster level check.

Posted By realmaster on 07/18/2007 12:41 AM
where is the errata? that was the first thing that I was looking for. use the undeath domain from faerun? mmmm

Posted By zenthrus on 07/18/2007 2:23 AM
http://boards1.wizards.com/archive/index.php/t-733164.html
It's unofficial, but handled by a well-regarded source (who creates errata listings for virtually every supplement).

Also, the Undeath domain made its way into the Spell Compendium and is therefore no longer technically setting-specific (thus a much more viable option).

Posted By Skyscraper on 07/18/2007 1:56 PM
Slightly off topic: I've read the adventure and remember reading that part. I despise this kind of encounter where a lower-level NPC lets loose with a super-powerful item (save-or-die type) against the low-level PCs without them being forewarned of its existence in any way. What's the point? (1) If the scroll doesn't work, then it's very existence was useless except for having the NPC spend a round triggering it. (2) if the scroll does work, then one or more PCs (depending on the strength of the uber-item) dies. In both cases, the encounter is a bummer. The extreme take at this is having a 1st-level wizard cast a meteor swarm on a 1st level party. Sure, you only have say 5-10% that it'll work, but if it does then the game is over in the most ridiculous TPK.

Back on topic: I would definitely change the spell being cast, consequently, to something else, either any spell that the caster has access to or a less devastating higher-level spell.

Sky

hopefully the official errata will address this encounter. I will have to pull out my spell compendium but does it say that priests have access to arcane spells when taking this domain?