u/Ahlez

I just had my first run against what I think is the endboss since the credits just started with fireworks. Rather anticlimacticly it ended with the boss getting two tapped with my coin count tome. Is it normal that this deals so much damage/ that I get so many coins in a normal run?

My players have caught a custom npc in Termalaine that was planning to overtake Oarus as Speaker and have already found other clues about the Zhentarim plot here and there. It is a big part of act 1 in my campaign as one of the players backstory is also that he was once part of the Zhentarim until he left them. There is now a council of the Speakers planned to address the situation with the Zhentarim and where they plan to accuse Naerth of also being part of them (They don't have evidence for that yet but he is rightfully very suspicious for them).

In case they successfully proof him to be evil etc. I was thinking of having him fight the group while trying to flee back to Targos. (My players will be 5 level 4 pcs at that point) My idea was to

1. Buff up Skath up to a level 5 Battlemaster fighter who fights to protect Naerth and

2. Let Naerth keep his relatively weak stat line but make him pay to win. He had pretty much a week to prepare for this meeting and I thought to give him a bag of holding with some spell scrolls. I think it could be thematic as his skill is basically being well connected and relatively rich with the Zhentarim backing him. Could also potentially be an interesting fight having someone who can use spells of different classes on one character

Would love to hear feedback on this idea what could be improved or completely different ideas what you did if it came to a fight with them

I have seen many people on this sub that have used a wendigo in the quest in lonely wood. I didn't really find a white wendigo design I liked online that fit with the artstyle of dnd. I thought maybe someone already has something that could be used and would be willing to share. Would be much appreciated