Shade Lord's Pet goes down easy!! *Spoilers :)*

[THE JAKER]

I am playing an evil + party - half orc fighter/thief, korgan, edwin, viconia, haerdalis. I did most of the easier quests in Athkatla, but not the unseeing eye or the planar spere or kangaxx, because I didn't want to cheese it so I am saving them for after underdark...I finished off Bodhi's lair and I wanted to do some of the side quests real quick, so directly after finishing the lair (at 4 AM game time!), I left for Umar hills - party is all about 11th level, best weapons are blade of roses and stonefire axe.

I got to Umar, and part of the party was fatiqued, but I thought, oh what the H. I'll go up and start on the temple ruins - I don't like to waste game time and I was doing well so far. So I go up and clear out the land area, and party's still looking good, so I clear out the dungeon - all those skeleton warriors and mummies take their toll, but I manage to get through and kill the shade lord and altar.

At this point, my entire party is fatigued, I have used up all my summoning spells, I have no breachs, malisons or dooms memorized (used up fighting mage vampire) I do NOT have a wand of cloudkill or monster summoning, the two best weapons i have are +3, etc. I do a save, and decide to go take on Thaxsylvania. Why not, if I die I can just load save and rest...

I get my party in place, the only prep I do is a haste spell. Edwin fires one lower resistance to start the fight. I send korgan and Kayza Dio up to swing, and start Haerdalis and Edwin casting magic missiles. Viconia cannot do much so I have her working as a decoy.

Anyway, wing buffets take out my fighters twice, and viconia nearly gets toasted, but uses a potion and survives. About 40 magic missiles hit, some doing damage (edwin had a lot left thank god). Just as the dragon is about to REALLY finish off viccy, Korgan lands one - his axe can't even damage the dragon, but the 2 points elemental damage gets through and kills it!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! I WIN!!!!!

So anyway, I wanted to tell everyone about it and let you know the party is resting in the Umar inn as we speak

[Classic]

Good on you!!! Strange how that shade lord didn´t manage to plant one single blow on one´s party, huh? What was the dragon thinking when it decided to serve him?!!!

[Aramant]

I still say snares are a god-send. 15 normal snares can usually take down a dragon, without your party getting hit. But, of course, snares are the weenie way to do it.

[THE JAKER]

Yeah I don't like to use traps, my fighter/thief in this party has 0% in set traps Ha Ha Ha...I'll bring it up once I get the other skills up a bit - it's nice because I don't have to put any points in Pickpocket since Haer d' has that covered, so I have put all points so far into stealth and find traps/pick locks, got those all up high and now starting on detect illusion.

The combination of Korgan and a fighter/thief in combat is great! Korgan stands there bashing away, and then the thief sneaks up and kills stuff from behind.

I can't wait for use any item for Kayza and improved bardsong for Haer d'. (he does get it, right???)

[Kitka]

quite simply, use the cleric spell harm. it reduces the recipient to one hit point on contact. the hard part is reducing your thaco to get a hit.(but not with enough cleric buff spells) when i soloed my cleric, i used this trick, then killed it with a larlochs minor drain! ha, very simple, and no cheese.. the wardstone hides you till you strike, so its simple roleplaying.