BalanceInAllThings
3 paladins, 6 players, what’s the other 3?
Any fireballs?
A mob of smaller enemies could give a bit of work to paladins, between raw numbers and pack tactics or stuff like that.
Running hordes by Sly Flourish might help keep it reasonably flowing: https://slyflourish.com/running_hordes.html
Even if they get fireballed, at least those characters get to shine for once.
Keep in mind that you, as a DM, “win” whenever everyone’s having fun, not when you beat them.
That said, it sure is fun for everyone when you give them a challenge.
You can also put pressure on them indirectly.
If they’re so fearful, maybe the monsters just avoid them so they can focus on easier pickings.
Their martial prowess is unmatched, sure, but how do the bad guys deal with it?
Maybe the bbeg sacrifices fodder to occupy the party to buy themselves time to focus on whatever ritual or macguffin.
Even goblins could overwhelm them eventually, given the numbers. A hundred? A thousand?
Also, the party can’t be everywhere at once.
The ones occupying the PCs die just fine, but the other hundred still ransacked the town.
Whether the PCs crush the monsters might not matter to your bbeg if they can just delay them long enough to accomplish their goals.
Maybe the bbeg has a doppelganger win their trust or manipulates them somehow.
Mechanically, your paladins probably dumped dex or int. Feeblemind, Enemies Abound, Mebtal Prison, Synaptic Static or even Mind Sliver could be annoying.
But then, is it fun? Idk.
A few mindflayers ambushing them, or maybe a vampire turning a beloved NPC.
If you can’t challenge their martial prowess, challenge their morals.
Will the party keep messing with the bbeg plans, or will they focus their efforts on saving that npc, buying the bbeg time.
Maybe a one way portal can spice things up more than a bag of hp or a save-or-suck effect.
Idk
FWIW, I really like these as they are.
I’ve binged through them a while ago and they feel like a wink to an actual campaign, genuine.
Little windows offering glimpses of things that could have happened during actual play.
Like… this doesn’t need to have happened as is during a session, but it feels true enough for the characters that it could have happened during or inbetween your actual D&D sessions.
Countless forgettable series on streaming sites have writers, didn’t do them any good.
Even if you did hire a writer, it would just lose focus.
Do they even know the campaign? Probably not.
Even if they somehow did, they’re notorious for not sticking to source material because they too wanna get creative. I don’t have anything against writers, but you’re doing a fine job yourself and I don’t really see how someone else could write these without losing touch.
I’d rather hear it from the goblin’s mouth, so to speak.
I love Konsi and the work you’re doing.
I love those, I binged through all of them.
❤️
It’s like when you go to an office social event and realize you only ever talk to these guys about work stuff.
It’s funny because I just got back from the office social thing and yea whenever we drift to something else than work… yikes.
Also, I’m not a medical professional, but I was just wearing scrubs just now… post-processing a 3d resin print after working too much all week.
Which konsi are you?
For Karl! Rock. and. STONE
Whoops, wrong place, carry on.
In no particular order…
Maleficient, Cersei Lannister, Hela, Bellatrix Lestrange, Cruella, Ursula, Queen of Heart, Poison Ivy, Wicked Witch, Mom from Futurama, not sure of the xenomorph queen from Aliens counts?, GLaDOS, Number Six, Stargate had a few over the years, Starcraft’s Kerrigan/Queen of blades, Resident Evil’s Lady Dimetrescu, Carmen Sandiego, Doom’s Olivia Pierce, Airbender’s Azula, Carrie, Annie Wilkes from Misery, Claire from House of Cards, the Aunt in Handmaiden, Harley Quinn, Lady Macbeth…
That’s all I have for now
For a tenth of the price too
