Additionally, she only has 99 HP, which means that if she does get caught in a focus fire from PCs, she's going down very quickly. While Time Stop is potentially useful, it's mostly good for letting her run away with Teleport. The strongest damage-dealing spell she has is only 5th level. The players easily blew through this stage of the fight-even with Time Stop to set up defenses, the Archmage was soundly defeated without a single PC going down.įirst, consider that while the Archmage has access to 9th level spells, all of her high-level spells are nondamaging. As you describe, the battle with the archmage took place inside what was basically a large empty building. I have run a very similar encounter, with 4 PCs at level 10 against a single Archmage, with all of her spells pre-cast on herself, as the first part of a multi-stage boss fight.
