Pentagrams to block his passage(he is is a magical creature after all) Pain and stun would be nasty against a flying opponent that must flap wings to keep in the air
Fog would prevent him from any sort of safe infiltration or landing Even the non-damaging version of hail would be nasty for a bird. Ok, most of the weather section would be almost insignificant to a ground party, but very nasty to a flier... they need not even have a magical storm, a natural thunderstorm would do quite well to effectively ground anything that relies on wings and cannot fly above it(and a nice big storm, perhaps with hail, will prevent any sort of going around it too... after all, the prototypical evil wizard tower has dark and menacing clouds with lightning dancing back and forth in them, so you could even present it as additional atmosphere(until he tries to take to the air, at which point you clarify just how dangerous it is to fly in such weather and if he ignores you, slam him into the ground again and again until he gets the message. There is a REASON you don't see many birds flying in a serious storm. updrafts, downdrafts, gusts strong enough to break a wing, lighting and hail are just the beginning of what a bird would encounter in a particularly nasty storm) A bunch of soldiers with crossbows can also ruin his day, and if he relies on reverse missles or missile shield to avoid the bolts, a mage with counterspell can help with that... On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Max <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm looking for some GMing advice. I'm running a Yrth based high fantasy > campaign. One of the characters is a were-eagle and the player is pretty > cocky. He does have a powerful (mathematically optimized) character. > > This weekend the group is on the verge of finishing an adventure. Their > one big task, which they will get to next session, will be to take out the > "evil mage". > > I'll have the group fighting the mage and last line of defense guards > without the use of missile weapons. Everything will have a Reverse Missile > on it. I want to ground the eagle, too. Anyone have any creative spell > use > to keep the eagle on the ground? I'm more interested in ruffling his ego > than his feathers. > > Thank you. > > Max > > > _______________________________________________ > GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> > http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l > -- The man that holds fast to his bitterness will eventually be consumed by it, but if you let it go, your arms will be free to seize the glory that is life. -Terwin _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
