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[Screamin Demon]

My players trounced the Kreiger-Rak ghouls. They combated the ceiling climbing Rak-Ghouls with flying drones sporting SMG mounts. Just slaughtered the ceiling ghouls, and many of the flanking ones, too.

So I sent in the ambush of astrally projecting, but physically manifested ghouls in on one side, and a group of charging murderously physically real ghouls from the other, they just didn't have the initiative passes to keep up.

All my players were pulling 4 actions thanks to the drug-addict black mage sustaning 5 increased initiative spells at once (which only totaled to -5 due to his drug). Remember my plans to grapple and rend PC's? The ghouls ran up and did the grapple like I planned, so far so good. But then the other 3 initiave passes where they were mostly helpless to the constant bombardment of arrows, spells, and LMG/SMG gun fire.

In desperation I released my brain-child. A Toxic Shaman Troll Ghoul. Who was posessed by 2 bound force 12 Toxic Beast spirits. One was 'Mutating' to add 12 to the troll's strength. The other adding 12 to his body. I also decided that if the players were gonna have improved initiative sustained all the time, there was no reason why the Nemesis Troll Ghoul couldn't too.

His Body came out to 26. Yessir, thats 21 health boxes. But between the hail of 14P arrows from our good archer, and force 12 Manna bolts from our Crack-Mage (THAT ARE RESISTED WITH WILL NOT BODY!!1!1!) the monstrosity I was planning on eating half the party with just flipped over one of their vans (With 4 players in it, I resolved damage like a crash at the speed of Nemmy's Strength! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/talker.gif) ), smashed an irritating roto-drone, then died before his 3rd initiative pass.

Players were just so buffed up with Improved initiative and stat increases (Many sustained with foci) that after a month of play ate through one a pretty lethal scenario without so much as a single character death. Fuck!

So how do you people deal with mages specializing in buffing powers to augment everyone and their sisters with 4 (total) initiative passes, and augmenting their casting attribute to their racial maximum?