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My BBEG might end up absolutly destroying my PCs.

What's happening, was that I was going to have a 5th level wizard who just discovered a new spell that let's him extract souls, and these souls last for 1/week per CL. When he uses the soul, he gains mana equal to 5 times the souls hit dice (I use a mana system for my magic users, It's infinitely more fun.)

However, my players rolled perception to notice these guys running arround in the back alleys. And so the paladin (Who has a 10 Wisdom) rolls his streetwise roll, with a 1.

Now, he just rolled a streetwise roll of a natural 1, agaisnt the most mischievous, maniacal and plotting villans. So I leaned back and thought "Well, these villains aren't fucking idiots, and hear that they're being looked for. So they set something up where they pay a guy to lead paladin alone in an alley way, and set something up to end him."

The Paladin falls for it without second guessing.

At this point I think to myself "ohooo shit~ He's in trouble now! Wait a sec, that's actually fucking terrible he's basically as good as dead now."

A 4th level fighter, and a 5 level wizard vs a level 1 paladin... he didn't even last 1 round. When he woke up, he had no more heartbeat, and now his soul is with a BBEG, which is basically a "I press this button and you die" sort of deal. Now my BBEG has a bargaining chip with the Paladins life which he can press at any time.

Now, this guy basically has the party by the balls, quite literally. Since souls are in the shape of wispy translucent spheres. And If I were to run it straight, the villan would just grab the party by the nose and put his plans into overdrive to gain ridiculous power and such off of the labour of the party, unless they want the Paladin to die, since this fucker *would* do it.

I'm at a but of a lost on how to run this, I need some help. Some suggestions, anything to basically safe my PCs life from my bastard of a villains hands.
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