Lowering your guard is the Blight of safe sleep.
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It might be full of needles and vines, but surely those twitching twigs are signs of friendly woodland creatures crawling about. The night might be dark, but the lush greenery is a welcome sight. The gloomy dungeon has left them with nary a potion or spell slot to their name. If there is a monster you would like me to focus on for the next Random Encounter segment, please put the suggestion in the comments :).The courageous Party has been pushed to the brink of its abilities. Have you used Twig Blights in your own games, or faced them before? What are your thoughts on them? Well that is all I have to say about Twig Blights.
You can supplement Twig Blights by also using Vine and Needles Blights, allowing some nice variety for an early adventure. A few Twig Blights utilized well as in a early adventure is far more likely to be remembered then yet another Kobold or Goblin cave. There is a fear and excitement in the unknown. If possible have them drag their dead away. Their effect will be lessened if seeming endless numbers of them appear at regular intervals. I haven’t used them extensively in my own games, and so no interesting stories come to mind, but keep an eye on this blog, as they are sure to appear in future adventures of mine :).Ī few things to be careful of, do not over use Twig Blights, keep the mystery surrounding them as long as possible. Maybe the villain is using their minions to sustain and nurture a new Gulthias tree! To extend their use, or variety, maybe your Twig Blights grow bigger with age, increasing hit points and damage, of course only after having fed regularly :). The options are really endless.įinally, they are a really neat opportunity to explore a Evil Druid or Ranger villain, that perhaps utilizes Twig Blights and other Evil forest creatures to harass civilization. By the time they make it to the pasture all that remains is a trail of blood leading into the woods.Maybe a young child, as often happens in horror movies, can mention the funny wood men that skirt through the homestead late at night. All that the farmer hears over the bleating of the animal is an unsettling rustling and clattering, like dozens of claws rusting in the wind. Perhaps villagers have been complaining of animals disappearing when grazing near the forest, often at night. They are also quite creepy, and so can add an element of horror to early levels. Twig Blights are very level appropriate for a starting group AND avoid the repetition of yet another Goblin lair. Twig Blights offer a really interesting opportunity, low levels are often a ton of fun, and the most frequently played however, several creatures are often used as the main monsters Goblins, Orcs, Kobolds, ect. Twig Blights can root themselves into the ground and reproduce through their root system, allowing them to multiply even if the tree of their origins is slain.
Most likely due to their dark origins Twig Blights crave the taste of blood, often attacking living creatures, and then drawing sustenance from their bodies. Twice a year fruit springs from the tree, the seeds of which create Twig Blights. The Gulthias Tree possessed innate, but evil, power. These strange creatures draw their origins from the Gulthias Tree, a tree grown from a stake used to slay a powerful vampire.
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Standing about 3 and 1/2 feet tall, Twig Blights are a series of leafless branches, which interlock to create a diminutive humanoid shape. While the specifics of the adventure are unimportant for this discussion, Twig Blights serve as a new henchmen of the big baddie at the end of the adventure. Twig Blights originally appeared in the 3rd edition adventure The Sunless Citadel. This will be a chance for me to focus on a specific monster, discuss my thoughts on it, share some stories, and suggest some interesting ways it can be used (or fought against).Ī shout out to the player of FizzyWinks for this first monster request! This will be the first installment of a regular feature on The Room Fills with Water, the Random Encounter.
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