Today's posts are brought to you by wights.
Today's posts are brought to you by wights. When PCs get cocky, nothing will make them run away faster than good old-fashioned, level-draining wights.
From Voyageurs National Park on FB:
From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
Vampires used to have level drain too.
ReplyDeleteDon't tell the players, but in my Burning Wheel Ravenloft game, if you get vampire-bit you can end up having skill and stat levels permanently drained.
As a level-draining undead monstrosity (albeit with a lemony icon), I approve this message.
ReplyDeleteFive wights in tonight's dungeon. Totally optional encounter. But will the PC's open those coffins for the sweet loot that must be inside? Those bone golems must have been guarding something awesome right?
ReplyDeleteJust don't make the same mistake with them I did. I had a necromancer PC back in the heady days of 2E and inspired by Doctor Strange, I decided I wanted a faithful manservant for my sorcerer. But because I was also competitive I wanted two manservants.
ReplyDeleteCreating the wights wasn't a problem. Controlling them was. Very shortly thereafter, my necromancer was drained by his undead major domos, left powerless and then eaten by carrion crawlers.
Which just goes to show you: Two wights don't make a wong.
Curt Thompson I'm docking you 1,000 XP for that.
ReplyDeleteIt was totally worth it. :D
ReplyDeleteDid you notice that XP makes the same face you make when you hear a bad pun?
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Sorry, there's no such thing as a bad pun.
ReplyDeleteI'll dock you too, Alex Hakobian. You watch your ass.
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