They too are driven by compulsion to kill, so it’s unlikely they’ll break from a fight.įinally, is the “tank” of the trio, the vine blight. More than likely, these guys won’t be alone, either, pairing up with other blights and offering assistance from afar. At 30/60 range, they’ll probably attack just outside of their short range, sucking up the disadvantage, but keeping distance between themselves and melee fighters. Next comes the ranged attacker, the needle blight. Otherwise they’ll fight ’til smooshed because that’s what they’ve been commanded to do. They might be under direction to kill kill kill by Poppa Gulthias, but they certainly don’t wanna mess with being set ablaze. The only thing that would probably drive a twig blight to fleeing is the presence of fire.
From there, it’ll seek to surround its foes and claw at them until a) the targets die or more likely b) all the twig blights get smashed into, uh… smaller twigs. Granted, its small bonus to stealth coupled with its false appearance feature helps it get the drop on imperceptive foes. The twig blight is the puniest of the bunch and really only functions well when in great numbers. Honestly, blights would make a lot more sense as undead instead of trees, since that’s basically what they are: dead animated plants. However, a blight is less of a self-thinking creature and more of an automaton.
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Of the three Monster Manual blights, the vine blight is the smartest… at 5 Intelligence. How do 5e blights fight?īlights aren’t particularly bright. There is also a tree blight found in The Curse of Strahd. But its voice is really just an echo of its dark master, Gulthias.
Of the three, the vine blight’s the only one that can speak. It and its minions were first featured in the first major 3rd edition module, the Sunless Citadel, which is now available in the Tales from the Yawning Portal fifth edition book.Īnyways, blights come in three flavors in the Monster Manual: needle blights which are like the trunks of pine trees walking around like people twig blights which are punky little bushes and vine blights which are bundles of kudzu coming to kill you. The Gulthias tree takes its name from some vampire that died in D&D lore. Your bloooood!īut really, blights are just low-level forestry bad guys for when your first level adventurers get sick of fighting goblins, skeletons, and bandits.Īccording to the lore, blights spring up from the roots of a Gulthias tree. When parts of a forest go bad because some big time evil doer died or left a part of itself there, the plants come to life. Love to garden! So it terrified me to my core to think that my shrubbery can come to life and try to eat me in my sleep. DM Dave 10 Comments on Blight Variants for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition Posted in Monsters
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