And in our very next listing, something that couldn’t be less old school D&D! Be ready to see a few of these offed along the way due to player paranoia. Imagine being a relatively low level party that manages to take out one of these, only to find it barring the way OUT of the dungeon on the way back. If the flameskull is destroyed, it regains all its hit points in 1 hour unless holy water is sprinkled on its remains or a dispel magic or remove curse spell is cast on them. My favorite part of the design is its rejuvenation power: (If memory serves, the Lost Mines version may be even tougher than the one in the MM.) To me old Flamey here just screams old school D&D. When I ran Lost Mines, the PCs ended up just running through the room with the Flameskull, taking their lumps, and just moving on. Based on running The Lost Mines of Phandelver, I can tell you what a great tool this is for player torment. (And, damn, what a great ally they would make!)įlameskull. You can work in clues that lead back to the gnome lab, have a big fight in and around the Rube Goldberg breath collection device, and free a bunch of a tiny dragons at the end. It’s another adventure that writes itself. Imagine a group of skeezy gnomes that have captured a bunch of Faerie Dragons in order to harvest their breath for a new drug. If you want to do something with the Faerie Dragon for the more mature folks in your life, look no further than the creature’s Euphoria Breath. It reminds me of the kind of thing you might encounter in the excellent RPG for kids, Little Wizards. And, honestly, this is a great creature to throw into your “young kids” campaign: a puckish little beastie to show them that not everything they encounter is for killing.

Xander just loved this little fellow, every little part of him down to his tricksy nature. Still, Xander and I will chip, chip, chip away at the MM until we are done.Īnd so, Dear Reader, come along and frolic in the fields of the funky with us!įaerie Dragon. Now that it’s clear that we’re not going back until the Fall, we’ve got more distance learning to do than ever. Week three, or is it four(?), of homeschooling.

Thanks for dropping by my weekly feature, Irreverent Reading! It’s where my son and I read every word of the Monster Manual, dreaming and opining about what we find.

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