D&D 5E (2014) How do you kill a Nilbog...?

[dagger]

Yes but its a paradox because when you try to use healing magic.....

 

[Tony Vargas]

Wasn't the only way to kill them back then to use healing magic?

Yes, you healed the little buggers to death.

The old Fiend Folio had a lot of oddities.


(Of course some people might say you're a Dab MD tsuj rof gnisu a Nilbog...

Ho parc! Ev'i neeb desrever!)

 

[dagger]

Yes, you healed the little buggers to death.

The old Fiend Folio had a lot of oddities.

Yeah but its makes you do the opposite of what you want. So you WANT to heal it, but you do the opposite, which is hurt it.

So I guess you should WANT to hurt it but then you will want to heal it?

But how would you know that you need to heal it anyway?

My brain hurts! PUNCH DM IN THROAT!!!!

 

[dagger]

Just as a follow up. The Nilbog was originally from a White Dwarf magazine April Fool's Fiend Factory article, before it ended up in the Fiend Folio.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

That explains so much.

Just as a follow up. The Nilbog was originally from a White Dwarf magazine April Fool's Fiend Factory article, before it ended up in the Fiend Folio.

 

[GreenTengu]

Yes, technically you can rule-lawyer past the restriction, but you are just spoiling the point of the monster by doing so.

Its like having someone hit a flaming monster and taking damage and therefore the monster is no longer flaming it for the second person who hits it in the same 6 second span of time. Whether that's what the rules technically allow or not, it is against spirit of what is meant to be relayed by the rules.

To get rid of the Nilbog, obviously you heal it to death. But I think they aren't supposed to try to hurt you anyway, they are just supposed to be annoying.

 

[Jester David]

Sniper rifle with a Judas bullet made from metal from "the Incident".

 

[dagger]

In the Fiend Folio monster entry it literally mentions the phrase Space Time Continuum

 

[MechaTarrasque]

Wasn't the only way to kill them back then to use healing magic?

I am pretty sure there were parties that hated the loss of the healing spells as much as they hated the nilbog......

 

[Tony Vargas]

My brain hurts! PUNCH DM IN THROAT!!!!

Tahw fi eht MD si eht Nilbog? S'tahw eht etisoppo fo 'Hcnup ni taorht?'