D&D 5E Reynard Destroys Ravenloft
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dave2008
Legend
Mythic Monsters have a Mythic Trait that DM can chose to use or not.
Mythic Trait
Shed Skin (Mythic Trait; Recharges after a Short or Long Rest).If Hythonia is reduced to 0 hit points, she doesn’t die or fall unconscious. Instead, she sheds her skin, regains 199 hit points, and moves up to her speed without provoking opportunity attacks.
When the mythic trait is active, the monster gets access to mythic actions (new Legendary Action options) and defeating a mythic version of monster is worth more XP.
Mythic Encounter:
Hythonia as a Mythic Encounter
Hythonia serves as a potent threat against even high-level characters, but you can increase the challenge by using the Shed Skin trait. When this happens, Hythonia heals many of her wounds and slips away from danger, and then she can choose one of her mythic actions when she uses a legendary action.You might foreshadow Hythonia using her mythic trait by describing her skin cracking and turning pale as she suffers wounds. Read or paraphrase the following text when Hythonia finally uses her Shed Skin trait:
The medusa’s skin cracks, turns a lifeless gray, and shatters! The monster crumbles to dust—but what clatters to the ground isn’t scale and bone, but hollow stone. The sound of rippling coils precedes the medusa rising up anew, the last of her shed skin dropping away, revealing glistening, unscarred scales.
Fighting Hythonia as a mythic encounter is equivalent to taking on two challenge rating 17 creatures in one encounter. Award a party 36,000 XP for defeating Hythonia after she uses Shed Skin.
AtomicPope
Hero
What if the PCs were the henchmen of the Domain Lords? After all, Van Richten defeated the Lords. The Lords are all contained and will be destroyed unless their most faithful and powerful servant (a 9th level PC) works with Van Richten. Doing this would separate the monster races from PCs but still give you enough room to introduce new and interesting characters. Then each of them could have a few magic items to fit their fluff.
hopeless
Adventurer
Has anyone tried creating a domain where it appears to be ruled by a Fey except the truth is the local populace caused the creation of their domain and the Fey is actually trying to help the populace who blame her for their own actions?
So they get sent there, eventually led to hunt down the Fey only to discover their target isn't who they're there to kill, but to rescue as she's the only innocent left in that domain and escorting her back to Van Richten actually successfully completes their mission rather than killing her.
Is that doable?
So they get sent there, eventually led to hunt down the Fey only to discover their target isn't who they're there to kill, but to rescue as she's the only innocent left in that domain and escorting her back to Van Richten actually successfully completes their mission rather than killing her.
Is that doable?
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