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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wakedown" data-source="post: 3312995" data-attributes="member: 15901">Off the top of my head I can remember 3 stirge encounters that our group has seen that are in printed modules.[SPOILERS BELOW]Dungeon Magazine #15 - Roarwater CavesThe party had just spotted the army of kobolds heading towards the xvart lair, and remembering a sealed tunnel that led to stirges, back-tracks to that chamber just as the kobolds begin an epic battle with bugbears and xvarts in a huge underground chamber.  The party members all hide under several blankets (pulling some xvart babies with them) while the barbarian tears through the barricade and does everything in his power to piss the stirges off, sending a swarm of them to join the fray -- the party grins ear to ear as they hear the shouts of kobolds, xvarts and bugbears become even more frentic when they are joined by another faction <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Dungeon Magazine #114 - Mad God's KeyI remember the party hexblade/rogue was wandering off on his own exploring and opened a locked door in the stables, discovering 3 stirges beyond.  His character only had a 10 con, and all 3 stirges hit, and between the 3 of them drained exactly 10 con.  Since this encounter, stirges have become feared in our group.Forge of FuryThe party wizard brazenly enters a dark underground chamber, and tossing up his staff calls forth a light spell.  Once the chamber is illuminated, a half dozen stirges are awoken and swarm the light source and the wizard who tosses it aside and runs fleeing from the room fearing the Con drain attack, but not before a couple grapple onto him.There may be more stirge encounters, but for these 3 parties they became FEARED.  Hope this recap helps...</blockquote>

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