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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arwink" data-source="post: 1364698" data-attributes="member: 2292">Close enough to that it barely matters.  I was looking for something nasty to use on a trapped forge, and the image of an elemental with sword-blades for arms came to mind.  From there I searched old dragon mags for the sword-spikes stats, gave it a better crit range (wave to Blarth everyone), and the ability to merge with stone so it could hide in the forge-stone. This was the 8th session since we'd started the campaign, and it was starting to click that for the first time just picking some of the more obscure creatures in the monster manual wasn't going to be enough to catch the players off guard.  It's mostly Capellan's fault, and naturally the first adventure where I make a point of working around this is the one where he's absent <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />It does bring to mind one of the real lessons I've picked up from this campaign: You never know how lazy you are as a DM until another DM joins your group.</blockquote>