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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8329395" data-attributes="member: 2209">Specters/Spectres got a big surprising rewrite in 5e.They had used to be the big Nazgul incorporeal undead who drained two levels with a hit, right below the level of a vampire in power and a step up on wraiths.In 5e they got turned into minor ghost spirits who can be faced by 1st level characters and can be created by wraiths as a power.The 5e ones are a good mechanical niche to hit (low level spirit) that D&D had generally been missing in the core MMs, but I wish they had named them geists instead, like their variant poltergeists, so that there could be a specter monster that matched the old lore and power level for those who converted stuff like old modules and those who wanted less dissonance in monster lore.</blockquote>