sugestions taken on board....I need to sort this one out quickly
I was thinking something like this:
Necrotic Stench. Any living creature that starts its turn within 5 feet of the troglo-wight must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw, or take 5 (2d4) necrotic damage and be poisoned until the start of the creature's next turn. On a successful saving throw, the creature cannot be poisoned by the stench of all troglodytes and troglo-wight for 1 hour. The creature can still take necrotic damage from a troglo-wight's necrotic stench during this hour, but only takes 2 (1d4) necrotic damage if they fail their saving throw.
As for the other stuff, the
Bite and
Claws needs a little cleaning up. I think I'd make it 1d8+2 damage rather than 1d4 + 4 as (a) I'm not sure how you derived that and (b) a regular trog's bite has the same base damage dice as its fangs so I'd think a troglodyte wight would keep that relationship. A Vampire Spawn can do 1d6 damage dice with its Bite and Troglodytes likely have bigger teeth than an low-ranking vampire who's only got a human mouth.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d8 + 2) piercing damage plus 5 (1d10) necrotic damage. f the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or suffer 1 level of exhaustion. This exhaustion remains until it is healed magically: a lesser restoration can remove one level of exhaustion from a victim with two or fewer levels, a greater restoration will remove three levels of exhaustion. The target dies if it suffers 6 levels or exhaustion.
A humanoid slain by this attack rises 24 hours later as a zombie under the troglo-wight's control, unless the victim is restored to life or its body is destroyed. The troglo-wight can have no more than twelve zombies under its control at one time.
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: (1d8 + 2) slashing damage plus 5 (1d10) necrotic damage.
That makes it Challenge 3 according to the Calculator, the same as a Wight.
Which means its to hit is wrong as it uses a +2 Proficiency Bonus.
I'd be OK giving it STR 17 (+3) to resolve that. While the STR 18 (+4) of the previous draft felt a little high, a base Trog is significantly stronger than a human.
If you do that, it becomes
Challenge 4 due to the point extra damage per attack:
STR 17 (+3)
Challenge 4 (1,100) Proficiency Bonus +2
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) piercing damage plus 5 (1d10) necrotic damage. f the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or suffer 1 level of exhaustion. This exhaustion remains until it is healed magically: a lesser restoration can remove one level of exhaustion from a victim with two or fewer levels, a greater restoration will remove three levels of exhaustion. The target dies if it suffers 6 levels or exhaustion.
A humanoid slain by this attack rises 24 hours later as a zombie under the troglo-wight's control, unless the victim is restored to life or its body is destroyed. The troglo-wight can have no more than twelve zombies under its control at one time.
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: (1d8 + 3) slashing damage plus 5 (1d10) necrotic damage.
I'll wrap up all of the above as an Enworld post.
Might as well change
Mister Blue into Mister Trog to recycle the post.
EDIT: While doing
Mister Trog I realized the lower CR also meant its Skills are a point too high in your version. :EDIT
