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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 8877101" data-attributes="member: 57383">Updating the <a href="https://www.enworld.org/posts/8860966" target="_blank">Cairn Wight (Undead Stone Giant)</a>, and <a href="https://www.enworld.org/posts/8860967" target="_blank">Cairn Wraith (Undead Stone Giant)</a>.The original text doesn't specify a range, but there is some implication it is MUCH longer than 60 feet:Cairns have a keen telepathic sense that enables them to tell when someone comes near even when that person is silent and/or invisible. They make good use of this when waiting for victims in ambush positions, closing their bright, betraying eyes and blending in with the rocky background until the intruders come close enough to attack. Because of the giant’s stony appearance, victims have a –5 penalty to their surprise rolls when they encounter a cairn underground. Often the first hint of trouble is when large boulders start whizzing past them, hurled with incredible force (3d12 hp damage instead of 3d10 for live stone giants) to a range of 350 yards.If the Cairn is using its telepathic sense to detect the creatures it's hurling rocks at "to a range of 350 yards," the undead giant's telepathic sense has to warn it of an intruder's presence at least 1050 feet away.Maybe it's a territorial thing? There's mention of it wilting plants within a quarter mile of its lair, so perhaps it senses the "life" of an intelligent creature who enters that radius and is alerted? Possibly 1,200 feet or 1,500 feet rather than the 1,320 feet of an actual quarter-mile? Those two numbers are close enough to a couple of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furlong" target="_blank">furlongs</a> for our purposes.The telepathic sense doesn't have to be quite that long ranged, since 5E Stone Giants don't have the better-than-some-catapult rock range of the AD&D versions.If it were, say, 300 feet it's still more than the 240 ft. range of a Stone Giant's rocks.</blockquote>

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