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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 9053817" data-attributes="member: 57383">G'night!<img src="https://www.enworld.org/attachments/screenshot-2023-06-27-000600-jpg.288816/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Hmm, the Life Drain is completely different from the standard version so should be renamed.I'd suggest just recycling the Death Grip and/or Soul Drain of the <a href="https://www.enworld.org/posts/8860966" target="_blank">Cairn Wight (Undead Stone Giant)</a> rather than reinventing the wheel.Also, I wouldn't have it do 2 levels of exhaustion per hit AND give it two attacks with Multiattack. With its Legendary Action option the Wraith can make three exhaustion-inflicting attacks per round so can kill a PC in a round if they're unlucky.Contrariwise, at most the <a href="https://www.enworld.org/posts/8860966" target="_blank">Cairn Wight (Undead Stone Giant)</a> can only do four levels of exhaustion per round, two with its standard Action and two as a Legendary Action, and the target has to fail two DC 10 Constitution saves for that to happen (since it must miss its DC 15 CON save by 5 or more).Now that I think of it, that DC seems extraordinarily low for a Challenge 16 creature. The recommended DC for a CR 16 creature is 18 after all.While I did deliberately gimp the DC by making it CHA-based instead of CON-based like a standard Wight, maybe we should go back to the default and make it CON-based for the Cairn Wight, which'd give its Death Grip and Soul Drain DC 19 (so the target would have to miss a DC 14 to get two levels of exhaustion, which is pretty easy for a Challenge-appropriate PC).Should I update the <a href="https://www.enworld.org/posts/8860966" target="_blank">Cairn Wight (Undead Stone Giant)</a> with DC 19 for its life sapping special attacks?Oh, and the Cairn Wraith's "Life Drain" should use base 8 for its saves, not base 10, which'd make the DC 16 rather than 18.The easy fix is to increase the CON a bit and knock off a few HD.Both Wraiths and Wights have CON 16 (+3) in 5E so I think you'd be justified in giving a Cairn Wraith the same CON 22 (+6) as the Cairn Wight, or if you prefer to keep the DC 18 make it CON 20 (+5) like a living Stone Giant.I lean towards CON 20 so the Cairn Wraith is a bit more ephemeral than the Cairn Wight.Either way you'd need to knock off a few Hit Dice assuming we're aiming for the HP to be in the same ballpark of 209.</blockquote>

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