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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nifft" data-source="post: 3819887" data-attributes="member: 6562">In my secret theoretical variant, the warning is ability damage. So a bodak might have a gaze attack that inflicts 2 points of Con damage each round (Fort negates).Ability damage from a gaze attack is the sort of thing that would make my players go "OH SHI--", but would give even the weakest at least a round or two of warning.Better yet, they play nice with other monsters. A mixed group of bodaks & ghasts is now a terrible threat, because you will want to get through the ghasts to kill the bodaks fast -- and yet the bodaks are reducing your Fort saves and reducing your HP, while the ghasts are sickening you and threatening paralysis in addition to reducing your HP through good old melee attacks.Cheers, -- N</blockquote>