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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 6997926" data-attributes="member: 6801228"><p>Two things of potential interest.</p><p></p><p>Meenlocks are small in size, yet they can take any medium or large humanoid and turn them into meenlocks. To me, this gives us a beautiful visual set-up, where the players walk in on someone who is mid-way through the transformation and see a person literally shrunken and twisted by fear.</p><p></p><p>Jumping off that, they torture people who are incapacitated. Sleeping is being incapacitated. Pair these guys with someone like the Night Hag who can prevent a target from gaining the benefit of a long rest. How long does it take the former adventurer king, unable to sleep, tortured by horrific visions every night, to succumb when his body and mind are slowly being destroyed by this hag and her meenlocks. Bonus round, the hag obviously doesn't want his soul if the meenlocks get him, so who hired her to terrorize a kingdom in such a brutal manner.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The second thought I had, is that the Meenlocks "spontaneously arise" when someone is overcome with fear. Think failing a save against fear is enough? Fighting an enemy spellcaster or some other entity capable of inflicting fear, in a land near the Feywilds. The evil warlock casts a spell, the fighter falls back, scared witless. Suddenly the land cracks and twists, and these horrific chittering monstrosities come pouring out of the earth, eager to drag the party into the depths. </p><p></p><p>Instant allies, and any time you can change the very land the players stand on mid-combat, they are going to feel it and remember it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 6997926, member: 6801228"] Two things of potential interest. Meenlocks are small in size, yet they can take any medium or large humanoid and turn them into meenlocks. To me, this gives us a beautiful visual set-up, where the players walk in on someone who is mid-way through the transformation and see a person literally shrunken and twisted by fear. Jumping off that, they torture people who are incapacitated. Sleeping is being incapacitated. Pair these guys with someone like the Night Hag who can prevent a target from gaining the benefit of a long rest. How long does it take the former adventurer king, unable to sleep, tortured by horrific visions every night, to succumb when his body and mind are slowly being destroyed by this hag and her meenlocks. Bonus round, the hag obviously doesn't want his soul if the meenlocks get him, so who hired her to terrorize a kingdom in such a brutal manner. The second thought I had, is that the Meenlocks "spontaneously arise" when someone is overcome with fear. Think failing a save against fear is enough? Fighting an enemy spellcaster or some other entity capable of inflicting fear, in a land near the Feywilds. The evil warlock casts a spell, the fighter falls back, scared witless. Suddenly the land cracks and twists, and these horrific chittering monstrosities come pouring out of the earth, eager to drag the party into the depths. Instant allies, and any time you can change the very land the players stand on mid-combat, they are going to feel it and remember it. [/QUOTE]
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