Lighting based creatures

[Kavok]

Hi all. I have the "Church of Talos" as one of the 'enemies' in my current campaign.

Was just wondering if any of you knew of any lighting/talos themed creatures that I could use and what books to find them in?

Things like lighting elementals?

 

[Drowbane]

Nothing offical comes to mind atm...

however, you could simply take a Fire elemental, strip all references to "fire" and replace with "electricity" and you're done.

 

[blargney the second]

Check out the bluespawn in MMIV. Also, some dragon shamans get lightning breath weapons. Finally, shocker lizards & shambling mounds.

 

[Arkhandus]

Don't forget Behirs (monster manual). Storm giants are possibilities too, but they're relatively nice so not very likely to be Talos worshippers. Blue dragons and brass dragons are both lawfully-aligned and so unlikely to follow Talos.

Lessee.....The only other kinda-lightning related critters I can find at the moment are:
Fiend Folio: Thunder worm (CR 21).
Monster Manual II: Tempest (CR 16)
Both are elementals, and rather powerful, cloud-like monstrosities.

 

[Kavok]

Thanks.

Currently I mostly have two types of people they're dealing with in battle:

1.
Cleric (leveled appropriately)
Staff (1 charge of lighting bolt)
Electrical Longsword
Few other misc items

2.
Fighter (leveled appropriately)
Full plate, half plate - heavily armor
Electrical Halbred

Five priests can get together and cast a call lighting spell collectively.

Was just looking for a little bit more variation for the players.

 

[lukelightning]

Lighting? As in a lamp golem?

 

[Ranes]

Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil features

Spoiler

shockers

, who are described as

Spoiler

'sparkling blue humanoids made entirely of electrical energy'

.

 

[frankthedm]

Tomb of horrors has a few bolt based foes IIRC.

Creature collection 1 IIRC has underage uncontrolled sorcerers called storm children.

Flesh golems like electricity

Electrical para-elementals showed up in the manual of the planes.



Just wanted to mention, those electrical weapons can add up to a lot of cash and fast.

 

[lukelightning]

Take an existing creature (e.g. a fire elemental) and change its description; instead of fire it's a shape of crackling sparks, and it does electricity damage instead of fire damage. You could change the residual fire damage to a stun ability, or leave it as is, with some electo-slime stuck to the target.

Take a displacer beast and say it looks like an outline of TV static that wavers and flickers in and out of visibility.

 

[Nail]

Storm Elementals are in Monster Manual III, p. 48. I suggest checking out their picture at the Art Gallery of the WotC site.

I've used them, and they work well for a "lightning" theme. They have both Lightning and Thunder(sonic) attacks. Another good suggestion is to use a Fire elemental, but substitute electrical for fire damage, and swap out a sonic special attack for the burn SA of the Fire Elemental.