Phantom Fungus!

[MerricB]

My players encountered a Phantom Fungus tonight. The party is about 8th or 9th level.

The ranger in the party used a full round action to locate the invisible creature (he has an extremely high Spot check), then the sorceress used a fireball spell to kill it. Unfortunately, it didn't make any sound as it died, so they didn't realise.

The dwarven defender moved into range and hit it. (Squelch!)
The ranger fired three arrows at it. (Squelch! Squelch!)
The sorceress cast shield.
The dwarven defender hit it a couple of times. (Squelch! Squelch!)
The ranger fired three arrows at it. (Squelch! Squelch! Squelch!)
The sorceress readied a magic missile spell in case it appeared.
This repeated for a couple more rounds.

Finally, they realised it hadn't (a) attacked for several rounds and (b) hadn't moved. They stepped back and waited a few rounds for it to do something.

Eventually, the fried and totally dismembered corpse appeared.



Cheers!

 

[Quasqueton]

Sweet.

Sounds like a normal party of adventurers. As soon as something is encountered, hit it with everything you have, repeatedly.

Quasqueton

 

[HellHound]

LOL.

Our team was less lucky. We ran into our first Phantom Fungus at level 3, and it ook a LOT of work to put that bad-boy down.

Nowadays, we have learned.

We always have SOMEONE with Faerie Fire at the ready.

 

[Saeviomagy]

I think I'm too easy on my players - they met a phantom fungus, and they dropped it in a couple of rounds.

Mainly due to it being a melee-only creature of animal intelligence.

I can't imagine that any party would have a problem thinking up the strategy of getting into a group and readying actions to stab it when it attacked.

Or does your DM not tell you what square a creature attacks from?