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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mike Mikesh" data-source="post: 7352779" data-attributes="member: 6923829">GravenhollowAbyssal Dreamwalker<a href="http://media.wizards.com/2016/dnd/downloads/D_VoloPreview_StoneGiant.pdf" target="_blank">Stone giant dreamwalkers</a> provided much inspiration for enhancements to our campaign as we got into Gravenhollow.  Before finding that ancient place, our party encountered Jothic, a dreamwalker recently returned from his dream quest under the open sky.  Unaware of the taint, he rested in an area of chaos infected <a href="http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Faerzress" target="_blank">faerzress</a>, and his madness took on a demonic form.  The twisting reality around him gave him an appearance much like <a href="http://hellraiser.wikia.com/wiki/Pinhead" target="_blank">Pinhead</a> from the Hellraiser movies, embellished with additional gruesome piercings.<a href="http://calebnefzen.cgsociety.org/art/hellraiser-maya-pinhead-mental-ray-dark-photoshop-demon-zbrush-angel-blood-bloody-dead-menace-hell-leather-white-pins-killer-tribute-1089803" target="_blank">[ATTACH]94621[/ATTACH]</a>I modified Jothic from Volo's Guide to Monsters in the following ways:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Replace Petrifying Touch with Agonizing Touch.  If the target is a creature that can feel pain, it must succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw or become incapacitated with excruciating pain for 1 minute.  The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Altered Dreamwalker's Charm to only affect demons.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Jothic can cast a modified Evard's Black Tentacles at will.  The area is a zone 30 feet around the dreamwalker and must also overlap an area of chaos tainted faerzress.  The tentacles instead take the form of iron chains and hooks, and do not affect Jothic or his allies.</li> </ul>This last was visually striking.  The faerzress took on a red-orange hue in the area around Jothic.  Scattered pits opened from which rose vapors and the glow of magna.  Left open long enough, demons would emerge.  Iron chains and cruel hooks were draped throughout and red blood seeped from where barbs pierced the stalagmites or columns.  The chains animated and attacked when Jothic invoked his power similar Evard's Black Tentacles.In keeping with the above Illustration, Jothic was contemplating an intricate gold cube when the party came upon him.  I treated it as a <a href="https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Cubic%20Gate#contenthttp://" target="_blank">cubic gate</a>, opening to layers of the Abyss, that his own madness summoned into existence.  Upon seeing the party, he simply said, "You must see this," and started leading the group to a luminous cave.However, an elf, Cloud, emerged from the shadows to give warning and back story.  He was the last survivor of seven elf artists who followed "Master" Jothic intending to meet more stone giant sculptors.  Demons, emerging from pits and killed most of the elves as Jothic was shaping the stalagmites in the area of faerzress (his "gallery") into horrific images that seem to come real in his presence.When the player characters entered the gallery, Jothic dramatically raised his arms and rumbled, "Behold!  My creations!"  The giant expected adulation.  When the reaction was instead quite disappointing, he yelled in rage of "Critics!" and attacked.</blockquote>

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