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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4079783" data-attributes="member: 2067">Specifically, I'm a little bummed about the Bodak missing their "killed by the touch of absolute evil" thing, and their "fleeting memories of a past life."IIRC, this was even better in 2e where their appearance had a mechanical effect in combat, giving you the whole eerie "killed by the ghost of the paladin you were sent to rescue" kind of moment.Even in 3e, the bodak allowed you to have a slightly sympathetic creature of absolute evil, a tragic model of a fallen mortal, who got a bit too close to Things Man Was Not Meant To Know and went a bit funny in the head. You needed to kill it, but you could see that it knew that, on some level, it needed to be killed.4e's response to this juicy little flavor?"It's a creature of killing who likes to kill and kills a lot!"FREAKING YAWN.</blockquote>