Thralltakers – Noth, Vour and Skwusch

As part of “Masters of Eternal Night” the Thralltakers – a group of mind flayer bounty hunters – pursue the party and eventually attack them. In the original adventure, it was a trio of standard mind flayers – Noth, Vour and Skwusch. Here are their 5e stats with upgrades/customisations to complement each other. Since their […]

Skill Challenge: Surviving the North

My PCs have conquered the bad guys in “A Darkness Gathering” and now head off to the North in “Masters of Eternal Night“. The PCs need to go from point A to point B in arctic conditions – approximately a two-week journey. I initially just rolled up random encounters for each day but decided that, […]

Mind Flayer: Nasty Specials

Running a campaign that involves A LOT of mind flayers requires doing some interesting things fight to fight with the standard mind flayer. Stealing an idea from 13th Age here are “nasty specials” that can be thrown onto a mind flayer to make them unique and deadlier. These were mostly ripped from 4e and converted. […]

Boss Fight: Shuluth the Ultitharid

The fourth and final boss of a darkness gathering adventure the mind flayer mastermind, Shuluth. This was an interesting encounter. Originally designed for 8 PCs only 4 turned up on the day. The party also fought through the neo-otuygh random encounter, 2 urophions (solo) and then 1 urophion supported by mind flayer psychic warriors (nicknamed “Cid” and “Demon” […]

Tamer Creed Mind Flayer Psychic Warrior

During a darkness gathering adventure the mind flayer mastermind, Shuluth, eventually gets tired of the PCs and sends in a mind-flayer strike team to kill off the PCs. The strike force teleports in after the last agent is killed (Johann, Enoch and Lucien). The idea is this team teleports in before the party has recovered from the […]

Tamer Creed Mind Flayer Psion

Vicar of the Cosmos

A supporting “mook” for a boss fight for my converted darkness gathering adventure. Inspired by the original Bloodborne monster – nightmare executioner. VICAR OF THE COSMOS Huge aberration (frost giant), lawful evil Armour Class 15 (Patchwork Armor) Hit Points 266/133 (14d12 + 98) Speed 40 ft. STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 25 (+7) 9 (-1) 24 (+7) 9 (-1) 10 (+0) 12 (+1) Saving Throws STR […]

Hololithic Fragment 09

This is just a voice recording of a melodies female: “UNITY log entry, Earth Calendar Date 41,110.9.20. As mandated by Imperial law I am to include an automated incident report when a major malfunction has occurred. After leaving the wormhole my engines were severely damaged. Following emergency procedure I landed the ship on the nearest […]

XENOS: DWELLER-IN-DARK-PLACES

In the original adventure the boss creature was a yah-thalgaad an ascended form of the neh-thalgaa. Paizo doesn’t have rights to use the mind-flayer which this adventure is custom built for. As I run a home campaign I have no such restrictions so I added a bunch of mind-flayer cronies to the adventure as well as replacing the boss […]

From the Diary of The DM: Iron Gods Session 26

The Crimson Lotus Gang: Charisma, a “human” -mutant- sorceress whose power source is Gamma Radiation which she was exposed to as a child. As a child of the Atom her hair goes green in the presence of radiation and she progressively gets greener the more powerful spells she casts (and as she gets angry). She […]