It’s nighttime or nothing.Īlso, thanks to the Forbiddance feature, one is safe from vampiric mist as long as one is inside a residential building, either one’s own home or someone else’s. Vampiric mist isn’t so much a creature as it is a punishment.īecause of their Sunlight Sensitivity, vampiric mists come outside only after dark, and they don’t mess around with civil, nautical or astronomical twilight. Moreover, it has no attack action per se, only Life Drain, an effect that requires a saving throw to resist. Vampiric mist has no judgment, only instinct. There’s only one stat that matters, and that’s its Intelligence, which is subsapient. I normally begin by looking at a creature’s ability contour, but in this case, there’s not much point. With no way to form a new body, it floats around aimlessly, feeding off victims by employing a sort of necrotic vacuum effect to pull blood out of victims’ pores and facial orifices.
Continue reading Sword Wraith Tactics Posted in Undead Tagged CR 3, CR 8, undead 7 Comments Vampiric Mist TacticsĪlas, there isn’t much to say about vampiric mist, which is what you end up with when the body of a vampire is destroyed but its essence isn’t. Sword wraith warriors have animal-level Intelligence and below-average Wisdom, while sword wraith commanders have more humanoid-typical Intelligence and above-average Wisdom, so while they play the same combat role, they assess situations differently. (Boy, can they be offended.) Mostly, they want to be treated with the adulation they expected to receive for the valorous deeds they were very sure they were capable of performing.īoth sword wraith warriors and sword wraith commanders are melee-focused brutes, with exceptional Strength and Constitution.
They’re closer to ghosts, haunting the locations where they met their ignominious demises and grinding their emotional axes. It comes in two varieties: the rank-and-file sword wraith warrior and the higher-level sword wraith commander.Īccording to the flavor text, despite being evil-aligned, sword wraiths don’t necessarily attack every living being who comes near. I often talk about undead creatures as being driven by compulsions relating to the circumstances of their reanimation, and the sword wraith is a dandy example of a backstory-driven compulsion: a warrior, obsessed with glory, slain in combat in a manner much more in line with the reality of war than the ennoblement of it, and refusing to stop seeking that glorious victory despite being technically dead.
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