im actually wanting to run an encounter in waterdeep where theirs a serial killer on the loose with a unknown way of murder. and as the party investigates the bodies they notice that they look extremely decomposed even though they died the day before and that they have no shadow on the bodies. turns out it was a undead shadow that snuck into the alleyways of waterdeep preying on the hood rats or common folk to end their first for the life force of the living. whats awsome is they then multiply and it kinda turns into a paranormal hunt for the shadows before they take over.
idk i found this in the manual and find these are my new favorite monster aside from crawling hands or displacer beasts.
Yes, they can be quite fun. You can even stuff them into odd places like into bottles of wine or on a bookshelf behind heavy tomes.
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-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
im actually wanting to run an encounter in waterdeep where theirs a serial killer on the loose with a unknown way of murder. and as the party investigates the bodies they notice that they look extremely decomposed even though they died the day before and that they have no shadow on the bodies. turns out it was a undead shadow that snuck into the alleyways of waterdeep preying on the hood rats or common folk to end their first for the life force of the living. whats awsome is they then multiply and it kinda turns into a paranormal hunt for the shadows before they take over.
The corpse casts no shadow? Sounds like a wizard/necromancer/archano-animator who can animate your shadow and have it kill you.
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
yeah i was thinking that could be the boss of the quest a mad mage trying to make an army of shadows