Death Burst. When the mephit dies, it explodes in a burst of jagged ice. Each creature within 5 feet of it must make a DC 10 Dexterity saving throw, taking 4 (1d8) slashing damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
False Appearance. While the mephit remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from an ordinary shard of ice.
Innate Spellcasting (1/Day). The mephit can innately cast fog cloud, requiring no material components. Its innate spellcasting ability is Charisma.
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 3 (1d4 + 1) slashing damage plus 2 (1d4) cold damage.
Frost Breath (Recharge 6). The mephit exhales a 15- foot cone of cold air. Each creature in that area must succeed on a DC 10 Dexterity saving throw, taking 5 (2d4) cold damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
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Posted Feb 25, 2019Anyone else think these little guys are awesome little servants to your "Big Bad"? They have that perfect little "conniving" look, I think that they add a whole other element to your campaign bad guy.
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Posted Apr 28, 2019i got to know
was the pun intended?
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Posted May 29, 2019What pun?
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Posted Jun 12, 2019"...I think that they add a whole other ELEMENT you your campaign bad guy."
I think that was the pun.
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Posted Dec 13, 2019ha. ha ha ha ha.
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Posted Jun 7, 2020nice
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Posted Jun 8, 2020My question - when these guys explode, does the explosion damage the other ice mephits within range? My DM ruled no, but I'm thinking since it's slashing damage it should?
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Posted Jun 11, 2020Death Burst. When the mephit dies, it explodes in a burst of jagged ice. Each creature within 5 feet of it must make a DC 10 Dexterity saving throw, taking 4 (1d8) slashing damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
As I would rule that in my own campaign, Yes it would deal damage to other mephits in the area as the description says "Each Creature within 5 feet". To me, that includes allies and enemies alike, the only time this would not apply, would be if something was immune to slashing damage, such as ochre jelly.
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Posted Jan 9, 2021Damage Immunities Cold
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Posted Mar 22, 2021Death Burst. When the mephit dies, it explodes in a burst of jagged ice. Each creature within 5 feet of it must make a DC 10 Dexterity saving throw, taking 4 (1d8![]()
) slashing damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
Emphasis added mainly because it seems a little off that exploding ice deals slashing damage and not cold damage. Physically I can understand why, but when you consider the explosion of Ice Knife (https://www.dndbeyond.com/spells/ice-knife) then you would expect an explosion of something cold to deal cold damage.
RAW says slashing damage, but I can definitely see an argument for making it deal cold damage.
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Posted Apr 6, 2021Makes sense to me; you can see ice knife as a sort of cold bomb effect vs. the rough shrapnel blast of the mephit, for which the temperature is secondary to the cutting.
And they can definitely set off a chain reaction if a wounded mephit gets caught up in the blast.
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Posted Apr 22, 2021Interesting. A clever BBEG could send them to swarm an enemy, hit them all with an area of effect spell (eg, fireball) and do a bunch of extra slashing damage on the hero. Go exploding minions!
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Posted Sep 21, 2021cool as ice
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Posted Jan 3, 2022yea they are really cool for that but with summon minor elemental and a good animal handling check you can have an army of them
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Posted Jan 10, 2022Xanithar's Guide caused me to throw three of these things at a 3-person level 1 party. XG's random encounter tables seem to deliver way overpowered random encounters, as these guys could have easily TPK'd my players.
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Posted Jan 23, 2022my DM made them do both slashing and cold damage
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Posted Feb 5, 2022Well I think they should do cold damage
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Posted Dec 21, 2022Sexy!
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Posted Feb 4, 2023Yes, of course, at least as written. Each creature means each creature, and slashing damage means slashing damage, and they are not immune to slashing damage.
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Posted Feb 12, 2023Was just thinking the same.