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Can the Wight use two Life Drain attacks in one round or can it only make one?

The language is ambiguous and could be read either way. I would lean towards allowing it to make two attacks because it does not expressly prohibit it.

Multiattack. The wight makes two longsword attacks or two longbow attacks. It can use its Life Drain in place of one longsword attack.

The wording seems pretty clear to me. With the Multiattack action, the wight can make two longsword attacks, two longbow attacks, or one longsword and one Life Drain attack. It cannot make two Life Drain attacks, nor can it do other combinations such as longsword + longbow, or longbow + Life Drain.

I like to portray these creatures as hateful, cynical grumps. One of my favorite monsters!

Question: The Forgotten Realms Wiki states “The name "wight" is of Germanic origin. It began as a general word meaning "being" or "creature", but over the years it was increasingly applied to spirits of either good or evil until it was connotated with the supernatural”. So since it is Germanic in origin, is it pronounced Vight or White? I say Vight, but wanted clarification/opinions.

Personally, I've never heard it pronounced as anything other than "white". In fact, you should see a small audio symbol to the left of the name of the monster that, if you click on it, plays an audio clip of someone pronouncing it! That's available for the majority of the monsters on this site as well. Obviously you're free to pronounce things however you see fit, but usually I gravitate towards the pronunciations provided by d&d beyond.

You really should be careful about following some of these DDB pronunciations. For example, Duergar is a real Swedish word and pronounced Dver-gar - two syllables, but f you listen to the DDB pronunciation is is Du-er-gar - three syllables. I am just sensitive to making some of these words sound like an ignorant Americanization is taking place.

Couldn't you just use create undead to make a wight and then by the 23:59 hr mark before needing to reassert control you can just use command undead to take the wight under control if you force it to fail the saving throw? And since the Wight has less than 12 int it can't break free?

Are the Wights in Against the Giants supposed to not have swords?

As a necromancer, raising wights is extremely useful

36 zombies, and 3 wights, controlled by a boss, the boss could be a powerful wizard or some greater undead with innate magic.

is he really tall?

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Describe the following to your players to provide better immersion - (show, don't tell during their first encounter):  This medium creature resembles an armed and armored human corpse. Its wild, frantic eyes burn with malevolence. The leathery, desiccated flesh is drawn tight across its bones, and the teeth have grown into sharp, jagged needles. In addition, you might want to allow them an Intelligence - Religion check to know the following (accumulated - a roll of 25 or above would know all): DC5 (very easy): attacks twice with a weapon DC10 (easy): has difficulty seeing and fighting while in the sun DC15 (medium): has resistance to necrotic damage; additionally, it is resistant to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks that aren't silvered DC20 (hard): attacking the creature with poison has no effect and its life drain attack reduces opponents health maximum until a long rest DC25 (very hard): immune to exhaustion and poisoned - a humanoid slain by a life drain attack rises as a zombie 24 hours later - additionally that it has darkvision out to 60'

 Experienced D&D players have probably read the Monster Manual several times, so just remind them not to meta-game.  Also, it's just common sense that an undead creature would be immune to poison and disease.  

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Can the Wight use two Life Drain attacks in one round or can it only make one?

The language is ambiguous and could be read either way. I would lean towards allowing it to make two attacks because it does not expressly prohibit it.

Multiattack. The wight makes two longsword attacks or two longbow attacks. It can use its Life Drain in place of one longsword attack.

 Only one of it's attacks may be Life Drain.  This is for balencing.  

"The wight can have no more than twelve zombies under its control at one time."

What happens at 13?

Effect just fails?

Oldest zombie collapses or something?

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"The wight can have no more than twelve zombies under its control at one time."

What happens at 13?

Effect just fails?

Oldest zombie collapses or something?

 That would be kinda hilarious. 
"As the zombie hoard is terrorizing the town, its citizens running in terror, you hear a bloodcurdling scream abruptly end. Looking to your left you see the bakers daughter fall to the Wight. After a few seconds her lifeless corpse twitches and begins struggling to stand. To your right you hear a grunt as you look to see one of the zombies slowly turn to dust until nothing is left."
This of course would be if the humanoid came back as an undead after a round (which personally I would do cause a pc turning into a zombie during a fight sounds amazing). And yes, that grunt would've translated to "boss? I don't feel so good." 

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I'm just saying, more undead should be vulnerable to radiant damage. At least if they also have sunlight sensitivity.

 

I've thought the same but, no offense, it's a bad call. Vulnerability is incredibly strong in 5e, that's why *so few* creatures have any in the first place. Also, PCs have a lot more access to radiant damage than they likely would have in past editions, and more than you realize. Almost any cleric is going to take Sacred Flame for example, which is at-will radiant damage; and a lot of their better spells use radiant damage as well. Meanwhile, paladins are already the absolute bane of undead since their smite, which is already incredibly powerful, does extra damage to them... if they were ALSO vulnerable to that damage? Forget about it.

Honestly, it makes more sense to make them *resistant* to a whole bunch of stuff (or even almost everything) EXCEPT radiant than to make them vulnerable to radiant. In fact, that's precisely what 5e does a lot of the time, especially with incorporeal undead.

If undead were vulnerable to radiant damage one of two things would inevitably happen. First, they might just be given a ton more HP... which directly counteracts the point of making them vulnerable to radiant. If that didn't happen (and its a stupid idea so of course it wouldn't) then DMs would quickly realize that most parties are going to make stomping grounds of undead creatures... and stop using them. Worse, they would especially stop using them if there was a paladin in the party that dominated any encounter with undead and made the other players seem inconsequential in the shadow of their glory. And wow, now you have a character who excels at something so much that they don't get to do it... that sucks.

Obviously, your opinion may differ and that's fine... I just want to put the logic out there. Would-be DMs beware... vulnerability is awfully strong, and if you *really* feel that strongly about it I would recommend trying to make them resistant to everything except radiant (maybe fire, or magical/silver/cold iron weapons as well, depending on your viewpoint) before I went and actually made them vulnerable to anything.

I believe vulnerability is broken because resistance is half damage, right? So for vulnerability, it should be half as much more damage, making it a total of 1/2 damage. But yes, with the rules applying, it's broken.

No necromantic army is complete without wight lieutenants to raise more undead

Everybody DM gangsta till the party’s necromancer gets the ‘create undead’ spell, he will have a full army under his control

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Couldn't you just use create undead to make a wight and then by the 23:59 hr mark before needing to reassert control you can just use command undead to take the wight under control if you force it to fail the saving throw? And since the Wight has less than 12 int it can't break free?

 I'm still waiting to find out. 

bro game of thrones

Why are Undead the strongest Monster group in D&D?

^^^ Because of Wight Power! 

"Destroy thy Living!"