Blightwyrm

The blightwyrm is a dangerous and aggressive predator, in nature it spends most of its time sliding through the underworld, looking for prey and refuse to consume. Although it can burrow through soft earth to find its way through caverns, it cannot burrow through stone. The blightwyrm prefers watery areas, muddy underground lakes and slow-moving rivers as a home. In the goblin caves, a particular blightwyrm has become something of a pet, having just enough intelligence to differentiate between the goblins that bring it rubbish to eat, and anything else. During combat the blightwyrm can burst from the water, attacking quickly before retreating.

If the blightwyrm becomes critically injured, it may decide the PCs are not worth the hassle and simply wait beneath the water for them to leave. If the PCs then venture into the water, the blightwyrm will fight to the death.

Originally published as part of an adventure for pathfinder and adapted for D&D 5e, "The Burning Goblins", by Blue Sword Games © 2017. It is being published on D&D Beyond by me as homebrew content for the purpose of running that adventure using D&D Beyond.

CREDITS

• Lead Designer: Mark Bowen
• Design Contributions: Lewis Jiggens
• Editors: Lewis Jiggens, Bill Keene, Matthew Smith
• Illustrators: Kimberly Raby, Mark Bowen, Nele Diel, David Revoy, Tamas Baranya