Wisdom 22 (+6) Monsters: empyrean, planetar. The populace could maybe task the party with curing his petrification, only to unwittingly release a menace into the world. Monsters: androsphinx, gynosphinx, kraken, mummy lord, pit fiend, storm giant. The dracolisk appeared for the Dungeons & Dragonsthird edition rules in Dungeon 151 (October 2007). D&D Monster Monday: Girallon - Dungeon Solvers. Each retelling could be like a game of telephone, with minor details changing, until the meaning changed entirely. Though not malicious, basilisks were indisputably dangerous. This supplement provides individual loot for each monster in the Monster Manual, as well as a basic crafting and harvesting system that works well with 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons. Plot Twist! The petrified вЂњheroвЂќ was actually an evil dude, and he was petrified by the said hero in the story. I want to loot the beholder When brave adventurers face the dangers of the world, they want something to show for it.

Or flip it around, and have it be a petrified hero, who saved the population, and chose to be petrified for all eternity as his dying will. Cue the Quest!ДЄnother use of this condition would be as a world-building tool to tell a grand story of a statue of a monster and how it was turned to stone to save the population from its menace.

Only, they have no way to undo the petrification itself because of X Y or Z. To expand on this, perhaps petrification was used to medically stem the course of a lethal disease or poison until a cure could be developed, and they now have the cure. How Petrification Can Be Used for Storytelling:ДЇor a hook into an adventure, petrification easily lends itself as a way to send your party on a quest to hunt a basilisk for its stomach acid to cure a petrified individual.

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