The Zawéis Elemental - A series of true ice elementals made from the innards of exploited souls!
Added 2025-05-24 19:00:03 +0000 UTCHey y'all!
This week for y'all I have a series of Zawéis Elementals! Ranging from a Lesser Elemental at CR 1/2, a 'normal' Elemental at CR 3, and a big boi Chained Elemental Boss at CR 7, these fun elementals have a variety of unique skills at their disposal! Canceling out healing if they're continually dishing out damage, death rattles, and burrow speeds!! But to be honest, all of it is secondary to the Chained Zawéis Elemental, as it has a built in wind-up attack! When it uses Subzero Soul Siphon, the combat entirely shifts, and it becomes a question of A: try and run away with movespeed reductions and ice walls that have been put up, or B: see if you can burst it down and break its concentration before it goes pop! In addition to that, instead of a typical death shatter, the combat isn't over when you kill it! You've got one round to get the hell out of dodge before it makes ANOTHER big boom! In case it isn't obvious, I am a pretty big video game fan, and oftentimes I want combat in d&d to still have its narrative weight and be super fun with narration and roleplay, but STILL have super cool mechanics to the fight beyond claws and bites!
