![]() However, there are a few things you need to think about before drumming up your battle-forest. With enough spell slots and a fistful of fancy gems a Druid can summon up a nice little army over the course of a few days. ![]() So as awesome as it would be to get a charmed, talking Tyrannosaurus Rex on side you’re going to need to put together some strong magic or elaborate plan to actually pull it off.īeyond that – and a 1,000 gp price tag – you can pretty much go wild. There’s also the fact that the spell takes eight straight hours to cast, during which time you need to be touching the target. If they’re a little bit smarter than the average beast the spell will fail, so you can’t use it on Giant Eagles or the other semi-intelligent creatures. If you’re casting it on a creature they have to be real dumb first. Naturally, there are a couple of restrictions. In addition to this, it charms them for one month, hopefully ensuring that the enormous tree doesn’t use its first thinking, feeling act to squish you into fertiliser. This spell essentially gives one plant or beast the ability to think and talk as well as a baseline human – as well as providing them limbs if they’re were unlucky enough to be rooted in the ground. This makes them colleagues, Ankhus has joined us in an adventure once.Have you ever wished your game world was a little more like Narnia, filled with talking animals and intelligent trees? If so, you need to get hold of Awaken. I (well, my DM) use him as an NPC who is an archeology research assistant to an Archivist who is the mentor of my Factotum PC. Dying opponents are converted to more Blacksand upon hitting 0 hp. Magical Darkness and negative energy damage are very useful. ![]() Pulling Blacksand up to his surface I do as a move action. He carries it deep within himself so the effects are blocked. You can see the equipment list and our discussion on equipment there, but a few items worth noting here- Bags of holding, a few small boulders he carries within himself for hurling, Shapesand for creating a variety of mundane tools, Ioun stones don't require body lots, and Blacksand.īlacksand is an incredible item for an intelligent Construct. I've not found the need to give it any more levels because that grants it 9HD total and it's pretty gosh darn effective. My solution to healing and diverse abilities was to give a single level in Artificer for Repair infusions as well as scribe low level utility scrolls (I justify the use of Shapesand in place of fingers for manipulating the pen and such and the the Surrogate Spellcasting feat from Savage Species to justify any other complications). If you are using a modification of the stats, all good, but that's the RAW. That thread and my ideas within were, coincedently, inspired by you in the first place.Īs per the RAW, it's a Huge sized creature, as an Animated Object it should be a CR 5, AC 13, 84 HP. I Brought This Up A Little While Back- Ankhus, The Living Sand. ![]() (For the record, I'm thinking of naming it either Lysander or Cassandra. My third question would be, how would one go about healing such a creature, if/when it gets injured? So my first question would be, can it gain class levels? Monster levels? And if so, how?Īnd the second question would be, what sort of items would you suggest for it to make it less of a speed-bump in battle? That means that if it has any item slots, they're temporary at best and may not actually exist at all. Now said creature is pretty much amorphous, capable of assuming a number of forms but not naturally tied to any single one. Our group has agreed that sand has an effective hardness of 5, not because it's hard to push through but because it's hard to actually damage. Our campaign is right at the edge of 13th level, and the Awaken Sand spell creates what is essentially a CR4 creature, AC 14, 59 hit points, Large in size. I'm considering using the Awaken Sand spell to create/prepare what will be in essence a cohort. My campaign is currently on hold, so this is purely hypothetical.
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