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curse of strahd pixel art part 3, some monsters: wolf, dire wolf, werewolf, vampire spawn, bodak, roc
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curse of strahd pixel art part 3, some monsters: wolf, dire wolf, werewolf, vampire spawn, bodak, roc
bottom four are based off of official/monster manual art, top two are based off of google image search for "wolf"
WHICH WOULD YOU SMASH?
Bodak
Banderhobb
On the left, this Scooby Doo villian is the Bodak! Human sized, has an aura that sucks the life out of you (can be toggled off) and can kill you with a glance. Thankfully all those gaze abilities aren't automatic, but still maybe don't make eye contact unless you like flirting with death. Um, in the "risk of injury and death" way, not in the literal sense like usual.
On the right, the Banderhobb! A 10 ft (3 m) toad-like creature made by hags to carry about specific tasks. They want nothing more than to succeed at whatever they were created for. They're slightly more clever than your average person, can teleport, and swallow creatures whole after grappling with their giant tongue! Though note, after their task is done they do melt into goo and shadow. Apparently they do sometimes reform in the shadowfell, completely free!
shadowfell collection !
Bodak Mask
Our Bodak mask is complete! This mask is worn by Khora, the Shadar-Kai, to hide her face and frighten her enemies while she works in service of the Raven Queen!
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Monster Analysis: Bodak and Will-o’-Wisps
Thanks to @FoxgloveDreams for this art piece!
First Appearance: 101 Mysteries, Memories, and Music
Encounter Appearance: 102 Ghosts, Dinosaurs, and Stuff
Armor Class 15
Speed 30 feet
Resistant to cold, fire, necrotic, non-magical physical damage
Immune to poison damage; charmed, frightened, poisoned conditions
Suggested, Max HP: 58, 90
Bodak: 141+ damage taken, 51 HDYWTDT by Fjord
Will-o’-Wisp 1: 25 damage taken, 14 killing blow by Fjord
Will-o’-Wisps 2 and 3: Destroyed by Jester
Looking like something out of a Edvard Munch painting with less screaming and more sobbing, bodaks are undead horrors that can kill an adventurer with a single look. In D&D lore, bodaks stem from individuals who worshiped Orcus during their life and chose to undergo a ritual to die and rise as a bodak in undeath. Of all the undead creatures a person could want to be, becoming a bodak is certainly… a choice, but we’re not going to judge (much). We don’t know if bodaks in Exandria have the same origin, although Orcus did make a feature in Campaign 1.
What’s disconcerting about this particular bodak is that while it’s already a known element on Rumblecusp, it’s not supposed to be in the Shaded Tangle, according to Viridian. It usually resides around the Ruins; for it to be in the Shaded Tangle, it would have either made a two day walking trip there for some unknown reason, or there is more than one bodak on this island. Considering bodaks don’t just spring up out of nowhere, the fact that there is potentially a second one on a completely remote island is reason for concern.
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Me, as Matt started describing the creature in the end: Oh... oh no... oh no I know what this is, I have given this exact description to my players... this is a fuckn BODAK!!!
Mmm nothing like a monster that can reduce you to 0 hp combined with other monsters that can auto kill you if you have 0hp. GOOD.