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The moment I realized you don’t have to unlock the outfits to take photos with them. (I’m going to unlock some anyway - I’m clearly already halfway there playing this level with increased challenges.)

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Jubokko Treant by Critical Crafting

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Halloween Zero-to-Thirty Challenge Rating Challenge

October 21st Prompt: Mecha

Soul Warden (Challenge 20)

Lore

Originally built to transport souls as portable fuel supplies for the Blood War effort, a soul warden is an autonomous construct of infernal iron. It walks on four mechanical limbs and has a soul coin furnace in its core powering its functions.

The warden's creators endowed it with a basic intelligence that allows it to carry out its orders, but a perhaps unforeseen side effect of its soul-powered nature is that the presence of souls in its furnace also impart it with a limited wavering consciousness. The soul warden has access to the memories and emotional states of the souls it feeds upon until they are ultimately burned away. This rarely has any impact on a soul warden's ability to carry out its duties in the Blood War, but in rare cases a warden has been observed staying its hand before felling someone close to one of its souls.

Though conceived of as packmules, a warden is fully capable of engaging in combat with demons and holy armies, burning the energy of stored souls to fell the enemies of the Nine Hells. Its ability to collect souls of the fallen to recharge itself make it an efficient and self-sufficient killing machine.

Constructed Nature. A soul warden does not require air, food, drink, or sleep.

Attributes

Large construct, lawful evil

Armor Class: 20 (natural armor)

Hit Points: 387 (31d10 + 217)

Speed: 45 ft.

STR: 23 (+6)

DEX: 8 (-1)

CON: 24 (+7)

INT: 5 (-3)

WIS: 12 (+1)

CHA: 1 (-5)

Saving Throws: STR +12, CON +13, WIS +7

Damage Resistances: cold, radiant

Damage Immunities: necrotic, poison; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks

Condition Immunities: charmed, deafened, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned, unconscious

Senses: passive Perception 11

Languages: Infernal; understands all the languages of the souls currently fueling it

Challenge: 20 (25,000 XP)

Proficiency Bonus: +6

Special Traits

Soul Fuel. The soul warden has a furnace at its core fueled by souls. When first encountered, the furnace has 20 (4d6 + 6) souls trapped inside.

Trapped souls power the soul warden's movement and actions, as well as some special abilities which require the specified number of souls to be spent. Spending a soul destroys it permanently.

If the soul warden is reduced to 0 hit points or dies, unless it has no trapped souls remaining, it automatically spends 1 soul to regain 14 (4d6) hit points.

Immutable Form. The soul warden is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form.

Legendary Resistance (4 Souls). If the soul warden fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.

Magic Resistance. The soul warden has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Soul Burn (1 Soul). Any time the soul warden deals damage with a melee attack, it can add an extra 10 (3d6) radiant damage and change all damage dealt to magical damage.

Actions

Multiattack. The soul warden makes up to three melee attacks, one of which can be its clamp.

Clamp. Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: the target is grappled (escape DC 19) and restrained. While a creature is grappled in this manner, the soul warden cannot target any other creatures with its clamp, but as a bonus action, it can use its clamp to squeeze the grappled creature, dealing 7 (2d6) force damage.

Hydraulic Fist (Recharge 5-6 or 2 Souls). Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 32 (4d12 + 6) bludgeoning damage, and if the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw or be pushed 10 feet away from the soul warden and knocked prone.

Stomp. Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 28 (4d10 + 6) bludgeoning damage.

Soul Beam (6 Souls). The soul warden fires a beam of energy from its furnace in a 60-foot line that is 5 feet wide. Each creature in the line must make a DC 19 Dexterity saving throw, taking 44 (8d10) radiant damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful save. A creature reduced to 0 hit points by this beam is disintegrated, leaving behind anything it was wearing or carrying.

Soul Siphon (1 Soul). The soul warden regains 14 (4d6) hit points.

Reactions

Imprison Soul. When another creature is reduced to 0 hit points while within 20 feet of the soul warden, it must succeed on a DC 18 Wisdom saving throw or its body is destroyed and its soul is trapped inside the soul warden's furnace.

Legendary Actions

The soul warden can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. The soul warden regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn, or it can spend 3 souls to regain 1 spent legendary action at any time.

Soul Beam. The soul warden uses its soul beam.

Soul Siphon. The soul warden uses its soul siphon.

Strike. The soul warden makes a melee attack.

[id: monster stat block for the soul warden, depicting a mechanical creature with spider-like legs ending in spiked pistons, one claw arm, a body of dark metal, glowing circles around a half-dome head approximating eyes, and a furnace grate on its front]

[Original prompt]

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Some more work in progress on Legendary Hunts.  The Endraleth is a horrifying underwater foe, borne of experimentation on the mysterious Aboleths to form something far larger and more sinister than anyone could have imagined possible...

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