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“Steel does not forget. Neither do they.” Broken Lords are Blightborn found in the remains of soldiers, guards, officers, and other trained fighters. They are distinguished not by unusual anatomy so much as by the disturbing persistence of habits learned in li...

“They just… stand there. Staring. Like they're waiting for something.” A Watcher is a Blightborn known for long periods of complete stillness and an unnerving fixation on the living. Older field notes used the name Stillborn, but Watcher has become the preferr...

“I swear on my life, we sank the boat. They shouldn’t be here. They shouldn’t be here.” The Drowned are water-adapted Blightborn associated with rivers, flooded ruins, marsh channels, lakes, harbors, and coastal waters. Many are believed to be the remains of p...

“They leapt from the shadows, hitting us like starving beasts. Their ferocity wasn’t human. It was primal, desperate.” The Wretched are fast, feral Blightborn most often associated with starvation, isolation, and places where survivors turned on one another be...

“At first, we mistook it for another of the countless pitiful shamblers that infest the marsh. We joked nervously, taking bets on who'd land the killing blow. How quickly our laughter died.” A Blightburst is a swollen Blightborn whose body has become a pressur...

“It began as a convulsion, the corpse doubled over, chest heaving like bellows. Then its jaw snapped open, and that burning, foul liquid came out.” A Rotspitter is a ranged Blightborn whose throat and upper torso have become reservoirs for corrosive fluid. Unl...

“I thought it was crawling the wrong way. Like... like its belly was leading. Then the guts came out. Gods help me, the guts were looking for me.” A Spillgut is a Blightborn whose abdomen and lower torso have opened into a crawling mass of exposed tissue, mout...

Critical Hit Mechanics In normal rules, a longsword (1d8 + Damage Bonus) on a critical hit currently does: 2d8 + Damage Bonus (rolling two d8s). While this works, it can sometimes feel disappointing when both dice roll low, leading to underwhelming crits. New ...

“There are Blighted that hunger. There are Blighted that hunt. And then there are those which exist as an offense. This is one of those.” — Anders Vael, Lucent Endura A Blasphemy is among the rarest and most dangerous forms identified in surviving accounts of ...

“It has remained here for centuries. Quiet. Safe. As it should be.” — an elderly Lathander monk charged with its care The Emberglass is a sacred relic associated with Lathander and long kept by the Lathander monastery in the Pale. It is notable both for its re...

We were still recovering from the massive fight at the base of that structure. No spells left. No safe place to rest. Everyone worn thin. Barty was worse. He’d been bitten — and not in a way one forgets. He tried to cauterize it himself. It was brave. It was d...

I awake from a deep slumber in a bag of holding. Everything is hazy, but I think I inspired the team a few times. Time to start back on our journey. Gudger left us a map with notes in the margin so we can maintain our path. I don’t think it’s a good idea to pa...