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What to do with Wights?
If you are running older editions (or their clones) how do you handle Wights? As written, they seem like a hard to kill zombie with a punishingly un-fun level-drain. Low on flavor and likely to piss off players.
I took a stab at making them more distinct by more explicitly linking them to the undead described in Norse & Anglo Saxon sagas. i.e. hard to kill and will track down anyone who takes their treasures.
They can only be permanently killed by a weapon older than they are, otherwise they'll dissolve at 0 HP and reform in their tomb.
What do you do with them?
Credit: Image is my own drawing, but based on a Vance Kelly original
u/deadtreenoshelter — 3 days ago
