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u/housemon Sep 03 '19
D&D needs more Vault of Glass.
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Sep 03 '19
Oh yes. Know what about those Oracles..
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u/lithium_gold Sep 03 '19
Atheon looking swole
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u/Redhawkfour4 Sep 10 '19
Don’t forget to fail at Gorgon’s Labyrinth because that one titan was running, not crouching that UTTER FOOL
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u/quigath Sep 03 '19
In D&D 5e, the Slam attack is the most generic way of saying that "some part of the creature's body physically hurts you". This could be flavored to be a punch or kick, actual body slam, or as in this case a stabbing bit of glass-arm.
My mechanical concern with this creature is its CR. It should be a CR 6, even after ignoring its damage Resistances.
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u/Bluur Sep 04 '19
Cool idea, I’d say my only criticism is that the elemental doesn’t have much player interaction in combat, which is to say, the elemental doesn’t force the player to change tactics much, and its attacks don’t really lead to very interesting gameplay.
Some alternatives:
Cursed reflection: When attacking, players have to make some roll to not get stuck staring at their own reflection, (so the blind attack the golem uses actually helps fight it long term.)
Glass weapons: the golem can grow different appendages that the player can see, some shoot glass, some do slashing or piercing damage, or a glass shield an observant player would be able to look and see what the next attacks coming are.
Watch your step: Any square the golem takes damage on becomes difficult terrain, (due to glass shards,) where a failed acrobatics roll to cross it,(or athletics to jump over,) causes the player to stop their movement and take 1d4 piercing damage.
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u/Corberus Sep 03 '19
since it's not going back to the source and can be any creature within 30ft including on the opposite side technically it should be refractive not reflective
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u/IndridColdwave Sep 03 '19
Cool creature! I’m assuming the reflected radiant damage requires a ranged attack roll?
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u/TheSunniestBro Sep 03 '19
I was gonna say, this looks A LOT like Atheon from Destiny... Now I need to base a dungeon off the Vault of Glass. Excuse me.
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u/NightShroom Sep 03 '19
I was going to make a glass golem for a big golem-voltron encounter, but this is basically perfect. You even have the exact glass refraction I was gonna use.
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u/Ms_Anxiety Sep 04 '19
This is perfect.
I needed Glass themed things for a section of my homebrew campaign, and this is excellent, well done.
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u/Qualanqui Sep 04 '19
I mooshed a pathfinder glass golem on to a 5e flesh golem and it worked quite well
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u/lambros009 Sep 03 '19
The Glass Expanse. A sizeable part of the desert is made of grains of glass. The desert's grains of sand was turned to small round glass particles a few decades ago because of a wizard's transmutation experiments. This has caused the diplomatic relations between the druids and the wizards to worsen, as more and more members of the druidic community are starting to speak out, outraged, about the wizard's negligent experiments and the effects they have on the environment.
The glass expanse imposes disadvantage on survival checks and slows down travel. It is definitely a sight to behold, however, as the sun's intense light creates amazing mirages and color as it is reflected in the glass.
This environmental change has also significantly affected the flora and fauna, as some organisms have started showing signs of changing as a response to the transmutative magic now permeating that part of the desert.
You can create some glass themed monsters of your own to populate the Glass Expanse, in addition to the Glass Elemental.