While you are stunned they wrap you up in steel-like cable for later eating. The spiders can zap you up close and personal, or send charge through their webs to stun you. That makes it really tough, as if you are standing in that stuff, or get caught in it, you really can't avoid a lightning attack.

Imagine a web of tough conductive steel strands around the lair of a blue dragon. They still eat anything else, just that electricity supplies their magical abilities, which allows them to hunt. In nature it has an egg sack in the middle of its web, the eggs get empowered with elemental power from each lightning strike, it is sort of how they feed their young. It is drawn to sources of lightning and normally makes its webs in the tallest trees of the tallest forests to try and catch as many lightning bolts as possible. I really like the idea of a type of spider that weaves a web of conductive steel like substance. We all like to read what other DM's have created. Either way, post a follow up to share the results. With that in mind, there's probably plenty of resource material in there to plug in your own adventure. That mega adventure deals with individual cults of the four elements. All-in-all, there's quite a few ways to add minions that have a thematic Cult without too many houserules or DM monsters.Įdit: You could steal some of the Cultists and creatures from the Princes of the Apocalypse campaign adventure and supplement. They're low CR and have three different abilities to mess with the PCs. Continuing with this theme you could include some Dust Mephits to harry the adventurers and pad out an encounter with thematic variety. Perhaps this is what led them to the Dragon in the first place. It should be quite easy to have the two work together, turning the Druids into eco-terrorists. Dust Devils (flightless Air Elementals) are one of the effects of the Blue Dragon's presence in an area.

Lightning powered plants would help a Druish cult that worshiped a Blue Dragon. A cult leader Druid could then have a Shambling Mound as a pet.

Rather than a cult led by Priests make the cult leaders Druids. Any low CR creature with Pack Tactics and a Trip ability is a good addition to groups and mobs. For example, your Cultists could have pet wolves (pack attack + prone) just as guards and sentinels. Just think of some creatures that would benefit the Cult you're building. Though granting your Cultists resistance to lightning wouldn't be a bad idea, call it the Dragon's Blessing, you'd be better off not limiting yourself to strictly lightning themed monsters. Since your Blue Dragon boss has a Cult, maybe you should be thinking of 'pets' or creatures the Cultists could wrangle.

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