But perhaps one of the most interesting blights adventurers may ever come across are the bamboo blights in Shou. There are tales of willow and cattail blights haunting swamps. For example, the desecration of the Gulthias tree can spread to the desert and create cactus blights. Not all blights come from deciduous or coniferous forests. Sound different enough to avoid copyright infringement?DM Dave Leave a Comment on Bamboo Blights for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition Posted in Monsters It's a cruel existence. Eventually it will burn itself out but not before devastating a forest, the wildlife, and the locals. The goal of a blight, once created, is to suck up all the life around it in hopes of becoming a young tree again but it can never achieve that. The blight starts from a dying tree and is twisted by the negative emotions, energy, and the desire to continue to live. I see this blight manifesting itself as a fungal dragon or some kind of skeletal creature made out of rotted looking bark. Perhaps I'm getting too much "into the weeds", no pun intended. The goal here is to leave a mark in the minds of the locals that they've angered a forest god and that's why this is happening. Something like that could devastate the nearby villages that look to the forest for hunting & other needs. Tainting it, squeezing the life out of it, and leaving only rot & destruction in it's wake. A Blight is like a sentient sickness for a forest. The Dark God will simply pour a large amount of his last remaining energy & negative emotions (not his "life blood") into the land in hopes of having a Blight take root. I think I should be able to use this name as a type of creature as long as I'm not taking a direct design from D&D's Blight race (aka making them like humanoid bloodthirsty tree-like creatures created from the blood of a powerful vampire). Well, per Webster I could come at this like a fungus or sentient disease and be ok. Should I assume it's copyrighted and pull the creatures/idea? I'd really hate to. My question is, I don't see anywhere blatantly that Blights are copyrighted by WotC but I'm pretty sure they are since they are in this monster manual I am looking at and a quick Google yields d&d references only (so I doubt it's free domain). It would be free but I'm reading around the net that that only affects how much they can sue you for should they choose to, lol. This was, of course, done completely unintentionally but would likely cause issues since I intended to release this doodle on the app marketplaces as sort of a "test run of the process", if you will. Long story short, sub the fallen god for a wooden staked vampire and it's identical. I digress.got caught up in the story.So it turns out that Blights are actually a dungeons and dragons species with an almost eerily similar backstory to how they were created. Slaying these Blights before they take root in the forest would deal him a heavy blow!. Well, turns out this is a wordplay and he is literally creating Blights which are tainted forest elementals fueled by the fallen god's lifeblood. So I have this doodle I've been working on that involves a fallen god looking to create a blight upon this forest in hopes of tainting it so badly that he will never be forgotten by the locals.
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