1/3/2024 0 Comments Fog cloud 5e blown awayThey’re vulnerable to fire, so they’ll keep their distance from torches and campfires, and the second an opponent casts a spell that does fire damage or brandishes a flaming weapon, they’ll hightail it.Ī dust mephit leads with its Blinding Breath, attacking from hiding so as to gain surprise and waiting until it can catch at least two opponents in its 15-foot cone of effect. Most (but not all) of them are proficient in Stealth, suggesting that they like to ambush their victims, and their low Strength suggests that they’ll usually be encountered in decent-size groups a lone mephit wouldn’t dare pick a fight with more than a couple of enemies at once.īeyond that, though, every type of mephit is a little bit different, and there’s nothing for it but to look at each type individually.ĭust mephits have high Dexterity and average Constitution, indicating a preference for ranged combat. And they all have a simple melee attack, along with a breath weapon that has only a 1 in 6 chance to recharge, so in all likelihood, they’ll get to use it only once. All of them have low Strength, all of them can fly, and all of them have darkvision (meaning they either live underground or are active primarily at night) and the Death Burst feature, which does something when they’re killed, although that something depends on the type of mephit. Mephits aren’t tough-half of them are CR 1/4, and the other half are CR 1/2. 1 priority, causing gratuitous harm and annoyance to others is No. I don’t see any reason why they shouldn’t behave as evolved creatures with respect to their self-preservation instinct, but if survival is their No. The Monster Manual characterizes them as “tricksters,” but every one of them is of neutral evil, not chaotic, alignment, so their “trickery” is of a decidedly baleful sort. I’ve been asked to take a look at mephits, wicked little critters that maliciously embody the para-elements of dust, ice, magma, mud, smoke and steam.
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