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Thought Eaters are well-suited to feed on spellcasters, as they have defenses against the effects of spells and even destroy a caster's ability with spells at the same time. If you are attacked by these awful things, stab them. Spells are of little use. | Thought Eaters are well-suited to feed on spellcasters, as they have defenses against the effects of spells and even destroy a caster's ability with spells at the same time. If you are attacked by these awful things, stab them. Spells are of little use. | ||
'Slayer' is a grimly accurate term when applied to this large and dangerous breed of Thought Eaters. Thought Slayers, as they are often called, are much more solid and fleshy in appearance than their lesser cousins, and they hit a lot harder with their beaks and flappers because of it. Even | 'Slayer' is a grimly accurate term when applied to this large and dangerous breed of Thought Eaters. Thought Slayers, as they are often called, are much more solid and fleshy in appearance than their lesser cousins, and they hit a lot harder with their beaks and flappers because of it. Even worse are their huge, awful eyes, which are filled with motes of weird un-light they can use to injure and befuddle their enemies, as if their mind-destroying vortexes weren't bad enough.... | ||
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| Ability-2-Description = As a swift action, a Thought Slayer can turn its vast, weird, glimmering eyes upon a target it can see and to which it has line of effect, | | Ability-2-Description = As a swift action, a Thought Slayer can turn its vast, weird, glimmering eyes upon a target it can see and to which it has line of effect, within 50 feet of its space. This is resolved as a [[ray]] attack, rolling a D20 {{To-Hit}} (then adding an additional +4 for the touch attack) against the targets Armor Class, always hitting on a natural result of 17 or higher on the die. If this ray attack successfully hits, it inflicts {{Special-Swift-Dmg}} points of {{dmg|radiant}} damage. Far worse, the target gains the [[Humbled]] condition against the Slayer that attacked it. If a Slayer hits a target that is already Humbled with Starry Gaze again, the condition is escalated to [[Slandered]]. | ||
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The best way to deal with Thought Eaters is to mob them fast and hard with ranged or melee attacks, as the 'meat shields' try their best to drop the awful things before their casters are reduced to drooling husks. Thought Slayers, however, have their awful Starry Gaze power. | The best way to deal with Thought Eaters is to mob them fast and hard with ranged or melee attacks, as the 'meat shields' try their best to drop the awful things before their casters are reduced to drooling husks. Thought Slayers, however, have their awful Starry Gaze power. | ||
If a Slayer is attacked by a non-spell attack, they will almost always use Starry Gaze on their most dangerous non-spell-using foe. Inflicting the Humbled status makes their melee attacks much more effective, and if they are able to elevate a | If a Slayer is attacked by a non-spell attack, they will almost always use Starry Gaze on their most dangerous non-spell-using foe. Inflicting the Humbled status makes their melee attacks much more effective, and if they are able to elevate a melee or ranged attacker to the Slandered status, they suddenly become outright dangerous in melee. Thought Slayers will sometimes start using their Starry Gaze power even before they suffer a weapon attack, but even after they start using Starry gaze, they usually stick to also using their Psychic Vortex as long as they can. | ||
Thought Slayers are very intelligent, but they seem to go into a hunger daze when they are feeding. Once they have begun an attack, they press home fearlessly, hovering away from melee attackers if they can and relentlessly using their Psychic Vortex on the smartest remaining foes they can reach, until they are destroyed. | Thought Slayers are very intelligent, but they seem to go into a hunger daze when they are feeding. Once they have begun an attack, they press home fearlessly, hovering away from melee attackers if they can and relentlessly using their Psychic Vortex on the smartest remaining foes they can reach, until they are destroyed. | ||