Cr 1+ Camp Dryad

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This should really be a good encounter and will only go bad if the players freak out or react in a bad way. The players find a nice spot to camp (long/short rest or even just passing through.) and through a trigger such as dawn dusk or a player interacting with the ring of stones a young dryad awakens from her tree. The dryad attempt to charm one of the party into having a good time, sharing food drink and them selves if its that kind of game; note that you can charm each of the party members but only have one of them charmed at a time. So long as the players don’t attack or enrage the dryad then every one has a good time and the dryad can even give the party some magical gifts (magical fruit or item.)… But. if the party attacks the dryad then it will tree walk to the nearest bush and awaken a shambling mound. (can do this 3 times max) You can almost force a fight if your adventurers are in a rush to get some where and cant afford or don’t want to get distracted by a pretty dryad.

This fight is already hard and should only be attempted by vets who understand mechanics like stop the thing from waking up more CR5 monsters… I’d recommend players be about lv11 at least but you can have it so that the dryad slaps them and then makes like a tree and leaf’s if they are under levelled. For the truly mad make the dryad a conclave dryad (CR9) and kick some butt, I would say that you should expand the map a bit as it gets a magical elk mount.