This creature was created by the random thought, “What would happen if a treant became a lich?” Rather than giving the Blightwood a whole slew of wizard spells, I went with a more limited array of necrotic attacks. Besides, I actually did create a super-deadly spell-casting tree previously in Dark Continent Denizens called the Umdhlebi …

You can’t very well have a zombie apocalypse with the standard zombies found in the 5e Monster Manual. OR, really, any version of the zombies that I’ve seen in previous editions of D&D. The main thing that is missing from game zombies that is found in numerous movie and comic sources is: the ability to …