Standing over 92mm tall, the Watching Tree is a terrifying sentinel for your next tabletop campaign. Featuring a massive, gill-backed head-pod and a trunk encrusted with lidless eyes and vicious thorns, this 'Huge' scale miniature is the perfect centerpiece for a cursed forest or alien landscape encounter.
A sentient plant sentinel remains motionless in a dark forest, its multiple eyes scanning for intruders.
A stationary forest guardian, a cursed sentinel in a druid's grove, or a boss monster for a party of level 5-8 adventurers.
Artist: Epic Miniatures
Type: MONSTER, TERRAIN
Pose: The figure is an upright, vertical column with various pods angled to look in different directions.
Action: Standing/Idle
Mood: menacing
Action Category: Standing/Idle
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Alien
Suitable Locations: haunted grove, corrupted forest, wizard's arcane garden, the Feywild, alien jungle, blighted swamp, deep dungeon cavern
Encounter Scenarios: an ambush predator disguised as a tree, a guardian of a nature deity's shrine, a byproduct of magical experimentation in a laboratory garden, a sentinel for a coven of hags
Power Level: Hard (score 62/10)
Compatible Game Systems: Dungeons & Dragons (5e / general) (perfect): Excellent for a Huge-sized Plant or Monstrosity (CR 5-10 range).; Pathfinder (1e / 2e) (perfect): Fits well as a unique variant of a Treant or a hazardous plant creature.; Warhammer Fantasy / Age of Sigmar (good): Could serve as Sylvaneth-themed terrain or a monster for Beastmen or Nurgle factions.; Mork Borg (perfect): The surreal, unsettling eye-tree aesthetic matches the game's grimdark art style.; Frostgrave (usable): Works well as a unique scenario monster or magical terrain feature.
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Creature: Watching Tree (Plant), Size: Huge
Body: A vertical plant-like entity with a main trunk that features a vertical row of large conical thorns on its back. It possesses three eye-filled pods; one large central pod at the top and two smaller ones branching from the mid-section. Each pod is surrounded by sharp, claw-like protective flaps.
Related creatures: Evil Treant, Gulthias Tree, Shambling Mound, Roper
Distinctive Features: Multiple eye pods, Thorny dorsal ridge, Webbed/fan-like texture on the back of the head-pod
Monster Weapons & Attacks: type: Thorns, description: Large, rigid spikes protruding from the trunk., position: Vertical line along the rear of the trunk, type_ja: 棘, description_ja: 幹から突き出した大きく硬いスパイク。, position_ja: 幹の背面沿いに垂直に配置, type: Grasping Spikes, description: Claw-like structures that frame each eye, likely used for protection or lashing out., position: Surrounding all three eye pods, type_ja: 掌握する棘, description_ja: 各目を縁取る鉤爪状の構造。防御や攻撃に使用されると思われる。, position_ja: 3つすべての目ポッドの周囲, Psychic Gaze, Paralyzing Stare
Defensive Features: Thick Bark, Thorny Exterior, 360-degree vision
Aesthetic: Creepy / Unsettling, Horrifying / Grotesque, Grimdark, Intimidating / Imposing, Mysterious / Enigmatic
Cultural Aesthetic: Generic Western Fantasy
Hairstyle: None (non-humanoid)
Similar to characters: Hermaeus Mora (Elder Scrolls), Shuma-Gorath (Marvel), Eye of Sauron-type sentinel, Corrupted Treant, Lovecraftian Elder Thing, Gulthias Tree (D&D)
Miniature Dimensions: 92.3mm H x 56.1mm W x 48.5mm D (base: 75.0mm)
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