and that’s not even bothering with the magic that some settings give them.
Seriously, giants have nothing on treants. Giving treants an ‘otherwise harmless guardian of the forest’ kick was the only way to prevent these things from dominating any campaign where the players decide to take a ‘short cut’ off of the kingsroad. This is a creature that lives for hundreds of years, can blend in with a forest and has skin so tough that it can only truly be harmed by power tools and lighting strikes. Don’t have a good frame of reference? Think to yourself, ‘elephant’ or ‘dinosaur’ and you’ll begin to have a VAGUE understanding of how dangerous a walking, talking, grudge-bearing tree might be.
Now that you’ve found a big tree I want you to imagine how dangerous an animal would be if it were a similar size. If you want to spice things up however, there are two easy ways to do this, and both of them involve dropping the ‘treebeard’ archetype as soon as possible. I’m always hesitant to draw too heavily from the well of tolkien, but sometimes you can’t go wrong with trees that talk. Possibly to the extent of extremism, but hey, that’s what we’re taking a look at. And here they’re true to their Lorax-esque roots, speaking for the trees, and all that good stuff. Nevertheless, LotR’s Treebeard is pretty much iconic as a nature-guarding tree-person. They are certainly not Tolkien’s ents renamed as to not piss off his estate, that’s for sure.
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