Rootspire Colossus
- Adversary
- Bruiser
- Tier 3
Appears in: Forest, Boss Fights, Wilderness and Survival
Rootspire Colossus
- HP
- 8
- Stress
- 5
- Difficulty
- 18
- Attack
- +3
Root-Bound Fist: 3d10+3 phy
Crushing Swing. Spend a Fear to make an attack against all targets within Very Close range. On a hit, targets take an additional 1d10 physical damage and are pushed to Close range.
Heart-Stone Bound. While the heart-stone is intact, the Colossus clears a Stress at the start of each of its turns. If the heart-stone is shattered, the Colossus loses this feature and each PC gains a Hope the first time they damage it afterward.
Groveshake. Spend a Fear. Each creature within Close range must succeed on an Agility Reaction Roll (18) or be knocked Restrained by falling branches and roots until they Mark a Stress to tear free.
Siege Step. The Colossus deals double damage to structures, barricades, and objects, and ignores difficult terrain made of trees, earth, or stone.
Stonewake. When the Glyph-Stone is struck or named aloud within Far range, the Colossus immediately acts on the spotlight, moving to Close range of the stone.
How to run Rootspire Colossus
Rootspire Colossus is a tier 3 bruiser for Daggerheart. Drop it into any fitting scene; the statblock above is free to add to your compendium in the app, and the one-shot below gives you somewhere to run it.
Where it begins
- 1
Loggers sent into the old grove return with their saws bent and teeth missing.
- 2
A surveyor's iron marker stands split down the middle, fresh roots grown through the break.
- 3
A shepherd points to the ridgeline and swears a tree walked across it at dawn.
Heart of the Grove
A logging crew has cut into an old grove and woken its guardian. The party must track the cutting line, find the glyph-carved heart-stone at the grove's center, and decide whether to destroy the Colossus or rebind it to sleep.
The Cutting Line
Splintered stumps mark a fresh trail into the old forest. Black sap weeps from raw cuts, and somewhere ahead heavy footfalls shake dust from the canopy. A logger's axe stands driven through a trunk at chest height, bent nearly in half.
The cutting crew fled two days ago. One body still lies near the trail's end, pinned under a fallen oak with a foreman's ledger tucked in his coat. The party can follow the tracks quickly and risk ambush, or read the forest carefully and buy time.
