Editing Living Wall

The '''Living Wall''' is easily the most horrific thing that came out of [[Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition]]. If it had come out in 1e it ''still'' would have been deemed Edge.

What it is, is the backdrop to Palpatine's digs in ''Revenge of the Sith'' - or, better, those lost souls trapped in resin in ''Aliens''. It's a coagulated mess of every human or other sentient that the wall ever consumed. The trapped souls in this wall aren't quite dead, yet - and they'll call for you to pull them out of the slurry.

Don't. Seriously: ''don't''.

When you lose your battle against the Living Wall, you become a part of it and you are assimilated to it. This adds to its power to the point that it retains the spells of assimilated magic-users. And you're not getting out save by a [[wish]] cast from the outside and, you know how those usually work.

The Living Wall started in [[Ravenloft]] whence it got promoted to the 1993 [[Monster Manual|Monstrous Manual]]. It got out to other horror-themed modules like [[Gates of Firestorm Peak]]. (There's a "living wall" in the [[Fiend Factory]] but that became the Stunjelly, it's not related in the slightest.)

[[Lorraine Williams]] had promised her 2e players they'd be getting the nerfed, "child friendly" edition without all those demons and junk. And they got this. Good job, Lorraine; thanks for the nightmares.

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