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2009-10-20, 11:45 AM
Blight Ghoul
Before you stands a pitiful abomination of a human. His eyes have sunken into his skull and all but his pupils have been covered up by flesh. His mouth looks as though it is sealing shut, as strands of flesh connect the upper and lower lips, preventing the creature from expanding its jaw fully. Its claws are razor sharp, and it looks at you with eyes that have long since lost the soul that was once within them.
The weakest of the creatures created by the dread blight, blight ghouls are extremely numerous, infesting the sewers below Ashtir like rats, popping up from them to grab any poor souls that are within arms reach of a manhole cover at the time.
Blight ghouls, while resembling undead, are in fact still living, breathing creatures. They have just been mutated to such an extreme degree that they have lost all humanity that they might have had, and becoming a clever but relatively unintelligent animal, seeking only to satisfy its most basic desires (to eat, sleep, and reproduce).
The strand of the blight disease that ghouls carry is very subtle, even a direct bite won't convert any but small children and elders into ghouls. The only people that are unfortunate enough to be converted are those that directly die at the hands of a blight ghoul.
Sample Blight Ghoul
Blight Ghoul, 1st-Level Commoner Elf
Medium Monstrous Humanoid
Hit Dice: 1d8 (4 hp)
Initiative: +6
Speed: 40 ft. (8 squares), climb 40 ft.
Armor Class: 14 (Dexterity +2, Natural +2), flat-footed 12, touch 12
Base Attack/Grapple: +1/+2
Attack: Bite +2 (1d6 +1) or claw +2 (1d4)
Full Attack: Bite +2 (1d6 +1) and claw -3 (1d4 +1)
Space/Reach: 5 ft/5 ft.
Special Attacks: -
Special Qualities: Darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision, blight
Saves: Fort +0, Ref +4, Will +2
Abilities: Str 13, Dex 15, Con 11, Int 4, Wis 11, Cha 6
Skills: Listen +4, Spot -2
Feats: Improved Initiative
Environment: Sewers under the city of Ashtir
Organization: Solitary, Pack (2-4), Family (5-9) or Community (10-18)
Challenge Rating: 1
Treasure: -
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Advancement: -
Level Adjustment: -
Creating A Blight Ghoul
Blight ghoul is an acquired template that can be added to any humanoid of small, medium or large size.
A blight ghoul uses all the base creature's statistics and special abilities except as noted here.
Size and Type: The creature's type changes to monstrous humanoid. Recalculate base attack bonus, saves and skill points. Size is unchanged.
Hit Dice: Change all current and future Hit Dice to d8's.
Speed: Same as base creature +10.
Armor Class: The base creature's natural armor bonus increases by +2.
Attack: A blight ghoul retains all the natural attacks of the base creature, and gains and gains an additional bite and claw attack. These attacks deal normal damage for the creature's size.
Full Attack: A blight ghoul fights using its bite and claw natural attacks, and never uses any manufactured weapon.
Special Attacks: A blight ghoul retains all the special attacks of the base creature, but gains no additional attacks.
Special Qualities: A blight ghoul retains all the special qualities of the base creature and gains those listed below.
The Blight (Su): Any creature who is slain by a blight ghoul comes back to life with a random Blight template applied to them. Such creatures stand a 60% chance to never being able to be resurrected again, even if the blight ghoul is destroyed. the only way to bring a creature who has been turned into a blight ghoul back from the dead if this happens is by direct divine intervention.
Note that creatures brought back as a blight ghoul loses all loyalties, no matter how deep. Such beings will kill their own parents, children and siblings without hesitation.
Abilities: Adjust the base creature as follows: +2 Str, +2 Dex, +2 Con, -6 Int, -4 Cha
Skills: Blight ghouls have -2 to all spot checks, due to their sunken eyes.
Feats: Blight ghouls gain no additional feats from this template.
Environment: The sewers of Ashtir.
Organization: Solitary, Pack (2-4), Family (5-9) or Community (10-18)
Challenge Rating: Same as base creature +1
Treasure: None
Alignment: Always Neutral Evil
Advancement: -
Level Adjustment: -
Blighted Knight
Before you stands an abomination of the human form, an imposing figure that rises to a full height of 9 feet. It's hulking arms are covered with massive black plates that form 1 foot wide, 4 feet tall and 2 inch deep shields of biological matter that look at though they could stop even the strongest attack. In his left hand - no, making up his left hand - is a massive blade made of bone, as sharp as the edge of a barber's razor. A thick, armor-like carapace plates his skin like some sort of macabre full plate. His eyes stare out from underneath a helmet seemingly made of a flesh and of bone, that has been grafted onto the poor soul's head.
Blight Knight's are the damaging absorbers of the Blight. They have massive shield-like arms and a natural armor plating that blocks most forms of attacks - even ones that would normally penetrate conventional armor.
Creating a Blighted Knight:
"Blighted Knight" is an acquired template that can be applied to any humanoid of Small, Medium or Large size.
Size and Type: This template does not alter the base creature's size, but their type changes to Aberration.
Hit Dice: A blighted knight retains all HP and Base attack Bonus from the base creature, but gains
Initiative: As base creature, -2. Blighted Knights are strong, but quite slow.
Speed: Half of the base creature.
Armor Class: +8 Natural AC. This AC may not be bypassed by normal means, such as Touch attacks, but it also restricts the creature to a maximum Dex bonus to AC of 2.
Special Attacks:
Bone Blade (Ex): A blight knight gains a large sword-like bone growth that deals damage equivalent to a Bastard sword of the knight's size. This weapon is treated as a natural weapon.
Charge (Ex): Once every 1d4 +2 rounds, a blighted knight may put on a massive burst of speed, and make a charge up to 120 feet in a single round, and deals +4 damage if they successfully hit a creature during this charge.
Special Qualities: A blight knight gains DR 5/-.
Blight (Su): Any creature struck by bone blade of a blighted knight must make a DC (10 + 1/2 blight knight's HD + blight knight's Con modifier) Fortitude save, or succumb to a randomly rolled Blight strain. If a creature makes their save, they are immune to the blight for 1d4 rounds.
Abilities: Increase from base creature: Str +4, Con +6, Int -4, Cha -4
Alignment: Change base creature to Neutral Evil
Challenge Rating: As base creature +3
Sample Blighted Knight:
Level 1 Dwarf Warrior Blighted Knight
Blight Ghoul, 1st-Level Commoner Elf
Medium Monstrous Humanoid
Hit Dice: 6d8 +30 (57 HP)
Initiative: +4
Speed: 15 ft. (3 squares)
Armor Class:
Base Attack/Grapple: +4/+6
Attack: Bone Blade +7 Melee (1d10 +2)
Full Attack: Bone Blade +7 Melee (1d10 +2)
Space/Reach: 5 ft/5 ft.
Special Attacks: Charge, Bone Blade
Special Qualities: Darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision, blight, DR 5/-
Saves: Fort +6, Ref +1, Will +4
Abilities: Str 15, Dex 11, Con 20, Int 6, Wis 11, Cha 4
Skills: Listen +5, Spot +5
Feats: Improved Initiative, Weapon Focus (Bone Blade), Alertness
Environment: Sewers under the city of Ashtir
Organization: Solitary, Pack (2-4), Family (5-9) or Community (10-18)
Challenge Rating: 4
Treasure: -
Alignment: Always Neutral Evil
Advancement: -
Level Adjustment: -
Combat:
A blighted knight will normally try to open up combat by using their Charge ability, and then just hammer away at the enemy, while withstanding attacks using their high AC and DR.
Charge (Ex): Once every 1d4 +2 rounds, a blighted knight can make a charge attack against anyone they have line of sight and line of effect to within 120 feet; difficult terrain does not reduce this speed. Any such attack deals +4 damage on a successful strike.
Blight (Su): Any creature struck by a blight knight's bone blade must make a DC 18 Fortitude save or become infected with a random blight (rolled on the table below). Any creature who makes the save is immune to the blight for 1d4 rounds.
Blight Infection Table:
Creature's infected by the blight roll randomly on the below chart to determine what strain of the disease they acquire. The incubation period is the time before the first signs start. If the incubation period is too long in the case of victims who have died and contracted the disease, the body may be too decomposed to successfully transform. Once the incubation period is finished, the victim takes the amount of Constitution damage indicated on the chart.
Before you stands a pitiful abomination of a human. His eyes have sunken into his skull and all but his pupils have been covered up by flesh. His mouth looks as though it is sealing shut, as strands of flesh connect the upper and lower lips, preventing the creature from expanding its jaw fully. Its claws are razor sharp, and it looks at you with eyes that have long since lost the soul that was once within them.
The weakest of the creatures created by the dread blight, blight ghouls are extremely numerous, infesting the sewers below Ashtir like rats, popping up from them to grab any poor souls that are within arms reach of a manhole cover at the time.
Blight ghouls, while resembling undead, are in fact still living, breathing creatures. They have just been mutated to such an extreme degree that they have lost all humanity that they might have had, and becoming a clever but relatively unintelligent animal, seeking only to satisfy its most basic desires (to eat, sleep, and reproduce).
The strand of the blight disease that ghouls carry is very subtle, even a direct bite won't convert any but small children and elders into ghouls. The only people that are unfortunate enough to be converted are those that directly die at the hands of a blight ghoul.
Sample Blight Ghoul
Blight Ghoul, 1st-Level Commoner Elf
Medium Monstrous Humanoid
Hit Dice: 1d8 (4 hp)
Initiative: +6
Speed: 40 ft. (8 squares), climb 40 ft.
Armor Class: 14 (Dexterity +2, Natural +2), flat-footed 12, touch 12
Base Attack/Grapple: +1/+2
Attack: Bite +2 (1d6 +1) or claw +2 (1d4)
Full Attack: Bite +2 (1d6 +1) and claw -3 (1d4 +1)
Space/Reach: 5 ft/5 ft.
Special Attacks: -
Special Qualities: Darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision, blight
Saves: Fort +0, Ref +4, Will +2
Abilities: Str 13, Dex 15, Con 11, Int 4, Wis 11, Cha 6
Skills: Listen +4, Spot -2
Feats: Improved Initiative
Environment: Sewers under the city of Ashtir
Organization: Solitary, Pack (2-4), Family (5-9) or Community (10-18)
Challenge Rating: 1
Treasure: -
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Advancement: -
Level Adjustment: -
Creating A Blight Ghoul
Blight ghoul is an acquired template that can be added to any humanoid of small, medium or large size.
A blight ghoul uses all the base creature's statistics and special abilities except as noted here.
Size and Type: The creature's type changes to monstrous humanoid. Recalculate base attack bonus, saves and skill points. Size is unchanged.
Hit Dice: Change all current and future Hit Dice to d8's.
Speed: Same as base creature +10.
Armor Class: The base creature's natural armor bonus increases by +2.
Attack: A blight ghoul retains all the natural attacks of the base creature, and gains and gains an additional bite and claw attack. These attacks deal normal damage for the creature's size.
Full Attack: A blight ghoul fights using its bite and claw natural attacks, and never uses any manufactured weapon.
Special Attacks: A blight ghoul retains all the special attacks of the base creature, but gains no additional attacks.
Special Qualities: A blight ghoul retains all the special qualities of the base creature and gains those listed below.
The Blight (Su): Any creature who is slain by a blight ghoul comes back to life with a random Blight template applied to them. Such creatures stand a 60% chance to never being able to be resurrected again, even if the blight ghoul is destroyed. the only way to bring a creature who has been turned into a blight ghoul back from the dead if this happens is by direct divine intervention.
Note that creatures brought back as a blight ghoul loses all loyalties, no matter how deep. Such beings will kill their own parents, children and siblings without hesitation.
Abilities: Adjust the base creature as follows: +2 Str, +2 Dex, +2 Con, -6 Int, -4 Cha
Skills: Blight ghouls have -2 to all spot checks, due to their sunken eyes.
Feats: Blight ghouls gain no additional feats from this template.
Environment: The sewers of Ashtir.
Organization: Solitary, Pack (2-4), Family (5-9) or Community (10-18)
Challenge Rating: Same as base creature +1
Treasure: None
Alignment: Always Neutral Evil
Advancement: -
Level Adjustment: -
Blighted Knight
Before you stands an abomination of the human form, an imposing figure that rises to a full height of 9 feet. It's hulking arms are covered with massive black plates that form 1 foot wide, 4 feet tall and 2 inch deep shields of biological matter that look at though they could stop even the strongest attack. In his left hand - no, making up his left hand - is a massive blade made of bone, as sharp as the edge of a barber's razor. A thick, armor-like carapace plates his skin like some sort of macabre full plate. His eyes stare out from underneath a helmet seemingly made of a flesh and of bone, that has been grafted onto the poor soul's head.
Blight Knight's are the damaging absorbers of the Blight. They have massive shield-like arms and a natural armor plating that blocks most forms of attacks - even ones that would normally penetrate conventional armor.
Creating a Blighted Knight:
"Blighted Knight" is an acquired template that can be applied to any humanoid of Small, Medium or Large size.
Size and Type: This template does not alter the base creature's size, but their type changes to Aberration.
Hit Dice: A blighted knight retains all HP and Base attack Bonus from the base creature, but gains
Initiative: As base creature, -2. Blighted Knights are strong, but quite slow.
Speed: Half of the base creature.
Armor Class: +8 Natural AC. This AC may not be bypassed by normal means, such as Touch attacks, but it also restricts the creature to a maximum Dex bonus to AC of 2.
Special Attacks:
Bone Blade (Ex): A blight knight gains a large sword-like bone growth that deals damage equivalent to a Bastard sword of the knight's size. This weapon is treated as a natural weapon.
Charge (Ex): Once every 1d4 +2 rounds, a blighted knight may put on a massive burst of speed, and make a charge up to 120 feet in a single round, and deals +4 damage if they successfully hit a creature during this charge.
Special Qualities: A blight knight gains DR 5/-.
Blight (Su): Any creature struck by bone blade of a blighted knight must make a DC (10 + 1/2 blight knight's HD + blight knight's Con modifier) Fortitude save, or succumb to a randomly rolled Blight strain. If a creature makes their save, they are immune to the blight for 1d4 rounds.
Abilities: Increase from base creature: Str +4, Con +6, Int -4, Cha -4
Alignment: Change base creature to Neutral Evil
Challenge Rating: As base creature +3
Sample Blighted Knight:
Level 1 Dwarf Warrior Blighted Knight
Blight Ghoul, 1st-Level Commoner Elf
Medium Monstrous Humanoid
Hit Dice: 6d8 +30 (57 HP)
Initiative: +4
Speed: 15 ft. (3 squares)
Armor Class:
Base Attack/Grapple: +4/+6
Attack: Bone Blade +7 Melee (1d10 +2)
Full Attack: Bone Blade +7 Melee (1d10 +2)
Space/Reach: 5 ft/5 ft.
Special Attacks: Charge, Bone Blade
Special Qualities: Darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision, blight, DR 5/-
Saves: Fort +6, Ref +1, Will +4
Abilities: Str 15, Dex 11, Con 20, Int 6, Wis 11, Cha 4
Skills: Listen +5, Spot +5
Feats: Improved Initiative, Weapon Focus (Bone Blade), Alertness
Environment: Sewers under the city of Ashtir
Organization: Solitary, Pack (2-4), Family (5-9) or Community (10-18)
Challenge Rating: 4
Treasure: -
Alignment: Always Neutral Evil
Advancement: -
Level Adjustment: -
Combat:
A blighted knight will normally try to open up combat by using their Charge ability, and then just hammer away at the enemy, while withstanding attacks using their high AC and DR.
Charge (Ex): Once every 1d4 +2 rounds, a blighted knight can make a charge attack against anyone they have line of sight and line of effect to within 120 feet; difficult terrain does not reduce this speed. Any such attack deals +4 damage on a successful strike.
Blight (Su): Any creature struck by a blight knight's bone blade must make a DC 18 Fortitude save or become infected with a random blight (rolled on the table below). Any creature who makes the save is immune to the blight for 1d4 rounds.
Blight Infection Table:
Creature's infected by the blight roll randomly on the below chart to determine what strain of the disease they acquire. The incubation period is the time before the first signs start. If the incubation period is too long in the case of victims who have died and contracted the disease, the body may be too decomposed to successfully transform. Once the incubation period is finished, the victim takes the amount of Constitution damage indicated on the chart.