Boogey Boogey Boogey! Help.

[Xarlen]

I'm creating a unique villain for a Halloween plot. I'm making, more or less, a Boogey-Man. Right now, I'm looking for some CR help.

Basicly, I'm taking the Ghoul, or Ghast, and switching him around.

First, I'm ripping out the Create Spawn. If he's a ghast, I want to be able to supress the ghast ability, or otherwise just beef up his HD/attacks as a Ghoul.

Then I'm going to give him a Spiderclimb SQ, Fast healing 2, and Blend with Shadows.

Now, here comes the customizing part. I'm pondering giving him a Fear Aura, or Frightening Presence.

As for Spell-likes, I'd like to get one or two in there: Silence, Slow, Grease, Ghost Sound, Minor or Major illusion.

Now, can someone help me tool a CR that would roughly be around 4-5 range? I'd like to get it low enough that I might take a level or two of fighter, or Illusionist (To take up for those other spells).

Any thoughts?

Edit: Now that I think about it, there's some similarities with a Vampire spawn.

 

[Xarlen]

Boo-er, bump.

Anyone?

 

[Piratecat]

Well, it sounds cool!

Play it smart, and fast. They won't know exactly where it is. It leaps out and grabs things. And just when they have it killed...

There's two of them.

 

[Xarlen]

Well, I plan on making this one either Unique, or like there's 'always one, somewhere'. He's going to stalk the party, Taunt them, tease them.

Think of him as a combination, personality wise, of Freddy Krauger, the Tall Man, and Jack the Ripper.

I just need help with CR.

 

[Sollir Furryfoot]

What's the # of people in the party and their average levels?

Maybe give him some weird variant of Mirror Image that allows the images to attack, albeit dealing less damage than the creature normally would.

 

[Xarlen]

I don't know.

I'm not using him in my regular game, since they're 10th level and there's no way for me to fit him in really (They just *came* from a murder mystery).

So I'd run it as a one-shot. I'm hoping a party between 3-5.

Maybe 3 PCs of level 3-6. They should be very capable, but combat shouldn't be *boom* over. I want to do this like a Horror movie.

 

[Celebrim]

Kargatane had an extensive discussion of Boogey-Men in one of thier recent netbooks. I'd suggest looking their for ideas.

 

[Xarlen]

What I'm looking for here is basicly people suggesting what spell-likes would go with what I have here: (Fear aura, Fast healing, Spiderclimb, Blend with Shadows), and make a reasonable CR.

What's the link?

 

[Celebrim]

Try this:

http://www.kargatane.com/sacrifices/noises.shtml

Any time you are looking for D&D horror, the Kargatane are the first people to check out.

 

[Kai Lord]

One cool thing you could do would be to make it invisible, accept to the person its stalking/attacking. It'd be pretty creepy if one guy in your party was screaming and freaking out but you had no idea what he was looking at.

To play up the Freddy Krueger angle, you could have some gypsy try and sell them some magic dust that makes them hallucinate. Have the price be outrageous, but when the characters decline she jokingly flicks some dust at one of them to try and make him change his mind. He has cool little visions, but nothing else.

The PC's leave, and for whatever cool reason you decide, the boogeyman targets the PC who inhaled the dust and begins stalking him. First he's just spotted lurking in the trees, then possibly at the back of a crowded bar. Eventually it starts getting nasty and moves in on the PC. Everyone else will just assume that he's having stronger hallucinations until he's brutally killed, and it chooses a new target....