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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6097585" data-attributes="member: 57383">Updating the <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5999586-post1241.html" target="_blank">The Reaper Working Draft</a>.For some reason I imagine him wearing a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conical_Asian_hat" target="_blank">broad conical straw</a> hat like many Asian peasants wear, although it's not mentioned in his writeup.Hold on, there is a description of The Reaper in another part of the adventure - the &quot;Phantasms&quot; (a list of prophetic visions or dreams a PC may have):&quot;A noble man, his face shadowed by a cane hat, harvests wheat with a scythe, but the wheat bleeds. He looks up at the PCs and grins. (This is the Reaper, 4.)&quot;So, he does have a hat after all!The description makes it sound like he looks pretty human, so I'm thinking he shouldn't be that &quot;withered&quot;. The fact he grins is interesting, because the encounter writeup describes him &quot;Whistling to himself, and with an evil leer&quot; before he attacks. He seems a cheerfully bloodthirsty fellow! We ought to mention that in the background info.Oh, and the encounter says &quot;the wind howls, lightning flashes, and the earth trembles&quot; before he burst from the ground. I think we could treat that as flavour text, since it seems to have little combat utility, but we could say the Reaper can create spooky weather noises and light as per flare, ghost sound or minor image.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 6097585, member: 57383"] Updating the [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5999586-post1241.html"][B]The Reaper Working Draft[/B][/URL]. For some reason I imagine him wearing a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conical_Asian_hat"][B]broad conical straw[/B][/URL] hat like many Asian peasants wear, although it's not mentioned in his writeup. Hold on, there is a description of The Reaper in another part of the adventure - the "Phantasms" (a list of prophetic visions or dreams a PC may have): [INDENT]"A noble man, his face shadowed by a cane hat, harvests wheat with a scythe, but the wheat bleeds. He looks up at the PCs and grins. (This is the Reaper, 4.)"[/INDENT] So, he does have a hat after all! The description makes it sound like he [I]looks[/I] pretty human, so I'm thinking he shouldn't be that "withered". The fact he grins is interesting, because the encounter writeup describes him "Whistling to himself, and with an evil leer" before he attacks. He seems a cheerfully bloodthirsty fellow! We ought to mention that in the background info. Oh, and the encounter says "the wind howls, lightning flashes, and the earth trembles" before he burst from the ground. I think we could treat that as flavour text, since it seems to have little combat utility, but we could say the Reaper can create spooky weather noises and light as per [I]flare[/I], [I]ghost sound[/I] or [I]minor image[/I]. [/QUOTE]

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