Creature Incarnations: Get'cher Brains Here!

[Rechan]

Creature Incarnations

 

[Rechan]

Oh damn! Corpses of Despair fit in so well with Mad Wraiths, mechanically AND in-game!

Mad Wraiths are very much like Allips, which were the woeful souls of suicide. Corpses of Despair are the bodies of suicide victims. So they both fit, thematically.

Mad Wraiths daze all enemies within an Aura 3. Corpses of Despair cause ongoing 5 to anyone who's dazed.

Mmmm. As if Mad Wraitsh weren't evil enough.

 

[Shroomy]

Despite the lack of ju-ju zombies (maybe they'll be in Open Grave), these are some mighty fine monsters. I look forward to fighting them or springing them on my own players, though I won't be as cruel as Rechan (I hate mad wraiths!)

 

[Rechan]

I noticed something in the Slavering Maw's tactics section. I thought the zombie-spawning thing was the various stitched-together zombie parts tearing themselves free. But in the last sentence of the tactics section says the Charnel zombies it creates when it dies are its most recent meals!

Which makes me think "Wait, why aren't the most recent meals clawing at the PC in the thing's gut? And would close attacks not wound them?" Of course, attacking the minions in the gut wouldn't be very fun.

I also wonder how many creatures the thing can swallow. It doesn't say.

Sidenote: I wouldn't spring a mad wraith, or really, any wraiths - on a party without SOMEONE who could do radiant damage. That's just cruel.

 

[Dire Bare]

Creature Incarnations

Some nice solid additions to the Zombie cate"gory"! Not a fan of the art though, too cartoony.

I like the themes of the Charnel Zombie and the . . . other starved Zombie (what was it called, too lazy to check). Played right that should evoke some real horror from players!

 

[Gunpowder]

I had assumed that "most recent meals" referred to any PCs that were swallowed during the battle.

 

[Rechan]

Some nice solid additions to the Zombie cate"gory"! Not a fan of the art though, too cartoony.

The Shambling Nexus and the Plague Fogger is good, imho. Also, I like the gravedigger zombie's art. It's okay to look a litlte comical there.

 

[FireLance]

Also, I like the gravedigger zombie's art. It's okay to look a litlte comical there.

It's a well-known trope. Sometimes, it seems as if there is a comical gravedigger in every Hamlet.

 

[Zaukrie]

I've only skimmed it so far, but this is another top notch article. I wish the art with each monster was with the writeup, though. However, putting a lot of the monsters on one pages is one less page I need to print (and color ink to save).

 

[Khur]

Mad Wraiths are very much like Allips . . .

Not a coincidence.