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<blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 1738072" data-attributes="member: 20741"><p><strong><em>For Your Consideration</em></strong></p><p></p><p>Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the most under-appreciated monster in all of myth. Transcending every culture, spanning all times and epochs, he is universally our nightmare incarnate. We fear him most - as from time to time we DO see the things which it eats - and from which it rises - and see what each of us will become no matter how much we try to avoid it. </p><p></p><p>And that central truth is why we fear it.</p><p></p><p>Ladies and Gentlemen, I present: <strong><em> The Ghoul </em></strong>.</p><p></p><p>The ghoul is one of us. He is no slave other than to his hunger and own needs. A free-willed undead, the ghoul is limited only by the DMs imagination. </p><p></p><p>You can endlessly mod these things just by letting it keep some of its powers and equipment it had in life. In other instances, by letting it use a ruse to appear temporarily more "normal".</p><p></p><p>The Ghoul has awesome potential to be the final form of evolution. Immortal if a touch runny ("bit runnier than you like it sir"). But immortal nonetheless. Not sexy - just very dead and very, very hungry.</p><p></p><p>The Ghoul plays on most of our own fears of undeath, cannibalism, monsters under the bed and "Freddie lives down there" that we have ever had. The Ghoul is the basis for every good bump in the night horror story that there ever was.</p><p></p><p>And if you were ever to meet one in real life, there isn't a person reading this who wouldn't be wiping the poop out of their respective pants in abject terror.</p><p></p><p>A real undead, mind you. Not this nouveau riche trendy new age Vampire crap. The LARPERS don't fight over who gets to be the Ghoul. There are no Ghoul Superheroes. You don't want to call a Ghoul "Mistress".</p><p></p><p>The Ghoul is a primal implaccable villain, through-and-through.</p><p></p><p>Sure - Mongoose does a book and gives it a lil stage time. But Ghoul King aside, these things get nowhere near the respect they deserve.</p><p></p><p>They should be the *bees knees* of undead. El Capitan. But nooooo. 4th level in life and suddenly they can't even BE a ghoul anymore. No - now they gotta be smelly ghasts!</p><p></p><p>Says who? I don't >>want<< to smell if I'm an 8th level undead!</p><p></p><p>Love a Ghoul today. Give it a name and a past. Give it a present. Ascribe to it motives and thoughts - overlayed with a primal insatiable accept-no-substitutes hunger. </p><p></p><p>Most of all - give it a potential meal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steel_Wind, post: 1738072, member: 20741"] [b][i]For Your Consideration[/i][/b] Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the most under-appreciated monster in all of myth. Transcending every culture, spanning all times and epochs, he is universally our nightmare incarnate. We fear him most - as from time to time we DO see the things which it eats - and from which it rises - and see what each of us will become no matter how much we try to avoid it. And that central truth is why we fear it. Ladies and Gentlemen, I present: [b][i] The Ghoul [/i][/b]. The ghoul is one of us. He is no slave other than to his hunger and own needs. A free-willed undead, the ghoul is limited only by the DMs imagination. You can endlessly mod these things just by letting it keep some of its powers and equipment it had in life. In other instances, by letting it use a ruse to appear temporarily more "normal". The Ghoul has awesome potential to be the final form of evolution. Immortal if a touch runny ("bit runnier than you like it sir"). But immortal nonetheless. Not sexy - just very dead and very, very hungry. The Ghoul plays on most of our own fears of undeath, cannibalism, monsters under the bed and "Freddie lives down there" that we have ever had. The Ghoul is the basis for every good bump in the night horror story that there ever was. And if you were ever to meet one in real life, there isn't a person reading this who wouldn't be wiping the poop out of their respective pants in abject terror. A real undead, mind you. Not this nouveau riche trendy new age Vampire crap. The LARPERS don't fight over who gets to be the Ghoul. There are no Ghoul Superheroes. You don't want to call a Ghoul "Mistress". The Ghoul is a primal implaccable villain, through-and-through. Sure - Mongoose does a book and gives it a lil stage time. But Ghoul King aside, these things get nowhere near the respect they deserve. They should be the *bees knees* of undead. El Capitan. But nooooo. 4th level in life and suddenly they can't even BE a ghoul anymore. No - now they gotta be smelly ghasts! Says who? I don't >>want<< to smell if I'm an 8th level undead! Love a Ghoul today. Give it a name and a past. Give it a present. Ascribe to it motives and thoughts - overlayed with a primal insatiable accept-no-substitutes hunger. Most of all - give it a potential meal. [/QUOTE]
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