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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 5253957" data-attributes="member: 57383">It says they have the same stats as the MM2 Phantom.Here's the relevant text:Monsters with an affinity for skeletons include the bone devil (MM1), eye of fear and flame (FF), babau demon (MM2), and the galley beggar, an unusual ghost found mostly in the north of England. It was first mentioned in Reginald Scot’s book: The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584). A galley beggar is a very thin spirit, often looking like a skeleton. Its main purpose seems to be to terrify anyone it encounters; in fact, the first part of its name, “galley,” means to frighten or scare. Galley beggars have the same game statistics as do phantoms (Monster Manual II, page 100).Ruth Tongue, in Folklore Society County Publications (vol. VIII), reports a headless galley beggar that used to toboggan on a hurdle down the hill between Over and Nether Stowey, his head tucked firmly under his skeleton arm and shrieking with laughter. It was only on dark nights that he rode, but a strange light surrounded him, and he would slide, yelling with laughter, right down into the street between the two villages.The galley beggar is a ghost in the traditional sense and bears no relation to the ghost of the AD&D game. The DM can use a galley beggar in an adventure to make the skeleton guards of a treasure more effective (since only those characters who made their saving throws against fear could confront the skeletons).Galley beggars favor strange, almost zany antics. Their senses of humor are both macabre and frightening. Including them is an easy way to add an unusual element to any adventure.</blockquote>

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