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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 7542362" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p><strong>Jester's 4e Monsters</strong></p><p></p><p>Jester's 4e Monsters:</p><p>4e</p><p><strong>Corpse Gatherer:</strong> A corpse gatherer is an entire graveyard animated and empowered by the powers of shadow.</p><p>A corpse gatherer comes to be when malevolent, intelligent undead are buried in an unsanctified graveyard. Sometimes the essence of the undead seeps into the ground, gradually contaminating the bones resting and the earth around them. Once conditions are right, it only takes the intentional spilling of fresh blood from an innocent to cause</p><p>the corpse gatherer to stir.</p><p><strong>Released Corpse:</strong> Corpse Gatherer's Release Corpses power.</p><p><strong>Crawling Head:</strong> Spawned from the severed head of a giant, a crawling head is a horrific undead monstrosity that resembles a huge, bloated head grown to enormous size, with a seething mass of arteries, veins and viscera depending from the wound of its neck.</p><p>Because of their immense power and their origination from giants, which might lead one to think that crawling heads were creations of the primordials or beings of similar nature. In truth, however, they are the creation of a series of powerful mortal necromancers that dwelt in the City of Skulls that surrounded the Bleak Academy.</p><p><strong>Crawling Head Wailer:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ravenous Crawling Head:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Deadborn:</strong> Deadborn are natural creatures altered before birth, either in the womb or the egg, to spontaneously arise as undead when slain. Although the first deadborn were vultures created from the eggs of giant eagles by evil cultists of Bleak, the techniques and rituals now exist to create deadborn of many different types.</p><p><strong>Deadborn Vulture:</strong> Deadborn Vulture's Deadborn power.</p><p><strong>Deadborn Hulk:</strong> Deadborn Hulk's Deadborn power.</p><p><strong>Deodanth:</strong> Deodanths claim to be vampiric elves from the future, but not all of their claims hold up to scrutiny; for instance, they seem to be largely ignorant of the racial separation between the elves and the eladrin, and deodanths that claim to have been in the present for only a short time often seem ignorant of the very existence of eladrins.</p><p><strong>Deodanth Despondant:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Deodanth Sentry:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Deodanth Slipper:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Deodanth Eladricide:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Deodanth Lifesucker:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Entombed:</strong> The entombed are the undead forms of creatures whose bodies are preserved by being encased in shells of ice- but are still able to move or kill. Though the corpse at the core of an entombed is typically that of a human or other creature of similar stature, with its shell of ice the creature is the size of an ogre. The corpse at the core of an entombed is very well preserved, though often the skin will turn bluish, and the face of the body is usually frozen in a rictus of fear or sorrow.</p><p><strong>Entombed Hag:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Entombed Cryomancer:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Pistol Wraith:</strong> A pistol wraith is the undead spirit of a gunman- either one so especially wicked that he rose after his death to haunt the land, or one slain by another pistol wraith.</p><p><strong>Plague Spewer:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ulgurstasta:</strong> Horrific undead maggot-like worms of immense size, ulgurstasta are terrifying monstrosities spawned by the vile demigod Kyuss in the time of his greatest strength.</p><p><strong>Ulgurstasta Thinker:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Rotting Ulgurstasta:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ulgurstasta Priest:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ulgurstasta Crawler:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ulgurstasta Swarm:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Elder Ulgurstasta:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vargouille:</strong> The head of a creature that dies of a vargouille's poison falls off after a few days, and slowly transforms into a new vargouille.</p><p><strong>Vargouille Lover:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Visage:</strong> The head of a creature that dies of a vargouille's poison falls off after a few days, and slowly transforms into a new vargouille.</p><p><strong>Flickering Visage:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Demonic Visage:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Visage Spy:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wheep:</strong> A wheep is a horrific undead creature whose eyes have been torn out or nailed through.</p><p><strong>Wheep Servitor:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wheep Ululator:</strong> ?</p><p></p><p>Release Corpses * At Will 1/round</p><p>Requirement: There cannot be more than ten released corpses within 10 squares of the corpse gatherer.</p><p>Effect: Up to four released corpses appear adjacent to the corpse gatherer. The released corpses act immediately after</p><p>the corpse gatherer.</p><p></p><p>TRIGGERED ACTIONS</p><p>Deadborn * Encounter</p><p>Trigger: The deadborn is first reduced to 0 hit points.</p><p>Effect (No Action): The deadborn hulk reanimates with 42 hit points. It gains the shadow origin and undead keyword.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 7542362, member: 2209"] [b]Jester's 4e Monsters[/b] Jester's 4e Monsters: 4e [b]Corpse Gatherer:[/b] A corpse gatherer is an entire graveyard animated and empowered by the powers of shadow. A corpse gatherer comes to be when malevolent, intelligent undead are buried in an unsanctified graveyard. Sometimes the essence of the undead seeps into the ground, gradually contaminating the bones resting and the earth around them. Once conditions are right, it only takes the intentional spilling of fresh blood from an innocent to cause the corpse gatherer to stir. [b]Released Corpse:[/b] Corpse Gatherer's Release Corpses power. [b]Crawling Head:[/b] Spawned from the severed head of a giant, a crawling head is a horrific undead monstrosity that resembles a huge, bloated head grown to enormous size, with a seething mass of arteries, veins and viscera depending from the wound of its neck. Because of their immense power and their origination from giants, which might lead one to think that crawling heads were creations of the primordials or beings of similar nature. In truth, however, they are the creation of a series of powerful mortal necromancers that dwelt in the City of Skulls that surrounded the Bleak Academy. [b]Crawling Head Wailer:[/b] ? [b]Ravenous Crawling Head:[/b] ? [b]Deadborn:[/b] Deadborn are natural creatures altered before birth, either in the womb or the egg, to spontaneously arise as undead when slain. Although the first deadborn were vultures created from the eggs of giant eagles by evil cultists of Bleak, the techniques and rituals now exist to create deadborn of many different types. [b]Deadborn Vulture:[/b] Deadborn Vulture's Deadborn power. [b]Deadborn Hulk:[/b] Deadborn Hulk's Deadborn power. [b]Deodanth:[/b] Deodanths claim to be vampiric elves from the future, but not all of their claims hold up to scrutiny; for instance, they seem to be largely ignorant of the racial separation between the elves and the eladrin, and deodanths that claim to have been in the present for only a short time often seem ignorant of the very existence of eladrins. [b]Deodanth Despondant:[/b] ? [b]Deodanth Sentry:[/b] ? [b]Deodanth Slipper:[/b] ? [b]Deodanth Eladricide:[/b] ? [b]Deodanth Lifesucker:[/b] ? [b]Entombed:[/b] The entombed are the undead forms of creatures whose bodies are preserved by being encased in shells of ice- but are still able to move or kill. Though the corpse at the core of an entombed is typically that of a human or other creature of similar stature, with its shell of ice the creature is the size of an ogre. The corpse at the core of an entombed is very well preserved, though often the skin will turn bluish, and the face of the body is usually frozen in a rictus of fear or sorrow. [b]Entombed Hag:[/b] ? [b]Entombed Cryomancer:[/b] ? [b]Pistol Wraith:[/b] A pistol wraith is the undead spirit of a gunman- either one so especially wicked that he rose after his death to haunt the land, or one slain by another pistol wraith. [b]Plague Spewer:[/b] ? [b]Ulgurstasta:[/b] Horrific undead maggot-like worms of immense size, ulgurstasta are terrifying monstrosities spawned by the vile demigod Kyuss in the time of his greatest strength. [b]Ulgurstasta Thinker:[/b] ? [b]Rotting Ulgurstasta:[/b] ? [b]Ulgurstasta Priest:[/b] ? [b]Ulgurstasta Crawler:[/b] ? [b]Ulgurstasta Swarm:[/b] ? [b]Elder Ulgurstasta:[/b] ? [b]Vargouille:[/b] The head of a creature that dies of a vargouille's poison falls off after a few days, and slowly transforms into a new vargouille. [b]Vargouille Lover:[/b] ? [b]Visage:[/b] The head of a creature that dies of a vargouille's poison falls off after a few days, and slowly transforms into a new vargouille. [b]Flickering Visage:[/b] ? [b]Demonic Visage:[/b] ? [b]Visage Spy:[/b] ? [b]Wheep:[/b] A wheep is a horrific undead creature whose eyes have been torn out or nailed through. [b]Wheep Servitor:[/b] ? [b]Wheep Ululator:[/b] ? Release Corpses * At Will 1/round Requirement: There cannot be more than ten released corpses within 10 squares of the corpse gatherer. Effect: Up to four released corpses appear adjacent to the corpse gatherer. The released corpses act immediately after the corpse gatherer. TRIGGERED ACTIONS Deadborn * Encounter Trigger: The deadborn is first reduced to 0 hit points. Effect (No Action): The deadborn hulk reanimates with 42 hit points. It gains the shadow origin and undead keyword. [/QUOTE]
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