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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 7844989" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/112607/2012-Rappan-Athuk-Bestiary--Pathfinder?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Rappan Athuk Bestiary - Pathfinder</a></p><p>Pathfinder 1e</p><p><strong>Devouring Mist:</strong> Spawned of the dreams of the Bloodwraith, devouring mists are undead composed of equal parts blood and malice, wedded together by negative energy.</p><p><strong>Vampire Spawn:</strong> Any creature slain by a devouring mist rises as a vampire spawn in 1d4 days, unless the remains are blessed. If the victim had more than 5 hit dice, there is a 1% chance per hit die that it arises as a full-fledged vampire instead, or a 5% chance per hit die if the victim was of the humanoid type.</p><p><strong>Vampire:</strong> Any creature slain by a devouring mist rises as a vampire spawn in 1d4 days, unless the remains are blessed. If the victim had more than 5 hit dice, there is a 1% chance per hit die that it arises as a full-fledged vampire instead, or a 5% chance per hit die if the victim was of the humanoid type.</p><p><strong>Zombie Horde:</strong> When gathered together in a horde, these mindless creatures are a terror to behold.</p><p><strong>Zombie:</strong> If the zombie horde takes enough individual damage to break it up, up to a dozen of the creatures continue on their rampage of destruction, until finally they too must be slain.</p><p>When the zombie horde swarm is reduced to 0 hit points or lower and breaks up, unless the damage was dealt by area-affecting attacks, then 2d6 surviving members of the horde continue their attack, though now only as individual creatures.</p><p><strong>Mordnaissant:</strong> Occasionally when a gravid woman dies violently in a place infused with unholy or negative energies, the unborn child within her does not perish, but instead continues to grow, vitalized by dark power, until it is capable of clawing its way free from its dead mother.</p><p>The earth mother idol is a massive emerald-and-bamboo construction standing 15-ft.-tall in the center of a jungle clearing. A low altar of black igneous rock stands before the statue of the earth goddess. Piled emerald stones form her head, shoulders and arms. Sharpened bamboo branches curve to form her fertile belly. Her legs are stone arches rising from the ground. The superstitious villagers sacrifice the virgins each full moon by tying the women to the fast-growing bamboo. The sharp shoots slowly impale and kill the struggling women. Skeletons are still entwined in the thick bamboo, with more bones littering the jungle floor around the statue.</p><p>Unfortunately for the villagers, the last woman sacrificed was not a virgin. She was a few months pregnant, but hid her condition from the villagers. When the woman died on the sharpened stakes, her unborn child became a mordnaissant that inhabits the idol’s barren bamboo womb.</p><p><strong>Sword Wight:</strong> These wicked and depraved creatures lived and died by the sword, and now, their dark taint passes through their weapons to tear at your soul.</p><p><strong>Undead Ooze:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Meat Puppet:</strong> Meat puppets are boneless, skinless corpses reanimated after being exposed to necromantic energies.</p><p>“Meat puppet” is an acquired template that can be added to any corporeal creature (other than an undead) that had a skeletal system at one point, but had its bones extracted or completely crushed.</p><p><strong>Human Meat Puppet:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Otyugh Meat Puppet:</strong> The unfortunate otyugh, which the laboratory’s alchemist used as waste disposal, suffered from a necromantic explosion in the lab. The catastrophe transformed the creature into its current undead state.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 7844989, member: 2209"] [URL=https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/112607/2012-Rappan-Athuk-Bestiary--Pathfinder?affiliate_id=17596]Rappan Athuk Bestiary - Pathfinder[/URL] Pathfinder 1e [b]Devouring Mist:[/b] Spawned of the dreams of the Bloodwraith, devouring mists are undead composed of equal parts blood and malice, wedded together by negative energy. [b]Vampire Spawn:[/b] Any creature slain by a devouring mist rises as a vampire spawn in 1d4 days, unless the remains are blessed. If the victim had more than 5 hit dice, there is a 1% chance per hit die that it arises as a full-fledged vampire instead, or a 5% chance per hit die if the victim was of the humanoid type. [b]Vampire:[/b] Any creature slain by a devouring mist rises as a vampire spawn in 1d4 days, unless the remains are blessed. If the victim had more than 5 hit dice, there is a 1% chance per hit die that it arises as a full-fledged vampire instead, or a 5% chance per hit die if the victim was of the humanoid type. [b]Zombie Horde:[/b] When gathered together in a horde, these mindless creatures are a terror to behold. [b]Zombie:[/b] If the zombie horde takes enough individual damage to break it up, up to a dozen of the creatures continue on their rampage of destruction, until finally they too must be slain. When the zombie horde swarm is reduced to 0 hit points or lower and breaks up, unless the damage was dealt by area-affecting attacks, then 2d6 surviving members of the horde continue their attack, though now only as individual creatures. [b]Mordnaissant:[/b] Occasionally when a gravid woman dies violently in a place infused with unholy or negative energies, the unborn child within her does not perish, but instead continues to grow, vitalized by dark power, until it is capable of clawing its way free from its dead mother. The earth mother idol is a massive emerald-and-bamboo construction standing 15-ft.-tall in the center of a jungle clearing. A low altar of black igneous rock stands before the statue of the earth goddess. Piled emerald stones form her head, shoulders and arms. Sharpened bamboo branches curve to form her fertile belly. Her legs are stone arches rising from the ground. The superstitious villagers sacrifice the virgins each full moon by tying the women to the fast-growing bamboo. The sharp shoots slowly impale and kill the struggling women. Skeletons are still entwined in the thick bamboo, with more bones littering the jungle floor around the statue. Unfortunately for the villagers, the last woman sacrificed was not a virgin. She was a few months pregnant, but hid her condition from the villagers. When the woman died on the sharpened stakes, her unborn child became a mordnaissant that inhabits the idol’s barren bamboo womb. [b]Sword Wight:[/b] These wicked and depraved creatures lived and died by the sword, and now, their dark taint passes through their weapons to tear at your soul. [b]Undead Ooze:[/b] ? [b]Meat Puppet:[/b] Meat puppets are boneless, skinless corpses reanimated after being exposed to necromantic energies. “Meat puppet” is an acquired template that can be added to any corporeal creature (other than an undead) that had a skeletal system at one point, but had its bones extracted or completely crushed. [b]Human Meat Puppet:[/b] ? [b]Otyugh Meat Puppet:[/b] The unfortunate otyugh, which the laboratory’s alchemist used as waste disposal, suffered from a necromantic explosion in the lab. The catastrophe transformed the creature into its current undead state. [/QUOTE]
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