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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8239061" data-attributes="member: 2209"><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/112608/Rappan-Athuk-Bestiary-Swords-and-Wizardry-Edition?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Rappan Athuk Bestiary Swords and Wizardry Edition</a>Swords & WizardryBarrow Wight: Creatures hit by a barrow wight’s slam attack are drained of one level. Creatures killed by this level drain rise as barrow wights in 1d4 rounds and remain under their creator’s control until it is destroyed.Devouring Mist: Spawned of the dreams of the Bloodwraith, devouring mists are undead composed of equal parts blood and malice, wedded together by negative energy.If a victim’s constitution is reduced to 0 due to the devouring mist’s ability drain, the blood from the victim’s body forms into a new devouring mist in 1d4 rounds.Juju Zombie: When a humanoid or monstrous humanoid is slain by an energy drain or a similar spell or spell-like ability, it may rise as a juju zombie.Crimthann, Ghast Lord: The Mojango belonged to Crimthann, a dark priest of Orcus who abandoned the swamp to oversee a temple to his demon lord. The ship, powered by 11 juju zombies, still plies the swamps, searching on its own for a missing power source named the All-Seeing Eye of Mojango. This malevolent orb fits neatly into the empty tree trunk and foretells doom for all it surveys.The Eye is also searching for the ship, appearing in the tallest trees randomly throughout the swamp to gain the best vantages. The Eye is dangerous, draining 1d4 levels from anyone touching it. Crimthann himself cast the orb off the boat for fear it would someday become powerful enough to overthrow even his master. His action cost him his life, and turned him into a ghast lord.Meat Puppet: Meat puppets are boneless, skinless corpses reanimated after being exposed to necromantic energies.The Bone Crusher artifact.Otyugh Meat Puppet: 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.Mordnaissant: Occasionally when a pregnant mother dies violently in a place infused with unholy or negative energies, the unborn child within her does not simply 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-feet-tall in the center of a jungle clearing. A low altar of black igneous rock stands before the statue of the earth goddess. Piled-up 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 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.Undead Soldier: When not warring against rival demon princes, Orcus likes to travel the planes, particularly the Material Plane. Should a foolish spellcaster open a gate and speak his name, he is more than likely going to hear the call and step through to the Material Plane. What happens to the spellcaster that called him usually depends on the reason for the summons and the power of the spellcaster. Extremely powerful spellcasters are usually slain after a while and turned into undead soldiers or generals in his armies.Undead General: When not warring against rival demon princes, Orcus likes to travel the planes, particularly the Material Plane. Should a foolish spellcaster open a gate and speak his name, he is more than likely going to hear the call and step through to the Material Plane. What happens to the spellcaster that called him usually depends on the reason for the summons and the power of the spellcaster. Extremely powerful spellcasters are usually slain after a while and turned into undead soldiers or generals in his armies.Black Skeleton: ?Zombie: ?Skeleton: ?Ghoul: ?Ghast: ?Wraith: ?Wight: ?Spectre: ?Vampire: If a victim’s constitution is reduced to 0 due to the devouring mist’s ability drain, the blood from the victim’s body forms into a new devouring mist in 1d4 rounds. Further, the victim’s corpse rises as a vampire in 1d4 days unless the remains are blessed before this rising.The ground rumbles and shakes as the Bone Crusher (AC 3 [16], 300 hit points) approaches. This five-ton contraption from hell is a massive stone roller carved with thousands of grinning skulls. Massive femurs attached on each end of the roller support a cobbled-together platform of bone that hovers above and slightly behind the massive roller. A single stone wheel below the platform serves as a steering mechanism. The roller inflicts 10d6 points of crushing damage to anything caught in its path. Despite moving at a mere 15 ft., the Bone Crusher animates any living corporeal creature it crushes as a meat puppet in its wake. Currently, 6 human meat puppets follow the Bone Crusher. Commanding the massive crusher is the vrock, Beek Vrut, who carries a wand of paralyzing (15 charges) and a long spear.Only those who serve Orcus can command the Bone Crusher or access its powers. If the juggernaut’s commander is slain, the entire machine falls into thousands of jumbled bones and stones. The Bone Crusher can only reform through months of vile rituals and the desecration of at least 100 graves.</blockquote>

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