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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8771326" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/219983/The-Blight-Tome-of-Blighted-Horrors-5e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">The Blight: Tome of Blighted Horrors (5e)</a></p><p>5e</p><p><strong>Bileborn:</strong> The bileborn is an undead creature born of alchemical and necromantic experimentation. Its purpose and the identity of its creator are unknown, but the mistakes of this master have long since been paid for, as the original bileborn ultimately escaped and slew its creator, incorporating his body among the rest.</p><p>A bileborn seeks to increase its mass by absorbing creatures into its body. This does not increase the creature’s size or change it in any fundamental way, but the crowd of body parts grows denser at its center. Then at some indeterminate point, the creature reproduces by fission. The fused conglomeration of rotten body parts splits down the middle, forming two bileborns of equal size and power. These instinctively avoid each other as they go their own ways in search of victims to absorb.</p><p><strong>Bog Lantern, Typical Bog Lantern:</strong> Whether the bog lantern is simply an undead will-o’-wisp raised by some odd negative energy current within the Great Lyme River or a separate creature that is superficially similar is unknown.</p><p><strong>Gravid Ghoul:</strong> The gravid ghoul is an undead creature of the foulest nature. In the darkest alleys of inner cities, there are humanoids who will pay for the touch and bed of an undead creature. Whether out of fascination, fetish, or illness of the mind, these couplings on occasion have been known to develop into a gravid ghoul. The ghoul harlot typically is unaware of its pregnancy until it is far too late. The fetal ghoul that grows inside the undead mother awakens with blood lust and the hunger of a newborn. The only warning the ghoul mother receives is an increase in its own feeding instinct and a slight swelling of the midsection before the small ghoul-thing bursts from the mother’s abdomen. The newborn creature sits within the gaping cavity of the mother’s broken body, which is folded in half in a backbend to serve as a perch and means of mobility for the offspring. Despite its appearance as vehicle and driver of a sort, the offspring and mother are a single creature and cannot be separated without destroying both.</p><p><strong>Ghoul:</strong> A humanoid that dies from ghoul fever transforms into a ghoul moments after its death.</p><p><strong>Ghoul Harlot:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Mother, Ghoul Mother:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead, Undead Creature:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Alchymic Unliving Creature:</strong> The alchymic-unliving are creatures tainted by the curse of undeath through exposure to elixir of life.</p><p>Any living creature can be transformed into an alchymic-unliving creature that is exposed to elixir of life.</p><p><strong>Zombie:</strong> The [alchymic-unliving] creature must make a successful DC 15 Wis saving throw every 30 days or its Intelligence is permanently reduced by 1. If its Intelligence declines to 3, it transforms into a zombie.</p><p><strong>Lich:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Will-o'-Wisp, Will-o'-Wisp:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Between Vampire:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Revolting Creature:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ball of Pale Yellow Light:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Horrid Creature:</strong> ?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 8771326, member: 2209"] [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/219983/The-Blight-Tome-of-Blighted-Horrors-5e?affiliate_id=17596']The Blight: Tome of Blighted Horrors (5e)[/URL] 5e [B]Bileborn:[/B] The bileborn is an undead creature born of alchemical and necromantic experimentation. Its purpose and the identity of its creator are unknown, but the mistakes of this master have long since been paid for, as the original bileborn ultimately escaped and slew its creator, incorporating his body among the rest. A bileborn seeks to increase its mass by absorbing creatures into its body. This does not increase the creature’s size or change it in any fundamental way, but the crowd of body parts grows denser at its center. Then at some indeterminate point, the creature reproduces by fission. The fused conglomeration of rotten body parts splits down the middle, forming two bileborns of equal size and power. These instinctively avoid each other as they go their own ways in search of victims to absorb. [B]Bog Lantern, Typical Bog Lantern:[/B] Whether the bog lantern is simply an undead will-o’-wisp raised by some odd negative energy current within the Great Lyme River or a separate creature that is superficially similar is unknown. [B]Gravid Ghoul:[/B] The gravid ghoul is an undead creature of the foulest nature. In the darkest alleys of inner cities, there are humanoids who will pay for the touch and bed of an undead creature. Whether out of fascination, fetish, or illness of the mind, these couplings on occasion have been known to develop into a gravid ghoul. The ghoul harlot typically is unaware of its pregnancy until it is far too late. The fetal ghoul that grows inside the undead mother awakens with blood lust and the hunger of a newborn. The only warning the ghoul mother receives is an increase in its own feeding instinct and a slight swelling of the midsection before the small ghoul-thing bursts from the mother’s abdomen. The newborn creature sits within the gaping cavity of the mother’s broken body, which is folded in half in a backbend to serve as a perch and means of mobility for the offspring. Despite its appearance as vehicle and driver of a sort, the offspring and mother are a single creature and cannot be separated without destroying both. [B]Ghoul:[/B] A humanoid that dies from ghoul fever transforms into a ghoul moments after its death. [B]Ghoul Harlot:[/B] ? [B]Undead Mother, Ghoul Mother:[/B] ? [B]Undead, Undead Creature:[/B] ? [B]Alchymic Unliving Creature:[/B] The alchymic-unliving are creatures tainted by the curse of undeath through exposure to elixir of life. Any living creature can be transformed into an alchymic-unliving creature that is exposed to elixir of life. [B]Zombie:[/B] The [alchymic-unliving] creature must make a successful DC 15 Wis saving throw every 30 days or its Intelligence is permanently reduced by 1. If its Intelligence declines to 3, it transforms into a zombie. [B]Lich:[/B] ? [B]Undead Will-o'-Wisp, Will-o'-Wisp:[/B] ? [B]Between Vampire:[/B] ? [B]Revolting Creature:[/B] ? [B]Ball of Pale Yellow Light:[/B] ? [B]Horrid Creature:[/B] ? [/QUOTE]
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