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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9074622" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/203459/Mists-of-Akuma-Adventurers-Handbook?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Mists of Akuma: Adventurer's Handbook</a></p><p>5e</p><p><strong>Necroji:</strong> Ropaeo knew no shame for their part of the War of Kaiyo, utilizing a foul and now-lost art called necroscience to raise the dead from their graves. Transformed from skeletons into powerful soldiers to bolster Ropaeo’s armies, legions of necroji once walked the battlefields across the edge of the world and wrought chaos on the forces of Ceramia. During the Kengen Occupation the undead made amazing infiltrators and saboteurs, and since the fall of the distant continents some have emerged from the threshold to bring terror to the lands of the prefectures. Cursed by their descendants with an unlife that can only be cut short through a violent end, these walking abominations of foreign ancestry are as much a mystery to the people of Soburin as they are yet another heretical horror left by their defeated enemies.</p><p>Every necroji is an amalgamation of its ancestors, a skeleton infused with fragments of nine souls that each carry a partial recollection of their former lives. All of these memories coalesce into one personality that incorporates the traditions and rites of its constituent parts, making their sense of culture a pastiche of a foreign past.</p><p><strong>Necroji, Powerful Soldier, Walking Abomination of Foreign Ancestry, Mystery, Heretical Horror, Undead Abomination, Undead Empowered By Science and Infused With Technology That Animates Their Skeletal Form, Undead Automaton, Grotesque Form, Necrotic Nuisance, Amalgamation of its Ancestors, Skeleton Infused With Fragments of Nine Souls That Each Carry a Partial Recollection of their Former Lives, Grotesque Automaton:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Necroji, Amazing Infiltrator</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Necroji, Amazing Saboteur</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Kanden, Necroji:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Adeddo-Oni:</strong> Misted condition level 8.</p><p><strong>Adeddo-Oni, Wretched Thing, Monstrosity:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Adeddo-Oni, Freakish Aberration:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Adeddo-Oni, Freakish Assailant:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Adeddo-Oni Samurai, Undead Samurai, Armored Monster:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Adeddo-Oni, The Corrupted:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Hunchling:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Hunchling, Lesser Creature:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Bake-Kujira, Ominous Undead Whale:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Gashadokuro, Massive Skeleton, Gigantic Monster, Deadly Gashadokuro, Titan, Skeleton, Immense Skeleton:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Ninja:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghost:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Simple Skeleton:</strong> ?</p><p></p><p>Misted is measured in eight levels. An effect can give a creature one or more levels of misted, as specified in the effect’s description. Creatures always have a minimum number of levels of misted condition equal to their Haitoku modifier. Kami, oni, and tsukumogami are immune to the misted condition.</p><p>Table: Misted Effects</p><p>Level Effect</p><p>1 Mild auditory effect</p><p>2 Mild visual effect</p><p>3 Speed +10 feet during combat; Disadvantage on Dignity ability checks</p><p>4 Severe auditory effect</p><p>5 Severe visual effect</p><p>6 Visible physical mutation, providing +1 to two attributes, –1 to one attribute; Disadvantage on Dignity saving throws and you gain the hated condition</p><p>7 Ignore the first 3 points of damage from each attack or spell</p><p>8 Death and transformation into adeddo-oni</p><p>Auditory and visual effects are not perpetual but they are frequent and obvious when they occur. Some example effects are:</p><p>Mild Auditory Effect. A disembodied voice repeats everything you say in a barely audible whisper.</p><p>Mild Visual Effect. Your hands and feet smolder with red energy during your katas, in battle or out.</p><p>Severe Auditory Effect. Whenever you draw your weapon a clap of thunder echoes around you.</p><p>Severe Visual Effect. Whenever your ire is raised (even slightly), your image stretches and distorts to make you appear look much larger and more demonic than you are.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 9074622, member: 2209"] [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/203459/Mists-of-Akuma-Adventurers-Handbook?affiliate_id=17596']Mists of Akuma: Adventurer's Handbook[/URL] 5e [B]Necroji:[/B] Ropaeo knew no shame for their part of the War of Kaiyo, utilizing a foul and now-lost art called necroscience to raise the dead from their graves. Transformed from skeletons into powerful soldiers to bolster Ropaeo’s armies, legions of necroji once walked the battlefields across the edge of the world and wrought chaos on the forces of Ceramia. During the Kengen Occupation the undead made amazing infiltrators and saboteurs, and since the fall of the distant continents some have emerged from the threshold to bring terror to the lands of the prefectures. Cursed by their descendants with an unlife that can only be cut short through a violent end, these walking abominations of foreign ancestry are as much a mystery to the people of Soburin as they are yet another heretical horror left by their defeated enemies. Every necroji is an amalgamation of its ancestors, a skeleton infused with fragments of nine souls that each carry a partial recollection of their former lives. All of these memories coalesce into one personality that incorporates the traditions and rites of its constituent parts, making their sense of culture a pastiche of a foreign past. [B]Necroji, Powerful Soldier, Walking Abomination of Foreign Ancestry, Mystery, Heretical Horror, Undead Abomination, Undead Empowered By Science and Infused With Technology That Animates Their Skeletal Form, Undead Automaton, Grotesque Form, Necrotic Nuisance, Amalgamation of its Ancestors, Skeleton Infused With Fragments of Nine Souls That Each Carry a Partial Recollection of their Former Lives, Grotesque Automaton:[/B] ? [B]Necroji, Amazing Infiltrator[/B] ? [B]Necroji, Amazing Saboteur[/B] ? [B]Kanden, Necroji:[/B] ? [B]Adeddo-Oni:[/B] Misted condition level 8. [B]Adeddo-Oni, Wretched Thing, Monstrosity:[/B] ? [B]Adeddo-Oni, Freakish Aberration:[/B] ? [B]Adeddo-Oni, Freakish Assailant:[/B] ? [B]Adeddo-Oni Samurai, Undead Samurai, Armored Monster:[/B] ? [B]Adeddo-Oni, The Corrupted:[/B] ? [B]Hunchling:[/B] ? [B]Hunchling, Lesser Creature:[/B] ? [B]Bake-Kujira, Ominous Undead Whale:[/B] ? [B]Gashadokuro, Massive Skeleton, Gigantic Monster, Deadly Gashadokuro, Titan, Skeleton, Immense Skeleton:[/B] ? [B]Undead:[/B] ? [B]Undead Ninja:[/B] ? [B]Ghost:[/B] ? [B]Simple Skeleton:[/B] ? Misted is measured in eight levels. An effect can give a creature one or more levels of misted, as specified in the effect’s description. Creatures always have a minimum number of levels of misted condition equal to their Haitoku modifier. Kami, oni, and tsukumogami are immune to the misted condition. Table: Misted Effects Level Effect 1 Mild auditory effect 2 Mild visual effect 3 Speed +10 feet during combat; Disadvantage on Dignity ability checks 4 Severe auditory effect 5 Severe visual effect 6 Visible physical mutation, providing +1 to two attributes, –1 to one attribute; Disadvantage on Dignity saving throws and you gain the hated condition 7 Ignore the first 3 points of damage from each attack or spell 8 Death and transformation into adeddo-oni Auditory and visual effects are not perpetual but they are frequent and obvious when they occur. Some example effects are: Mild Auditory Effect. A disembodied voice repeats everything you say in a barely audible whisper. Mild Visual Effect. Your hands and feet smolder with red energy during your katas, in battle or out. Severe Auditory Effect. Whenever you draw your weapon a clap of thunder echoes around you. Severe Visual Effect. Whenever your ire is raised (even slightly), your image stretches and distorts to make you appear look much larger and more demonic than you are. [/QUOTE]
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