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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9157779" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p><a href="https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/405272/level-up-dungeon-delver-s-guide-a5e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Level Up: Dungeon Delver's Guide (A5E)</a></p><p>5e</p><p><strong>Shadow Symbiote Thrall:</strong> Any living or dead humanoid can become a shadow symbiote thrall.</p><p>Shadow Symbiote Assimilate power.</p><p><strong>Shadow Symbiote Knight:</strong> While it lived, the shadow symbiote knight was a powerful martial champion. In death, it is a puppet of a shadow symbiote.</p><p><strong>Bonespawn:</strong> While most skeletons are the undead remains of a single corpse, mismatched and jumbled bones can be raised as bonespawn.</p><p>Skeletal Warlord Raise Bonespawn power.</p><p><strong>Skeletal Immortal:</strong> Once skilled warriors and mercenaries, death has robbed skeletal immortals of none of the martial skills they possessed in life. Furthermore, necromancy has granted them a kind of immortality: until they are pulverized or burned with holy fire, they leap to their feet unharmed moments after being defeated.</p><p><strong>Skeletal Warlord:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Skeleton Variant:</strong> In their grim and blood-spattered lairs, necromancers experiment with skeletal remains the way chefs tinker with recipes. Many wizards produce variations on the animated skeleton, and undead legions boast their own skeletal officers, specialists, and fearsome elite soldiers.</p><p><strong>Burning Skeleton:</strong> Burning skeletons are formed from the charred remains of those burned alive on funeral pyres.</p><p><strong>Four-Armed Skeleton:</strong> With the ability to rearrange limbs as they like, it’s no surprise that necromancers hit upon a simple way to increase their skeletons’ deadliness: add more arms.</p><p><strong>Winged Skeleton:</strong> With giant bat wings grafted to their shoulder blades, winged skeletons look like nightmare soldiers in hellish armies.</p><p><strong>Skeletal Immortal, Spirit of the Past:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Skeleton Immortal, Guardian:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Amber-Veiled Skeletal Immortal:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Four-Armed Skeletal Immortal:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Burning Skeletal Immortal:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Winged Skeleton, Scout:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Bonespawn, Guardian:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead, Undead Monster, Undead Creature:</strong> A magic potion that changes your type and appearance to undead for 24 hours.</p><p><strong>Non-Living Creature:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Unintelligent Monster:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Occupant:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Harmless Undead Spirit:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Powerful Undead Creature:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Skeletal Elephant:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Corporeal Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Remains:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Banshee, Guardian:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Banshee:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Demilich:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Demilich, Guard:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Dragon Lich:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Dragon Lich, Guardian:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Dragon Lich, Guard:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Adult Black Dragon Lich:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Dread Knight, Spirit of the Past:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Dread Knight Champion, King, Immortal Monster:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Dread Knight:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Dread Knight Champion:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghost:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Harmless Ghost of the Bastion's Former Seneschal:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghost, Guardian:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghost, Nonhostile Ghost:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Warlord's Ghost:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vengeful Ghost:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Friendly Ghost:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Silent Ghost:</strong> Little is known about the cataclysm that created the ghosts, but many are convinced aboleths were somehow involved: besides loud noises, the presence of aboleths also triggers the ghosts’ hostility.</p><p><strong>Silent Ghost, Tortured Soul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghoul, Guardian:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghoul, Horrible Thing:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghoul, Denizen:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghoul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghoul, Intelligent Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghast, Guardian:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghast, Spirit of the Past:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Lich:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Lich, Denizen:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Lich, Spellcaster:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Lich, Spirit of the Past:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Lich, Leader:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Lich, Librarian:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Most Powerful Lich:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Isaak Mortav, Lich:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Azkaroth, Lich, Archlich, Dark Lord:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Mummy, Guardian:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Mummy Lord, King, Immortal Monster:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Mummy, King, Immortal Monster:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Mummy:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Mummy, Undead Guard:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Mummy Lord:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Revenant, Intelligent Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Revenant:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Scarecrow Harvester, Guardian:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Scarecrow Harvester:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Scarecrow, Snowman Guard:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Snowman, Snowman Guard:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Shadow, Fiend:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Shadow, Guardian:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Shadow, Denizen:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Skeletal Minotaur Champion:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Skeleton Horde:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Animated Skeleton:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Animate Skeleton:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Skeleton, Guardian:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Skeleton, Denizen:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Skeletal Champion, Denizen:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Skeleton, True Skeleton:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Skeleton, Nonhostile Skeleton:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Skeleton, Undead Guard:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Skeletal Warlord, Undead Guard:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Skeleton Horde, Undead Guard:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Skeleton Horde, Guardian:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Skeletal Officer:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Skeletal Specialist:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Skeletal Fearsome Elite Soldier:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Four-Armed Skeletal Champion:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Specter:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire, Evil Creature:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wicked Vampire:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire Spawn, Weaker Monster:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire Mage, Inhabitant:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire, Inhabitant:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire Assassin, Friendly Seeming Creature:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire Mage, Friendly Seeming Creature:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire Warrior, Friendly Seeming Creature:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire Mage, New Chancellor:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire Spawn, Guardian:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire Warrior, Spirit of the Past:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire Spawn:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire Spawn, Guard:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire, Guard:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire, Intruder:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire Assassin, Intruder:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire Mage, Intruder:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire, Denizen:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire Assassin, Denizen:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Mighty Vampire:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire, Undead Guard:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire Spawn, Intelligent Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire, Intelligent Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire Warrior, Intelligent Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire Assassin, Guardian:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire, Guardian:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire Mage, Guardian:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire Warrior:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire Mage:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Reina Song, Vampire, Vampire Queen:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Reina Song, Elder Vampire, Elder Vampire Queen:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wight, Spirit of the Past:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wight, Guard:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wight, Intelligent Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wight:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wight, Guardian:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Will-o'-Wisp, Sewer Predator, Something Hungry and Dangerous:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wraith Lord, Inhabitant:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wraith:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wraith Lord, Guardian:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wraith, Undead Guard:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wraith Lord, Undead Guard:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wraith, Guardian:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Zombie:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ogre Zombie, Guardian:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ogre Zombie, Guard:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Zombie Knight, Guard:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Zombie, Undead Guard:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Zombie, Guardian:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Zombie Knight:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Zombie Horde, Guardian:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ogre Zombie:</strong> ?</p><p></p><p>Assimilate. The symbiote targets a humanoid it’s attached to, a willing humanoid within 5 feet, or a humanoid corpse within 5 feet. The symbiote attempts to assimilate the target. An unwilling creature can make a DC 13 Charisma saving throw to resist. A creature warded by protection from evil and good automatically succeeds on this save. If the target is a corpse, it becomes an undead creature under the symbiote’s control, regaining all its hit points. The undead creature is destroyed when the symbiote leaves it.</p><p></p><p>Raise Bonespawn. The warlord touches up to three inanimate skeletons or piles of bones, animating them as bonespawn under the warlord’s control.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 9157779, member: 2209"] [URL=https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/405272/level-up-dungeon-delver-s-guide-a5e?affiliate_id=17596]Level Up: Dungeon Delver's Guide (A5E)[/URL] 5e [b]Shadow Symbiote Thrall:[/b] Any living or dead humanoid can become a shadow symbiote thrall. Shadow Symbiote Assimilate power. [b]Shadow Symbiote Knight:[/b] While it lived, the shadow symbiote knight was a powerful martial champion. In death, it is a puppet of a shadow symbiote. [b]Bonespawn:[/b] While most skeletons are the undead remains of a single corpse, mismatched and jumbled bones can be raised as bonespawn. Skeletal Warlord Raise Bonespawn power. [b]Skeletal Immortal:[/b] Once skilled warriors and mercenaries, death has robbed skeletal immortals of none of the martial skills they possessed in life. Furthermore, necromancy has granted them a kind of immortality: until they are pulverized or burned with holy fire, they leap to their feet unharmed moments after being defeated. [b]Skeletal Warlord:[/b] ? [b]Skeleton Variant:[/b] In their grim and blood-spattered lairs, necromancers experiment with skeletal remains the way chefs tinker with recipes. Many wizards produce variations on the animated skeleton, and undead legions boast their own skeletal officers, specialists, and fearsome elite soldiers. [b]Burning Skeleton:[/b] Burning skeletons are formed from the charred remains of those burned alive on funeral pyres. [b]Four-Armed Skeleton:[/b] With the ability to rearrange limbs as they like, it’s no surprise that necromancers hit upon a simple way to increase their skeletons’ deadliness: add more arms. [b]Winged Skeleton:[/b] With giant bat wings grafted to their shoulder blades, winged skeletons look like nightmare soldiers in hellish armies. [b]Skeletal Immortal, Spirit of the Past:[/b] ? [b]Skeleton Immortal, Guardian:[/b] ? [b]Amber-Veiled Skeletal Immortal:[/b] ? [b]Four-Armed Skeletal Immortal:[/b] ? [b]Burning Skeletal Immortal:[/b] ? [b]Winged Skeleton, Scout:[/b] ? [b]Bonespawn, Guardian:[/b] ? [b]Undead, Undead Monster, Undead Creature:[/b] A magic potion that changes your type and appearance to undead for 24 hours. [b]Non-Living Creature:[/b] ? [b]Unintelligent Monster:[/b] ? [b]Undead Occupant:[/b] ? [b]Harmless Undead Spirit:[/b] ? [b]Powerful Undead Creature:[/b] ? [b]Undead Skeletal Elephant:[/b] ? [b]Corporeal Undead:[/b] ? [b]Undead Remains:[/b] ? [b]Banshee, Guardian:[/b] ? [b]Banshee:[/b] ? [b]Demilich:[/b] ? [b]Demilich, Guard:[/b] ? [b]Dragon Lich:[/b] ? [b]Dragon Lich, Guardian:[/b] ? [b]Dragon Lich, Guard:[/b] ? [b]Adult Black Dragon Lich:[/b] ? [b]Dread Knight, Spirit of the Past:[/b] ? [b]Dread Knight Champion, King, Immortal Monster:[/b] ? [b]Dread Knight:[/b] ? [b]Dread Knight Champion:[/b] ? [b]Ghost:[/b] ? [b]Harmless Ghost of the Bastion's Former Seneschal:[/b] ? [b]Ghost, Guardian:[/b] ? [b]Ghost, Nonhostile Ghost:[/b] ? [b]Warlord's Ghost:[/b] ? [b]Vengeful Ghost:[/b] ? [b]Friendly Ghost:[/b] ? [b]Silent Ghost:[/b] Little is known about the cataclysm that created the ghosts, but many are convinced aboleths were somehow involved: besides loud noises, the presence of aboleths also triggers the ghosts’ hostility. [b]Silent Ghost, Tortured Soul:[/b] ? [b]Ghoul, Guardian:[/b] ? [b]Ghoul, Horrible Thing:[/b] ? [b]Ghoul, Denizen:[/b] ? [b]Ghoul:[/b] ? [b]Ghoul, Intelligent Undead:[/b] ? [b]Ghast, Guardian:[/b] ? [b]Ghast, Spirit of the Past:[/b] ? [b]Lich:[/b] ? [b]Lich, Denizen:[/b] ? [b]Lich, Spellcaster:[/b] ? [b]Lich, Spirit of the Past:[/b] ? [b]Lich, Leader:[/b] ? [b]Lich, Librarian:[/b] ? [b]Most Powerful Lich:[/b] ? [b]Isaak Mortav, Lich:[/b] ? [b]Azkaroth, Lich, Archlich, Dark Lord:[/b] ? [b]Mummy, Guardian:[/b] ? [b]Mummy Lord, King, Immortal Monster:[/b] ? [b]Mummy, King, Immortal Monster:[/b] ? [b]Mummy:[/b] ? [b]Mummy, Undead Guard:[/b] ? [b]Mummy Lord:[/b] ? [b]Revenant, Intelligent Undead:[/b] ? [b]Revenant:[/b] ? [b]Scarecrow Harvester, Guardian:[/b] ? [b]Scarecrow Harvester:[/b] ? [b]Scarecrow, Snowman Guard:[/b] ? [b]Snowman, Snowman Guard:[/b] ? [b]Shadow, Fiend:[/b] ? [b]Shadow, Guardian:[/b] ? [b]Shadow, Denizen:[/b] ? [b]Skeletal Minotaur Champion:[/b] ? [b]Skeleton Horde:[/b] ? [b]Animated Skeleton:[/b] ? [b]Animate Skeleton:[/b] ? [b]Skeleton, Guardian:[/b] ? [b]Skeleton, Denizen:[/b] ? [b]Skeletal Champion, Denizen:[/b] ? [b]Skeleton, True Skeleton:[/b] ? [b]Skeleton, Nonhostile Skeleton:[/b] ? [b]Skeleton, Undead Guard:[/b] ? [b]Skeletal Warlord, Undead Guard:[/b] ? [b]Skeleton Horde, Undead Guard:[/b] ? [b]Skeleton Horde, Guardian:[/b] ? [b]Skeletal Officer:[/b] ? [b]Skeletal Specialist:[/b] ? [b]Skeletal Fearsome Elite Soldier:[/b] ? [b]Four-Armed Skeletal Champion:[/b] ? [b]Specter:[/b] ? [b]Vampire:[/b] ? [b]Vampire, Evil Creature:[/b] ? [b]Wicked Vampire:[/b] ? [b]Vampire Spawn, Weaker Monster:[/b] ? [b]Vampire Mage, Inhabitant:[/b] ? [b]Vampire, Inhabitant:[/b] ? [b]Vampire Assassin, Friendly Seeming Creature:[/b] ? [b]Vampire Mage, Friendly Seeming Creature:[/b] ? [b]Vampire Warrior, Friendly Seeming Creature:[/b] ? [b]Vampire Mage, New Chancellor:[/b] ? [b]Vampire Spawn, Guardian:[/b] ? [b]Vampire Warrior, Spirit of the Past:[/b] ? [b]Vampire Spawn:[/b] ? [b]Vampire Spawn, Guard:[/b] ? [b]Vampire, Guard:[/b] ? [b]Vampire, Intruder:[/b] ? [b]Vampire Assassin, Intruder:[/b] ? [b]Vampire Mage, Intruder:[/b] ? [b]Vampire, Denizen:[/b] ? [b]Vampire Assassin, Denizen:[/b] ? [b]Mighty Vampire:[/b] ? [b]Vampire, Undead Guard:[/b] ? [b]Vampire Spawn, Intelligent Undead:[/b] ? [b]Vampire, Intelligent Undead:[/b] ? [b]Vampire Warrior, Intelligent Undead:[/b] ? [b]Vampire Assassin, Guardian:[/b] ? [b]Vampire, Guardian:[/b] ? [b]Vampire Mage, Guardian:[/b] ? [b]Vampire Warrior:[/b] ? [b]Vampire Mage:[/b] ? [b]Reina Song, Vampire, Vampire Queen:[/b] ? [b]Reina Song, Elder Vampire, Elder Vampire Queen:[/b] ? [b]Wight, Spirit of the Past:[/b] ? [b]Wight, Guard:[/b] ? [b]Wight, Intelligent Undead:[/b] ? [b]Wight:[/b] ? [b]Wight, Guardian:[/b] ? [b]Will-o'-Wisp, Sewer Predator, Something Hungry and Dangerous:[/b] ? [b]Wraith Lord, Inhabitant:[/b] ? [b]Wraith:[/b] ? [b]Wraith Lord, Guardian:[/b] ? [b]Wraith, Undead Guard:[/b] ? [b]Wraith Lord, Undead Guard:[/b] ? [b]Wraith, Guardian:[/b] ? [b]Zombie:[/b] ? [b]Ogre Zombie, Guardian:[/b] ? [b]Ogre Zombie, Guard:[/b] ? [b]Zombie Knight, Guard:[/b] ? [b]Zombie, Undead Guard:[/b] ? [b]Zombie, Guardian:[/b] ? [b]Zombie Knight:[/b] ? [b]Zombie Horde, Guardian:[/b] ? [b]Ogre Zombie:[/b] ? Assimilate. The symbiote targets a humanoid it’s attached to, a willing humanoid within 5 feet, or a humanoid corpse within 5 feet. The symbiote attempts to assimilate the target. An unwilling creature can make a DC 13 Charisma saving throw to resist. A creature warded by protection from evil and good automatically succeeds on this save. If the target is a corpse, it becomes an undead creature under the symbiote’s control, regaining all its hit points. The undead creature is destroyed when the symbiote leaves it. Raise Bonespawn. The warlord touches up to three inanimate skeletons or piles of bones, animating them as bonespawn under the warlord’s control. [/QUOTE]
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