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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9503993" data-attributes="member: 2209"><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/166020/Spooky-Gardens-Halloween-Special?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Spooky Gardens Halloween Special</a>Pathfinder 1eGloom Bough, Skeleton Tree, Evil Gloom Bough: Watered with blood and rooted in death, gloom boughs are nearly as much undead as they are plants. They grow from seedlings lodged in the corpse of a violently slain humanoid and feed on the emotions of living creatures.Typically originating at the scene of horrific wilderness battles, skeleton trees often seek out a small cemetery and lurk at its fringes.Vengeful Creature: “Vengeful” is an acquired template that can be applied to any undead creature.Gloom bough heartwood can be used as a power component for several spells relating to haunts or the undead.Create Undead (M): Undead created with the spell have the Vengeful Creature template.Vengeful Ghast: ?Vengeful Bones, Human Vengeful Skeleton Champion Warrior 5: ?Vengeful Wraith: ?Vengeful Skeleton: Gloom bough heartwood can be used as a power component for several spells relating to haunts or the undead.Animate Dead or Lesser Animate Dead (F): Skeletons or Zombies created with the spell have the Vengeful Creature template.Vengeful Zombie: Gloom bough heartwood can be used as a power component for several spells relating to haunts or the undead.Animate Dead or Lesser Animate Dead (F): Skeletons or Zombies created with the spell have the Vengeful Creature template.Persistent Haunt A Murder of Spirits: While most haunts are created by the death of intelligent humanoids, a bird killed in the proximity of an emotion-boosting gloom bough may be enough to spawn this dangerous phenomenon.Item-Bound Haunt Despair of Victory: Sometimes a weapon, wielded by a warrior who gives in to despair as she realizes she’s doomed to die, becomes tainted with the vestiges of her hopelessness.Increased Area Persistent Haunt Grasping Dead: When the graves in a cemetery are exposed to the corrupting influence of a powerful evil creature such as an undead or aberration sometimes a grasping dead haunt can be created.Belligerent Spiteful Haunt Suffer No Apologies, Cruel Haunt: The cold-blooded slaying of a penitent after his confession of a crime often results in this cruel haunt. Such is not uncommon at the feet of a gloom bough, thanks to its aura’s inflaming the passions of a vengeful inquisitor.Cruel Haunt: ?Increased Area Persistent Haunt Thundering Death: This haunt was formed when a group of bandits was discovered by the authorities and simply ridden down in an ambush, with no chance to surrender to face trial. Their abandoned corpses likely nurtured a gloom bough, which grew to maturity in the confines of the haunt.Possessing Haunt Together in Death: The unexpected death of a loved one may sometimes lead to this tragic haunt, which can wipe out entire families before it is discovered. It is often created at a funeral in close proximity to a gloom bough.Gloom Bough, Tree With Ties to Haunts and Undead, Bone-White Tree: ?Vengeful Ghast, Humanoid Creature: ?Human Vengeful Skeleton Champion Warrior 5, Skeletal Warrior: ?Vengeful Wraith, Ghostly Creature: ?Undead: ?Incorporeal Undead: ?Ghoul: A humanoid who dies of ghoul fever rises as a ghoul at the next midnight. A humanoid of 4 Hit Dice or more rises as a ghast.Ghast: A humanoid who dies of ghoul fever rises as a ghoul at the next midnight. A humanoid of 4 Hit Dice or more rises as a ghast.Skeletal Creature: ?Animated Skeleton: ?Wraith, Typical Wraith: ?Wraith Spawn: A humanoid slain by a vengeful wraith becomes a wraith in 1d4 rounds.Free-Willed Wraith: Spawn are under the command of the vengeful wraith that created them until its death, at which point they lose their spawn penalties and become free-willed wraiths.Haunt: A gloom bough’s emotional swell aura increases the anguish suffered by dying creatures, increasing the likelihood that their demise spawns a haunt.Typically originating at the scene of horrific wilderness battles, skeleton trees often seek out a small cemetery and lurk at its fringes. They feed parasitically off visitors to the graves, savoring their sorrow. Inevitably, though, their aura overwhelms grief-stricken mourners and provokes a haunt-creating suicide, leading to the gloom bough’s discovery.The presence of a Gloom Bough can often spur the creation of a haunt when a creature dies in close proximity to it.</blockquote>

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