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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9539342" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/28722/Unapproachable-East-35?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Forgotten Realms Unapproachable East (3.5)</a></p><p>3.5</p><p><strong>Dread Warrior:</strong> Called forth to serve in undeath through foul necromantic magic, dread warriors are undead beings usually created from the corpses of skilled warriors.</p><p>Dread warriors are created by casting the animate dread warrior spell.</p><p>“Dread warrior” is a template that can be added to any humanoid of at least 3 Hit Dice or levels.</p><p>[E]nhanced undead soldiers created by Szass Tam.</p><p><em>Animate Dread Warrior</em> spell.</p><p><strong>Dread Warrior Human Warrior 4:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Juju Zombie:</strong> Animated by a particularly hateful brand of necromancy, juju zombies are malicious, murderous creatures enslaved by the mighty spells that created them.</p><p>A juju zombie can be created with a create undead spell cast by a 16th-level spellcaster or by certain powerful magical curses or diseases, such as the blightspawned’s blight touch.</p><p>“Juju zombie” is a template that can be added to any formerly living corporeal creature with an Intelligence score of at least 1.</p><p>Each month a creature lives as a blightspawned, it must succeed at a Fortitude save (DC 15 + 1 per previous saving throw attempted) or die. A blightspawned that dies in this fashion animates as a juju zombie.</p><p>The leader of the Umber Council is Ysvel the Black (NE female lich Drd18) who was driven mad by an ancient artifact—a rusted iron rod known as the Ironwood—that she uncovered in the sucking mud of her home marshes years ago. She killed her acolytes in their sleep and then turned them into juju zombies at the command of the device.</p><p>[E]nhanced undead soldiers created by Szass Tam.</p><p><strong>Juju Zombie Bugbear:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Dread Warrior, Enhanced Undead Soldier:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Juju Zombie, Malicious Murderous Creature, Enhanced Undead Soldier:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Juju Zombie, Bloodthirsty Thing:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead, Undead Monster, Undead Being, Undead Creature:</strong> Szass Tam creates a vast army of undead to cross the frozen Umber Marshes. The animated corpses crash like waves against the Watchwall but fail to overcome the fortification.</p><p>It’s whispered that many of the slain have been reanimated as undead troops in the Rotting Man’s army.</p><p><strong>Free-Willed Undead Creature:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Mindless Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Powerful Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Old Hateful Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Thayan Soldier:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Foot Soldier:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Soldier:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Druid:</strong> The leader of the Umber Council is Ysvel the Black (NE female lich Drd18) who was driven mad by an ancient artifact—a rusted iron rod known as the Ironwood—that she uncovered in the sucking mud of her home marshes years ago. She killed her acolytes in their sleep and then turned them into juju zombies at the command of the device. Under its malevolent influence, she transformed herself into a lich—a rare choice among druids.</p><p><strong>Animated Corpse:</strong> Szass Tam creates a vast army of undead to cross the frozen Umber Marshes. The animated corpses crash like waves against the Watchwall but fail to overcome the fortification.</p><p><strong>Enhanced Undead Solder:</strong> [E]nhanced undead soldiers created by Szass</p><p>Tam.</p><p><strong>Dangerous Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Restless Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Unliving Spawn:</strong> Each incursion is more difficult to fend off, and large portions of the realm have been poisoned by the nilshais’ alien sorcery. From these corrupted regions horrid, unliving spawn emerge to haunt the silver woods and terrorize the citadels of the star elves.</p><p><strong>Allip:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Bodak:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghost:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Restless Nar Ghost:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Nar Demonpriest Ghost:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Great Barrow Ghost:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Slain Tuigan Raider Ghost, Tuigan Ghost, Years-Dead Raider From the Endless Waste:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghoul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghast:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Lacedon:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Lich:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Young Adult Red Dracolich:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ysvel the Black, Lich Druid 18, Undead Druid:</strong> The leader of the Umber Council is Ysvel the Black (NE female lich Drd18) who was driven mad by an ancient artifact—a rusted iron rod known as the Ironwood—that she uncovered in the sucking mud of her home marshes years ago. She killed her acolytes in their sleep and then turned them into juju zombies at the command of the device. Under its malevolent influence, she transformed herself into a lich—a rare choice among druids.</p><p><strong>Dracolich:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Szass Tam, Zulkir of Necromancy, Lich Necromancer 10/Red Wizard 10/Archmage 2/Epic 7:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Very Old Deep Dragon Skeleton, Skeletal Dragon:</strong> The king’s primary advisor is Lady Farkattle</p><p>(LE female hobgoblin Nec11). She has managed to animate the corpse of a long-dead, very old deep dragon that once made its home here but was slain in the war that brought the old empire of Narfell to a bloody end.</p><p><strong>Kryonar, White Dracolich Wyrm:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Nightwing:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Nightshade, Dangerous Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Shadow, Shadow Creature:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Tiny Skeleton:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Skeleton Medium-Size:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Very Old Deep Dragon Skeleton:</strong> The king’s primary advisor is Lady Farkattle (LE female hobgoblin Nec11). She has managed to animate the corpse of a long-dead, very old deep dragon that once made its home here but was slain in the war that brought the old empire of Narfell to a bloody end. This skeletal dragon looks like a dracolich to the uninitiated, but it is entirely under Farkattle’s control.</p><p><strong>Very Old Deep Dragon Skeleton, Skeletal Dragon, Fearsome Monster:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Spectre:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire Spawn:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire Lord:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wight:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wraith:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Zombie, Ordinary Zombie, Tireless Zombie:</strong> The Guild of Portagers used to charge outrageous prices to move goods, three hundred or more years ago. The Red Wizards of the time grew frustrated with the arrangement—homicidally so. They killed most of the portagers and animated them as zombies.</p><p><strong>Zombie, Mindless Shambling Corpse, Walking Dead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Zombie Medium-Size:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Banedead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Baneguard:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Curst:</strong> ?</p><p></p><p>ANIMATE DREAD WARRIOR</p><p>Necromancy [Evil]</p><p>Level: Sor/Wiz 6</p><p>Components: V, S, M, XP</p><p>Casting Time: 10 minutes</p><p>Range: Touch</p><p>Target: One humanoid corpse</p><p>Duration: Instantaneous</p><p>Saving Throw: None</p><p>Spell Resistance: No</p><p>You transform the corpse of a skilled warrior into an undead monster under your command. The corpse in question must be that of a humanoid with at least three levels or Hit Dice and no more Hit Dice than your own, killed within the last tenday. The body must be substantially whole, although any injury short of dismemberment does not interfere with the spell.</p><p>Upon completion of the spell, the subject corpse reanimates as a dread warrior under your command. The creature serves loyally and obeys your orders to the best of its ability, although a cleric with the ability to command undead can usurp your control with a sufficiently high rebuke undead check. Upon the caster’s death, the dread warrior becomes a free-willed undead creature.</p><p>Created twenty years ago by the zulkir of Necromancy, Szass Tam, this spell is found only in the spellbooks of those Red Wizards who served as his apprentices and the apprentices of those apprentices. Szass Tam has been using this spell to steadily create a vast army of dread warriors.</p><p>Material Component: A rusted fragment of a sword blade broken in battle.</p><p>XP Cost: 250 XP per HD of the dread warrior created.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 9539342, member: 2209"] [URL=https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/28722/Unapproachable-East-35?affiliate_id=17596]Forgotten Realms Unapproachable East (3.5)[/URL] 3.5 [b]Dread Warrior:[/b] Called forth to serve in undeath through foul necromantic magic, dread warriors are undead beings usually created from the corpses of skilled warriors. Dread warriors are created by casting the animate dread warrior spell. “Dread warrior” is a template that can be added to any humanoid of at least 3 Hit Dice or levels. [E]nhanced undead soldiers created by Szass Tam. [i]Animate Dread Warrior[/i] spell. [b]Dread Warrior Human Warrior 4:[/b] ? [b]Juju Zombie:[/b] Animated by a particularly hateful brand of necromancy, juju zombies are malicious, murderous creatures enslaved by the mighty spells that created them. A juju zombie can be created with a create undead spell cast by a 16th-level spellcaster or by certain powerful magical curses or diseases, such as the blightspawned’s blight touch. “Juju zombie” is a template that can be added to any formerly living corporeal creature with an Intelligence score of at least 1. Each month a creature lives as a blightspawned, it must succeed at a Fortitude save (DC 15 + 1 per previous saving throw attempted) or die. A blightspawned that dies in this fashion animates as a juju zombie. The leader of the Umber Council is Ysvel the Black (NE female lich Drd18) who was driven mad by an ancient artifact—a rusted iron rod known as the Ironwood—that she uncovered in the sucking mud of her home marshes years ago. She killed her acolytes in their sleep and then turned them into juju zombies at the command of the device. [E]nhanced undead soldiers created by Szass Tam. [b]Juju Zombie Bugbear:[/b] ? [b]Dread Warrior, Enhanced Undead Soldier:[/b] ? [b]Juju Zombie, Malicious Murderous Creature, Enhanced Undead Soldier:[/b] ? [b]Juju Zombie, Bloodthirsty Thing:[/b] ? [b]Undead, Undead Monster, Undead Being, Undead Creature:[/b] Szass Tam creates a vast army of undead to cross the frozen Umber Marshes. The animated corpses crash like waves against the Watchwall but fail to overcome the fortification. It’s whispered that many of the slain have been reanimated as undead troops in the Rotting Man’s army. [b]Free-Willed Undead Creature:[/b] ? [b]Mindless Undead:[/b] ? [b]Powerful Undead:[/b] ? [b]Old Hateful Undead:[/b] ? [b]Undead Thayan Soldier:[/b] ? [b]Undead Foot Soldier:[/b] ? [b]Undead Soldier:[/b] ? [b]Undead Druid:[/b] The leader of the Umber Council is Ysvel the Black (NE female lich Drd18) who was driven mad by an ancient artifact—a rusted iron rod known as the Ironwood—that she uncovered in the sucking mud of her home marshes years ago. She killed her acolytes in their sleep and then turned them into juju zombies at the command of the device. Under its malevolent influence, she transformed herself into a lich—a rare choice among druids. [b]Animated Corpse:[/b] Szass Tam creates a vast army of undead to cross the frozen Umber Marshes. The animated corpses crash like waves against the Watchwall but fail to overcome the fortification. [b]Enhanced Undead Solder:[/b] [E]nhanced undead soldiers created by Szass Tam. [b]Dangerous Undead:[/b] ? [b]Restless Undead:[/b] ? [b]Unliving Spawn:[/b] Each incursion is more difficult to fend off, and large portions of the realm have been poisoned by the nilshais’ alien sorcery. From these corrupted regions horrid, unliving spawn emerge to haunt the silver woods and terrorize the citadels of the star elves. [b]Allip:[/b] ? [b]Bodak:[/b] ? [b]Ghost:[/b] ? [b]Restless Nar Ghost:[/b] ? [b]Nar Demonpriest Ghost:[/b] ? [b]Great Barrow Ghost:[/b] ? [b]Slain Tuigan Raider Ghost, Tuigan Ghost, Years-Dead Raider From the Endless Waste:[/b] ? [b]Ghoul:[/b] ? [b]Ghast:[/b] ? [b]Lacedon:[/b] ? [b]Lich:[/b] ? [b]Young Adult Red Dracolich:[/b] ? [b]Ysvel the Black, Lich Druid 18, Undead Druid:[/b] The leader of the Umber Council is Ysvel the Black (NE female lich Drd18) who was driven mad by an ancient artifact—a rusted iron rod known as the Ironwood—that she uncovered in the sucking mud of her home marshes years ago. She killed her acolytes in their sleep and then turned them into juju zombies at the command of the device. Under its malevolent influence, she transformed herself into a lich—a rare choice among druids. [b]Dracolich:[/b] ? [b]Szass Tam, Zulkir of Necromancy, Lich Necromancer 10/Red Wizard 10/Archmage 2/Epic 7:[/b] ? [b]Very Old Deep Dragon Skeleton, Skeletal Dragon:[/b] The king’s primary advisor is Lady Farkattle (LE female hobgoblin Nec11). She has managed to animate the corpse of a long-dead, very old deep dragon that once made its home here but was slain in the war that brought the old empire of Narfell to a bloody end. [b]Kryonar, White Dracolich Wyrm:[/b] ? [b]Nightwing:[/b] ? [b]Nightshade, Dangerous Undead:[/b] ? [b]Shadow, Shadow Creature:[/b] ? [b]Tiny Skeleton:[/b] ? [b]Skeleton Medium-Size:[/b] ? [b]Very Old Deep Dragon Skeleton:[/b] The king’s primary advisor is Lady Farkattle (LE female hobgoblin Nec11). She has managed to animate the corpse of a long-dead, very old deep dragon that once made its home here but was slain in the war that brought the old empire of Narfell to a bloody end. This skeletal dragon looks like a dracolich to the uninitiated, but it is entirely under Farkattle’s control. [b]Very Old Deep Dragon Skeleton, Skeletal Dragon, Fearsome Monster:[/b] ? [b]Spectre:[/b] ? [b]Vampire:[/b] ? [b]Vampire Spawn:[/b] ? [b]Vampire Lord:[/b] ? [b]Wight:[/b] ? [b]Wraith:[/b] ? [b]Zombie, Ordinary Zombie, Tireless Zombie:[/b] The Guild of Portagers used to charge outrageous prices to move goods, three hundred or more years ago. The Red Wizards of the time grew frustrated with the arrangement—homicidally so. They killed most of the portagers and animated them as zombies. [b]Zombie, Mindless Shambling Corpse, Walking Dead:[/b] ? [b]Zombie Medium-Size:[/b] ? [b]Banedead:[/b] ? [b]Baneguard:[/b] ? [b]Curst:[/b] ? ANIMATE DREAD WARRIOR Necromancy [Evil] Level: Sor/Wiz 6 Components: V, S, M, XP Casting Time: 10 minutes Range: Touch Target: One humanoid corpse Duration: Instantaneous Saving Throw: None Spell Resistance: No You transform the corpse of a skilled warrior into an undead monster under your command. The corpse in question must be that of a humanoid with at least three levels or Hit Dice and no more Hit Dice than your own, killed within the last tenday. The body must be substantially whole, although any injury short of dismemberment does not interfere with the spell. Upon completion of the spell, the subject corpse reanimates as a dread warrior under your command. The creature serves loyally and obeys your orders to the best of its ability, although a cleric with the ability to command undead can usurp your control with a sufficiently high rebuke undead check. Upon the caster’s death, the dread warrior becomes a free-willed undead creature. Created twenty years ago by the zulkir of Necromancy, Szass Tam, this spell is found only in the spellbooks of those Red Wizards who served as his apprentices and the apprentices of those apprentices. Szass Tam has been using this spell to steadily create a vast army of dread warriors. Material Component: A rusted fragment of a sword blade broken in battle. XP Cost: 250 XP per HD of the dread warrior created. [/QUOTE]
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