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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9613415" data-attributes="member: 2209"><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/1859/Seas-of-Blood?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Seas of Blood</a>3.5Grey Lady: Many a seaman who ventures out into the trackless sea is destined never to look again on the loved ones he left behind. Either death or the lure of foreign lands keeps them from returning to those who wait patiently for them. Pining away on shore for the sight of a lost husband or son, and ultimately dying of a broken heart, some women return to haunt the coast as grey ladies.A grey lady is the shade of a woman who died heartbroken and alone waiting for the return of a loved one from across the sea.Fisherman: The fisherman is a rare creature not often encountered by the mortals of the material world. Sages and scholars often postulate these aquatic spirits may hail from some other plane of existence, whilst others assume the fisherman is some strange form of undead, the powerful soul of a legendary seaman fated to lurk in the depths of the ocean. Grey Lady, Shade of a Woman Who Died Heartbroken and Alone Waiting for the Return of a Loved One From Across the Sea: ?Fisherman, Rare Creature, Some Strange Form of Undead, The Powerful Soul of a Legendary Seam Fated to Lurk in the Depths of the Ocean: ?Undead: ?More Powerful Form of Undead: Also at the Games Master’s discretion, the captain [of a death hulk] may be made into a more powerful form of undead such as a ghoul, wight, or something even more powerful. This is only likely to occur when the ship has been raised through supernatural means, and not the use of a raise death hulk spell.Loathsome Undead: ?Ghost: ?Ghoul: Also at the Games Master’s discretion, the captain [of a death hulk] may be made into a more powerful form of undead such as a ghoul, wight, or something even more powerful. This is only likely to occur when the ship has been raised through supernatural means, and not the use of a raise death hulk spell.Ghoul, More Powerful Form of Undead: ?Skeletal Crewmember: ?Captain Cormant, The Tyrant of Tyrospur, Impressive Figure All in Black Eyes Glowing Red as the Stoked Fires of the Pit: ?Skeleton: Death hulks may be created through the use of a raise death hulk spell or through supernatural events – it is said many death hulks still sail the world, powered only by the eternal desire of their captain to complete some unfinished voyage, or to exact revenge upon those who originally sent his ship to the bottom of the ocean.Crew are now either skeletons or zombies, at the Games Master’s discretion. Any type of ship may be raised this way [by a raise death hulk spell] and it will have a full complement of crew, usually zombies, though skeletons may also appear if the ship has lain at the bottom of the sea for more than a year. The Games Master is the final arbitrator of the ship type and the nature of its crew. Raise Death Hulk spell.Skeleton, Animated Skeleton: ?Unique Vampire: ?Wight: Also at the Games Master’s discretion, the captain [of a death hulk] may be made into a more powerful form of undead such as a ghoul, wight, or something even more powerful. This is only likely to occur when the ship has been raised through supernatural means, and not the use of a raise death hulk spell.Wight, More Powerful Form of Undead: ?Zombie: Death hulks may be created through the use of a raise death hulk spell or through supernatural events – it is said many death hulks still sail the world, powered only by the eternal desire of their captain to complete some unfinished voyage, or to exact revenge upon those who originally sent his ship to the bottom of the ocean.Crew are now either skeletons or zombies, at the Games Master’s discretion. Any type of ship may be raised this way [by a raise death hulk spell] and it will have a full complement of crew, usually zombies, though skeletons may also appear if the ship has lain at the bottom of the sea for more than a year. The Games Master is the final arbitrator of the ship type and the nature of its crew. Raise Death Hulk spell.Zombie, Animated Zombie: ?Raise Death HulkNecromancyLevel: Sor/Wiz 7Components: V,S,FCasting Time: 1 hourRange: Long (400 ft. + 40 ft./level)Targets: One sunken shipDuration: InstantaneousSaving Throw: NoneSpell Resistance: NoOne of the most awesome feats any necromancer can hope to perform is the raising of a sunken ship from the sea floor, complete with undead crew, to be brought to the surface under the total control of the practitioner. Such death hulks are the stuff of legend, kept afloat through powerful magicks, despite the great holes in their hulls through which the sea flows freely. Animated skeletons and zombies patrol the deck, performing all the tasks they did in life and forming a frightening boarding party when the ship goes into battle.A sunken ship must be in range of the spellcaster for this spell to have any effect. Raise death hulk will cause the ship to rise to the surface of the sea, where it will be magically seaworthy and under the full control of the necromancer. A destroyed death hulk cannot be raised from the sea again. Regardless of the amount of times this spell is cast, only a single death hulk may be controlled at any one time by a single caster.Any type of ship may be raised this way and it will have a full complement of crew, usually zombies, though skeletons may also appear if the ship has lain at the bottom of the sea for more than a year. The Games Master is the final arbitrator of the ship type and the nature of its crew. Rules for the death hulk template are provided on p65. A far more powerful version of this spell, raise death fleet, may be found in our previous supplement Encyclopaedia Arcane: Necromancy – Beyond the Grave.Focus: One sunken ship and the corpse of a sea captain. The corpse is consumed in the casting, the ship itself is raised to the surface.XP Cost: 1,000 XP.</blockquote>

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