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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9670888" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/417926/3rd-Era-PDF-MegaBundle?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Freeport: The City of Adventure</a></p><p>3.0</p><p><strong>Fire Spectre, Fire Specter:</strong> Fire spectres are undead creatures created when blackhearted villains are burned alive. Their hatred burns so strong that the fires transform them into supernatural terrors.</p><p>Fire spectre is a template that can be added to any corporeal giant, humanoid, or monstrous humanoid of evil alignment (hereafter referred to as the “base creature”). The creature must die by fire to be reborn as a fire spectre.</p><p><strong>Kothar the Accursed, Fire Spectre Rogue 10:</strong> Kothar’s sentence was, as was always the case with pirate justice in those days, death. But it was a very special death that the Sea Lord decreed for Kothar. The pirate captain was securely tied to the mast of the ship he had attacked, and his crew bound and tossed in the hold. The Burning Tide was then piloted a few miles off the coast of the Serpent’s Teeth. There the entire craft was soaked in pitch and set alight. Kothar and his cutthroats were left to burn to death among the timbers of the ship that they had murdered so many to possess.</p><p>That should have been the end of Kothar and his crew—but it wasn’t. It was just the beginning. A single month had gone by when a burning ship was spotted on the night horizon off the coast of A’Val.</p><p><strong>Ship of the Damned Crewman, Fire Spectre Fighter 2:</strong> Kothar’s sentence was, as was always the case with pirate justice in those days, death. But it was a very special death that the Sea Lord decreed for Kothar. The pirate captain was securely tied to the mast of the ship he had attacked, and his crew bound and tossed in the hold. The Burning Tide was then piloted a few miles off the coast of the Serpent’s Teeth. There the entire craft was soaked in pitch and set alight. Kothar and his cutthroats were left to burn to death among the timbers of the ship that they had murdered so many to possess.</p><p>That should have been the end of Kothar and his crew—but it wasn’t. It was just the beginning. A single month had gone by when a burning ship was spotted on the night horizon off the coast of A’Val.</p><p><strong>Fire Spectre, Supernatural Terror:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead, Undead Creature:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Fiarella Donadrien, Ghost:</strong> A consortium of aristocrats built the Freeport Opera House nearly 100 years ago in an effort to bring some semblance of culture to the cesspool known as Freeport. To commemorate the occasion, the Sea Lord at the time commissioned a brand-new opera from one of the greatest composers of that time, an elf by the name of Fiarella Donadrien. This ancient songstress poured so much of her heart and soul into the composition, it’s said, that she actually expired shortly after its first performance.</p><p><strong>Ghost:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghoul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Skeleton:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wealthy Vampire:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampiric Kraken:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Zombie:</strong> Dnulper magic item.</p><p></p><p>Dnulper</p><p>This +2 unholy guisarme is said to be the creation of Friar Ingiltere, a mad monk and necromancer of Freeport’s distant past, and named for the villain’s patron, a death slaad of unsurpassed power. The weapon’s shaft is carved from the lightning-struck trunk of a hangman’s tree, and the head is forged from the grave-sword of an ancient chieftain.</p><p>Any living, corporeal opponent slain by Dnulper rises on the next round as a zombie under the wielder’s control. These creations remain animated until the next sunrise or sunset, and must remain within 50 feet of their controller or revert to inanimate corpses. There is no limit to the number or total HD of zombies that may be created in this manner.</p><p>Caster Level: 10th; Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armor, animate dead, unholy blight, creator must be evil; Market Price: 84,809 gp; Cost to Create: 42,405 gp + 3,393 XP.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 9670888, member: 2209"] [URL=https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/417926/3rd-Era-PDF-MegaBundle?affiliate_id=17596]Freeport: The City of Adventure[/URL] 3.0 [b]Fire Spectre, Fire Specter:[/b] Fire spectres are undead creatures created when blackhearted villains are burned alive. Their hatred burns so strong that the fires transform them into supernatural terrors. Fire spectre is a template that can be added to any corporeal giant, humanoid, or monstrous humanoid of evil alignment (hereafter referred to as the “base creature”). The creature must die by fire to be reborn as a fire spectre. [b]Kothar the Accursed, Fire Spectre Rogue 10:[/b] Kothar’s sentence was, as was always the case with pirate justice in those days, death. But it was a very special death that the Sea Lord decreed for Kothar. The pirate captain was securely tied to the mast of the ship he had attacked, and his crew bound and tossed in the hold. The Burning Tide was then piloted a few miles off the coast of the Serpent’s Teeth. There the entire craft was soaked in pitch and set alight. Kothar and his cutthroats were left to burn to death among the timbers of the ship that they had murdered so many to possess. That should have been the end of Kothar and his crew—but it wasn’t. It was just the beginning. A single month had gone by when a burning ship was spotted on the night horizon off the coast of A’Val. [b]Ship of the Damned Crewman, Fire Spectre Fighter 2:[/b] Kothar’s sentence was, as was always the case with pirate justice in those days, death. But it was a very special death that the Sea Lord decreed for Kothar. The pirate captain was securely tied to the mast of the ship he had attacked, and his crew bound and tossed in the hold. The Burning Tide was then piloted a few miles off the coast of the Serpent’s Teeth. There the entire craft was soaked in pitch and set alight. Kothar and his cutthroats were left to burn to death among the timbers of the ship that they had murdered so many to possess. That should have been the end of Kothar and his crew—but it wasn’t. It was just the beginning. A single month had gone by when a burning ship was spotted on the night horizon off the coast of A’Val. [b]Fire Spectre, Supernatural Terror:[/b] ? [b]Undead, Undead Creature:[/b] ? [b]Fiarella Donadrien, Ghost:[/b] A consortium of aristocrats built the Freeport Opera House nearly 100 years ago in an effort to bring some semblance of culture to the cesspool known as Freeport. To commemorate the occasion, the Sea Lord at the time commissioned a brand-new opera from one of the greatest composers of that time, an elf by the name of Fiarella Donadrien. This ancient songstress poured so much of her heart and soul into the composition, it’s said, that she actually expired shortly after its first performance. [b]Ghost:[/b] ? [b]Ghoul:[/b] ? [b]Skeleton:[/b] ? [b]Wealthy Vampire:[/b] ? [b]Vampiric Kraken:[/b] ? [b]Zombie:[/b] Dnulper magic item. Dnulper This +2 unholy guisarme is said to be the creation of Friar Ingiltere, a mad monk and necromancer of Freeport’s distant past, and named for the villain’s patron, a death slaad of unsurpassed power. The weapon’s shaft is carved from the lightning-struck trunk of a hangman’s tree, and the head is forged from the grave-sword of an ancient chieftain. Any living, corporeal opponent slain by Dnulper rises on the next round as a zombie under the wielder’s control. These creations remain animated until the next sunrise or sunset, and must remain within 50 feet of their controller or revert to inanimate corpses. There is no limit to the number or total HD of zombies that may be created in this manner. Caster Level: 10th; Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armor, animate dead, unholy blight, creator must be evil; Market Price: 84,809 gp; Cost to Create: 42,405 gp + 3,393 XP. [/QUOTE]
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