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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9818712" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/17367/dle2-dragon-magic-2e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">DLE2 Dragon Magic (2e)</a></p><p>2e</p><p><strong>Undead, Undead Entity:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Animal:</strong> An unholy ceremony inadvertently resurrected all of the dead animals within a mile of Angat.</p><p><strong>Ghoul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Shadow:</strong> SA each hit [from a shadow] saps 1 point of victim’s Strength (recoverable 2d4 turns after being hit), victim becomes Shadow if Strength or hit points reduced to zero.</p><p><strong>Skeleton:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Exploding Skeleton:</strong> The powerful magic that transformed the tower also affected the skeletons by infusing them with the draconian essence of Khardra.</p><p><strong>Wight:</strong> He [the wight Qahitloq] attempts to completely drain life from PCs; anyone totally drained of life energy becomes a wight under Qahitloq’s control.</p><p><strong>Qahitloq, Wight, Former Wemitowuk Shaman:</strong> Low muttering can be heard from inside this tent. It is the tent of Qahitloq, a former Wemitowuk shaman with an obsessive fascination for bringing the dead back to life. An unholy ceremony inadvertently resurrected all of the dead animals within a mile of Angat. The undead animals went on a rampage of destruction and killed more than half of the villagers. Qahitloq was condemned to the Garden of the Dead as a wight.</p><p><strong>Zombie:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Zombie, Rotting Body:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Tohopote, Zombie:</strong> Low guttural moans come from inside this tent. It is the tent of the cruel Tohopote, who was responsible for training Wemitowuk warriors back in the tribe's days of savagery. Tohopote forced a group of 40 young Wemitowuk men to carry logs and heavy stones from one end of Schallsea to the other, applying a torch to the legs of those who moved too slowly. He commanded them to enter a deep pit and stay there until he told them to leave. The pit turned out to be a lair of giant ants. All the men were killed, and Tohopote was condemned to the Garden of the Dead as a zombie.</p><p><strong>Juju Zombie:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Juju Zombie, Creature With Filthy Hair and Glowing Red Eyes:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Pavasu, Juju Zombie:</strong> When Pavasu was a young woman, she stole an ear of blue corn from a stalk growing in the tribe's sacred burial grounds, intending to use the fat blue kernels to make a necklace. That night she received a vision from the gods order[ing] her to plant one of the stolen seeds behind her tent. She was to raise the corn for a year, harvest the ears, and return one to the burial grounds. If she neglected to do this, the gods would punish the entire village.</p><p>Pavasu did as she was told for a month. However one day in a drunken rage from too much corn alcohol, she ripped the corn stalk from the ground and tore it to pieces. The gods responded with a plague on the tribe's entire harvest. Many of the tribe died of starvation that year, and Pavasu was condemned to the Garden of the Dead as a juju zombie.</p><p><strong>Chupchus, Juju Zombie, Former Medicine Man:</strong> It is the tent of Chupchus, a former medicine man who claimed his power was greater than that of the gods. Rather than allowing his tribe to appeal to Mishakal for a cure for an outbreak of smallpox, Chupchus arrogantly insisted they use his useless medicines instead. As a result, dozens died from smallpox, dozens more from his poisonous potions. Chupchus was condemned to the Garden of the Dead as a juju zombie.</p><p><strong>Hurricopah, Juju Zombie:</strong> It is the tent of Hurricopah, who was once responsible for making good-luck kani dolls for the entire tribe. In love with the mate of her sister, Hurricopah made a deal with the gods of evil-she would make the kani dolls to their specifications and they would give her a potion to force her sister's mate to fall in love with her. The potion worked, but during the next high sanction of Nuitari, the Kani dolls came to life and attacked the Wemitowuk in their sleep, killing dozens of them. Hurricopah was condemned to the Garden of the Dead as a juju zombie.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 9818712, member: 2209"] [URL=https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/17367/dle2-dragon-magic-2e?affiliate_id=17596]DLE2 Dragon Magic (2e)[/URL] 2e [b]Undead, Undead Entity:[/b] ? [b]Undead Animal:[/b] An unholy ceremony inadvertently resurrected all of the dead animals within a mile of Angat. [b]Ghoul:[/b] ? [b]Shadow:[/b] SA each hit [from a shadow] saps 1 point of victim’s Strength (recoverable 2d4 turns after being hit), victim becomes Shadow if Strength or hit points reduced to zero. [b]Skeleton:[/b] ? [b]Exploding Skeleton:[/b] The powerful magic that transformed the tower also affected the skeletons by infusing them with the draconian essence of Khardra. [b]Wight:[/b] He [the wight Qahitloq] attempts to completely drain life from PCs; anyone totally drained of life energy becomes a wight under Qahitloq’s control. [b]Qahitloq, Wight, Former Wemitowuk Shaman:[/b] Low muttering can be heard from inside this tent. It is the tent of Qahitloq, a former Wemitowuk shaman with an obsessive fascination for bringing the dead back to life. An unholy ceremony inadvertently resurrected all of the dead animals within a mile of Angat. The undead animals went on a rampage of destruction and killed more than half of the villagers. Qahitloq was condemned to the Garden of the Dead as a wight. [b]Zombie:[/b] ? [b]Zombie, Rotting Body:[/b] ? [b]Tohopote, Zombie:[/b] Low guttural moans come from inside this tent. It is the tent of the cruel Tohopote, who was responsible for training Wemitowuk warriors back in the tribe's days of savagery. Tohopote forced a group of 40 young Wemitowuk men to carry logs and heavy stones from one end of Schallsea to the other, applying a torch to the legs of those who moved too slowly. He commanded them to enter a deep pit and stay there until he told them to leave. The pit turned out to be a lair of giant ants. All the men were killed, and Tohopote was condemned to the Garden of the Dead as a zombie. [b]Juju Zombie:[/b] ? [b]Juju Zombie, Creature With Filthy Hair and Glowing Red Eyes:[/b] ? [b]Pavasu, Juju Zombie:[/b] When Pavasu was a young woman, she stole an ear of blue corn from a stalk growing in the tribe's sacred burial grounds, intending to use the fat blue kernels to make a necklace. That night she received a vision from the gods order[ing] her to plant one of the stolen seeds behind her tent. She was to raise the corn for a year, harvest the ears, and return one to the burial grounds. If she neglected to do this, the gods would punish the entire village. Pavasu did as she was told for a month. However one day in a drunken rage from too much corn alcohol, she ripped the corn stalk from the ground and tore it to pieces. The gods responded with a plague on the tribe's entire harvest. Many of the tribe died of starvation that year, and Pavasu was condemned to the Garden of the Dead as a juju zombie. [b]Chupchus, Juju Zombie, Former Medicine Man:[/b] It is the tent of Chupchus, a former medicine man who claimed his power was greater than that of the gods. Rather than allowing his tribe to appeal to Mishakal for a cure for an outbreak of smallpox, Chupchus arrogantly insisted they use his useless medicines instead. As a result, dozens died from smallpox, dozens more from his poisonous potions. Chupchus was condemned to the Garden of the Dead as a juju zombie. [b]Hurricopah, Juju Zombie:[/b] It is the tent of Hurricopah, who was once responsible for making good-luck kani dolls for the entire tribe. In love with the mate of her sister, Hurricopah made a deal with the gods of evil-she would make the kani dolls to their specifications and they would give her a potion to force her sister's mate to fall in love with her. The potion worked, but during the next high sanction of Nuitari, the Kani dolls came to life and attacked the Wemitowuk in their sleep, killing dozens of them. Hurricopah was condemned to the Garden of the Dead as a juju zombie. [/QUOTE]
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