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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9864886" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/17404/return-to-white-plume-mountain-2e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Return to White Plume Mountain (2e)</a></p><p>2e</p><p><strong>Bog Mummy:</strong> When a bleak spark of unlife touches a corpse naturally preserved by swamp mud, the result is a bog mummy. In the Great Swamp, it is Thingizzard, the Witch of the Fens, who provides that animating spark.</p><p>Any creature killed by a bog mummy immediately stiffens and petrifies; raise dead is ineffective unless the victim receives both that and a cure disease spell within 6 rounds of death. (A resurrection spell works normally, however.) Unless successfully restored to life, such victims rise as new bog mummies in 1d4 days.</p><p>If the heroes are following the gnomes who stole Wave, their trail ends here. These unfortunates incurred the wrath of Thingizzard before completing their mission. The next five bog mummies the party encounters are obviously recently deceased gnomes.</p><p>[Bog Mummy] slain victims rise as bog mummies in 1d4 days unless either a resurrection or a combination of cure disease and raise dead is applied within 6 rounds of death.</p><p><strong>Elevated Ghoul:</strong> After a few years, the restless ghouls burrowed their way out of the chamber and into the ancient lava tubes, which they used to move about within the volcano. Most have now settled elsewhere, but one still lingers just outside this room. Because of its amulet of repudiation, it has become an elevated ghoul, with powers far outstripping those of its brethren.</p><p><strong>Invisible Undead Giant Crab:</strong> With his foul necromancy, Spatterdock reanimated one of the long-dead creatures that previously inhabited this room-a giant crab.</p><p><strong>Mud Mummy:</strong> [Mud mummy] slain victims rise as mud mummies in 1d4 days unless either a resurrection or a combination of cure disease and raise dead is applied within 6 rounds of death.</p><p><strong>Remnant:</strong> This unfortunate creature was once a human fighter who entered this complex with an adventuring party. Just after Killjoy captured and incarcerated him, however, a full-scale skirmish with Spatterdock distracted the efreeti for an extended period. All his prisoners perished-including this one. Because of a pre-existing curse, however, this adventurer rose again as a unique undead creature-a remnant.</p><p><strong>Mud Mummy, Variant of a Bog Mummy:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Remnant, Unique Undead Creature, Strange Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Dragotha, Dracolich, Undead Dragon:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead, Undead Being, Undead Creature:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghoul, Standard Ghoul:</strong> [Elevated ghoul] slain victims become standard ghouls in thirty minutes unless blessed.</p><p>Characters slain by an elevated ghoul become standard ghouls thirty minutes after death unless a cleric casts bless on their remains. (Note that elves are vulnerable to the paralysis effect, but do not become ghouls after death.)</p><p><strong>Ctenmiir, Vampire, Favored Servant, Right-Hand Man:</strong> ?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 9864886, member: 2209"] [URL=https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/17404/return-to-white-plume-mountain-2e?affiliate_id=17596]Return to White Plume Mountain (2e)[/URL] 2e [B]Bog Mummy:[/B] When a bleak spark of unlife touches a corpse naturally preserved by swamp mud, the result is a bog mummy. In the Great Swamp, it is Thingizzard, the Witch of the Fens, who provides that animating spark. Any creature killed by a bog mummy immediately stiffens and petrifies; raise dead is ineffective unless the victim receives both that and a cure disease spell within 6 rounds of death. (A resurrection spell works normally, however.) Unless successfully restored to life, such victims rise as new bog mummies in 1d4 days. If the heroes are following the gnomes who stole Wave, their trail ends here. These unfortunates incurred the wrath of Thingizzard before completing their mission. The next five bog mummies the party encounters are obviously recently deceased gnomes. [Bog Mummy] slain victims rise as bog mummies in 1d4 days unless either a resurrection or a combination of cure disease and raise dead is applied within 6 rounds of death. [B]Elevated Ghoul:[/B] After a few years, the restless ghouls burrowed their way out of the chamber and into the ancient lava tubes, which they used to move about within the volcano. Most have now settled elsewhere, but one still lingers just outside this room. Because of its amulet of repudiation, it has become an elevated ghoul, with powers far outstripping those of its brethren. [B]Invisible Undead Giant Crab:[/B] With his foul necromancy, Spatterdock reanimated one of the long-dead creatures that previously inhabited this room-a giant crab. [B]Mud Mummy:[/B] [Mud mummy] slain victims rise as mud mummies in 1d4 days unless either a resurrection or a combination of cure disease and raise dead is applied within 6 rounds of death. [B]Remnant:[/B] This unfortunate creature was once a human fighter who entered this complex with an adventuring party. Just after Killjoy captured and incarcerated him, however, a full-scale skirmish with Spatterdock distracted the efreeti for an extended period. All his prisoners perished-including this one. Because of a pre-existing curse, however, this adventurer rose again as a unique undead creature-a remnant. [B]Mud Mummy, Variant of a Bog Mummy:[/B] ? [B]Remnant, Unique Undead Creature, Strange Undead:[/B] ? [B]Dragotha, Dracolich, Undead Dragon:[/B] ? [B]Undead, Undead Being, Undead Creature:[/B] ? [B]Ghoul, Standard Ghoul:[/B] [Elevated ghoul] slain victims become standard ghouls in thirty minutes unless blessed. Characters slain by an elevated ghoul become standard ghouls thirty minutes after death unless a cleric casts bless on their remains. (Note that elves are vulnerable to the paralysis effect, but do not become ghouls after death.) [B]Ctenmiir, Vampire, Favored Servant, Right-Hand Man:[/B] ? [/QUOTE]
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