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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9889003" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17190/The-Ivory-Triangle-2e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">The Ivory Triangle (2e)</a></p><p>2e</p><p><strong>Zombie Salt:</strong> The salt zombie is an undead creature born of hate (and possibly a subtle magic of the Great Ivory Plain). Resembling the common zombie, these animated corpses are much more powerful (and even a little more intelligent) than their purely magical brethren. These creatures are formed when a human or demihuman dies of thirst in the Great Ivory Plain.</p><p>There appear to be several areas of the Great Ivory Plain where a person who has died of thirst will become a salt zombie. (A person who dies of thirst through hit point loss does not become a salt zombie.) The sheer force of will of an individual refusing to die seems to somehow reanimate their corpse in these peculiar regions. It is unknown what sort of residual magic may linger in these areas to cause such an effect There is a 5% chance that any person dying of thirst in the Great Ivory Plain will reanimate.</p><p>Some believe that these creatures wandered here from the ruins of Bodach, while the nomads believe that those who die of thirst in the Great Ivory Plain return as zombies, adding to the undead population of the region.</p><p><strong>Zombie Salt, Animated Corpse:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead, Undead Creature:</strong> Nibenay then raised the dead warriors of Gulg and led the undead force against the survivors of the oba's army.</p><p>The dead are all placed on slabs within the chambers, which are then sealed and flooded with water. A cleric of earth or water always presides over the internment in order to protect the body from undeath. Naturally, such precautions do not always work, and visitors are advised not to venture into these areas without the aid of clerical magic.</p><p>For centuries slaves were buried in shallow graves in fields set aside for that purpose. A cleric was always paid to conduct the ceremony, for a slave is as susceptible to undeath as a free citizen or noble. Recently, the enterprising abbot of the Temple of the Sun has begun to offer a service to collect and cremate dead slaves for a fee that is somewhat less than the cost of burying them in the fields.</p><p><strong>Undead Rezhatta Beetle, Undead War Beetle, Horrific Undead War Machine:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Watroach, Horrific Undead War Machine:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wheelock, Undead Ghoul of Extraordinary Cunning, Poisoner, Man So Riddled With Poison That He Walked On the Threshold Between Life and Death, Decrepit Creature, Greatest Poisoner, Human Bard 16:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Skeleton, Common Skeleton:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Skeleton, Unintelligent Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Animated Animal Skeleton, Unintelligent Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Monster Skeleton:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Zombie, Common Zombie:</strong> The salt zombie is an undead creature born of hate (and possibly a subtle magic of the Great Ivory Plain). Resembling the common zombie, these animated corpses are much more powerful (and even a little more intelligent) than their purely magical brethren. These creatures are formed when a human or demihuman dies of thirst in the Great Ivory Plain.</p><p><strong>Zombie, Unintelligent Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Monster Zombie, Unintelligent Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>B'rohg Zombie, Unintelligent Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Giant Zombie, Unintelligent Undead:</strong> ?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 9889003, member: 2209"] [URL=https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17190/The-Ivory-Triangle-2e?affiliate_id=17596]The Ivory Triangle (2e)[/URL] 2e [b]Zombie Salt:[/b] The salt zombie is an undead creature born of hate (and possibly a subtle magic of the Great Ivory Plain). Resembling the common zombie, these animated corpses are much more powerful (and even a little more intelligent) than their purely magical brethren. These creatures are formed when a human or demihuman dies of thirst in the Great Ivory Plain. There appear to be several areas of the Great Ivory Plain where a person who has died of thirst will become a salt zombie. (A person who dies of thirst through hit point loss does not become a salt zombie.) The sheer force of will of an individual refusing to die seems to somehow reanimate their corpse in these peculiar regions. It is unknown what sort of residual magic may linger in these areas to cause such an effect There is a 5% chance that any person dying of thirst in the Great Ivory Plain will reanimate. Some believe that these creatures wandered here from the ruins of Bodach, while the nomads believe that those who die of thirst in the Great Ivory Plain return as zombies, adding to the undead population of the region. [b]Zombie Salt, Animated Corpse:[/b] ? [b]Undead, Undead Creature:[/b] Nibenay then raised the dead warriors of Gulg and led the undead force against the survivors of the oba's army. The dead are all placed on slabs within the chambers, which are then sealed and flooded with water. A cleric of earth or water always presides over the internment in order to protect the body from undeath. Naturally, such precautions do not always work, and visitors are advised not to venture into these areas without the aid of clerical magic. For centuries slaves were buried in shallow graves in fields set aside for that purpose. A cleric was always paid to conduct the ceremony, for a slave is as susceptible to undeath as a free citizen or noble. Recently, the enterprising abbot of the Temple of the Sun has begun to offer a service to collect and cremate dead slaves for a fee that is somewhat less than the cost of burying them in the fields. [b]Undead Rezhatta Beetle, Undead War Beetle, Horrific Undead War Machine:[/b] ? [b]Undead Watroach, Horrific Undead War Machine:[/b] ? [b]Wheelock, Undead Ghoul of Extraordinary Cunning, Poisoner, Man So Riddled With Poison That He Walked On the Threshold Between Life and Death, Decrepit Creature, Greatest Poisoner, Human Bard 16:[/b] ? [b]Skeleton, Common Skeleton:[/b] ? [b]Skeleton, Unintelligent Undead:[/b] ? [b]Animated Animal Skeleton, Unintelligent Undead:[/b] ? [b]Monster Skeleton:[/b] ? [b]Zombie, Common Zombie:[/b] The salt zombie is an undead creature born of hate (and possibly a subtle magic of the Great Ivory Plain). Resembling the common zombie, these animated corpses are much more powerful (and even a little more intelligent) than their purely magical brethren. These creatures are formed when a human or demihuman dies of thirst in the Great Ivory Plain. [b]Zombie, Unintelligent Undead:[/b] ? [b]Monster Zombie, Unintelligent Undead:[/b] ? [b]B'rohg Zombie, Unintelligent Undead:[/b] ? [b]Giant Zombie, Unintelligent Undead:[/b] ? [/QUOTE]
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