Pathfinder Chronicles: Classic Horrors Revisited (Pathfinder Chronicles Supplement)
F. Wesley Schneider
Language: English
Pages: 64
ISBN: 1601252021
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
- The most frightening terrors of fantasy gaming have deep roots in history, mythology, and popular culture. From the seductive allure of the vampire to the fierce fury of the werewolf, Classic Horrors Revisited spotlights 10 of the spookiest, scariest monsters of the game, providing context, rules, and a host of ideas that breathe new life (and sometimes unlife) into commonly used creatures that all-too often can be uncommonly boring.
- Written by the macabre Managing Editor of the Pathfinder Adventure Paths, F. Wesley Schneider, Classic Horrors Revisited features exciting takes on the derro, flesh golem, gargoyle, ghost, ghoul, hag, mummy, vampire, werewolf, and zombie.
The Alabaster Staff (Forgotten Realms: The Rogues, Book 1)
Races of the Dragon (Dungeons & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying Supplement)
Twisted Lore (Legends & Lairs, d20 System)
Mistress of the Night (Forgotten Realms: The Priests, Book 2)
Lesh golems, one who has gained intelligence, having achieved consciousness after it killed its creator in a berserk rage. Ashamed of what it had done, but curious about the wider world, the Beast attempted to make contact with the citizens of Lepidstadt, but its appearance frightened the people it met. When the city Offense Speed 40 ft. Melee ogre hook +21/+16/+11 (3d6+7/×3) or 2 slams +21 (2d8+7 plus 1d6 electricity) Ranged double crossbow +12 (2d6/19–20 plus 2d6) Space 10 ft.; Reach 10 ft.
As diseased forest thickets or crumbling ruins. Annis prefer colder climes, Night Hags Of all the breeds of hags, the depraved night hags are perhaps the most terrifying. Mercantile and greedy, night hags are also consummate predators in search of very particular prey—mortal souls. Using periapts known as heartstones, 36 Hag night hags infiltrate the dreams of mortals and pervert them into nightmares. The hag rides her chosen victim’s back all night, tormenting the person over time and.
Pervasive aura of negative emotions or an instinctual perception of the being’s foul intent. Perhaps this mortal fear stems from the creature’s ability to force its dire will upon the living or the exploitation of some power gleaned in its soul’s travels beyond mortality. Or perhaps this is not a power of the dead, but rather a weakness in the living. Maybe a viewer understands on some level that before him treads a being that has seen the other side of death, knows its secrets, and through force.
Sinister recluses, the haunted ruins of supposedly dead families, or even the forgotten warrens of feral vampiric clans. As masterminds, vampires might become as deadly and varied in their goals as any other high-powered monster or villain. The type of creature a vampire was in life and the skills it possessed often color its plots in undeath: a warrior turned into a vampire might still attempt to bring ruin by the sword, while a vampiric wizard might prove as magically adept and knowledge-hungry.
They have achieved whatever mysterious goal was the impetus behind their genesis in the first place. Necrology An animated skeleton looks exactly like the skeleton of the creature it was in life, completely stripped of all muscles, organs, and f lesh. If a corpse is animated as a skeleton, all of the f lesh falls from its frame, leaving just bare bones. In some cases, the skeleton’s empty eye sockets glow with a pale, sickly light. Beyond that, there can be considerable differences in the.