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all respects. Animated trees lose their ability to move if the treant who animated them is incapacitated or moves out of range. The ability is otherwise similar to liveoak as cast by a 12th-level druid. Blight Touch (Su): For this blightspawned, the Fortitude save DC to resist the blight touch is 19. See the template description, below, for more information. Create Spawn (Su): An animal, beast, or plant infected by this blightspawned’s blight touch becomes a blightspawned itself if its Charisma reaches 0 before its Constitution does. Double Damage Against Objects (Ex): This blightspawned or an animated tree that makes a full attack against an object or structure deals double damage. Trample (Ex): As a standard action, this blightspawned or animated tree can trample opponents at least one size category smaller than itself. This attack deals 2d12+5 points of bludgeoning damage. A trampled opponent can attempt either an attack of opportunity at a –4 penalty or a Reflex save (DC 20) for half damage. Fire Vulnerability (Ex): This blightspawned takes half again as much (+50%) damage as normal from fire, regardless of whether a saving throw is allowed, or if the save is a success or failure. Plant Traits (Ex): This blightspawned is immune to poison, sleep, paralysis, stunning, and polymorphing. It is not subject to critical hits or mind-affecting effects. It also has low-light vision. Undead Transformation (Su): Each month of a blightspawned treant’s existence, it must succeed at a Fortitude save (DC 15 + 1 per previous saving throw attempted) or die. See the template description, below, for more information. Skills: This blightspawned receives skills as though it were a fey. *It has a +16 racial bonus on Hide checks made in forested areas. The Blightspawned Template “Blightspawned” is a template that can be added to any animal, beast, or plant (referred to hereafter as the “base creature”). The creature’s type changes to “plant,” if it is not already a plant. It uses all the base creature’s statistics and special abilities except as noted here. Hit Dice: Change to d8. MONSTERS OF THE EAST Blightspawned treant 60 Special Attacks: A blightspawned creature retains all the special attacks of the base creature, and also gains those special attacks listed below. Blight Touch (Su): Supernatural disease—any natural attack, Fortitude save (DC 10 + 1/2 blightspawned’s HD + blightspawned’s Constitution modifier), incubation period 1d6 days; damage 1d4 temporary Constitution and 1d4 temporary Charisma. Unlike normal diseases, the effects of blight touch continue until the victim reaches Constitution 0 (and dies), Charisma 0 (becoming a blightspawned creature, if the victim qualifies; see Create Spawn, below), or receives a remove disease spell or similar magic (see Disease in Chapter 3: Running the Game in the DUNGEON MASTER’s Guide). Create Spawn (Su): An animal or plant infected by a blightspawned’s blight touch becomes a blightspawned itself if its Charisma reaches 0 before its Constitution does. When a creature infected by blight touch becomes a blightspawned, it recovers all ability score points lost to the progress of the disease. Special Qualities: A blightspawned retains all the base creature’s special qualities, and also gains those special qualities listed below. Plant Traits (Ex): A blightspawned is immune to poison, sleep, paralysis, stunning, and polymorphing. It is not subject to critical hits or mind-affecting effects. A blightspawned creature also has low-light vision. Undead Transformation (Su): Each month a creature lives as a blightspawned, it must succeed at a Fortitude save (DC 15 + 1 per previous saving throw attempted) or die. A blightspawned that dies in this fashion animates as a juju zombie, described later in this chapter. Abilities: Adjust from the base creature as follows: Str +4, Con +2, Wis –2, Cha –2. Climate/Terrain: Any land. Organization: Gang (2–5). Challenge Rating: Same as the base creature +1. Treasure: None. Alignment: Always neutral evil. Blooded One Blooded One Orc War1 Medium-Size Humanoid Hit Dice: 1d8+2 (6 hp) Initiative: +0 Speed: 30 ft. AC: 16 (+4 studded leather, +2 natural), touch 12, flat-footed 16 Base Attack/Grapple: +1/+4 Illustration by Sam Wood
Illustration by Jim Pavelec Attack: Heavy flail +4 melee; or javelin +1 ranged Full Attack: Heavy flail +3 melee; or javelin +1 ranged Damage: Heavy flail 1d10+4/19–20; javelin 1d6+3 Face/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft. Special Attacks: War cry Special Qualities: Darkvision 60 ft., light sensitivity Saves: Fort +4, Ref +0, Will –1 Abilities: Str 17, Dex 10, Con 15, Int 7, Wis 8, Cha 8 Skills: Listen +2, Spot +2 Feats: Alertness, Combat Reflexes Climate/Terrain: Any land and underground Organization: Gang (2–4), squad (11–20 plus 2 3rd-level sergeants and 1 leader of 3rd–6th level), or band (30–100 plus 150% noncombatants plus 1 3rd-level sergeant per 10 adults, 5 5th-level lieutenants, and 3 7th-level captains) Challenge Rating: 1 Level Adjustment: +1 Treasure: Standard Alignment: Usually lawful evil Advancement: By character class Over the centuries, the evil masterminds of the Red Wizards have continuously pressed their finest researchers to breed for them a race of ultimate warriors, violent but intelligent and entirely loyal to Thay. Time after time, the wicked wizards failed, but eventually they stumbled onto an idea. Instead of breeding a new race, they’d simply take an existing race and put its young through a process that would transform them into the kind of creatures the Red Wizards sought. Thus, the blood orcs were born. The wizards perfected a procedure that involves immersion in a pool of alchemically treated blood—a crimson baptism from which the infant emerges tougher than ever, ready to become one of the finest warriors of Thay. This process can be used on any humanoid, but the Red Wizards prefer orcs, whose evil natures make them more useful for the wizards’ ends. A blooded one looks much like the base creature, but its skin is dark and mottled with red, and its eyes are a deep yellow. COMBAT The sample blooded one uses a 1st-level orc warrior as the base creature. Blood orcs fight with even more furious disregard for themselves than typical orcs. War Cry (Ex): Once per day, this blooded one can cause all blooded ones (including itself) within 30 feet to gain a +1 morale bonus on all attack and damage rolls for 2d4 rounds. This effect does not stack with other war cries. MONSTERS OF THE EAST Blooded One 61 Light Sensitivity (Ex): This blooded one takes a –1 penalty on attack rolls in bright sunlight or within the radius of a daylight spell. CREATING A BLOODED ONE To prepare the mixture for a single blooded one, an arcane spellcaster must know the Brew Potion feat and expend one day and rare material components worth 500 gp—in addition to the fresh blood of at least two Medium-size or four Small humanoids. The creature to be changed must be immersed in the alchemical mixture for at least 24 hours and is entitled to a Fortitude save (DC 16) to resist the change if it is unwilling. The blooding process can be applied only to a young creature (any creature that has not yet reached the age of adulthood for its race). The mixture is virulently poisonous to adults, who must succeed at a Fortitude save (DC 16) upon initial exposure to the bath or take 1d10 points of temporary Constitution damage. Creatures failing this save must make a second save 1 minute later. The Blooded One Template “Blooded” is a template that can be added to any humanoid (referred to hereafter as the “base creature”). It uses all the base creature’s statistics and special abilities, except as listed here. AC: Natural armor improves by +2. Special Attacks: A blooded one retains all the special attacks of the base creature, and also gains the following special attack. War Cry (Ex): Once per day, a blooded one can scream a special war cry. This causes all blooded ones within 30 feet (including itself) to gain a +1 morale bonus on all attack and damage rolls for 2d4 rounds. This effect does not stack with other war cries. Abilities: Adjust from the base creature as follows: Str +2, Con +4, Int –2. Feats: Same as the base creature, except that a blooded one gains Combat Reflexes. Challenge Rating: Same as the base creature +1. Level Adjustment: Same as the base creature +1. Treasure: Standard. Alignment: Usually lawful evil. Advancement: By character class.
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Contents Introduction . . . . . . .
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Across the wide lands of Faerûn, b
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Chapter 5: Magic Items. The Red Wiz
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Races The races commonly found in o
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Page 44 and 45: Great Stag Berserker REGIONS AND FE
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NOTABLE BUSINESSES There are two ex
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inflamed the anger of the society
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Major Geographic Features The two d
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A ghost of the Great Barrow THE GRE
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the Dalesfolk and shield them from
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While the Dalesfolk don’t like ou
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-970 The Nentyarch of Tharos builds
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the only other settlements that mig
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Mettledale and Spearsmouth Dale Alo
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Foreigners view Rashemen as a myste
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with earthquakes, freakish storms,
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wealth. The water is glacial runoff
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others believe it is a gift from th
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People of Rashemen The people of Ra
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and are the face of the Rashemi peo
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THE VREMYONNI While the wychlaran s
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Rashemen’s forces except the Witc
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efore reaching the keep, and the go
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Mulsantir (LARGE TOWN) At Mulsantir
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Best known for the crimson-robed Re
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more than 17,000 feet high. In the
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Thayan bombards (see Chapter 5: Mag
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those on foot. As well, the lands a
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Tyraturos The tharch of Tyraturos i
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nobles, and his sergeants are Rashe
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The most successful soldier-breedin
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The zulkirs appoint tharchions, or
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Aglarondan spy who keeps an eye on
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too juicy a target for the Shadowma
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This has built up some resentment o
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Thesk is most famous for the Golden
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potential to be the most fertile la
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slaves of the Tuigan Horde or refug
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disciplined mercenary companies. Th
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Today, the Shadowmasters control or
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on supplies. Orc miners take over P
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his prodigious fortune and business
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hands just outside its walls. The 3
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The Wizards’ Reach Between the Th
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sinister past, concerned as they ar
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An Unapproachable East FORGOTTEN RE
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20 ft.; AC 16, touch 12, flat-foote
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usiness. Use the statistics below,
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from the next encounter called The
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