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Dread Warrior
Dread Warrior Human War4
Medium-Size Undead
Hit Dice: 4d12+3 (29 hp)
Initiative: +0
Speed: 20 ft. (banded mail); base 30 ft.
AC: 18 (+6 banded mail, +2 large steel shield), touch 10, flatfooted
18
Base Attack/Grapple: +4/+8
Attack: Battleaxe +10 melee
Full Attack: Battleaxe +10 melee
Damage: Masterwork battleaxe 1d8+4/×3
Face/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft.
Special Qualities: Undead traits
Saves: Fort +4, Ref +1, Will +0
Abilities: Str 18, Dex 11, Con —, Int 4, Wis 9, Cha 4
Skills: Climb +7, Jump +7, Spot +6
Feats: Power Attack, Toughness, Weapon Focus
(battleaxe)
Climate/Terrain: Any land
Organization: Solitary or company (3–12)
Challenge Rating: 2
Treasure: None
Alignment: Always neutral evil
Advancement: —
Called forth to serve in undeath through foul
necromantic magic, dread warriors are undead
beings usually created from the corpses of skilled
warriors. They retain many of the martial skills and
talents they possessed in life but are compelled to serve
their creator with unquestioning obedience. Dread warriors
are created by casting the animate dread warrior
spell (see Chapter 4: Magic and Spells).
A dread warrior appears more or less as it did in
life, although it bears the ghastly wounds that
killed it, and its eyes glow with a feral yellow light. Its
skin tends to shrivel and darken, falling in on its sunken flesh
to give it a gaunt, withered appearance. It usually carries the
arms and armor it favored before its death and transformation.
It speaks whatever languages it knew in life.
Dread warriors are not always reliable servants, as they
are easily confused by complicated orders. Orders of
twelve words or less cause no problems, but there is a cumulative
5% chance per word after the twelfth that the
dread warrior misinterprets the instructions. If the dread
warrior fails to understand its orders, treat the monster as
confused (see the confusion spell) and roll randomly to determine
what action it takes in response to the command
that triggered its confusion.
MONSTERS OF THE EAST
Dread
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COMBAT
Dread warriors fight with the arms and armor they used
in life. This example uses a 4th-level human warrior as the
base character.
Undead Traits: A dread warrior is immune to mind-affecting
effects, poison, sleep, paralysis, stunning, disease, death effects,
necromantic effects (unless they specifically affect
undead), and any effect that requires a Fortitude save unless
it also works on objects. It is not subject to critical hits, subdual
damage, ability damage, ability drain, or death from massive
damage. A dread warrior cannot be raised, but may be
resurrected. A dread warrior has darkvision (60-foot range).
Skills: Dread warriors gain a +4 racial
bonus on Climb, Jump, and Spot checks.
The Dread Warrior
Template
“Dread warrior” is a template that can be
added to any humanoid of at least 3 Hit
Dice or levels. The creature’s type changes
to “undead.” It uses all the
base creature’s statistics and special
abilities except as
noted here.
This template supersedes
the Dread Warrior entry in
Monster Compendium: Monsters
of Faerûn.
Hit Dice: Increase to d12.
Abilities: Adjust from the base
creature as follows: Str +4, Int –6 (minimum 3),
Char –4 (minimum 3). As undead creatures, dread
warriors have no Constitution score.
Skills: Same as the base creature, except
that dread warriors gain a +4 racial
bonus on Climb, Jump, and Spot checks.
Feats: Same as the base creature, except that
the dread warrior loses any feats for which it no
longer qualifies.
Climate/Terrain: Any land.
Organization: Solitary or company (3–12).
Treasure: None.
Alignment: Always neutral evil.
Advancement: —
Hag
Rashemen, the North Country, and the Endless Wastes are
plagued by several varieties of hag unique to the Unapproachable
East. Like their kin, the annis and green hag, bheurs
and shrieking hags are hideously strong crones with hateful natures
and fell magic at their command. The hagspawn are
Illustration by Mike Dutton