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Skills: Hide +10, Listen +13, Search +8, Spot +14 Feats: Alertness, Dodge, Weapon Finesse Environment: All hills and mountains Organisation: Solitary, gang (2–5), or swarm (6–11) Challenge Rating: 13 Treasure: — Alignment: Always chaotic evil Advancement: 17–32 HD (Huge), 33–48 HD (Colossal) Level Adjustment: — A brocken spectre is a towering shadow many times the height of a man, which stalks misty mountaintops. Shimmering colours like a rainbow surround its head. The spectres are the ghosts of those who have died from falling, magnified by the strange powers of the lonely mists. Although they are incorporeal and cannot simply haul climbers off the cliffs, the spectres have many other means to send them to their doom. Their colourful auras induce vertigo, causing many a climber to miss his footing and slip; they are also able to create illusions from the shadow-stuff of their own bodies, such as a handy ledge on which to rest or a set of handholds hacked into the rock. Climbers on isolated peaks live in dread of the spectres, who like nothing better than to send presumptuous mortals falling to their deaths. The mountains are lonely places and the spectres are eager to create new spectres for company... Brocken spectres have a +2 racial bonus on Listen and Spot checks and a +4 racial bonus on Search checks. A brocken gains a +4 racial bonus on Hide checks in areas of shadowy illumination or thick mist. In brightly lit areas, it takes a –4 penalty on Hide checks. Create Spawn (Su): Any humanoid reduced to zero Strength by a brocken spectre becomes a brocken spectre itself within 1d4 hours. In addition, a brocken spectre can cause the corpse of a victim who has died from falling to become a brocken spectre, provided it remains in the corpse’s space for one hour. Shadow Illusion (Sp): A brocken spectre may create static, silent illusions at will as per the silent image spell cast by a 14 th level sorcerer. A creature that attempts to climb on a section of cliff face (or other surface) that has been altered by shadow illusion is treated as if it had rolled a 1 on its Climb check. If this produces a Climb check result five less than the target DC for the surface, the creature falls. This does count as interaction with the illusion, so the creature gets a Will saving throw to disbelieve it on the way down, which may be some small consolation. Strength Damage (Su): The touch of a brocken spectre deals 2d6 points of Strength damage to a living foe. A creature reduced to zero Strength by a brocken spectre dies. This is a negative energy effect. Vertiginous Confusion (Su): The pulsing colours around a brocken spectre’s head can cause dizziness and vertigo in creatures. Any creature within 60 feet who sees a brocken spectre’s halo must make a Charisma-based Will saving throw (DC 20) or be stricken with dizziness for 3d6 rounds. Dizzy creatures move at half speed, suffer a –10 penalty to Climb, Balance, Move Silently and Tumble checks and take a –2 penalty to Armour Class. This is a mind-affecting effect. Creatures can avert their gazes or look away altogether to reduce the risk of glimpsing the dizzying halo, as if avoiding a gaze attack. Chatterman Medium Undead (Cold) Hit Dice: 14d12 (91 hp) Initiative: +3 Speed: 30 ft. (6 squares) Armour Class: 23 (+3 Dex, +10 natural), touch 13, flat-footed 20 Base Attack/Grapple: +7/+10 Attack: Claw +11 melee (1d4+3 plus fatigue) Full Attack: 2 claws +11 melee (1d4+3 plus fatigue) Space/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft. Special Attacks: Fatigue, hurl frost, improved grab, shivering blight, steal the heart’s fire Special Qualities: Damage reduction 20/blunt, immune to cold, regeneration 7, vulnerability to fire and warmth Saves: Fort +4, Ref +7, Will +12 Abilities: Str 17, Dex 17, Con —, Int 10, Wis 17, Cha 20 Skills: Climb +8, Hide +13, Listen +13, Move Silently +18, Spot +20, Survival +10, Tumble +13 Feats: Dodge, Power Attack, Stealthy, Track, Weapon Focus (claw) Environment: Cold hills Organisation: Solitary or tumulus (2–5) Challenge Rating: 14 Treasure: Standard Alignment: Usually lawful evil Advancement: By character class Level Adjustment: — Ibon Presno Gonzalez (order #73006) 8 159
160 These dreadful creatures are the undead corpses of those who have frozen to death in desolate places and have never received a decent burial. They seek each other out, thronging together as if in re-enactment of some dim memory of human companionship. They crave the heat of living creatures and can drain it from their bodies. They cannot, however, venture out of a cold environment, as the cold is all that keeps their desiccated bodies together. Some chattermen are the risen revenants of those who were buried properly in cold regions and have then had their burial mounds disturbed. Boskenland and Visk both have strict customs regarding the taboos on burial sites. Grave robbing is the worst of all crimes there, because the chattermen do not distinguish between the grave robber and the ordinary peasant when they come looking for prey. Chattermen resemble human skeletons encased in tattered, dark, tight-fitting leather – the mummified, snow-tanned remains of skin. They sometimes wear the grave-goods they were buried with. Their lips are drawn back from their teeth in horrible snarls and their eye sockets are empty. Their name comes from the chattering sound of their victims’ teeth. They move with unnatural silence. Chattermen are completely mute. They can only communicate by hand signs or by scrawling messages in the ground. Fatigue (Su): Chattermen sap the vitality of their prey; once they have begun the attack, the victim is soon too weary to flee or defend himself. A creature struck for damage in melee by a chatterman’s claw must make a Charisma-based Fortitude saving throw (DC 22) or become fatigued. If the creature is already fatigued, it becomes exhausted. Hurl Frost (Su): Chattermen have mystic ties to the snow and ice in which they have lain for so long. If it is in a square where there is snow or ice on the ground, a chatterman can scoop up a claw full of frost (a move action) and hurl it at a single target within 30 feet as a ranged touch attack with a range increment of 10 feet. This deals 4d6 points of cold damage to the target, who must also make a Charisma-based Fortitude saving throw (DC 22) or be dealt 1d3 points of Strength ability drain. Chattermen pelt their victims with frost to weaken them before closing in for the kill. Improved Grab (Ex): A chatterman who successfully hits with a claw attack may immediately attempt to start a grapple as a free action without provoking an attack of opportunity. If the chatterman successfully grapples the target, it attempts a pin on its next turn, which may bestow shivering blight (see below). Steal the Heart’s Fire (Sp): A chatterman can drain all of the life-giving heat from a creature, killing it instantly. This ability is only effective upon creatures that are vulnerable to critical hits and are not of the Cold subtype. The chatterman must succeed in a melee touch attack against the target, who is then entitled to a Charisma-based Fortitude saving throw (DC 22). A creature who fails its saving throw is slain instantly. Creatures who succeed are dealt 3d6 points of damage instead. Stealing the heart’s fire grants the chatterman ten temporary hit points. Once it has used the ability, it cannot attempt to use it again for 1d4 rounds. Shivering Blight (Su): Any target the chatterman successfully holds in a pin must immediately make a Charisma-based Fortitude saving throw (DC 22) or be stricken with shivering blight, a condition like having ice water in the marrow of one’s bones. It must attempt a new saving throw on each turn when it is pinned. The shivering blight makes it impossible for the victim to do anything other than stand on the spot and shiver uncontrollably. The effect imposes a –4 penalty to Armour Class and a –10 penalty on Reflex saving throws; it also negates any Armour Class bonus granted by a shield the target holds. The shivering subject provokes attacks of opportunity each round on its turn. Shivering blight lasts for 3d6 rounds. Ibon Presno Gonzalez (order #73006) 8
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2 Introduction Welcome to The Drow
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4 island of Chillhame, then in the
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6 the past and old ghosts will retu
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8 It is likely that at some point o
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10 that his office is not the same
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12 but it is considered very dishon
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14 for 1d3 hours after drinking. Ho
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16 Equipment & Treasure: Arrows (20
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18 dagger wounds in their chests. T
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20 break free. The control is also
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22 The people of Jehannum are not i
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24 Skills & Feats: Balance +11, Cli
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26 they announce that one of the ca
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28 them off trying that route. Some
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30 paws, adding cowardice and the p
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32 Across Unkown Oceans This chapte
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34 and electricity 10, spider climb
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36 light slashing or piercing weapo
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38 Effects of the Vortex If they ar
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40 4. Hidden Entrance The main entr
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42 The One has a +8 racial bonus on
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44 Sahuagin Lacerators The lacerato
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46 other ships are sent out. Whole
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48 If a Harrier should die and his
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50 a hull, lacking any masts or sai
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52 Environment: Temperate aquatic O
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54 listeners than watchers, since t
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56 shark’s tooth set in silver (w
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58 Tizla Leaves These leaves are mi
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60 This room is where Revekhal Suns
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64 reduction 2/-, illiteracy, trap
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66 faith and treated her with respe
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68 5. Galekki Lairs These dank, lig
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70 It is possible to shut the mangl
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76 3. Desalinator Coils The air in
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82 If they decide to chase the Sea
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84 Special Qualities: Amphibious, c
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86 At Sunspite’s signal the crew
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88 creatures, no two of which can b
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90 The rays are grouped in sets of
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92 Possessed By a Myrrik It is quit
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94 until they have been to Xoth Sar
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96 Crossroads of the World In this
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98 Non-Player Character Group: The
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100 The bearer of such an orb can u
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102 SA death attack, ki strike (mag
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104 Deathblade Poison: Injury DC 20
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106 Note for the Games Master: In g
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Page 171 and 172: 170 Tyrant of Brass This adventure
Page 175 and 176: 174 The Destriers of Heaven The Sun
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210 Ibon Presno Gonzalez (order #73
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212 Flyby Attack, Great Fortitude,
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214 Song of the Night Hags Stoke th
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216 Inside, the cathedral is desola
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218 of the stuff on the whole plane
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220 against them. A magical attack
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222 Spell-Like Abilities: At the st
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224 Skills & Feats: Bluff +33, Conc
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226 Genesis of the Ironclads Drozen
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232 Factory Floor A: Sheet Rolling
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236 Knowledge (the planes) check (D
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238 The drow twins Hester and Jazme
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240 The Ironclads An Ironclad is a
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242 Skills & Feats: Appraise +24, B
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246 If the Stars Should Fall In thi
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248 Explosion Damage: As the Concla
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