Ghoul

Design Notes and credits

This is a monster class for the ghoul. It is an edited version of Coins and Scrolls’s original. Art by Guy Davis.

Starting Equipment
Roll for your past Medieval Career.

Starting Skills (+5)
The Hunger (see below).

For every Ghoul template you have, your movement increases by 1.

A: The Hunger I
B: The Hunger II
C: The Hunger III
D: Regeneration

The Hunger

You are infected by ghoul rabies and cannot be cured, yet cannot die from hunger or diseases.

Ghoul Rabies. Disease. Save after every rest to add or remove a cumulative symptom. Symptom: requires to eat 1 extra ration per day. You can only feed from humanoid flesh.

Depending on your hunger, you behave differently:

  • If you have eaten your daily fill, you are rational: You can use the skill from the medieval career you had when you were alive.
  • If you are hungry for 1 ration, you are on the edge: You can smell if there are humanoids nearby and track them.
  • If you are hungry for 2 or 3 rations, you are feral: Your claws inflict 1D6 damage and you can climb any climbable surface without risk.
  • If you are hungry for 4 or more rations, you are catatonic: All your stats become 1. You can’t use your legs.

The Hunger II

  • When you are rational, you can talk with cadavers as if they were alive, although you are the only one who seems to hear them. Each body will answer two questions, one answer will be false.
  • When you are on the edge, you are skilled in stealth.
  • When you are feral, you can attack twice with your claws.
  • When you are catatonic, once per day when you see an humanoid, you can become feral 10 minutes.

The Hunger III

  • When you are rational, you can use humanoid cadavers and chopped limbs as if they were skilled assistants and quality tools from your old medieval career. A mass grave counts as a well supplied workshop. The result of your work is always functionnal, but repulsive and grotesque.
  • When you are on the edge, you always hit a creature who hasn’t seen you and they always fail their first save against you.
  • When you are feral, creatures hit with your claws must save or become poisoned for 10 minutes.
  • When you are catatonic, you cannot die.

Regeneration

You can recover 1D6 HP on your turn. Each time you do, you need to eat one extra ration this day.