Ghoul

Level 1
Creature· chaoticMediumLegacy
AC 16
HP 20 (void healing)
Speed 30 ft.
Fort +4
Ref +9
Will +5
Perc +7
Size Medium
Common
Immunities bleed, death effects, disease, paralyzed, poison, unconscious
Languages common, necril
Senses darkvision
Speeds 30 ft., burrow 5 ft.
Skills acrobatics +7, stealth +7, survival +5, athletics +4
Recall Knowledge religion DC 15

Attacks

Melee Jaws +9/+4/-1(finesse, unarmed)
Damage: 1d6+1 piercing
Effect: ghoul ghoul fever, ghoul paralysis
Melee Claw +9/+5/+1(agile, finesse, unarmed)
Damage: 1d4+1 slashing
Effect: ghoul paralysis

Abilities

Void Healingdefensive

A creature with void healing draws health from void energy rather than vitality energy. It is damaged by vitality damage and is not healed by vitality healing effects. It does not take void damage, and it is healed by void effects that heal undead.

Consume Fleshoffensive(manipulate)

Requirements The ghoul is adjacent to the corpse of a creature that died within the last hour.

The ghoul devours a chunk of the corpse and regains 1d6 healing Hit Points. It can regain Hit Points from any given corpse only once.

Ghoul Feveroffensive(disease)

Saving Throw DC 15 fortitude Stage 1 carrier with no ill effect (1 day) Stage 2 2d6 void damage and regains half as many Hit Points from all healing (1 day) Stage 3 as stage 2 (1 day) Stage 4 2d6 void damage and gains no benefit from healing (1 day) Stage 5 as stage 4 (1 day) Stage 6 dead, and rises as a Ghoul the next midnight.

Paralysisoffensive(incapacitation, occult)

Any living, non-elf creature hit by a ghoul's attack must succeed at a DC 15 fortitude save or become Paralyzed. It can attempt a new save at the end of each of its turns, and the DC cumulatively decreases by 1 on each such save.

Swift Leapoffensive(move)

The ghoul jumps up to half its Speed. This movement doesn't trigger reactions.

Description

Ghouls are ravenous undead who haunt graveyards and eat corpses.


Few creatures are more ubiquitous to sinister locations such as lonely graveyards and ruined crypts than the flesh-eating undead known as ghouls.

Traits