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inflicts 2 points of Constitution damage. Victims reduced to 0
Constitution die immediately.
Gravel Vomit (Su): Twice per hour, a
shaft wight can spray a foul mixture of
gravel, sand, and brackish liquid from its
mouth. 5-ft. line, damage 2d8, Reflex half
DC 14. The save DC is Constitution-based.
Create Spawn (Su): Any humanoid
slain by a shaft wight via its Constitution
damage or gravel vomit special attacks
becomes a shaft wight in twelve hours
unless attended by a cleric who must
cleanse the body with holy water.
Spawn are under the command
of the shaft wight that created
them and remain enslaved
until its death. They do not
possess any of the abilities
they had in life.
Skills (Ex): Shaft
wights have a +8
racial bonus to
Move Silently
checks.
Treasure
Shaft wights hoard valuables they
take from their victims and also keep
ore and precious metals from their
mining. Use standard treasure values,
80% of which will be in the form of
raw ore or ingots instead of coin. They
show some crude ability to shape metal,
sometimes crafting armor or bracelets
and rings, repairing their mining picks,
and so on. These crafted
items could be sold to
someone with
peculiar
tastes.
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Shaft Wight
Legends & Lore
CoMMoN: Shaft wights are undead created when miners suffocate
to death after tunnels collapse upon them. It is rumored
they can be heard mining deep in abandoned shafts and will
attack anyone who ventures too close.
UNCoMMoN: Shaft wights can vomit gravel on a person,
causing injury and potentially suffocating the victim.
They also have a touch that drains health.
RARE: Those who die with their mouths filled with
gravel from a shaft wight will arise as one themselves
within approximately 12 hours unless attended to by
a cleric with holy water.
obSCURE: Shaft wights are working toward some
common goal, perhaps attempting to unify their
tunnels and create their own unliving society
beneath the earth. The more shaft wights who
gather in one place, the more organized and
cunning they become.
Hooks
The threat of shaft wights could compel
a concerned mining guild to seek out PCs
to investigate. A good start is the discovery
of a body slain in their traditional fashion.
These undead are rare enough that
they are not well known, and the corpse
might suddenly go “missing” when it
rises to join its brethren.
Alternately, shaft wights expanding
tunnels might eventually break
into some other underground area or
buried tomb that the PCs are currently
exploring. This dungeon crawl just got
a whole lot messier!
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