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Saves: Same as base creature
Abilities: The base creature’s Strength increases by +2,
and the progeny has no Intelligence score.
Furthermore, as an undead creature a progeny
has no Constitution score.
Skills: Progeny have no skills but do gain the benefits
of a swim speed as detailed under the
Boatman’s skills entry.
Feats: Progeny gain Improved Initiative and
Toughness, assuming the base creature does
not already have them.
Environment: Any aquatic or marsh
organization: Gang (2–8)
Challenge Rating: Same as base creature +1
Alignment: Always lawful evil
Advancement: —
Level Adjustment: —
Combat
These creatures lurk just below the surface of the water waiting
for their master to call them forth. They grapple with their
opponents in an attempt to pin and drown them.
Progeny Weakness (Su): Progeny cannot survive out of water
for more than 1 minute. If forced to do so the progeny liquifies,
forming a pool of murky water.
Treasure
Boatmen keep well-hidden (and often aquatic) lairs that
might contain any manner of treasure gained from past victims.
Divining coin: A boatman can create a divining coin once per day.
This coin grants its possessor the ability to cast a single divination
spell as a 7th-level cleric. The coin is good for only a single
use and rusts away afterward. Boatmen usually carry 0–2 (1d3-1)
coins and use them to locate their victims. Divining coins sell for
about 400 gp each on the open market.
Legends & Lore
CoMMoN: Evil spirits haunt the waterways, offering rides to the
unwary. Beware unfamiliar ferrymen!
UNCoMMoN: Boatmen are accompanied by undead minions—
those whom they have drowned. Some boatmen are even so bold
as to haunt the waterways of cities.
RARE: A boatman’s progeny will be destroyed if dragged from
the water. If a boatman takes a shine to one’s possessions, he may
Boatman
Progeny, 1st-Level Commoner
Medium Undead
Hit Dice: 1d12+3 (9 hp)
Initiative: +5
Speed: 30 ft., (6 squares), swim 30 ft.
AC: 13 (+1 Dex, +2 natural),
touch 11, flat-footed 12
Base Attack/Grapple: +0/+1
Attack: Slam +1 melee (1d6+1)
Full Attack: Slam +1 melee (1d6+1)
Space/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft.
Special Qualities: Darkvision 60 ft., progeny weakness,
undead traits
Saves: Fort +0, Ref +1, Will +3
Abilities: Str 12, Dex 10, Con —,
Int —, Wis 10, Cha 10
Skills: —
Feats: Great Fortitude, Improved Initiative B ,
Toughness B
Environment: Any aquatic and marsh
Advancement: —
Level Adjustment: —
accept a bargain—the item for one’s life.
obSCURE: Boatmen can blend into rural societies, posing as reclusive
river-folk. They may inhabit distant homes or even open shops,
all for the purpose of locating new victims and new items to acquire.
Hooks
• The PCs are approached by a well-to-do merchant (or other
personage) who has lost a family heirloom to a boatman. The PCs
may be hired simply to reacquire the heirloom or to hunt down
the boatman.
• Through their adventuring, the PCs have acquired an
unusual item and are now being followed by a boatman who wants
it. The entity has even set up a small shop in the local area. People
have started disappearing and the local authorities may hire the
PCs to find out what is causing the disappearances.
The canals of Corvis have seen more than one boatman, but lately I have heard of
one prowling the waterways of Ceryl as well. Perhaps there is something about the
arcane industries there that attracts them—something to investigate.
—V P
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