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Size and Type: The creature’s type changes to undead. Do not
recalculate the creature’s base attack bonus, saves, or
skill points. Size is unchanged.
Hit Dice: All current and future Hit Dice become d12s.
Speed: Same as the base creature.
AC: The base creature’s natural armor bonus increases by +15.
Attack: A dread retains all the weapon proficiencies of the
base creature. A dread also gains a handblade attack.
The dread loses all other natural and manufactured
weapon attacks.
Damage: The handblade deals damage depending on the
dread’s size.
Size Handblade Size Handblade
Tiny 1d4 Large 2d6
Small 1d6 Huge 3d6
Medium 1d8
Special Attacks: A dread retains all the special attacks of the
base creature and gains the following special attack.
The save has a DC equal to 10 + 1/2 dread’s HD
+ dread’s Charisma modifier unless otherwise noted.
Fear Aura (Su): Dreads are shrouded in a dreadful aura of death
and evil. Creatures of less than 4 HD in a 60-foot
radius that look at the dread must succeed at a Will
save or be affected as though by a fear spell cast by
sorcerer of the dread’s level. A creature that successfully
saves cannot be affected again by the same
dread’s aura for 24 hours.
Special Qualities: A dread has all the special qualities of the
base creature as well as those described below.
Damage Reduction: A dread gains damage reduction 5/magic. Its
handblade is treated as a magic weapon for the purpose
of overcoming damage reduction.
Spell Resistance (Ex): A dread gains spell resistance equal to the base
creature’s HD + 15.
Turning Immunity (Ex): A dread cannot be turned or rebuked.
Saves: Same as base creature.
Abilities: The base creature’s Strength
increases by +2 and its
Dexterity decreases by –4.
As an undead creature, dread
have no Constitution.
Skills: Same as the base creature.
Feats: In addition to any feats possessed by the
base creature, a dread gains Weapon Focus
(handblade) as a bonus feat.
Environment: Any land.
organization: Solitary.
Challenge Rating: Same as the
base creature +2.
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Dread
Alignment: Always neutral evil.
Advancement: By character class.
Level Adjustment: Same as base creature +2.
Combat
Dread are intelligent if uninspired combatants. If they are
guarding an area with traps or natural hazards, they will attempt
to lure invaders into them before moving in for melee combat.
Fear Aura (Su): Will save DC 12. The save DC is
Charisma-based.
Treasure
Dread may have enchanted weapons or other magic items
bound to their iron bodies, but they carry no treasure for its
own sake. Far more valuable would be any Orgoth loot that a
dread may be guarding—there are a few ancient caches hidden
within the Iron Kingdoms.
Legends & Lore
CoMMoN: None
UNCoMMoN: The Orgoth created zombie-like minions of
flesh and iron as guards.
RARE: The mere sight of a dread, as these creations are known,
can cause the bravest hero to flee in terror.
obSCURE: Dread are still being created today by a small group of
evil Cerylian wizards intent on rediscovering arcane Orgoth secrets.
Hooks
The underworld of a major
city is abuzz with reports of a
terrifying creature of flesh
and iron. Have the local
cutpurses stumbled onto
an ancient Orgoth ruin
beneath their very
feet—or has a
crime lord begun
creating his own
dread in order to
expand his territory?
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