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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 4525451" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p><strong>Template Troves III</strong></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/3211/Template-Troves-Volume-III-Diseases-Parasites--Symbiotes?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Template Troves, Volume III: Diseases, Parasites & Symbiotes:</a></p><p>3.5</p><p><strong>Plague Zombie:</strong> The zombie plague bestows upon its victims a foul semblance of life, as well as an insatiable hunger for the flesh of the living.</p><p>In the course of their cannibalistic hunt, plague zombies inevitably spread their disease to the creatures they kill. Victims who do not die outright are eventually overcome by the plague itself, dying in short order only to rise an hour or two later as voracious, undead creatures.</p><p> “Plague zombie” is an acquired template that can be added to any corporeal animal, giant, humanoid, or monstrous humanoid possessing a skeletal system.</p><p>Any creature that dies as a result of zombie plague rises as a plague zombie 1d6 minutes after its death. Any creature that is infected with zombie plague, but which dies by another means, also rises as a plague zombie 1d6 minutes after its death.</p><p><strong>Sample Plague Zombie Klein:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Sample Plague Zombie Ormand:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Pox Spirit:</strong> Ghost pox is a disease of the ethereal plane that lays waste to the spirits of men. Though its incorporeal sickness can infect many types of creatures, many scholars speculate that ghost pox prefers to defile sentient beings with its contagion. While the disease is considered by many to manifest some sort of malign intelligence, there could be nothing further from the truth. Indeed, the sickness is spread by the ghostly victims of the pox itself. Denied of life, and twisted into spiteful revenants, they seek to swell their own ranks by infecting the living.</p><p>The affliction begins with nightmares too horrible for the victim to remember. Cold sweats, accompanied by a substantial drop in body temperature, follow. Small points of phosphorescence lend a pocked appearance to the victim’s skin if examined by moonlight. Disembodied sounds accompany the nightmare screams of the dying, and small objects will occasionally float about the sickroom, seemingly of their own accord. Traditional remedies fail to cure the affliction, though religious rites are occasionally effective if the presiding priest is strong in his faith. Eventually, even the strongest of patients succumbs to a coma from which he will never awaken.</p><p>When death finally takes him, the victim’s soul has undergone a malevolent transformation. While his body is buried or burned, his spirit remains behind to seek its own solace. Such peace is temporary at best, and is typically at the expense of the living he has left behind. In an attempt to provide himself with companions to populate his bleak afterlife, the pox spirit spreads his own contagion to those he once loved, and the cycle continues once more.</p><p>“Pox spirit” is an acquired template that can be added to any animal, giant, humanoid, magical beast, or monstrous humanoid.</p><p>Pox spirits seek to create more of their kind by spreading their own ethereal sickness to the living. A pox spirit may take a full attack action to infect an opponent with ghost pox. If the spirit’s ethereal touch attack is successful, its opponent takes 1d6 damage and must make an immediate Fortitude saving throw (DC 14) to resist the infection.</p><p>Characters who acquire the pox spirit template are driven mad with loneliness and grief. They seek to end their profound despair by inflicting their ghostly disease upon friends and loved ones.</p><p><strong>Sample Pox Spirit:</strong> ?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 4525451, member: 2209"] [b]Template Troves III[/b] [URL=https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/3211/Template-Troves-Volume-III-Diseases-Parasites--Symbiotes?affiliate_id=17596]Template Troves, Volume III: Diseases, Parasites & Symbiotes:[/URL] 3.5 [B]Plague Zombie:[/B] The zombie plague bestows upon its victims a foul semblance of life, as well as an insatiable hunger for the flesh of the living. In the course of their cannibalistic hunt, plague zombies inevitably spread their disease to the creatures they kill. Victims who do not die outright are eventually overcome by the plague itself, dying in short order only to rise an hour or two later as voracious, undead creatures. “Plague zombie” is an acquired template that can be added to any corporeal animal, giant, humanoid, or monstrous humanoid possessing a skeletal system. Any creature that dies as a result of zombie plague rises as a plague zombie 1d6 minutes after its death. Any creature that is infected with zombie plague, but which dies by another means, also rises as a plague zombie 1d6 minutes after its death. [B]Sample Plague Zombie Klein:[/B] ? [B]Sample Plague Zombie Ormand:[/B] ? [B]Pox Spirit:[/B] Ghost pox is a disease of the ethereal plane that lays waste to the spirits of men. Though its incorporeal sickness can infect many types of creatures, many scholars speculate that ghost pox prefers to defile sentient beings with its contagion. While the disease is considered by many to manifest some sort of malign intelligence, there could be nothing further from the truth. Indeed, the sickness is spread by the ghostly victims of the pox itself. Denied of life, and twisted into spiteful revenants, they seek to swell their own ranks by infecting the living. The affliction begins with nightmares too horrible for the victim to remember. Cold sweats, accompanied by a substantial drop in body temperature, follow. Small points of phosphorescence lend a pocked appearance to the victim’s skin if examined by moonlight. Disembodied sounds accompany the nightmare screams of the dying, and small objects will occasionally float about the sickroom, seemingly of their own accord. Traditional remedies fail to cure the affliction, though religious rites are occasionally effective if the presiding priest is strong in his faith. Eventually, even the strongest of patients succumbs to a coma from which he will never awaken. When death finally takes him, the victim’s soul has undergone a malevolent transformation. While his body is buried or burned, his spirit remains behind to seek its own solace. Such peace is temporary at best, and is typically at the expense of the living he has left behind. In an attempt to provide himself with companions to populate his bleak afterlife, the pox spirit spreads his own contagion to those he once loved, and the cycle continues once more. “Pox spirit” is an acquired template that can be added to any animal, giant, humanoid, magical beast, or monstrous humanoid. Pox spirits seek to create more of their kind by spreading their own ethereal sickness to the living. A pox spirit may take a full attack action to infect an opponent with ghost pox. If the spirit’s ethereal touch attack is successful, its opponent takes 1d6 damage and must make an immediate Fortitude saving throw (DC 14) to resist the infection. Characters who acquire the pox spirit template are driven mad with loneliness and grief. They seek to end their profound despair by inflicting their ghostly disease upon friends and loved ones. [B]Sample Pox Spirit:[/B] ? [/QUOTE]
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