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Ghoul, Mythos What You See This humanoid creature has a semicanine head, hooved feet, and claws Its skin is pale and covered with grave-mold The stench of rot and dust surrounds it but it doesn’t seem to notice CR 1/2 XP 200 Mythos Ghoul fighter CE Medium monstrous humanoid Init +1; Senses darkvision 60 ft., death scent, low-light vision, scent; Perception +2 DEFENSE AC 13, touch 12, flat-footed 11 (+1 Dex, +1 dodge, +1 natural) hp 14 (1d10+4) Fort +5, Ref +1, Will +1; +4 vs supernatural diseases Immune disease OFFENSE Speed 30 ft., burrow 10 ft Melee bite +4 (1d4+2), claws +3 (1d4+2) Special Attacks feed on flesh S TAT I S T I C S Lovecraft’s Mythos ghouls are immortal, but not Str 14, Dex 13, Con 17, Int 12, Wis 12, Cha Base Atk +1; CMB +3; CMD 15 Feats Dodge, Weapon Focus (claws) Skills Knowledge (history) +2, Perception +2 (+6 to discover hidden objects), Stealth +2; Racial Modifiers +4 Perception to discover hidden objects Languages Common, Ghoul SQ expert scrounger, warren digger undead In fact, they often feed on undead, treating ECO LO GY appearance and ghouls often swap them for those other Environment any (graveyards) Organization solitary, pair, gathering (3–6), or clan (7–30) Treasure NPC gear SPECIAL ABILITIES 340 Expert Scrounger (Ex) Mythos ghouls are gifted at using old, broken equipment In a ghoul’s hands, an object with the broken condition is treated as if it did not have the broken condition In addition, Mythos ghouls gain a +4 racial bonus on Perception checks made to discover objects that are hidden in rubble, undergrowth, buried, or otherwise hidden from view Feed on Flesh (Su) When a Mythos ghoul feeds upon the corpse of a humanoid creature, it absorbs some of the lingering traces of memory and knowledge that creature possessed in life Strangely, the older a corpse is, the more potent those memories become Feeding on a corpse that is less than 24 hours old typically provides no benefit to a Mythos ghoul other than nourishment If a Mythos ghoul spends 1d4 minutes feeding on a corpse that has at least some amount of flesh on its bones (even dried flesh, as in the case of a mummy, is acceptable), the Mythos ghoul absorbs a portion of knowledge once possessed by the creature This grants the Mythos ghoul a +2 insight bonus to a skill of its choice, so long as the skill in question was a class skill of the creature the Mythos ghoul feasted upon A Mythos ghoul can obtain only one +2 insight bonus per corpse fed upon A Mythos ghoul can maintain a number of separate insight bonuses to skills in this way equal to its Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1) If a Mythos ghoul uses this ability when it has already reached the maximum number of +2 insight bonuses afforded by its Intelligence modifier, it must forget one of the current +2 insight bonuses in order to replace it with the new one Warren Digger (Ex) Mythos ghouls have a burrow speed of 10 feet, but can only burrow through soil and dirt, not stone Death Scent (Ex) Mythos ghouls have an incredible sense of smell, particularly for carrion A Mythos ghoul has the scent ability to 30 feet, but when scenting undead (or bodies suffering from decay or, at the GM’s discretion, the stink of death) the range of their scent ability increases to 60 feet zombies or mummies as handy, portable meals When equipped to fight, they wield ancient rusty (though sometimes magical) weapons taken from tombs Mythos ghouls connect with other sentient races in several ways Their babies are adaptable and neutral in races While this most frequently occurs with human babies, ghouls can swap babies with elves, dwarfs, and other species The kidnapped infants are raised as ghouls, eventually becoming ghouls themselves, while the transplanted ghoul changeling becomes part of human (or other) society It adapts its appearance to look like the host species, but often corrupts all around