Werewidow

werewolf-clipart-1Werewidow     CR 6
XP 2,400
CE haunt (40 ft. by 10 ft. alleyway)
Caster Level 7th
Notice Perception DC 23 (to hear the coughing of an old woman)
hp 12; Trigger proximity; Reset 1 day
Effect When this haunt is triggered, creatures within its area suddenly see an old woman hunched in the shadows. Any interaction (speaking to, looking at or acknowledgement otherwise) with this apparition incurs a gaze attack—creatures that fail a DC 16 Will save are unknowingly stricken with Werewolf Lycanthropy. This affliction can be removed with a break enchantment or remove curse, or by destroying the Werewidow haunt. Afterward the old woman disappears with a mournful howl.
Werewolf Lycanthropy
Type 
curse, injury; Save Fortitude DC 15 negates, Will DC 15 to avoid effects; Onset the next full moon; Frequency on the night of every full moon or whenever the target is injured; Effect target transforms into a wolf under the GM’s control until the next morning.

Destruction     While in the haunt’s radius, light aflame a bowl filled with twenty silver and the blood of an alpha wolf mixed with drops from a descendant of the Werewidow

Adventure Hook     The Werewidow was once a kindly druid beloved by the settlement that has outgrown the little part of it she still resides in. As the town became a city, natural resources grew scarce and the wildlife began to suffer. She began to placate the wolves in the region, but the older she grew and the larger the settlement became, the more wolves came and the more attentions she garnered from predatory canine spirits. Eventually these spectral beings possessed her charges, killing her—while a rash of adventurers brought low the lycanthropic plagues that soon followed, in her death throes the druid remains, causing werewolves to appear for centuries.

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2 thoughts on “Werewidow”

  1. Brian W Mønster

    Evil Mr Myler, and quite alike something I had in mind apart from the lycanthropy cackle cackle

  2. Thanks Brian! I’ve been raring for some ‘free range’ play for a while now (I’m always playtesting something!!!) and can’t wait to drop this on some unsuspecting players. =)

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