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monsters of neoexodus:

harvester

of sorrow

Description

A gentle keen is the first sound you hear as this

plaintive creature steps from the shadows and

slides towards you. Exuding melancholy from its

expressively sorrowful eyes, its call causes your

heart to wrench with ageless pain. Dressed in the

tattered remains of clothing from its past life, the

rags cling to the rot twisted flesh on its deterio-

rating frame. Your nostrils are assailed by

an earthy scent that hints of the recently

left grave. The jagged remains of self

inflicted wounds trace their way up

the arms of the creature; the pinched

noose still hangs from its neck; all

the while it looks longingly into your

eyes willing you to join it in relent-

less misery.

A harvester of sorrow lurks near

suffering and misery waiting for an

opportunity to inculcate the living

with its pain wracked song of madness

and hate. Harvesters are created when

the souls of suicide victims are refused

entry into the after life, cast out of the

afterlife and forced to walk the world

in their old bodies for ever feeling

the pain that drove them to such

desperation. Individual harvesters

bear the wounds of their suicide

– be they long jagged cuts along

the arms, the remains of strangula-

tion ropes on the neck, the shat-

tered bones of long falls or the

bloat and stained skin of those

that succumbed to poison.

Written By Greg Oppedisano

Requires the use of the Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook, Third Edition, published by

Wizards of the Coast, Inc. This product utilizes updated material from the v.3.5 revision.

Monsters of NeoExodus: Harvester of Sorrow

Reanimated at the height of its own emotional despair

a harvester of sorrow seeks solace in the creation of

its own kind, constantly wandering on the edges of

society looking for other harvesters or better yet the

suffering and the weak to inculcate. Harvesters are

sufficiently rare and many people believe that they are

bogeymen or myth created to scare children – most

religions however educate their clerics to be aware of

the signs of a harvester infestation and respond with

haste and overwhelming force. Harvester infestations

have a nasty habit of rapidly getting out of hand, espe-

cially if they occur in small out of the way places – at

times like these the good people of Exodus may call

upon those of sufficient skill and strength to crusade

forth and end the menace with righteous violence.

Round 1: Attack self with weapon in hand or avail-

able weapon.

Round 2: Do nothing but cry and sob incoherently.

Round 3: Attack nearest creature ( for this purpose, a

familiar counts as part of the subject’s self ).

Round 4: Drop everything and curl up in a ball on the

ground

Round 5: Make a DC 12 Will save or become

aggrieved by melancholy again ( return to

Round 1 above ). On round 10 the Will

save drops to DC 8 – repeat until the char-

acter makes the save or the harvester stops

singing

Harvester of

Sorrow - CR4

CE Medium Undead

Init: +7 Senses Darkvision 60 ft., Listen +0, Spot +8

Languages: A harvester of sorrow speaks the

languages they spoke in life ( usually Common ).

AC: 17, touch 12, flat-footed 14 ( +3 Dex, +4 natural )

Hp 26 ( 4 HD )

Saves: Fort +1, Ref +4, Will +6

Speed: 30 ft. ( 6 squares )

Melee: Bite +5 melee ( 1d3+3 plus Seed of Hate )

Space: 5 ft Reach 5 ft.

Base Atk: +2 Grp +5

Special Actions: Plaintive Wail, Seed of Hate

Abilities: Str 17, Dex 17, Con —, Int 13, Wis 14, Cha

SQ: Undead traits, +2 turn resistance

Feats: Improved Initiative, Stealthy

Skills: Balance +7, Climb +9, Hide +10, Jump +9,

Move Silently +10

Possessions: None

An aggrieved character who can’t carry out the

indicated action does nothing but sob incoherently.

Attackers are not at any special advantage when

attacking a aggrieved character. Any aggrieved

character who is attacked automatically attacks

its attackers on its next turn, as long as it is still

aggrieved when its turn comes. An aggrieved char-

acter does not make attacks of opportunity against

any creature that it is not already devoted to attacking

( either because of its most recent action or because it

has just been attacked ). A bard’s countersong ability

allows the captivated creature to attempt a new Will

save.

Seed of Hate ( Su ): Disease—bite, Fortitude DC 16,

incubation period 1 round, damage 1d4 Con. Each

time a victim takes 2 or more Con damage from the

disease they must make another save and if they fail

the disease incubates again on the next round – repeat

until the victim makes a save, takes only one point of

Con damage or is reduced to 0 Con. Victims reduced

to 0 Con by the disease immediately rise as a fully

healed harvester of sorrow. The save DC is Charisma-

based. Seed of Hate may be cured with a Remove

Disease spell, a Heal or Mass Heal spell will also cure

the disease.

Plaintive Wail ( Su ): The most dangerous ability of

the harvester of sorrow is its song. When a harvester

sings, all creatures ( other than other harvesters )

within a 100-foot spread must succeed on a DC 16

Will save or become aggrieved by melancholy. This

is a sonic mind-affecting charm effect. A creature that

successfully saves cannot be affected again by the

same harvester’s song for 24 hours. The save DC is

Charisma-based.

COMBAt

Solitary harvesters prefer to attack single victims

– however gangs and packs of harvesters have been

known to boldly attack larger groups of people. A

harvester of sorrow prefers to keeps its distance from

its target until it has incapacitated it with its Plaintive

Wail special attack. Once a foe is incapacitated the

harvester rushes in and attempts to implant the victim

with its Seed of Hate.

A victim aggrieved by melancholy’s actions

progresses through the following actions:

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Monsters of NeoExodus: Harvester of Sorrow

Harvester of

Sorrow Paragon

Harvester of

Sorrow Paragon

- CR 6

CE Medium Undead

I nit: +8 Senses Darkvision 60 ft., Listen +0, Spot +11

Languages: A Harvester of Sorrow speaks the

languages they spoke in life ( usually Common ).

AC: 20, touch 13, flat-footed 16, ( +4 Dex, +6

natural )

Hp: 46 ( 7 HD )

Saves: Fort +4, Ref +6, Will +7

Speed: 30 ft. ( 6 squares )

Melee: Bite +7 melee ( 1d3+4 plus Seed of Hate )

Space: 5ft Reach 5 ft.

Base Atk: +3 Grp: +7

Special Actions: Plaintive Wail, Seed of Hate,

Suffocating Stench

Abilities: Str 19, Dex 19, Con —, Int 13, Wis 14, Cha

SQ: Undead traits, +2 turn resistance

Feats: Improved Initiative, Stealthy, Great Fortitude

Skills: Balance +8, Climb +13, Hide +13, Jump +10,

Move Silently +13

DESCRIPtION

A haunting wailing tears at your ears and this crea-

ture from beyond the grave slides from inky darkness

towards you. Waves of melancholy roll towards you

threatening to overwhelm you with intense feelings

of despair. Its sorrowful eyes are deep pits of loss;

the eyes pinched with hate caused by a never ending

pain. Dressed in the tattered remains of clothing from

its past life, the rags cling to the rot twisted flesh on

its deteriorating frame. The stench of the grave is

palpable, catching in your throat and twisting your

insides into knots of nausea and bile roils up from

your stomach. The jagged remains of self inflicted

wounds trace their way up the arms of the creature;

the pinched noose still hangs from its neck; more

recent broken bones pierce desiccated flesh as all the

while it looks longingly into your eyes willing you to

join it in relentless misery.

A paragon harvester of sorrow has spent a generation

successfully creating others of its kind. Skulking on

the edges of civilization in ancient graveyards and

near the tragic battle fields of Exodus the paragon

harvester is a model of patience lurking quietly in

shadows waiting till the best time to strike victims that

are most helpless. Stronger, quicker and more skilled

than their just risen brethren, the paragon harvester

makes full use of its skills and powers. Paragon

harvesters will always slowly build their pack strength

by luring individuals to their doom and it is in these

early moments that the heroes of Exodus have their

best chance of halting an infestation. Once a paragon

has gathered a band of 7-12 paragons and 30 or more

harvesters together they descend on hamlets, villages,

and towns scourging the populace and terrorizing

the countryside for miles around. Just clerics and

righteous heroes are called by their duty to all living

creatures to respond to the call to arms heralded upon

a confirmed infestation of harvesters

COMBAt

Plaintive Wail ( Su ): The most dangerous ability of

the harvester of sorrow is its song. When a harvester

sings, all creatures ( other than other harvesters )

within a 100-foot spread must succeed on a DC 19

Will save or become aggrieved by melancholy. This

is a sonic mind-affecting charm effect. A creature that

successfully saves cannot be affected again by the

same harvester’s song for 24 hours. The save DC is

Charisma-based.

A paragon harvester of sorrow keeps its distance from

its target until it has incapacitated it with its Plaintive

Wail special attack. Once a foe is incapacitated the

harvester rushes in and attempts to implant the victim

with its Seed of Hate.

A victim aggrieved by melancholy’s actions

progresses through the following actions:

Round 1: Attack self with weapon in hand or avail-

able weapon.

Round 2: Do nothing but cry and sob incoherently.

Round 3: Attack nearest creature ( for this purpose, a

familiar counts as part of the subject’s self ).

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Monsters of NeoExodus: Harvester of Sorrow

Round 4: Drop everything and curl up in a ball on the

ground

All mechanics on all pages is Open Game Content as

defined by the Open Gaming License. See page 5 for

more information.

Round 5: Make a DC 12 Will save or become

aggrieved by melancholy again ( return to

Round 1 above ). On round 10 the Will

save drops to DC 8 – repeat until the char-

acter makes the save or the harvester stops

singing

An aggrieved character who can’t carry out the

indicated action does nothing but sob incoherently.

Attackers are not at any special advantage when

attacking a aggrieved character. Any aggrieved

character who is attacked automatically attacks

its attackers on its next turn, as long as it is still

aggrieved when its turn comes. An aggrieved char-

acter does not make attacks of opportunity against

any creature that it is not already devoted to attacking

(either because of its most recent action or because it

has just been attacked). A bard’s countersong ability

allows the captivated creature to attempt a new Will

save.

Seed of Hate ( Su ): Disease—bite, Fortitude DC 19,

incubation period 1 round, damage 1d4 Con. Each

time a victim takes 2 or more Con damage from the

disease they must make another save and if they fail

the disease incubates again on the next round – repeat

until the victim makes a save, takes only one point of

Con damage or is reduced to 0 Con. Victims reduced

to 0 Con by the disease immediately rise as a fully

healed harvester of sorrow. The save DC is Charisma-

based. Seed of Hate may be cured with a Remove

Disease spell, a Heal or Mass Heal spell will also cure

the disease.

Suffocating Aura ( Ex ): The feeling of suffering and

loss is so acute around the harvester paragon that it is

overwhelming. Living creatures within 10 feet must

succeed on a DC 19 Will save or begin to choke. A

character that begins to choke must make a Fortitude

save each round ( DC 19, +1 per previous check ) or

spend that round choking and coughing. A character

who chokes for 2 consecutive rounds takes 1d6 points

of nonlethal damage. A creature that successfully

saves cannot be affected again by the same harvester

of sorrows suffocating aura for 24 hours. A delay

poison or neutralize poison spell removes the effect

from a sickened creature. Creatures with immunity to

poison are unaffected, and creatures resistant to poison

receive their normal bonus on their saving throws. The

save DC is Charisma-based.

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