ghouls Archives - Tribality https://www.tribality.com/tag/ghouls/ D&D / Role Playing Wed, 16 Jan 2019 05:12:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.tribality.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-logo-2020-icon@2x-32x32.jpg ghouls Archives - Tribality https://www.tribality.com/tag/ghouls/ 32 32 A Ghoulish Repast https://www.tribality.com/2018/10/24/a-ghoulish-repast/ https://www.tribality.com/2018/10/24/a-ghoulish-repast/#respond Wed, 24 Oct 2018 12:00:58 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=25489 The ghoul has long been one of my favorite types of D&D undead. It doesn’t even matter that the original ghul of Arabian folklore is a demon instead. Cannibalism – especially a compulsion to commit same – is a kind of horror that seriously unsettles me, so I love stories about monsters along those lines. As a result, one of Dust to Dust’s common monster types is the ghul – not undead, but still voraciously hungry, and able to copy powers and knowledge from […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2018/10/24/a-ghoulish-repast/feed/ 0 Alternative Lore for 5e Ghouls https://www.tribality.com/2017/10/25/alternative-lore-5e-ghouls/ https://www.tribality.com/2017/10/25/alternative-lore-5e-ghouls/#comments Wed, 25 Oct 2017 13:46:23 +0000 http://www.tribality.com/?p=21935 The history of ghouls in D&D is an interesting one. Since roughly the beginning of time – as counted by editions of D&D – ghoul paralysis doesn’t work on elves. Ghast paralysis – which has been poison in past editions – worked on elves just fine, however. Looking into the history of this, a lot of the commentary states Chainmail is the root of this phenomenon. Both Pathfinder and Dungeons & Dragons 5e have added their own lore to make […]

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