Libris Mortis
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Libris Mortis is an official supplement for the Dungeons and Dragons role playing game, version 3.5. It outlines rules on how to play undead characters, and details new content for the undead, including new creatures, classes, spells, feats, and other options.
[edit] Chapter summary
- All About Undead: Includes a briefing on the origins, outlook, physiology, and psychology of various undead creatures.
- Character Options: Contains feats for both undead creatures and non-undead creatures that have some sort of connection with undead, whether it be to combat, befriend, or control them. Additionally it contains rules for making undead characters, including monster classes for ghasts, mohrgs, mummies, wights, and vampire spawn.
- Prestige Classes: Introduces the following prestige classes:
- Death's Chosen
- Dirgesinger
- Master of Radiance
- Master of the Shrouds
- Pale Master
- Sacred Purifier
- True Necromancer
- Ephemeral Exemplar (Undead Prestige Class)
- Lurking Terror (Undead Prestige Class)
- Master Vampire (Undead Prestige Class)
- Tomb Warden (Undead Prestige Class)
- Spells includes a list of eundead-related spells, mostly within the school of Necromancy. Among these spells are Summon Undead as well as Spells relating to Necrotic Cyst.
- Equipment: Outlines undead-related equipment such as alchemical items and positoxins (poison designed to harm undead), magical items, and undead grafts.
- Monsters: Provides descriptions and statistics for the following undead monsters:
- Angel of Decay
- Atropal Scion
- Blaspheme
- Bleakborn
- Blood Amniote
- Blood Mote Cloud
- Bone Rat Swarm
- Boneyard
- Brain in a Jar
- Carcass Eater
- Cinder Spawn
- Corpse Rat Swarm
- Crypt Chanter
- Deathlock
- Desiccator
- Dire Maggot
- Dream Vestige
- Entomber
- Entropic Reaper
- Evolved Undead Template
- Forsaken Shell
- Ghost Brute
- Gravetouched Ghoul
- Grave Dirt Golem
- Half-Vampire Template
- Hooded Pupil Template
- Hulking Corpse
- Mummified Creature Template
- Murk
- Necromental Template
- Necropolitan Template
- Plague Blight
- Quell
- Raiment
- Revived Fossil
- Skin Kite
- Skirr
- Skulking Cyst
- Slaughter Wight
- Slaymate
- Spectral Lyrist
- Swarm-Shifter Template
- Tomb Mote
- Umbral Creature Template
- Visage
- Void Wraith
- Wheep
- Campaigns: Information and ideas for incorporating undead into a running campaign, or for making an undead themed campaign.
[edit] Literary Criticism
It is the subject of criticism due to its nonsensical pseudo-Latin title: Liber, a second declension noun, should rightly describe the book, which is singular and has no reason to be in any case other than nominative -- "Libris" is plural and either dative or ablative, most likely in a mistaken attempt for the two words to "match".[citation needed] However as this is a game manual rather than a true work of literature, the title of the book does in no way reflect the subject material short of making reference to the fact that is concerns the dead. Therefore, this criticism is rarely a concern except to those of heavy study in the Latin language.
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