Mummy

Mummies are undead monsters, linen-wrapped preserved corpses animated through the auspices of dark desert gods best forgotten. Most mummies are 5 to 6 feet tall and weigh about 120 pounds.

Special Abilities

Undead — Immune to sleep, charm and hold magic.

Resistant to Damage — Can only be injured by spells, fire, or magical weapons; furthermore, magic weapons do only half damage, while any sort of fire-based attack does double damage.

Mummy Rot — Those injured by mummy attacks will contract mummy rot, a disease that prevents normal or magical healing; a cure disease spell must be applied to the victim before he or she may again regain hit points.

The undead mummy exists both on the normal and negative material planes. Normally found in tombs or other burial places, they hate life and attempt to destroy any living creature they encounter.

Special Abilities

Mummy Rot — The touch of a mummy causes a wasting and rotting disease which will cause death within 1d6 months. For each month of affliction, the victim permanently loses 2 points of charisma, and while diseased no cure wound spells will have any effect and any wounds will naturally heal at a 10% rate. The mummy rot can only be cured by a cure disease spell.

Fear — All creatures within 60-ft of a mummy, upon sight, will suffer the effects of fear and revulsion unless a successful saving throw vs magic is made. If the save fails, the victim will be paralysed for 1d4 rounds. Groups of creatures gain a bonus of +1 for their save at a ratio of six creatures for each mummy (for example: 12 creatures in sight of 1 mummy gain a +2 to save; 12 creatures in sight of 2 mummies gain a +1, and 12 creatures within sight of 3 or more mummies gain no bonus). If humans confront a mummy, then each human will gain a +2 to his or her save.

Immunity to Normal Weapons — A mummy cannot be harmed by normal weapons, and magical weapons do only half damage (drop all fractions).

Immunities — A mummy is immune to sleep, hold spells, charm spells, and cold based attacks. Poison and paralysis have no effect on the creature.

Vulnerability to Fire — A mummy is susceptible to fire as follows: a hit from a torch will deal 1d3 hp damage, a flask of burning oil causes 1d8 hp on the first round and 2d8 hp on the second round, and magical fires deal +1 for each die of damage.

Vulnerability to Holy Water — Holy water inflicts 2d4 hp per vial that hits.

Raise Dead Vulnerability — A raise dead spell will transform the monster into a 7th-level fighter unless the mummy makes a successful save vs magic (unlisted categories).

Death Curse — Any character killed by a mummy cannot be raised due to the amount of damage caused by the rotting waste unless a cure disease and raise dead are both cast on the victim within one hour of death.