Editing Heroes of Horror (section)

==New Monsters==
The book introduces several new monsters.  It is a bit disappointing that the book didn't have more.  Most of them are actually not that scary and some are completely forgettable.  Several of them probably would have been more appropriate to put in different books.  Of these monsters, only the cadaver golem and the bloodrot appeared in 4th edition, and none have returned yet for 5th, though a few of them do have fans who would like to see them come back.
* Bane Wraith: A more powerful [[Wraith]] that loves to get revenge on people by murdering all of their friends and family.  It can use illusions to appear to be a living person.  It can read people's minds to find out who their loved ones so it can hunt them all down.  Humanoids it kills come back as regular wraiths.  
* Bloodrot: A liquid undead resembling an [[Slime|Ooze]] formed from the remains of somebody who died from being melted in acid.  It infects enemies with a magical disease called blood fever that is difficult to cure and can hide inside of the bloodstream of anybody who is infected.  Those infected with blood fever will also attract more bloodrots to them since they can also sense the location of infectees over long distances.  Like many oozes, they can also split into smaller bloodrots when hit with piercing or slashing weapons.  It reappeared in 4th edition, but without any of its unique mechanics.
* Bog Imp: Lawful evil [[Fey]] creatures that lives in swamps that have the ability to make people sink into the swamp and drown just by looking at them.  Elves who are killed this way turn into new bog imps.  They look suspiciously similar to the gremlins from the movie Gremlins.
* Boneleaf: An [[aberration]] that resembles a plant.  It has razor sharp leaves and can lure people towards it with illusions.  Multiple boneleaves in an area are actually parts of the same entity connected by underground nerves, so what one boneleaf learns, all the ones connected to it also learn.  One of the more forgettable monsters in the book, as there are tons of other monsters in the game that can do the same things a boneleaf can and it doesn't stand out from them.  An aberration that spreads itself over a large area like a plant is a great concept and sounds like it could be a big threat, but the boneleaf doesn't live up to that potential.
* Corruption Eater:  An aberration resembling a ghoul with a tongue covered in small mouths and barbed tentacles in place of arms.  It drains the corruption score of those it hits with it's bite attack, and it has a breath weapon that can increase the target's depravity score which it can only use after draining enough corruption.  It is vulnerable to attacks by enemies that have zero corruption and depravity.
* Taint Elemental: An [[Elemental]] made of taint.  It's attacks can greatly increase the target's corruption score.
* Dusk Giant: Dusk giants are man eating [[giant]]s that change size depending on how much flesh they have recently eaten and get more befit from eating intelligent creatures.  They can grow up to 20 feet tall when well fed, and shrink down to just over 6 feet tall when starving.  Their magical abilities also increase when they are well fed, and they always are surrounded by an aura of shadow that darkens bright lights and causes despair.  You might want to use this monster if you want to run an Attack on Titan inspired game.
* Cadaver Golem: Similar to a [[flesh golem]] but more intelligent.  It can gain new skills and abilities by adding new body parts to itself.  The cadaver golem later appeared in 4th edition, but no longer could gain skills and abilities from assimilated flesh.
* Grey Jester: Because no book of horror monsters is completed without a killer clown.  A grey jesters is an evil fey creature that can permanently steal all joy from anyone who laughs or otherwise feel good in it's presence, and may turn them into slaves called bleak ones if they have less than or equal hit dice than the grey jester.  If it can't make you laugh with it's performance it can instead force you to laugh with the Tasha's Hideous Laughter spell which it casts by touching you with it's hands or the scepter it always carries.
* Phantasmal Slayer: A ghostly creature that looks like the viewer's worst fear.  Anybody who sees a Phantasmal Slayer is affected as though hit by the phantasmal killer spell.  It's touch can cause the victim to instantly drop dead from fear.
===Templates===
* Tainted Minion: If a humanoid's corruption score becomes too high, they drop dead and rise as a tainted minion.
* Tainted Raver: If a humanoid's depravity score becomes too high, they are driven permanently insane and become a tainted raver.  They are [[Angry Marines| always angry, all the time]]
* Unholy Scion: If you want the villain of your campaign to be the Antichrist, this is the template you should apply to them.  They are pure evil before they are even born yet.  The mother of an unholy scion is permanently under the scion's control by an effect similar to the charm person or charm animal spell, even while the scion is still a fetus inside of them.  The scion can also see through their mother's senses and use it's spell like abilities through them similar to a wizard's familiar.  It also gains claw attacks and several spell like abilities depending on how many hit dice it has.  This is the only one of the templates in the book that can be a player character, not that you are likely to find a DM who would let you.

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