Crypt Dweller
- Armor Class
- 7 [12] (m)
- Hit Dice
- 2
- Attacks
- Claw or Weapon (1d3)
- Special
- magic weapons to hit, undead, immune to sleep/charm/hold
- Move
- 18
- HDE/XP
- 3/60
Description
A Crypt Dweller is an undead creature improperly buried or placed into a grave that has been desecrated or defiled. It resembles a zombie, and is often mistaken for one. A crypt dweller attacks with clawed hands, or sometimes with a weapon if one was entombed with the creature. Its main defense is that it can only be damaged by magical weapons or spells.
Strikes from normal weapons will only make the crypt dweller pause slightly, making it lose initiative on the following round. Like all undead, it can be Turned by Clerics (as a wight), and are immune to Sleep, charm, and hold spells. No form of Detect Thoughts (ESP) or mental contact is of any use against it. A crypt dweller always fights until destroyed.
Source note: This creature is converted from The Basic Fantasy Field Guide of Creatures Malevolent and Benign – Omnibus Edition, 1st Edition Release 4, © 2010–2025 Chris Gonnerman, R. Kevin Smoot, James Lemon, Matt Sluis, and Contributors. The Basic Fantasy Field Guide textual material is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International; this page adapts that creature to White Box.