Category:Skeleton
Canon Information
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Skeletons are sets of bones animated through necromancy. They can be found wherever magics are used to raise the dead, including the domains of Barovia[1][2], Cavitius[3], Darkon[4], Graefmotte[5], Hazlan[6], , Invidia[7], Keening[8], Necropolis[9], Nova Vaasa[10], Richemulot [11][12], the Shadow Rift[13], Sithicus[14], and Staunton Bluffs[15]. Prior to its dissolution, skeletons could be encountered in Daglan.[16]
As undead, skeletons can be found in the domains of Har'Akir[17][18], Mordent[19][20], and Sanguinia[21], and Valachan[22][23].
Potential Canon Information
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John W. Mangrum's Skeleton Lore[24]
Monster Manual
Characters with ranks in Knowledge (religion) can learn more about a creature’s skeletal nature. They need to make a separate Knowledge check to learn about the base creature. Characters who recognize a skeleton’s nature can make a Knowledge (arcana) check to learn more. When a character makes a successful skill check, the following lore is revealed, including the information from lower DCs.
DC 10: These walking bones are nothing more than the undead skeleton of a once-living creature, given independent life through foul magic. This result reveals all undead traits.
DC 15: Skeletons are mindless undead that retain almost none of the knowledge or abilities they possessed in life.
DC 20: Because a skeleton lacks soft tissues, it ignores exposure to cold, and most minor weapon strikes simply clatter off its dry bones. The most effective means of destroying skeletons is to simply smash them to pieces with bludgeoning weapons.
DC 13: Skeletons can be created with a basic animate dead spell. They are often found in the service of necromancers or other masters of the undead.
Homebrew Non-Canon Information
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Descriptive Text
References
- ↑ Ravenloft: Realm of Terror, p. 65
- ↑ Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens, p. 10
- ↑ Die Vecna Die p. 154
- ↑ Gazetteer II p.18
- ↑ Domains of Dread: Graefmotte, Dragon Magazine] #375, p. 69
- ↑ Gazetteer I p.46
- ↑ Gazetteer IV p.44
- ↑ Gazetteer V p. 87
- ↑ Gazetteer II p.57
- ↑ Gazetteer V p.20
- ↑ Ravenloft: Realm of Terror, p. 80
- ↑ Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens, p. 28
- ↑ Gazetteer V p. 105
- ↑ Gazetteer IV p.111
- ↑ Islands of Terror p.68
- ↑ Feast of Goblyns p.82
- ↑ Ravenloft: Realm of Terror, 84.
- ↑ Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens, p. 39
- ↑ Ravenloft: Realm of Terror, p. 69
- ↑ Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens, p. 25
- ↑ Ravenloft: Realm of Terror, p. 84
- ↑ Ravenloft: Realm of Terror, p. 79
- ↑ Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens, p. 32
- ↑ Mangrum's Monster Lore
Subcategories
This category has the following 25 subcategories, out of 25 total.
A
- Archer Skeleton (empty)
B
- Baneguard (empty)
- Blazing Bones (empty)
- Bone Rat Swarm (empty)
C
- Cloud of Bones (empty)
E
- Elite Skeleton (empty)
G
- Giant Ant Skeleton (empty)
- Giant Stag Beetle Skeleton (empty)
- Giant Tick Skeleton (empty)
H
- Hive Skeleton (empty)
I
K
- Karrnathi Skeleton (empty)
N
- Necropolitan Skeleton (4 P)
P
- Pyroskeleton (empty)
S
- Serpentir (empty)
- Skeletal Bat (empty)
- Skeletal Bull (empty)
- Skeletal Cat (empty)
- Skeletal Hound (empty)
- Skull Lord (empty)
- Strahd Skeleton (1 P)
- Strahd's Skeletal Steed (empty)
U
- Uncle Skeleton (empty)
Pages in category "Skeleton"
The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
- Canon
- Potential-canon
- Homebrew non-canon
- Corporeal Undead
- Mindless
- Monster Manual (3.5)
- Native Monster of Richemulot
- Slave
- Undead
- Bone
- Necromancy
- Necrology
- Knowledge (religion)
- Knowledge (arcana)
- Native Monster of Barovia
- Native Monster of Souragne
- Walking Dead
- Obedient Dead
- Native Monster of Daglan
- Native Monster of Darkon
- Native Monster of Graefmote
- Native Monster of Har'Akir
- Native Monster of Hazlan
- Native Monster of Keening
- Native Monster of Invidia
- Native Monster of Mordent
- Native Monster of Necropolis
- Native Monster of Nova Vaasa
- Native Monster of the Shadow Rift
- Native Monster of Sithicus
- Native Monster of Staunton Bluffs
- Native Monster of Valachan
- Challenge 1/4