ability_mods:
  cha_mod: 2
  con_mod: 1
  dex_mod: 4
  int_mod: 1
  str_mod: 1
  wis_mod: 2
ac: 16
ac_special: null
alignment: CE
automatic_abilities: null
description: 'Ghouls are ravenous undead who haunt graveyards and eat corpses.




  **__Recall Knowledge - Undead__ (__Religion__)**: DC 15'
hp: 20
hp_misc: negative healing
immunities:
- death effects
- disease
- paralyzed
- poison
- unconscious
items: null
languages:
- Common
- Necril
level: 1
melee:
- action_cost: One Action
  damage:
    formula: 1d6+1
    type: piercing
  name: jaws
  plus_damage:
  - formula: null
    type: ghoul fever and paralysis
  to_hit: 9
  traits:
  - finesse
- action_cost: One Action
  damage:
    formula: 1d4+1
    type: slashing
  name: claw
  plus_damage:
  - formula: null
    type: paralysis
  to_hit: 9
  traits:
  - agile
  - finesse
name: Ghoul
perception: 7
proactive_abilities:
- action_cost: One Action
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: null
  effect: The ghoul is adjacent to the corpse of a creature that died within the last
    hour.
  effects: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  name: Consume Flesh
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Consume Flesh**   (__manipulate__) **Requirements** The ghoul
    is adjacent to the corpse of a creature that died within the last hour. **Effect**
    The ghoul devours a chunk of the corpse and regains 1d6 Hit Points. It can regain
    Hit Points from any given corpse only once.'
  requirements: null
  success: null
  traits:
  - manipulate
  trigger: null
- action_cost: None
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: '**Saving Throw** Fortitude DC 15; **Stage 1** carrier with no ill
    effect (1 day); **Stage 2** 2d6 negative damage and regains half as many Hit Points
    from all healing (1 day); **Stage 3** as stage 2 (1 day); **Stage 4** 2d6 negative
    damage and gains no benefit from healing (1 day); **Stage 5** as stage 4 (1 day);
    **Stage 6** dead, and rises as a ghoul the next midnight.'
  effect: null
  effects: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  name: Ghoul Fever
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Ghoul Fever** (__disease__) **Saving Throw** Fortitude DC 15;
    **Stage 1** carrier with no ill effect (1 day); **Stage 2** 2d6 negative damage
    and regains half as many Hit Points from all healing (1 day); **Stage 3** as stage
    2 (1 day); **Stage 4** 2d6 negative damage and gains no benefit from healing (1
    day); **Stage 5** as stage 4 (1 day); **Stage 6** dead, and rises as a ghoul the
    next midnight.'
  requirements: null
  success: null
  traits:
  - disease
  trigger: null
- action_cost: None
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: Any living, non-elf creature hit by a ghoul's attack must succeed at
    a DC 15 Fortitude save or become __paralyzed__. It can attempt a new save at the
    end of each of its turns, and the DC cumulatively decreases by 1 on each such
    save.
  effect: null
  effects: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  name: Paralysis
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Paralysis** (__incapacitation__, __occult__, __necromancy__)
    Any living, non-elf creature hit by a ghoul''s attack must succeed at a DC 15
    Fortitude save or become __paralyzed__. It can attempt a new save at the end of
    each of its turns, and the DC cumulatively decreases by 1 on each such save.'
  requirements: null
  success: null
  traits:
  - incapacitation
  - occult
  - necromancy
  trigger: null
- action_cost: One Action
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: The ghoul jumps up to half its Speed. This movement doesn't trigger
    reactions.
  effect: null
  effects: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  name: Swift Leap
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Swift Leap**   (__move__) The ghoul jumps up to half its Speed.
    This movement doesn''t trigger reactions.'
  requirements: null
  success: null
  traits:
  - move
  trigger: null
ranged: null
rarity: Common
resistances: null
ritual_lists: null
saves:
  fort: 4
  fort_misc: null
  misc: null
  ref: 9
  ref_misc: null
  will: 5
  will_misc: null
sense_abilities: null
senses:
- Perception +7
- darkvision
size: Medium
skills:
- bonus: 7
  misc: null
  name: 'Acrobatics '
- bonus: 4
  misc: null
  name: 'Athletics '
- bonus: 7
  misc: null
  name: 'Stealth '
- bonus: 5
  misc: null
  name: 'Survival '
source:
- abbr: Bestiary
  page_start: 169
  page_stop: null
speed:
- amount: 30
  type: Land
- amount: 5
  type: burrow
spell_lists: null
traits:
- CE
- Medium
- Ghoul
- Undead
type: Creature
weaknesses: null