Trailgaunt
Creature 3 — undead, unholy
Pre-Remaster content. May include legacy alignment.
Legends warn of trailgaunts-the twitching, rotting corpses of seasoned travelers who became lost on their journeys and died of starvation, thirst, or exposure to the elements. These troubled souls, the tales say, rise at the next sunset as tormented undead, doomed to forever search for the road they lost in life. Always wandering, the trailgaunt treads the ground over and over until its legs wear down to bloodied stumps. Even then, it staggers on, groaning in constant pain. Consumed with agony a
Source: pathfinder-bestiary-3 (Pre-Remaster)
Perception +10
Skills athletics +9, stealth +8, survival +10
Str
+4
Dex
+1
Con
+3
Int
+1
Wis
+3
Cha
-1
AC 19
Fort +12
Ref +6
Will +8
HP 45
Immunities bleed, death-effects, disease, paralyzed, poison, unconscious
Speed 10 feet, burrow 10 feet
Offense
Melee Jaws +12, Damage 1d8+6 piercing
Abilities
Tremorsense (Imprecise) 60 feet — Tremorsense
Pained Muttering (auditory, aura, emotion, fear) — 10 feet. The trailgaunt's constant mutters and groans of pain are deeply unsettling. Each creature that starts its turn in the aura must succeed at a DC 20 Fortitude save or become Frightened 1 (Frightened 2 on a critical failure). The creature is then temporarily immune for 1 minute.
Void Healing — Negative Healing
Create Spawn (divine) — Any humanoid creature killed by a trailgaunt and left unburied out of sight of a well-maintained road rises as a free-willed trailgaunt at the next sunset.
Dromophobia — The trailgaunt can't willingly walk on or across a well-maintained road, though it can Burrow under one. If forced onto the surface of such a road, the trailgaunt is Fleeing until it's no longer on the road.
Share Pain — A living creature hit by a trailgaunt's jaws Strike must succeed at a DC 20 Fortitude save or suffer intense pain in its legs and feet, taking a –10-foot status penalty to its Speeds, or a –20-foot status penalty on a critical failure.
Sure Stride — A trailgaunt ignores the effects of difficult terrain and greater difficult terrain.
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