Dead Pirates
Welcome again to Masters and Minions, where I strive to give you interesting NPCs and encounters that can be placed easily into your game. This week’s encounter is with the pirate, Erik the Bloody. In life Erik and his crew terrorized the seas and now in death they have become far more dangerous.
Erik’s ship is known as the Red Tide and is fully manned by his first mate Gorik and 20 undead pirates.
SPECIAL ABILITIES
Create Spawn (Su)
Any humanoid creature that is slain by a cairn wight becomes an ordinary wight itself in only 1d4 rounds. Spawn are under the command of the cairn wight that created them and remain enslaved until its death, at which point they become full-fledged and free-willed cairn wights. They do not possess any of the abilities they had in life.
Resurrection Vulnerability (Su)
A raise dead or similar spell cast on a cairn wight destroys it (Will negates). Using the spell in this way does not require a material component.
