New PC Race: The Thoul

Game Statistics

Ability Modifiers: +1 Str, +1 Con, -1 Int, -1 Dex.
Natural Armor Class: 8

Special Abilities

The Thoul has a natural regeneration ability, like the troll. Until reaching Normal Monster level, the regeneration ability is very slow. Unlike the troll, the Thoul's regeneration ability ceases to work upon death- in other words, once the Thoul hits 0 hp, he ceases to exist. No healing, save for magical means of resuscitation, will work.

Multiple Attacks- the Thoul can attack twice per round with its claws, if need be, doing 1d3 points of damage per attack.

Paralysis- The Thoul has the natural ability to cause paralysis with the merest touch of its skin to another. This ability grows slowly, as seen on the charts. At Youngster level, recipients gain a +4 to their saves to resist this ability, and its duration isn't as long as a normal ghouls. By normal monster level, this ability is similar to the ghoul. It can paralyse any creature of ogre size or smaller, save for elves, other thouls, and undead. As a side note, Thouls have proven immune to the paralysis of ghouls (and possibly other undead as well).

DMs Option: Thoul Shamans

As noted in the Rules Cyclopaedia, Thouls may have Shamans and Wokans among their ranks. An interesting option for PC Thouls is to allow them, alone among the ranks of the humanoid Shamans, to control Undead. This ability will be the equivalent of the Cleric's turning, but rather than turn undead, a number of undead equivalent to the turn roll will be under the Shaman's control. The rules for this ability otherwise follow the rules for undead lieges and pawns.

Thoul

Related to Trolls and Hobgoblins, Thouls most closely resemble the latter, though they tend to be leaner and more bestial looking. Most of them are very unclean and unsociable, even for humanoid kind.
Average Size: 6'' + d12 inches
Fitness (d6):
• 1-3: Skinny
• 4-5: Normal
• 6: Fat

Goblinus Monstrum Cannibalis: Pale skinned, with dirty brown or black hair. Bulldog facial features. Usually wearing animal hides and using rock clubs or natural claws as weapons. Cannibals, they can be found among most Hobgoblin communities, in isolated camps. Particularly fierce Thouls are often chosen as elite guards.

Goblinus Monstrum Necrophagous: Dead white skin. White hair usually braided with bones. Very thin and wasted looking, with toadlike facial features- often with bone piercings. Wear skins- animal and humanoid alike- and use bone clubs or claws. Live in deep caverns or isolated communities (such as Tombstone in Glantri) far from other humanoids. Their necromantic practices and habits of feasting on corpses (often long dead) lead other humanoids to stay away from them.