Mummy
Medium Undead — CR 5
- Hit Dice
- 8d12+3 (55 hp)
- Initiative
- +0
- Speed
- Land 20 ft
- Armor Class
- 20, touch 10, flat-footed 20
- Base Attack / Grapple
- +4/+11
- Attack
- Slam +11 melee (1d6+10 plus mummy rot)
- Full Attack
- Slam +11 melee (1d6+10 plus mummy rot)
- STR
- 24
- DEX
- 10
- INT
- 6
- WIS
- 14
- CHA
- 15
- Fort / Ref / Will
- +4 / +2 / +8
- Challenge Rating
- 5
- Alignment
- Usually Lawful-Evil
- Organization
- Solitary, warden squad (2–4), or guardian detail (6–10)
- Treasure
- Standard
- Environment
- Any
- Level Adjustment
- —
Special Abilities
Feats
This creature looks like a withered and desiccated corpse, with features hidden beneath centuries-old funereal wrappings. It moves with a slow, shambling gait and groans with the weight of the ages.
Description
Mummies are preserved corpses animated through the auspices of dark desert gods best forgotten. They usually inhabit great tombs or temple complexes, maintaining a timeless vigil and destroying would-be grave robbers.
These horrid creatures are often marked with symbols of the dire gods they serve. While other undead often stink of carrion, the herbs and powders used to create a mummy give off a sharp, pungent odor like that of a spice cabinet.
Mummies attack intruders without pause or mercy. They never attempt to communicate with their enemies and never retreat. An encounter with a mummy can end only with the destruction of one combatant or the other (unless the mummy’s foe elects to retreat).
Most mummies are 5 to 6 feet tall and weigh about 120 pounds. Mummies can speak Common, but seldom bother to do so.
Combat
In melee combat, a mummy delivers a powerful blow. Even if it had no other abilities, its great strength and grim determination would make it a formidable opponent.
Despair (Su): At the mere sight of a mummy, the viewer must succeed on a DC 16 Will save or be paralyzed with fear for 1d4 rounds. Whether or not the save is successful, that creature cannot be affected again by the same mummy’s despair ability for 24 hours. The save DC is Charisma-based.
Mummy Rot (Su): Supernatural disease—slam, Fortitude DC 16, incubation period 1 minute; damage 1d6 Con and 1d6 Cha. The save DC is Charisma-based.
Unlike normal diseases, mummy rot continues until the victim reaches Constitution 0 (and dies) or is cured as described below.
Mummy rot is a powerful curse, not a natural disease. A character attempting to cast any conjuration (healing) spell on a creature afflicted with mummy rot must succeed on a DC 20 caster level check, or the spell has no effect on the afflicted character.
To eliminate mummy rot, the curse must first be broken with break enchantment or remove curse (requiring a DC 20 caster level check for either spell), after which a caster level check is no longer necessary to cast healing spells on the victim, and the mummy rot can be magically cured as any normal disease.
An afflicted creature who dies of mummy rot shrivels away into sand and dust that blow away into nothing at the first wind.