Mummy, Salt

Medium Undead — CR 8

— (—)Updated 3.5

Mummy, Salt is a D&D 3.5 monster from —. CR 8, HD 12d12 plus 36 (114 hp).

Hit Dice
12d12 plus 36 (114 hp)
Initiative
-1
Speed
land 30 ft, 30 ft.
Base Attack / Grapple
+6/+14
Attack
Slam +9 melee*
Full Attack
Slam +9 melee*
STR
27
DEX
8
INT
6
WIS
10
CHA
16
Fort / Ref / Will
+4 / +3 / +8
Challenge Rating
8
Alignment
Often chaotic evil
Organization
Solitary, pair, or cluster (5-9)
Treasure
Standard
Level Adjustment
+6

Special Abilities

Dehydrating ImpactUnholy Toughness

Feats

In melee combat, a salt mummy delivers a powerful blow, but worse than that, its salt-encrusted body is supernaturally arid. A salt mummy normally attacks using its Power Attack feat, taking a -5 penalty on its attack rolls and gaining a +5 bonus on damage rolls. Salt mummies are preserved corpses of ancient humanoids who were accidentally buried too close to veins of white, brittle salt. Of course, salt alone is not sufficient to suffuse a body with undead vigor; often, such a creature has taken a great sin with it to its subterranean grave, the horror of which eventually creates a linkage to the Negative Energy Plane. A salt mummy is usually encountered by miners working a new deposit. It appears at first to be nothing more than an old, salt-rimed corpse. if the miners continue to dig it out, eventually the mummy becomes animate and waits until it is almost dug free. The shuddering crack as a salt mummy breaks away from a salt vein is a dreadful thing to hear. A salt mummy stands around 6 feet tall and weighs about 180 pounds. Some salt mummies know Common, but many more know only the ancient language they spoke when living, a language now long dead.

Description

In melee combat, a salt mummy delivers a powerful blow, but worse than that, its salt-encrusted body is supernaturally arid. A salt mummy normally attacks using its Power Attack feat, taking a -5 penalty on its attack rolls and gaining a +5 bonus on damage rolls. Salt mummies are preserved corpses of ancient humanoids who were accidentally buried too close to veins of white, brittle salt. Of course, salt alone is not sufficient to suffuse a body with undead vigor; often, such a creature has taken a great sin with it to its subterranean grave, the horror of which eventually creates a linkage to the Negative Energy Plane. A salt mummy is usually encountered by miners working a new deposit. It appears at first to be nothing more than an old, salt-rimed corpse. if the miners continue to dig it out, eventually the mummy becomes animate and waits until it is almost dug free. The shuddering crack as a salt mummy breaks away from a salt vein is a dreadful thing to hear. A salt mummy stands around 6 feet tall and weighs about 180 pounds. Some salt mummies know Common, but many more know only the ancient language they spoke when living, a language now long dead.