worded carefully, can remove one or more trapped characters. Passwall spells do not allow an individual to go through a living wall. Characters must either cut through or blast through using magic. This, however, allows the wall to return attacks. When cutting or blasting though the living wall, a stench rises from the exposed underflesh that is nauseating and horrifying. A saving throw versus poison is required to avoid passing out from the smell. A successful saving throw indicates the character is only nauseated. Living walls are immune to all planar and temporal spells. Speak with dead, €'Si? and similar spells reveal a cacophony of tortured minds and voices. The caster learns nothing and must make a horror check. HabitatSociety: Living walls never reproduce and always remain active until they are killed. Living walls encountered in the lairs of malevolent creatures often serve as part of a torture chamber or to cover the true openings to secret passageways or corridors. No one knows whether these monstrosities are limited in size or longevity. Walls as large as 15 feet high, 30 feet long and 10 feet thick have been reported. Living walls do, however, seem limited to one section of wall. Thus, a cemetery or castle could not be surrounded by one large living wall. Nor could a wall section spread beyond itself: a house with a living wall in its basement will not slowly become a living house. The wall desires, above all else, to slay the creature who created it. If it does so, or the creature meets its end within 100 yards of the wall, the corpse of the hated creator is assimilated and the beings trapped in the wall are freed to return to the peace of death. The wall reverts to being a structure of stone, with the corpse of its creator entombed within. Eco1ogy:Chaotic evil mages occasionally create these monoliths. The exact method is unknown, but several years of preparation and spellcasting are required. A minimum of three corpses are necessary for the spells. As known only to one or two inhabitants of Ravenloft, living walls also arise as rare manifestations of Ravenloft's power as response to despair and dread. These walls are born of curses, midwived by death, and nursed on massacre. The seed for such a living wall is planted when one sapient creature willfully entombs another in a wall. The hapless victim may be bound and walled alive in a rock niche on a windswept mountain trail, a sill in a fetid catacomb, a corner in an asylum, a cave wall, a mausoleum facade, or any other stone or brick wall. Once so entombed, the victim will suffocate, dehydrate, or starve in utter darkness and solitude. But even this agony is not sufficient to wake the land's attention-the entombed creature, in his terror, must curse his slayer, screaming loudly enough for his voice to carry beyond his tomb of stone. Only then does the land hear his agony. When the victim dies, his life force is trapped within the wall. As he struggles to escape, his life energy becomes soiled by the soot of his screams and curses, which thickly coat the inside of his stone sarcophagus. In a matter of days, madness corrupts the trapped life force, changing it to chaotic evil. At this point, the bodies of any creatures that have died within 100 yards of the wall within the last month rise, shamble to the wall, and meld with it. Even corpses that have been buried will dig their way to the surface and converge upon the wall. Although the wall retains its previous appearance, it is no longer stone, but a gray and rotting bulwark of limbs, ribs, hands, bones, and faces, twisted and fused together. Bodies of any subsequent deaths occurring within 100 yards also rise and wander to the wall for assimilation. Most cultures and all good-aligned characters attempt to destroy these creations wherever they are found. But many of these assaults merely strengthen the wall with more corpses.
- fficial Game Accessory ghastly tales of their past, and grim accounts of their present. You’ll visit their dark domains and tour the horrid sites portrayed in 10 full-page maps. The shadows are lengthening; the air is growing chill. The Darklords are calling. Their voices are carried by the Mists of Ravenloft, and you have little choice but to answer. ithin this volume are 16 dark lords and ladies, each a prisoner of Ravenloft. Some are new to the setting, yet all may seem hauntingly familiar, for they have been lurking at the edge of your nightmares, waiting for the chance to emerge in your campaigns. The Headless Horseman, the Phantom Lover, the Vampire Panther-these and other malignant forces await. You’ll read 96 pages-Recommended for Levels 5 and up By Andria Hayday with William W. Connors, Bruce Nesmith, and James Lowder TSR, Inc. TSR, Ltd. Lake Geneva Cherry Hinton 120 Church End Cambridge CB1 3LB United Kingdom ~53147 9 781560 761372 USA - ISBN 3-5607b-337-7 S 10.95 US. CAN 8 13.50 €6.99 U.K. ADVANCED DUNGEONS E DRAGONS and RAVENLOFT are registered trademarks owned by TSR. Inc. The TSR logo is a trademark owned by TSR, Inc. Copyright 01991 TSR. Inc. All Rights Resewed. Printed in the U.S.A.