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=== In Your Campaign ===

The statistics above represent a typical lector's profane power. This power is dependant on the number of evil items it has affixed to its body (in this case, five). For every evilly tainted item removed (or added) to its body, the profane bonus is reduced (or strengthened) by 1.

Characters who have done their homework on these undead might attempt to weaken the lector's profane power by ripping off the tainted items. This requires a successful disarm attempt to cut a bound item or, alternately, the character can try grabbing an item that is simply wedged into the skeletal structure. In either case, the lector receives a +4 bonus to its opposed attack roll and cannot attempt to disarm the PC if they fail. A character who successfully grabs one of the profane items takes 1 point of damage per round until it is dropped.

Lectors are often used by more powerful undead to locate missing artifacts and other miscellaneous magic of evil origins. For when the lector returns to the lord's lair, it is plucked of all interesting magical wares, usually reducing its profane bonus back to the typical level. Interestingly enough, more than one adventuring party has discovered that a lector has been shadowing it for months, acquiring tainted items the characters left behind as "unworthy" mundane items.</onlyinclude>


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Alignment	Usually neutral evil +
Challenge Rating	12 +
Environment	Any +
Level Adjustment	— +
Size	Medium +
Title	Lector +
Type	Undead +