Publication:Heroes of Horror

Heroes of Horror

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System: Dungeons and Dragons 3.5e  Abbreviation: HoH  Series: Genre Series  Author: James Wyatt, Ari Marmell, C.A. Suleiman  Publisher: Wizards of the Coast  Item Code: 885227200  Publication Date: October 2005  Format: Hardcover  Page Count: 160  ISBN-10: 0-7869-3699-1  Price: $29.95 ; C$39.959-1

Product Blurb Heroes of Horror provides everything players and Dungeon Masters need to play and run a horror-oriented campaign or integrate elements of creepiness & tension into their existing campaigns. Players can develop heroes or anti-heroes using new feats, new spells, new base classes and prestige classes, and new magic items. The book presents new mechanics for different types of horror, including rules for dread and tainted characters, as well as plenty of new horrific monsters and adventure seeds. Different types and genres of horror are discussed in detail. This text is quoted from promotion material. Text and images are copyrighted by the original publisher.

Feats

Name	Page	Description
Archivist of Nature	119	In addition to your studies of the darkness, you have spent time studying giants and fey.
Bane Magic	119	Your spells deal extra damage to a particular type of creature.
Blood Calls to Blood	120	Exploring the latent potential in your blood due to your fiendish descent, you learn how to better adapt to the mystical attacks of your forebears.
Corrupt Arcana	120	You can prepare and cast corrupt spells.
Corrupt Spell Focus	120	All spells you cast that have a corrupt component (such as call forth the beast, master's lament, or chain of sorrow) are more potent than normal.
Debilitating Spell	120	By calling upon the taint within, you add a malign power to your offensive spells.
Debilitating Strike	120	By calling upon the taint within, you add a malign power to your melee attacks.
Deformity (Skin)	121	Due to a regimen of deliberate abuse, you have roughened your skin until it has grown as coarse and tough as rhino hide.
Deformity (Tall)	121	Through long and painful stints on the rack, bolstered by the surgical implantation of various splints and struts, you have stretched yourself to well over 7 feet in height.
Deformity (Teeth)	121	By filing your teeth to points and brutalizing your gums, you gain a hideous smile full of razor-sharp teeth that enable you to make a grisly bite attack.
Deformity (Tongue)	121	Through protracted self-mutilation that involves frequently piercing your tongue and dipping it in acid, your tongue becomes hideous to behold but oddly sensitive to the environment.
Disease Immunity	121	Whether due to prolonged exposure or natural hardiness, you have grown immune to some diseases and resistant to all others.
Draconic Archivist	122	In addition to your studies of the darkness, you have spent time studying dragons and constructs.
Dreamtelling	122	You can use your Knowledge (the planes) skill to interpret your dreams or the dreams of others, thus gleaning useful information and insights.
Eldritch Corruption	122	You can add power to your spells or spell-like abilities at the expense of your companions' health.
Font of Life	122	Your life-force is strong enough to make you highly resistant to all forms of energy drain and level loss.
Forbidden Lore	123	You gain hideous insights into subjects not meant to be understood by mortal minds.
Greater Corrupt Spell Focus	123	Your corrupt spells are now even more potent than they were before.
Haunting Melody	123	You can use your music to inspire fear.
Improved Oneiromancy	123	With the Improved Oneiromancy feat, you gain additional dream-related spellcasting abilities.
Lunatic Insight	123	Your madness grants you insight and knowledge.
Mad Faith	123	Your depravity has twisted the connection between you and your patron deity. You suffer flashes of insight interrupted by flashes of madness.
Master of Knowledge	123	You have spent most of your life in study, and it comes naturally to you now.
Oneiromancy	123	You gain a number of abilities and advantages related to dreams and magic.
Pure Soul	124	Your faith or purity of mind overrides the evils within you. You are immune to taint.
Spirit Sense	124	You can see and communicate with the souls of the recently departed.
Surge of Malevolence	124	You empower yourself by drawing on the taint within.
Tainted Fury	124	You can channel your physical corruption into a state of fury.
Touch of Taint	124	One of your attack forms that normally deals ability damage, ability drain, or energy drain can also deal corruption or depravity.
Unnatural Will	124	You have learned to focus your force of personality and inner strength to stand against fearful circumstances.
Willing Deformity	125	Through scarification, self-mutilation, or supplication to dark powers, you intentionally mar your own body.

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