Ashmouth Preacher
Fiend · Crown of Apostasy
T2d6Minor
A gaunt, robed figure with a mouth full of grey ash, the Ashmouth Preacher delivers sermons that strip divine magic of its effectiveness. Ash falls from its lips in a steady stream, and in its wake faith becomes harder to feel and prayers harder to speak.
Tier 2 · Role Minor · Pool Vigor 4 · AC 13 · ATK +5 · Save DC 13 · Dmg 2 (flat)
| Stat | Score | Mod | Die |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body | 16 | - | - |
| Mind | 16 | - | - |
| Sense | 18 | - | - |
| Heart | 8 | - | - |
| Cunning | 18 | - | - |
| Fate | 16 | - | - |
A Minor has no attribute mechanics: the scores describe the creature, they do not roll.
Passives
Spellcasting (ash-sermons)
The Preacher speaks a hollow apostate liturgy that gutters divine magic; ash falls where it preaches, and prayers die on the tongue within 30 ft.
Ashes to Ashes
Its breath turns organic material to ash. A non-magical wooden weapon, shield, or holy symbol that touches the Preacher crumbles unless its bearer makes a Fate save (DC 13).
Maneuvers
Sermon of Emptiness
Ash spills from its lips as it preaches. Each creature within 30 ft that can hear makes a Heart save (DC 13) or gains no benefit from divine magic for 1 round: healing does nothing, blessings go silent.
Reactions
Dusty Rebuke
When a divine spell is cast within 30 ft, the Preacher coughs a gout of ash at the caster, who makes a Body save (DC 13) or chokes and the spell fizzles.
Tactics
GM tactics
The Ashmouth Preacher wanders into combat disguised as a harmless clergyman. It opens with Sermon of Emptiness to neutralize divine support, then lets Ashes to Ashes crumble the holy symbols that touch it. It saves Dusty Rebuke for the party's cleric or paladin. It does not attack faith head-on - it fills the space between mortal and divine with dust.
Running it
Rules
- One Vigor pool of 2 x Tier, no Vitality. It breaks and flees with 2 left, and dies at 0. The pool does not regenerate.
- A hit deals a flat 2, no roll. A crit (natural 20 only) rolls d6 and never lands below 2.
- Crits on a natural 20 only.
- Minor: no stat modifiers or dice in play; its scores describe the creature, they do not roll.
- With 2 Vigor left it breaks and flees, out of the fight but alive; Fanatics fight on to 0 instead.
- At 0 Vigor it is dead: 4 total damage, and a single blow of 4 or more kills it on the spot.
- Vigor damage is simply damage against a Minor: its whole pool is Vigor.
- Group morale: when its group loses half its number, fled or dead, the rest check morale.
- NPCs never take wounds.