Game Master reference / Monster
Description and lore
This encounter form is a spirit that reaches through barriers and drives people toward safety. Its alarming behavior may conceal an intention the party has not understood.
The spirit points away from the closed room with urgent persistence. Its alarming touch carries the insistence of a warning.
An open route waits beyond the party. Whatever draws the spirit to this place has made that direction matter.
At a glance
This encounter form is a spirit that reaches through barriers and drives people toward safety. Its alarming behavior may conceal an intention the party has not understood.
| Vitality | Intellect | Might | Tact | Agility | Spirit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| d4 | d4 | d4 | d4 | d6 | d6 |
Affinities: Vitality d4, Might d4, Agility d6, Intellect d4, Tact d4, Spirit d6.
Skill overrides: Evade d4.
Resolve 6; Stamina 5; Mana 6. Movement 25 feet.
Player Book idea: Spirit that touches through barriers and drives people toward safety.
Use: Basic attack · Phantom Touch: Might + supplemental d6 Rend (Unholy); defender uses Ward + Spirit.
Effect - Signature: Phase; Dread. Can reach through a nonmagical barrier no thicker than 1 foot only when its target remains visible; no attacking unknown occupants through walls.
Counterplay: Opaque barriers and a resolved grievance can end the haunting.
Relationship: A spirit category represented by one encounter form; not all yokai share this personality.
A hand reaches through the thin screen and points urgently toward the open door. Beyond the spirit, something shifts in the room you were about to enter.
“Not that door. The open way. Now.”
“You may be angry with me once you are outside.”