Monster Monday: Undead Schoolmarm

Undead Schoolmarm

There are those who, in life, lead lives so devoid of pleasure that the only enjoyment they find is in scolding and rebuking others for failing to live up to a imagined (though deeply-believed) system of ethics or morality. These people might be actual spinster schoolmarms, but they might as easily be anhedonic prelates, finger-wagging censors, or even jaded sybarites who can now only find joy in judging the actions of others.

When such an individual dies there is a fleeting chance that they will return as an undead creature bent on continuing to admonish and chide the living.

Move: 120' (40') AC: 14 HD: 2 Attacks: 2 (AB +2) Dam: 1d4 (shaking fists) Mor: 12

Special Abilities: Castigate – an Undead Schoolmarm can verbally reprimand one living being per round. The victim of this attack must make a successful saving throw. If failed, a lawful character takes the criticism to heart and suffers a -2 penalty on all actions until the Schoolmarm is defeated; a neutral character finds themselves suffering from the effects of a slow spell as they attempt to follow the Schoolmarm's emotional lecturing; a chaotic character loses their next action from laughing at the Schoolmarm's silly reproach. Undead.