Monster Trove: Old Fears and Hungry Things
Gjenganger
Medium
About
A Gjenganger is a dead person who returns bodily because a promise, crime, or grievance remains active. Unlike a fading ghost, it opens doors, leaves mud, and sits with the weight of a living visitor. It may protect family, punish an oath-breaker, or spread death by pinching sleepers. Discovering the unfinished obligation is the only reliable way to distinguish justice from obsession.
Stats
HP
72
AC
16
DR
2
Attacks
1
Attack:
2d6+3
Save Rolls
Quick
2
Tough
4
Mind
3
Default Save TN (based on HP): 13
Traits
Alignment:
Orderly Impartial (Arbiter)
Intelligence:
Average (8-10)
Magic Resistance:
Special Attack
Death Pinch: necrotic, melee 5 ft, +4 to hit, 2d6+3. A target also makes a Tough save or loses 1d6 maximum HP until the Gjenganger's obligation is addressed.
Special Defense
Finish What Followed Home: completing or publicly resolving its last obligation suppresses Death Pinch. Burial iron placed across its path lowers its DR to 0.