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A Magical Society Aggressive Ecology: The Undead Leviathan
Author: Joseph Browning
Publisher: Expeditious Retreat Press
Year: 2019
What is an aggressive ecology? It's a new type of challenge for your players, a monster with many faces, a web of interrelated challenges that can together form a complex encounter-in-depth. It is a world-building device based upon a magical interrelationship between disparate, yet connected creatures. It is, in short, something not seen before and something not quickly forgotten.
There are few aggressive ecologies found in the deep oceans, and only one centered upon the rotting carcass of a fallen whale. A whale fall is an unusual event in and of itself, but occasionally these massive bounties of detrital material land in places that simply cannot sustain natural life of any sort: a negative energy sink. These strange negative energies infuse a whale carcass with unholy power giving unlife, mobility, and malevolence-creating an undead leviathan. But worse, after enough time, the undead leviathan rises to torment the land!
This aggressive ecology presents a terrible challenge to all 1e/OSRIC Player Characters and is easily adaptable to any OSR system. Present your players a new type of challenge, the Aggressive Ecology!
There are few aggressive ecologies found in the deep oceans, and only one centered upon the rotting carcass of a fallen whale. A whale fall is an unusual event in and of itself, but occasionally these massive bounties of detrital material land in places that simply cannot sustain natural life of any sort: a negative energy sink. These strange negative energies infuse a whale carcass with unholy power giving unlife, mobility, and malevolence-creating an undead leviathan. But worse, after enough time, the undead leviathan rises to torment the land!
This aggressive ecology presents a terrible challenge to all 1e/OSRIC Player Characters and is easily adaptable to any OSR system. Present your players a new type of challenge, the Aggressive Ecology!
