FREQUENCY: Uncommon
FREQUENCY: Very
rare ([Cold Wilderness Mountains], [Cold Wilderness Swamp])
FREQUENCY: Very rare ([Temperate
Wilderness Mountains], [Temperate Wilderness Swamp])
FREQUENCY: Very
rare ([Tropical Wilderness Mountains], [Tropical Wilderness Swamp])
FREQUENCY:
Common ([Dungeon Level VI])
NO. APPEARING: 2-12
ARMOR CLASS: 4
MOVE: 12"/24"
HIT DICE: 5 + 3
% INLAIR: 25% (12 Wraiths:
city & subterranean catacombs, TPL30:5th, REF4.84)
TREASURE TYPE: [E]
NO. OF ATTACKS: 1 ~ 15
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 1-6
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Energy
drain (alt) <>
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Silver
or magic weapons to hit | limited immunity to spells/magic | Immunity to
poison/paralysis <>
MAGIC RESISTANCE: See below
INTELLIGENCE: Very
ALIGNMENT: Lawful evil
SIZE: M
LEVEL/X.P. VALUE: VI | 575
+ 6
Incorporeal wraiths lunge toward an adventurer
Wraiths are undead,
similar in nature to wights, but they exist more
strongly on the negative
material plane. They are found only in dark and
gloomy places, for they
have no power in full sunlight.
In
addition to the chilling effect of its touch (1-6 HP damage), a
wraith drains 1
life energy level at the rate of 1 per hit, just as a wight does. <alt>
Similarly, the wraith can
be struck only with silver weapons (which
cause
only one-half domage) or
weapons which are magically enchanted
(which score full damage).
-
serleran wrote:
Was it ever intended that
a Wraith be a subrace/subspecies of a Wight, or vice versa.
The 1E
MM descriptions seem to indicate they are related to each other,
in my humble opinion.
No, there is no relationship
as in developmental status.
they are related in being
undead, and that's that.
A wight
is more closely related to a lich than a wraith,
eh?
Cheers,
Gary
Quote:
Originally posted by ScottGLXIX
Greetings,
A question on some of the
undead creatures. Did you originally see wights and wraiths as having corporeal
forms or not? Early on wights and wraiths were very similar, the wraith
was just the more powerful of the two. Over the years they’ve developed
into very different critters with a wight having a physical form, and wraiths
not.
Scott
Hmmm. Absolutely did have
in mind that a wight was a physical being, a wraith mainly immaterial,
and I thought that was clear from the get-go in original D&D. Certainly
the movement rates for the two creatures reflected that, as I recall. (Heh,
you can tell it's been a while since I have delved into the MM--over a
year now, in fact.)
In fact, as I recall the Mm illos of the two showed the wight as a clearly physical, corpse-like monster, while the wraith was shown as spectral, ghostly, no?
Cheerio,
Gary
Wraith on Pteradon