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A Clan of Wretches

Wretches: new, heroic-tier

intelligent opponents for

the moors and wastes -

Bogwretch, the lowest of

the low; scared, they may

be, but their numbers

make them dangerous

Moorwretch, the wretch

leaders; intelligent and sly

Stonewretch, slow and

lumbering but strong

Details of wretcher society

A complete wretch clan

Playing wretch: wretch

powers and racial details

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Contents

Introduction...................................3

Knowledge......................................3

Graffiti or Art?........................................4

Random Thumps or music?.................4

BogWretch......................................5

Bogwretch Knowledge...........................5

Bogwretch Ordo.....................................5

Bogwretch Archer..................................6

Bogwretch Bully.....................................6

Bogwretch Hunter..................................6

Bogwretch Raider..................................7

Bogwretch Huntmaster..........................8

Bogwretch Encounters..........................9

Moorwretch..................................10

Moorwretch Knowledge......................10

Moorwretch Clanjock..........................11

Moorwretch Mercenaries.....................11

Mercenary........................................11

Mercenary Sergeant..........................12

Moorwretch Warmage.........................12

Moorwretch Shaman...........................13

Moorwretch Warmaster.......................13

Moorwretch Encounters......................14

Stonewretch.................................15

Stonewretch Wanderer........................15

Stonewretch Cavelurker......................16

Stonewretch Guard..............................17

A Wretch Clan.............................17

Campsite Layout...............................17

Magic and Powers.......................18

Powers..................................................18

Rituals..........................................20

Ancestral Ally.......................................20

Spiritpact..............................................20

Wretched Pact Spirit..........................21

Greater Pact Spirit.............................21

Summon Ancestral Guard..................21

Ancestral Guard Spirit........................21

Index.............................................22

Author/Concept

Tim Bancroft

Illustrations

Harsh, Halfbat

Proofing/Editing/Playtesting

Ben Jones, Jamie Watson, Larissa Tonkin, Lloyd Thomas, Nick

Townsend, Rosemary, Stephen Jarvis

Additional Acknowledgements

Illustrations taken and adapted from Treasury of Fantastic and Mythological Creatures:

1,087 Renderings from Historic Sources , Author Richard Huber, Dover 1981

Enworld/morrus and others for the 4e-Icons font .

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A Clan of Wretches (PDF/eBook Sourcebook)

Author: Tim Bancroft

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A Clan of Wretches

I ntroduction

Wretches, by their nature and culture, are limited to the

fringes of civilisation, to the wilderness that borders many

of the fantasy realms. Though primitive and frequently

lacking in resources, these nomads are wily and stick

together in close-knit clans for support and assistance.

Though a scouting or hunting party of bogwretch is easily

dealt with by any small band of adventurers, a raiding

party or full clan of wretch on the move is more than a

match for many heroes.

K nowledge

The following information about wretch can be gained

from a range of knowledge checks.

Nature DC 10: Wretch or wretcher is a generic term for

a group of related races, all of whom speak a dialect of

draconic as their native tongue. These warped, intelligent

humanoids range in size from the small and scrawny

bogwretch to the larger and more fearsome stonewretch .

Wretch are said to be the result of some stray chromatic

dragon magic deforming members of the older races and

even now many wear hoods to shelter them from the sun

and to hide their faces.. For protection and survival

wretch gather together in clans and small tribes and have

developed skills to support each other.

All wretch are humanoid, though look warped and

hunched to human eyes. Their wiry arms and legs, when

visible, appear to be longer than they should, attached to

slightly rotund torsos. Their faces are a caricature of the

intelligent species, wide and protruding with large eyes

and mouths. That they are omnivores is obvious from

both their teeth, their weapons and their intense stare.

Though fearsome, some wretch are peaceful, however,

merely looking for a simple life without grief from the

civilisations around which they roam.

Nature/Religion DC 12: Wretch have problems breeding

true, many of their offspring becoming the stunted and

warped bogwretch or the oafish and clumsy stonewretch.

Those moorwretch who do breed true are much prized

amongst the clans and given the best food, weapons and

armour that the clan can afford.

This supplement details a range of new creatures for

enhancing your D UNGEONS & D RAGONS ™ 4 TH E DITION

adventures.

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Nature DC 15: Wretch prefer meat to vegetation, eat

anything at a push, but are notoriously poor at growing

their own food-crops. From time to time they herd vari-

ous other creatures for food, but as they have little civili-

sation or knowledge of engineering, science and

technology, the majority of their needs comes from forag-

ing and raiding. The best time to strike would be in the

winter, when they are holed up in their cave lairs and other

underground dwellings.

History DC 15: Wretch art can often be seen scrawled or

carved around their more frequent campsites.

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Nature DC 17: Stonewretch are slow but extremely

strong. They are fairly rare offspring of stonewretch or

moorwretch.

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organisations and events is purely coincidental.

Arcana/Religion DC 20: Wretcher tend towards ancestor

worship. Though they have no clerics or wizards, they

have tribal shaman and hunt- or war- masters who lead

their raiding parties. The power of their leaders can be

annoying and frustrating, making individual wretches

much more potent in combat.

Nature/Thievery DC 20: Wretch are reknowned thieves.

With little infrastructure of their own, their weapons are

frequently stolen on their raids. Though bogwretch flinch

away from melee attacks, moorwretch are known to be

much more stable.

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Religion DC 22: The wretch have a form of shamanistic

practice that focuses on ancestor worship. In battle or at

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times of trial, they call on the powers of these ancestral

spirits to bolster their abilities or slow their enemies.

G RAFFITI OR A RT ?

Though many adventurers describe it as graffiti, the more

knowledgeable scholars are frequently excited by wretch

art. Normally scrawled or carved on stones in or near

their favourite campsites, the art frequently depicts the

heads of warriors or images of their ancestral spirits.

some molten metal held in a small crucible, the wretch

poor out the metal in lines onto a cold, flat, stone surface.

The metal quickly cools and adheres to the stone and

gives an eerie effect when polished and seen in moonlight

or starlight. Such art can fetch several hundred gold

pieces with the right collector.

R ANDOM T HUMPS OR MUSIC ?

All wretchs take great delight in the rhythmic – or arhyth-

mic – sound of drums. To untutored listeners, some of the

drumming sounds discordant and off-beat, but the more

sophisticated bards and musicians claim to find a surpris-

ing number of odd rhythms in their drumming. Unfortu-

nately for many, the only drum beats the civilised races

can appreciate are the wretch death-beats, the simple

sounds their drums make when launching a vengeful wild

hunt from their homes in the wilds.

The style is relatively abstract and two-dimensional, fre-

quently of a face depicted showing its left side. Many of

these pieces are assumed to be pictures of individual

wretch and are sometimes humorous, perhaps emphasis-

ing a particularly strange facial feature. A few of these art

pieces appear to be of other races, however, with particu-

lar features being emphasised to illustrate the race.

What particularly delights art scholars, however, is that

many of these pieces are not fully representational.

Sometimes the artist makes elaborate lines or decorations

that make no sense unless the image is seen as a whole –

at which point the ‘decorations’ merge to give a highly

effective, overall impression.

Their shaman and warmasters regard a drum as an integral

part of their rituals. Amongst all wretch, the bogwretch

drumbeaters are respected for their skills with the drum.

They frequently act as wandering bards between the many

clans, carrying information, news, despatches and mes-

sages from clan-chief to clan-chief. The death of a drum-

beater, whilst apparently insignificant to other races, is

almost certain to invoke a revenge strike from the local

wretcher clan.

Most prized above art collectors, though, is the molten

silver and molten tin drawings of the moorwretch. Using

A example of wretch metal-pouring art, illustrating the intricate designs this technique can achieve.

A Clan of Wretches

B ogWretch

The smallest of all the wretch, bogwretch come in a

variety of shapes, some small and skinny, perhaps under-

fed, whilst others look more solid. Skin colouring de-

pends on their origin: pure bogwretch range from a very

pale brown to a muddy brown, whilst the swampwretch

are a sub-species whose skin ranges through many shades

of green. Most bogwretch are hairless, making up for it

with fold of skin, whilst others have short or single tufts

growing from the crown of their scalp.

B OGWRETCH K NOWLEDGE

Nature DC 10: When not part of a wretcher clan, bog-

wretch live in or near bogs and swamps, primarily for

safety rather than it being a necessary part of their life-

style. Rarely able to organise themselves into any stable

community, they live by raiding or stealing from fringe

settlements or outlying farms.

Bogwretch graffiti

thought to

represent one of

their own.

Normal Weapons: Any easily-made weapon such as a

spear or sling are common, peraps with stone axes plus a

long knife or short bow. The bogaxe, a wicked, scythe-

or moon-like heavy axe with a curved blade, is used by

the stronger and more aggressive bogwretch but must be

wielded two-handed by such small creatures.

B OGWRETCH O RDO

Due to their numbers, the common bogwretch are merely

called ordo , ‘one of the many’. The are the run-of-the

mill bearers, herders, camp-tenders and supporters in a

wretcher clan. The statistics below should be used to

represent any of the normal members of a bogwretch

group.

Nature DC 12: Wiry and tougher than they look, all

bogwretch are nimble, frequently jumping out of the way

of further strikes once they realise an attacker can cause

them harm.

Nature DC 12: Bogwretch are trivially nasty and lazy,

natural bullies if they get a chance, but are cowards if

outnumbered, when cornered or when the situation is not

going their way. They rarely take on any group that might

be their equal in skill or numbers. They are fearful of

moorwretch are more likely to stand and fight if led by or

accompanied by their larger brethren.

Note that as any attack hits a minion, their racial power

shimmy is unusable.

Bogwretch Ordo Level 1 Minion

Small natural humanoid XP 25

Initiative +3 Senses Perception +1, low-light vision

HP 1; a missed attack never damages a minion

AC 15; Fortitude 11, Reflex 14, Will 10

Speed 6; see also shimmy

M Spear OR pick (standard; at-will) Ł Weapon

+3 vs. AC; 5 damage

R OR Sling (standard; at-will) Ł Weapon

Ranged 10/20; + 5 vs. AC; 5 damage

Vicious Surprise

The bogwretch deals an extra 4 damage against any

target against whom it has combat advantage

Alignment Evil Languages Common, draconic

Skills Stealth +10, Thievery +5

Str 12 (+1) Dex 16 (+3) Wis 9 (-1)

Con 13 (+1) Int 8 (-1) Cha 10 (+0)

Equipment leather armour; spear, pick or sling plus

tools and clan or personal effects

B OGWRETCH R ACIAL T RAITS

Average Height 3’2”-4’

Average Weight 30-55lb

Ability scores: +2 Dexterity +2 Con

(Maximum Intelligence 14)

Size: Small

Speed: 6 squares

Vision: Low-Light

Languages: Common, draconic

defence Bonuses: +1 Reflex

Skill Bonuses: +2 Perception, +2 Stealth,

+2 Thievery

Shimmy: You use shimmy as an at-will power

Shimmy Bogwretch Racial power

You shy away from your enemy’s attack, avoiding further

threats and tempting him after you

At-Will

Immediate Reaction Personal

Trigger: A melee attack against you hits

Effect: You must shift one square.

Special: If all spaces are blocked or you have already

used your reaction for the turn, you cannot shift.

Bogwretch Ordo Tactics

Ordo tend to only attack enemies when encouraged to do

so by their more aggressive brethren – and even then they

are just used to break up an enemies attack. Even then

they prefer to surprise their opponent from a hidden

ambush. If forced to fight in melee, they try to mob their

opponents, using their shimmy powers to surround an

opponent and gain combat advantage.

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