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Ghoul (Dungeons & Dragons)

GamesUndead1968 to 1999

The flesh-eating undead of Dungeons & Dragons, part of the game since 1974. Unlike the game's zombie it is cunning and contagious: its touch paralyses and its bite carries a disease that raises the dead as more ghouls.12

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First appeared
1974
Dungeons & Dragons (1974)
Source work
Dungeons & Dragons (1974)
TSR
Made in
USA
What causes it
Other
Undead that rise hungering for living flesh; their bite carries ghoul fever.
How you become one
Anyone who dies of ghoul fever rises as a ghoul at the next midnight.
Intelligence
Clever
Weak spots
  • a cleric's power to turn undead
  • elves are immune to its paralysis

When did it first appear?

Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
1974

Dungeons & Dragons (1974)

field notes

What the sources say

1

Its touch paralyses, a trait it has had since the 1974 rules12

2

Intelligent: it speaks the languages it knew in life12

3

Bursts out of shallow graves and from behind tombstones12

4

Hunts alone, in gangs or in packs of up to a dozen12

5

An aquatic cousin, the lacedon, lurks near reefs where ships are wrecked12

Sources

  1. Ghoul - d20 SRD (D&D 3.5 System Reference Document)
  2. Undead (Dungeons & Dragons) - Wikipedia

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