Amorphous The bonepowder ghoul can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.
Coalesce Whenever a bonepoweder ghoul drains life force from victims with Gravedust, it can use that energy to transform its shape into a more solid form and maintain it. The new form is small and semi-transparent but roughly the shape of a normal ghoul. In this form, the ghoul isn't amorphous and can't form whirlwind, but it can speak normally and manipulate objects. The altered form lasts for 1 minute for every point of necrotic damage it delivered against living foes.
Turning Defiance The bonepowder ghoul and any other ghouls within 30 feet of it have advantage on saving throws against effects that turn undead.
Innate Spellcasting The bonepowder ghoul's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC18, +10 to hit with spell attacks). It can innately cast the fallowing spells, requiring no material components:
At Will Chill Touch, Darkness, Dispel Magic, Ray of Enfeeblement
3/Day Blindness/Deafness, Circle of Death (7th level, 10d6)
1/Day Finger of Death
Bite Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5ft, one target. Hit: 18(3d8+5) plus 1d4 Strength damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw or be paralyzed for 1d4+1 rounds. If the target creature is humanoid, it must succeed on a second DC 19 Constitution saving throws or contract darakhul fever.
Gravedust A bonepowder ghoul can project a 40-ft cone of grave dust. All targets within the area must make a DC 19 Dexterity saving throw to avoid taking 4d8 necrotic damage, and must make a second DC 17 Constitution saving throw to avoid being infected with darakhul fever.
Whirlwind (Recharge 5-6) A bonepowder ghoul can generate a whirlwind of bones and teeth. All creatures within a 20-ft cube take 66 (12d10) slashing damage and are drained of 1d6 Strength; a successful DC 17 Dexterity saving throw reduces damage to half and negates the Strength loss. The whirlwind dissipates after one round.
Description
Distilled to nothing but dry, whispering sand and a full set of teeth, a bonepowder ghoul still hungers for flesh and blood. It's dusty mass is perfected corruption, entirely animated by foul energy.
Starved Into Dust: The bonepowder ghoul is small and unassuming, a pile of dust and bone fragments of a vampire burned by sunlight. Ghouls can achieve this powdery form through long starvation. The process invariably takes decades, which is why so few bonepowder ghouls exist - few ghouls can show such self-restraint. Even among imperial ghouls, using hunger as a form of torture is considered offensive and is quite rare. A bonepowder ghoul may rise from the rmnants ofa starved prisoner or ghoul trapped in a sealed-off cavern, leaving behind its remnant flesh and becoming animated almost purely by hunger, hatred, and bitter wisdom of long centuries.
Mocking and Hateful: Bonepowder ghouls are creatures of pure evil, seeking to devout, corrupt, and destroy all living things. The only creatures they treat with some affinity are ghouls. Even in that case, their attitude is often mocking, hateful, or condescending. They have some mild respect for darakhul nobles.
Whispering Voices: Most bonepowder ghouls speak at least 4 languages, but their voices are very faint. Just to hear one speaking normally requires a DC 15 Perception check. Undead gain a +8 competence bonus to this check.
Note About Darakhul Fever Spread mainly through bite wounds, this rare disease makes itself known within 24 hours by swiftly debilitating the infected. A creature so afflicted must make a DC17 Constitution saving throw after every long rest. On a failed save the victim takes 14 (4d6) necrotic damage, and its hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the damage taken. This reduction can't be rmoved until the victim recovers from darakhul fever, and even then only by Greater Restoration or similar magic. The victim recovers from the disease by making successful saving throws on tow consecutive days. Greater Restoration cures the desease; Lesser Restoration allows the victim to make the daily Constitution check with advantage. If the infected creature dies while infected with darakhul fever, roll 1d20, add the character's current Constitution modifier, and determine what undead form the victim's body rises in from the following:
1-9 None, victim simply is dead
10-16 Ghoul
17-20 Ghast
20+ Darakhul
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