Skeleton

Average Height: 4' 10" - 6' 6" Average Weight: 40 - 70lb. Ability Scores: +2 Wisdom, +2 Strength or +2 Constitution Size: Medium Speed: 6 squares Vision: Low-light Languages: Common Skill Bonuses: +2 Intimidate, +2 History Living Construct: As a living construct, you have the following traits: You gain a +2 bonus to saving throws against ongoing damage. You don't need to eat, drink, or breathe, but this doesn’t render you immune to any effect. You need only 4 hours to benefit from an extended rest. When you roll a death save, you can take the better of your die roll or 10 as the result. You still die at your negative hit point total. Past Life: Select a race other than skeleton. You can take feats, a paragon path, and an epic destiny that have the selected race as a prerequisite, as long as you meet all other prerequisites. Skeletal Shriek: You can use skeletal shriek as an encounter power. Undead: You are considered to be an undead creature for effects that relate to that keyword.

Skeletal Shriek		Skeleton Racial Power
You screech with lungs that withered away centuries ago, through a throat that isn't there, the cold emptiness of your eye sockets the grim stare of death itself.
Encounter   ✦   Necrotic, Rattling
Minor Action		Close burst 1
Target: Each creature in burst
Attack: Constitution + 2 vs. Will
Hit: Constitution modifier necrotic damage.
Special: Increase to +4 bonus at 11th level, and to +6 bonus at 21st level.

Play a skeleton if you want...

• to be a skeleton.

Racial Feats

Heroic Tier

Anatomic Assembly

Prerequisite: Skeleton
Benefit: You can stand up from prone as a minor action.

Horrorifying Visage

Prerequisite: Skeleton
Benefit: You gain a +1 feat bonus to damage rolls when you use a power that has the fear keyword. At 11th level, this bonus increases to +2. At 21st level, it increases to +3.

Necrotic Criticals

Prerequisite: Skeleton
Benefit: When you deal damage with a critical hit, you can choose that the damage dealt is necrotic damage.

No Blood To Bleed

Prerequisite: Skeleton
Benefit: When you are first bloodied during an encounter, you end any ongoing damage or any dazed, slowed, stunned, or weakened condition currently affecting you as a free action.

Poker Face

Prerequisite: Skeleton
Benefit: You gain a +3 racial bonus to Bluff checks.

Seen It All

Prerequisite: Skeleton, trained in History
Benefit: You can use a History check in place of a Dungeoneering check.

Speed of the Dead

Prerequisite: Skeleton
Benefit: When making an opportunity attack, you gain a +2 bonus to the attack roll and deal an extra 1d6 damage.

Paragon Tier

Shrieking Scoundrel

Prerequisite: 11th level, skeleton, rogue, Sneak Attack class feature, skeletal shriek racial power
Benefit: You can Sneak Attack creatures hit with skeletal shriek.

Shrieking Strike

Prerequisite: 11th level, skeleton, skeletal shriek racial power
Benefit: When you use your skeletal shriek racial power, you also gain a +2 bonus to your next attack roll.

Epic Tier

Shrieking Restoration

Prerequisite: 21st level, skeleton, skeletal shriek racial power
Benefit: When you use your second wind, you regain the use of your skeletal shriek.

Unending Shriek

Prerequisite: 21st level, skeleton, skeletal shriek racial power
Benefit: You can use your skeletal shriek racial power two times during each encounter.

Racial Backgrounds

Barrow-Wight

You were once a noble of standing, long ago, and were laid to rest in a barrow. Since then you have risen from the grave. Are you angry? Disappointed? Is there a curse involved? Perhaps you are still seeking the foolish soul who caused you to arise from death. Are you fond of halflings? Maybe it was one of them. What about elves? Have things changed far too much since you were alive?

Associated Skills: Diplomacy, History
Associated Languages: Dwarven, Elven

Restless Dead

No necromancer pulled you from the soil, you died but kept on standing and screaming. Lots of screaming. You are a natural undead creature. Do you have an immense force of personality that drives you? Are you just full of natural rage at the world? Perhaps it was your own arcane experiments that created you. Have you been around for long? Maybe you failed at becoming a lich.

Associated Skills: Arcana, Dungeoneering

Undead Warrior

You were a stalwart soldier in life, and brought back to serve an army of the dead. Why aren't you part of that army anymore? Did something bad happen? Did you desert? Maybe you got lost and couldn't get back to the others. Are you sure they're all gone? You're probably still up for smashing things, right?

Associated Skills: Athletics, Endurance

Racial Paragon Path: Grim Reaper

"There's nothing certain in a man's life except this: that he must lose it."

Prerequisite: Skeleton

Grim Reaper Path Features

Don't Fear the Reaper (11th level): When you spend an action point to take an extra action, all allies within 10 squares of you gain resist necrotic 10 until the end of the encounter.
Scatterbones (11th level): If you are knocked prone with an attack, you can choose instead to be pushed 2 squares and remain standing.
Already There (16th level): Whenever you drop to 0 hit points or fewer, you are dying but you remain conscious. While you remain conscious, you can take only one standard action on your turn. In addition, the Raise Dead ritual needs only a tenth of the component cost when used to bring you back.

Grim Reaper Powers

Swing of the Scythe		Grim Reaper Attack 11
You swing your blade and spread the cold touch of death to your enemies.
Encounter   ✦   Necrotic, Weapon
Standard Action		Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Strength vs. AC
Hit: 2[W] + Strength modifier necrotic damage, and all creatures adjacent to the target take 2d6 necrotic damage.

Bowling Bones			Grim Reaper Utility 12
You break down into a clatter of ribs and other bones, insinuating your way into a more favourable position.
Encounter   ✦   Teleport
Move Action		Personal
Effect: You teleport up to 5 squares.

Call the Dead			Grim Reaper Attack 20
You call to all those who died nearby, bringing them back to fight alongside you as a singular abomination.
Daily   ✦   Necrotic, Summoning
Standard Action		Ranged 10
Effect: You summon a Large bone beast in an unoccupied square within range. The bone beast has reach 1 and a speed of 6. It has a +4 bonus to AC and Fortitude. You can give the bone beast the following special commands.
Standard action: Melee 2; targets one creature; Constitution vs. Reflex; 3d8 + Constitution modifier necrotic damage, and ongoing 5 necrotic damage (save ends).
Opportunity Attack: Melee 1; targets one creature; Constitution vs. Reflex; 3d8 + Constitution modifier necrotic damage.
Minor Action: The bone beast swaps places with an adjacent ally.