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 Banshee • The Banshee’s mouth can unhinge
like a python and, despite her
slender build, a Banshee can
Attributes Random Average
Strength 25+5d10 53 consume a fully grown man whole
Stamina 25+5d10 53 without it showing. The person
Agility 25+5d10 53 most be willing, unconscious or
Perception 40+5d10 68
Appearance 50+5d10 78 dead to be swallowed.
Intelligence 10d10 55
Pain Threshold 10d10 55
Willpower 50+5d10 78 • The Banshee’s fangs hook into a
Luck 25+5d10 53 target on a successful bite and
Movement - 2/4/7/12 continue to bite, automatically
Actions - 3
Damage Bonus - - hitting, so long as the Banshee
Exert Strength - 45% maintains a grapple with the
Hear - Sight- - 60/60/30/25/30 target. Even if the Banshee is
Smell -Taste -
Touch
pulled free the person takes an
Shock Survival - 65% automatic hit from the ‘rend’
Toxin Resistance - 65% entry.
Initiative - +1
Parry Bonus - +5
Hit Points - 34 • Banshee’s, of faerie blood, are
Blood Points - 41
Energy Points - 63 vulnerable to iron. It doesn’t harm
Mind Points - 67 them to touch it, but hard blows
Hand to Hand - 40 with the metal replace the normal
Melee - 45
Thrown - 28 critical hit table with ‘Burn 1’.
Archaic - 10
Pistol - 10
Rifle - 10 • Banshees can hide their true
Heavy - 5 aspect behind a glamour and then
reveal it to terrible effect.
Attack Hit Parry Act Dmg Blood Crit
Bite 40% - 4 1d6 Blade Bite 2

Rend 100% - - 1d8 Razor Bite 2

• Banshee’s are usually found
alone or in ‘gangs’ of up to six
• Banshees can see in the dark, individuals.
exceptionally well and never take

any penalties to their Sight rolls
because of darkness.
• With am opposed Willpower roll
a Banshee can lay a curse upon
someone, reducing their Luck
score to ‘10’ until such time as the
Banshee is killed. The Banshee
must be in the presence of the
person to apply the curse and
must shriek, deafeningly to do
so. The effect can be attempted
against as many people within
earshot as the Banshee likes.
Fear Effect
Banshees appear to be normal young
women until they let their glamour fall,
then their feral eyes and gaping maw
demonstrate, immediately and without any
question, that they are utterly inhuman,
utterly unnatural and utterly terrifying. The
Banshee wail in and of itself is enough to
break minds, let alone their true aspect.

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Hearing the Banshee’s unnatural scream
for the first time requires a Willpower check
at -10% and can result in the loss of 1d10
Mind Points. This is something truly primal
that reaches into the ancestral terror
reactions in the human and animal mind.
It kicks off the fight or flight reflex, causing
anyone who does succumb to fear to regain
ten energy points as their body prepares
itself.
Banshees require a lot of feeding and
typically try to sate this on vermin and
pets before resorting to humans but they
also feed on the spiritual energy they gain
by destroying people’s good fortune and
hounding them with bad luck to their
death. They gain an almost sexual thrill
from cruelty and schadenfreude.

Seeing a Banshee in her true form for the

first time is also a terrifying experience
requiring a Willpower check and potentially
resulting in the loss of 1d6 Mind Points.

The Banshee scream does not cause any

mental infirmity, rather, if a character is
driven mad by a Banshee scream his or her
hair turns completely white, permanently
and forever. If it is the sight of the Banshee
that turns someone insane then they’re
likely to develop phobias of dogs, tight
spaces, teeth and women.

Description
Banshees usually appear as youngish
women from their early teens to their
mid twenties in appearance. They dress
fashionably but are usually, otherwise,
inconspicuous, favouring looks that blend
in with the people around them.

When a Banshee casts off her glamour she

reveals herself to have a hideous face with
a huge and unnatural mouth filled with
rows of hook-like, razor sharp teeth, much
like the mouth of a shark. She can detach
her jaw completely, taste the air with a
forked tongue and distend her whole head
to devour anything or everything she needs
to feed her.

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 Adventure Seeds
• A gang of Banshee are staking
out the local shopping centre. So
far as most people are concerned
they’re simply wild girls, a pack of
female ‘hoodies’ who cause trouble
but the incidents are getting
stranger and stranger, worse and
worse. The characters are security
guards at the centre who are
forced to deal with the trouble the
‘girls’ bring and are in for more
than they bargained for.
• For a development project
to continue the last hold out
house needs to be cleared of its
incumbent. A young woman who
claims to be the granddaughter
of the woman listed on the
lease. She refuses to move no
matter the legal threats or offers
that are made to her, and with
good reason. She’s actually a
Banshee, the woman on the
original paperwork and she has a
basement and garden full of ‘owl
pellet’s containing human and
animal remains.
• Wealthy man Randolph Hurst is
also a secret occultist and has
been harnessing the power of
a captured and drug addicted
Banshee to lay curses upon his
business and sporting rivals and
to increase his own power and
wealth. Suspicious, some of the
surviving rivals have pooled what
resources they have left to get to
the bottom of his strange behavior
and power.
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Banshee OGL
Species Traits:
Cursing (Sp): By issuing a shriek, that can
affect any number of people up to everyone
in earshot, the Banshee can force targets
to make a Will save against a DC of 15. If
the save is failed the target must roll 2d20
instead of one, each time they make a
check, taking the worst of the two results
until the Banshee is killed.
Rending (Ex): If the Banshee makes a
successful bite attack they can continue by
making grapple attacks, each successful
grapple also applies automatic bite damage
every turn. Pulling the Banshee free,
winning the grapple and throwing her off,
does an automatic, additional 1d8 damage.
Glamour (Su): A Banshee can magically
disguise herself as a normal, young woman.
Iron Weakness: Banshees take double
damage from iron weapons.
Banshee:
CR 5; Medium Monstrous Humanoid; HD
5d8; hp 23; Mas 11; Init +1; Spd 30 ft.;
Defense 11, Touch 11, Flat-Footed 10;
BAB +5; Grap +5; Full Atk +5, Bite 1d8; FS
5 ft. By 5 ft.; Reach 5 ft.; SQ darkvision,
cursing, rending, glamour, iron weakness.;
AL Chaotic; SV Fort +1, Ref +6, Will +7; AP
0; Str 11, Dex 12, Con 11, Int 12, Wis 14,
Cha 14.
Skills: Bluff 8, Climb 2, Concentration 2,
Disguise 6, Escape Artist 3, Gamble +4,
Hide 4, Intimidate 8, Listen 7, Move Silently
4, Perform: Sing 6, Spot 7.
Feats: Alertness, Confident, Deceptive
Posessions: Clothing and the normal
accoutrements of the person she is
disguised as.
Advancement: By character class.
Banshee MRQ Special Rules
Characteristics Combat Actions: 2
STR 3d6 (11) Strike Rank: 13
CON 3d6 (11) Movement: 3m
DEX 3d6+1 (12) Traits: Dark Sight, Cursing, Rending,
SIZ 2d6+6 (13) Glamour, Iron Weakness.
INT 2d6+7 (14) Power Points: 14
POW 4d6 (14) Mind Points: 28
CHA 4d6 (14) Fatigue Points: 25
Courage: 84
Skills: Dodge 30%, Influence 45%, Perception
Banshee Hit Locations 50%, Sing 55%.
D20 Hit Location HP Horror: The Banshee Shriek causes the loss
1-3 Right Leg 5 of 1d10 Mind Points, the revealing of the
4-6 Left Leg 5 Banshee’s true face causes the loss of 1d6
7-8 Abdomen 6 Mind Points
9-11 Chest 7
12-14 Right Arm 4
15-17 Left Arm 4
18-20 Head 5

Weapons
Type Skill Damage/AP
Bite 40% 1d8
Rend 100% 1d10

Traits
Cursing: By expending three power points
and shrieking, the Banshee can lay a
curse on any person – or number of people
– within earshot; cursing them with bad
luck until the Banshee is killed. This incurs
a -20% penalty on any actions.

Rending: If the Banshee has successfully

bitten someone then it need only grapple to
continue to do its bite damage every turn.
If it is pulled off then it does the ‘Rend’
damage as listed above automatically.

Glamour: By expending a single power

point the Banshee can cover its true
appearance with that of a young woman
between the ages of thirteen and twenty-
five.

Iron Weakness: Iron weapons do +1

damage to Banshees.