like a ruddy, corpulent fellow in a black funeral suit with stinking old wads of gristle stuck between their teeth.
3
like a mummy with wet red eyes and cheeks peeled away to reveal sharpened molars.
4
resplendent in decaying grave-good finery.
5
swaddled in sagging flesh, like a bloated corpse that’s been pressed for its juices.
6
like they did in life, only paler and with a wild, wolffish yearning about their eyes.
D6
This ghoul’s personality
1
is vivacious, irreverent, and self-indulgent.
2
is subsumed beneath a bleak hunger, emerging into remorseful awareness only shortly after gorging.
3
is darkly humorous and bitterly self-effacing.
4
is splintered between that of a childlike innocent and a sociopathic predator.
5
simmers resentfully towards the living.
6
is that of a sin-eater, believing they take the evils of the world into themself to save those they consume.
D6
This ghoul can
1
assume the appearance of anyone whose flesh they’ve tasted.
2
command carrion-eating animals with the promise of a shared meal.
3
dig swiftly through the earth, and drag their prey beneath.
4
launch their sticky guts out their mouth like a chameleon’s tongue to reel in prey.
5
exude a cloud of mold that rots organic matter exposed to it.
6
inflict compulsive autophagia on their enemies.
D6
This ghoul became a cannibal
1
out of desperation in a skeletally lean year.
2
as part of the rites of a transgressively hedonistic mystery cult.
3
to spite a murdered foe and rob them of a peaceful repose.
4
without their knowing after buying meat from a disreputable butcher.
5
when they were forced to by a pack of ghouls seeking to bolster their numbers.
6
so that they might transform into a ghoul and escape the sickness that was consuming their body.
D6
This ghoul prefers to get their meat
1
through traps, trickery, and proxies, still unable to look their prey in the eye.
2
fresh, to appreciate the way a cracked open skull steams.
3
seasoned to perfection, a little luxury to obscure the beastliness of their unlife.
4
from prey who’ve just been read their last rites, in the hope that this will win them a lesser damnation.
5
through proxies like resurrection men, to throw off potential ghoul-hunters.
6
after it’s been left to decompose for a while.
D6
This ghoul
1
won’t eat a child, at least not fully. If it’s been too long since they’ve last eaten they might not be able to stop from gnawing off some little fingers.
2
wears a brass locket inscribed with prayers, a relic of their living days.
3
can be bribed with alcohol, which takes the edge off their hunger.
4
has become the servant of a necromancer, who will investigate and avenge their demise.
5
has a jangling belly full of swallowed valuables.
6
is an elder among their ageless kind, and remembers many secrets.
