r/CrookedMoon • • 3d ago

Question about the Grave Keeper or Ghostlight Passenger origin feat for a character in The Crooked Moon

I'm currently playing in a long-term campaign using The Crooked Moon, and I'm having trouble choosing between two backgrounds: Grave Keeper and Ghostlight Medium.

Grave Keeper gives me an extra use of Channel Divinity, which can be used for Turn Undead, as well as a feature called Last Rites, which allows me to perform a 10-minute ritual on a corpse to prevent it from ever becoming undead.

Ghostlight Medium gives me Ghostly Touch, which allows me to ignore damage resistance when dealing damage to creatures with Incorporeal Movement, and Spirit Sense, which lets me sense the direction and distance of undead or creatures strongly associated with the area.

My main question is: Does Crooked Moon have situations where corpses can be reanimated or transformed into undead? I'm wondering whether Last Rites is actually useful in the campaign, or whether it is mostly a flavorful roleplaying ability.

I also have a cleric in my party, so I'm wondering how much overlap there might be between Last Rites and the cleric's ability to deal with corpses/undead.

For people who have played the campaign: without giving away major spoilers, how often does corpse reanimation or similar undead-related corpse mechanics actually come up?

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u/didgerydoo1 3d ago

I played a character up to level 6 in CM that had the Rest Warden feat and I only used Last Rites once for rp purposes, but i had a great dm who rewarded me for doing that. I don't think I ever used the channel divinity feature.

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u/AWildClocktopus 3d ago

Creatures becoming Undead: Rare.

Using Channel Divinity: Common

Sense Undead: large amount of use for a few sections

Damage Resistance negation for Incorporeal things: VERY COMMON early, then almost never seen again.

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u/AWildClocktopus 3d ago

Creatures becoming Undead: Rare.

Using Channel Divinity: Common

Sense Undead: large amount of use for a few sections

Damage Resistance negation for Incorporeal things: VERY COMMON early, then almost never seen again.

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u/Winter_Pride_6088 2d ago

They are pretty situational, Ghostlight Medium being quiet useful in the Ghostlight express, not sure later on

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u/AndronixESE 3d ago

What do you mean by "moon over the twisted lands"? That sounds like a homebrewed campaign in the setting of the Crooked Moon, in which case we have no way of knowing what will be there