Menos (3.5e Subtype)

Menos Subtype
Summary::Within the ranks of fiends, certain spirits were born with a disruptive effect on the spells and spell-like abilities of others. Seeking opportunity, ancient fiends took the aberrant evolution and engineered from one an entire race of magically resistant fiends.

Like the tanar’ri, the obyrith, baatorians, and other sub-species of fiend, the menos is a subtype of outsiders, usually of lower planar stock. Menos fiends can be found in any evil alignment, either spontaneously generated within the ranks of the abyss or particularly bred from resistant stock in more lawful planes, and they can possess this subtype along with the original subtype (if any), such as tanar’ri or baatorian.

If adding the menos subtype to a pre-existing outsider, these traits raise the CR by +2.

Traits
A menos creature possesses the following traits (unless otherwise noted in a creature’s entry).


 * Disruptive Field : An aura which radiates in a 30-foot radius out from the menos disrupts the flow of magic, psionics, and any other spell or spell-like ability. Any attempts to cast within one automatically fail as if they failed a Concentration check to cast defensively. It is not an antimagic field, and so magical effects originating from outside the field can still get in.
 * Hinder Magic : All magical damage or healing is hindered by 50%.
 * Life Drain : Any successful attack against a living creature deals at least +1 extra damage, which is absorbed as 1 point of healing per attack. These attacks can be made with any melee weapons. It has no effect on creatures without a Con score.
 * Extraordinary Health : A menos always receives maximum hit points per hit die.
 * Smell Magic : Menos have a sort of magical sense. They may act as they have scent against anything which would show up with detect magic and may spend three rounds studying the scent to gain information as per the spell.
 * Telepathy : Menos telepathy typically extends out to 100 feet. They may communicate with any creature which possesses a language.

Menos Subtype Creatures
The following creatures have the menos subtype: