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| − | ''Bursting through the snow and earth below you, an ice borer emerges. The creature resembles a grub | + | ''Bursting through the snow and earth below you, an ice borer emerges. The creature resembles a grub in shape, but it is composed of a tough, red, icy substance that reflects light like a mirror. It has sharp mandibles that it uses to bore through rock, ice, and snow, and it has a long needle protruding from its mouth.'' |
| − | Ice borers are a common monstrous pest in icy environments. | + | Ice borers are a common monstrous pest in icy environments. When they are near cities, they attack livestock and unattended children. They are often intelligent enough to avoid attacking adult humanoids, and it is speculated that they can communicate with each other somehow to share this aversion. Farther out in the wilds, however, ice borers will not hesitate to attack groups of creatures. |
| − | Ice borers have a special ability to inject a target with a fluid that freezes their blood. Whenever an ice borer can surprise or distract its target, it is able to inject it with the fluid and deal extra cold damage. | + | Ice borers have a special ability to inject a target with a fluid that freezes their blood. Whenever an ice borer can surprise or distract its target, it is able to inject it with the fluid and deal extra cold damage. Ice borers feed exclusively on frozen flesh. |
=== Combat === | === Combat === | ||
Revision as of 18:09, 8 December 2009
Contents
Cold Themed Monsters
I've had an interest for a while in making a whole "book" of cold-themed monsters. I'm going to get started now :).
Ice Borers
| N Small Magical Beast (Cold) | |
| Init/Senses | +0/Blind, tremorsense 60ft.; Listen +1, Spot +1 |
| AC | 13, touch 11, flat-footed 13; Burrow Cover (+2 natural, +1 size) |
| hp | 6 (1d10+1 HD) |
| Immune | cold |
| Fort/Ref/Will | +3/+2/+1 |
| Weakness | vulnerability to fire |
| Speed | 10ft. (2 squares), burrow 25ft. (5 squares); Burrow Cover |
| Melee | bite +2 (1d3-2) |
| Space/Reach | 5ft./5ft. |
| Base Atk/Grp | +1/-5 |
| Atk Options | Burrow Strike, Frost Bite (+1d6 cold) |
| Abilities | Str 7, Dex 10, Con 13, Int 3, Wis 12, Cha 6 |
| Feats | Weapon Focus (bite) |
| Skills | Escape Artist +5, Survival +4 |
| Advancement | — |
| Blind | An ice borer is blind and can only "see" with its tremorsense. It has fine tuned this sense and is attracted to attack warm living creatures, however. |
| Burrow Cover (Ex) | If an ice borer starts its turn below ground, it gets cover if it goes above ground until the start of its next turn (+4 AC, +2 reflex saves). |
| Burrow Strike (Ex) | Enemies are considered flat-footed against an ice borer if they have no way to detect it while it is underground and then it charges the target. |
| Frost Bite (Ex) | If an ice borer qualifies for a sneak attack, it deals an extra 1d6 cold damage with a successful bite attack. |
| N Small Magical Beast (Cold) | |
| Init/Senses | +2/Blind, tremorsense 60ft.; Listen +1, Spot +1 |
| AC | 15, touch 13, flat-footed 13; Burrow Cover (+2 natural, +2 dex, +1 size) |
| hp | 19 (3d10+3 HD) |
| Immune | cold |
| Fort/Ref/Will | +4/+3/+2 |
| Weakness | vulnerability to fire |
| Speed | 10ft. (2 squares), burrow 30ft. (6 squares); Burrow Cover |
| Melee | bite +6/+1 (1d3-2) |
| Space/Reach | 5ft./5ft. |
| Base Atk/Grp | +3/-3 |
| Atk Options | Burrow Strike, Frost Bite (+2d6 cold) |
| Abilities | Str 7, Dex 14, Con 13, Int 5, Wis 12, Cha 6 |
| Feats | Weapon Focus (bite), Weapon Finesse |
| Skills | Escape Artist +8, Survival +5 |
| Advancement | — |
| Blind | An ice borer is blind and can only "see" with its tremorsense. It has fine tuned this sense and is attracted to attack warm living creatures, however. |
| Burrow Cover (Ex) | If an ice borer starts its turn below ground, it gets cover if it goes above ground until the start of its next turn (+4 AC, +2 reflex saves). |
| Burrow Strike (Ex) | Enemies are considered flat-footed against an ice borer if they have no way to detect it while it is underground and then it charges the target. |
| Frost Bite (Ex) | If an ice borer qualifies for a sneak attack, it deals an extra 2d6 cold damage with a successful bite attack. |
| N Medium Magical Beast (Cold) | |
| Init/Senses | +1/Blind, tremorsense 120ft.; Listen +1, Spot +1 |
| AC | 16, touch 11, flat-footed 15; Burrow Cover, Dodge, Mobility (+5 natural, +1 dex) |
| hp | 39 (6d10+6 HD) |
| Immune | cold |
| Fort/Ref/Will | +6/+6/+3 |
| Weakness | vulnerability to fire |
| Speed | 10ft. (2 squares), burrow 40ft. (8 squares); Burrow Cover |
| Melee | bite +8/+6 (1d4+2) |
| Space/Reach | 5ft./5ft. |
| Base Atk/Grp | +6/+8 |
| Atk Options | Burrow Strike, Frost Bite (+3d6 cold) |
| Abilities | Str 14, Dex 13, Con 13, Int 5, Wis 12, Cha 6 |
| Feats | Multiattack, Dodge, Mobility |
| Skills | Survival +10 |
| Advancement | — |
| Blind | An ice borer is blind and can only "see" with its tremorsense. It has fine tuned this sense and is attracted to attack warm living creatures, however. |
| Burrow Cover (Ex) | If an ice borer starts its turn below ground, it gets cover if it goes above ground until the start of its next turn (+4 AC, +2 reflex saves). |
| Burrow Strike (Ex) | Enemies are considered flat-footed against an ice borer if they have no way to detect it while it is underground and then it charges the target. |
| Frost Bite (Ex) | If an ice borer qualifies for a sneak attack, it deals an extra 3d6 cold damage with a successful bite attack. |
Bursting through the snow and earth below you, an ice borer emerges. The creature resembles a grub in shape, but it is composed of a tough, red, icy substance that reflects light like a mirror. It has sharp mandibles that it uses to bore through rock, ice, and snow, and it has a long needle protruding from its mouth.
Ice borers are a common monstrous pest in icy environments. When they are near cities, they attack livestock and unattended children. They are often intelligent enough to avoid attacking adult humanoids, and it is speculated that they can communicate with each other somehow to share this aversion. Farther out in the wilds, however, ice borers will not hesitate to attack groups of creatures.
Ice borers have a special ability to inject a target with a fluid that freezes their blood. Whenever an ice borer can surprise or distract its target, it is able to inject it with the fluid and deal extra cold damage. Ice borers feed exclusively on frozen flesh.
Combat
Ice borers like to strike and retreat, making full use of their ability to create cover for themselves and use their frost bite ability. A typical ice borer uses the following tactics:
- Round 1: Burrow Strike a target, hitting with a frost bite.
- Round 2: Withdraw action to go below ground.
- Round 3: Repeat.
Adult and greater ice borers will sometimes stay above ground to make two attacks per round if they can use frost bite, increasing the overall damage it can deal. They also will often work together to create flanking opportunities.
Training an Ice Borer
Ice borers make excellent guards, especially in caves. Training an ice borer from hatching into its juvenile stage requires two weeks of work and a DC 20 Handle Animal check.
More training must be done before the ice borer becomes an adult (2 months after becoming a juvenile) or else it will become wild. The training requires two weeks of work and a DC 25 Handle Animal check.
Even more training must be done before the ice borer becomes greater (4 months after becoming an adult) or else it will become wild. The training requires two weeks of work and a DC 25 Handle Animal check.
Ice borers live one year after they become greater ice borers.
Ice borer eggs are worth 500 gp apiece on the open market. Trained juveniles are worth 1,000 gp each, trained adults are worth 2,000 gp each, and trained greater ice borers are worth 4,000 gp each.
Snowflake
| N Medium Elemental (Cold) | |
| Init/Senses | -1/darkvision 60ft.; Listen +6, Spot +6 |
| AC | 15, touch 12, flat-footed 15; DR 1/—, not subject to critical hits or flanking. (+3 deflection, +3 natural, -1 dex) |
| hp | 28 (3d8+15 HD) |
| Immune | Cold, Mind-effecting abilities, poison, sleep effects, paralysis, and stunning. |
| Resist | fire 5 |
| Fort/Ref/Will | +7/+1/+2 |
| Weakness | vulnerability to sonic damage |
| Speed | 30ft. (6 squares); Hover |
| Melee | Ray of Frost +2 ranged touch (1d3 cold damage, 30ft. range, Su effect) |
| Space/Reach | 5ft./5ft. |
| Base Atk/Grp | +3/+3 |
| Atk Options | Cold Shield |
| Abilities | Str 11, Dex 9, Con 19, Int —, Wis 12, Cha 4 |
| SQ | Mindless, Attracted to Cold, Shattered Remains |
| Feats | Toughness, Alertness |
| Skills | Listen +6, Spot +6 |
| Advancement | — |
| Hover (Su) | Snowflakes hover approximately 3 feet above the ground and as such ignore difficult terrain, do not trigger traps on the ground, etc. |
| Attracted to Cold (Ex) | Whenever a creature would deal cold damage to a snowflake, it makes a will saving throw DC 10 + cold damage that would be dealt. If it fails, the creature gains control of the snowflake for 5 minutes and can mentally command it as a move action to use its Ray of Frost against targets and its Cold Shield on allies. It will continue to take these actions until otherwise directed. If it would take further cold damage from its master during the duration, the duration is reset, potentially allowing creatures with a constant way to deal cold damage to control a snowflake indefinitely. |
| Cold Shield (Su) | As a swift action, a snowflake can grant a creature within 30ft. 5 temporary hitpoints until the snowflake's next round. If another creature damages the creature with the temporary hitpoints, it takes 1 cold damage for every 2 temporary hitpoints it removes. Snowflakes cannot be targeted by Cold Shield. |
| Shattered Remains (Su) | When a snowflake is destroyed, it leaves broken crystalline shards on the ground that count as difficult terrain and deal 1 cold damage to any creature that steps on the square. This effect lasts for 5 minutes. |
Floating three feet above the ground is a icy crystalline lattice that resembles a snowflake. Around it is a eerie blue glow and although it is cold enough already, you feel as if the temperature has dropped a few degrees.
Snowflakes are created in places where powerful magical springs have frozen over. Although they are native to another plane, their essence is almost always formed in the material plane, drawing power from other planes to form the snowflake.
They are strongly attracted to magical cold and will obey all of the wishes to the best of their ability of those who provide them with magical cold energy.
Combat
Snowflakes are docile unless they are used as a tool by another creature. Other creatures will make liberal use of their Cold Shield ability to focus attention on the Snowflake. The snowflake's main role in combat is, therefore, to defend other creatures.
Snowflake tactics are extremely simple and direct.
