User:ThunderGod Cid/Revised Monsters

Bulette

Size/Type:	Large Magical Beast
Hit Dice:	7d10+42 (81 hp)
Initiative:	+1
Speed:	50 ft. (10 squares)
Armor Class:	19 (+4 Dex, +5 natural), touch 15, flat-footed 16
Base Attack/Grapple:	+6/+10
Attack:	Slam +10 melee (1d8+4)
Full Attack:	Slam +10 melee (1d8+4)
Space/Reach:	10 ft./10 ft.
Special Attacks:	Death from below, leap
Special Qualities:	Darkvision 120 ft., frontal armor, psychic rejuvenation, rebound psionics, tremorsense 120 ft.
Saves:	Fort +11, Ref +4, Will +5
Abilities:	Str 24, Dex 13, Con 22, Int 4, Wis 10, Cha 9
Skills:	Jump +7, Listen +8, Spot +8
Feats:
Environment:	Any
Organization:	Solitary
Challenge Rating:	7
Treasure:	Standard
Alignment:	Usually neutral
Advancement:	By character class
Level Adjustment:	-

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Death From Below (Ex): A bulette is feared for its ability to attack from underground, killing unsuspecting prey before they can react. When a bulette is burrowing, it may move into any spaces occupied by creatures above it who are not burrowing. When it does this, it may elect to come forth from the ground as a standard action, and any creatures within the same space as the bulette during this time take 1d6 points of damage per Challenge Rating of the bulette (7d6 by default), are knocked prone, and moved to the closest unoccupied space available to them. Creatures larger than the bulette cannot be knocked prone but still take damage and are displaced by the ability.

Once a creature is the target of the bulette’s attack, it can choose to either take a Reflex save or attempt to counter the bulette’s attack. A successful Reflex save (DC 20) halves the damage dealt and prevents the creature from being knocked prone, instead only moving them away.

Should the creature elect to counterattack, they may attack the bulette as an immediate action and calculate damage accordingly. Should the total damage dealt to the bulette when it attempts this attack equal or exceed at least 5 points of damage per CR it possesses (35 by default), the bulette is repelled and forced back underground. Any surplus damage dealt beyond this threshold is dealt to the bulette's hit points.

Earthbolt (Ex): As a standard action useable at will, a bulette strikes the ground and causes a reverberation in the ground, dealing 1d6 points of damage per 2 CR of the bulette (3d6 by default) to all creatures in a line 60 feet long and 5 feet wide. Burrowing creatures take double damage from this ability and are forced to surface. A successful Reflex save (DC 20) halves the damage dealt.

Frontal Armor (Ex): The last creature attacked by the bulette (including attacks of opportunity) also receives a penalty to attack rolls made against the bulette equal to the bulette's Challenge Rating (-7 by default). As an immediate action, the bulette may increase its armor bonus to AC by an amount equal to X, where X is equal to the CR of the bulette (+7 by default) until the beginning of its next turn. This AC bonus is decreased by 1 for each additional creature that threatens the bulette in melee. Using this immediate action removes the penalty to attack rolls imposed on a particular character so long as the bulette maintains the extra Armor Class bonus.

Leap (Ex): As a standard action, a bulette can jump a massive distance equal to one half its base speed. When it does so, it makes a Jump check and deals damage to creatures in the space in which it lands equal to the result of the check. A DC 20 Reflex save or an immediate action allows the creature to move to the nearest available space out of the area of effect.

The bulette may also make a Jump check when making a charge attack. When it does so, it may use the Jump check in substitution of a Strength check to destroy objects that it strikes. Unattended objects with a hardness less than 10 are automatically destroyed by the bulette’s charge regardless of the check’s result.

Toy Soldiers

	Toy Soldier, Grenadier	Toy Soldier, Hoplite	Toy Soldier, Medic
Size/Type:	Small Construct	Small Construct	Small Construct
Hit Dice:	1d10+5 (7 hp)	1d10+5 (7 hp)	1d10+5 (7 hp)
Initiative:	+1	+1	+1
Speed:	20 ft.	20 ft.	20 ft.
Armor Class:	13 (+1 size, +1 Dex, +1 natural), touch 12, flat-footed 12	13 (+1 size, +1 Dex, +1 natural), touch 12, flat-footed 12	13 (+1 size, +1 Dex, +1 natural), touch 12, flat-footed 12
Base Attack/Grapple:	+0/+0	+0/+0	+0/+0
Attack:	Alchemist's fire +0 ranged touch (1d6 + burning)
Full Attack:	Alchemist's fire +0 ranged touch (1d6 + burning)
Space/Reach:	5 ft./5 ft.	5 ft./5 ft.	5 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks:	Minefield, proximity fuse	Defender, shield charge
Special Qualities:	Brittle, construct traits, e pluribus unum	Brittle, construct traits, e pluribus unum	Brittle, construct traits, e pluribus unum
Saves:	Fort +6, Ref +1, Will +1	Fort +10, Ref +4, Will +5	Fort +10, Ref +4, Will +5
Abilities:	Str 12, Dex 12, Con —, Int —, Wis 1, Cha 1	Str 12, Dex 12, Con —, Int —, Wis 1, Cha 1	Str 12, Dex 12, Con —, Int —, Wis 1, Cha 1
Skills:
Feats:	Improved Initiative, Power Attack	Improved Initiative, Power Attack	Improved Initiative, Power Attack
Environment:
Organization:
Challenge Rating:	1	1	1
Treasure:	None	None	None
Alignment:	Always neutral	Always neutral	Always neutral
Advancement:	—	—	—
Level Adjustment:	—	—	—

	Toy Soldier, Sentry	Toy Soldier, Swordsman	Toy Soldier, ?????
Size/Type:	Small Construct	Small Construct	Small Construct
Hit Dice:	1d10+5 (7 hp)	1d10+5 (7 hp)	1d10+5 (7 hp)
Initiative:	+1	+1	+1
Speed:	20 ft.	20 ft.	20 ft.
Armor Class:	13 (+1 size, +1 Dex, +1 natural), touch 12, flat-footed 12	13 (+1 size, +1 Dex, +1 natural), touch , flat-footed	13 (+1 size, +1 Dex, +1 natural), touch , flat-footed
Base Attack/Grapple:	+0/+	+0/+	+0/+
Attack:
Full Attack:
Space/Reach:	5 ft./5 ft.	5 ft./5 ft.	5 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks:	Marking shot
Special Qualities:	Brittle, construct traits, e pluribus unum, floodlights	Brittle, construct traits, e pluribus unum	Brittle, construct traits, e pluribus unum
Saves:	Fort +6, Ref +1, Will +1	Fort +10, Ref +4, Will +5	Fort +10, Ref +4, Will +5
Abilities:	Str 12, Dex 12, Con —, Int —, Wis 1, Cha 1	Str 12, Dex 12, Con —, Int —, Wis 1, Cha 1	Str 12, Dex 12, Con —, Int —, Wis 1, Cha 1
Skills:
Feats:	Improved Initiative, Power Attack	Improved Initiative, Power Attack	Improved Initiative, Power Attack
Environment:
Organization:
Challenge Rating:	1	1	1
Treasure:	None	None	None
Alignment:	Always neutral	Always neutral	Always neutral
Advancement:	—	—	—
Level Adjustment:	—	—	—

Shade

Size/Type:	Medium Aberration (Shapechanger)
Hit Dice:	3d8+6 (20 hp)
Initiative:	+
Speed:	30 ft. (6 squares)
Armor Class:	+2 Dex, +1 natural, touch 15, flat-footed 16
Base Attack/Grapple:	+1/+3
Attack:	Slam +4 melee (1d8+4)
Full Attack:	Slam +10 melee (1d6+3)
Space/Reach:	5 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks:	Copy
Special Qualities:	Low-light vision,shape, stalk
Saves:	Fort +, Ref +9, Will +7
Abilities:	Str 14, Dex 14, Con 14, Int 14, Wis 14, Cha 14
Skills:	Hide +7, Listen +8, Spot +8
Feats:	Adaptable Technique, Improved Initiative
Environment:	Any
Organization:	Solitary
Challenge Rating:	3
Treasure:	Standard
Alignment:	Usually neutral
Advancement:	-
Level Adjustment:	-

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It's not the dark we fear. It's the things that lurk within.

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A humanoid figure steps—with what seems to be great reluctance—into the light, which is absorbed by its pitch black form. It has no face, seemingly no defining features at all, but still braves the light to jump at you with undoubtedly deadly intentions.

Shadows as they exist in the SRD are a problematic creature. They don’t make a terrible amount of sense as undead, given that they are really just bunches of shadowstuff given form. More applicably, incorporeal undead at low Challenge Ratings before players have access to the appropriate gear/abilities for fighting them can result in nasty TKO’s that are not fun for a game.

So we changed the shadow significantly, and not just by giving it a new name. For one, it’s no longer an undead, but rather an aberration. While an alien and malleable creature, it’s very much alive.

A shadow does not speak of its own accord; the only words it ever utters are in imitation of another creature, a guttural and hoarse version of the original creature’s voice that manifests when it uses the Copy ability (see below).

Combat

Copy: Once per round, a shade can replicate a spell, extraordinary ability, supernatural ability, or spell-like ability used by an opponent or ally in the current or previous round, provided the target has a CR less than or equal to that of the shade (thus determining whether the shade could use the ability or not). Using these abilities takes the same action that it required for the original source, but any level-dependent variables or save DC’s are calculated using the shade’s vital statistics, rather than those of the original source.

Shape (Ex): When in darkness, a shade automatically gains concealment. Daylight or a similar light-producing effect negates this concealment. When in the area of such an effect, the shade cannot hide or gain concealment (any attempts to do so whilst still in the light automatically fail).

Stalk (Ex): A shadow can partially change the structure of its body, changing from its default size of Medium to Small or Large size (and gaining all benefits and drawbacks thereof).

LA +0 Psionic Illithid

Although it looks like something straight out of a Lovecraftian horror novel, the illithid has become one of the defining monsters in the D&D game. Sadly, the stupidly high amount of strong abilities granted make it inaccessible to the PC's in its current form, not to mention a possible TKO anytime one (let alone a group) is encountered.

Worst of all, though, the illithid was made before D&D came out with their psionics system (which, to their credit, is not awful). So this is the illithid/mind flayer that actually uses psionics, the way it was meant to be.

Racial Traits

None

• Aberration (Psionic): Although they were once humanoids before becoming infested with creepy tadpoles, their unique method of procreation has made the illithid completely alien creatures.
• Medium: As a Medium creature, a Illithid has no special bonuses or penalties due to its size.
• Illithid base land speed is 30 feet.
• Darkvision: An illithid can see in the dark up to 120 feet. Darkvision is black and white only, but it is otherwise like normal sight, and an illithid can function just fine with no light at all.
• Daylight Sensitivity: While in brightly lit surroundings (such as a daylight spell), an illithid suffers a -2 penalty to attack rolls and precision-based skill checks.
• Latent Power (Ps): An illithid can manifest a single power, mind thrust, and has a power point pool of 2 points for the purposes of doing so. The standard illithid uses this power as a 1st level manifester even if he has no levels in a manifesting class, although additional levels in a manifesting class can increase this. This also allows the illithid to qualify for psionic feats and use psionic items.
• Mind Flayer: The illithid’s colloquial moniker comes from its tendency to devour other peoples’ brains with its tentacles. If the illithid succeeds on a coup de grace with an unarmed attack, it may use the four tentacles around its mouth to remove the victim’s brain and devour it.
• Mind Meld: An illithid can communicate telepathically with any creature with which it currently has physical contact.
• +4 bonus on Psicraft checks
• Automatic Languages: Undercommon.
• Bonus Languages: Abyssal, Common, Draconic, Githyanki, Githzerai, Infernal.
• Favored Class: Psion
• Level Adjustment: +0
• Effective Character Level: 1

Ulitharid (Racial Paragon Class)

1 - Telepathy, Tentacles, +1 manifester level

2 - Consume, +1 manifester level

3 -

4

5 -

• Telepathy: Out to 10 (or more?) feet per character level
• Tentacles: Tentacle attack(s) that deal 1d4 damage at Medium size (should these be prehensile? It makes for interesting warrior options if they could wield light weapons or at least be used in conjunction with regular weapons)
• Consume: Take memories from brains of creatures eaten, gain temporary skill bonuses +1 per character level of the ulitharid or CR of eaten creature

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Size/Type:	Large Giant
Hit Dice:	1d8+4 (9 hp)
Initiative:	+0
Speed:	30 ft. (6 squares)
Armor Class:	19 (+4 Dex, +5 natural), touch 15, flat-footed 16
Base Attack/Grapple:	+6/+10
Attack:	Slam +10 melee (1d8+4)
Full Attack:	Slam +10 melee (1d8+4)
Space/Reach:	10 ft./10 ft.
Special Attacks:	Throw anything
Special Qualities:	Catch, duality, low-light vision
Saves:	Fort +5, Ref +9, Will +7
Abilities:	Str 24, Dex 12, Con 15, Int 8, Wis 14, Cha 7
Skills:	Intimidate +7, Listen +8, Spot +8
Feats:	Improved Initiative, Great Fortitude
Environment:	Any
Organization:	Solitary
Challenge Rating:	5
Treasure:	Standard
Alignment:	Usually neutral
Advancement:	By character class
Level Adjustment:	-

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Umber Hulk

Size/Type:	Large Aberration
Hit Dice:	4d8+8 (26 hp)
Initiative:	+0
Speed:	30 ft. (6 squares)
Armor Class:	19 (+4 Dex, +5 natural), touch 15, flat-footed 16
Base Attack/Grapple:	+6/+10
Attack:	Slam +10 melee (1d8+4)
Full Attack:	Slam +10 melee (1d8+4)
Space/Reach:	10 ft./10 ft.
Special Attacks:	Psychic catharsis
Special Qualities:	Darkvision 120 ft., mind slave, psychic rejuvenation, rebound psionics
Saves:	Fort +5, Ref +9, Will +7
Abilities:	Str 19, Dex 13, Con 15, Int 8, Wis 10, Cha 7
Skills:	Concentration +7, Listen +8, Spot +8
Feats:	Psionic Fist, Psionic Meditation
Environment:	Any
Organization:	Solitary
Challenge Rating:	4
Treasure:	Standard
Alignment:	Usually neutral
Advancement:	By character class
Level Adjustment:	-

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Mind Slave (Ps): An umber hulk is bred to obey the commands of psionically gifted creatures, most commonly the mind flayers who use it as a proxy for themselves in melee combat. When the umber hulk is psionically focused, a creature with telepathy can attempt to take control of it by concentrating and making a Concentration check (with a DC equal to 15 + the CR of the umber hulk). For each additional umber hulk the telepath is attempting to control in this fashion, the DC increases by 2.

While an umber hulk is controlled, it continues to fight even after it should be deceased. Once the creature is considered dead (whether by death effects or hp loss), any further attacks or effects that affect the umber hulk force it to make a Fortitude save (DC 10 + ½ the attacker’s HD + their relevant ability modifier based on the attack or effect used) or have the psionic link between the umber hulk and its controller severed, effectively killing it.

Psychic Catharsis (Ex): When it breaks its psionic focus, the umber hulk gains a +2 bonus to attack rolls. If the umber hulk makes a successful slam attack while in this state, the creature struck must make a Fortitude save (DC 12 + Strength modifier) or be confused for 1 round.

Psychic Rejuvenation (Ps): When the umber hulk enters a psionic focus, it may spend an additional swift action to gain fast healing equal to its Challenge Rating (4 by default) until the focus is broken.

Rebound Psionics (Ps): While it is psionically focused, any targeted psionic power directed at the umber hulk does not affect it. Instead, the psychic energy explodes outwards, dealing 1d6 points of damage per two manifester levels of the source of the power to all enemies within 30 feet.

Ragewalker

Size/Type:	Medium Fey
Hit Dice:	14d6+98 (147 hp)
Initiative:	+0
Speed:	30 ft. (6 squares)
Armor Class:	19 (+4 Dex, +5 natural), touch 15, flat-footed 16
Base Attack/Grapple:	+7/+10
Attack:
Full Attack:
Space/Reach:	5 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks:
Special Qualities:
Saves:	Fort +5, Ref +9, Will +7
Abilities:	Str 18, Dex 28, Con 24, Int 19, Wis 24, Cha 18
Skills:	Intimidate +7, Listen +8, Spot +8
Feats:	Improved Initiative, Great Fortitude
Environment:	Any
Organization:	Solitary
Challenge Rating:
Treasure:	Standard
Alignment:	Usually neutral
Advancement:	By character class
Level Adjustment:	-

“

Mortals have a saying: ‘Fight fire with fire.’ So too must steel be countered with steel.

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Wading through the field of battle is a figure encased from head to toe in form-fitting metal plates. Peering inside the helmet of the armor reveals nothing more than a black void punctuated by two sickly green pinpoints of light. Surrounding it is a cloud of weapons, some mundane and used into disrepair (obviously taken from fallen soldiers) and some so grand they could be fit for a king. All of them are floating seemingly independent of the figure itself while constantly flying to its defense and cutting down men of both sides indiscriminately. As the armored menace slowly but surely closes the distance to you, dozens are cut down without landing a single attack on it.

Mother nature must have a cruel sense of humor, otherwise the ragewalkers would not exist. Representations of the violence committed by artificial civilizations, these fey spawn on battlefields rife with hatred and anger and use manufactured weapons to slay their former owners. Allowing these weapons to float free around it for a dual offensive and defensive threat, the ragewalker “wields” them with such uncanny ability that they seem to have a will of their own.

According to scholars, ragewalkers seek to preserve the sanctity of nature by killing anything capable of making the tools of war. Given their purely violent nature, it is theorized that once that purpose is upheld the ragewalkers would—in effect—die and return to the earth from whence they came. Thus they are driven to perform their grisly work, hating their existence and the vices that caused them to come into being.

Despite an obvious intelligence as demonstrated by their tactical acumen, ragewalkers don't speak, and those who know of them debate whether they can even understand speech. Such a blunt instrument doesn't require words, and cannot be reasoned with, only killing the violent offenders and then vanishing.

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A ragewalker tends not to discriminate between levels of or reasoning behind violence, with the sole exception being predation by animals and the like. While most often frequenting battlefields, it may one day inadvertently defend the helpless from their persecutors and the next slay some unwitting band of do-gooders. Whoever the foe, the ragewalker’s response is sudden and lethal force. Although it can teleport extreme distances to seek out targets, it tends to avoid plunging into the middle of an urban center where it cannot take advantage of a chaotic environment, another reason it favors battlefields instead of solo efforts against overwhelming odds.

Ragewalker fights with the numerous weapons that surround its form; they act as offense and defense, and due to their ability to attack remotely the ragewalker is rarely in any real danger against most opponents. It adds its Dexterity modifier to attack and damage rolls, which is factored into its stat block.

Detect Hostilities (Su): A ragewalker seeks out combat with a twisted relish, believing any who partake in it to be a scourge that must be wiped from the world regardless of their intent or ability. A ragewalker can detect any creatures participating in a violent act (usually participating in a combat encounter, although the precise interpretation is left to the DM’s discretion) within ten miles of its present location and, as an immediate action, instantly teleport to that location. Once the ragewalker appears, it must take a moment to recollect itself and is dazed for one round. The ragewalker may only use this teleportation ability if it is not presently in combat, and once used the teleportation effect is not useable again for a period of 8 hours.

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Rage Against the Machine (Ex): Attempting to slay a ragewalker with a manufactured weapon is practically futile. If attacked with a non-natural weapon, the ragewalker may take an immediate action and force the attacker to make a Fortitude save (DC ??). On a failed save, the attack is negated and the would-be aggressor is pushed away as though by a repel metal or stone spell. If it wishes, the ragewalker may take a standard action to target any creature within the normal range of the spell that is either wielding such a weapon or made of metal or stone, forcing them to save or be repelled in the same fashion.

Alternatively, the ragewalker may take an immediate action to force the attacker to save (also a Fortitude save with the same DC) or be disarmed, the enemy’s weapon added to the cloud surrounding the ragewalker. Creatures with magical weapons gain a bonus on this save equal to the numerical value of the enhancement bonuses on the weapon.

When attacking a construct or an opponent carrying manufactured weapons, armor, or magical items, a ragewalker gains a circumstance bonus to attack and damage rolls equal to its Challenge Rating (+14 by default), allowing it to compensate for its poor Base Attack Bonus.

Earth, Wind, & Fire (Ex): A ragewalker is surrounded by a cloud of floating weapons that can attack in unison or independently of each other, manifesting itself as one of the three following combat abilities:

• Rampage of Earth: As long as it is using this function, the ragewalker gains four particular simple or martial melee weapons (which ones it possesses are essentially up to the DM) that are constantly considered to have the dancing enhancement, in addition to the two kusari-gama referenced in its stat block. Regardless of the weapons used, the ragewalker has 10 feet of reach with them. As a standard action, the ragewalker may make a single melee attack with each of these weapons, and it is also allowed a single attack with each weapon on any attack of opportunity it makes while using this ability.

• Storm of Wind: Firstly, it permanently gains all the benefits of a blade barrier spell (dealing 14d6 points of damage) within its melee reach, with the following addition: if the ragewalker wishes, it may expand the barrier to double its melee reach (20 feet), halving the damage dealt (to 7d6). The save for this effect is Dexterity-based and has a DC of 26.

If the ragewalker in grappling an opponent, it deals maximum damage to the target each turn with this ability based on the dimensions of the barrier. Secondly, the cloud automatically deflects any targeted spells unless the caster is in touch range and deflects any non-magical projectile weapons automatically.

• Baptism of Fire: Once per round, as a free action, the ragewalker may direct all the weapons to a single target within Medium Range (240 feet), dealing 2 points of damage per Challenge Rating of the ragewalker (28 by default) multiplied by a value corresponding with the size category of the victim (with Fine as 1, Diminutive = 2, Small = 3, Medium = 4, and so on) as they are assaulted by the weapon cloud. The target of this attack must also make a Fortitude save (DC 17 + the size-based value) or be stunned for 1 round. Using this function suppresses all other uses of Earth, Wind, & Fire until the start of the ragewalker’s next turn.

Changing which version of the ability is in use is a free action useable by the ragewalker at the beginning of its turn. The ragewalker may also suppress this ability at its own whim, causing the weapons to become magnetically attached to it until called upon.

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