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2019-12-21, 02:59 AM
Spectral Python (CR 10)
XP 9600
NG Medium Magical Beast (incorporeal)
Init +8; Senses Darkvision 120 ft., Deathwatch 60 ft.; Perception +25
AC 21, Touch 21, flat-footed 17 (+7 deflection, +4 Dex)
HP 123 (13d10+52)
Fort +12, Ref +13, Will +8
Defensive Abilities: incorporeal, Spaces-Between-Places
Immune: Fear
Speed: Fly 40 ft (perfect)
Melee: Bite +13 (2d6+6 plus grab)
Space/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: Constrict (2d6+6 plus disruption), blessed incorporeality
Str -, Dex 18, Con 18, Int 14, Wis 20, Cha 24
Base Atk +9, CMB +13 (+17 to grapple), CMD 34
Feats: Improved Initiative, Skill Focus (Stealth), Hellcat Stealth, Improved Unarmed Strike, Improved Grapple, Greater Grapple
Skills: Acrobatics +28, Fly +28, Perception +25, Stealth +30
(Racial Skill Bonuses: Acrobatics +8, Perception +4, Stealth +4)
Environment: Ethereal Plane (underground, urban)
Organization: Solitary
Treasure: None
SPECIAL ABILITIES
Spaces-Between-Places (Su)
A spectral python is blessed by Aidia, which is part of what allows it to slip between and through physical objects with all the grace of its favored prey. However, when pressed it can push this connection further. As a swift action, the spectral python can teleport up to 60 ft to a point it can see; alternatively, it can do so as an immediate action, in exchange for a maximum range of 30 ft instead.
Disruption (Su)
The squeezing touch of a spectral python would haunt the dreams of intelligent undead if they ever rested. Whenever an Undead creature is damaged by a spectral python's Constrict ability, they must make a DC 23 Will save. If they fail this save, then for the next 24 hours, no ability less powerful than Wish, Miracle, divine intervention, or similar can turn the creature undead - including its own special abilities. Additional failed saves stack this duration. This has no real effect if they undead in question does not perish, but if they are destroyed, this curse remains in effect; if they possess a feature that would attempt to reanimate/rejuvenate/reincarnate them within this time period, it fails, and that ability ceases to function. Only once the duration has finished can they be made undead once more.
Blessed Incorporeality
A spectral python uses Dexterity for anything that would normally call for Strength (resulting in, among other things, adding Dex to CMD twice). Additionally, a spectral python ignores any immunity to attacks or grappling that would result directly from incorporeality; the only way to avoid the attack/grapple is to not get your AC/CMD hit.
Spectral Pythons look like ten-foot pythons lazily coiling through space, their scales shifting to match their surroundings as they pass. They are creatures blessed by Aidia to take her appearance and some measure of her abilities, for the purpose of hunting down particularly tricky undead. The spectral pythons primary prey is ghosts, but can serve as an existential threat to most any intelligent undead with some means of reanimating themselves upon destruction. Despite it's surprising cunning, at the end of the day it's still an animal, and its understanding of tactics is limited to little more than hunting.
Spectral pythons float through the ethereal searching out their prey; typically, they end up congregating near Ethereal versions of sites that are likely to produce ghosts, sensing in some fashion that this is fertile hunting ground. They rarely bother corporeal creatures directly, but if encountered within the Ethereal itself, they don't quite have the intelligence necessary to know the difference between a planehopping adventurer and a spirit lingering when it ought'n't.
XP 9600
NG Medium Magical Beast (incorporeal)
Init +8; Senses Darkvision 120 ft., Deathwatch 60 ft.; Perception +25
AC 21, Touch 21, flat-footed 17 (+7 deflection, +4 Dex)
HP 123 (13d10+52)
Fort +12, Ref +13, Will +8
Defensive Abilities: incorporeal, Spaces-Between-Places
Immune: Fear
Speed: Fly 40 ft (perfect)
Melee: Bite +13 (2d6+6 plus grab)
Space/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: Constrict (2d6+6 plus disruption), blessed incorporeality
Str -, Dex 18, Con 18, Int 14, Wis 20, Cha 24
Base Atk +9, CMB +13 (+17 to grapple), CMD 34
Feats: Improved Initiative, Skill Focus (Stealth), Hellcat Stealth, Improved Unarmed Strike, Improved Grapple, Greater Grapple
Skills: Acrobatics +28, Fly +28, Perception +25, Stealth +30
(Racial Skill Bonuses: Acrobatics +8, Perception +4, Stealth +4)
Environment: Ethereal Plane (underground, urban)
Organization: Solitary
Treasure: None
SPECIAL ABILITIES
Spaces-Between-Places (Su)
A spectral python is blessed by Aidia, which is part of what allows it to slip between and through physical objects with all the grace of its favored prey. However, when pressed it can push this connection further. As a swift action, the spectral python can teleport up to 60 ft to a point it can see; alternatively, it can do so as an immediate action, in exchange for a maximum range of 30 ft instead.
Disruption (Su)
The squeezing touch of a spectral python would haunt the dreams of intelligent undead if they ever rested. Whenever an Undead creature is damaged by a spectral python's Constrict ability, they must make a DC 23 Will save. If they fail this save, then for the next 24 hours, no ability less powerful than Wish, Miracle, divine intervention, or similar can turn the creature undead - including its own special abilities. Additional failed saves stack this duration. This has no real effect if they undead in question does not perish, but if they are destroyed, this curse remains in effect; if they possess a feature that would attempt to reanimate/rejuvenate/reincarnate them within this time period, it fails, and that ability ceases to function. Only once the duration has finished can they be made undead once more.
Blessed Incorporeality
A spectral python uses Dexterity for anything that would normally call for Strength (resulting in, among other things, adding Dex to CMD twice). Additionally, a spectral python ignores any immunity to attacks or grappling that would result directly from incorporeality; the only way to avoid the attack/grapple is to not get your AC/CMD hit.
Spectral Pythons look like ten-foot pythons lazily coiling through space, their scales shifting to match their surroundings as they pass. They are creatures blessed by Aidia to take her appearance and some measure of her abilities, for the purpose of hunting down particularly tricky undead. The spectral pythons primary prey is ghosts, but can serve as an existential threat to most any intelligent undead with some means of reanimating themselves upon destruction. Despite it's surprising cunning, at the end of the day it's still an animal, and its understanding of tactics is limited to little more than hunting.
Spectral pythons float through the ethereal searching out their prey; typically, they end up congregating near Ethereal versions of sites that are likely to produce ghosts, sensing in some fashion that this is fertile hunting ground. They rarely bother corporeal creatures directly, but if encountered within the Ethereal itself, they don't quite have the intelligence necessary to know the difference between a planehopping adventurer and a spirit lingering when it ought'n't.