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ayvango
2022-05-30, 08:36 AM
I'd like to introduce conception of a hard-to-damage monster to a players that prefer solve problems with direct damage.

So I need a swarm to avoid hitting it with a sword.
The swarm should also has decent spell resistance (or invulnerability) to counter fireballs
To make things harder it should also be incorporeal.

I believe that applying number of templates could produce such a creature. I search for advice about templates and base creature. I'd like to make the monster with as low CR as possible when players have no access to world-defying magic.

Some nasty after effect are welcomed. Like fire to burn unattended equipment or rust attack to ruin weapons and armors. Negative levels are a good alternative too.

Metastachydium
2022-05-30, 08:51 AM
Fire-SouledDraMag314 Fiendish Bat Swarm Ghosts are incorporeal, immune to fire (if Fireball is what you're worried about), fully sapient and depending on what ghost SAs you pick, can, in theory, do more than just deal swarm damage. Since the default bat swarm has only 3 HD, its CR is only 5 after all three templates.