Many many years ago, in one game, a character in a game I was playing in was cursed with having a leprechaun-like critter that pernamantly sat on the characters shoulder, hurling insults at him and his friends. I loved that little guy!
To that end, I've tried to create critters with similar effects. The Deamon of Dischord is one of them. Crap in combat, but devastating in regular day to day life. The Deamon of Dischord is great for bothering players, capable of creating both funnies, and seriousness.
See what you think.
Daemon Of Discord
Tiny Fey, Incorporeal
Hit Dice: 4D6 -8 (5hp)
Initiative: +5
Speed: Fly 80ft (Perfect)
Armour Class: 24 (+2 Size, +5 Dex, +7 Deflection)
Base Attack/Grapple: +2/ -
Attack: -
Full Attack: -
Space/Reach: 2ft/ -
Special Attacks: Aura Of Unluck, Inconvenience, Mischief, Invisibility, Bolster Fear,
Special Qualities Incorporeal Traits, Influenced Morphology, Flight, Low Light Vision, Evil Laughter
Saves: Fort: 1, Ref: +9, Will: +6
Abilities: Str: - , Dex: 20, Con 7, Int 16, Wis 15, Cha 24,
Skills: Bluff: +14, Escape Artist: +12 Hide: +20, Listen: +9, Use Magic Device: +14
Feats: Great Fortitude, Ability Focus: Inconvienience
Environment: Any
Organisation: Solitary
Challenge Rating: 8
Treasure: None
Alignment: Always Chaotic Evil
Advancement: By Character Class.
From somewhere near you seem, to hear high-pitched cackling laughter…
The Daemon Of Discord is a mischievous impish creature whose should purpose in life is to cause misery and disharmony to people. Usually targeting a single individual and hovering around them using it’s many powers to make it’s targets life miserable.
Combat:
Deamons of Dischord usually focus on a single unfortunate. When in combat, the deamon will usually hold its actions untill it's target makes a move. It may then use one of it's abilitys to make that targets life a lot more difficult!
Daemons of Discord dislike combat when it involves themselves. If they are spotted, and an attack aimed at them, they will use their powers to protect themselves as best they can, and flee. They rarely return to a target once their presence has been dectected.
Aura Of Unluck (Su): 1/Day a Daemon of Discord can create a baleful aura of misfortune. As an emanation, centred on the daemon and spreading out in a 40ft radius. The daemon may wish to apply a 20% miss chance to a number of creatures equal to the Daemon of Discords Charisma bonus.
Inconvenience(Su): 3/Day, the Daemon of Discord may use it’s influence make an otherwise simple task complicated and difficult. Using this ability causes a targets action to increase in length by one step (Free actions become move actions, move actions become standard actions, standard actions become full-round actions) The daemon may not use this ability on Full-Round actions. (Example: Clovis has the Quick-Draw Feat. He springs into combat and attempts to draw his sword as a free action using that feat. The daemon steps in , using it’s Inconvenience ability, and jamming the sword in it’s scabbard. Clovis must take a move-action to draw his sword.) The target may make a Will save DC 21 to resist this effect. (The save is Charisma based)
Mischief (Su): 2/day, the Daemon of Discord may make a task a lot more difficult to complete than it should be. By using this ability, the Daemon of Discord may add 1D6+Cha to any skill roll it’s target is making. Alternatively, the Daemon of Discord may use this ability to prevent the target from ‘Taking 10’ on a skill check, or to double the amount of time taken on a check that the target is ‘Taking 20’ on.
Invisibility (Su): A Daemon of Discord may use ‘Greater Invisibility’ as the spell at will.
Bolster Fear (Su): Whenever a ‘Fear’ effect is used in the presence of a Daemon of Discord, the daemon may increase it’s effect, causing a single target of the Daemons choosing to make a second save from a fear-like effect emanating from the Daemon itself, DC 19. The save DC is Charisma Based. If the save fails, the fear effect takes hold, even if the target made the first save.
Incorporeal (Ex): Daemons of Discord are Incorporeal. It is immune to all non-magical attack forms. When hit by Spells or magic weapons, it has a 50% miss chance to ignore any damage from a corporeal source (except positive or negative energy, force effects or a weapon with the Ghost Touch ability). It has a Deflection bonus to AC equal to it’s Charisma Bonus. It has no Strength score.
Influenced Morphology (Ex): The Daemon of Discord has no physical form to speak of. Instead, if it is rendered visible, it’s appearance is defined by it’s viewer. One may see an impish looking creature, while another, looking at the same creature at the same time may see a winged goblin-like creature. The creatures size, apparent or otherwise, is never modified by this ability. If viewed through a True Seeing spell, or similar ability, the Deamon of Discord appears as a cloud of black and red gas, indespursed with flashees of red light.
Evil Laughter (Ex): Whenever a Daemon of Discord uses one of it’s abilities and created a particularly catastrophic effect, anyone in range may make a Listen check against a DC 17(10+Cha Bonus), plus any applicable modifiers, such as crowd noise, range Etc. If they succeed, they are able to hear the Daemon cackling at the chaos it has caused. This can alert a person to the Daemons Presence.
Daemons of Discord may be summoned and centred on a target by way of the Greater Curse Spell.
To that end, I've tried to create critters with similar effects. The Deamon of Dischord is one of them. Crap in combat, but devastating in regular day to day life. The Deamon of Dischord is great for bothering players, capable of creating both funnies, and seriousness.
See what you think.
Daemon Of Discord
Tiny Fey, Incorporeal
Hit Dice: 4D6 -8 (5hp)
Initiative: +5
Speed: Fly 80ft (Perfect)
Armour Class: 24 (+2 Size, +5 Dex, +7 Deflection)
Base Attack/Grapple: +2/ -
Attack: -
Full Attack: -
Space/Reach: 2ft/ -
Special Attacks: Aura Of Unluck, Inconvenience, Mischief, Invisibility, Bolster Fear,
Special Qualities Incorporeal Traits, Influenced Morphology, Flight, Low Light Vision, Evil Laughter
Saves: Fort: 1, Ref: +9, Will: +6
Abilities: Str: - , Dex: 20, Con 7, Int 16, Wis 15, Cha 24,
Skills: Bluff: +14, Escape Artist: +12 Hide: +20, Listen: +9, Use Magic Device: +14
Feats: Great Fortitude, Ability Focus: Inconvienience
Environment: Any
Organisation: Solitary
Challenge Rating: 8
Treasure: None
Alignment: Always Chaotic Evil
Advancement: By Character Class.
From somewhere near you seem, to hear high-pitched cackling laughter…
The Daemon Of Discord is a mischievous impish creature whose should purpose in life is to cause misery and disharmony to people. Usually targeting a single individual and hovering around them using it’s many powers to make it’s targets life miserable.
Combat:
Deamons of Dischord usually focus on a single unfortunate. When in combat, the deamon will usually hold its actions untill it's target makes a move. It may then use one of it's abilitys to make that targets life a lot more difficult!
Daemons of Discord dislike combat when it involves themselves. If they are spotted, and an attack aimed at them, they will use their powers to protect themselves as best they can, and flee. They rarely return to a target once their presence has been dectected.
Aura Of Unluck (Su): 1/Day a Daemon of Discord can create a baleful aura of misfortune. As an emanation, centred on the daemon and spreading out in a 40ft radius. The daemon may wish to apply a 20% miss chance to a number of creatures equal to the Daemon of Discords Charisma bonus.
Inconvenience(Su): 3/Day, the Daemon of Discord may use it’s influence make an otherwise simple task complicated and difficult. Using this ability causes a targets action to increase in length by one step (Free actions become move actions, move actions become standard actions, standard actions become full-round actions) The daemon may not use this ability on Full-Round actions. (Example: Clovis has the Quick-Draw Feat. He springs into combat and attempts to draw his sword as a free action using that feat. The daemon steps in , using it’s Inconvenience ability, and jamming the sword in it’s scabbard. Clovis must take a move-action to draw his sword.) The target may make a Will save DC 21 to resist this effect. (The save is Charisma based)
Mischief (Su): 2/day, the Daemon of Discord may make a task a lot more difficult to complete than it should be. By using this ability, the Daemon of Discord may add 1D6+Cha to any skill roll it’s target is making. Alternatively, the Daemon of Discord may use this ability to prevent the target from ‘Taking 10’ on a skill check, or to double the amount of time taken on a check that the target is ‘Taking 20’ on.
Invisibility (Su): A Daemon of Discord may use ‘Greater Invisibility’ as the spell at will.
Bolster Fear (Su): Whenever a ‘Fear’ effect is used in the presence of a Daemon of Discord, the daemon may increase it’s effect, causing a single target of the Daemons choosing to make a second save from a fear-like effect emanating from the Daemon itself, DC 19. The save DC is Charisma Based. If the save fails, the fear effect takes hold, even if the target made the first save.
Incorporeal (Ex): Daemons of Discord are Incorporeal. It is immune to all non-magical attack forms. When hit by Spells or magic weapons, it has a 50% miss chance to ignore any damage from a corporeal source (except positive or negative energy, force effects or a weapon with the Ghost Touch ability). It has a Deflection bonus to AC equal to it’s Charisma Bonus. It has no Strength score.
Influenced Morphology (Ex): The Daemon of Discord has no physical form to speak of. Instead, if it is rendered visible, it’s appearance is defined by it’s viewer. One may see an impish looking creature, while another, looking at the same creature at the same time may see a winged goblin-like creature. The creatures size, apparent or otherwise, is never modified by this ability. If viewed through a True Seeing spell, or similar ability, the Deamon of Discord appears as a cloud of black and red gas, indespursed with flashees of red light.
Evil Laughter (Ex): Whenever a Daemon of Discord uses one of it’s abilities and created a particularly catastrophic effect, anyone in range may make a Listen check against a DC 17(10+Cha Bonus), plus any applicable modifiers, such as crowd noise, range Etc. If they succeed, they are able to hear the Daemon cackling at the chaos it has caused. This can alert a person to the Daemons Presence.
Daemons of Discord may be summoned and centred on a target by way of the Greater Curse Spell.
