Half daemon template

[Aberzanzorax]

Since not all fiends are created equal, I thought I'd take a stab at modifying the half fiend template to a half daemon template.

All abilities are as per half fiend template, except where noted.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/templates/half-fiend

Creating a Half-Daemon

“Half-Daemon is an inherited or acquired template that can be added to a
living, corporeal creature with an Int score of 4 or more. A half-fiend uses all
the base creature's statistics and special abilities except as noted here.

CR: HD 4 or less, as base creature +1; HD 5 to 10, as base creature +2; HD 11 or more, as base creature +3.

Alignment: Neutral evil.

Type: The creature's type changes to outsider (native). Do not recalculate HD, BAB, or saves.

Armor Class: Natural armor bonus improves by +1.

Defenses/Qualities: Gains Deathwatch, constant. Darkvision 60 feet; immunity to death, disease poison; acid, cold, electricity, and fire resistance 10; DR 5/magic (if HD 11 or less) or 10/magic (if HD 12 or more); and SR equal to creature's CR + 11 (maximum 35).

Speed: Unless the base creature flies better, the half-fiend flies at twice the base creature's land speed (good).

Melee: A half-Daemon gains two claw attacks and a bite attack. Damage depends on its size.

Special Attacks: A half-Daemon gains the following.

Smite Good (Su)
Once per day, as a swift action, the half-Daemon can smite good as the smite evil ability of a paladin of the same level as the half-daemon’s Hit Dice, except affecting a good target. The smite persists until target is dead or the half-Daemon rests.

Spell-Like Abilities: A half-Daemon with an Int or
Wis score of 8 or higher has a cumulative number of spell-like abilities set by its HD. Unless otherwise noted, an ability is usable 1/day. CL equals the creature's HD (or the CL of the base creature's spell-like abilities, whichever is higher).

Abilities: A half-Daemon gains a +4 bonus on three ability scores of its choice and a +2 bonus on the other three.

Skills: A half-Daemon with racial HD has skill points
per racial HD equal to 6 + Int mod. Racial class skills are unchanged, and class level skill ranks are unaffected.

Table: Half Daemon Spell-like Abilities by Hit Die

Hit Dice
1–2 Darkness death-knell3/day
3–4 Desecrate or feast of ashes 1/day
5-6 Unholy blight Summon cacodaemon
7-8 Poison Vampiric touch3/day
9-10 Contagion
11-12 Blasphemy Finger of death
13-14 Unholy aura Greater deathknell aura (as astradaemon's soul siphon aura)3/day, unhallow
15-16 Horrid wilting
17-18 Summon monster IX Wail of the banshee
19-20 Destruction Soul bind

*note that spell-like abilities have no material components, making unhallow and soul bind actually feasible.

Critiques?

 

[Aberzanzorax]

Notes:

A summoned cacodaemon can, once per day, create a soulgem from a recently slain creature, which can be eaten by an outsider to damn the soul and gain fast healing 2 with a duration dependant on the power of the soul.

An astrodaemon's soul siphon stacks with itself (so a half fiend on a killing spree could continuously gain bonuses to str and bonus temporary hp).


Overall...the template was designed with a focus on daemonic interests... Those of disease, war, famine (interpreted as daemonic hunger for souls), and death. (As well as pure evil.)

 

[Salthorae]

You should check out the Blood of Fiends Companion book and the Book of the Damned Vol 3

Those would help you out!

 

[Aberzanzorax]

You should check out the Blood of Fiends Companion book and the Book of the Damned Vol 3

Those would help you out!

They did really help, thanks. I actually have read both of them, but pored over them again, and while I didn't find many new changes I wanted to make to the template, I reread the template in the vein of BotD V3 and like what I have (suggestions to make it better, of course, are always welcome...I'm not claimin' it's perfect!)

But I WAS able to find some really neat traits for the character I'm planning to use for this. I'll share em, as they're appropriate for a half daemon (just take the "extra traits" feat.

Soul Eater (coup de grace for extra hp).
Infernal bastard (with the "message" spell). (bonus to elemental energy saves, message at will).

 

[Bruno N. Oliveira]

I definitely did like it!

But could you tweak it a bit for a Half-Div? I'm not sure what would go out, though... it can't clash with Div-sorcerer bloodline or I'm screwed (since I want to make a Kohai of Blasphemy). You know what would complement it greatly? Any damage-dealing spell that can affect an area. There's none in both the sorceror bloodlne and your daemon ones... *sad face*