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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psychotic Jim" data-source="post: 1372081" data-attributes="member: 547">Gibberling, BroodSmall Outsider (Chaotic, Extraplanar)Hit Dice: 4d8+4 (22 hp)Initiative: +1 (Dex)Speed: 30 ft. (6 squares)Armor Class: 14 (+1 Dex, +1 size, +2 natural), touch 12, flat-footed 12 Base Attack/Grapple: +4/+2Attack: bite +7 melee (1d4+3 and gibberslug) or spit +5 ranged (gibberslug) Full Attack: bite +7 melee (1d4+3 and gibberslug) or spit +5 ranged (gibberslug) Space/Reach: 5 ft/5 ftSpecial Attacks:  Gibberslug, spawn gibberling, gibberSpecial Qualities: Darkvision 90 ft, control gibberlings, immunities, light vulnerabilitySaves: Fort +4, Ref +4, Will +4Abilities: Str 14, Dex 13, Con 12, Int 11, Wis 12, Cha 8Skills:   Hide +12, Intimidate +6, Listen +8, Move Silently +8, Search +7, Sense Motive +5, Spot +8, Survival +8Feats:  Weapon Focus (bite)Climate/Terrain: Temperate Forest and Underground (with exposure to the Far Realm)Organization: Solitary or Clan (1-4 Brood Gibberlings and 20-60 gibberlings)Challenge Rating:  3Treasure:  NoneAlignment: Always Chaotic NeutralAdvancement:  5-6 HD (Small); 7-8 HD (Medium-size)Level Adjustment: ?A small, malformed creature stands hunched over. Its pale skin is almost transparent, and you can occasionally glimpse some quick movement beneath it. Its mangy black hair rides upon its skull almost like the mane was a different entity entirely. The gaze of the creature’s red eyes gives you the feeling it can make… use of you.    Brood Gibberlings, foreign beings from an unknown cosmos, apparently are the causes of gibberling infestations.  A brood gibberling appears as a pale gibberling with moving bulges occasionally appearing in its flesh.  Swarms of gibberslugs swim underneath the skin of a brood gibberling; the brood gibberling implants these in other creatures to produce normal gibberlings to serve it.  Brood gibberlings seem to only communicate with their spawn and their own kind.Combat    A brood gibberling attacks all life not of its own kind, with the goal of “converting” other lifeforms into gibberlings by implanting them with gibberslugs . A brood gibberling can deliver the parasitic slug via a bite or by spitting it from up to 20 ft away.    Gibberslug (Ex):  If a brood gibberling hits its foe whether by bite or spit, the gibberling implatnts  a gibberslug in an opponent, which immediately beigns to burrow its way towards the brain of the creature.  The slug takes 1d6+5 rounds to reach the brain, doing 1d4 damage to the parasite’s host per round.  Applying fire to the place where the slug burrowed within one round of its entry kills the slug (in addition to burning the host).  Applying a remove disease spell or eating certain Far Realms fungi before the slug reaches the brain will kill the slug as well.  After reaching the brain, the gibberslug drives its victim into a comatose state as it feeds on its brain.  After this occurs, a wish or miracle spell is necessary to recover the victim.  Creatures immune to critical hits, or those lacking brains, are immune to this attack.    Spawn Gibberling (Su):  After 1d20+4 hours have past, a life form slain by a gibberslug arises as a normal gibberling, losing all of the abilities of the former character    Gibber (Ex):  Like normal gibberlings, the mad mumblings of a brood gibberling are disturbing, causing creatures with less than 3 HD to make a Will save (DC 13) or become shaken.  Creatures with more than 2 HD within 200 ft face a –2 penalty on all Concentration rolls.    Control Gibberlings (Su):  A brood gibberling has telepathy with its own spawned gibberlings, and they follow its orders as if a Dominate Monster was cast on all of them by a 15th level sorcerer.  Gibberlings never attack the brood gibberling that gave them life.     Immunities (Ex):  Immune to all mind-influencing effects    Light Vulnerability (Ex):  Being exposed to sunlight or a daylight spell causes a brood gibberling to suffer a –2 penalty to attack rolls and Reflex saves.</blockquote>

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