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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 5736041" data-attributes="member: 57383">Kender Vampire Working DraftKender VampireSmall UndeadHit Dice: 4d12+3 (29 hp)Initiative: +7Speed: 20 ft. (4 squares)Armor Class: 17 (+1 size, +3 Dex, +3 natural), touch 14, flat-footed 14Base Attack/Grapple: +2/+0Attack: Spirit-rending claw +5 melee (1d6+2 plus 1d3 Wisdom damage and paralysis) or hoopak  +6 melee (1d4+3) or hoopak (sling) +7 ranged (1d3+2) or hoopak (shortspear) +7 ranged (1d4+2)Full Attack: Spirit-rending claw +5 melee (1d6+2 plus 1d3 Wisdom damage and paralysis); or hoopak +6 melee (1d4+3); or hoopak +2 melee (1d4+2) and hoopak -2 melee (1d4+1); or hoopak (sling) +7 ranged (1d3+2) or hoopak (shortspear) +7 ranged (1d4+2) Space/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft.Special Attacks: Destroy wood, hoopak, insanity howl, spirit-rending clawsSpecial Qualities: Damage reduction 5/silver, darkvision 60 ft., fast healing 2, lack of focus, poltergeist form, resistance to cold 10 and electricity 10, spider climb, undead traitsSaves: Fort +1, Ref +6, Will +4Abilities: Str 14, Dex 16, Con—, Int 11, Wis 11, Cha 14Skills: Bluff +6, Climb +6, Hide +15, Jump +0, Listen +10, Move Silently +11, Open Locks +5, Search +4, Sense Motive +4, Sleight of Hand +5, Spot +10 Feats: Alertness (B), Combat Reflexes, Improved Initiative (B), Lightning Reflexes (B), Weapon Focus (hoopak) Environment: AnyOrganization: Solitary or pack (2–5)Challenge Rating: 3Treasure: StandardAlignment: Always evil (any)Advancement: —Level Adjustment: — A being resembling a pale-skinned child with the figure of a  gymnast, impish eyes and pointed ears. Its elf-like features have a feral look, with teeth that appear longer and sharper than they should be. A  closer look reveals  horror; the creature's slender body is wizened,  with mummified skin  stretched taut over its bones, and it has the  wicked  claws of a savage beast. Kender vampires, as their name suggests, are vampiric undead that were  once living kender. They share certain characteristics with "normal"  vampire spawn, including the inability to create more of their kind.  These vile undead were created by cruel magical experimentation that  left them bound to the will and domain of their creator. Kender vampires  despise their creators, but the twisted magic that created them makes  them unable to rebel or act in any way contrary to their masters'  interests.     Kender vampires speak Common and Kenderspeak in a hissing whisper. Speaking is very painful for a kender vampire, so they rarely talk. Kender vampires are the same size and weight they were when alive. An  average kender vampire stands 3 foot 7 inches tall and weighs 75 pounds,  they can range from 3 to 4 feet in height and usually weigh between 55  and 100 pounds.     CombatKender vampire use their inhuman strength when engaging mortals, hammering their foes with powerful blows and dashing them against rocks or walls. They also use their gaseous form and flight abilities to strike where opponents are most vulnerable. Destroy Wood (Su):  Any wooden weapon (except for a  kender vampire's hoopak) that strikes a kender vampire  must succeed at a  DC 14 Fortitude save or take 2d6+6 points of damage. If  this damage  destroys the weapon it instantly rots away, and the kender  vampire  takes no damage from the attack. A kender vampire can also  destroy  wooden objects by touching them as a standard action (a +6 melee  touch  attack). The save DC is Charisma-based. Fast Healing (Ex): A kender vampire heals 2  points of damage each round so long as it has at least 1 hit point. Its fast healing does not heal damage from shimmerweed or the kender vampire's own hoopak (see Kender Vampire Weaknesses, below). If  reduced to 0 hit points in combat, a kender vampire   automatically assumes poltergeist  form and attempts to escape. It  must  reach its coffin home within 2  hours or become permanently  trapped in  poltergeist form. (It can travel up to nine miles in 2   hours.) Once at  rest in its coffin, it is helpless. It regains 1 hit   point after 1  hour, then is no longer helpless and resumes healing at   the rate of 2  hit points per round.Hoopak: A hoopak attacks as a quarterstaff, shortspear, or sling (bullets required). The hoopak can be used as a double weapon, making one attack with the quarterstaff function and the other as a shortspear.Kender vampires are vulnerable to attacks from a kender vampires' hoopak, including their own. See Kender Vampire Weaknesses for details. They have no weakness to hoopaks that don't belong to kender vampires.Howl of Madness (Su):  Once per hour, a kender vampire can unleash a  hideous cackling.  Anyone within 60 feet who can hear the vampire must  succeed on a DC 14 Will save or become insane (as the insanity spell).   This is a sonic, mind-affecting enchantment (compulsion) effect.  The  save DC is Charisma-based.Kender Traits: Kender vampires retain a kender's +1 racial bonus to all saving throws and +2 racial bonus on Open Locks, Spot and Sleight of Hands checks. Kender vampires can make Open Locks and Sleight of Hand checks as though they were trained, even if they have 0 ranks in the skills. They also retain a kender's lack of focus and taunt special abilities (see below).Lack of Focus: Kender have a -4 racial penalty on Concentration checks. Kender don't necessarily lack magical talent, but their general lack of focus discourages them from pursuing careers in magic. Spirit-Rending Claws (Su): Any creature hit by a kender vampire's claw attack takes 1d3 Wisdom damage and must succeed at a DC 14 Fortitude save or be paralyzed for 1 round. The save DC is Charisma-based. Poltergeist Form (Ex):  As a standard action, a kender vampire  can transfer itself between the  Ethereal Plane and the Material Plane.  As an ethereal creature, it  cannot affect or be affected by anything in  the material world. When a  kender vampire is on the Ethereal Plane,  any spells is casts cannot  affect targets on the Material Plane, but  they work normally against  ethereal targets. If the kender vampire does  not return to the Material  Plane within 2 hours it becomes permanently  trapped in the Ethereal  Plane. A kender vampire that is reduced to 0  hit points while in poltergeist form is permanently destroyed.Spider Climb (Ex): A kender vampire can climb sheer surfaces as though with a spider climb spell.Skills: Kender vampire have a +4 racial bonus on Bluff, Hide, Listen, Move Silently, Search, Sense Motive, and Spot checks. Kender vampire have a +2 racial bonus on Open Locks and Sleight of Hands checks. Kender vampires can make Open Locks and Sleight of Hand checks as though they were trained, even if they have 0 ranks in the skills.Kender Vampire WeaknessesKender vampire have a number of weaknesses.  Repelling a Kender VampireKender vampires cannot abide shimmerweed and  recoil from even a   fragment of a dead shimmerweed plant. Similarly, they recoil from a strongly presented holy symbol. These things don't harm the   vampire—they merely keep it at bay. A recoiling kender vampire must  stay  at least 5 feet away from a creature holding the shimmerweed or  holy symbol and cannot touch or make melee attacks against  the creature  holding the item for the rest of the encounter. Holding a  vampire at  bay takes a standard action.  Slaying a Kender Vampire Reducing a kender vampire's hit points to 0 or lower incapacitates it  but doesn't always destroy it (see the note on fast healing and  poltergeist form). The prismatic display of a shimmerweed plant in moonlight does 1d4 hp  damage per round to any kender vampire within 60 ft. This damage cannot  be healed by the vampire's fast healing. Kender vampires are always armed with a hoopak. A kender vampire's  damage reduction, fast healing and destroy wood special abilities are  ineffective against a kender vampire's hoopak (they work normally  against other hoopaks). If a kender vampire receives a confirmed  critical hit from a kender vampire's hoopak, it must succeed at a DC 15  Fortitude save or the hoopak pierces the vampire's heart, destroying the  kender vampire. Removing the hoopak does not restore the kender vampire  to unlife. The foul magics that create kender vampires bind their existence to a  domain. This domain is a territory at least 10 miles across, but it can  be as large as a country. Any attempt to leave the borders of its domain  (willing or unwilling) instantly destroys a kender vampire, its body  crumbling to dust within seconds. Even approaching the border is painful  to these vampires, who rarely come within a mile of the border.</blockquote>

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