Yugoloth, Cacoadaemon Working Draft
Cocoadaemon
Tiny Construct (Evil, Extraplanar, Yugoloth)
Hit Dice: 3d10 (16 hp)
Initiative: +2
Speed: 20 ft. (4 squares)
Armor Class: 14 (+2 Dex, +2 size), touch 14, flat-footed 12
Base Attack/Grapple: +2/–7
Attack: Slam +3 melee (1d4–1)
Full Attack: Slam +3 melee (1d4–1)
Space/Reach: 2½ ft./0 ft.
Special Attacks: Delicious temptation
Special Qualities: Chocolate healing, construct traits, damage reduction 5/good, darkvision 60 ft., fattening, immunity to acid, resistance to cold 10, electricity 10, telepathy 100 ft.
Saves: Fort +1, Ref +5, Will +2
Abilities: Str 8, Dex 15, Con —, Int 10, Wis 12, Cha 13
Skills: Bluff +6, Hide +7, Intimidate +3, Move Silently +6, Listen +3, Spot +3
Feats: Lightning Reflexes, Persuasive
Environment: Bleak Eternity of Gehenna
Organization: Solitary
Challenge Rating: 1
Treasure: None
Alignment: Always neutral evil
Advancement: 4–6 HD (Tiny)
Level Adjustment: +2 (cohort)
A foot-tall creature seemingly molded from tantalizing milky chocolate. It has the form of an obese humanoid with little horns, a forked tail, and an expression of leering cunning. A pair of ridiculously small batlike wings sprout from its shoulders, but these appendages seem purely ornamental.
A cocoadaemon is an extraplanar construct formed from living chocolate. According to myth, cocoadaemons were created by a yugoloth lord to tempt non-evil casters with their chocolatey deliciousness. A solar then developed a construct with similar attributes and the Angel subtype to oppose the cocoadaemon, the chocodeva. If a spellcaster summons both a chocodeva and a cocoadaemon, the two constructs will take every opportunity to insult the other while seeking to persuade the caster towards their ethical point of view, usually while sitting on their summoner's shoulders.
Like other extraplanar constructs, such as retrievers, cocoadaemons and chocodevas are built by outsiders, not constructed by mortals. They can be summoned to the Material Plane by the cocoadaemon/chocodeva spell (see below).
A cocoadaemon is typically a foot tall and weighs 3 pounds.
Cocoadaemons speak Common, Abyssal, Celestial and Infernal.
Combat
Cocoadaemons are weak fighters, so the self-serving creatures usually hang back out of battle. If they must fight, they often use their Delicious Temptation special attack to provoke an opponent into chasing them, then try to lead their opponent into a vulnerable position. A cocoadaemon may encourage an enemy to bite them, so their opponent will be hampered by the yugoloth's Fattening ability.
Chocolate Healing (Ex): A cocoadaemon or chocodeva which eats 4 ounces of the finest chocolate (cost 1 gp) gains natural healing for the following 24 hours, allowing it to recover from its injuries as it if were a living creature. Furthermore, specially prepared chocolate remedies can provide a cocoadaemon with first aid, long term care and wound treatment as per the Heal skill, except they require Profession (cooking) checks instead of Heal checks and expend 2 gp worth of chocolate products per application. Chocolate healing does not allow a cocoadaemon/chocodeva to benefit from curative magic, such as a cure light wounds spell. It only grants "natural healing" for the duration.
Delicious Temptation (Su): As a standard action, a cocoadaemon can make itself look delicious to a single living creature within 30 feet. The opponent must succeed at a DC 12 Will save or spend the next 2d10 rounds trying to bite the cocoadaemon. If the creature does not have bite as a natural weapon, this attack does lethal damage equal to an unarmed strike (1d3 plus Str modifier for a Medium creature, 1d2+Str for Small, etc). As soon as the opponent successfully bites the cocoadaemon, the Delicious Temptation affect ends and the opponent is affected by the yugoloth's Fattening special ability (since they just ate part of the cocoadaemon). The save DC is Charisma-based.
Fattening (Su): Any living creature who eats even a small part of a chocodaemon grows so obese they move as if their encumbrance was one grade worse than it actually is (e.g. a creature in light armor or carrying a light load moves as a medium encumbered creature. This effect lasts until the subject goes on a strict diet for 3 days; in order to complete the diet, the victim must make a DC 15 Will save at the start of the 3 day period to avoid giving into culinary temptations. In the event of a failed save, the victim can retry each day.
Cocoadaemon/Chocodeva
Conjuration/Summoning (Evil or Good [See Text])
Level: Clr 4, Sor/Wiz 4
Components: V, S, M, F
Casting Time: 3 hours
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Effect: One cocoadaemon or chocodeva
Duration: Permanent until dispelled
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No
With this spell, the caster conjures a foot tall daemon- or angel-like creature made of chocolate, which can obey simple instructions from its creator (such as carrying light objects, stealing a small item, sounding an alarm in case of an unexpected visit, etc.). Cocoadaemons are of low intelligence and, though loyal to their summoner, they like practical jokes and causing mischief (but hate hot temperatures). Chocodevas, in contrast, are merry beings with a protective attitude toward their summoners, although they tend to nag creatures whose behavior they consider immoral.
The cocoadaemon/chocodeva spell is an Evil spell when used to summon a cocoadaemon and a Good spell when used to summon a chocodeva.
Material Component: Three pounds of the finest chocolate flavored with rare spices, costing 500 gold pieces.
Focus: A silver chocolate mold costing 500 gold pieces. To summon a cocoadaemon the mold must be in the shape of an evil outsider, a chocodeva requires a mold shaped like a good outsider.
Originally appeared in Polyhedron 23 (1984).