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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 5577793" data-attributes="member: 57383">To recap, so far we've got something like this:Warden Beast This template can be applied to any Animal or Vermin. Only animals found on the Beastlands have a warden beast, this template can not be applied to creatures with magical powers or other criteria excluding them from the Beastland. Type: Change to Magical Beast and gains the Extraplanar subtype. Hit Dice: Increase by 3 (minimum of 6 Hit Dice?). Abilities: A warden beast gains a +8 racial bonus to Intelligence (if the base creature lacks an intelligence score the Warden Beast has Int 8), a +6 racial bonus to Charisma, and a +4 racial bonus to Strength, Dexterity, Constitution and Wisdom. We'll need to sort out its SQs. The Spell-Like Abilities, Spell Resistance, and Summoning are pretty straightforward, although I think we should consider changing Summon Animal Lord (Sp) to summoning another Warden Beast, since the Animal Lords are far more powerful."Warden beasts can speak with all creatures, and can always sense the true emotions of those around them" suggests telepathy and probably Sense Emotions like we gave the Al-Jahar.The tricky bit is their ability to sense their territories and influence the animal inhabitants within it. I think we should divide that into two abilities, one for sensing and one for calling. The sensing application reminded me a bit of the Brown Unicorn's Psychic territory, which we converted as:So, I'm thinking the SQs will look something like this:Special Abilities:Spell-Like Abilities (Sp): At-will---detect snares and pits, entangle, protection from evil, summon nature's ally I, cure light wounds (limited to 1/day for any given individual), 3/day---plant growth, 1/day---animal growth (the warden beast can use this power on itself), commune with nature . Caster level 10th, the save DCs are Charisma-based."Call of the Beastlands?": [Because of their link with their  ecosystem, the warden beast is also able to contact (again, on a very  basic level) any animal within this radius of 5 miles. The guardian may  raise an alarm to cause all animals in this area to flee, swarm, calm,  or take some other very basic action. The warden beasts use this only in  times of dire need, such as during a forest fire. They will not use  this power to simply save their own lives – and, in fact, will never put  one of their charges in danger to further their own ends.]"Sense Territory?" (Su): [Because they are not just focused on their own animal subjects but are tied in with all of nature on a basic primal level, warden beasts are 90% likely to become aware of any major event that  occurs within 5 miles of their home.]"Summon Ally" (Sp) [Another Warden Beast or an Animal Lord?]Special Defenses:Animal Friendship (?): [We'll need something to replace the original's at-will animal friendship spell. We could just give them an all-purpose version of a Lycanthrope's Empathy SQ, iei:Animal Empathy (Ex): A warden beast can communicate with all animals and vermin, and gains a +X racial bonus on Charisma-based skill checks against animals and vermin.]Sense Emotions (Ex): A warden beast can sense strong emotions such as anger, despair, elation, greed, hatred, love, or lust. It can sense such emotions in any intelligent creatures within a X ft. radius. This functions like the psionic power empathy. This ability gives the warden beast a +2 insight bonus on Bluff, Diplomacy, Intimidate, or Sense Motive checks against creatures that are susceptible to mind-affecting powers.Telepathy (Su): [To explain the "can speak with all creatures" trick. With a 100 ft. range?]Spell Resistance (Su): [Some CR dependent value or a fixed value?]</blockquote>

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