D&D 3.x Creature Catalog 3.5 Overhaul Project

[Shade]

We can borrow from this feat from the Prehensile Tail feat from Serpent Kingdoms:

Prehensile Trunk (Ex): A baku can use its trunk as an extra "hand". It can grasp melee weapons and use them in combat, although the normal penalties for using an off-hand weapon apply, and its trunk counts as a third hand for the purpose of the Multiweapon Fighting feat and all other feats for which it is a prerequisite.

A baku can also use its trunk to assist with grapple checks and Climb checks, gaining a +2 competence bonus on all such checks.

 

[BOZ]

good find! where did the trumpeting roar come from?

 

[Shade]

Pieced together from the shadow mastiff's bay ability and my own memory of similar abilities.

 

[BOZ]

all the older texts say that the trumpet only affects opposing alignments (default would be a good baku that affects only evil). would it make sense to have the damage and fear affect only the proper alignment(s); or would it make more sense for the sonic damage to harm everything, but only evils need to make saves against the fear?

 

[Shade]

I'd have sonic affect all, and fear only affect the specified alignments.

 

[BOZ]

sounds good. i'll add notes under the descriptions of the dark and holy baku that they affect different alignments, rather than cluttering up the ability.

Trumpeting Roar (Su): Once every 4 rounds, a baku can release a trumpeting roar. All creatures within 40 feet of the baku take 1d8 points of sonic damage and creatures of evil alignment must succeed on a DC 18 Will save or become panicked for 2d4 rounds. This is a sonic, mind-affecting fear effect. Whether or not the save is successful, an affected creature is immune to the fear effect of the same baku's trumpeting roar for 24 hours, but is not immune to additional sonic damage. The save DC is Charisma-based.

 

[Shade]

As far as attack go, here are the attack routines for other 3.5 pachyderms:

Wooly Mammoth: Slam +20 melee (2d6+12) and 2 stamps +18 melee (2d6+6) or gore +20 melee (2d10+18)
Mastodon: Slam +20 melee (2d8+11) and 2 stamps +15 melee (2d6+5) or gore +20 melee (3d8+16)
Elephant: Slam +16 melee (2d6+10) and 2 stamps +11 melee (2d6+5); or gore +16 melee (2d8+15)

 

[BOZ]

what is the slam, the trunk?

 

[Shade]

Yup. So in the baku's case, it could be slam or weapon, right?

 

[BOZ]

yes, or magic item even more likely.