NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shade" data-source="post: 5326559" data-attributes="member: 287"><a href="http://www.enworld.org/cc/converted/construct/oculon.htm" target="_blank">Oculon</a>OculonFREQUENCY: Very rareNUMBER APPEARING: 1ARMOR CLASS: 4MOVE: 15”HIT DICE: 7 (30 hit points)% IN LAIR: NilTREASURE TYPE: NilNUMBER OF ATTACKS: 1DAMAGE/ATTACK: By weapon typeSPECIAL ATTACKS: See belowSPECIAL DEFENSES: See belowMAGIC RESISTANCE: StandardINTELLIGENCE: Average (with considerable cunning)ALIGNMENT: NeutralSIZE: MPSIONIC ABILITY: Nil (immune to psionic attacks)The oculon is an enchanted monster created by a high-level magic-user to act as an assistant or guardian. The process of creating one is long and quite involved, but the resulting being is fairly powerful because of the many special skills it has. An oculon is humanoid in shape, though only vaguely so, and is 4 feet tall at the shoulder. Instead of a human head, the oculon has a flexible neck about 3 feet in length with a single large eye at the end. The neck is 2” in diameter and the eye is 4” across. There is no rigid internal skeleton; the oculon’s movements appear somewhat rubbery, and it can flatten into a mobile blob of matter only 9” high, covering 6 square feet. When flattened oculons move at one-third normal speed and do not attack.An oculon can only be hit by weapons of a magical nature. In addition, the lack of a skeleton allows this creature to take only half damage from falls and from attacks made by blunt weapons when in its semi-humanoid form. When in its flattened form, the cannot be damaged at all by falls or blunt weapons, because the body will “give” and absorb the impact of the blow.An oculon will take verbal commands only from the magicuser who helped create it. It can understand and obey a reasonably complex set of instructions and may operate on its own for a considerable period of time.Small-sized melee weapons may be handled by an oculon in combat, but they cannot use missile weapons. If an oculon succeeds in attacking from behind it will do double damage to the victim. Also, the large eye may fire up to seven magic missiles per day at a maximum rate of one per round. These missiles do 1-6 points damage each and strike opponents as if launched by a 7-hit-dice monster; they have a 180’ range but there are no penalties “to hit” when firing upon a target at medium or long range.Oculons may hide in shadows with 80% success. They can move about in complete silence, surprising opponents on a score of 1-4 on a 6-sided die. They cannot be caught in a Web or snared, netted, or grasped in any way; treat as if they were coated with Oil of Slipperiness.Creation of an oculon requires the services of an alchemist and spells cast from a magic-user of at least 18th level. Many exotic materials are required by the alchemist, and the total cost of his services will be 30,000 gp. The three most important substances necessary are a gland from a purple worm, an eye from a beholder, and the brain of a thief. Two to five weeks are required for the alchemist to prepare the mixture, after which the Wizard must cast these spells upon the fluids, in this order: Unseen Servant, Magic Missile, Protection from Normal Missiles, Geas, Mind Blank, and Wish. The oculon then assumes its semi-humanoid form and is ready to take on assignments.The body of an oculon is light grey in color, and slightly glossy. The cornea of the eye is dark grey, and the pupil of the eye is black.Originally appeared in Dragon Magazine #53 (1981).</blockquote>

Verification