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<blockquote data-quote="JiCi" data-source="post: 2891770" data-attributes="member: 40121"><p>Greetings everyone,</p><p></p><p>I have been working on creatures for my campaign, and I would like to show them to you all and get some feedback.</p><p></p><p>Here goes:</p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: Red">Arctic Diamond</span></strong></p><p><strong>Large Magical Beast (Cold)</strong></p><p><strong>HD</strong>: 7d10+21 (59 hp)</p><p><strong>Initiative</strong>: +5</p><p><strong>Speed</strong>: 20 ft. (4 squares), fly 100 ft. (good)</p><p><strong>Armor Class</strong>: 20 (-1 size, +5 Dex, +6 natural), touch 14, flat-footed 15</p><p><strong>Base Attack/Grapple</strong>: +7/+14</p><p><strong>Attack</strong>: Beak peck +11 melee (1d6+3 plus 1d6 cold) or polar ray +11 ranged touch* (7d6 cold)</p><p><strong>Full Attack</strong>: Beak peck +11 melee (1d6+3 plus 1d6 cold) and 2 talons +6 melee (1d4+1 plus 1d6 cold) or polar ray +11 ranged touch* (7d6 cold)</p><p><strong>Space/Reach</strong>: 10 ft./5 ft.</p><p><strong>Special Attacks</strong>: Freezing touch, polar ray, spell-like abilities</p><p><strong>Special Qualities</strong>: Darkvision 60 ft., immunity to cold, low-light vision, vulnerability to fire, scent.</p><p><strong>Saves</strong>: Fort +8, Ref +10, Will +4</p><p><strong>Abilities</strong>: Str 16, Dex 20, Con 16, Int 12, Wis 14, Cha 12</p><p><strong>Skills</strong>: Listen +12, Spot +12, Survival +12</p><p><strong>Feats</strong>: Point-blank Shot, Flyby Attack, Weapon Finesse</p><p><strong>Environment</strong>: Cold mountains</p><p><strong>Organization</strong>: Solitary or pairs</p><p><strong>Challenge Rating</strong>: 5</p><p><strong>Treasure</strong>: None, except diamond</p><p><strong>Alignment</strong>: Usually neutral</p><p><strong>Advancement</strong>: 1-3 HD (Small); 4-6 HD (Medium); 8-11 HD (Large); 12-21 HD (Huge)</p><p><strong>Level Adjustment</strong>: +6 (cohort)</p><p>*An arctic diamond’s polar ray may be used once every 1d4 rounds</p><p></p><p><em>This creature has the appearance of a large peacock, with blue and white feathers and a majestic head crest of dark blue feathers. Its eyes are deep blue with pearl-sized white pupils. Its most significant feature, however, is the diamond lodged in its forehead and it shines with a faint blue-white light.</em></p><p></p><p>This creature has the word “confusion” written all over it. Many are easily confused by the name “Arctic Diamond”, thinking it is a great treasure worth thousand of gold, and many faced the wrath a real arctic diamond, a fiercely territorial and protective avian with similar habits that match birds of prey. Its appearance also confuses explorers, since a normal peacock is not a threat to humanoids, and again many perished frozen solid due to overconfidence.</p><p> An arctic diamond behaves like any other birds. It seeks a place to nest, a mountain by preference, then it searches for a mate and raises chicks. An arctic diamond is very protective and territorial when it covers the eggs and raises its chicks. Both parents take turns taking care of their young and hunting and defending their domains. So generally, a arctic diamond’s domain is littered with frozen statues of unfortunate creatures who dared to enter.</p><p> An arctic diamond is omnivorous and can eat just about anything it can kill. Hares, fishes, snow spiders and even white dragon wyrmlings, which make those dragons the greatest predators to an arctic diamond, either for vengeance or simply for the diamond it possesses. Winter wolves are also a common threat.</p><p> An arctic diamond can be friendly to creatures who mean no harm to it or its chicks, and can help them in need, regardless of motives. This bird can be seen as a protector for an uldra village as well as a battle mount for a frostfolk barbarian.</p><p> An arctic diamond speaks Auran, Aquan, Common and Sylvan.</p><p></p><p><strong>Combat</strong></p><p>An arctic diamond prefers to stay in the air, firing its chilling polar ray from above. When its prey looks weak it dives toward and finishes off with its beak and talons. If its polar ray does not seem to affect the creature, then it flies off and search of another meal. The diamond of a killed arctic diamond is no longer magical, but keeps its value in gp.</p><p><strong>Freezing Touch (Su) </strong>: A mere touch from an arctic diamond is icy cold. Its natural weapons deals an additional 1d6 pts of cold damage.</p><p><strong>Polar Ray (Su) </strong>: An arctic diamond can fire a ice ray from its diamond once every 1d4 rounds. It has a maximum range of 40 ft., deals 7d6 of cold damage. This ability works like the <em>polar ray</em> spell. The caster level is equal to the arctic diamond’s HD and the range is equal to 25 ft + 5/2 HD.</p><p><strong>Spell-like abilities (Sp) </strong>: At will: <em>fog cloud</em>, <em>mirror image</em>; caster level 10th.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JiCi, post: 2891770, member: 40121"] Greetings everyone, I have been working on creatures for my campaign, and I would like to show them to you all and get some feedback. Here goes: [B][COLOR=Red]Arctic Diamond[/COLOR][/B] [B]Large Magical Beast (Cold)[/B] [B]HD[/B]: 7d10+21 (59 hp) [B]Initiative[/B]: +5 [B]Speed[/B]: 20 ft. (4 squares), fly 100 ft. (good) [B]Armor Class[/B]: 20 (-1 size, +5 Dex, +6 natural), touch 14, flat-footed 15 [B]Base Attack/Grapple[/B]: +7/+14 [B]Attack[/B]: Beak peck +11 melee (1d6+3 plus 1d6 cold) or polar ray +11 ranged touch* (7d6 cold) [B]Full Attack[/B]: Beak peck +11 melee (1d6+3 plus 1d6 cold) and 2 talons +6 melee (1d4+1 plus 1d6 cold) or polar ray +11 ranged touch* (7d6 cold) [B]Space/Reach[/B]: 10 ft./5 ft. [B]Special Attacks[/B]: Freezing touch, polar ray, spell-like abilities [B]Special Qualities[/B]: Darkvision 60 ft., immunity to cold, low-light vision, vulnerability to fire, scent. [B]Saves[/B]: Fort +8, Ref +10, Will +4 [B]Abilities[/B]: Str 16, Dex 20, Con 16, Int 12, Wis 14, Cha 12 [B]Skills[/B]: Listen +12, Spot +12, Survival +12 [B]Feats[/B]: Point-blank Shot, Flyby Attack, Weapon Finesse [B]Environment[/B]: Cold mountains [B]Organization[/B]: Solitary or pairs [B]Challenge Rating[/B]: 5 [B]Treasure[/B]: None, except diamond [B]Alignment[/B]: Usually neutral [B]Advancement[/B]: 1-3 HD (Small); 4-6 HD (Medium); 8-11 HD (Large); 12-21 HD (Huge) [B]Level Adjustment[/B]: +6 (cohort) *An arctic diamond’s polar ray may be used once every 1d4 rounds [I]This creature has the appearance of a large peacock, with blue and white feathers and a majestic head crest of dark blue feathers. Its eyes are deep blue with pearl-sized white pupils. Its most significant feature, however, is the diamond lodged in its forehead and it shines with a faint blue-white light.[/I] This creature has the word “confusion” written all over it. Many are easily confused by the name “Arctic Diamond”, thinking it is a great treasure worth thousand of gold, and many faced the wrath a real arctic diamond, a fiercely territorial and protective avian with similar habits that match birds of prey. Its appearance also confuses explorers, since a normal peacock is not a threat to humanoids, and again many perished frozen solid due to overconfidence. An arctic diamond behaves like any other birds. It seeks a place to nest, a mountain by preference, then it searches for a mate and raises chicks. An arctic diamond is very protective and territorial when it covers the eggs and raises its chicks. Both parents take turns taking care of their young and hunting and defending their domains. So generally, a arctic diamond’s domain is littered with frozen statues of unfortunate creatures who dared to enter. An arctic diamond is omnivorous and can eat just about anything it can kill. Hares, fishes, snow spiders and even white dragon wyrmlings, which make those dragons the greatest predators to an arctic diamond, either for vengeance or simply for the diamond it possesses. Winter wolves are also a common threat. An arctic diamond can be friendly to creatures who mean no harm to it or its chicks, and can help them in need, regardless of motives. This bird can be seen as a protector for an uldra village as well as a battle mount for a frostfolk barbarian. An arctic diamond speaks Auran, Aquan, Common and Sylvan. [B]Combat[/B] An arctic diamond prefers to stay in the air, firing its chilling polar ray from above. When its prey looks weak it dives toward and finishes off with its beak and talons. If its polar ray does not seem to affect the creature, then it flies off and search of another meal. The diamond of a killed arctic diamond is no longer magical, but keeps its value in gp. [B]Freezing Touch (Su) [/B]: A mere touch from an arctic diamond is icy cold. Its natural weapons deals an additional 1d6 pts of cold damage. [B]Polar Ray (Su) [/B]: An arctic diamond can fire a ice ray from its diamond once every 1d4 rounds. It has a maximum range of 40 ft., deals 7d6 of cold damage. This ability works like the [I]polar ray[/I] spell. The caster level is equal to the arctic diamond’s HD and the range is equal to 25 ft + 5/2 HD. [B]Spell-like abilities (Sp) [/B]: At will: [I]fog cloud[/I], [I]mirror image[/I]; caster level 10th. [/QUOTE]
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