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[sblock=Mature Faranth]
Size/Type: Large (long) aberration
Hit Dice: 8d8+24 (60 hp)
Initiative: +4
Speed: 20 ft. (4 squares), climb 20ft. Swim 10 ft.
Armor Class: 14 (+5 natural, -1 size), touch 12, flat-footed 14
Base Attack/Grapple: +6/+13
Attack: Tentacle +9 melee touch (Damage: grab) or Claw +7 melee (1d6+3) or Long spear +9 melee (2d6+4 x3)
Full Attack: Tentacle +9 melee touch (Damage: grab) and 2 Claws +7 melee (1d6+3) or Long spear +9/+4 melee (2d6+4 x3) and Tentacle +7 melee touch (Damage: grab).
Space/Reach: 10 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: Faranth Grab
Special Qualities: Darkvision 60’, Unfathomable Perception
Saves: Fort +5, Ref +2, Will +10
Abilities: Str 16, Dex 10 Con 16, Int 20, Wis 15, Cha 10
Skills: Climb +15*, Craft(any) +8, Hide +9, Know (Engineering)+16, Know (Any) +9, Listen +15, move silently +11, Search +13, Sense motive +6, Spot +15, swim +11*.
Feats: Multiattack (1HD) Power attack (4HD), Alertness(b), Improved initiative(b), Iron will(B).
Environment: Black seas of infinity
Organization: Solitary, Pair, Company[5-8] or galley crew [7-12] and 10-20 Tieflings {men of Leng]
Challenge Rating: 4
Treasure: Standard (typically Rubies, Gold and slaves)
Alignment: Usually Lawful evil
Advancement: 5-10 HD Large, 11-18 huge

Great purplish black slippery things with writhing vitals just beneath their skin. Though ever undulating, its principal shape is that of a sort of decapitated frog with a mass of long red tentacles vomited out from the neck hole as if bloody innards.

Combat
These aberrations, while not traditionally humanoid, are proficient with simple weapons and can wield them normally.

Faranth Grab (Ex): If a faranth hits with its tentacles, it rolls an opposed grapple check as if it had successfully initiated a grapple attempt. If the Faranth wins the opposed grapple check, it can conduct the grapple normally, or it can dash the victim against the ground or other hard surface, dealing 2d6+3 damage as an immediate action. This ends the grapple prematurely and places the victim in a space adjacent to the faranth of the faranth's choosing. No AoOs are incurred by this victim's change of placement.

Unfathomable Perception (Ex): These eyeless creatures perceive their surround in some manner mortals do not fully grasp. They cannot be blinded but otherwise are vulnerable to effects that work on sight, such as figments, glamors and patterns. This perception also grants them Alertness and Improved initiative as bonus feats

Skills: Faranth have a +2 racial bonus on Hide checks.

Feats: Faranth have Iron will as a bonus feat.

A Faranth has a +8 racial bonus on any Swim or climb check to perform some special action or avoid a hazard. It can always choose to take 10 on a Swim or climb check, even if distracted or endangered. It can use the run action while swimming, provided it swims in a straight line. [/sblock]
 

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Have the following creatures been mentioned?

Lunar Ravager (MM4)
Lunatic Creature (Advanced Beastiary)
Moon Dog (BoED)
Moon Wildling/Moon Faun (Book of Templates)
Moonbeast (MM2)
Mooncalf (MM2)
Moonrat (MM2)
 

Isida Kep'Tukari said:
Eric, you were mentioning some kind of potential ally. What if a water wierd had gotten trapped in one of the mechanical bodies when the moon men left the last time?
We're on the same wavelength here. :)
 

For the curious, here's what I have come up with so far. (see attachment)

I don't use XP so I don't really worry about CR. But I'm guessing something like a 4 or 5.
 

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WayneLigon said:
Otyughs. Tentacled fanged monstrosities that speak with a cultured Bostonian accent.


Otyugh; Errr, ahhh, emm, Pahdin me suh-errr but would you happen to have any poo on hand?
Human: What?
Otyugh: Errr, ahhh,poo ?
human: Why?
Otyugh: Errr, ahhhh, emmm, I like poo.


(yes i've ripped off someone elses joke)
 

mooninite.jpg
 

EricNoah said:
For the curious, here's what I have come up with so far. (see attachment)

I can't believe this thread is so old but ... tonight may actually be the night I get to use these bad boys. :)
 

EricNoah said:
Ugh, but now the dromite suggestion is appealing to me. As is a vision of a flying moon ship that has come down to the tower. Too ... many ... ideas!!

The tower has a big specially shaped (and magical) mirror on top of it.

On nights of the full moon, the reflected moonlight bounces back up to the moon-people, who send up a spherical vehicle, it's many sails, spread out in all three dimensions, billowing with moonlight, 'chasing the moonbeam' back to earth.

Someone standing on the mirror begins to float into the air, up and up and to the moon! (You can wiggle out of the beam, but the first step is a doozy...)

The moonship can also use the moonbeam to travel back to the moon, by re-adjusting it's own strange mirrored orreries and specularia, to push away from the reflected moonbeam instead of being pulled towards it.
 


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