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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psychotic Jim" data-source="post: 1527217" data-attributes="member: 547">SheensWell, the only "race" that comes to my mind that is weak against magic are the "sheens" back from Dragon Magazine #258 in the Mage vs. Machine article for 2E.  Basically, a cyst of mechanical beings coming from a non-magical world that kept reproducing by collecting resources and establishing factories.  The "sheens" were quite weak against magic (except for being constructs) -3 to save vs. magic (though you could change this to just arcane magic) and +1 damage done to them per die of damage of a magical spell at them.  They were neutral (and not really all that conscious) but you could do a malfunctioning form of them that made them grow and multiply all out of control like cancer.  The malfunction could also give them a chaotic, malicious sentience and mentality. Also, if you wanted them having humanoid minions, you could also supplement the sheens with the half-machine template from Dungeon magazine 91.  The template is an acquired template in which the base creature turns into something like the Borg from Star Trek, mechanically enhanced but under Domination by the central computer.You would have to do some converting of the Mage vs. Machine article, but it does have some convient resources you might be looking for, like mage spells that help fight against machines and a "machine mage" kit that might make for a good PrC.  The Creature Catalog has some conversions of the actual sheen monsters in the Converted Monster section.If you're going for something strictly from the MM or MM2, perhaps going for some stupid giants like the hill giant that was mentioned earlier would be the best route.  Or perhaps Awakened animals and dinosaurs with Chaotic and/or evil alignments.  Poor will saves and a general lacking of the ability to cast spells.</blockquote>

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