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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3342792" data-attributes="member: 13966">CR 4 or 5 (probably 4, but the regeneration makes me uncertain; among adventurers, only clerics can really use positive or negative energy to deal damage, usually; other classes have little or no access to it, and generally more limited access than a cleric), but increased to CR 5 or 6 because of the magical equipment (which is well beyond what anything of such low hit dice would normally have).  This weakling critter is carrying magic items each worth as much as a city's treasury, or more.Also, it's just begging to be killed and looted by adventurers, who would love to get a couple of highly-valuable magic items off of such a relatively-weak creature.  Keep in mind that, even if the PCs can't kill it at the time (not enough cure or inflict spells available from the cleric, or no knowledge of the fact that only positive/negative energy can kill it), they only need to render it unconscious long enough (through beating on the unconscious body) to grab the magic items and run away.Why do these weak critters have magic weapons of +4, +5, or +6 equivalent? (I forget how much Merciful and Thundering are worth, off the top of my head)  Also, what the heck is obdurium?  It's not a D&D special material I'm familiar with (granted, I don't have any 3.5 books, only 3.0 books).  Further: your stat block doesn't include the weapons' enhancement bonus to damage (only the bonus to attack; the damage listing in parentheses doesn't include the +2 from the enhancement).Soul Shatter is just plain odd.  I see no reason why it has that name.  Also, the mechanics are wonky.  Firstly, if the ability is based on hit dice, some people may think it means only racial hit dice, which could be confusing.  Also, the creature's default caster level is 0 (your ability says 1/4 HD as caster level, and they only start with 3 HD).  The sonic ray may be abusable at upper levels to destroy objects rather easily, such as a PC's or NPC's favorite magic weapon/armor/whatever (what with the easy ranged touch attack, and the ignoring of hardness, and no saving throw; nothing at all to really oppose it, unless the holder is a monk or other uncommon individual with high touch AC).As for positive and negative energy rays.....  Well, positive energy normally heals living creatures and harms undead (for the exact amount of damage it would deal), while negative energy normally does the reverse.  It shouldn't be fractional amounts when used to heal; undead are just powered by negative energy, so any NE damage dealt to them is simply converted to healing.  I would think you should just stick with the norm; say that they choose each time to deal either negative, positive, or sonic energy damage, with negative energy healing undead instead of damaging them, and positive energy healing living creatures instead of damaging them.Eye of the Stars doesn't quite make sense.  Just one of many probable questions: so what exactly do they 'see', and how do they identify anything or anyone like that?  And if they somehow can't distinguish between two similar things they see, then why do they receive a racial bonus on some skill checks from their odd data/language-based perception?One grammatical error I happened to notice in the background (not bothering to check for others): you misuse the noun "ardor" as a verb, I think.</blockquote>

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