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<blockquote data-quote="RUMBLETiGER" data-source="post: 5897303" data-attributes="member: 6674868"><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-legacy-discussion/318823-ankhus-living-sand.html" target="_blank">I Brought This Up A Little While Back- Ankhus, The Living Sand</a>. That thread and my ideas within were, coincedently, inspired by you in the first place.&nbsp;As per the RAW, it's a Huge sized creature, as an <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/animatedObject.htm" target="_blank">Animated Object</a> it should be a CR 5, AC 13, 84 HP. If you are using a modification of the stats, all good, but that's the RAW. &nbsp;My solution to healing and diverse abilities was to give a single level in Artificer for Repair infusions as well as scribe low level utility scrolls (I justify the use of Shapesand in place of fingers for manipulating the pen and such and the the Surrogate Spellcasting feat from Savage Species to justify any other complications). I've not found the need to give it any more levels because that grants it 9HD total and it's pretty gosh darn effective. &nbsp;You can see the equipment list and our discussion on equipment there, but a few items worth noting here- Bags of holding, a few small boulders he carries within himself for hurling, Shapesand for creating a variety of mundane tools, Ioun stones don't require body lots, and Blacksand. &nbsp;Blacksand is an incredible item for an intelligent Construct. He carries it deep within himself so the effects are blocked. Pulling Blacksand up to his surface I do as a move action. Magical Darkness and negative energy damage are very useful. Dying opponents are converted to more Blacksand upon hitting 0 hp.&nbsp;I (well, my DM) use him as an NPC who is an archeology research assistant to an Archivist who is the mentor of my Factotum PC. This makes them colleagues, Ankhus has joined us in an adventure once. &nbsp;Enjoy!!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RUMBLETiGER, post: 5897303, member: 6674868"] [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-legacy-discussion/318823-ankhus-living-sand.html"]I Brought This Up A Little While Back- Ankhus, The Living Sand[/URL]. That thread and my ideas within were, coincedently, inspired by you in the first place. As per the RAW, it's a Huge sized creature, as an [URL="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/animatedObject.htm"]Animated Object[/URL] it should be a CR 5, AC 13, 84 HP. If you are using a modification of the stats, all good, but that's the RAW. My solution to healing and diverse abilities was to give a single level in Artificer for [I]Repair[/I] infusions as well as scribe low level utility scrolls (I justify the use of Shapesand in place of fingers for manipulating the pen and such and the the Surrogate Spellcasting feat from Savage Species to justify any other complications). I've not found the need to give it any more levels because that grants it 9HD total and it's pretty gosh darn effective. You can see the equipment list and our discussion on equipment there, but a few items worth noting here- Bags of holding, a few small boulders he carries within himself for hurling, Shapesand for creating a variety of mundane tools, Ioun stones don't require body lots, and Blacksand. Blacksand is an incredible item for an intelligent Construct. He carries it deep within himself so the effects are blocked. Pulling Blacksand up to his surface I do as a move action. Magical Darkness and negative energy damage are very useful. Dying opponents are converted to more Blacksand upon hitting 0 hp. I (well, my DM) use him as an NPC who is an archeology research assistant to an Archivist who is the mentor of my Factotum PC. This makes them colleagues, Ankhus has joined us in an adventure once. Enjoy!! [/QUOTE]

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