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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 4530340" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Marble Pudding</strong></span></span>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]<strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Size/Type:</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> Medium Ooze</span>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]<strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Hit Dice:</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> 8d10+40 (84 hp)</span>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]<strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Initiative:</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> -5</span>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]<strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Speed:</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> 20 ft. (4 squares), climb 20 ft.</span>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]<strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Armor Class:</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> 5 (-5 Dex), touch 5, flat-footed 5</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Base Attack/Grapple:</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> +6/+9</span>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]<strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Attack:</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> Slam +10 melee (1d6+4 plus 1d6 acid)</span>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]<strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Full Attack:</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> Slam +10 melee (1d6+4 plus 1d6 acid)</span>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]<strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Space/Reach:</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> 5 ft./5 ft.</span>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]<strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Special Attacks:</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> Acid, adhesive, constrict 1d6+4 plus 1d6 acid</span>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]<strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Special Qualities: </span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Blindsight 90 ft., immunity to acid, immunity to cold, mimic stone, ooze traits, split, wallcrawling</span>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]<strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Saves:</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> Fort +7, Ref -1, Will -1</span>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT] <strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Abilities:</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> Str 16, Dex 1, Con 20, Int </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">1</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">, Wis 1, Cha 1</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Skills:</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> Climb +11, Disguise +6* (+14 mimicking stone)</span>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]<strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Feats:</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> Iron Will, Lightning Reflexes, Weapon Focus (Slam)</span>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]<strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Environment:</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> Underground</span>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]<strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Organization:</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> Solitary</span>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]<strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Challenge Rating:</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> 6</span>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]<strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Treasure:</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> None</span>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]<strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Alignment:</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> Always neutral</span>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]<strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Advancement:</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> 9-15 HD (Medium); 16-24 HD (Large)</span>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]<strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Level Adjustment:</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> —</span>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]<span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span><em>[FONT=&quot]The slab of rock exudes slimy tentacles and attempts to seize hold of you.[/FONT]</em>[FONT=&quot]</p><p></p><p>[/FONT]<span style="font-family: 'Arial'">A typical marble pudding is roughly 5 feet across and a foot thick, weighing some 1200 pounds. Their flesh is denser than most other oozes</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">. They are naturally gray, with streaks of white or black over their surfaces, giving them their distinct “marble” look, but can change their colour and texture to match any kind of background stone</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]<strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Combat</span></strong>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]<span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Marble puddings are not active hunters, preferring to lie in ambush mimicking slabs of rock until prey wanders by, whereupon they attempt to grapple them with an adhesive pseudopod and crush and dissolve their prospective meal. They seldom use their wallclimbing ability to set up an ambush, unless their territory has a lot of flying animals inhabiting it</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">, such as a bats' roost.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]<strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Acid (Ex)</span></strong>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]<span style="font-family: 'Arial'">A marble pudding secretes a powerful acid that can dissolve flesh. Any melee hit or constrict attack deals acid damage.</span>[FONT=&quot]</p><p></p><p>[/FONT]<strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Adhesive (Ex)</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">A marble pudding's pseudopods can exude a thick slime that acts as a powerful adhesive, holding fast any creatures or items that it touches. An adhesive-covered marble pudding automatically grapples any creature it hits with its slam attack. An opponent can break this adhesive's hold with a DC 18 Strength check, although they must still succeed at a grapple or Escape Artist check to escape the grapple, and if they fail at this the pudding can re-adhere itself as a free action.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Strong alcohol dissolves the adhesive, but the marble pudding still can grapple normally. A marble pudding can dissolve its adhesive at will, and the substance breaks down 5 rounds after the creature dies.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">The Strength DC check to escape the adhesive is Con dependent.</span>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]<span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong>Constrict (Ex)</strong></span>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]<span style="font-family: 'Arial'">A marble pudding deals automatic slam and acid damage with a successful grapple check.</span>[FONT=&quot]</p><p></p><p>[/FONT]<strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Mimic Stone (Ex)</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></strong> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">A marble pudding </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">can harden the surface of their normally pliant bodies to a rock-like hardness, while changing its color and texture to appear like any stone it is in contact with. In this condition a marble pudding is very hard to distinguish from a chunk of rock, characters </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">who examines the marble pudding can detect the ruse with a successful Spot check opposed by the pudding’s Disguise check. Of course, by this time it is generally far too late.</span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">While mimicking stone a marble pudding cannot move, but gains hardness 8 and is fully aware of its surroundings. A marble pudding can revert to its pliant state as a free action in order to move or attack.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">A character with stonecunning can apply that bonus to their Spot checks to notice a camouflaged marble pudding. If they possess skill ranks in Knowledge (geology) or Knowledge (mining) they can substitute that bonus for Spot in the check to notice the monster.</span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]<strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Split (Ex)</span></strong>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]<span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Blows from weapons and electricity attacks cause a marble pudding to divide into two identical oozes, each with half of the original’s current hit points, rounded down, after subtracting the damage of the attack which caused the split. A pudding with 10 hit points or less cannot be further split and dies if reduced to 0 hit points.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong>Wallcrawling (Ex)</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong></strong>A marble pudding need not make Climb checks to traverse a vertical or horizontal surface (even upside down). It retains its Dexterity bonus to Armor Class while climbing and opponents get no special bonus to their attacks against it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]<strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Skills</span></strong>[FONT=&quot]</p><p>[/FONT]<span style="font-family: 'Arial'">A marble pudding has a +8 racial bonus on Climb checks and can always choose to take 10 on a Climb check, even if rushed or threatened. A marble pudding has a +8 racial bonus on Disguise checks when masquerading as a stone.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 4530340, member: 57383"] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][B]Marble Pudding[/B][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][B][FONT=Arial]Size/Type:[/FONT][/B][FONT=Arial] Medium Ooze[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][B][FONT=Arial]Hit Dice:[/FONT][/B][FONT=Arial] 8d10+40 (84 hp)[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][B][FONT=Arial]Initiative:[/FONT][/B][FONT=Arial] -5[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][B][FONT=Arial]Speed:[/FONT][/B][FONT=Arial] 20 ft. (4 squares), climb 20 ft.[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][B][FONT=Arial]Armor Class:[/FONT][/B][FONT=Arial] 5 (-5 Dex), touch 5, flat-footed 5 [/FONT][B][FONT=Arial]Base Attack/Grapple:[/FONT][/B][FONT=Arial] +6/+9[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][B][FONT=Arial]Attack:[/FONT][/B][FONT=Arial] Slam +10 melee (1d6+4 plus 1d6 acid)[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][B][FONT=Arial]Full Attack:[/FONT][/B][FONT=Arial] Slam +10 melee (1d6+4 plus 1d6 acid)[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][B][FONT=Arial]Space/Reach:[/FONT][/B][FONT=Arial] 5 ft./5 ft.[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][B][FONT=Arial]Special Attacks:[/FONT][/B][FONT=Arial] Acid, adhesive, constrict 1d6+4 plus 1d6 acid[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][B][FONT=Arial]Special Qualities: [/FONT][/B][FONT=Arial]Blindsight 90 ft., immunity to acid, immunity to cold, mimic stone, ooze traits, split, wallcrawling[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][B][FONT=Arial]Saves:[/FONT][/B][FONT=Arial] Fort +7, Ref -1, Will -1[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT] [B][FONT=Arial]Abilities:[/FONT][/B][FONT=Arial] Str 16, Dex 1, Con 20, Int [/FONT][FONT=Arial]1[/FONT][FONT=Arial], Wis 1, Cha 1[/FONT][FONT=Arial] [/FONT][B][FONT=Arial]Skills:[/FONT][/B][FONT=Arial] Climb +11, Disguise +6* (+14 mimicking stone)[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][B][FONT=Arial]Feats:[/FONT][/B][FONT=Arial] Iron Will, Lightning Reflexes, Weapon Focus (Slam)[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][B][FONT=Arial]Environment:[/FONT][/B][FONT=Arial] Underground[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][B][FONT=Arial]Organization:[/FONT][/B][FONT=Arial] Solitary[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][B][FONT=Arial]Challenge Rating:[/FONT][/B][FONT=Arial] 6[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][B][FONT=Arial]Treasure:[/FONT][/B][FONT=Arial] None[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][B][FONT=Arial]Alignment:[/FONT][/B][FONT=Arial] Always neutral[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][B][FONT=Arial]Advancement:[/FONT][/B][FONT=Arial] 9-15 HD (Medium); 16-24 HD (Large)[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][B][FONT=Arial]Level Adjustment:[/FONT][/B][FONT=Arial] —[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][FONT=Arial] [/FONT][I][FONT="]The slab of rock exudes slimy tentacles and attempts to seize hold of you.[/FONT][/I][FONT="] [/FONT][FONT=Arial]A typical marble pudding is roughly 5 feet across and a foot thick, weighing some 1200 pounds. Their flesh is denser than most other oozes[/FONT][FONT=Arial]. They are naturally gray, with streaks of white or black over their surfaces, giving them their distinct “marble” look, but can change their colour and texture to match any kind of background stone[/FONT][FONT=Arial].[/FONT][FONT=Arial] [/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][B][FONT=Arial]Combat[/FONT][/B][FONT="] [/FONT][FONT=Arial]Marble puddings are not active hunters, preferring to lie in ambush mimicking slabs of rock until prey wanders by, whereupon they attempt to grapple them with an adhesive pseudopod and crush and dissolve their prospective meal. They seldom use their wallclimbing ability to set up an ambush, unless their territory has a lot of flying animals inhabiting it[/FONT][FONT=Arial], such as a bats' roost. [/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][B][FONT=Arial]Acid (Ex)[/FONT][/B][FONT="] [/FONT][FONT=Arial]A marble pudding secretes a powerful acid that can dissolve flesh. Any melee hit or constrict attack deals acid damage.[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][B][FONT=Arial]Adhesive (Ex) [/FONT][/B][FONT=Arial]A marble pudding's pseudopods can exude a thick slime that acts as a powerful adhesive, holding fast any creatures or items that it touches. An adhesive-covered marble pudding automatically grapples any creature it hits with its slam attack. An opponent can break this adhesive's hold with a DC 18 Strength check, although they must still succeed at a grapple or Escape Artist check to escape the grapple, and if they fail at this the pudding can re-adhere itself as a free action. Strong alcohol dissolves the adhesive, but the marble pudding still can grapple normally. A marble pudding can dissolve its adhesive at will, and the substance breaks down 5 rounds after the creature dies. The Strength DC check to escape the adhesive is Con dependent.[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][FONT=Arial] [B]Constrict (Ex)[/B][/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][FONT=Arial]A marble pudding deals automatic slam and acid damage with a successful grapple check.[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][B][FONT=Arial]Mimic Stone (Ex) [/FONT][/B] [FONT=Arial]A marble pudding [/FONT][FONT=Arial]can harden the surface of their normally pliant bodies to a rock-like hardness, while changing its color and texture to appear like any stone it is in contact with. In this condition a marble pudding is very hard to distinguish from a chunk of rock, characters [/FONT][FONT=Arial]who examines the marble pudding can detect the ruse with a successful Spot check opposed by the pudding’s Disguise check. Of course, by this time it is generally far too late. [/FONT][FONT=Arial]While mimicking stone a marble pudding cannot move, but gains hardness 8 and is fully aware of its surroundings. A marble pudding can revert to its pliant state as a free action in order to move or attack. A character with stonecunning can apply that bonus to their Spot checks to notice a camouflaged marble pudding. If they possess skill ranks in Knowledge (geology) or Knowledge (mining) they can substitute that bonus for Spot in the check to notice the monster. [/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][B][FONT=Arial]Split (Ex)[/FONT][/B][FONT="] [/FONT][FONT=Arial]Blows from weapons and electricity attacks cause a marble pudding to divide into two identical oozes, each with half of the original’s current hit points, rounded down, after subtracting the damage of the attack which caused the split. A pudding with 10 hit points or less cannot be further split and dies if reduced to 0 hit points. [B]Wallcrawling (Ex) [/B]A marble pudding need not make Climb checks to traverse a vertical or horizontal surface (even upside down). It retains its Dexterity bonus to Armor Class while climbing and opponents get no special bonus to their attacks against it. [/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][B][FONT=Arial]Skills[/FONT][/B][FONT="] [/FONT][FONT=Arial]A marble pudding has a +8 racial bonus on Climb checks and can always choose to take 10 on a Climb check, even if rushed or threatened. A marble pudding has a +8 racial bonus on Disguise checks when masquerading as a stone.[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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