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The Explicatae Incompositae - Being A Bestairy of the Sometime Lords of Chaos
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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3341018" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p><strong>Part the Second: Baseraxs Lord of Deviance</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Baseraxs, Lord of Deviance</strong></span></p><p><strong>Unique Large Outsider (Chaotic, Extraplanar)</strong></p><p><strong>Hit Dice:</strong> 31d8 + 434 (682 hp)</p><p><strong>Initiative:</strong> +9</p><p><strong>Speed: </strong> 65 ft.</p><p><strong>AC: </strong> 46 (-1 size, +5 Dex, +8 deflection, +24 natural) touch 17, flatfooted 41</p><p>Base Attack/Grapple: +25/+41</p><p><strong>Attack: </strong> Claw +36 melee (2d8+12)</p><p><strong>Full Attack:</strong> 2 claws +36 melee (2d8+12), bite +31 melee (2d10+6) </p><p><strong>Space/Reach:</strong> 5 ft./10 ft.</p><p><strong>Special Attacks: </strong> Aura of unease, chaos spittle, spell-like abilities, summon slaad</p><p><strong>Special Qualities:</strong> Change shape, fast healing 15, damage reduction 35/lawful and epic, dark vision (infinite), immune to ability drain, energy drain, mind effecting spells, polymorph, and petrification, immune to sonic damage, resistance to acid 20, cold 20, electricity 20, and fire 20, spell resistance 33</p><p><strong>Saves: </strong> Fort +35, Ref +22, Will +23</p><p><strong>Abilities: </strong> Str 34, Dex 21, Con 38, Int 22, Wis 22, Chr 26 </p><p><strong>Skills: </strong> Bluff +38, Climb +42, Concentration +46, Disguise +35, Escape Artist +35, Hide +35, Intimidate +38, Jump +42, Knowledge (Arcane) +33, Knowledge (Planes) +33, Listen +30, Move Silently +35, Search +36, Spot +36, Survival +35, Tumble +37</p><p><strong>Feats:</strong> Acrobatic Strike, Cleave, Combat Tactician, Combat Reflexes, Dodge, Epic Fortitude, Flay, Improved Initiative, Improved Feint, Mobility, Power Attack</p><p><strong>Environment:</strong> Limbo</p><p><strong>Organization:</strong> Solitary </p><p><strong>Challenge Rating:</strong> 24</p><p><strong>Treasure: </strong> None</p><p><strong>Alignment: </strong> Chaotic neutral</p><p></p><p>Baseraxs may be most easily identified by his upside down posture. When he appears as a Slaad, the lord of deviance walks on his hands and uses his raised legs as arms. His scales change color on a whim, but are always garish, outlandish and seemingly unnatural colors – purples, pinks, greens, and yellows which seem to glow from an internal light. It is said that he eats which his anus and defecates with his face and does almost every other thing the reverse of expectations.</p><p></p><p>All Slaad lords break the rules as a natural course, but primarily because they are not really aware that they exist. Baseraxs is acutely aware of the power of written law, traditions, and social mores and detests the ability of these things to bring stability to societies and the lives of individuals. Baseraxs is among the most subtle of the Slaad lords, and one of only a handful that regularly interacts directly with mortals. Baseraxs makes the breaking of laws and the overturning of natural order something of an artform. Working in disguise, Baseraxs plays the part of a flamboyant and bizarre mortal who brazenly breaks society’s expectations. Baseraxs loves fads and fashions, and anything which overturns long established traditions. He loves perverting morals and destroying ethics. He causes words to lose their established meaning and works to make communication difficult and imprecise. He detests written law and works to obscure the meaning of documents in the minds of society so that no one remembers or can agree on what they mean.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Combat</span></p><p>Baseraxs prefers to flee combat rather than fight, and to confuse and humiliate opponents rather than flee. When forced to defend himself or when attacked on Limbo, Baseraxs is a cunning opponent whose wild cartwheels and tumbling disguise the calculated advantage he is trying to obtain. When not humiliating and distracting opponents with his powerful spell-like abilities, Baseraxs is well defended by his vicious clawed feat and obdurate hide.</p><p><strong>Spell-Like Abilities:</strong> At will – alter self, animate objects, chaos hammer (DC 22), cloak of chaos, control weather, deeper darkness, detect magic, dispel law (DC 23), emotion (DC 22), erase, fear (DC 22), fly, grease (extended duration, widened area, DC 19), greater dispelling, greater magic fang, identify, invisibility, magic circle against law, mass suggestion (DC 22), persistent image, reverse gravity, see invisibility, shatter (DC 20), stone shape, word of chaos (DC 24); 3/day limited wish, polymorph any object (DC 24), power word (any). Caster level 25th. The save DC’s are Charisma based.</p><p><strong>Aura of Unease:</strong> When not disguised, Baseraxs is truly disgusting and unsettling to behold. Anyone within 60’ must make a will save (DC 22) or be nauseated. Lawful creatures have a -4 penalty on this save, and even if the save is successful they suffer a -1 morale penalty on all actions due to the distraction.</p><p><strong>Change Shape (Su):</strong> Baseraxs can assume any humanoid form as a standard action. In humanoid form, Baseraxs cannot use his natural weapons. Baseraxs may remain in this form until he chooses to assume a new one. The change in form may not be dispelled, but the Slaad Lord will revert to the normal form if killed. Even a true seeing spell does not reveal Baserax’s true form, only that Baseraxs is a disguised shapechanger.</p><p><strong>Chaos Spittle (Ex):</strong> As a ranged touch attack, Baseraxs may spit or defecate primal chaos sludge on any target within 60’ which acts very much like acid. Those struck take 10d4 damage immediately, plus 10d4 damage for three additional rounds. Half of the damage from this attack is acidic and the other half is anarchic, so energy resistance or immunity will not completely protect a target.</p><p><strong>Summon Slaad (Sp):</strong> Three times per day Baseraxs can attempt to summon 1-2 grey slaad with an 80% chance of success, or 1-6 green slaad with a 100% chance of success. This ability is equivalent to an 8th level spell.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 3341018, member: 4937"] [b]Part the Second: Baseraxs Lord of Deviance[/b] [SIZE=4][B]Baseraxs, Lord of Deviance[/B][/SIZE] [B]Unique Large Outsider (Chaotic, Extraplanar)[/B] [B]Hit Dice:[/B] 31d8 + 434 (682 hp) [B]Initiative:[/B] +9 [B]Speed: [/B] 65 ft. [B]AC: [/B] 46 (-1 size, +5 Dex, +8 deflection, +24 natural) touch 17, flatfooted 41 Base Attack/Grapple: +25/+41 [B]Attack: [/B] Claw +36 melee (2d8+12) [B]Full Attack:[/B] 2 claws +36 melee (2d8+12), bite +31 melee (2d10+6) [B]Space/Reach:[/B] 5 ft./10 ft. [B]Special Attacks: [/B] Aura of unease, chaos spittle, spell-like abilities, summon slaad [B]Special Qualities:[/B] Change shape, fast healing 15, damage reduction 35/lawful and epic, dark vision (infinite), immune to ability drain, energy drain, mind effecting spells, polymorph, and petrification, immune to sonic damage, resistance to acid 20, cold 20, electricity 20, and fire 20, spell resistance 33 [B]Saves: [/B] Fort +35, Ref +22, Will +23 [B]Abilities: [/B] Str 34, Dex 21, Con 38, Int 22, Wis 22, Chr 26 [B]Skills: [/B] Bluff +38, Climb +42, Concentration +46, Disguise +35, Escape Artist +35, Hide +35, Intimidate +38, Jump +42, Knowledge (Arcane) +33, Knowledge (Planes) +33, Listen +30, Move Silently +35, Search +36, Spot +36, Survival +35, Tumble +37 [B]Feats:[/B] Acrobatic Strike, Cleave, Combat Tactician, Combat Reflexes, Dodge, Epic Fortitude, Flay, Improved Initiative, Improved Feint, Mobility, Power Attack [B]Environment:[/B] Limbo [B]Organization:[/B] Solitary [B]Challenge Rating:[/B] 24 [B]Treasure: [/B] None [B]Alignment: [/B] Chaotic neutral Baseraxs may be most easily identified by his upside down posture. When he appears as a Slaad, the lord of deviance walks on his hands and uses his raised legs as arms. His scales change color on a whim, but are always garish, outlandish and seemingly unnatural colors – purples, pinks, greens, and yellows which seem to glow from an internal light. It is said that he eats which his anus and defecates with his face and does almost every other thing the reverse of expectations. All Slaad lords break the rules as a natural course, but primarily because they are not really aware that they exist. Baseraxs is acutely aware of the power of written law, traditions, and social mores and detests the ability of these things to bring stability to societies and the lives of individuals. Baseraxs is among the most subtle of the Slaad lords, and one of only a handful that regularly interacts directly with mortals. Baseraxs makes the breaking of laws and the overturning of natural order something of an artform. Working in disguise, Baseraxs plays the part of a flamboyant and bizarre mortal who brazenly breaks society’s expectations. Baseraxs loves fads and fashions, and anything which overturns long established traditions. He loves perverting morals and destroying ethics. He causes words to lose their established meaning and works to make communication difficult and imprecise. He detests written law and works to obscure the meaning of documents in the minds of society so that no one remembers or can agree on what they mean. [SIZE=4]Combat[/SIZE] Baseraxs prefers to flee combat rather than fight, and to confuse and humiliate opponents rather than flee. When forced to defend himself or when attacked on Limbo, Baseraxs is a cunning opponent whose wild cartwheels and tumbling disguise the calculated advantage he is trying to obtain. When not humiliating and distracting opponents with his powerful spell-like abilities, Baseraxs is well defended by his vicious clawed feat and obdurate hide. [B]Spell-Like Abilities:[/B] At will – alter self, animate objects, chaos hammer (DC 22), cloak of chaos, control weather, deeper darkness, detect magic, dispel law (DC 23), emotion (DC 22), erase, fear (DC 22), fly, grease (extended duration, widened area, DC 19), greater dispelling, greater magic fang, identify, invisibility, magic circle against law, mass suggestion (DC 22), persistent image, reverse gravity, see invisibility, shatter (DC 20), stone shape, word of chaos (DC 24); 3/day limited wish, polymorph any object (DC 24), power word (any). Caster level 25th. The save DC’s are Charisma based. [B]Aura of Unease:[/B] When not disguised, Baseraxs is truly disgusting and unsettling to behold. Anyone within 60’ must make a will save (DC 22) or be nauseated. Lawful creatures have a -4 penalty on this save, and even if the save is successful they suffer a -1 morale penalty on all actions due to the distraction. [B]Change Shape (Su):[/B] Baseraxs can assume any humanoid form as a standard action. In humanoid form, Baseraxs cannot use his natural weapons. Baseraxs may remain in this form until he chooses to assume a new one. The change in form may not be dispelled, but the Slaad Lord will revert to the normal form if killed. Even a true seeing spell does not reveal Baserax’s true form, only that Baseraxs is a disguised shapechanger. [B]Chaos Spittle (Ex):[/B] As a ranged touch attack, Baseraxs may spit or defecate primal chaos sludge on any target within 60’ which acts very much like acid. Those struck take 10d4 damage immediately, plus 10d4 damage for three additional rounds. Half of the damage from this attack is acidic and the other half is anarchic, so energy resistance or immunity will not completely protect a target. [B]Summon Slaad (Sp):[/B] Three times per day Baseraxs can attempt to summon 1-2 grey slaad with an 80% chance of success, or 1-6 green slaad with a 100% chance of success. This ability is equivalent to an 8th level spell. [/QUOTE]
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