They're back: Return of the Slivers. [Updated 24/8-2005: Beware the Overlord!]

[Krishnath]

Fixed the increased damage and shared ability.

And now, "Barbie"...

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Sliver, Barbed
Medium Aberration (Extraplanar, Sliver)
Hit Dice: 6d8+12 (39 hp)
Initiative: +2
Speed: 30’, Climb 30’,
Armor Class: 18 (+2 Dex, +6 natural), touch 12, flat-footed 16,
Base Attack/Grapple: +4/+10 (+4 grapple bonus)
Attack: Claw +6 melee (1d6+5)
Full Attack: Claw +6 melee (1d6+5) and bite +1 melee (1d4+3)
Space/Reach: 5’/5’
Special Attacks: Increased Damage
Special Qualities: Shared Ability,
Saves: Fort +4, Ref +4, Will +7,
Abilities: Str 15, Dex 15, Con 15, Int 8, Wis 14, Cha 10,
Skills: Balance +5, Climb +11, Escape Artist +5, Jump +3, Listen +5, Move Silently +3, Spot +5, Swim +3, Tumble +3,
Feats: Alertness, Agile, Combat Reflexes,
Environment: Any
Organization: Swarm (20-80) or Hive (several thousand slivers of various types and one queen)
Challenge Rating: 3
Treasure: None
Alignment: Always Neutral
Advancement: -

Barbed slivers are a type of specialist sliver bred for its offensive abilities.
Barbed slivers are very similar in appearance to the armor sliver, although it lacks the chitinous plates of the later. Gray in coloration, with black a black arm and black ‘tails’, the entire sliver is covered in dark gray barbs of varying length.

Combat:
Highly aggressive, the barbed sliver launches itself at its foes flailing away with its natural weapons.
Augmented Damage (Ex): Due to the long barbs covering the barbed sliver, it’s melee attack forms deal two additional points of damage.
Shared Ability (Ex): All slivers within 60’ of the barbed sliver grow barbs and gain access to the increased damage ability of the barbed sliver, effectively increasing the damage of their natural weapons by +2.

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Comments? Critique? Snackrifices?

And on friday, the Horned Sliver comes...

 

[Knight Otu]

Does the increased damage ability stack? I know that abilities are supposed to stack unless otherwise noted, but maybe it could be a little clearer?

Also, wouldn't a hive rather develop muscle slivers than these guys?

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Cool, me likes. Heres an Aspect of Fraz-Urb'luu for you!

 

[Wolf72]

back to the summoning thing ... wouldn't a summon spell be temporary? after the spell duration the sliver should be sent back right? ... or is that where the problem comes in? ... (at the same time providing a plot hook ... trying to stop the made mage from summoning slivers into this plane)

*Wolf shares his chicken fried cat salad as a snackrifice* ... *and gives a Krish a toothpick, cat always gets caught inbetween teeth*

 

[Krishnath]

Does the increased damage ability stack? I know that abilities are supposed to stack unless otherwise noted, but maybe it could be a little clearer?

Also, wouldn't a hive rather develop muscle slivers than these guys?

It always stacks unless noted otherwise, how can you get more clearer than that? It's in the friggin introduction. Geez!, also that is a very good question, perhaps because the Muscle sliver is a builder/worker and the Barbed Sliver is a warrior specialist?

 

[Krishnath]

Cool, me likes. Heres an Aspect of Fraz-Urb'luu for you!

Yuck, tastes like raw sewage.

back to the summoning thing ... wouldn't a summon spell be temporary? after the spell duration the sliver should be sent back right? ... or is that where the problem comes in? ... (at the same time providing a plot hook ... trying to stop the made mage from summoning slivers into this plane)

*Wolf shares his chicken fried cat salad as a snackrifice* ... *and gives a Krish a toothpick, cat always gets caught inbetween teeth*

*munch* *munch* <inbetween bites> See the problem is that the some of the bigger slivers (well, the queen actually) has the ability to planeshift, so once any of the queens slivers have been on a particular plane and has returned to the hive, the queen will know how to get to that particular world. And then it won't take long before the queen starts sending scouts to that world to find a suitable place to start a new hive. And then, well you know, that plane is quite litteraly Fubared.

Damn cat, thanks for the toothpick.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

*Wolf shares his chicken fried cat salad as a snackrifice* ... *and gives a Krish a toothpick, cat always gets caught inbetween teeth*

HEY NOW!!!!

Yuck, tastes like raw sewage.

Sorry about that. Heres a school of 8 terlen for you. Had to muzzle those beasts.

 

[Krishnath]

HEY NOW!!!!


Sorry about that. Heres a school of 8 terlen for you. Had to muzzle those beasts.

Mmm... Tastes like chicken and fish.

 

[Wolf72]

okay ... but what about lower level spells. Summoning a brood or queen or whichever one has plane shifting ability would easily be higher level.

hmm, if a hive member experiences something do the others get to experience it too? ... so a queen would be able to experience that plane because of her brood did?

Frukathka: it's been my experience that if I don't get the cat first, she'll get me! (my fiance's cat is declawed but still thinks my ankles taste great ... not that I encourage or attack her first, that is ... I'm the innocent one!)

 

[Krishnath]

okay ... but what about lower level spells. Summoning a brood or queen or whichever one has plane shifting ability would easily be higher level.

hmm, if a hive member experiences something do the others get to experience it too? ... so a queen would be able to experience that plane because of her brood did?

Something to that effect, yes, but not exactly. Let me put it this way, each specific reality has a certain feel and/or smell to it. When the summoned sliver returns to where it was summoned from, the "air" so to speak, of the dimension/reality it visited still clings to it. Thus the sliver queen (which incidentally is highly intelligent, even compared to other intelligent slivers) can use this "smell" that permeates the dimension hopping sliver back to where it was summoned to, and well...