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They're back: Return of the Slivers. [Updated 24/8-2005: Beware the Overlord!]
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<blockquote data-quote="Krishnath" data-source="post: 2513533" data-attributes="member: 56"><p><span style="color: aqua">Bow before the overlord!</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"></span></p><p><span style="color: aqua">-</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"></span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"><strong><u>Sliver Overlord</u> </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"><strong>Gargantuan Aberration (Extraplanar, Psionic, Sliver) </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"><strong>Hit Dice:</strong> 36d8+432 (594 hp)</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"><strong>Initiative:</strong> +9</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"><strong>Speed:</strong> 60’ (12 squares); climb 60’;</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"><strong>Armor Class:</strong> 33 (-4 size, +1 Dex, +36 natural); touch 7; flat-footed 32;</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"><strong>Base Attack/Grapple:</strong> +24/+62 (+4 grapple bonus)</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"><strong>Attack:</strong> Claw +42 melee (3d6+22/19-20/x2)</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"><strong>Full Attack:</strong> 4 claws +42 melee (3d6+22/19-20/x2) and 4 bites +37 melee (2d6+11) and 3 tail slaps +37 melee (2d6+11)</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"><strong>Space/Reach:</strong> 20’/15’</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"><strong>Special Attacks:</strong> Command sliver, frightful presence, psionics, spell-like abilities,</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"><strong>Special Qualities:</strong> Damage reduction 15/epic, resistance to acid 15, cold 15, electricity 15, and fire 15, spell resistance 37,</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"><strong>Saves:</strong> Fort +24, Ref +15, Will +28,</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"><strong>Abilities:</strong> Str 45, Dex 13, Con 35, Int 20, Wis 26, Cha 22,</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"><strong>Skills:</strong> Balance +24, Climb +56, Concentration +33, Escape Artist +24, Jump +22, Knowledge (arcana) +26, Knowledge (psionics) +26, Knowledge (Tactics) +26, Listen +31, Move Silently +22, Spot +31, Swim +41, Tumble +22,</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"><strong>Feats:</strong> Ability Focus (Command Sliver), Alertness, Agile, Cleave, Combat Reflexes, Great Cleave, Improved Bull Rush, Improved Critical (claw), Improved Initiative, Improved Overrun, Lightning Reflexes, Power Attack (-24/+24), Superior Initiative (epic),</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"><strong>Environment:</strong> Any</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"><strong>Organization:</strong> Hive (several thousand slivers of various types and one overlord)</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"><strong>Challenge Rating:</strong> 22</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"><strong>Treasure:</strong> Double standard</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"><strong>Alignment:</strong> Always Neutral</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"><strong>Advancement:</strong> -</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"></span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"><em>‘The end of evolution.’ </em> </span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"></span></p><p><span style="color: aqua">If sliver hive was a military organization, the sliver overlord would be the general of its armies. </span></p><p><span style="color: aqua">The overlord is a massive creature about the same size as the sliver queen. Its skin is enveloped in patterns in all the colors of the rainbow. The overlord has no less that four heads, and four of the scythe-like claws common among slivers. Three long whip-like tails trail behind it.</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"></span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"><strong>Combat:</strong> </span></p><p><span style="color: aqua">A master of melee and tactics, the sliver overlord is a formidable opponent. And once you add in the ability to dominate other slivers, it is easy to see that it is a deadly foe. The overlord starts combat by hitting its opponents with the most powerful spell or psionic ability it has, before closing for melee. If it meets any opposing slivers, it attempts to get control over them as swiftly as possible.</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua">The sliver overlords natural weapons are considered epic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"><strong>Command Sliver (Ex):</strong> Once per round as a free action the sliver overlord may attempt to gain control over an opposing sliver within 120’. The targeted sliver must make a DC 36 will save with a –4 penalty on the save or instantly change sides to that of the sliver overlord. The effect is an instantaneous mind-affecting ability that does not end at end of turn. The save DC is charisma based.</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"><strong>Frightful Presence (Ex):</strong> A sliver overlord can unsettle foes by her mere presence; the ability takes effect automatically whenever it attacks or charges, and affects all non-slivers within a 360’ radius of the sliver overlord with less HD than it. A potentially affected creature that makes a will save (DC 34) remains immune to its frightful presence for one day. On a failure, an affected creature becomes panicked for 4d6 rounds if it has 4 or fewer HD, while creatures with 5 or more HD become shaken for 4d6 rounds.</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"><strong>Psionics:</strong> At will – <em>body adjustment</em>* (heals 8d12), <em>concussion blast</em>* (DC 18, 9d6 force), <em>defensive precognition</em> (+7 on saves and AC, 20/minutes), <em>empty mind</em>* (+11 on will save), <em>force screen</em>* (+8 shield bonus to AC, 20 rounds); <em>mind thrust</em>* (20d10, DC 26), <em>offensive precognition</em>* (+7 to attack rolls, 20 minutes), <em>psionic daze</em>* (DC 17, 23 HD); 3/day – <em>breath of the black dragon</em>* (20d6 acid, DC 22), <em>suspend life</em>; 1/day – <em>assimilate</em> (DC 25), <em>decerebrate</em> (DC 23), <em>true metabolism</em> (20 minutes), <em>ultrablast</em>* (20d6, DC 23); These are as manifested by a 20th level psion. The save DC’s are Cha based.</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua">* This is an augmented power.</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"><strong>Spell-like Abilities:</strong> At will – <em>fireball</em> (10d6 fire, DC 19), <em>lightning bolt</em> (10d6 electricity, DC 19), <em>scorching ray</em> (3 rays, +21 ranged touch), <em>true strike</em>; 3/day – <em>cone of cold</em> (15d6 cold, DC 21), <em>mass bull’s strength</em> (20 subjects, 20 minutes), <em>mass cat’s grace</em> (20 subjects, 20 minutes); 1/day – <em>greater teleport</em>, <em>horrid wilting</em> (20d6, DC 24), <em>mind blank</em>, <em>spell turning</em>, <em>wail of the banshee</em> (DC 25); These are as the spells cast by a 20th level sorcerer. The save DC’s are Charisma-based.</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"></span></p><p><span style="color: aqua">-</span></p><p><span style="color: aqua"></span></p><p><span style="color: aqua">Comments? Critique? Questions? Snackrifices?</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Krishnath, post: 2513533, member: 56"] [color=aqua]Bow before the overlord! - [B][U]Sliver Overlord[/U] Gargantuan Aberration (Extraplanar, Psionic, Sliver) Hit Dice:[/B] 36d8+432 (594 hp) [B]Initiative:[/B] +9 [B]Speed:[/B] 60’ (12 squares); climb 60’; [B]Armor Class:[/B] 33 (-4 size, +1 Dex, +36 natural); touch 7; flat-footed 32; [B]Base Attack/Grapple:[/B] +24/+62 (+4 grapple bonus) [B]Attack:[/B] Claw +42 melee (3d6+22/19-20/x2) [B]Full Attack:[/B] 4 claws +42 melee (3d6+22/19-20/x2) and 4 bites +37 melee (2d6+11) and 3 tail slaps +37 melee (2d6+11) [B]Space/Reach:[/B] 20’/15’ [B]Special Attacks:[/B] Command sliver, frightful presence, psionics, spell-like abilities, [B]Special Qualities:[/B] Damage reduction 15/epic, resistance to acid 15, cold 15, electricity 15, and fire 15, spell resistance 37, [B]Saves:[/B] Fort +24, Ref +15, Will +28, [B]Abilities:[/B] Str 45, Dex 13, Con 35, Int 20, Wis 26, Cha 22, [B]Skills:[/B] Balance +24, Climb +56, Concentration +33, Escape Artist +24, Jump +22, Knowledge (arcana) +26, Knowledge (psionics) +26, Knowledge (Tactics) +26, Listen +31, Move Silently +22, Spot +31, Swim +41, Tumble +22, [B]Feats:[/B] Ability Focus (Command Sliver), Alertness, Agile, Cleave, Combat Reflexes, Great Cleave, Improved Bull Rush, Improved Critical (claw), Improved Initiative, Improved Overrun, Lightning Reflexes, Power Attack (-24/+24), Superior Initiative (epic), [B]Environment:[/B] Any [B]Organization:[/B] Hive (several thousand slivers of various types and one overlord) [B]Challenge Rating:[/B] 22 [B]Treasure:[/B] Double standard [B]Alignment:[/B] Always Neutral [B]Advancement:[/B] - [I]‘The end of evolution.’ [/I] If sliver hive was a military organization, the sliver overlord would be the general of its armies. The overlord is a massive creature about the same size as the sliver queen. Its skin is enveloped in patterns in all the colors of the rainbow. The overlord has no less that four heads, and four of the scythe-like claws common among slivers. Three long whip-like tails trail behind it. [B]Combat:[/B] A master of melee and tactics, the sliver overlord is a formidable opponent. And once you add in the ability to dominate other slivers, it is easy to see that it is a deadly foe. The overlord starts combat by hitting its opponents with the most powerful spell or psionic ability it has, before closing for melee. If it meets any opposing slivers, it attempts to get control over them as swiftly as possible. The sliver overlords natural weapons are considered epic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. [B]Command Sliver (Ex):[/B] Once per round as a free action the sliver overlord may attempt to gain control over an opposing sliver within 120’. The targeted sliver must make a DC 36 will save with a –4 penalty on the save or instantly change sides to that of the sliver overlord. The effect is an instantaneous mind-affecting ability that does not end at end of turn. The save DC is charisma based. [B]Frightful Presence (Ex):[/B] A sliver overlord can unsettle foes by her mere presence; the ability takes effect automatically whenever it attacks or charges, and affects all non-slivers within a 360’ radius of the sliver overlord with less HD than it. A potentially affected creature that makes a will save (DC 34) remains immune to its frightful presence for one day. On a failure, an affected creature becomes panicked for 4d6 rounds if it has 4 or fewer HD, while creatures with 5 or more HD become shaken for 4d6 rounds. [B]Psionics:[/B] At will – [I]body adjustment[/I]* (heals 8d12), [I]concussion blast[/I]* (DC 18, 9d6 force), [I]defensive precognition[/I] (+7 on saves and AC, 20/minutes), [I]empty mind[/I]* (+11 on will save), [I]force screen[/I]* (+8 shield bonus to AC, 20 rounds); [I]mind thrust[/I]* (20d10, DC 26), [I]offensive precognition[/I]* (+7 to attack rolls, 20 minutes), [I]psionic daze[/I]* (DC 17, 23 HD); 3/day – [I]breath of the black dragon[/I]* (20d6 acid, DC 22), [I]suspend life[/I]; 1/day – [I]assimilate[/I] (DC 25), [I]decerebrate[/I] (DC 23), [I]true metabolism[/I] (20 minutes), [I]ultrablast[/I]* (20d6, DC 23); These are as manifested by a 20th level psion. The save DC’s are Cha based. * This is an augmented power. [B]Spell-like Abilities:[/B] At will – [I]fireball[/I] (10d6 fire, DC 19), [I]lightning bolt[/I] (10d6 electricity, DC 19), [I]scorching ray[/I] (3 rays, +21 ranged touch), [I]true strike[/I]; 3/day – [I]cone of cold[/I] (15d6 cold, DC 21), [I]mass bull’s strength[/I] (20 subjects, 20 minutes), [I]mass cat’s grace[/I] (20 subjects, 20 minutes); 1/day – [I]greater teleport[/I], [I]horrid wilting[/I] (20d6, DC 24), [I]mind blank[/I], [I]spell turning[/I], [I]wail of the banshee[/I] (DC 25); These are as the spells cast by a 20th level sorcerer. The save DC’s are Charisma-based. - Comments? Critique? Questions? Snackrifices?[/color] [/QUOTE]
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