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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Evil Josef" data-source="post: 684371" data-attributes="member: 3002">Shadow PuddingShadow Pudding Medium-sized OozeHit Dice:  12d10+34 (100 hp)Initiative:  +5 (Dex)Speed:  Fly 20 ft. (good)AC:  15 (+5 Dex)Attacks:  2 slams +12Damage:  Slam 1d6+3 and 1d6 permanent Strength drainFace/Reach:  5 ft. by 5 ft./5 ft.Special Attacks:  Strength drainSpecial Qualities:  Absorb spells, blink, ooze, shadow walkSaves: Fort +6, Ref +9, Will -1Abilities:  Str 16, Dex 20, Con 15, Int -, Wis 1, Cha 1 Climate/Terrain:  Any land or undergroundOrganization:  SolitaryChallenge Rating:  11Treasure:  NoneAlignment:  Always neutralAdvancement: 13-16 (Medium-sized); 17-36 (Large)Menacing blobs of hazy black matter, shadow puddings stalk the Plane of Shadow and other dark, inaccessible places.  Charged with the whirling, insubstantial stuff of shadows, their dark forms disrupt the muscular control of their victims and absorb the stuff of magic to make more of their kind.A shadow pudding is a man-sized oval collection of semi-translucent plasm.  The matter of its seems to be flat and uniformly black, as though no light is reflected off of its smooth surface.COMBATShadow puddings are mindless and thusly, their attacks lack some finese.  They simply float towards anything that moves, battering it with its strength-robbing shadowstuff and possibly swarming its victim with its offspring after it absorbs enough magical energy to reproduce many times over.Absorb Spells (Su):  A shadow pudding is immune to nearly every magical effect, and spells cast against it are instead absorbed into its shadow-stuff, healing a number of hit points equal to the level of the spell cast.  Also, there is chance equal to the level of the spell times 10 that the absorption of the spell will spontaneously generate another shadow pudding (i.e. a 3rd level spell will have a 30% chance of making another pudding) at the start of the next round.  The exception to this are shadow evocation spells or the abilities of shadow conjuration created creatures, which affect the pudding normally with no danger of generating extra puddings.Blink (Su):  Shadow puddings constantly shift in and out of nothingness, as though affected by a blink spell cast by a 20th level sorcerer.Shadow Walk (Su):  A shadow pudding may travel from shadow to shadow, as though affected by the spell shadow walk cast by a 20th level sorcerer.  It can only use this ability on itself.Strength Drain (Su):  Creatures hit by the shadow pudding’s slam attack must succeed at a Fortitude save (DC 16) or be permanently drained of 1d6 points of Strength.</blockquote>

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