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The Vorpal Tribble
10-27-06, 12:08 AM Bloosnjor
http://webdeveloper.com/animations/holiday/christmas/gifs/snow.gif

The world is dying. Trees laid bare, the ground cold and baren, the spark of life snuffed out with the coming of frost...

Large Elemental (cold)
Hit Dice: 18d8+126 (207 hp)
Initiative: +7
Speed: 50 ft., burrow 50 ft. (ice and snow only)
Armor Class: 23 (+3 dex, +11 natural, -1 size), touch 12, flat-footed 20
Base Attack/Grapple: +13/+27
Attack: Bite +22 melee (2d6+10/19-20x2 plus 1d8 coldfire)
Full Attack: Bite +22 melee (2d6+10/19-20x2 plus 1d8 coldfire) and 2 claws +20 melee (1d8+5)
Space/Reach: 10 ft./15 ft.
Special Attacks: Blood sacrifice, howl of the north, spell-like abilities
Special Qualities: Blindsight 60 ft., elemental traits, fast healing 5, fimbulwinter, ice glide, vulnerability to fire, whitesight
Saves: Fort +18, Ref +9, Will +12
Abilities: Str 31, Dex 16, Con 24, Int 8, Wis 18, Cha 17
Skills: Listen +15, Spot +14
Feats: Cold Focus (http://realmshelps.dandello.net/cgi-bin/feats.pl?Cold_Focus,Fr), Improved Critical (bite), Improved Initiative, Iron Will, Multiattack, Power Attack, Quicken Spell-Like Ability (crushing despair)
Environment: Any Cold Land
Organization: Solitary
Challenge Rating: 16
Treasure: None
Alignment: Usually Neutral Evil
Advancement: 19-28 HD (Large), 29-41 HD (Huge)
Level Adjustment: -

A bloosnjor appears as a vaguely humanoid being composed entirely of greatly compressed snow covered over with a thick layer of cracked frost. Near the center of its chest is a large dark stain the color of old blood. Faint hints at veins spread from this stain in shadow lines all about the creature. Bones of both man and beast jut out from the snow of its body at places. Wheres its head would be is but a swirling fog of coldfire. Thousands of teeth and razor-sharp bone slivers of all kinds float horribly together to form a disembodied, oversized maw. At the end of each frozen appendage erupt great curving claws of frozen blood the size of sickles.

Of wintry ruin is the bloosjnor, haunters of lifeless mountain passes and terrors of boreal forests. Bloosjnors are ancient beings brought to unholy life by the accumulation of a thousand yearly blood sacrifices involved in rituals of primitive peoples who wished to appease the spirits of the chill months. What they accomplished in doing however was awakening a being that embodied the fierce brutality of winter and tainted with the fears of a world never reviving from its frigid death.

Though once only a frightening beast, with the passing of each year the Bloosjnor's strength and power grows. They wait for the day they can cover all in eternal winter and eventually join together at the Fimbulwinter of time's end.

Bloosjnor weigh several thousand pounds and stand some 12 feet tall. They can only barely speak in a howling, whispy voice, and this in a primitive language that resembles the ancient dialect of their awakeners.

Combat
A bloosjnor often comes wailing out from the snow within which it hid, filling living beings nearby with dispair. It then claws and tears as it drains their vitality with its presence. If its victims manage to flee or are difficult to reach it vents its frustration in a great roar of freezing wind.

Blood Sacrifice (Su): Wherever a bloosjnor walks the snow momentarily reddens. Any creature within 20 feet of a Bloosjnor must succeed on a DC 26 fortitude save each round they remain in range or take 1d3 points of constitution drain. The bloosjnor heals a number of hit points equal to three times that of the number of ability points drained. A bloosjnor can retain up to twice its healthy total for an hour before they fade away.

If a creature is killed by this drain they rise up within 1d4 hours as frostfell ghosts, forever bound to the dying land. If the victim is killed while on unhallowed ground however there is a 50% chance that a second bloosjnor is birthed. If done before an evil altar of some kind there is an 80% chance. The save DC is Constitution-based.

Fimbulwinter (Sp): The haunts of the bloosjnor are constantly affected as the Fimbulwinter spell (Frostburn, p. 93) cast by a druid of the same level as the bloosjnor's HD.

Howl of the North (Su): As a full-round action that provokes an attack of opportunity a bloosnjor can release a great cry. From its maw blows forth a severe wind that strikes those in a 100-foot cone. Those caught in this cone take a -12 penalty on Listen checks until the bloosnjor's next turn and take 1d6 sonic plus 1d6 coldfire damage (a DC 26 fortitude save halves the damage and negates the chance of contracting coldfire ruin). The save DC is Constitution-based.

Ice Glide (Ex): A bloosjnor can glide through ice, snow, or slush as easily as a fish swims through water. Its burrowing leaves behind no tunnel or hole, and its passage does not create any ripples of other signs of its presence.
A bloosjnor often fights from the cover of an an ice sheet or snow field in much the same way that an incorporeal creature can use a wall or floor for cover. A bloosjnor attacking a creature outside the ice or snow in which it is hiding gains the benefit of cover.

Spell Like Abilities:
At Will - Crushing Despair, Diminish Plants, Flash-Freeze. 3/day - Arctic Haze, Blight, Heart Freeze. Caster level 20th. Save DC's are Charisma-based.

Vulnerability to Fire:
A bloosnjor takes half again as much (+50%) damage as normal from fire spells and effects, regardless of whether a saving throw is allowed, or if the save is a success or failure.

Whitesight (Ex):
A bloosjnor is immune to snow glare and can see normally in whiteout conditions.
Tevish Szat
10-27-06, 02:29 AM i like it a lot... one of the thigns i;,m using plenty is cold setting, and for a high CR monster, this lets me have somethign pre-epic, holding places in winter.
obrysii
10-27-06, 10:53 AM Of all people, I'm surprised yours was not one of the few picked for that contest.

Who are the judges, anyway?

Otherwise, it's great--as usual. Can you feel the envy? :P
Grizzled Gryphon
10-27-06, 12:20 PM As with most anything I have seen you come up with, this is very impressive.

By the way, Vorpal, do you know of anyway to make a humanoid version of magical beasts? For example, something like the Anthromorphic for animals, but for Magical beasts, instead?
R.M.G.C.L.F.
10-27-06, 12:38 PM I'd make it a cold-based outsider. It doesn't seem...literal enough to be an elemental.

The blood sacrifice seems a little much as a passive ability. Maybe make it a supernatural attack that deals con damage once or twice per day in a radius swirl, or something? Something this powerful shouldn't be able to reproduce merely by taking too long to walk past somebody; the moment it strode through a city the world would be crawling with them.
Grizzled Gryphon
10-27-06, 01:08 PM I'd make it a cold-based outsider. It doesn't seem...literal enough to be an elemental.

The blood sacrifice seems a little much as a passive ability. Maybe make it a supernatural attack that deals con damage once or twice per day in a radius swirl, or something? Something this powerful shouldn't be able to reproduce merely by taking too long to walk past somebody; the moment it strode through a city the world would be crawling with them. If the city was on unhallowed ground. LOL, the city would be littered with ghosts, though. Assuming, of course, that everyone just stood there and watched this horror waltzing through town. so, realistically, there might be a few of them created, and a few more ghosts, but that is all.
The Vorpal Tribble
10-27-06, 02:40 PM By the way, Vorpal, do you know of anyway to make a humanoid version of magical beasts? For example, something like the Anthromorphic for animals, but for Magical beasts, instead?
I don't even know the version for Anthromorphic for animals... that something from Savage Species?

I'd make it a cold-based outsider. It doesn't seem...literal enough to be an elemental.
Its basically a winter elemental. While researching some stuff after I made this fellow I actually found out that there are a number of creatures similiar in theme and they were very much considered elementals.

Also, this guy can't be an outsider if its not from the outside, or ties to the outside.

The blood sacrifice seems a little much as a passive ability. Maybe make it a supernatural attack that deals con damage once or twice per day in a radius swirl, or something? Something this powerful shouldn't be able to reproduce merely by taking too long to walk past somebody; the moment it strode through a city the world would be crawling with them.
Yeah, as Grizzled mentioned it only makes another of itself on hallowed ground. And then only half of the time then. Sure, alot of frostfell ghosts haunts its land... but thats all part of its theme. It doesn't have control over them however.
Grizzled Gryphon
10-28-06, 09:47 AM I don't even know the version for Anthromorphic for animals... that something from Savage Species?

Yeah, it is from Savage Species. Basically, it makes a humanoid out of an animal.
The Vorpal Tribble
10-28-06, 05:55 PM Yeah, it is from Savage Species. Basically, it makes a humanoid out of an animal.
Don't have Savage Species, but that which I have seen has made me 'really' wary against it :hides:
Bawitda
10-28-06, 06:02 PM It has some truly brilliant ideas. And some extraordinarily awful execution.
Grizzled Gryphon
10-28-06, 06:05 PM Yeah, what he said
Watchdog_of_Hades
10-28-06, 06:16 PM The Blood Sacrifice deals Constitution drain? Why?
The Vorpal Tribble
10-28-06, 06:51 PM And some extraordinarily awful execution.
How so?

The Blood Sacrifice deals Constitution drain? Why?
Because its based somewhat off the spell, Blood Snow, which does Constituion drain. And why not, its siphoning your vitality right out of you.
Watchdog_of_Hades
10-28-06, 06:55 PM How so?Savage Species is, in at least two peoples' opinions, badly done. My argument, I guess, is mostly with HD+LA=ECL, because that makes monstrous PC's about half as good as they should be, but that's enough reason for me to warn other people off.
The Vorpal Tribble
10-28-06, 07:10 PM Savage Species is, in at least two peoples' opinions, badly done. My argument, I guess, is mostly with HD+LA=ECL, because that makes monstrous PC's about half as good as they should be, but that's enough reason for me to warn other people off.
Oh, sorry, had a brain fart there. I thought he was referring to the Bloosnjor.
Bawitda
10-28-06, 07:22 PM No, the Bloosnjor is pretty good, as I told you over AIM. I was speaking purely of SS. Sorry I wasn't more clear.
Insane Pixie
10-28-06, 08:09 PM Savage Species is, in at least two peoples' opinions, badly done. My argument, I guess, is mostly with HD+LA=ECL, because that makes monstrous PC's about half as good as they should be, but that's enough reason for me to warn other people off.

My own belief is that ECL should be around CR. Makes it a little bit difficult for low levels, but it makes more sense to me than have a naturally weak, over-ECL'd PC.
Bawitda
10-28-06, 09:02 PM Eh, careful there. CR and ECL won't always coincide. It comes down to how useful an ability is over the course of an adventure as opposed to one or two battles. The classic example is the hound archon. Its challenge rating is 4. On the other hand, it has the ability to teleport. It's not quite as valuable in a single battle, but over the course of an adventure, it becomes invaluable, and much more powerful. Even if you think ECL 11 is too high (6 Racial Hit Die, +5 LA) is too powerful, it's still too powerful to be a 4th level adventurer.
The Vorpal Tribble
12-21-06, 03:50 PM First day of winter :bump:

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The Vorpal Tribble 10-27-06, 12:08 AM	Bloosnjor http://webdeveloper.com/animations/holiday/christmas/gifs/snow.gif The world is dying. Trees laid bare, the ground cold and baren, the spark of life snuffed out with the coming of frost... Large Elemental (cold) Hit Dice: 18d8+126 (207 hp) Initiative: +7 Speed: 50 ft., burrow 50 ft. (ice and snow only) Armor Class: 23 (+3 dex, +11 natural, -1 size), touch 12, flat-footed 20 Base Attack/Grapple: +13/+27 Attack: Bite +22 melee (2d6+10/19-20x2 plus 1d8 coldfire) Full Attack: Bite +22 melee (2d6+10/19-20x2 plus 1d8 coldfire) and 2 claws +20 melee (1d8+5) Space/Reach: 10 ft./15 ft. Special Attacks: Blood sacrifice, howl of the north, spell-like abilities Special Qualities: Blindsight 60 ft., elemental traits, fast healing 5, fimbulwinter, ice glide, vulnerability to fire, whitesight Saves: Fort +18, Ref +9, Will +12 Abilities: Str 31, Dex 16, Con 24, Int 8, Wis 18, Cha 17 Skills: Listen +15, Spot +14 Feats: Cold Focus (http://realmshelps.dandello.net/cgi-bin/feats.pl?Cold_Focus,Fr), Improved Critical (bite), Improved Initiative, Iron Will, Multiattack, Power Attack, Quicken Spell-Like Ability (crushing despair) Environment: Any Cold Land Organization: Solitary Challenge Rating: 16 Treasure: None Alignment: Usually Neutral Evil Advancement: 19-28 HD (Large), 29-41 HD (Huge) Level Adjustment: - A bloosnjor appears as a vaguely humanoid being composed entirely of greatly compressed snow covered over with a thick layer of cracked frost. Near the center of its chest is a large dark stain the color of old blood. Faint hints at veins spread from this stain in shadow lines all about the creature. Bones of both man and beast jut out from the snow of its body at places. Wheres its head would be is but a swirling fog of coldfire. Thousands of teeth and razor-sharp bone slivers of all kinds float horribly together to form a disembodied, oversized maw. At the end of each frozen appendage erupt great curving claws of frozen blood the size of sickles. Of wintry ruin is the bloosjnor, haunters of lifeless mountain passes and terrors of boreal forests. Bloosjnors are ancient beings brought to unholy life by the accumulation of a thousand yearly blood sacrifices involved in rituals of primitive peoples who wished to appease the spirits of the chill months. What they accomplished in doing however was awakening a being that embodied the fierce brutality of winter and tainted with the fears of a world never reviving from its frigid death. Though once only a frightening beast, with the passing of each year the Bloosjnor's strength and power grows. They wait for the day they can cover all in eternal winter and eventually join together at the Fimbulwinter of time's end. Bloosjnor weigh several thousand pounds and stand some 12 feet tall. They can only barely speak in a howling, whispy voice, and this in a primitive language that resembles the ancient dialect of their awakeners. Combat A bloosjnor often comes wailing out from the snow within which it hid, filling living beings nearby with dispair. It then claws and tears as it drains their vitality with its presence. If its victims manage to flee or are difficult to reach it vents its frustration in a great roar of freezing wind. Blood Sacrifice (Su): Wherever a bloosjnor walks the snow momentarily reddens. Any creature within 20 feet of a Bloosjnor must succeed on a DC 26 fortitude save each round they remain in range or take 1d3 points of constitution drain. The bloosjnor heals a number of hit points equal to three times that of the number of ability points drained. A bloosjnor can retain up to twice its healthy total for an hour before they fade away. If a creature is killed by this drain they rise up within 1d4 hours as frostfell ghosts, forever bound to the dying land. If the victim is killed while on unhallowed ground however there is a 50% chance that a second bloosjnor is birthed. If done before an evil altar of some kind there is an 80% chance. The save DC is Constitution-based. Fimbulwinter (Sp): The haunts of the bloosjnor are constantly affected as the Fimbulwinter spell (Frostburn, p. 93) cast by a druid of the same level as the bloosjnor's HD. Howl of the North (Su): As a full-round action that provokes an attack of opportunity a bloosnjor can release a great cry. From its maw blows forth a severe wind that strikes those in a 100-foot cone. Those caught in this cone take a -12 penalty on Listen checks until the bloosnjor's next turn and take 1d6 sonic plus 1d6 coldfire damage (a DC 26 fortitude save halves the damage and negates the chance of contracting coldfire ruin). The save DC is Constitution-based. Ice Glide (Ex): A bloosjnor can glide through ice, snow, or slush as easily as a fish swims through water. Its burrowing leaves behind no tunnel or hole, and its passage does not create any ripples of other signs of its presence. A bloosjnor often fights from the cover of an an ice sheet or snow field in much the same way that an incorporeal creature can use a wall or floor for cover. A bloosjnor attacking a creature outside the ice or snow in which it is hiding gains the benefit of cover. Spell Like Abilities: At Will - Crushing Despair, Diminish Plants, Flash-Freeze. 3/day - Arctic Haze, Blight, Heart Freeze. Caster level 20th. Save DC's are Charisma-based. Vulnerability to Fire: A bloosnjor takes half again as much (+50%) damage as normal from fire spells and effects, regardless of whether a saving throw is allowed, or if the save is a success or failure. Whitesight (Ex): A bloosjnor is immune to snow glare and can see normally in whiteout conditions.
Tevish Szat 10-27-06, 02:29 AM	i like it a lot... one of the thigns i;,m using plenty is cold setting, and for a high CR monster, this lets me have somethign pre-epic, holding places in winter.
obrysii 10-27-06, 10:53 AM	Of all people, I'm surprised yours was not one of the few picked for that contest. Who are the judges, anyway? Otherwise, it's great--as usual. Can you feel the envy? :P
Grizzled Gryphon 10-27-06, 12:20 PM	As with most anything I have seen you come up with, this is very impressive. By the way, Vorpal, do you know of anyway to make a humanoid version of magical beasts? For example, something like the Anthromorphic for animals, but for Magical beasts, instead?
R.M.G.C.L.F. 10-27-06, 12:38 PM	I'd make it a cold-based outsider. It doesn't seem...literal enough to be an elemental. The blood sacrifice seems a little much as a passive ability. Maybe make it a supernatural attack that deals con damage once or twice per day in a radius swirl, or something? Something this powerful shouldn't be able to reproduce merely by taking too long to walk past somebody; the moment it strode through a city the world would be crawling with them.
Grizzled Gryphon 10-27-06, 01:08 PM	I'd make it a cold-based outsider. It doesn't seem...literal enough to be an elemental. The blood sacrifice seems a little much as a passive ability. Maybe make it a supernatural attack that deals con damage once or twice per day in a radius swirl, or something? Something this powerful shouldn't be able to reproduce merely by taking too long to walk past somebody; the moment it strode through a city the world would be crawling with them. If the city was on unhallowed ground. LOL, the city would be littered with ghosts, though. Assuming, of course, that everyone just stood there and watched this horror waltzing through town. so, realistically, there might be a few of them created, and a few more ghosts, but that is all.
The Vorpal Tribble 10-27-06, 02:40 PM	By the way, Vorpal, do you know of anyway to make a humanoid version of magical beasts? For example, something like the Anthromorphic for animals, but for Magical beasts, instead? I don't even know the version for Anthromorphic for animals... that something from Savage Species? I'd make it a cold-based outsider. It doesn't seem...literal enough to be an elemental. Its basically a winter elemental. While researching some stuff after I made this fellow I actually found out that there are a number of creatures similiar in theme and they were very much considered elementals. Also, this guy can't be an outsider if its not from the outside, or ties to the outside. The blood sacrifice seems a little much as a passive ability. Maybe make it a supernatural attack that deals con damage once or twice per day in a radius swirl, or something? Something this powerful shouldn't be able to reproduce merely by taking too long to walk past somebody; the moment it strode through a city the world would be crawling with them. Yeah, as Grizzled mentioned it only makes another of itself on hallowed ground. And then only half of the time then. Sure, alot of frostfell ghosts haunts its land... but thats all part of its theme. It doesn't have control over them however.
Grizzled Gryphon 10-28-06, 09:47 AM	I don't even know the version for Anthromorphic for animals... that something from Savage Species? Yeah, it is from Savage Species. Basically, it makes a humanoid out of an animal.
The Vorpal Tribble 10-28-06, 05:55 PM	Yeah, it is from Savage Species. Basically, it makes a humanoid out of an animal. Don't have Savage Species, but that which I have seen has made me 'really' wary against it :hides:
Bawitda 10-28-06, 06:02 PM	It has some truly brilliant ideas. And some extraordinarily awful execution.
Grizzled Gryphon 10-28-06, 06:05 PM	Yeah, what he said
Watchdog_of_Hades 10-28-06, 06:16 PM	The Blood Sacrifice deals Constitution drain? Why?
The Vorpal Tribble 10-28-06, 06:51 PM	And some extraordinarily awful execution. How so? The Blood Sacrifice deals Constitution drain? Why? Because its based somewhat off the spell, Blood Snow, which does Constituion drain. And why not, its siphoning your vitality right out of you.
Watchdog_of_Hades 10-28-06, 06:55 PM	How so?Savage Species is, in at least two peoples' opinions, badly done. My argument, I guess, is mostly with HD+LA=ECL, because that makes monstrous PC's about half as good as they should be, but that's enough reason for me to warn other people off.
The Vorpal Tribble 10-28-06, 07:10 PM	Savage Species is, in at least two peoples' opinions, badly done. My argument, I guess, is mostly with HD+LA=ECL, because that makes monstrous PC's about half as good as they should be, but that's enough reason for me to warn other people off. Oh, sorry, had a brain fart there. I thought he was referring to the Bloosnjor.
Bawitda 10-28-06, 07:22 PM	No, the Bloosnjor is pretty good, as I told you over AIM. I was speaking purely of SS. Sorry I wasn't more clear.
Insane Pixie 10-28-06, 08:09 PM	Savage Species is, in at least two peoples' opinions, badly done. My argument, I guess, is mostly with HD+LA=ECL, because that makes monstrous PC's about half as good as they should be, but that's enough reason for me to warn other people off. My own belief is that ECL should be around CR. Makes it a little bit difficult for low levels, but it makes more sense to me than have a naturally weak, over-ECL'd PC.
Bawitda 10-28-06, 09:02 PM	Eh, careful there. CR and ECL won't always coincide. It comes down to how useful an ability is over the course of an adventure as opposed to one or two battles. The classic example is the hound archon. Its challenge rating is 4. On the other hand, it has the ability to teleport. It's not quite as valuable in a single battle, but over the course of an adventure, it becomes invaluable, and much more powerful. Even if you think ECL 11 is too high (6 Racial Hit Die, +5 LA) is too powerful, it's still too powerful to be a 4th level adventurer.
The Vorpal Tribble 12-21-06, 03:50 PM	First day of winter :bump: