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Dumat 07-18-06, 11:47 AM	Please excuse the garbled stat block: Carafax (CR 8) Medium Outsider [Outer Darkness] Speed: 30 ft. (6 squares), fly: 30 ft. (good) Init: +5 Space/Reach: 5 ft. / 5 ft. Armor Class: 21 (10 + 5 Dex + 6 natural armor) Saves: Fort 8 / Ref 11 / Will 8 Hit Dice: 8d8 (36+16 = 52 hp) Damage Reduction 10/lawful or starglass Cold resistance 10, Acid resistance 10, Power Resistance 19 Base Attack/Grapple: +8/+8 Attack: Claw +13 melee (d6) Full attack: 4 claws +13 melee (d6) Special Attacks: Insanity aura, possession, psionics Special Abilities: Telepathy (100 ft.), Darkvision (60 ft.) Feats: Weapon Finesse, Combat Reflexes, Iron Will Skills: +13 Concentration, +13 Gather Information, +16 Hide, +13 Intimidate, +14 Knowledge (psionics), +14 Knowledge (the planes), +11 Listen, +14 Psicraft, +11 Search, +11 Sense Motive, +11 Spot, +15 Use Psionic Device Abilities: Str 10, Dex 20, Con 14, Int 17, Wis 10, Cha 15 Advancement: By character class. Combat Insanity Aura (Su): When a subject comes within 10 feet of the carafax, the effects of its reality-warping connection to the Outer Darkness become hard to bear. Each round, creatures within 10 feet of the carafax must make a Will save (DC 16) or suffer 1d6 points of Intelligence drain. (The carafax is not affected by the effects of another carafax's insanity aura.) The effects of overlapping insanity auras do not stack. A carafax may only use its insanity aura while in its original form or while possessing another corporeal creature; this ability does not function while a carafax is roaming ethereally seeking a victim for its possession ability. A carafax gains 5 temporary hit points that last for up to one hour each time it successfully drains a creature's Intelligence score. Creatures whose Intelligence scores are reduced to zero by a carafax's insanity aura become permanently confused as if affected by an insanity power (page 113 of the Expanded Psionics Handbook). A creature possessed by a carafax (see below) is not affected by the insanity aura of the possessing carafax and becomes immune to the insanity auras of other carafax for the duration of the possession. The carafax may suppress or resume this ability as a free action. The save is Charisma-based. Possession (Su): Carafax can shuck their physical forms and take on an ethereal form that allows them to possess another creature, as described in the Book of Vile Darkness. The DC to resist possession is 16, while the DC to resist a "controlling" carafax is DC 16 + 1 for every failed save against control during the past 24 hours. Psi-like abilities: 3/day--body adjustment (2d12 healing), mind trap (5 rounds, DC 16), concussion blast (3 targets within 15 feet, 3d6, DC 15); 1/day--personality parasite (6 rounds, DC 17). Manifester level 8th. Main concerns: i'm considering removing the body adjustment psi-like ability, as the insanity aura provides hp for it anyway. The main purpose of this creature is to serve as a mastermind villian that possesses NPCs.
savant_warlord13 07-18-06, 01:35 PM	You aren't using "Psionics are different," are you? I strongly suggest against that. Otherwise, it looks fine.
Dumat 07-18-06, 01:55 PM	No psionics are different, but the setting this is for is a psionics-themed campaign setting, so I put things in terms of "psionics as default," i.e. I say "power resistance" and not "spell resistance," etc. thanks for taking a look. what do you think about the body adjustment issue...is it a bit much to have this nasty little guy healing itself?
savant_warlord13 07-18-06, 02:25 PM	No, body adjustment is fine
cwslyclgh 07-18-06, 04:07 PM	I would increase the power resistance, SR is generaly set at 11 + CR (with slight adjustments made for creatures based upon whether the creator thinks thsy should be more spell resistant or less) I would guess that PR should work the same way... so this creature would have a a PR of 19 give or take a couple
Dumat 07-19-06, 11:30 AM	Power resistance raised to PR 19. Good call, that.