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> ~Shadow Bears, Sample Shadow-Crafted Creature
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Posted: Oct 25 2004, 07:28 PM
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Sample Creature
The following creature uses a king bear as its base creature. It has the following shadow-crafted qualities:
+2 Strength, +2 Constitution, thickened hide, swallow whole, barbed flesh, improved bite, gore attack, fast healing 3, and ferocious.

Shadow Bear
Large Shadowspawn
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Hit Dice             8d8+40 (86 hp)
Initiative           +1 (Dex)
Speed                40 ft.
Defense              19 (-1 size, +1 Dex, +9 natural)
Attacks              2 claws +14 melee, bite +9 melee, gore +9 melee
Damage               Claws 1d8+9, Bite 4d6+4, gore 1d8+4
Special Attacks      Improved Grab, Swallow Whole
Special Qualities    Scent, Barbed Flesh, Fast Healing 3, Ferocious
Saves                Fort +13, Ref +7, Will +1
Abilities            Str 29, Dex 13, Con 21, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 6
Skills               Intimidate +2, Listen +4, Spot +7, Swim +8
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Climate/Terrain      The Blight
Organization         Solitary
Challenge Code       E
Advancement          9-12 HD (Huge)


A great monster looms before you. Massive and barren of almost all fur, the creature resembles a bear straight from a nightmare. easily 12 feet tall standing, the creature's thick flesh is covered in disgusting spikes, and two massive horns curl in front of its face. Drool drips like blood from jaws impossibly large for the creature, with teeth that would make a myrddraal pause, capable of swallowing a man in one bite. The thing stands up from its four feet and roars, scattering birds everywhere.

Shadow bears are akin to darkhounds. But where darkhounds are scouts of the Shadow, shadow bears are the shocktroopers. The creature is powerful enough to kill even myrddraal, and has a violently mad streak. The creatures seem to love destroying, even more than trollocs, and can be found easily due to the path of carcasses and uprooted trees it leaves in its path. Most akin fighting a shadow bear to committing suicide.

Combat: Shadow bears are fierce warriors, and never stop until they're truly dead. They will attempt to eat any creature that gets in their path, and shreds anything else they cannot eat.
Swallow Whole: If the shadow bear's bite attack is successful, it may immediately make a grapple check that does not provoke an attack of opportunity. If successful, the shadow bear swallows whatever it bites, dealing 1d6 points of bludgeoning damage, plus 1d6 points of acid damage per round. A swallowed character may make attacks with natural or light weapons a Defense equal to 14. If the character inflicts 8 points of damage, then it creates a hole big enough to escape from, but the hole closes immediately afterwards.
Barbed Flesh: Anyone grappling a shadow bear takes 1d6 points of damage per round due to the creature's sharp spikes and barbs.
Ferocious: Shadow bears fight as normal even when reduced to –1 to –9 hit points. At –10 hit points, the shadow bear dies.

This post has been edited by MagusRogue on Oct 25 2004, 07:32 PM


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Llewin
Posted: Oct 25 2004, 07:56 PM
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*shudder* no thank you, i do not want a nightmare bear for a wrestling partner!

very cool shadowspawn... since it is akin to the darkhound does its drool/bite also cause the poisoning/death damage a darkhounds bite does?

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MagusRogue
Posted: Oct 25 2004, 09:49 PM
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Nope. Instead, it can swallow you whole in one bite. Sides, with a bite of 4d6+4, you really wanna add venom to it as well?!?!?! It already does, on average, 18 points of damage with its bite, plus the possiblity of being swallowed and crushed. *grins* Really now.

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Posted: Oct 25 2004, 10:35 PM
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lol... ok ok smile.gif

its already bad a$$ enough smile.gif
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Posted: Oct 25 2004, 10:49 PM
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*Grins* thanks


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Cisco Lii
  Posted: Oct 26 2004, 11:25 AM
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What's the maximum size of a creature it can digest. One or two size catagories smaller. And how many creatures can it contain.


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Posted: Oct 26 2004, 03:25 PM
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It can swallow up to one size less than it's own. It can hold one medium-sized creature, two smalls, four tinies, 8 diminutives, or 16 fines. It's explained in the template, but i didn't wanna post the whole template here. just giving you an example of a nasty bugger using it. And shadowbears are nasty...


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