Blood of Yog-Sothoth (CR +1)

Creating a Blood of Yog-Sothoth

“Blood of Yog-Sothoth” is an inherited template that can be added to any living humanoid creature (referred to hereafter as the base creature). A blood of Yog-Sothoth retains all of the base creature’s statistics and special abilities, except as listed below.

Challenge Rating: Base creature’s CR +1.

Alignment: Any chaotic. Most of the blood of Yog-Sothoth are chaotic evil or chaotic neutral.

Type: The creature’s type changes to aberration (augmented humanoid). Do not recalculate its base Attack bonus, saves, or skill ranks.

Senses: The creature gains low-light vision.

Hit Dice: Change the creature’s racial Hit Dice to d8s. All Hit Dice derived from class levels remain unchanged.

Defensive Abilities: A blood of Yog-Sothoth gains cold resistance 5 and fire resistance 5. It has a +4 racial bonus on saving throws against mind-affecting effects. A blood of Yog-Sothoth is immune to disease.

Stench (Su)

A blood of Yog-Sothoth always exudes an unpleasant musky scent. As a swift action, the blood of Yog-Sothoth can intensify this scent, causing it to become sickening. All living creatures within 30 feet must succeed at a Fortitude saving throw (DC = 10 + 1/2 the child’s HD + the blood of Yog-Sothoth’s Constitution modifier) or become sickened for 1 round. The blood of Yog-Sothoth can exude this sickening stench for a number of rounds per day equal to its total Hit Dice, but these rounds need not be consecutive. Each round the blood of Yog-Sothoth wishes to maintain the stench, it must use a swift action to do so. The stench is a poison effect. A blood of Yog-Sothoth is immune to the stench of another blood of Yog-Sothoth.

Ability Scores: Str +2, Con +4, Int –2, Cha –4.

Feats: A blood of Yog-Sothoth gains Toughness as a bonus feat.

Skills: A blood of Yog-Sothoth gains a +4 racial bonus on Intimidate and Stealth checks.