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Phase Creature (CR +2)[3pp]

Contents

• Creating a Phase Creature
  • Ethereal Jaunt (Su)
  • Ethereal Ambush (Ex)
  • Poison (Ex)

Source

Tome of Horrors Complete

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Phase Flea

The most well-known traveler from the Ethereal Plane is the phase spider, but other insect-like creatures with similar abilities have been seen jaunting in and out of the Material Plane. Planar scholars have put forth the theory that somewhere off the Ethereal Plane a demiplane exists that is home to what they call phase vermin (or phase creatures).

Phase creatures are mottled black or gray and white in color, which may be an indicator of the nature of their home environment. They closely resemble normal vermin of the Material Plane, except that their natural weapons are inexplicably smaller. The phase creatures have adapted to this difference, however, with poison that is much stronger.

Creating a Phase Creature

“Phase Creature” is an inherited template that can be added to any vermin (referred to hereafter as the base creature). A phase creature retains all the base creature’s statistics and special abilities except as noted here.

CR: Same as the base creature +2.

Type: The base creature’s type changes to magical beast and it gains the augmented subtype.

Senses: The base creature gains low-light vision and darkvision to a range of 60 feet, if it didn’t already possess those abilities.

AC: The base creature’s natural armor increases by +1.

Saves: Recalculate the base creature’s saves based on its new type. Magical beasts have good Fortitude and Reflex saves.

Hit Dice: Change all racial Hit Dice to d10s, and add one Hit Die to the base creature.

Defensive Abilities: The phase creature retains all the defensive abilities of the base creature, except it loses the “vermin traits” immunities and gains the following:

Speed: the base creature’s land speed increases by 10 feet.

Attacks: The base creature retains all its natural attacks; however, the damage die of every attack reduces by one step (see the table below), but never below 1d2.

Special Attacks: A phase creature retains all the special attacks of the base creature. Saves have a DC of 10 + 1/2 phase creature’s HD + phase creature’s Constitution modifier unless stated otherwise. Base creatures with a poison special attack, recalculate it as below:

Abilities: Str +2, Con +4, Wis +4. A phase creature has an Intelligence of 7 and its Charisma is that of the base creature or 10, whichever is higher.

Feats: A phase creature gains Improved Initiative as a bonus feat.