Lemure
HD:d8
| Level | BAB | Fort | Ref | Will | Feature |
| 1 | +1 | +2 | +2 | +2 | Pathetic Body, Hell Slave, I Have A Mouth And I Can't Scream, Bottom of the Pit, Infernal Promotion |
Class skills (2+Int, quadruple at 1st level): A Lemure has no Class skills.
Proficiencies: A Lemure is only proficient with its own natural weapons.
Features:Pathetic Body: The lemure loses all of its previous traits and instead gains outsider traits (basically darkvision 60 feet). It is a medium sized outsider with base speed 20 feet and two natural claw attacks each dealing damage equal to 1d4+Str mod.
In addition it gains a bonus to nat armor equal to its Con mod, but can't speak.
Hell Slave: Lemures crave revenge against the universe, refusing to admit it's their own faul that they're in their current sad state . The Lemure gains the [Lawful] and [Evil] subtypes, its attacks count as those alignments for bypassing DR and it may attack with both claws as a standard action whitout penalty.
I Have A Mouth And I Can't Scream:Lemures are the lowest ranking devils of all, being bullied, abused and trampled over by basically everybody else, yet unable to cry in any form due to their too-soft vocal cords. It is said if lemures could scream out their agony out, the 9 Hells themselves would shatter with the resulting cacophany, but as it is they can just endure their suffering with simple moans. As a swift action the Lemure may grant itself immunity against Fire and Poison, resistance to Acid 10 and Cold 10, the ability to see perfectly in darkness of any kind, DR 5/good or silver and telepathy 100 feet, all of those for 1 round.
Bottom of the Pit: A lemure is “born” from the remains of a soul condemned into hell, after it has been drained of all of its power and memories. It is is immune to all mind affecting effects, but can never count any skill as a class skill or gain weapon proficiencies.
In addition it gains Regeneration 1, which can be bypassed by coup-de-graces.
Infernal Promotion: When you can't fall anymore, may as well start climbinb back up. A lemure who gains enough exp to gain a level
must undergo a transformation into a devil of higher rank. Build a new character from scratch with the same number of HD and as many levels in the next rank's monster class as possible; these stats permanently replace your original stats, except you gain this ability again when you complete your new devil class, allowing you to change into a new rank. Only the first change is mandatory, you can choose to don't "promote" yourself into new devil ranks once you're not a lowly Lemure anymore.
Lemure->
Imp->
Chain Devil->
Harvester Devil->
Bone Devil->
Malebranche->
Assassin Devil->
Ice Devil->
Pit FiendIn alternative, the lemure may be promoted into an
Abishai and from there into a Chain Devil, following the ranks as normal.
CommentsThe lemure's main stick isn't any special power or physical prowess, is being a sad pathetic creature that has lost everything. But when you've got nothing more to lose, you do have everything to gain.
Crunch-wise the lemure gains all good saves, full Bab and an exceptional number of immunities, resistances, telepathy and DR. However you're never gonna have proficiencies or class skills and you need to eat your swift action every round. Unless you receive a promotion. I guess there's still some potential for being a lemure if you focus in some brutish claw-based monster. Removed multiclassing option since it may prove too good of a dip for brutish monsters.
Regeneration is from the original 1st edition lemure, which kinda makes sense since other devils love beating lemures around.
And yes I know I'm not following the "official" rankings, but screw that, you're geting promoted in order of power
So if you want to play the remains of a lawful evil soul after it has been drained dry, the lemure's for you!
