Norse Bestiary

[ksbsnowowl]

I'd been meaning to stat this guy up for a while now.  Here he is.  Note, the Skindancer was given a stat block in Elder Evils.  In this stat block, they clarified the Reactive Damage Reduction ability.  The chart that is included below comes straight from that stat block.

Half-Troll Skindancer

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Half-Troll Skindancer
Large Giant
Hit Dice: 15d8+180 (247 hp)
Initiative: +8
Speed: 40 ft. (8 squares)
Armor Class: 30 (-1 size, +4 Dex, +11 natural, +6 deflection), touch 19, flat-footed 26
Base Attack/Grapple: +15/+28
Attack: Slam +23 melee (2d6+9) or Claw +23 melee (1d6+9)
Full Attack: 2 slams +23 melee (2d6+9) and Bite +18 melee (1d8+4) or
   2 Claws +23 melee (1d6+9) and Bite +18 melee (1d8+4)
Space/Reach: 10 ft./10 ft.
Special Attacks: Trip, Rend (2d6+13)
Special Qualities: Adaptive energy resistance, damage reduction 15/special (see text), darkvision 90 ft., fast healing 5, low-light vision, reactive skin, scent
Saves: Fort +17, Ref +13, Will +14
Abilities: Str 28, Dex 19, Con 35, Int 3, Wis 16, Cha 4
Skills: Jump +13, Listen +14, Spot +14
Feats: Alertness, Combat Reflexes, Improved Initiative, Improved Natural Attack (slam), Iron Will, Power Attack
Environment: Underground
Organization: Solitary
Challenge Rating: 13
Treasure: Standard
Alignment: Usually neutral evil
Advancement: 16-27 HD (Large)
Level Adjustment: --

Although it is not a shapechanger, a skindancer's flesh is highly reactive to weapons and spell attacks. The thick protrusions that cover a skindancer's upper body look like a hard carapace, but in truth they shift in shape and consistency to best resist any attack that is used against it. A skindancer stands between 9 and 10 feet tall and weighs 800 pounds.

Skindancers speak rudimentary Giant.

COMBAT

A skindancer enters combat fearlessly, confident that its magical, ever-shifting skin will protect it against whatever weapons its opponents bring to bear.

Trip (Ex): A skindancer that hits with a slam attack can attempt to trip its opponent (+13 check modifier) as a free action without making a touch attack or provoking attacks of opportunity. If the attempt fails, the opponent cannot react to trip the skindancer.

Adaptive Energy Resistance (Su): A skindancer gains resistance to energy based on the last type of energy that dealt damage to it. If the last type of energy was acid, it gains resistance to acid 20. If the last type of energy was fire, it gains resistance to fire 20, and so on. This resistance to energy lasts for 1 minute or until another type of energy damages the skindancer.

In most instances, a skindancer does not have resistance to energy at the beginning of combat.

Damage Reduction (Su): A skindancer gains damage reduction based on the damage type of the last weapon that damaged it. If the last weapon that damaged it was a piercing weapon, it gains damage reduction 15/bludgeoning or slashing. If the last weapon that damaged it was a slashing weapon, it gains damage reduction 15/piercing or bludgeoning. If the last weapon that damaged it was a bludgeoning and piercing weapon, it gains damage reduction 15/slashing. This damage reduction lasts for 1 minute or until another type of weapon damages the skindancer.

Damage : DR
Piercing = 15/bludgeoning or slashing
Bludgeoning = 15/piercing or slashing
Slashing = 15/bludgeoning or piercing
Bludgeoning and piercing = 15/slashing
Bludgeoning and slashing = 15/piercing
Piercing and slashing = 15/bludgeoning

In most instances, a skindancer does not have damage reduction at the beginning of combat.

Reactive Skin (Su): The magical energy that suffuses a skindancer's skin can turn away attacks before they even touch the creature. This energy grants a skindancer a +6 deflection bonus to Armor Class.

Primordial Giant Half-Troll Skindancer

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Primordial Giant Half-Troll Skindancer
Large Giant
Hit Dice: 15d8+165 (232 hp)
Initiative: +8
Speed: 40 ft. (8 squares)
Armor Class: 30 (-1 size, +4 Dex, +11 natural, +6 deflection), touch 19, flat-footed 26
Base Attack/Grapple: +15/+26
Attack: Slam +21 melee (2d6+7) or Claw +21 melee (1d6+7)
Full Attack: 2 slams +21 melee (2d6+7) and Bite +16 melee (1d8+3) or
   2 Claws +21 melee (1d6+7) and Bite +16 melee (1d8+3)
Space/Reach: 10 ft./10 ft.
Special Attacks: Trip, Rend (2d6+11), Spell-Like Ability
Special Qualities: Adaptive energy resistance, damage reduction 15/special (see text), darkvision 90 ft., fast healing 5, low-light vision, magical knack, reactive skin, scent
Saves: Fort +16, Ref +13, Will +14
Abilities: Str 24, Dex 19, Con 33, Int 7, Wis 16, Cha 8
Skills: Jump +11, Listen +14, Spot +14
Feats: Alertness, Combat Reflexes, Improved Initiative, Improved Natural Attack (slam), Iron Will, Power Attack
Environment: Underground
Organization: Solitary
Challenge Rating: 13
Treasure: Standard
Alignment: Usually neutral evil
Advancement: 16-27 HD (Large)
Level Adjustment: --

Although it is not a shapechanger, a skindancer's flesh is highly reactive to weapons and spell attacks. The thick protrusions that cover a skindancer's upper body look like a hard carapace, but in truth they shift in shape and consistency to best resist any attack that is used against it. A skindancer stands between 9 and 10 feet tall and weighs 800 pounds.

Skindancers speak rudimentary Giant.

COMBAT

A skindancer enters combat fearlessly, confident that its magical, ever-shifting skin will protect it against whatever weapons its opponents bring to bear.

Trip (Ex): A skindancer that hits with a slam attack can attempt to trip its opponent (+11 check modifier) as a free action without making a touch attack or provoking attacks of opportunity. If the attempt fails, the opponent cannot react to trip the skindancer.

Spell-Like Ability: At will - One of the following: Invisibility, Invisibility Purge, or Levitate.  CL 16th.

Magical Knack (Ex): Primordial Giants use all SLA's at +1 caster level.

Adaptive Energy Resistance (Su): A skindancer gains resistance to energy based on the last type of energy that dealt damage to it. If the last type of energy was acid, it gains resistance to acid 20. If the last type of energy was fire, it gains resistance to fire 20, and so on. This resistance to energy lasts for 1 minute or until another type of energy damages the skindancer.

In most instances, a skindancer does not have resistance to energy at the beginning of combat.

Damage Reduction (Su): A skindancer gains damage reduction based on the damage type of the last weapon that damaged it. If the last weapon that damaged it was a piercing weapon, it gains damage reduction 15/bludgeoning or slashing. If the last weapon that damaged it was a slashing weapon, it gains damage reduction 15/piercing or bludgeoning. If the last weapon that damaged it was a bludgeoning and piercing weapon, it gains damage reduction 15/slashing. This damage reduction lasts for 1 minute or until another type of weapon damages the skindancer.

Damage : DR
Piercing = 15/bludgeoning or slashing
Bludgeoning = 15/piercing or slashing
Slashing = 15/bludgeoning or piercing
Bludgeoning and piercing = 15/slashing
Bludgeoning and slashing = 15/piercing
Piercing and slashing = 15/bludgeoning

In most instances, a skindancer does not have damage reduction at the beginning of combat.

Reactive Skin (Su): The magical energy that suffuses a skindancer's skin can turn away attacks before they even touch the creature. This energy grants a skindancer a +6 deflection bonus to Armor Class.

Skills: Primordial Giants gain any one Knowledge skill as a class skill.  They receive a +2 racial bonus on Spellcraft and Use Magic Device checks.

Half-(Deep) Dragon Primordial Giant Half-Troll Skindancer

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Half-(Deep) Dragon Primordial Giant Half-Troll Skindancer
Large Dragon
Hit Dice: 15d10+180 (262 hp)
Initiative: +8
Speed: 40 ft. (8 squares)
Armor Class: 34 (-1 size, +4 Dex, +15 natural, +6 deflection), touch 19, flat-footed 30
Base Attack/Grapple: +15/+30
Attack: Slam +25 melee (2d6+11) or Claw +25 melee (1d6+11)
Full Attack: 2 slams +25 melee (2d6+11) and Bite +20 melee (1d8+5) or
   2 Claws +25 melee (1d6+11) and Bite +20 melee (1d8+5)
Space/Reach: 10 ft./10 ft.
Special Attacks: Trip, Rend (2d6+16), Spell-Like Ability, Breath Weapon
Special Qualities: Adaptive energy resistance, damage reduction 15/special (see text), darkvision 90 ft., fast healing 5, immune to sleep and paralysis, immune to charms, low-light vision, magical knack, reactive skin, resistance to Cold 10 and Fire 10, scent
Saves: Fort +17, Ref +13, Will +14
Abilities: Str 32, Dex 19, Con 35, Int 9, Wis 16, Cha 10
Skills: Balance +11 [5], Jump +22 [5], Know (Arcana) +17, Listen +21, Spot +21, Tumble +14 [8]
Feats: Combat Reflexes, Dragon Breath, Improved Initiative, Improved Natural Attack (slam), Iron Will, Power Attack
Environment: Underground
Organization: Solitary
Challenge Rating: 15
Treasure: Standard
Alignment: Usually neutral evil
Advancement: 16-27 HD (Large)
Level Adjustment: --

Although it is not a shapechanger, a skindancer's flesh is highly reactive to weapons and spell attacks. The thick protrusions that cover a skindancer's upper body look like a hard carapace, but in truth they shift in shape and consistency to best resist any attack that is used against it. A skindancer stands between 9 and 10 feet tall and weighs 800 pounds.

Skindancers speak Giant.

COMBAT

A skindancer enters combat fearlessly, confident that its magical, ever-shifting skin will protect it against whatever weapons its opponents bring to bear.

Breath Weapon (Su): A half deep dragon's breath weapon is a 30 foot cone of flesh-corrosive gas that 6d8 points of damage, Reflex DC 29 half.  It can use its breath weapon every 1d4 rounds.

Trip (Ex): A skindancer that hits with a slam attack can attempt to trip its opponent (+15 check modifier) as a free action without making a touch attack or provoking attacks of opportunity. If the attempt fails, the opponent cannot react to trip the skindancer.

Spell-Like Ability: At will - One of the following: Invisibility, Invisibility Purge, or Levitate.  CL 16th.

Magical Knack (Ex): Primordial Giants use all SLA's at +1 caster level.

Adaptive Energy Resistance (Su): A skindancer gains resistance to energy based on the last type of energy that dealt damage to it. If the last type of energy was acid, it gains resistance to acid 20. If the last type of energy was fire, it gains resistance to fire 20, and so on. This resistance to energy lasts for 1 minute or until another type of energy damages the skindancer.

In most instances, a skindancer does not have resistance to energy at the beginning of combat.

Damage Reduction (Su): A skindancer gains damage reduction based on the damage type of the last weapon that damaged it. If the last weapon that damaged it was a piercing weapon, it gains damage reduction 15/bludgeoning or slashing. If the last weapon that damaged it was a slashing weapon, it gains damage reduction 15/piercing or bludgeoning. If the last weapon that damaged it was a bludgeoning and piercing weapon, it gains damage reduction 15/slashing. This damage reduction lasts for 1 minute or until another type of weapon damages the skindancer.

Damage : DR
Piercing = 15/bludgeoning or slashing
Bludgeoning = 15/piercing or slashing
Slashing = 15/bludgeoning or piercing
Bludgeoning and piercing = 15/slashing
Bludgeoning and slashing = 15/piercing
Piercing and slashing = 15/bludgeoning

In most instances, a skindancer does not have damage reduction at the beginning of combat.

Reactive Skin (Su): The magical energy that suffuses a skindancer's skin can turn away attacks before they even touch the creature. This energy grants a skindancer a +6 deflection bonus to Armor Class.

Skills: Primordial Giants gain any one Knowledge skill as a class skill.  They receive a +2 racial bonus on Spellcraft and Use Magic Device checks.

I should probably have given him ranks in UMD, but whatever.

[ksbsnowowl]

This creature isn't Norse, really, but I made him for my Norse game, so here he is.  It's a shape-changing Niflheim hound (Vorr's are Abyssal hounds, so why not?

I'd never really paid much attention to the Canomorphs (FF) before, but this thing is ready made for heading into Telflammar Shadowlord.  So, he escaped through the Niflhenge, and has aligned with the Unseelie Court enough to have been taught the ways of the TSL's.

Two versions, both the same 36 point buy.

(NB - It appears there was some accidental cross-pollination as I updated him with duskblade and swashbucker for heading into Hellbreaker.  It appears the first one is Vultivor Outsider 3/Fighter 4/Ranger 1/Telflammar Shadowlord 6//Scout 14, despite what the build chart says.  The second one is a Vultivor Outsider 3/Fighter 2/Duskblade 1/Swashbuckler 1/Ranger 1/Telflammar Shadowlord 6/Hellbreaker 1//Scout 15, despite what the header at the top of the stat block says.)

Gestalt Vultivor

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36 point buy Gestalt Vultivor
+6 Str, +6 Dex, +4 Con, -4 Int, +4 Cha

Str 15 (8) ->      21
Dex 16 (10) ->   22 -> 24
Con 14 (6) ->   18
Int 16 (10) ->      12 -> 13
Wis 10 (2) ->      10
Cha 8 (0) ->      12

1.   LA 1//LA 2
2.   LA 3//LA 4
3.   Outsider 1//Scout 1 - Blind-Fight
4.   Outsider 2//Scout 2
5.   Outsider 3//Scout 3 - Dodge
6.   Fighter 1//Scout 4 - Mobility, Spring Attack
7.   Swashbuckler 1//Scout 5 - Weapon Finesse
8.   Duskblade 1//Scout 6 - Combat Reflexes
9.   Ranger 1//Scout 7 - Track
10.   Telf SL 1//Scout 8 - Improved Skirmish
11.   Telf SL 2//Scout 9 - ? (Improved Crit)
12.   Telf SL 3//Scout 10
13.   Telf SL 4//Scout 11
14.   Telf SL 5//Scout 12 - ?, ? (Telling Blow)(Improved Initiative)
15.   Telf SL 6//Scout 13
16.   Fighter 2//Scout 14 - Robilar's Gambit

10d8 + 4d10 HD

Skill points: 9*17 = 153 skill points
Hide, Listen, Move Silently, Search, Spot, Survival, Balance, Jump, Tumble
Max those to level 7 (10 ranks each)
Then TSL dumps 9 ranks into UMD at level one
then 3 ranks at level 2, plus two each into Hide, Move Silently, and Tumble
then Hide, Listen, Move Silently, Spot, Tumble, UMD, Survival, Search, Sense Motive at levels 3, 4, 5, and 6
Then Hide, Listen, Move Silently, Search, Sense Motive, Spot, Survival, Tumble, Speak Language


Balance [10], Hide [17], Jump [10], Listen [15], Move Silently [17], Search [15], Sense Motive [5], Speak Language [1], Spot [15], Survival [15], Tumble [17], Use Magic Device [16]



   Vultivor Outsider 3/Fighter 4/Ranger 1/Telflammar Shadowlord 6//Scout 14
   Humanoid Form
   Medium-Size Outsider (Chaotic, Evil, Extraplanar, Shapechanger)
Hit Dice:       10d8 plus 4d10+56 (123 hp)
Initiative:       +13
Speed:       50 ft.
AC:          21 (+7 Dex, +3 natural, +1 padded), touch 17, flat-footed 21
BAB/Grap:      +12/+17
Attack:      +2 keen rapier +21 melee (1d6+7 [12–20/x2])
Full Attack:      +2 keen rapier +21/+16/+11 melee (1d6+7 [12–20/x2])
Face/Reach:      5 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks:    Sneak attack +2d6, Trip, Skirmish +4d6/+3 AC [+6d6/+5 AC],
            Favored Enemy (Humans) +2, Shadow Pounce, Death Attack
Special Qualities:    Alternate form, command vorrs, outsider traits, scent, shadow form,
            shadow jump, uncanny dodge, trapfinding, battle fortitude +2,
            fast movement +20 feet, trackless step, evasion, flawless stride,
            camouflage, blindsense 30 ft., hide in plain sight, 60 ft. darkvision
Saves:       Fort +20, Ref +17*, Will +7    *evasion
Abilities:       Str 21, Dex 24, Con 18, Int 13, Wis 10, Cha 12
Skills:          Balance +19 [10], Hide +24 (+39 shadow form) [17], Jump +23 [10],
            Listen +15 [15], Move Silently +24 [17], Search +16 [15],
            Sense Motive +5 (+17 vs Feint) [5], Speak Language (Lapp) [1],
            Spot +15 [15], Survival +15 [15], Tumble +26 [17],
            Use Magic Device +17 [16]; Track +17 (+23 tracking by scent)
Feats:       Blind-Fight, Weapon Finesse, Dodge, Mobility, Spring Attack,
            Combat Reflexes (8), Track, Improved Skirmish, Improved Critical (Rapier),
            Improved Initiative, Telling Blow, Robilar's Gambit
Climate/Terrain:    Any land and underground (Abyss)
Organization:   Solitary, pair, or pack (3–12)
Challenge Rating:   [GCR 16]
Treasure:       Standard
Alignment:       Always chaotic evil
Advancement:    By character class
Level Adjustment:    +4

   Vorr Form
   Medium-Size Outsider (Chaotic, Evil, Extraplanar, Shapechanger)
Hit Dice:       10d8 plus 4d10+56 (123 hp)
Initiative:       +13
Speed:       60 ft.
AC:          20 (+7 Dex, +3 natural) touch 17, flat-footed 20
BAB/Grapple:   +12/+17
Attack:      Bite +19 melee (2d4+5)
Full Attack:      Bite +19 melee (2d4+5) and 2 claws +12 melee (1d3+2)
Face/Reach:    5 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks:    Sneak attack +2d6, Skirmish +4d6/+3 AC [+6d6/+5 AC],
            Favored Enemy (Humans) +2, Shadow Pounce, Death Attack
Special Qualities:    Alternate form, command vorrs, outsider traits, scent, shadow form,
            shadow jump, uncanny dodge, trapfinding, battle fortitude +2,
            fast movement +20 feet, trackless step, evasion, flawless stride,
            camouflage, blindsense 30 ft., hide in plain sight, 60 ft. darkvision 
Saves:       Fort +20, Ref +17*, Will +7    *evasion
Abilities:       Str 21, Dex 24, Con 18, Int 13, Wis 10, Cha 12
Skills:          Balance +19 [10], Hide +24 (+39 shadow form) [17], Jump +27 [10],
            Listen +15 [15], Move Silently +24 [17], Search +16 [15],
            Sense Motive +5 (+17 vs Feint) [5], Speak Language (Lapp) [1],
            Spot +15 [15], Survival +15 [15], Tumble +26 [17],
            Use Magic Device +17 [16]; Track +17 (+23 tracking by scent)
Feats:       Blind-Fight, Weapon Finesse, Dodge, Mobility, Spring Attack,
            Combat Reflexes (8), Track, Improved Skirmish, Improved Critical (Rapier),
            Improved Initiative, Telling Blow, Robilar's Gambit
Climate/Terrain:    Any land and underground (Abyss)
Organization:   Solitary, pair, or pack (3–12)
Challenge Rating:    [GCR 16]
Treasure:       Standard
Alignment:       Always chaotic evil
Advancement:    By character class
Level Adjustment:    +4

Like other canomorphs, a vultivor can appear as any humanoid. Grayish skin, black and hungry eyes, and a long, lupine face often mark its humanoid guises. It tends to be cruel and subtle, taking great pleasure in the misfortunes of others.
   A vultivor speaks Common and Abyssal.

Combat
The vultivor described here is based on an exceptional 14th-level vorr gestalt scout. Vultivors are stealthy and patient murderers, stalking their victims until they see an opportunity to make a sneak attack. A vultivor often shifts to its vorr form
to speed its escape from the scene of a crime.
   Sneak Attack (Ex): Anytime a vultivor’s target is denied a Dexterity bonus, or when a target is flanked by a vultivor, the vultivor deals an additional 2d6 points of damage on a successful melee attack.
   Trip (Ex): A vultivor that hits with a bite attack can attempt to trip its opponent as a free action without making a touch attack or provoking an attack of opportunity. If the attempt fails, the opponent cannot react to trip the vultivor. The vultivor can only attempt to trip in this manner while in its vorr form.
   Shadow Form (Su): Once per day, a vultivor can assume the form of a living shadow for up to 10 minutes. While in shadow form, the vultivor can move at normal speed on any surface, including walls and ceilings, and even across liquids. The vultivor gains a +15 circumstance bonus on Hide checks. Effects that detect thoughts, life, or presences (including true seeing) can detect it.
   While in shadow form, a vultivor gains damage reduction 50/+5 and is immune to blindness, critical hits, damage to ability scores from nonmagical attacks, deafness, disease, drowning, poison, and stunning. It takes half damage from fire and acid.
   Shadow Jump (Su): As a standard action, a vultivor can travel between shadows as if by a dimension doorspell. The starting and ending points of the jump must be in shadow, and these points must be at least 10 feet apart. A vultivor can make several shadow jumps in one day, as long as the total distance traveled in this fashion per day does not exceed 280 feet. (Includes 160 feet from vultivor + 120 feet from Telflammar Shadowlord.)
   Change Shape (Su): A canomorph can assume the form of any Small, Medium or Large humanoid. It retains the extraordinary attacks of its original form regardless of its new form. Changing shape to or from its original form requires a move action.
   Command Fiendish Hound (Sp): All canomorphs can use greater command at will against fiendish hounds of their associated kind (hell hounds for haraknins, shadow mastiffs for shadurakuls, and vorrs for vultivors). These creatures will never voluntarily attack a canomorph of the associated kind.
   Outsider Traits: Canomorphs have darkvision (60-foot range), and they cannot be raised or resurrected (though a wish or miracle spell can restore life).
   Scent (Ex): A canomorph can detect approaching enemies, sniff out hidden foes, and track by sense of smell.
   Uncanny Dodge (Ex): This vultivor retains its Dexterity bonus to Armor Class even when flat-footed or struck by an invisible attacker.
   Skills: *Vultivors have a +8 racial bonus on Survival checks when tracking by scent.
   Shadow Jump (Su): A Telflammar shadowlord can travel between shadows as if by means of a dimension door spell. The limitation is that the magical transport must begin and end in an area with at least some shadow or darkness. The shadowlord can jump up to a total of 20 feet per class level per day in this way. This amount can be split  up  among  many  jumps,  but each  jump,  no  matter  how  small, counts as a 10-foot increment.  If the Telflammar shadowlord already has shadow jump from another class (because he did not meet the spellcasting prerequisite, for example), this ability confers no additional benefit.
   Shadowsight (Ex):  Gifted with a mystical connection to shadow and darkness, the shadowlord gains a superior form of darkvision with a 60-foot range. He can see through any form of normal or magical darkness without hindrance.
   Shadow Blur (Su):  At 2nd level, a Telflammar shadowlord gains an unusual defense—anytime he is not in daylight or the illuminated radius of a light source, the shadows cloak his every movement, conferring the benefits of a blur spell. The shadowlord can choose to activate or end this effect as a free action.
   Shadow Walk (Sp):  Once per day starting at 3rd level, a Telflammar shadowlord may use shadow walk as a caster whose level is equal to his shadowlord class level. If he previously possessed the ability to use shadow walk as a spell-like ability, he gains a second daily use of that power.
   Shadow Pounce (Ex): At 4th level, a Telflammar shadowlord learns how to attack swiftly from the shadows. Any time he uses an ability, spell, or effect with the teleportation descriptor (for example, his shadow jump ability), he may execute a full attack upon completion of the teleportation. The shadowlord must have line of sight on his intended target from his original location, and the spot to which he teleports must be a place from which he can launch a melee attack at the intended target with whatever weapon he has in hand at the beginning of his action.
   Shadow Discorporation (Su): At 5th level, a Telflammar shadowlord learns how to use his mastery of shadows to cheat death. If the shadowlord is in shadow or darkness (anything but direct daylight or the illuminated radius of a light source), any damage that would reduce him to 0 hit points or below instead has a chance to discorporate him. The shadowlord attempts a Reflex save (DC 5 + damage dealt); if successful, he simply breaks apart into dozens of flitting shadows and vanishes, along with anything he is holding or carrying. At the next sunset, the shadowlord reappears at a spot of his choosing within one mile of the place where he was forced to discorporate. While discorporated, the shadowlord simply does not exist—he can do nothing, nor can any of his enemies do anything to him.
   Death Attack (Ex):  At 6th level, a Telflammar shadowlord gains the ability to make a death attack as the assassin ability.  If the shadowlord has levels in the assassin prestige class, he may add his assassin and Telflammar shadowlord class levels together to calculate the save DC of his death attack.
   Death Attack (Ex):  If an assassin studies his victim for 3 rounds and then makes a sneak attack with a melee weapon that successfully deals damage, the sneak attack has the additional effect of possibly either paralyzing or killing the target (assassin’s choice). While studying the victim, the assassin can undertake other actions so long as his attention stays focused on the target and the target does not detect the assassin or recognize the assassin as an enemy. If the victim of such an attack fails a Fortitude save (DC 10 + the assassin’s class level + the assassin’s Int modifier; Fort DC 17) against the kill effect, she dies. If the saving throw fails against the paralysis effect, the victim is rendered helpless and unable to act for 1d6 rounds plus 1 round per level of the assassin. If the victim’s saving throw succeeds, the attack is just a normal sneak attack. Once the assassin has completed the 3 rounds of study, he must make the death attack within the next 3 rounds.
   If a death attack is attempted and fails (the victim makes her save) or if the assassin does not launch the attack within 3 rounds of completing the study, 3 new rounds of study are required before he can attempt another death attack.
   Trackless Step (Ex):  Beginning at 3rd level, a scout cannot be tracked in natural surroundings.
A scout leaves no trail in natural surroundings and cannot be tracked. She may choose to leave a trail if so desired.
   Bonus Feats: Dodge, Mobility, Spring Attack, Improved Skirmish, Improved Initiative.
   Flawless Stride (Ex):  Starting at 6th level, a scout can move through any sort of terrain that slows movement (such as undergrowth, rubble, and similar terrain) at her normal speed and without taking damage or suffering any other impairment.
   This ability does not let her move more quickly through terrain that requires a Climb or Swim check to navigate, nor can she move quickly through terrain or undergrowth that has been magically manipulated to impede motion.
   A scout loses this benefit when wearing medium or heavy armor or when carrying a medium or heavy load.
   Camouflage (Ex):  Beginning at 8th level, a scout can use the Hide skill in any sort of natural terrain, even if the terrain doesn't grant cover or concealment.  She loses this benefit when wearing medium or heavy armor or when carrying a medium or heavy load.
   Hide in Plain Sight (Ex):  Beginning at 14th level, a scout can use the Hide skill in natural terrain even while being observed.  A scout loses this benefit when wearing medium or heavy armor or when carrying a medium or heavy load.
   Blindsense (Ex):  At 10th level, a scout gains the blindsense ability out to 30 feet.

   Spells: Casts spells similarly to a Wizard, with a spellbook.
Spells per day: (-/3/2/1); CL 6th; DC's 11+spell level
1 - Darkness, Invisibility, Invisibility
2 - Air Walk, Displacement
3 - Dimension Door

Spellbook:
1 - Blindness/Deafness, Chill Touch, Darkness, Darkvision, Invisibility, Knock, Levitate, Shadow Mask, Shadow Spray
2 - Air Walk, Haste, Improved Invisibility, Vampiric Touch
3 - Dimension Door, Mislead

TELFLAMMAR SHADOWLORD SPELL LIST
Telflammar shadowlords choose their spells from the following list.
1st level—blindness/deafness, chill touch, darkness, darkvision, invisibility, knock, levitate, shadow mask (FRCS), shadow spray (FRCS).
2nd level—air walk, blacklight (FRCS), displacement, haste, improved invisibility, nondetection, vampiric touch. [True Darkness]
3rd level—confusion, darkbolt (FRCS), detect scrying, dimension door, mass invisibility, mislead.

Treasure: I legitimately rolled 100% for the items category, which means 1 major magic item... (97 - wondrous item; 31 - major cloak of displacement --- think about making it a Cloak of Etherealness instead...)
5,000 gp
13 gems (140 gp amber, 500 gp aquamarine, 50 gp bloodstone,

Hellbreaker Gestalt Vultivor

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1.   LA 1//LA 2
2.   LA 3//LA 4
3.   Outsider 1//Scout 1 - Blind-Fight
4.   Outsider 2//Scout 2
5.   Outsider 3//Scout 3 - Dodge
6.   Fighter 1//Scout 4 - Mobility, Spring Attack
7.   Swashbuckler 1//Scout 5 - Weapon Finesse
8.   Duskblade 1//Scout 6 - Combat Reflexes
9.   Ranger 1//Scout 7 - Track
10.   Telf SL 1//Scout 8 - Improved Skirmish
11.   Telf SL 2//Scout 9 - Improved Feint
12.   Telf SL 3//Scout 10
13.   Telf SL 4//Scout 11
14.   Telf SL 5//Scout 12 - Undo Resistance, Combat Expertise
15.   Telf SL 6//Scout 13
16.   Fighter 2//Scout 14 - Robilar's Gambit
17.   Hellbreaker 1//Scout 15

11d8 + 4d10 HD

Skill points: 9*17 = 153 skill points
1.   Hide 4, Listen 4, Move Silently 4, Search 4, Spot 4, Survival 4, Balance 4, Jump 4, Tumble 4
2.   Hide 5, Listen 5, Move Silently 5, Search 5, Spot 5, Survival 5, Balance 5, Jump 5, Tumble 5
3.   Hide 6, Listen 6, Move Silently 6, Search 6, Spot 6, Survival 6, Balance 6, Jump 6, Tumble 6
4.   Hide 7, Listen 7, Move Silently 7, Search 7, Spot 7, Survival 7, Balance 7, Jump 7, Tumble 7
5.   Hide 8, Listen 8, Move Silently 8, Search 8, Spot 8, Survival 8, Balance 8, Jump 8, Tumble 8
6.   Hide 9, Kn (Planes) 4, Move Silently 9, Sense Motive 2, Tumble 9
7.   Hide 10, Move Silently 10, Sense Motive 8, Tumble 10
8.   Bluff 3, Hide 11, Move Silently 11, UMD 4
9.   Bluff 6, Hide 12, Move Silently 12, UMD 8
10.   Bluff 8, Hide 13, Move Silently 13, UMD 13
11.   Hide 14, Listen 9, Move Silently 14, Spot 9, Tumble 14, UMD 14
12.   Hide 15, Listen 11, Move Silently 15, Spot 11, Tumble 15, UMD 15, Speak Language (Infernal) 1
13.   Hide 16, Listen 13, Move Silently 16, Spot 13, Tumble 16, UMD 16, Survival 9
14.   Hide 17, Listen 15, Move Silently 17, Spot 15, Tumble 17, Survival 11

15.   Hide 18, Listen 17, Move Silently 18, Spot 17, Tumble 18, Survival 13


Balance [8], Bluff [8], Hide [18], Jump [8], Kn (Planes) [4], Listen [17], Move Silently [18], Search [8], Sense Motive [8], Speak Language [1], Spot [17], Survival [13], Tumble [18], Use Magic Device [16]


   Vultivor Outsider 3/Fighter 4/Ranger 1/Telflammar Shadowlord 6//Scout 14
   Humanoid Form
   Medium-Size Outsider (Chaotic, Evil, Extraplanar, Shapechanger)
Hit Dice:       12d8 plus 3d10+60 (130 hp)
Initiative:       +9
Speed:       50 ft.
AC:          21 (+7 Dex, +3 natural, +1 padded), touch 17, flat-footed 21
BAB/Grap:      +12/+17
Attack:      +2 keen cold iron rapier +21 melee (1d6+7 [15–20/x2])
Full Attack:      +2 keen cold iron rapier +21/+16/+11 melee (1d6+7 [15–20/x2])
Face/Reach:      5 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks:    Sneak attack +2d6, Trip, Skirmish +4d6/+4 AC [+6d6/+6 AC],
            Favored Enemy (Humans) +2, Shadow Pounce, Death Attack,
            Spells, Arcane Attunement
Special Qualities:    Alternate form, command vorrs, outsider traits, scent, shadow form,
            shadow jump, uncanny dodge, trapfinding, battle fortitude +2,
            fast movement +20 feet, trackless step, evasion, flawless stride,
            camouflage, blindsense 30 ft., hide in plain sight, 60 ft. darkvision,
            armored mage, mantle of darkness, telepathic static
Saves:       Fort +20, Ref +19*, Will +9    *evasion
Abilities:       Str 21, Dex 24, Con 18, Int 13, Wis 10, Cha 12
Skills:          Balance +17 [8], Bluff +9 [8], Hide +25 (+40 shadow form) [18],
            Jump +23 [8], Kn (Planes) +5 [4], Listen +17 [17],
            Move Silently +25 [18], Search +9 [8], Sense Motive +8 [8],
            Speak Language n/a [1], Spot +17 [17], Survival +13 [13],
            Tumble +27 [18], Use Magic Device +17 [16];
            Track +15 (+21 tracking by scent)
Feats:       Blind-Fight, Weapon Finesse, Dodge, Mobility, Spring Attack,
            Combat Reflexes (8), Track, Improved Skirmish, Improved Feint,
            Undo Resistance, Combat Expertise, Robilar's Gambit
Climate/Terrain:    Any land and underground (Abyss)
Organization:   Solitary, pair, or pack (3–12)
Challenge Rating:   [GCR 17]
Treasure:       Standard
Alignment:       Always chaotic evil
Advancement:    By character class
Level Adjustment:    +4

   Vorr Form
   Medium-Size Outsider (Chaotic, Evil, Extraplanar, Shapechanger)
Hit Dice:       12d8 plus 3d10+60 (130 hp)
Initiative:       +9
Speed:       60 ft.
AC:          20 (+7 Dex, +3 natural) touch 17, flat-footed 20
BAB/Grapple:   +12/+17
Attack:      Bite +19 melee (2d4+5)
Full Attack:      Bite +19 melee (2d4+5) and 2 claws +12 melee (1d3+2)
Face/Reach:    5 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks:    Sneak attack +2d6, Trip, Skirmish +4d6/+4 AC [+6d6/+6 AC],
            Favored Enemy (Humans) +2, Shadow Pounce, Death Attack,
            Spells, Arcane Attunement
Special Qualities:    Alternate form, command vorrs, outsider traits, scent, shadow form,
            shadow jump, uncanny dodge, trapfinding, battle fortitude +2,
            fast movement +20 feet, trackless step, evasion, flawless stride,
            camouflage, blindsense 30 ft., hide in plain sight, 60 ft. darkvision,
            armored mage, mantle of darkness, telepathic static   
Saves:       Fort +20, Ref +19*, Will +9    *evasion
Abilities:       Str 21, Dex 24, Con 18, Int 13, Wis 10, Cha 12
Skills:          Balance +17 [8], Bluff +9 [8], Hide +25 (+40 shadow form) [18],
            Jump +27 [8], Kn (Planes) +5 [4], Listen +17 [17],
            Move Silently +25 [18], Search +9 [8], Sense Motive +8 [8],
            Speak Language n/a [1], Spot +17 [17], Survival +13 [13],
            Tumble +27 [18], Use Magic Device +17 [16];
            Track +15 (+21 tracking by scent)
Feats:       Blind-Fight, Weapon Finesse, Dodge, Mobility, Spring Attack,
            Combat Reflexes (8), Track, Improved Skirmish, Improved Feint,
            Undo Resistance, Combat Expertise, Robilar's Gambit 
Climate/Terrain:    Any land and underground (Abyss)
Organization:   Solitary, pair, or pack (3–12)
Challenge Rating:    [GCR 17]
Treasure:       Standard
Alignment:       Always chaotic evil
Advancement:    By character class
Level Adjustment:    +4

Like other canomorphs, a vultivor can appear as any humanoid. Grayish skin, black and hungry eyes, and a long, lupine face often mark its humanoid guises. It tends to be cruel and subtle, taking great pleasure in the misfortunes of others.
   A vultivor speaks Common and Abyssal.

Combat
The vultivor described here is based on an exceptional 14th-level vorr gestalt scout. Vultivors are stealthy and patient murderers, stalking their victims until they see an opportunity to make a sneak attack. A vultivor often shifts to its vorr form
to speed its escape from the scene of a crime.
   Sneak Attack (Ex): Anytime a vultivor’s target is denied a Dexterity bonus, or when a target is flanked by a vultivor, the vultivor deals an additional 2d6 points of damage on a successful melee attack.
   Trip (Ex): A vultivor that hits with a bite attack can attempt to trip its opponent as a free action without making a touch attack or provoking an attack of opportunity. If the attempt fails, the opponent cannot react to trip the vultivor. The vultivor can only attempt to trip in this manner while in its vorr form.
   Shadow Form (Su): Once per day, a vultivor can assume the form of a living shadow for up to 10 minutes. While in shadow form, the vultivor can move at normal speed on any surface, including walls and ceilings, and even across liquids. The vultivor gains a +15 circumstance bonus on Hide checks. Effects that detect thoughts, life, or presences (including true seeing) can detect it.
   While in shadow form, a vultivor gains damage reduction 50/+5 and is immune to blindness, critical hits, damage to ability scores from nonmagical attacks, deafness, disease, drowning, poison, and stunning. It takes half damage from fire and acid.
   Shadow Jump (Su): As a standard action, a vultivor can travel between shadows as if by a dimension doorspell. The starting and ending points of the jump must be in shadow, and these points must be at least 10 feet apart. A vultivor can make several shadow jumps in one day, as long as the total distance traveled in this fashion per day does not exceed 280 feet. (Includes 160 feet from vultivor + 120 feet from Telflammar Shadowlord.)
   Change Shape (Su): A canomorph can assume the form of any Small, Medium or Large humanoid. It retains the extraordinary attacks of its original form regardless of its new form. Changing shape to or from its original form requires a move action.
   Command Fiendish Hound (Sp): All canomorphs can use greater command at will against fiendish hounds of their associated kind (hell hounds for haraknins, shadow mastiffs for shadurakuls, and vorrs for vultivors). These creatures will never voluntarily attack a canomorph of the associated kind.
   Outsider Traits: Canomorphs have darkvision (60-foot range), and they cannot be raised or resurrected (though a wish or miracle spell can restore life).
   Scent (Ex): A canomorph can detect approaching enemies, sniff out hidden foes, and track by sense of smell.
   Uncanny Dodge (Ex): This vultivor retains its Dexterity bonus to Armor Class even when flat-footed or struck by an invisible attacker.
   Skills: *Vultivors have a +8 racial bonus on Survival checks when tracking by scent.
   Shadow Jump (Su): A Telflammar shadowlord can travel between shadows as if by means of a dimension door spell. The limitation is that the magical transport must begin and end in an area with at least some shadow or darkness. The shadowlord can jump up to a total of 20 feet per class level per day in this way. This amount can be split  up  among  many  jumps,  but each  jump,  no  matter  how  small, counts as a 10-foot increment.  If the Telflammar shadowlord already has shadow jump from another class (because he did not meet the spellcasting prerequisite, for example), this ability confers no additional benefit.
   Shadowsight (Ex):  Gifted with a mystical connection to shadow and darkness, the shadowlord gains a superior form of darkvision with a 60-foot range. He can see through any form of normal or magical darkness without hindrance.
   Shadow Blur (Su):  At 2nd level, a Telflammar shadowlord gains an unusual defense—anytime he is not in daylight or the illuminated radius of a light source, the shadows cloak his every movement, conferring the benefits of a blur spell. The shadowlord can choose to activate or end this effect as a free action.
   Shadow Walk (Sp):  Once per day starting at 3rd level, a Telflammar shadowlord may use shadow walk as a caster whose level is equal to his shadowlord class level. If he previously possessed the ability to use shadow walk as a spell-like ability, he gains a second daily use of that power.
   Shadow Pounce (Ex): At 4th level, a Telflammar shadowlord learns how to attack swiftly from the shadows. Any time he uses an ability, spell, or effect with the teleportation descriptor (for example, his shadow jump ability), he may execute a full attack upon completion of the teleportation. The shadowlord must have line of sight on his intended target from his original location, and the spot to which he teleports must be a place from which he can launch a melee attack at the intended target with whatever weapon he has in hand at the beginning of his action.
   Shadow Discorporation (Su): At 5th level, a Telflammar shadowlord learns how to use his mastery of shadows to cheat death. If the shadowlord is in shadow or darkness (anything but direct daylight or the illuminated radius of a light source), any damage that would reduce him to 0 hit points or below instead has a chance to discorporate him. The shadowlord attempts a Reflex save (DC 5 + damage dealt); if successful, he simply breaks apart into dozens of flitting shadows and vanishes, along with anything he is holding or carrying. At the next sunset, the shadowlord reappears at a spot of his choosing within one mile of the place where he was forced to discorporate. While discorporated, the shadowlord simply does not exist—he can do nothing, nor can any of his enemies do anything to him.
   Death Attack (Ex):  At 6th level, a Telflammar shadowlord gains the ability to make a death attack as the assassin ability.  If the shadowlord has levels in the assassin prestige class, he may add his assassin and Telflammar shadowlord class levels together to calculate the save DC of his death attack.
   Death Attack (Ex):  If an assassin studies his victim for 3 rounds and then makes a sneak attack with a melee weapon that successfully deals damage, the sneak attack has the additional effect of possibly either paralyzing or killing the target (assassin’s choice). While studying the victim, the assassin can undertake other actions so long as his attention stays focused on the target and the target does not detect the assassin or recognize the assassin as an enemy. If the victim of such an attack fails a Fortitude save (DC 10 + the assassin’s class level + the assassin’s Int modifier; Fort DC 17) against the kill effect, she dies. If the saving throw fails against the paralysis effect, the victim is rendered helpless and unable to act for 1d6 rounds plus 1 round per level of the assassin. If the victim’s saving throw succeeds, the attack is just a normal sneak attack. Once the assassin has completed the 3 rounds of study, he must make the death attack within the next 3 rounds.
   If a death attack is attempted and fails (the victim makes her save) or if the assassin does not launch the attack within 3 rounds of completing the study, 3 new rounds of study are required before he can attempt another death attack.
   Trackless Step (Ex):  Beginning at 3rd level, a scout cannot be tracked in natural surroundings.
A scout leaves no trail in natural surroundings and cannot be tracked. She may choose to leave a trail if so desired.
   Bonus Feats: Weapon Finesse, Mobility, Spring Attack, Improved Skirmish, Combat Expertise.
   Flawless Stride (Ex):  Starting at 6th level, a scout can move through any sort of terrain that slows movement (such as undergrowth, rubble, and similar terrain) at her normal speed and without taking damage or suffering any other impairment.
   This ability does not let her move more quickly through terrain that requires a Climb or Swim check to navigate, nor can she move quickly through terrain or undergrowth that has been magically manipulated to impede motion.
   A scout loses this benefit when wearing medium or heavy armor or when carrying a medium or heavy load.
   Camouflage (Ex):  Beginning at 8th level, a scout can use the Hide skill in any sort of natural terrain, even if the terrain doesn't grant cover or concealment.  She loses this benefit when wearing medium or heavy armor or when carrying a medium or heavy load.
   Hide in Plain Sight (Ex):  Beginning at 14th level, a scout can use the Hide skill in natural terrain even while being observed.  A scout loses this benefit when wearing medium or heavy armor or when carrying a medium or heavy load.
   Blindsense (Ex):  At 10th level, a scout gains the blindsense ability out to 30 feet.
   Arcane Attunement (Sp): You can use the spell-like powers dancing lights, detect magic, flare, ghost sound, and read magic a combined total of times per day equal to 3 + your Int modifier. These spell-like powers do not count against your total of spells known or spells per day. 
   Armored Mage (Ex): Normally, armor of any type interferes with an arcane spellcaster’s gestures, which can cause spells to fail if those spells have a somatic component. A duskblade’s limited focus and specialized training, however, allows you to avoid arcane spell failure so long as you stick to light armor and light shields. This training does not extend to medium or heavy armors, nor to heavy shields. This ability does not apply to spells gained from a different spellcasting class.
   Mantle of Darkness (Ex): You can make Hide checks in any kind of darkness, even when observed by creatures that can see in darkness.
   Telepathic Static (Su): Beginning at 1st level, you emit a field of psychic chatter out to a range of 20 feet, negating the telepathy ability of all creatures within range. In addition, divination spells and spell-like abilities cast or used in the area are impeded. To use divination magic, a caster must succeed on a Spellcraft check (DC 20 + the level of the spell). If the check fails, the spell or spell-like ability does not function but is still lost as a prepared spell, spell slot, or daily use. If the check succeeds, the spell functions normally. You can suppress this ability for 1 round as a free action.


   Spells: Casts spells as a 1st level Duskblade (CL 1; DC 11 + spell level)
Spells per Day: (3/3)
   0 - 3 Acid Splash, Disrupt Undead, Ray of Frost
   1 - 2 True Strike, Obscuring Mist

   Spells: Casts spells similarly to a Wizard, with a spellbook.
Spells per day: (-/3/2/1); CL 6th; DC's 11+spell level
1 - Darkness, Darkness, Invisibility
2 - Air Walk, Vampiric Touch
3 - Dimension Door

Spellbook:
1 - Blindness/Deafness, Chill Touch, Darkness, Darkvision, Invisibility, Knock, Levitate, Shadow Mask, Shadow Spray
2 - Air Walk, Haste, Improved Invisibility, Vampiric Touch
3 - Dimension Door, Mislead

TELFLAMMAR SHADOWLORD SPELL LIST
Telflammar shadowlords choose their spells from the following list.
1st level—blindness/deafness, chill touch, darkness, darkvision, invisibility, knock, levitate, shadow mask (FRCS), shadow spray (FRCS).
2nd level—air walk, blacklight (FRCS), displacement, haste, improved invisibility, nondetection, vampiric touch. [True Darkness]
3rd level—confusion, darkbolt (FRCS), detect scrying, dimension door, mass invisibility, mislead.

Treasure: I legitimately rolled 100% for the items category, which means 1 major magic item... (97 - wondrous item; 31 - major cloak of displacement --- think about making it a Cloak of Etherealness instead...)
5,000 gp
13 gems (140 gp amber, 500 gp aquamarine, 50 gp bloodstone,

As an NPC, he should have 100,000 gp
So, a 55,000 gp cloak of etherealness
A 20,000 gp +2 keen cold iron rapier
plus 25,000 gp in protective gear.
   Wand of Mage Armor
   Wand of Shield
   Wand of Wraithstrike
   Ring of Protection +1
   Amulet of Natural Armor +1
   

I haven't included any effects of his magic items into his stats, aside from his magic rapier.
He will be a great opponent for my PC's, as he can hunt them down, approach on the ethereal plane, pop back over, placing the Mindbender inside his Telepathic Static field, which will blind the Mindbender's Mindsight.

It will be fun...

[ksbsnowowl]

The Wild Hunter that I linked in the first post actually has quite a few problems (his attack rolls are all too high by 3, his ride check is +3 too high, his AC is too high by 2, his listed mighty composite longbow has a stronger pull than his strength would allow).  So, I fixed those problems, as well as made him 36 point buy, and then advanced him with levels of sorcerer and then Abjurant Champion.  I used the nonassociated class rules to add 5 levels of Sorcerer for +2 CR, but then treated his Abjurant Champion levels as associated.

Wild Hunter (36 point buy)

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36 point buy:
Str 16 (10)   22
Dex 14 (6)      22
Con 14 (6)      18
Int 10 (2)      10
Wis 10 (2)      10
Cha 16 (10)   26


Wild Hunter       CR 9

NE Medium fey

Init +10; Senses darkvision 90 ft., low-light vision; Listen +23, Spot +23

Languages Sylvan
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AC 22, touch 16, flat-footed 16 (+6 Dex, +6 armor)

hp 150 (20 HD); DR 5/cold iron

SR 20

Fort +10, Ref +18, Will +12
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Speed 40 ft., mounted speed 40 ft.; Ride-By Attack; rough charge, superior woodland stride

Melee ranseur +16/+11 (2d4+9/x3) or

Melee greataxe +16/+11 (1d12+9/x3) or

Ranged composite longbow +16/+11 (1d8+3/x3 plus 2d6 bow precision)

Space 5 ft.; Reach 5 ft. (10 ft. with ranseur)

Base Atk +10; Grp +16

Atk Options Blind-Fight, Mounted Combat, Spirited Charge, Trample

Special Actions horn of the hunt, rough charge, selected prey



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Abilities Str 22, Dex 22, Con 18, Int 11, Wis 11, Cha 26

SA horn of the hunt, rough charge, selected prey

SQ master rider

Feats Blind-Fight, Improved Initiative, Mounted Combat, Ride-By Attack, Spirited Charge, Track, Trample

Skills Handle Animal +31, Knowledge (nature) +25, Listen +23, Ride +31, Spot +23, Survival +23 (+25 in aboveground natural environments)

Advancement by character class; Favored Class fighter

Possessions +1 nimble twilight feycraft mithral breastplate, composite longbow (+3 Str bonus), ranseur, greataxe, masterwork hunting horn
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Bow Precision (Ex) A wild hunter is a deadly shot with its bow, dealing an additional 2d6 points of damage on every shot. Creatures immune to critical hits do not take this additional damage.
Horn of the Hunt (Su) As a standard action, a wild hunter can blow a terrifying blast upon its horn. Every creature within 60 feet, except wild hunters and their mounts, must succeed on a DC 28 Will save or be shaken for 1 minute. Creatures within 10 feet who fail their saves become frightened instead. Horn of the hunt is a sonic, mind-affecting fear effect. Whether or not the save is successful, a creature cannot be affected again by the same wild hunter’s horn for 24 hours. The save DC is Charisma-based.
Master Rider (Su) A wild hunter’s mount gains a deflection bonus to Armor Class equal to the hunter’s Charisma bonus (if any).
Rough Charge (Su) The wild hunter and its mount can charge across rough terrain and need not move in a straight line to do so.
Selected Prey (Su) Three times per day, as a swift action, the wild hunter can mark a single target within 60 feet as its prey by pointing at it. The hunter gains a +5 morale bonus on attack rolls and damage rolls against its marked target for the next 24 hours. In addition, all critical threats made against that target are automatically successful, so every threat is a critical hit. The hunter may have only one creature selected at a time.
Superior Woodland Stride (Su) A wild hunter and its mount can move through natural thorns, briars, overgrown areas, and similar terrain at their normal speed without taking damage or suffering other impairments. This category includes thorns, briars, and overgrown areas that are magically manipulated to impede movement.

Wild Hunter Sorcerer 5

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Sorcerer 5
+2 BAB
+1 Fort, +1 Ref, +4 Will
+10 skill points
Spells (6/8/6/3)
+2 feats
+1 ability point
+2 CR

Wild Hunter Sorcerer 5      CR 11

NE Medium fey

Init +10; Senses darkvision 90 ft., low-light vision; Listen +23, Spot +23

Languages Sylvan


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AC 22, touch 16, flat-footed 16 (+6 Dex, +6 armor)
Shield AC 26, touch 16, flat-footed 20

hp 182 (20d6 + 5d4 +100 HD); DR 5/cold iron

SR 20

Fort +11, Ref +19, Will +16


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Speed 40 ft., mounted speed 40 ft.; Ride-By Attack; rough charge, superior woodland stride

Melee ranseur +18/+13/+8 (2d4+9/x3) or

Melee greataxe +18/+13/+8 (1d12+9/x3) or

Ranged composite longbow +18/+13/+8 (1d8+3/x3 plus 2d6 bow precision)

Space 5 ft.; Reach 5 ft. (10 ft. with ranseur)

Base Atk +12; Grp +18

Atk Options Blind-Fight, Mounted Combat, Spirited Charge, Trample; Spells

Special Actions horn of the hunt, rough charge, selected prey
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Abilities Str 22, Dex 22, Con 18, Int 11, Wis 11, Cha 27

SA horn of the hunt, rough charge, selected prey

SQ master rider

Feats Blind-Fight, Improved Initiative, Mounted Combat, Ride-By Attack, Spirited Charge, Track, Trample; Combat Casting, 24

Skills Concentration +14 (+18 defensively), Handle Animal +31, Knowledge (nature) +25, Listen +23, Ride +31, Spot +23, Survival +23 (+25 in aboveground natural environments)

Advancement by character class; Favored Class fighter

Possessions +1 nimble twilight feycraft mithral breastplate, composite longbow (+3 Str bonus), ranseur, greataxe, masterwork hunting horn


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Bow Precision (Ex) A wild hunter is a deadly shot with its bow, dealing an additional 2d6 points of damage on every shot. Creatures immune to critical hits do not take this additional damage.
Horn of the Hunt (Su) As a standard action, a wild hunter can blow a terrifying blast upon its horn. Every creature within 60 feet, except wild hunters and their mounts, must succeed on a DC 28 Will save or be shaken for 1 minute. Creatures within 10 feet who fail their saves become frightened instead. Horn of the hunt is a sonic, mind-affecting fear effect. Whether or not the save is successful, a creature cannot be affected again by the same wild hunter’s horn for 24 hours. The save DC is Charisma-based.
Master Rider (Su) A wild hunter’s mount gains a deflection bonus to Armor Class equal to the hunter’s Charisma bonus (if any).
Rough Charge (Su) The wild hunter and its mount can charge across rough terrain and need not move in a straight line to do so.
Selected Prey (Su) Three times per day, as a swift action, the wild hunter can mark a single target within 60 feet as its prey by pointing at it. The hunter gains a +5 morale bonus on attack rolls and damage rolls against its marked target for the next 24 hours. In addition, all critical threats made against that target are automatically successful, so every threat is a critical hit. The hunter may have only one creature selected at a time.
Superior Woodland Stride (Su) A wild hunter and its mount can move through natural thorns, briars, overgrown areas, and similar terrain at their normal speed without taking damage or suffering other impairments. This category includes thorns, briars, and overgrown areas that are magically manipulated to impede movement.
Spells: This advanced Wild Hunter casts spells as a 5th level sorcerer.  Caster Level 5th, Save DC's 18+spell level.
Spells per Day: (6/8/6/3)   Arcane Spell Failure 0%
Spells Known:
0 - (6) ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?
1 - (4) Shield, ?, ?, ?
2 - (2) ?, ?
3 - (1) ?

Wild Hunter Sorcerer 5/Abjurant Champion 5

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Abjurant Champion 5
+5 BAB
+1 Fort, +1 Ref, +4 Will
+10 skill points
Spells: (6/8/8/8/7/4/2)
+2 feats
+1 ability point
+5 CR




Wild Hunter Sorcerer 5/Abjurant Champion 5      CR 16

NE Medium fey

Init +10; Senses darkvision 90 ft., low-light vision; Listen +23, Spot +23

Languages Sylvan
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AC 22, touch 16, flat-footed 16 (+6 Dex, +6 armor)
Shield AC 31, touch 16, flat-footed 25

hp 230 (20d6 + 5d4 + 5d10 +120 HD); DR 5/cold iron

SR 20

Fort +12, Ref +20, Will +20


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Speed 40 ft., mounted speed 40 ft.; Ride-By Attack; rough charge, superior woodland stride

Melee ranseur +23/+18/+13/+8 (2d4+9/x3) or

Melee greataxe +23/+18/+13/+8 (1d12+9/x3) or
GMW Melee +5 ranseur +28/+23/+18/+13 (2d4+14/x3)

Ranged composite longbow +23/+18/+13/+8 (1d8+6/x3 plus 2d6 bow precision)

Space 5 ft.; Reach 5 ft. (10 ft. with ranseur)

Base Atk +17; Grp +23

Atk Options Blind-Fight, Mounted Combat, Spirited Charge, Trample; Spells

Special Actions horn of the hunt, rough charge, selected prey
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Abilities Str 22, Dex 22, Con 18, Int 11, Wis 11, Cha 28

SA horn of the hunt, rough charge, selected prey

SQ master rider

Feats Blind-Fight, Improved Initiative, Mounted Combat, Ride-By Attack, Spirited Charge, Track, Trample; Combat Casting, Practiced Spellcaster, Versatile Spellcaster, 30

Skills Concentration +16 (+20 defensively), Handle Animal +31, Knowledge (nature) +25, Listen +23, Ride +31, Spellcraft +8, Spot +23, Survival +23 (+25 in aboveground natural environments)

Advancement by character class; Favored Class fighter

Possessions +1 nimble twilight feycraft mithral breastplate, composite longbow (+6 Str bonus), ranseur, greataxe, masterwork hunting horn
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Abjurant Armor (Su) Any time this Wild Hunter casts an abjuration spell that grants an armor or shield bonus to AC, he increases the value of the bonus by 5 (his abjurant champion level).
Extended Abjurations (Su) This Wild Hunter depends on his abjuration spells to protect him in combat.  Double the duration of abjuration spells he casts, as if he had applied the Extend Spell feat to them (but without any change in level or casting time).
Swift Abjuration (Su) This Wild Hunter can cast abjuration spells as a swift action, as if he had applied the Quicken Spell feat to them (but without any change in level).  The maximum level of spell he can quicken in this way is 3rd (half his class level, rounded up).
Arcane Boost (Su) This Wild Hunter has the ability to burn arcane energy to empower his martial abilities.  As a swift action, he can spend one of his uncast spell slots to grant himself one of the following insight bonuses for 1 round.
   - Bonus on attack rolls equal to the spell's level.
   - Bonus on weapon damage rolls equal to twice the spell's level.
   - Bonus to AC equal to the spell's level.
   - Bonus on saving throws equal to the spell's level.
   - Resistance to acid, cold, electricity, fire, and sonic equal to 5x the spell's level.
Martial Arcanist (Ex) This Wild Hunter has mastered the art of combining his militant and mystical training.  His sorcerer caster level is equal to his base attack bonus, which is +17.  Practiced Spellcaster boosts this by four, to 21.
Bow Precision (Ex) A wild hunter is a deadly shot with its bow, dealing an additional 2d6 points of damage on every shot. Creatures immune to critical hits do not take this additional damage.
Horn of the Hunt (Su) As a standard action, a wild hunter can blow a terrifying blast upon its horn. Every creature within 60 feet, except wild hunters and their mounts, must succeed on a DC 29 Will save or be shaken for 1 minute. Creatures within 10 feet who fail their saves become frightened instead. Horn of the hunt is a sonic, mind-affecting fear effect. Whether or not the save is successful, a creature cannot be affected again by the same wild hunter’s horn for 24 hours. The save DC is Charisma-based.
Master Rider (Su) A wild hunter’s mount gains a deflection bonus to Armor Class equal to the hunter’s Charisma bonus (if any).
Rough Charge (Su) The wild hunter and its mount can charge across rough terrain and need not move in a straight line to do so.
Selected Prey (Su) Three times per day, as a swift action, the wild hunter can mark a single target within 60 feet as its prey by pointing at it. The hunter gains a +5 morale bonus on attack rolls and damage rolls against its marked target for the next 24 hours. In addition, all critical threats made against that target are automatically successful, so every threat is a critical hit. The hunter may have only one creature selected at a time.
Superior Woodland Stride (Su) A wild hunter and its mount can move through natural thorns, briars, overgrown areas, and similar terrain at their normal speed without taking damage or suffering other impairments. This category includes thorns, briars, and overgrown areas that are magically manipulated to impede movement.
Spells: This advanced Wild Hunter casts spells as a 10th level sorcerer.  Caster Level 21st, Save DC's 19+spell level.
Spells per Day: (6/9/8/8/7/5/2)   Arcane Spell Failure 0%
Spells Known:
0 - (9)
1 - (5) Shield, Magic Missile, ?, ?, ?
2 - (4) Wraithstrike, Resist Energy, See Invisibility, ?
3 - (3) Greater Magic Weapon, Shivering Touch, Slow
4 - (2) Greater Mirror Image, ?
5 - (1) True Haste

Still debating what to give him as a mount.  Something that flies.  I'm thinking of giving him a Hound of the Hunt from the MM5 as a mount.  That would be a CR 19 encounter.  Make sure he has feather fall...
A Nightmare wouldn't be a bad choice, either, though it could only be advanced to 10 HD.
But, then he could attack via Astral Projection, which would give him a measure of protection versus these deadly foes... I like this idea.

In such a case, he would be more likely to put the GMW on his greataxe, so he and the Hound could both threaten the target and attack.

Here is an advanced Nightmare (10 HD) to which I also applied the Lolth-Touched template, merely as a means of upping its hit points.

Advanced Lolth-Touched Nightmare

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      Lolth-Touched Nightmare    
Size/Type:    Large Outsider (Evil, Extraplanar)    
Hit Dice:    10d8+60 (105 hp)    
Initiative:    +6    
Speed:       40 ft. (8 squares), fly 90 ft. (good)    
Armor Class:    25 (-1 size, +3 Dex, +13 natural), touch 12, flat-footed 22    
Master Rider AC:   34 (-1 size, +3 Dex, +13 natural, +9 deflection), touch 21, flat-footed 31
BAB/Grapple:    +10/+21    
Attack:       Hoof +16 melee (1d8+6 plus 1d4 fire)    
Full Attack:    2 hooves +16 melee (1d8+6 plus 1d4 fire) and bite +11 melee (1d8+3)    
Space/Reach:    10 ft./5 ft.    
Spec Attacks:    Flaming hooves, smoke    
Spec Qualities:    Astral projection, darkvision 60 ft., etherealness    
Saves:       Fort +10, Ref +10, Will +8    
Abilities:    Str 24, Dex 16, Con 22, Int 13, Wis 13, Cha 12    
Skills:       Concentration +19, Diplomacy +3, Hide +3, Intimidate +14, Knowledge (the planes) +14,
         Listen +16, Move Silently +20, Search +14, Sense Motive +14,
         Spot +16, Survival +14 (+16 on other planes and following tracks)
Feats:       Alertness, Improved Initiative, Run, Track   
Environment:    A evil-aligned plane    
Organization:    Solitary
Challen Rate:    8    
Treasure:    None
Alignment:    Always chaotic evil    
Advancement:    11-18 HD (Huge)    
Level Adjust:    +5 (cohort)    

A nightmare is about the size of a light war horse.

Combat
A nightmare can fight while carrying a rider, but the rider cannot also fight unless he or she succeeds on a Ride check.

A nightmare’s natural weapons, as well as any weapons it wields, are treated as evil-aligned for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Fearless (Ex)
Lolth-Touched creatures have immunity to all fear effects.

Flaming Hooves (Su)
A blow from a nightmare’s hooves sets combustible materials alight.

Smoke (Su)
During the excitement of battle, a nightmare snorts and neighs with rage. This snorting fills a 15-foot cone with a hot, sulfurous smoke that chokes and blinds opponents. Anyone in the cone must succeed on a DC 19 Fortitude save or take a -2 penalty on all attack and damage rolls until 1d6 minutes after leaving the cone. The cone lasts 1 round, and the nightmare uses it once as a free action during its turn each round. The save DC is Constitution-based.

Because of the smoke it gives off, a nightmare has concealment against creatures 5 feet away and total concealment against creatures 10 feet or farther away. The smoke does not obscure the nightmare’s vision at all.

Astral Projection and Etherealness (Su)
These abilities function just like the spells of the same names (caster level 20th); a nightmare can use either at will.

Carrying Capacity
A light load for a nightmare is up to 300 pounds; a medium load, 301-600 pounds; and a heavy load, 601-900 pounds.

Skills
A Lolth-Touched creature gains a +4 racial bonus on Hide and Move Silently checks.

Wild Hunter Sorcerer 18

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Still needs gear.

36 point buy:
Str 16 (10)   22
Dex 14 (6)      22
Con 14 (6)      18
Int 10 (2)      10
Wis 10 (2)      10
Cha 16 (10)   26

+18 Sorcerer levels
+18d4 HD
+9 BAB
+6 Fort, +6 Ref, +11 Will
+4 stat boosts
+6 feats
+36 skill points (27 into Concentration and 9 into Spellcraft)


Wild Hunter       CR 18
NE Medium fey
Init +10; Senses darkvision 90 ft., low-light vision; Listen +23, Spot +23

Languages Sylvan
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AC 22, touch 16, flat-footed 16 (+6 Dex, +6 armor)
Shield AC 26, touch 16, flat-footed 20 (+6 Dex, +6 armor, +4 shield)
hp 267 [305] (20d6 + 18d4 + 152 HD); DR 5/cold iron

SR 20

Fort +16, Ref +24, Will +23
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Speed 40 ft., mounted speed 40 ft.; Ride-By Attack; rough charge, superior woodland stride
Melee ranseur +25/+20/+15/+10 (2d4+9/x3) or

Melee greataxe +25/+20/+15/+10 (1d12+9/x3) or
   GMW or Selected Prey Greataxe +30/+25/+20/+15 (1d12+14/x3)
   GMW & Selected Prey Greataxe +35/+30/+25/+20 (1d12+19/x3)

Ranged composite longbow +25/+20/+15/+10 (1d8+3/x3 plus 2d6 bow precision)
   GMW or Selected Prey Longbow +30/+25/+20/+15 (1d8+8/x3)
   GMW & Selected Prey Longbow +35/+30/+25/+20 (1d8+13/x3)
Space 5 ft.; Reach 5 ft. (10 ft. with ranseur)
Base Atk +19; Grp +25
Atk Options Blind-Fight, Mounted Combat, Spirited Charge, Trample
Special Actions horn of the hunt, rough charge, selected prey
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Abilities Str 22, Dex 22, Con 18, Int 11, Wis 11, Cha 30
SA horn of the hunt, rough charge, selected prey
SQ master rider
Feats Blind-Fight, Improved Initiative, Mounted Combat, Ride-By Attack, Spirited Charge, Track, Trample; Versatile Spellcaster, Practiced Spellcaster, Combat Reflexes, Elder Giant Magic, Robilar's Gambit, 36
Skills Concentration +31, Handle Animal +33, Knowledge (nature) +25, Listen +23, Ride +31, Spot +23, Survival +23 (+25 in aboveground natural environments), Spellcraft +9
Advancement by character class; Favored Class fighter
Possessions +1 nimble twilight feycraft mithral breastplate, composite longbow (+3 Str bonus), ranseur, greataxe, masterwork hunting horn
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Bow Precision (Ex) A wild hunter is a deadly shot with its bow, dealing an additional 2d6 points of damage on every shot. Creatures immune to critical hits do not take this additional damage.
Horn of the Hunt (Su) As a standard action, a wild hunter can blow a terrifying blast upon its horn. Every creature within 60 feet, except wild hunters and their mounts, must succeed on a DC 30 Will save or be shaken for 1 minute. Creatures within 10 feet who fail their saves become frightened instead. Horn of the hunt is a sonic, mind-affecting fear effect. Whether or not the save is successful, a creature cannot be affected again by the same wild hunter’s horn for 24 hours. The save DC is Charisma-based.
Master Rider (Su) A wild hunter’s mount gains a deflection bonus to Armor Class equal to the hunter’s Charisma bonus (if any).
Rough Charge (Su) The wild hunter and its mount can charge across rough terrain and need not move in a straight line to do so.
Selected Prey (Su) Three times per day, as a swift action, the wild hunter can mark a single target within 60 feet as its prey by pointing at it. The hunter gains a +5 morale bonus on attack rolls and damage rolls against its marked target for the next 24 hours. In addition, all critical threats made against that target are automatically successful, so every threat is a critical hit. The hunter may have only one creature selected at a time.
Superior Woodland Stride (Su) A wild hunter and its mount can move through natural thorns, briars, overgrown areas, and similar terrain at their normal speed without taking damage or suffering other impairments. This category includes thorns, briars, and overgrown areas that are magically manipulated to impede movement.
Spells This wild hunter casts spells as an 18th level Sorcerer (Caster Level 22nd). Save DC's 20 + spell level
Spells per day: (6/9/9/8/8/8/8/7/6/4)
Spells Known:
0 - (9)
1 - (5) Shield, Magic Missile, True Strike, Grease, ?
2 - (5) Wraithstrike, Resist Energy, See Invisibility, Web, ?
3 - (4) Greater Magic Weapon, Shivering Touch, Slow, Fly
4 - (4) Greater Invisibility, Greater Mirror Image, Polymorph Other, Dimension Door
5 - (4) True Haste, Cloudkill, Feeblemind, ?
6 - (3) Disintegrate, Antimagic Field, Greater Dispel Magic
7 - (3) Limited Wish, Greater Teleport, Arrow of Bone
8 - (2) Irresistible Dance, Veil of Undeath
9 - (1) Time Stop

I need to make an advanced Ecalypse (20 HD) for this guy, too.

Advanced Ecalypse (20 HD)

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Still needs several feats.

         Ecalypse 
         Large Outsider
Hit Dice:       20d8+100 (190 hp) 
Initiative:       +3 (Dex)
Speed:          40 ft., fly 90 ft. (good)
AC:          22 (–1 size, +3 Dex, +10 natural), touch 12, flat-footed 19
Master Rider AC:   32 (-1 size, +3 Dex, +10 natural, +10 deflection), touch 22, flat-footed 29
Attacks:       Hoof +25 melee (1d8+5)
Damage:      2 Hooves +25 melee (1d8+5)
Face/Reach:      10 ft. by 10 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks:   Spell-like abilities 
Special Qualities:   Discorporate, shadow blend
Saves:          Fort +17, Ref +15, Will +12 
Abilities:       Str 20, Dex 16, Con 20, Int 6, Wis 10, Cha 16
Skills:          Balance +22 [19], Hide +20 [21], Jump +28 (+32 running) [19], Listen +20 [20],
            Sense Motive +20 [20], Spot +20 [20], Survival +19 [19]
Feats:          Weapon Focus (hoof), Run, Spell Focus (Illusion), 9, 12, 15, 18
Climate/Terrain:   Any land
Organization:       Solitary or herd (4–24) 
Challenge Rating:    14
Treasure:       None
Alignment:       Usually neutral 
Advancement:       11–20 HD (Large); 21–30 HD (Huge)


ECALYPSE
Ecalypses are equine creatures that gallop across the Plane of Shadow in great herds. They’re often used as steeds by those powerful enough to tame them.
   Only at a great distance could an ecalypse be mistaken for a normal horse. The most obvious difference is its six legs, but other differences emerge on closer examination. Its coat is a flat gray that seems almost insubstantial— darker shadows beneath the skin reveal a rib cage, skull, and bones. The hooves fade off into tendrils of mist, as do the mane and tail. Its eyes are dull black orbs that reflect no light at all. Ecalypses do not neigh or whinny but emit low, rumbling growls and snorts. They communicate telepathically with one another and with their riders, but never with strangers.

Combat
An ecalypse fights by kicking and stamping with its hooves, which coalesce from the shadowy mist just long enough to deliver crushing blows. If the tide of battle turns against it, it becomes incorporeal and flees.
   Spell-Like Abilities: At will—find the path, shadow walk; 3/day—repulsion (Will DC 20); 1/day—plane shift (self and rider only). These abilities are as the spells cast by a 15th-level sorcerer (save DC = 12 + spell level).
   Discorporate (Su): An ecalypse can become incorporeal as a standard action. In this state, it can be harmed only by other incorporeal creatures, +1 or better magic weapons, or magic, with a 50% chance to ignore any damage from a corporeal source. It can pass through solid objects at will and always moves silently. Its AC changes to 14 (–1 size, +3 Dex, +2 deflection). Its hooves deliver incorporeal touch attacks that ignore natural armor, armor, and shields, and attack with a +13 bonus, dealing 1d8 points of damage.
   Shadow Blend (Su): During any conditions other than full daylight, an ecalypse can disappear into the shadows, giving it nine-tenths total concealment. Artificial illumination, even a light or continual flame spell, does not negate this ability. A daylight spell, however, will.

Ecalypses as Mounts
   An ecalypse loathes the saddle, but it accepts a rider who can break its wild nature. To make the attempt, the prospective rider must first climb atop the creature’s back, either by pinning it in a grapple or by using magic to restrain it somehow. Then the rider must succeed at a Ride check (DC 30) to stay atop the ecalypse as it bucks wildly (with a –5 penalty on Ride checks made when riding bareback). A failed check results in the rider being thrown— which provokes an attack of opportunity from the ecalypse—and taking 1d6 points of damage, landing prone next to the beast. Depending on the circumstances, the ecalypse either flees incorporeally or attacks.
   If the ecalypse is broken by a rider, it communicates willingly and serves as loyally as a typical horse. For that rider only, the –5 penalty on bareback Ridechecks no longer applies, and the ecalypse’s ability to become incorporeal affects the rider as well. An ecalypse can fight while carrying a rider, but the rider cannot also fight without making a successful Ride check (see Ride, page 72 in the Player’s Handbook).
   Some riders simply dominate an ecalypse magically and ride it with a saddle, but the creature’s abilities don’t extend to the rider in that case. The ecalypse resists magical control any way it can.

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Fire Giant Wiz 9/Geometer 5

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Str 28 (8)               0
Dex 12 (14)            6
Con 20 (10)            2
Int 22 (-4 levels) -> 18 (18)   16 - correction, this is via a headband +4
Wis 16 (12)            4
Cha 13 (13)            5
Total 33 point buy.

Drop the Cha to 12, say that she actually did buy an 18 Intelligence, and then apply the +4 headband on top, to give her an intelligence of 26.
This should give her some more skill points, but I don't care that much...


32 point buy

Valbryn Morlydd       CR 17
hp: 248 (29 HD)
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Female fire giant wizard 9/geometer 5
NE Large giant (fire)
Init: +5; Senses: darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision; Listen +2, Spot +13
Languages: Common, Draconic, Giant
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AC: 28, touch 14, flat-footed 27
    (–1 size, +1 Dex, +4 armor, +3 deflection, +1 insight, +10 natural)
Immune: fire, giant immunities
Fort +18, Ref +10, Will +18
Weakness: vulnerability to cold, giant vulnerabilities
Speed: 40 ft. (8 squares)
Melee: +2 adamantine flaming longsword +27/+22/+17/+12 (2d6+15/19–20 plus 1d6 fire) and
    slam +20 (1d4+4) or
Melee: 2 slams +25 each (1d4+9)
Ranged: +1 composite longbow +18 (2d6+10)
Space: 10 ft.; Reach: 10 ft.
Base Atk: +17; Grp: +30
Atk Options: Awesome Blow, Energy Substitution (cold), Improved Bull Rush,
   Improved Sunder, Power Attack
Special Actions: rock catching, rock throwing
Combat Gear: 2 potions of cure serious wounds, scroll of telekinesis, scroll of tongues,
   wand of rope trick (25 charges)
Wizard Spells Prepared (CL 18th); Save DC's 18 + spell level:
Spells per Day: (4/6/6/6/6/4/4/3)
*Spells marked with an asterisk have spellglyphs, and can be cast at CL 19 and as though affected by the Silent Spell feat.
7th—spell turning, sword of darkness*, limited wish
6th—disintegrate*, globe of invulnerability*,
   greater dispel magic*, stone body
5th—arc of lightning*, true haste, teleport*,
   transmute mud to rock 
4th—dimension door*, greater invisibility*, fire shield,
   polymorph self*, greater mirror image*, wall of fire 
3rd—displacement*, haste*, fly, protection from energy,
   remove curse*, gaseous form*
2nd—cat’s grace, detect thoughts*, glitterdust,
   wraithstrike*, see invisibility*, resist energy
1st—endure elements*, grease, hail of stone*,
   silent image, magic missile*, shield*
0—detect magic*, prestidigitation*, ray of frost*
   (+18 ranged touch), read magic*
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Abilities: Str 28, Dex 12, Con 20, Int 26 (22), Wis 16, Cha 12
SQ: book of geometry, giant traits, pass sigil, powerful spellglyph,
   sigilsight
Feats: Awesome Blow, Combat Casting, 15, Energy Substitution (cold),
   Improved Bull Rush, Improved Initiative, Improved Sunder, Maximize Spell*, Power Attack,
   Practiced Spellcaster, Rapid Spell, Scribe Scroll*
Skills: Bluff +6, Climb +14, Concentration +18 (+22 when casting defensively), Decipher Script +21,
    Diplomacy +12, Disable Device +13, Disguise +1 (+3 when acting), Intimidate +8, Jump +18,
   Knowledge (arcana) +21, Knowledge (nobility and royalty) +13, Listen +2, Search +15,
   Sense Motive +8, Spellcraft +23, Spot +13, Survival +3 (+5 when following tracks)
Possessions: combat gear plus +2 adamantine flaming longsword, +1 composite longbow
   (+9 Str bonus) with 40 arrows, amulet of natural armor +2, bracers of armor +4,
   ring of protection +3, headband of intellect +4, ioun stone (dusty rose), bag of holding (type I),
   highly polished silver mirror for scrying spell, spellglyph inks, 160 pp, 10 gp
Spellbook: spells prepared plus 0—all;
1st—benign transpostion, charm person, comprehend languages, disguise self,
   swift expeditious retreat, protection from good, true strike, unseen servant;
2nd—bull’s strength, mirror image, rope trick, whispering wind, hold person;
3rd—dispel magic, fireball, gaseous form, tongues, glyph of warding;
4th—locate creature, scrying;
5th—dominate person, passwall, telekinesis, vitriolic sphere;
6th—disintegrate, geas/quest, greater glyph of warding, true seeing, stone body;
7th—delayed blast fireball, limited wish, spell turning
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Book of Geometry (Ex): Every spell Valbryn learns requires only a single page in her
   spellbook. It still takes 24 hours to write each spell into her book and requires
   materials costing 100 gp per page. In addition, the DC of Spellcraft checks for
   a nongeometer to decipher or prepare spells from Valbryn’s spellbook is
   increased by 5.
Pass Sigil (Su): Valbryn can temporarily negate magical wards based on written symbols,
   sigils, runes, or glyphs. As a standard action, she can make a caster level check
   (DC 6 + the sigil creator’s caster level). If successful, she can suppress the
   effects of the device for as long as she maintains concentration. Valbryn must
   be able to see the device.
Sigilsight (Ex): Valbryn can use a Search check to find magic traps based on runes,
   glyphs, sigils, symbols, and other writing, as a rogue can. She gains a +11
   bonus on Search checks to find traps of this sort. If she comes within 10 feet
   of a magic rune, glyph, sigil, or symbol, or within the threshold of danger for
   such a device, she is entitled to make a Search check as if she were actively
   searching for a magic trap.
Spellglyph (Su): Valbryn can cast spells using spellglyphs. Such spells have a special
   material component (the spellglyph) that substitutes for the spell’s verbal component
   and any other material components it might normally require. When Valbryn casts a
   spell using a spellglyph, the spell is treated as if it were affected by the Silent Spell
   feat.

This version still needs a 15th level feat.

Fire Giant Wizard 10/Geometer 5

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As above, this one is probably short skill points due to the increased intelligence.  For the 10th level of Wizard, I put 8 ranks into Concentration.

Valbryn Morlydd       CR 17
hp: 255 (30 HD)
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Female fire giant wizard 10/geometer 5
NE Large giant (fire)
Init: +5; Senses: darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision; Listen +2, Spot +13
Languages: Common, Draconic, Giant
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AC: 28, touch 14, flat-footed 27
    (–1 size, +1 Dex, +4 armor, +3 deflection, +1 insight, +10 natural)
Immune: fire, giant immunities
Fort +18, Ref +10, Will +19
Weakness: vulnerability to cold, giant vulnerabilities
Speed: 40 ft. (8 squares)
Melee: +2 adamantine flaming longsword +28/+23/+18/+13 (2d6+15/19–20 plus 1d6 fire) and
    slam +21 (1d4+4) or
Melee: 2 slams +26 each (1d4+9)
Ranged: +1 composite longbow +18 (2d6+10)
Space: 10 ft.; Reach: 10 ft.
Base Atk: +18; Grp: +30
Atk Options: Awesome Blow, Energy Substitution (cold), Improved Bull Rush,
   Improved Sunder, Power Attack
Special Actions: rock catching, rock throwing
Combat Gear: 2 potions of cure serious wounds, scroll of telekinesis, scroll of tongues,
   wand of rope trick (25 charges)
Wizard Spells Prepared (CL 19th); Save DC's 18 + spell level:
Spells per Day: (4/6/6/6/6/5/4/3/2)
*Spells marked with an asterisk have spellglyphs, and can be cast at CL 20 and as though affected by the Silent Spell feat.
8th—blackfire (+19 ranged touch), irresistible dance
7th—spell turning, sword of darkness*, limited wish
6th—disintegrate*, globe of invulnerability*,
   greater dispel magic*, stone body
5th—arc of lightning*, true haste, teleport*,
   transmute mud to rock, telekinesis 
4th—dimension door*, greater invisibility*, fire shield,
   polymorph self*, greater mirror image*, wall of fire 
3rd—displacement*, haste*, fly, protection from energy,
   remove curse*, gaseous form*
2nd—cat’s grace, detect thoughts*, glitterdust,
   wraithstrike*, see invisibility*, resist energy
1st—endure elements*, grease, hail of stone*,
   silent image, magic missile*, shield*
0—detect magic*, prestidigitation*, ray of frost*
   (+19 ranged touch), read magic*
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Abilities: Str 28, Dex 12, Con 20, Int 26 (22), Wis 16, Cha 12
SQ: book of geometry, giant traits, pass sigil, powerful spellglyph,
   sigilsight
Feats: Awesome Blow, Combat Casting, Elder Giant Magic, Energy Substitution (cold),
   Improved Bull Rush, Improved Initiative, Improved Sunder, Sudden Widen Spell*, Power Attack,
   Practiced Spellcaster, Rapid Spell, Scribe Scroll*, Sudden Maximize Spell*, 30
Skills: Bluff +6, Climb +14, Concentration +26 (+30 when casting defensively), Decipher Script +21,
    Diplomacy +12, Disable Device +13, Disguise +1 (+3 when acting), Intimidate +8, Jump +18,
   Knowledge (arcana) +21, Knowledge (nobility and royalty) +13, Listen +2, Search +15,
   Sense Motive +8, Spellcraft +23, Spot +13, Survival +3 (+5 when following tracks)
Possessions: combat gear plus +2 adamantine flaming longsword, +1 composite longbow
   (+9 Str bonus) with 40 arrows, amulet of natural armor +2, bracers of armor +4,
   ring of protection +3, headband of intellect +4, ioun stone (dusty rose), bag of holding (type I),
   highly polished silver mirror for scrying spell, spellglyph inks, 160 pp, 10 gp
Spellbook: spells prepared plus 0—all;
1st—benign transpostion, charm person, comprehend languages, disguise self,
   swift expeditious retreat, protection from good, true strike, unseen servant;
2nd—bull’s strength, mirror image, rope trick, whispering wind, hold person;
3rd—dispel magic, fireball, gaseous form, tongues, glyph of warding;
4th—locate creature, scrying;
5th—dominate person, passwall, telekinesis, vitriolic sphere;
6th—disintegrate, geas/quest, greater glyph of warding, true seeing, stone body;
7th—delayed blast fireball, limited wish, spell turning
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Book of Geometry (Ex): Every spell Valbryn learns requires only a single page in her
   spellbook. It still takes 24 hours to write each spell into her book and requires
   materials costing 100 gp per page. In addition, the DC of Spellcraft checks for
   a nongeometer to decipher or prepare spells from Valbryn’s spellbook is
   increased by 5.
Pass Sigil (Su): Valbryn can temporarily negate magical wards based on written symbols,
   sigils, runes, or glyphs. As a standard action, she can make a caster level check
   (DC 6 + the sigil creator’s caster level). If successful, she can suppress the
   effects of the device for as long as she maintains concentration. Valbryn must
   be able to see the device.
Sigilsight (Ex): Valbryn can use a Search check to find magic traps based on runes,
   glyphs, sigils, symbols, and other writing, as a rogue can. She gains a +11
   bonus on Search checks to find traps of this sort. If she comes within 10 feet
   of a magic rune, glyph, sigil, or symbol, or within the threshold of danger for
   such a device, she is entitled to make a Search check as if she were actively
   searching for a magic trap.
Spellglyph (Su): Valbryn can cast spells using spellglyphs. Such spells have a special
   material component (the spellglyph) that substitutes for the spell’s verbal component
   and any other material components it might normally require. When Valbryn casts a
   spell using a spellglyph, the spell is treated as if it were affected by the Silent Spell
   feat.

Still need to spend the 10th level bonus wizard feat, and the 30th HD feat.
Mysterious Magic or Echoing Spell (both from Secrests of Xen'drik) would be alright choices for the 30th HD feat.

Fire Giant Cleric 6/Fighter 2

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Helthra Morlydd          CR 15
hp 246 (23 HD)
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Female fire giant cleric 6/fighter 2
LE Large giant (fire)
Init: +5; Senses: darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision; Listen +5, Spot +17
Languages: Common, Giant
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AC: 29, touch 10, flat-footed 28 (–1 size, +1 Dex, +11 armor, +8 natural)
Shield of Faith AC: 32, touch 13, flat-footed 31 (–1 size, +1 Dex, +11 armor, +3 deflection, +8 natural)
Immune: fire, giant immunities
Fort +23, Ref +8, Will +15
Weakness: vulnerability to cold, giant vulnerabilities
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Speed: 30 ft. (6 squares); Base speed 40 ft.
Melee: +2 adamantine flaming longsword +31/+26/+21/+16 (2d6+20 [17-20/x2] plus 1d6 fire)
Bull's Strength Melee: +2 adamantine flaming longsword +33/+28/+23/+18 (2d6+23 [17–20/×2] plus 1d6 fire) or
BS & Div Fav Melee: +2 adamantine flaming longsword +36/+31/+26/+21 (2d6+26 [17–20/×2] plus 1d6 fire) or
Melee: 2 slams +30 each (1d4+14)
Ranged: rock +31 (2d6+14 plus 2d6 fire)
Space: 10 ft.; Reach: 10 ft.
Base Atk: +17; Grp: +35
Atk Options: Awesome Blow, Improved Bull Rush, Improved Sunder, Power Attack
Special Actions: command undead 4/day (1d20+1, 2d6+7, 6th), rock catching, rock throwing
Combat Gear: 2 potions of lesser restoration, wand of cure moderate wounds (30 charges)
Cleric Spells Prepared (CL 10th); Save DC's 15 + spell level:
Spells per Day: (5/5+1/4+1/3+1)
3rd—magic vestment*, dispel magic, protection from energy, ring of blades
2nd—bull’s strength, spiritual weapon*, deific vengeance, spiritual weapon (2)
1st—burning hands*, comprehend languages, divine favor (2), obscuring mist, shield of faith
0—cure minor wounds (2), detect magic, purify food and drink, read magic
Domains: Fire, War
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Abilities: Str 34 (38 with bull’s strength), Dex 12, Con 22 (18), Int 10, Wis 20, Cha 12
SQ: giant traits
Feats: Brutal Throw, Combat Casting, Cleave, Great Cleave, Improved Bull Rush, Improved Critical* (longsword), Improved Initiative, Improved Sunder*, Power Attack, Practiced Spellcaster, Weapon Focus (longsword)*
Skills: Climb +15, Concentration +13 (+17 when casting defensively), Hide +2, Intimidate +13, Jump +15 (+24 unarmored), Listen +5, Move Silently +2, Spot +17
Possessions: combat gear plus +3 shadow silent moves full plate, +2 adamantine flaming longsword, amulet of health +4, silver holy symbol, noble’s outfit, 18 pp, 5 gp

She needs a new feat at 18th (or later) HD.
I should make some where I remove the two fighter levels, then add four more levels of cleric for the same CR.

Fire Giant Cleric 10

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Helthra Morlydd          CR 15
hp 262 (25 HD)
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Female fire giant cleric 10
LE Large giant (fire)
Init: +5; Senses: darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision; Listen +5, Spot +17
Languages: Common, Giant
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AC: 29, touch 10, flat-footed 28 (–1 size, +1 Dex, +11 armor, +8 natural)
Shield of Faith AC: 33, touch 14, flat-footed 32 (–1 size, +1 Dex, +11 armor, +4 deflection, +8 natural)
Immune: fire, giant immunities
Fort +22, Ref +9, Will +17
Weakness: vulnerability to cold, giant vulnerabilities
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Speed: 30 ft. (6 squares); Base speed 40 ft.
Melee: +2 adamantine flaming longsword +32/+27/+22/+17 (2d6+20 [17-20/x2] plus 1d6 fire)
Bull's Strength Melee: +2 adamantine flaming longsword +34/+29/+24/+19 (2d6+23 [17–20/×2] plus 1d6 fire) or
BS & Div Fav Melee: +2 adamantine flaming longsword +37/+32/+27/+22 (2d6+26 [17–20/×2] plus 1d6 fire) or
Melee: 2 slams +31 each (1d4+12) (1d4+14)
Ranged: rock +32 (2d6+12 plus 2d6 fire) (2d6+14 plus 2d6 fire)
Space: 10 ft.; Reach: 10 ft.
Base Atk: +18; Grp: +34 (+36 bull's str)
Atk Options: Awesome Blow, Improved Bull Rush, Improved Sunder, Power Attack
Special Actions: command undead 4/day (1d20+1, 2d6+7, 6th), rock catching, rock throwing
Combat Gear: 2 potions of lesser restoration, wand of cure moderate wounds (30 charges)
Cleric Spells Prepared (CL 14th, casts as a Cleric 10); Save DC's 15 + spell level:
Spells per Day: (6/6+1/5+1/4+1/4+1/3+1)
5th—dispel chaos, righteous might, spell resistance (SR 26), fire shield*
4th—air walk, air walk, freedom of movement, dimensional anchor, divine power*
3rd—magic vestment*, dispel magic, protection from energy, ring of blades, mass lesser vigor
2nd—bull’s strength, spiritual weapon*, deific vengeance, spiritual weapon (2), silence
1st—burning hands*, comprehend languages, divine favor (2), obscuring mist, shield of faith, lesser vigor
0—cure minor wounds (2), detect magic, purify food and drink, read magic, mending
Domains: Fire, War
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Abilities: Str 34 (38 with bull’s strength), Dex 12, Con 22 (18), Int 10, Wis 21, Cha 12
SQ: giant traits
Feats: Brutal Throw, Combat Casting, Cleave, Great Cleave, Improved Bull Rush, Improved Critical (longsword), Improved Initiative, Power Attack, Practiced Spellcaster, Weapon Focus (longsword)*
Skills: Climb +15, Concentration +13 (+17 when casting defensively), Hide +2, Intimidate +13, Jump +15 (+24 unarmored), Listen +5, Move Silently +2, Spot +17
Possessions: combat gear plus +3 shadow silent moves full plate, +2 adamantine flaming longsword, amulet of health +4, silver holy symbol, noble’s outfit, 18 pp, 5 gp

Righteous Might
Helthra Morlydd          CR 15
hp 287 (25 HD)        DR 6/Good
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Female fire giant cleric 10
LE Huge giant (fire)
Init: +5; Senses: darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision; Listen +5, Spot +17
Languages: Common, Giant
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AC: 30, touch 9, flat-footed 29 (–2 size, +1 Dex, +11 armor, +10 natural)
Shield of Faith AC: 34, touch 13, flat-footed 33 (–2 size, +1 Dex, +11 armor, +4 deflection, +10 natural)
Immune: fire, giant immunities
Fort +23, Ref +9, Will +17
Weakness: vulnerability to cold, giant vulnerabilities
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Speed: 30 ft. (6 squares); Base speed 40 ft.
Melee: +2 adamantine flaming longsword +33/+28/+23/+18 (3d6+23 [17-20/x2] plus 1d6 fire)
Bull's Strength Melee: +2 adamantine flaming longsword +35/+30/+25/+20 (3d6+26 [17–20/×2] plus 1d6 fire) or
BS & Div Fav Melee: +2 adamantine flaming longsword +38/+33/+28/+23 (3d6+29 [17–20/×2] plus 1d6 fire) or
Melee: 2 slams +32 each (1d6+14) (1d4+16)
Ranged: rock +33 (2d6+14 plus 2d6 fire) (2d6+16 plus 2d6 fire)
Space: 15 ft.; Reach: 15 ft.
Base Atk: +18; Grp: +40 (+42 bull's str)
Atk Options: Awesome Blow, Improved Bull Rush, Improved Sunder, Power Attack
Special Actions: command undead 4/day (1d20+1, 2d6+7, 6th), rock catching, rock throwing
Combat Gear: 2 potions of lesser restoration, wand of cure moderate wounds (30 charges)
Cleric Spells Prepared (CL 14th, casts as a Cleric 10); Save DC's 15 + spell level:
Spells per Day: (6/6+1/5+1/4+1/4+1/3+1)
5th—dispel chaos, righteous might, spell resistance (SR 26), fire shield*
4th—air walk, air walk, freedom of movement, dimensional anchor, divine power*
3rd—magic vestment*, dispel magic, protection from energy, ring of blades, mass lesser vigor
2nd—bull’s strength, spiritual weapon*, deific vengeance, spiritual weapon (2), silence
1st—burning hands*, comprehend languages, divine favor (2), obscuring mist, shield of faith, lesser vigor
0—cure minor wounds (2), detect magic, purify food and drink, read magic, mending
Domains: Fire, War
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Abilities: Str 38 (42 with bull’s strength), Dex 12, Con 24 (20), Int 10, Wis 21, Cha 12
SQ: giant traits
Feats: Awesome Blow, Brutal Throw, Combat Casting, 18, Improved Bull Rush, Improved Critical (longsword), Improved Initiative, Power Attack, Practiced Spellcaster, Weapon Focus (longsword)*
Skills: Climb +17, Concentration +14 (+18 when casting defensively), Hide -2, Intimidate +13, Jump +17 (+26 unarmored), Listen +5, Move Silently +2, Spot +17
Possessions: combat gear plus +3 shadow silent moves full plate, +2 adamantine flaming greataxe, amulet of health +4, silver holy symbol, noble’s outfit, 18 pp, 5 gp

Fire Giant Fighter 3

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Fire Giant, Fighter 3       CR 13
Often Lawful Evil Large Giant ([Fire])
Init +0 (+0 dex)
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AC 29 FF 29 Touch 9
(-1 size, +10 natural , +10 Full plate +2)
HD: 18
HP: 209 (15d8+105, 3d10+21)
Fort +19 Ref +6 Will +9
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Speed 30 ft. in half-plate armor (6 squares); base speed 40 ft.
Base Atk +14 Grp +32
Attack: MW Greatsword +28 (3d6+21)
   Max Power Attack: MW Greatsword +17 (3d6+43)
   Half Power Attack: MW Greatsword +23 (3d6+31)
Full Attack: Greatsword +28/+23/+18 (3d6+21)
Full Attack: 2 slams +27 (1d4+14)
Full Attack: rock +27 (2d6+14)
Space 10 ft. (2 squares) Reach 10 ft. (2 squares)
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Abilities Str 39 (+14) Dex 11 (+0) Con 24 (+7) Int 12 (+1) Wis 12 (+1) Cha 10 (+0)
Feats: Cleave, Improved Bull Rush, Improved Sunder, Iron Will, Power Attack, Leap Attack, Brutal Throw, Shock Trooper, Combat Brute
Skills: Climb +19, Craft (Armorsmithing) +6, Handle Animal +5, Intimidate +5, Jump +19, Ride +5, Spot +6, Swim +19
Gear: Amulet of Natural Armor +2 (8,000gp), Belt of Giant Strength +4 (16,000gp), Full plate +2 (5,650gp)
Total Cost of Gear: 29,650gp
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Rock throwing(Ex): The range increment is 120 feet for a fire giant's thrown rocks.
Immunity to fire(Ex):
low-light vision(Ex):
rock catching(Ex):
vulnerability to cold(Ex):
Fighter Bonus Feat(Ex): Gains fighter bonus feat at 1st level and at every even numbered Fighter level.
Advancement: By character class

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Advanced Magma Hurler

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MAGMA HURLER
Large Elemental (Earth, Extraplanar, Fire)
Hit Dice: 12d8+108 (162 hp)
Initiative: +1
Speed: 20 ft. (4 squares)
AC: 15 (-1 Size, +6 natural), touch 9, flat-footed 15
Base Attack/Grapple: +9/+25
Attack: Magma rock +21 ranged (6d8+12 plus 1d6 fire) or slam +20 melee (1d8+18)
Full Attack: Magma rock +21 ranged (6d8+12 plus 1d6 fire) or slam +20 melee (1d8+18)
Space/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: Magma rock
Special Qualities: Darkvision 60 ft., elemental traits, immunity to fire, vulnerability to cold
Saves: Fort +17, Ref +8, Will +7
Abilities: Str 34, Dex 11, Con 28, Int 7, Wis 12, Cha 11
Skills: Listen +9, Spot +8
Feats: Iron Will, Weapon Focus (magma rock), Brutal Throw, Point Blank Shot, Far Shot
Environment: Elemental Plane of Fire
Organization: Solitary
Challenge Rating: 6
Treasure: None
Alignment: Usually chaotic evil
Advancement: 5–6 HD (Medium); 7–12 HD (Large)
Level Adjustment:—

A cloud of black smoke roils upward from this creature, which seems to be formed entirely of molten lava. Its skin is a hardened black crust, but its joints and gaping mouth reveal glowing red magma inside. Jagged protrusions line its hunched shoulders, belching forth smoke. Its arms end in flattened hooks, almost like scoops.
A magma hurler is an elemental composed of molten stone, combining the elements of earth and fire. It stands 6 to 8 feet tall and weighs 400 to 500 pounds.

Combat
A magma hurler’s name is derived from its ability to spit forth a ball of magma into its scooplike hand, then hurl it to devastating effect. It is slow-moving and bereft of intellect, and it frequently hurls its magma rocks on a whim. It dislikes melee combat and tries to avoid combatants who move to engage it.
Magma Rock (Ex): A magma hurler can spit forth a ball of molten rock into its hand as a move action, as often as once per round. It can throw a magma rock with a range increment of 30 feet (maximum range 150 feet).
Far Shot: range increment 60 feet (max range 300 feet).
Elemental Traits: A magma hurler has immunity to poison, sleep effects, paralysis, and stunning. It is not subject to critical hits or flanking. It cannot be raised, reincarnated, or resurrected (though a limited wish, wish, miracle, or true resurrection spell can restore life).

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Gestalt Hulking Hurler War Hulk Mountain Troll

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      Mountain Troll
      Huge Giant 15//Fighter 4/Barb 1/War Hulk 8/Hulking Hurler 2
Hit Dice:       9d12+6d10-150 (241 hp)
Initiative:      +1
Speed:       40 ft. (8 squares)
Armor Class:    22 (–2 size, +13 natural armor, +1 Dex), touch 9, flat-footed 21
BAB/Grapple:   +11/+31
Attack:       Greatclub +29 melee (3d6+30) or Rock +29 ranged (2d8+20) [100 ft] or
         Meteor Strike +27 ranged (20d6+60) [30 feet]
Pow Att (5):   Greatclub +24 melee (3d8+40)*
Full Attack:    Greatclub +29/+24/+19 melee (3d8+30) and bite +24 melee (1d8+10); or
         2 claws +29 melee (1d8+20) and bite +24 melee (1d8+10)
Pow Att (5):   Greatclub +24/+19/+14 melee (3d8+40) and bite +19 melee (1d8+15); or
         2 claws +24 melee (1d8+25) and bite +19 melee (1d8+15)*
Space/Reach:   15 ft./15 ft.
Special Att:    Knockdown
Special Qual:    Darkvision 90 ft., fast healing 9, low-light vision, scent, stability
Saves:       Fort +22, Ref +7, Will +15
Abilities:       Str 51, Dex 12, Con 31, Int 6, Wis 11, Cha 6
Skills:       Climb +31, Hide –7 (+1 in mountain settings), Jump +24
Feats:       Cleave, Power Attack, Point Blank Shot, Brutal Throw, Far Shot, Endurance,
         Weapon Focus (Rock), Steadfast Determination, Toughness, 15
Environment:    Any mountains
Organization:    Solitary or pair
CR:          GCR 15
Treasure:       Standard
Alignment:    Usually chaotic evil
Advance:       By character class
Level Adjust:    +5
*Includes adjustments for Power Attack feat.

Knockdown (Ex): A mountain troll that hits with a weapon or claw attack can attempt to trip the opponent as a free action without making a touch attack or provoking attacks of opportunity. If the attempt fails, the opponent cannot react to trip the mountain troll.
Stability (Ex): Mountain trolls are exceptionally stable on their feet. A mountain troll has a +4 bonus on ability checks made to resist being bull rushed or tripped when standing on the ground (but not when climbing, flying, riding, or otherwise not standing firmly on the ground).
Skills: Mountain trolls can blend in with their mountain surroundings, providing them a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks in the mountains.
Ability Boost (Ex): As a war hulk gains levels in this prestigeclass, his Strength score increases. These increases stack.
No Time to Think (Ex): A character with levels in the war hulk prestige class is considered to have 0 ranks in all Intelligence-, Wisdom-, and Charisma-based skills (whether or not he has bought ranks in them previously). The only exception is the Intimidate skill, which works normally.
Great Swing (Ex): Starting at 2nd level, a war hulk is able to make a great, sweeping swing with a melee weapon. As a full-round action, the war hulk can choose three squares adjacent to one another (he must threaten all of them). His attack applies to all creatures in those squares. Make one attack roll and apply that roll as an attack against each defender. If the war hulk uses a special attack (such as disarm, trip, or sunder), this special attack affects only the first target; the other creatures are attacked normally. Walls and similar obstacles can block a great swing. Start with one square that the war hulk threatens. Each successive square chosen must be adjacent to the previous square and have line of effect from that square. Two squares separated by a wall, for instance, can't be chosen as adjacent squares for a great swing. The war hulk may skip creatures, attacking only those he wants to. For example, if there are three creatures in a row—an enemy, an ally, and another enemy—the war hulk can choose those three squares for the great swing but strike only the two enemies. If a war hulk drops one of his foes with a great swing, he may make a cleave attack normally. However, he may do so only once for every time he swings, even if he drops more than one foe.
Mighty Rock Throwing (Ex): Starting at 3rd level, a war hulk gains a powerful rock throwing ability. The character can throw rocks that deal 2d8 points of damage with a range increment of 50 feet. (Like all thrown weapons, they have a maximum range of five range increments.) The war hulk uses his Strength modifier instead of his Dexterity modifier on the attack roll. The rock must weigh approximately 50 pounds.
Mighty Swing (Ex): Starting at 4th level, a war hulk can make a mighty swing. A mighty swing is like a great swing, except that it is a standard action rather than a full-round action. Thus, the character can move and make a mighty swing or (if he can make multiple attacks) make multiple mighty swings in a single round.
Sweeping Boulder (Ex): Starting at 6th level, a war hulk is able to throw his rocks with such force that they affect two adjacent squares. (The second square must be farther away from the war hulk than the first—they cannot be equidistant from him.) Make one attack roll and apply the result to each target. As with great swing, the war hulk must have line of effect from one square to the next.
Toughness: At 8th, 9th, and 10th level, a war hulk gains Toughness as a bonus feat.
Massive Sweeping Boulder (Ex): Starting at 8th level, a war hulk is able to throw his rocks with such force that they affect four squares in a line. (Each successive square chosen must be farther away from the character.) Only the first creature can be subject to damage from a critical hit or a sneak attack. As with great swing, the war hulk must have line of effect from one square to the next.
Catch Weapon (Ex): A hulking hurler gains the Snatch Arrows feat even if he does not meet the prerequisites. He may catch weapons of his size or smaller (and hurl them back at the attacker immediately if he chooses).
Really Throw Anything (Ex): A hulking hurler gains the Throw Anything feat (described in Chapter 3 of this book) as a bonus feat. However, since a hulking hurler depends on brute strength more than skill, he can throw anything (not just weapons) he can lift as a light load. If the item is an improvised weapon, he takes a —2 penalty on his attack roll instead of the normal —4. Use the rules in Chapter 4 of this book to determine the amount of damage the thrown weapon does.
   The range increment of a thrown weapon or improvised weapon wielded by a hulking hurler is 10 feet + 5 feet per size category the hulking hurler is beyond Large (this is a modification of the Throw Anything feat).
Two-Handed Hurl Trick (Ex): At 2nd level and again at 3rd level, a hulking hurler chooses one of the following tricks. In order to use any of these abilities, the hulking hurler must grip the weapon or improvised weapon in two hands and throw it as a full-round action.
Meteor Strike: As a full-round action, a hulking hurler deals extra damage equal to twice his Strength bonus on a successful hit with a thrown weapon.

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Str of 51 = Huge carrying capacity of: Light (0-39,168), Medium (39,169-78,336)  (Note, a viking longship weighed about 20 tons)
heaviest thrown weapons can deal up to 394d6 +Str mod damage
We'll cap it at 20d6…  which is achieved by a 3400 pound chunk of granite
3400 pounds is 1,542,214.1 grams… Granite averages 2.7 g/cubic cm
so the rock is 571,190.4 cubic centimeters… which is 0.57119 cubic meters, which is a cube approx. 83 cm on a side.

Such a rock would deal 20d6+20 damage
With Brutal Throw, his attack roll would be +27 = +11 BAB, -2 Size, +20 Str, -2 Improvised
Range Increment 15 ft (30 ft w/ Far Shot) - longest range = 150 feet, at a -8 penalty (-6 at 145 feet)

Forget Overburdened Heave; a wagon deals 5d6+20 damage.
Meteor Strike would make that 5d6+60 damage.
Area Attack would also be nice.

Gestalt Mountain Troll Hulking Hurler War Hulk GCR 16

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      Mountain Troll
      Huge Giant 15/Ranger 1//Fighter 4/Barb 1/War Hulk 8/Hulking Hurler 3
Hit Dice:    9d12+7d10+160 (257 hp)
Initiative:   +1
Speed:    40 ft. (8 squares)
Armor Class:    22 (–2 size, +13 natural armor, +1 Dex), touch 9, flat-footed 21
BAB/Grapple:   +12/+33
Attack:    Greatclub +31 melee (3d6+31) or Rock +31 ranged (2d8+21) [100 ft] or
         Meteor Strike +29 ranged (20d6+63) [30 feet]
         Area Attack +29 ranged (vs AC 10) Ref DC 37 neg, 20d6+21
Pow Att (5):   Greatclub +26 melee (3d8+41)*
Full Attack:    Greatclub +31/+26/+21 melee (3d8+31) and bite +26 melee (1d8+10); or
         2 claws +31 melee (1d8+21) and bite +26 melee (1d8+10)
Pow Att (5):   Greatclub +26/+21/+16 melee (3d8+41) and bite +21 melee (1d8+15); or
         2 claws +26 melee (1d8+26) and bite +21 melee (1d8+15)*
Space/Reach:   15 ft./15 ft.
Special Att:    Knockdown, Favored Enemy (Humans) +2
Special Qual:    Darkvision 90 ft., fast healing 9, low-light vision, scent, stability
Saves:    Fort +23, Ref +7, Will +15
Abilities:    Str 52, Dex 12, Con 31, Int 6, Wis 11, Cha 6
Skills:       Climb +32, Hide –3 (+5 in mountain settings), Jump +25
Feats:       Cleave, Power Attack, Point Blank Shot, Brutal Throw, Far Shot, Endurance,
         Weapon Focus (Rock), Steadfast Determination, Toughness, Track, 15
Environment:    Any mountains
Organization:    Solitary or pair
CR:       GCR 16
Treasure:    Standard
Alignment:    Usually chaotic evil
Advance:    By character class
Level Adjust:    +5
*Includes adjustments for Power Attack feat.

Knockdown (Ex): A mountain troll that hits with a weapon or claw attack can attempt to trip the opponent as a free action without making a touch attack or provoking attacks of opportunity. If the attempt fails, the opponent cannot react to trip the mountain troll.
Stability (Ex): Mountain trolls are exceptionally stable on their feet. A mountain troll has a +4 bonus on ability checks made to resist being bull rushed or tripped when standing on the ground (but not when climbing, flying, riding, or otherwise not standing firmly on the ground).
Skills: Mountain trolls can blend in with their mountain surroundings, providing them a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks in the mountains.
Ability Boost (Ex): As a war hulk gains levels in this prestige class, his Strength score increases. These increases stack.
No Time to Think (Ex): A character with levels in the war hulk prestige class is considered to have 0 ranks in all Intelligence-, Wisdom-, and Charisma-based skills (whether or not he has bought ranks in them previously). The only exception is the Intimidate skill, which works normally.
Great Swing (Ex): Starting at 2nd level, a war hulk is able to make a great, sweeping swing with a melee weapon. As a full-round action, the war hulk can choose three squares adjacent to one another (he must threaten all of them). His attack applies to all creatures in those squares. Make one attack roll and apply that roll as an attack against each defender. If the war hulk uses a special attack (such as disarm, trip, or sunder), this special attack affects only the first target; the other creatures are attacked normally. Walls and similar obstacles can block a great swing. Start with one square that the war hulk threatens. Each successive square chosen must be adjacent to the previous square and have line of effect from that square. Two squares separated by a wall, for instance, can't be chosen as adjacent squares for a great swing. The war hulk may skip creatures, attacking only those he wants to. For example, if there are three creatures in a row—an enemy, an ally, and another enemy—the war hulk can choose those three squares for the great swing but strike only the two enemies. If a war hulk drops one of his foes with a great swing, he may make a cleave attack normally. However, he may do so only once for every time he swings, even if he drops more than one foe.
Mighty Rock Throwing (Ex): Starting at 3rd level, a war hulk gains a powerful rock throwing ability. The character can throw rocks that deal 2d8 points of damage with a range increment of 50 feet. (Like all thrown weapons, they have a maximum range of five range increments.) The war hulk uses his Strength modifier instead of his Dexterity modifier on the attack roll. The rock must weigh approximately 50 pounds.
Mighty Swing (Ex): Starting at 4th level, a war hulk can make a mighty swing. A mighty swing is like a great swing, except that it is a standard action rather than a full-round action. Thus, the character can move and make a mighty swing or (if he can make multiple attacks) make multiple mighty swings in a single round.
Sweeping Boulder (Ex): Starting at 6th level, a war hulk is able to throw his rocks with such force that they affect two adjacent squares. (The second square must be farther away from the war hulk than the first—they cannot be equidistant from him.) Make one attack roll and apply the result to each target. As with great swing, the war hulk must have line of effect from one square to the next.
Toughness: At 8th, 9th, and 10th level, a war hulk gains Toughness as a bonus feat.
Massive Sweeping Boulder (Ex): Starting at 8th level, a war hulk is able to throw his rocks with such force that they affect four squares in a line. (Each successive square chosen must be farther away from the character.) Only the first creature can be subject to damage from a critical hit or a sneak attack. As with great swing, the war hulk must have line of effect from one square to the next.
Catch Weapon (Ex): A hulking hurler gains the Snatch Arrows feat even if he does not meet the prerequisites. He may catch weapons of his size or smaller (and hurl them back at the attacker immediately if he chooses).
Really Throw Anything (Ex): A hulking hurler gains the Throw Anything feat (described in Chapter 3 of this book) as a bonus feat. However, since a hulking hurler depends on brute strength more than skill, he can throw anything (not just weapons) he can lift as a light load. If the item is an improvised weapon, he takes a —2 penalty on his attack roll instead of the normal —4. Use the rules in Chapter 4 of this book to determine the amount of damage the thrown weapon does.
   The range increment of a thrown weapon or improvised weapon wielded by a hulking hurler is 10 feet + 5 feet per size category the hulking hurler is beyond Large (this is a modification of the Throw Anything feat).
Two-Handed Hurl Trick (Ex): At 2nd level and again at 3rd level, a hulking hurler chooses one of the following tricks. In order to use any of these abilities, the hulking hurler must grip the weapon or improvised weapon in two hands and throw it as a full-round action.
Area Attack: The character makes an attack roll against a square the target creature occupies (AC 10) rather than the creature itself. Any creature in the square must succeed on a Reflex save (DC 10 + the hulking hurler's ranged attack bonus) or take full damage. This ability may only be used with a Huge or larger weapon.
Meteor Strike: As a full-round action, a hulking hurler deals extra damage equal to twice his Strength bonus on a successful hit with a thrown weapon.

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The Linnorms in the MMII have CR issues.  An analysis by Runestar over at GitP pegs the Gray Linnorm at CR 16, instead of its listed CR of 20.  The gray linnorm has 13 HD and casts as a 17th level cleric, as well has having several CL 17 SLA's, including Shapechange 3/day.  I just took the initiative to rectify the disproportionate HD/casting/CR, and gave it four extra HD.  Casts as a 17th level cleric, CR 17, 17 HD.  Pretty straight-forward.

Comparing this to the Pathfinder Linnorms, it still has quite the glass jaw.  Pathfinder's CR 14 Crag Linnorm still has more hit points than this thing does, and it has regeneration.  But, the MM2 Linnorms get full casting built into the monsters; the Pathfinder ones do not.

Gray Linnorm

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         Gray Linnorm       
         Huge Dragon    
Hit Dice:       17d12+85 (195 hp) 
Initiative:       +0          
Speed:       30 ft., fly 90 ft. (good), swim 30 ft.       
AC:          27 (–2 size, +19 natural), touch 8, flat-footed 27    
Attacks:       Bite +22 melee and 2 claws +20 melee and tail slap +20 melee
Damage:       Bite 2d6+7, claw 2d8+3, tail slap 2d6+10 plus poison
Face/Reach:      15 ft./10 ft.
Special Attacks:    Breath weapon, crush 2d8+10, poison, spell-like abilities, spells
Special Qualities:    Blindsense 120 ft., DR 15/+1, immunities, keen senses, SR 31
Saves:       Fort +15, Ref +10, Will +14
Abilities:       Str 24, Dex 11, Con 20, Int 14, Wis 19, Cha 17 
Skills:          Bluff +23 [20], Concentration +25 [20], Diplomacy +7 [ 0], Intimidate +5 [ 0],
         Knowledge (arcana) +22 [20], Listen +24 [20], Search +22 [20],
         Sense Motive +24 [20], Spellcraft +24 [20], Spot +24 [20], Swim +15 [0 ]
Feats:       Flyby Attack, Multiattack, Power Attack, Quicken Spell, Snatch,
         Improved Snatch
Climate/Terrain:    Any hills or mountains
Organization:    Solitary
Challenge Rating:    17
Treasure:       Standard 
Alignment:       Usually chaotic evil
Advancement:    14–18 HD (Huge)
Level Adjust:      -

 
Linnorms speak Draconic and Abyssal.

COMBAT
Linnorms rely on their breath weapons and prodigious strength in battle. They are also brilliant tacticians and strategists, so they usually delay attacking until conditions are to their advantage. Once battle is joined, they quickly single out the most dangerous foes for swift elimination.
   Breath Weapon (Su): Using a breath weapon is a standard action. Once a linnorm breathes, it must wait 1d4 rounds before using a breath weapon again, no matter how many
kinds it has. A blast from a breath weapon always starts at the linnorm’s mouth and extends in a direction of its choice, with an area as noted in the description. At the time of use, the linnorm can choose to shape its breath weapon into either a line or a cone. The exact dimensions vary with the variety of linnorm (see the individual descriptions), but lines are always 5 feet high and 5 feet wide, and cones are as high and wide as they are long. If the breath weapon deals
damage, each creature caught in the area can attempt a Reflex save (see individual descriptions for DCs) to take half damage. Saves against nondamaging breath weapons use the same DC, but the types vary as noted.
   Crush (Ex): A flying linnorm can land on opponents three or more size categories smaller than itself as a standard action. A crush attack affects as many creatures as can fit under the linnorm’s body. Each creature in the affected area must succeed at a Reflex save (DC equal to that for the linnorm’s breath weapon) or be pinned, automatically taking the given amount of bludgeoning damage. Thereafter, if the linnorm chooses to maintain the pin, treat it as a normal grapple attack. While pinned, the opponent takes crush damage each round.
   Blindsense (Ex): A linnorm can ascertain its surroundings by nonvisual means (mostly hearing and scent, but also by noticing vibration and other environmental clues).
This ability enables it to discern objects and creatures within 120 feet. A linnorm usually does not need to make Spot or Listen checks to notice creatures within range of its blindsense, but any opponent it cannot see has total concealment (50% miss chance) against the linnorm, and the linnorm still has the normal miss chance when attacking foes that have concealment.  Visability still affects the movement of a creature with blindsense.  A linnorm is still denied its Dexterity bonus to AC against attacks from creatures it cannot see.
   Immunities: A linnorm is immune to sleep and paralysis effects.
   Keen Senses (Ex): A linnorm sees four times as well a human in low-light conditions and twice as well in normal light. It also has darkvision with a range of 120 feet.
GRAY LINNORM
These creatures are the smallest of the linnorms. They are also the meanest and most aggressive.
   The body of a gray linnorm is long, sleek, and very snakelike. It never uses its two arms to drag or support itself; instead it moves entirely as a snake, keeping the front portion of its body raised upright at all times. Its scales form a subtle pattern of variegated gray.
   A gray linnorm lays claim to all that it can see, so it always seeks out a natural cave in a high place with a commanding view. By extension, any other creature it sees is a trespasser,
and it never tolerates trespassers in its territory. As soon as it spots intruders, it moves to attack, usually via either magical flight or wind walking. A gray linnorm does not pause to study its foes or lay a careful trap; instead, it relies on speed, terror, and overwhelming offense.

Combat
A gray linnorm casts as many spells as possible while closing in on enemies, but it prefers fighting tooth and claw to standing off and pelting foes with magic. On the other hand, it prefers casting spells to taking a beating, so it always errs on the side of survival. In dire straits, a gray linnorm typically uses meld into stone to hide, and then wind walk or some other spell to leave the area.
   Acid Breath (Su): A gray linnorm can breathe caustic slime in either a 50-foot cone or a 100-foot line. This attack deals 6d8 points of acid damage, or half that amount on a successful Reflex save (DC 23). On a failed save, the slime also eats away the target’s nonmagical metal weapons and armor, making them useless in 1d6+5 rounds.
   Poison (Ex): The tip of a gray linnorm’s tail carries a venomous stinger that delivers its poison (Fortitude save DC 23) with each successful tail slap attack. The initial damage is 1d6 points of Constitution damage, and the secondary damage is 2d6 points of Constitution damage.
   Spell-Like Abilities: At will—fly, protection from arrows; 3/day—contagion, meld into stone, shapechange, wind walk. Caster level 17th; save DC 13 + spell level.
   Spells: A gray linnorm can cast divine spells as a 17th-level cleric. It has access to spells from the Destruction and Evil domains (spells/day 6/6/6/6/6/4/4/3/2/1; save DC 14 + spell level).
0 -
1 - Divine Favor, Shield of Faith, Lesser Vigor, Ebon Eyes, ?, ?
2 - Bull's Strength, Close Wounds, Hold Person, Owl's Wisdom, Resist Energy, ?
3 - Magic Vestment, Girallon's Blessing, Vigor, True Darkness, Invisibility Purge, ?
4 - Divine Power, Freedom of Movement, Spell Immunity, Consumptive Field, ?, ?
5 - Righteous Might, True Seeing, Divine Agility, Surge of Fortune
6 - Greater Dispel Magic, Heal, Quickened Owl's Wisdom, Energy Immunity
7 - Ethereal Jaunt, Blasphemy, Disintegrate
8 - Greater Spell Immunity, Quickened Divine Power
9 - Miracle
   Feats: A creature that is flung by a gray linnorm after being snatched travels 70 feet and takes 7d6 points of damage. If the gray linnorm is flying, the creature takes this damage or the
appropriate falling damage, whichever is greater.

I will probably also make one that is Gestalted with 17 levels of Sorcerer, with the Metamagic Specialist ACF from PHB2.  Such a specimen would get 30 point buy (my viking game uses 36 point buy for the PC's), to help up its Charisma and Wisdom scores a bit, and would get stat boosts at 4, 8, 12, and 16 (the altered stat block above did not get a stat boost at 16th level).

The gray linnorm should likely have already made use of every dirty trick it can to stay alive.  Miracle -> Contingency to Heal it when it gets severely damaged.  Death Pact from SpC.  It should use a Consumptive Field every morning to cast its long-duration buffs, so the PC's can't dispel them.  Things like that.  It might actually be worth it to give him Elder Giant Magic in place of Improved Snatch, as that could allow him to get the caster level on Consumptive Field up to 20, which would then grant +10 to his CL.  If he then used Elder Giant Magic again while Consumptive Field was active, the CL's of his buffs would be 30, and would be undispellable via Greater Dispel Magic.

Swamp Linnorm
This guy was almost lost to a WotC web purge.  Wayback Machine didn't archive it, but I found another site that did.

Swamp Linnorm

Gargantuan Dragon (Aquatic)

Hit Dice: 22d12+176 (319 hp)

Initiative: +0

Speed: 40 ft. (8 squares), fly 60 ft. (clumsy), swim 60 ft.

Armor Class: 31(-4 size, +25 natural), touch 6, flat-footed 31

Base Attack/Grapple: +22/+45

Attack: Bite +29 melee (4d6+11 plus disease)

Full Attack: Bite +29 melee (4d6+11 plus disease) and 2 claws +27 melee (2d8+5) and tail slap +27 melee (4d6+16)

Space/Reach: 20 ft./20 ft.

Special Attacks: Breath weapon, crush 4d6+16, disease, gaze of madness, spell-like abilities, spells, tail sweep 2d6+16

Special Qualities: Blindsense 60 ft., control undead, damage reduction 10/cold iron, immunity (disease, paralysis, sleep), keen senses, spell resistance 35

Saves: Fort +21, Ref +13, Will +18

Abilities: Str 32, Dex 10, Con 27, Int 15, Wis 20, Cha 18

Skills: Bluff +24, Concentration +28, Diplomacy +6, Intimidate +31, Knowledge (arcana) +22, Knowledge (nature) +27, Listen +32, Search +22, Spellcraft +4, Spot +32, Swim +39

Feats: Ability Focus (breath weapon), Alertness, Cleave, Flyby Attack, Multiattack, Power Attack, Quicken Spell-Like Ability (poison), Snatch

Environment: Any swamp

Organization: Solitary, plus 2d4 bog mummies (treat as normal mummies but without the vulnerability to fire)

Challenge Rating: 24

Treasure: Double standard

Alignment: Always chaotic evil

Advancement: 23-28 HD (Gargantuan)

Level Adjustment: --

The creature resembles a monstrously huge draconic snake, with two powerful forearms but no wings or hind legs. Its tail is long and flat, and it has ridges with hooks and jagged horns. The body and head are matted with thick tangles of mosslike hair. The creature's head resembles that of a massive feral crocodile with powerful jaws filled with ivory fangs.

The linnorms are among the most powerful and dangerous of dragonkind. Feral and almost prehistoric in appearance, these dragons are universally cruel, hateful, and destructive. The Monster Manual II details three types of linnorms. The swamp linnorm presented here is one of the more elusive of these ferocious dragons.

A swamp that serves as a swamp linnorm's lair is immediately recognizable to those who have encountered these creatures before. Large sections of the swamp consist of deep black tarns and vast stretches of mud. Animal life in a region controlled by a swamp linnorm is always minimal, since creatures larger than turtles or birds flee the creature's monstrous hunger. On the other end, plants (especially aquatic ones) are numerous and thick. The only denizens that are commonly found near a swamp linnorm are the leathery-skinned bog mummies that serve it.

A close look at a swamp linnorm reveals that its fangs protrude from its lips, even when the mouth is closed. Thick strands of steaming bile and acid drip from its maw, but most terrifying are its huge, bulging orange eyes that smoke with hatred and madness.

Swamp linnorms are often worshiped as gods by lizardfolk, maanvaki, and other swamp-dwelling creatures. They allow the linnorm to keep a vast tract of swampland as its own territory, and they work frantically to capture sacrifices to throw into the linnorm's territory in a desperate attempt to keep the creature well fed.

Swamp linnorms are amphibious and can breathe both air and water with equal ease.

Combat
Swamp linnorms have a vast array of spells and magical abilities they can call on, but they tend to prefer to use their physical attacks and breath weapons in combat. A swamp linnorm makes sure to bite and infect as many of its enemies as it can with the dread decay. Swamp linnorms only rarely encounter creatures that can actually challenge their power, but they are not overconfident and proud enough to underestimate such intruders in their realm. When faced with a challenge, linnorms prefer to send wave after wave of bog mummies against the intruders to soften their foes up while they use their druidic spells to pelt them with damage from afar. If seriously threatened, a linnorm uses its ability to transport via plants to escape and regroup.

Breath Weapon (Su): A swamp linnorm may use its breath weapon once every 1d4 rounds. This weapon manifests as a 100-foot line of boiling acid. This attack deals 6d6 points of fire damage and 6d6 points of acid damage, half on a successful Reflex save (DC 31). The save DC is Constitution-based. On a failed save, a victim is knocked down as well.

Crush (Ex): A flying swamp linnorm can land on opponents three or more sizes smaller than itself as a standard action, using its whole body to crush them. A crush attack affects as many creatures as can fit under the swamp linnorm's body. Each creature in the affected area must succeed at a Reflex save (DC 29) or be pinned, automatically taking 4d6+16 points of bludgeoning damage. The save DC is Constitution-based. Thereafter, if the swamp linnorm chooses to maintain the pin, treat it as a normal grapple attack. While pinned, the opponent takes crush damage each round.

Disease (Ex): Any creature hit by a swamp linnorm's bite attack must succeed at a Fortitude save (DC 29), or contract the dread decay. The save DC is Constitution-based. The incubation period is immediate, and the disease deals 2d6 points of temporary Constitution damage and 1d6 points of temporary Charisma damage (see Disease, in the Dungeon Master'sGuide). This terrible disease cannot be cured until the victim is subjected to a dispel evil, after which point any magical means to cure the dread decay will halt its terrible progression. Anyone who dies of the dread decay immediately transforms into a mummy; if you have access to Savage Species, you can simply apply the mummified creature template to the victim.

Gaze of Madness (Su): Anyone within 30 feet of a swamp linnorm who meets the creature's smoking orange eyes must succeed at a Will saving throw (DC 25) or be driven permanently insane (as if by the insanity spell). The save DC is Charisma-based. Swamp linnorms are immune to their own gaze attacks and to those of others of their kind.

Spell-Like Abilities: At will -- fly, control water; 3/day -- poison (DC 18), shapechange, transport via plants; 1/day -- dimension door, forbiddance, horrid wilting (DC 22). Caster level 20th; save DC 14 + spell level. The save DC is Charisma based.

Spells: A swamp linnorm can cast arcane spells as a 17th-level druid. They cannot swap out prepared spells to cast summon nature's ally spells.
Typical Druid Spells Prepared (6/7/6/6/6/5/4/3/2/1; save DC 15 + spell level): 0 -- detect magic, flare (3), know direction, resistance; 1 -- cure light wounds (3), entangle, longstrider, magic fang, obscuring mist; 2 -- bull's strength, fog cloud, gust of wind, resist energy, summon swarm, tree shape; 3 -- call lightning, cure moderate wounds (2), greater magic fang, plant growth, poison; 4 -- command plants, cure serious wounds (2), giant vermin, rusting grasp, scrying; 5 -- baleful polymorph, call lightning storm, cure critical wounds, transmute mud to rock, wall of thorns; 6 -- gatorswarm*, greater dispel magic, summon nature's ally VI, wall of stone; 7 -- control weather, heal, wind walk; 8 -- control plants, summon nature's ally VIII; 9 -- quagmire vortex*.

*This spell is detailed in the previous Far Corners of the World: "Mire and Mud: Spells of the Wetland."

Tail Sweep (Ex): A swamp linnorm can sweep with its tail as a standard action. The sweep affects creatures four or more size categories smaller than the linnorm within a 20-foot-radius half-circle centered on the linnorm's rear. Each affected creature that fails a Reflex save (DC 29 half) takes 2d6+16 points of damage. The save DC is Constitution-based.

Control Undead (Su): A swamp linnorm can control undead as a 20th-level evil cleric. It uses this ability to command any bog mummies created by its bite.

Keen Senses (Ex): A swamp linnorm sees four times as well as a human in low-light conditions and twice as well in normal light. It also has darkvision with a range of 120 feet.

Here are the spells mentioned from the other article (from here):

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Gatorswarm
Conjuration (Summoning)
Level: Drd 6
Components: V, S, DF
Casting Time: 1 round
Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Effect: 1d3 or 1d4+1 monstrous alligators
Duration: 1 round/level (D)
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No

This spell summons 1d3 exceptionally irate and hungry monstrous alligators from the surrounding waters.
The alligators appear where you designate and act immediately, on your turn. You can issue vocal
commands to the alligators on your turn as a free action; the spell grants these monstrous alligators the
ability to understand your native tongue. If not commanded, the alligators seek out and attack any of your
enemies; if no enemies are nearby, they sit patiently and await your command.
If you cast this spell in a swamp or similar environment (a wet region with lots of vegetation), the number of
monstrous alligators summoned increases to 1d4+1, and they gain a +2 morale bonus on attack rolls and
damage rolls.
Monstrous alligators have the following statistics (derived from the monstrous beast template in Savage
Species and using a giant crocodile as the base creature):

Monstrous Alligator: CR 5; Huge magical beast (augmented animal); HD 7d8+28; hp 59; Init +1;
Spd 20 ft., swim 30 ft.; AC 16, touch 9, flat-footed 15; Base Atk +5; Grp +21; Atk +11 melee (2d8+8,
bite) or +11 melee (1d12+8, tail slap); Full Atk +11 melee (2d8+8, bite) or +11 melee (1d12+8, tail
slap); Space/Reach 15 ft./10 ft.; SA improved grab, poison; SQ darkvision 60 ft., DR 10/magic, hold
breath 76 rounds, low-light vision; AL N; SV Fort +9, Ref +6, Will +3; Str 27, Dex 12, Con 19, Int 1,
Wis 12, Cha 2.
Skills and Feats: Hide +2*, Listen +5, Spot +5, Swim +16; Alertness, Endurance, Skill Focus (Hide).
Improved Grab (Ex): To use this ability, a monstrous alligator must hit with its bite attack. It can
then attempt to start a grapple as a free action without provoking an attack of opportunity. If it wins
the grapple check, the monstrous alligator establishes a hold on the opponent with its mouth and
drags it into deep water, attempting to pin it to the bottom.
Poison (Ex): Injury, Fortitude DC 17, initial damage 1d6 Str, secondary damage 1d6 Str. The save
DC is Constitution-based.
Hold Breath (Ex): A monstrous alligator can hold its breath for 76 rounds before it risks drowning.
Skills: Monstrous alligators have a +8 racial bonus on any Swim check to perform some special
action or avoid a hazard. It can always choose to take 10 on a Swim check, even if distracted or
endangered. It can use the run action while swimming, provided it swims in a straight line.
*The monstrous alligator gains a +4 racial bonus on Hide checks in the water. Further, it can lurk in
the water with only its eyes and nostrils showing, gaining a +10 cover bonus on Hide checks.

Quagmire Vortex
Evocation [Earth, Water]
Level: Drd 9
Components: V, S, DF
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Long (400 ft. + 40 ft./level)
Area: 80-ft.-radius spread
Duration:1round/level (D)
Saving Throw: See text
Spell Resistance: No

This devastating spell can be cast only in swampy or muddy environments; the entirety of the spell's
spread must be located in this terrain or the spell fails.

When cast, the bog in this area lurches into a sluicing life, forming a vortex made of mud and peat not
unlike a huge whirlpool. The violent churning motion of the vortex knocks down creatures, collapses
structures, and inexorably pulls anything caught in its area toward its center.

Each creature standing in the area must make a Reflex save (DC 15) each round they remain in the area
or fall down. Structures in the area take 50 points of damage per round. Any creature caught inside a
structure that collapses takes 8d6 points of bludgeoning damage (Reflex DC 15 half) and is pinned
beneath the rubble. A creature pinned beneath rubble takes 1d6 points of nonlethal damage per minute
while pinned. If a pinned creature falls unconscious, he or she must make a Constitution check (DC 15) or
take 1d6 points of lethal damage each minute thereafter until freed or dead. Unfortunately, pinned
creatures may be in for an even more terrible fate as they are drawn toward the center of the vortex.
Each round, all creatures that have fallen down and all structures that have collapsed move in the same
circular pattern around the center of the vortex at a speed of 30. Each round, this motion draws objects 10
feet closer to the vortex's center.

Creatures on the ground that have not been knocked prone move in this manner as well, but this
movement does not count against their maximum movement for the round, and, on their turn, such
creatures can take move actions to move in any direction they wish. The thick mud reduces the base land
speed of Large or smaller creatures to 5 feet, and it does not hinder creatures larger than this. If a creature
has a natural swim speed, it may use this speed instead while in the mud.

Once an object or creature reaches the center of the vortex, it is pulled down into the mud at a rate of 30
feet per round to a maximum depth of 80 feet. Creatures pulled into the mud begin to drown whenever they
can no longer hold their breath (see the Swim skill description in Chapter 4 of the Player's Handbook, and
Drowning in Chapter 8 of the Dungeon Master's Guide). Characters held below the surface of the vortex
can swim back toward the surface with a successful Swim Check (DC 35 + 1 per consecutive round of
being under the surface).

Once the spell's duration ends, the vortex instantly calms. Trees and other natural vegetation are naturally
returned to their positions before the vortex began, but creatures and artificial objects (including ruined
structures) pulled down into the vortex become imprisoned in the mud; living creatures that do not have
burrowing speeds quickly suffocate if not rescued.


Also, the following spell is cool, so I want to make sure it is preserved:

Raise Hummock
Transmutation [Earth/Water]
Level: Sor/Wiz 5
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 10 minutes
Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Area: Two 5-ft. squares/level (S)
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No

This spell can be cast in any swamplike area where mud, peat, or other unstable moist ground abounds.
When cast, the spell causes the affected area to rise up into a low mound, so that two 5-foot squares per
caster level are raised up above the surrounding terrain. The hummock rises up to 1 foot per caster level,
and its edge slopes back down at a 45 degree angle to the level of the surrounding terrain (not necessarily
to the surrounding water level). Any trees or other natural features in the area when the spell is cast are
raised up as well, although features that are not fully encompassed by the spell's area are not raised. In
this case, the rising mud and soil simply rises up around the stationary object. The raised hummock can be
any shape you desire, but it cannot rise more than 10 feet vertically. The raised hummock is transformed
into fertile soil, and it is solid enough to serve as a building's foundation or to grow crops.

Many wizards use this spell to create artificial islands deep in isolated regions of large swamps so they can
build a library or research tower in the secluded area. It is theoretically possible to drain or destroy an
entire swamp with multiple castings of this spell, although such a process would be costly and would no
doubt enrage the local denizens.

Material Component: 1,000 gp of powdered gemstones, which must be sprinkled into the water in the
region.

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I'd been wanting to include Nightmares somehow for a while now.  The logical place would be for them to be from Muspelheim, and serve as mounts for Fire Giants.  Problem: Nightmares have no resistance or immunity to fire (despite their fiery hooves), and a plane with the Fire Dominant trait inflicts 3d10 fire damage per round...

Well, I just learned of a little template that rectifies that problem fairly easily... The Imix-Blooded Template (ie - God-Blooded) from the MM5.  It is a +1 CR and +1 LA template that grants the Fire Subtype (in the case of Imix) and a few other fire-related abilities.  Perfect for my purposes, the template even has a built-in way to remove the template (a DR ability that can be called upon to absorb a total of 40 points of damage; once it has been exhausted, you lose the template).  So, all Nightmares are born as Imix-Blooded, but they can become "quenched," losing the template.  They would never do this in Muspelheim, but if they had traveled to another of the Nine Worlds, one might allow itself to be quenched, so as to better serve a non-fiery master.

Brilliant!


I really like the Loumara demons introduced in FCI, and I've been able to hunt down two more species in Dragon #359 and #360.  It seems they left out a section of the stat block for the Caligrosto (Environment, Organization, Treasure, Advancement), but due to the wording in Infuse Weapon, they obviously can advance up to at least 20 HD, likely staying medium the whole time). Here they are:


Caligrosto
   A hazy, ghostly woman stands ready for battle. Her eyes glow red,batlike wings unfurl from her back, and a forked tail coils in the air behind her, but her flesh is hazy and indistinct, almost as if she didn’t quite exist. The cruel, jagged sword she wields, however, is danger-ously solid and real.

Caligrosto      CR 6
hp 68 (8 HD); Reflective DR 15/bludgeoning and piercing
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CE Medium outsider (chaotic, evil, extraplanar, incorporeal, loumara)
Init: +9; Senses: darkvision 60 ft.; Listen +13, Spot +13
Languages: Abyssal, Common; telepathy 100 ft.
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AC: 21, touch 21, flat-footed 16
   (+5 Dex, +6 deflection)
Immune: acid, electricity, fire, incorporeal traits
Resist: cold 10; SR 17
Fort +10, Ref +11, Will +8
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Speed: 30 ft. (6 squares), fly 60 ft. (perfect)
Melee: +1 keen greatsword +15/+10 (2d6+12/17–20) or
   touch +13 (1d6 Str damage)
Base Atk: +8; Grp +8
Atk Options: Combat Expertise, Improved Disarm
Special Actions: possess blade
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Abilities: Str —, Dex 20, Con 18, Int 13, Wis 15, Cha 22
SQ: fiendish shade, infuse weapon, invisibility, martial prowess
Feats: Combat Expertise, Improved Disarm, Improved Initiative,
   Weapon Focus (greatsword)B, Weapon Specialization (greatsword)B
Skills: Bluff +17, Intimidate +19, Knowledge (local) +12, Knowledge
   (the planes) +12, Listen +13, Search +12, Sense Motive +13,
   Spot +13, Tumble +16
Possessions: +1 keen greatsword
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Fiendish Shade (Su): As long as a caligrosto is wielding a weapon, it creates
   a phantom image of the last creature it damaged, although this
   incorporeal image is of a fiendish incarnation of the creature duplicated.
   A caligrosto can only duplicate the image of a creature capable of
   wielding a slashing weapon, and it remains Medium size no matter what
   size the original creature was. Once a caligrosto has taken on the shade
   of an enemy in this manner, it gains a +2 insight bonus on attack rolls
   and weapon damage rolls made against that target.
Infuse Weapon (Su): A caligrosto can infuse a magic weapon it has possessed
   with the keen weapon quality. More powerful caligrostos can infuse
   additional weapon qualities into their blades. A caligrosto with at least
   14 Hit Dice can infuse its weapon with keen and wounding special
   qualities. The most powerful caligrostos (those with 20 or more Hit Dice)
   can infuse a possessed weapon with keen, wounding, and vorpal
   qualities. Infused weapon qualities stack with any existing weapon
   qualities a weapon may have, but not with weapon qualities of the same
   name. Thus, a 20-HD caligrosto that possesses a +3 unholy speed
   longsword would be able to infuse it into a +3 unholy speed keen
   wounding vorpal longsword.
Invisibility (Su): A caligrosto is invisible in its natural (nonshade) form when it
   isn’t possessing a blade. This ability is constant, allowing the caligrosto
   to remain invisible even when attacking. This ability is inherent and not
   subject to the invisibility purge spell.
Martial Prowess (Ex): A caligrosto is uncannily adept at wielding bladed
   weapons. Once it has possessed a blade, it is treated as if proficient
   with that weapon, and as if it had Weapon Focus and Weapon
   Specialization with that weapon type. More powerful caligrostos gain
   additional bonus feats—a caligrosto with at least 12 Hit Dice also gains
   Greater Weapon Focus with its currently possessed weapon as a bonus
   feat. Finally, a caligrosto with at least 18 Hit Dice gains Greater Weapon
   Specialization with its currently possessed weapon as a bonus feat.
   Although caligrostos have no Strength score, they use their Dexterity
   modifier to modify their attack rolls with their possessed weapon, and
   modify damage with the weapon using their Charisma modifier (in the
   same manner that Strength adjusts damage with weapons).
Possess Blade (Su): Unlike most loumaras, caligrostos cannot possess living
   creatures. Their ability to possess is limited to slashing weapons. A
   caligrosto may attempt to possess any unattended slashing weapon by
   taking a full-round action (this provokes an attack of opportunity).
   Against nonmagic weapons, a caligrosto is automatically successful. A
   magic weapon can make a DC 20 Will save (this save DC is Charisma-
   based) to resist the possession—if the object succeeds, the caligrosto
   may never again attempt to possess that particular bladed weapon.
   Once a caligrosto possesses a weapon, it may come and go as it
   pleases, taking a move action to enter and leave the blade.
      While possessing a sword, the caligrosto is immobile and
   cannot take attack actions, nor can it be detected by most effects that
   detect creatures (such as see invisibility or locate creature).  Detect
   chaos and detect evil reveal that the possessed weapon has that
   alignment, but not that a demon lurks inside.  True seeing reveals the
   weapon to be seething with coils of what appears to be mist flecked with
   lightning. The caligrosto can still observe the world around it, but its
   ability to interact with the world is limited to telepathy.
      A creature can wield a caligrosto-possessed weapon as if it were
   a normal weapon. Often, the caligrosto infuses the weapon (see above)
   to make it more appealing and more likely that it will be used in combat.
   It may even use telepathy to try to convince a creature that it is an
   intelligent weapon—in this case, the caligrosto tries to encourage its
   new “owner” to attack creatures capable of wielding weapons.
      Once a caligrosto-possessed weapon strikes any creature that is
   capable of wielding it (regardless of the creature’s size), the caligrosto can
   attempt to wrench free from its wielders grasp and create a fiendish shade
   of that creature. A caligrosto often tries to convince its wielder telepathically
   that this is merely a short-lived but potent variant of the dancing quality,
   hoping to let its wielder allow the effect to occur without resisting. The
   wielder can attempt a DC 20 Will save to prevent a wielded caligrosto
   weapon from flying out of her hands to utilize its fiendish shade ability.
   This save DC is Charisma-based.
      Once a caligrosto gets free of its wielder and assumes a fiendish 
   shade, it can remain in that mode eternally. Typically, a caligrosto helps
   its previous owner defeat the creature before turning on her in hopes of
   creating a fiendish shade of her, but sometimes a caligrosto can’t wait
   for treachery and attacks its previous wielder as soon as it escapes. A
   caligrosto can be forced out of a weapon it is possessing by
   banishment, dismissal, dispel chaos, or dispel evil. When a caligrosto
   is driven out in this manner, the weapon it was possessing drops to the
   ground. The caligrosto can attempt to re-possess the weapon on its next 
   action (although if the weapon is magical, it gains a new Will save to
   resist this new possession attempt as if the demon had never before
   attempted to possess it). If a caligrosto-possessed weapon is destroyed,
   the caligrosto is forced out of the weapon and must make a DC 20
   Fortitude save to avoid being stunned for 1d3 rounds.
Reflective Damage Reduction (Su):  As long as a caligrosto’s fiendish shade
   ability is in effect, it gains DR 15/bludgeoning and piercing. Slashing
   damage negated by this damage reduction is applied to the creature
   whose shape is currently being mocked by the loumara’s fiendish shade
   ability. For example, if a caligrosto’s fiendish shade is imitating Lidda,
   and Krusk strikes the demon with his +3 greataxe and causes 25 points
   of damage, 15 points of that damage are negated and applied to Lidda
   instead, while the caligrosto takes the 10 points of damage not negated
   by the damage reduction. Nonmagic weapons cannot harm the caligrosto
   (due to its incorporeal traits) and thus are not affected by this unusual
   defensive ability.
Strength Drain (Su): A caligrosto deals 1d6 points of Strength damage with its
   touch attack. Whenever it deals Strength damage to a target, a caligrosto
   heals 5 points of damage; if the demon is healthy, it instead gains this
   healing as temporary hit points.



MANITOU         CR 12
Always CE Huge Outsider (chaotic, evil, extraplanar, incorporeal, loumara)
Init: +10; Senses: darkvision 60 ft.; Listen +24, Spot +24
Aura: frightful presence (120 ft. range, Will DC 27)
Languages: Abyssal, Common; telepathy 100 ft.
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AC: 22, touch 22, flat-footed 16
   (-2 size, +6 dex, +8 deflection)
hp: 172 (15 HD); DR: 10/good
Immune: acid, electricity, fire, incorporeal traits
Resist: cold 10; SR 22
Fort +16, Ref +15, Will +17
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Spd: fly 50 ft. (perfect)(10 squares)
Melee: 6 bites +19 (2d8)
Space: 15 ft.; Reach: 15 ft.
Base Atk: +15; Grp: –
Atk Options: Combat Expertise
Special Actions: possession, rend nature
Spell-Like Abilities (CL 15th)
   At will – diminish plants, dominate animal (DC 21), entangle (DC 19),
      greater magic fang, hallucinatory terrain (DC 22), plant growth,
      summon nature's ally V, transport via plants
   3/day – call lightning storm (DC 23), control winds, quickened
      entangle (DC 19), giant vermin
   1/day – shambler
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Abilities: Str –, Dex 23, Con 24, Int 20, Wis 22, Cha 27
Feats: Ability Focus (frightful presence), Combat Expertise, Combat Reflexes,
   Improved Initiative, Iron Will, Quicken Spell-Like Ability (entangle)
Skills: Concentration +25, Hide +16, Knowledge (arcana) +23, Knowledge
   (dungeoneering) +23, Knowledge (geography) +23, Knowledge (nature)
   +23, Knowledge (the planes) +23, Listen +24, Search +23, Sense Motive
   +24, Spellcraft +25, Spot +24, Tumble +24
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Environment: any wilderness
Organization: solitary
Treasure: standard
Advancement: 16-21 HD (Huge), 22-39 HD (Gargantuan), 40-45 HD (Colossal)
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Frightful Presence (Su):  A manitou exudes an aura of supernatural fear to a
   radius of 120 feet.  Any creature in this area must make a DC 27 Will
   save to avoid becoming frightened as long as that creature remains
   in the area of effect.  A creature who makes this save is immune to the
   frightful presence of that particular manitou for 24 hours.  This is a mind-
   affecting fear effect.  The save DC is Charisma-based.
Possession (Su):  A manitou can possess any creature of the animal, fey, or
   plant type.  It must enter a square occupied by the creature it wishes to
   possess.  The victim is entitled to a DC 27 Will save to resist possession. 
   A single manitou may simultaneously possess multiple targets at once,
   up to a number equal to its Charisma modifier.  True seeing reveals a
   thin, ghostly vine extending from the backs of any creatures so possessed,
   coiling through the air and linking them together.  Manitou-possessed
   creatures must remain within a mile of each other–a possessed creature
   that is moved beyond this range is immediately freed of its possession. 
   The save DC is Charisma-based.
      A manitou can take on any of the following roles while possessing
   a creature:  ally, controller, or transformer.  See Fiendish Codex I, page 21,
   for more information.
Rend Nature (Su):  Once every 1d4 rounds, an incorporeal manitou can rend
   nature.  This affects all creatures and plants within the manitou's space. 
   All affected creatures take 10d6 points of damage, as their bodies are torn
   apart by invisible forces.  A successful DC 24 Fortitude save halves the
   damage.  Animals, elementals, fey, and plants in this area instead take
   10d10 points of damage and are stunned for 1 round (a successful save
   halves the damage and negates the stunning effect).  Constructs, outsiders,
   and undead are immune to this effect.

[ksbsnowowl]

I just recently learned of this wonderful beast from Dragon Magazine 299.  Oh, how I would have loved to have known about this back when I was running my Norse-themed Mythic Sagas campaign.

This is a 3.5 converted stat block, incorporating a bonus feat to account for the utter mechanical discrepancies of the 3.0 stat block found in the magazine (primarily related to Improved Grab's usefulness and the Tree Troll's grapple modifier).

TREE TROLL - 3.5
Small Monstrous Humanoid
Hit Dice: 2d8+8 (17 hp)

Initiative: +3
Speed: 20 ft. (4 squares), climb 30 ft.

Armor Class: 19 (+1 size, +3 Dex, +5 natural), touch 14, flat-footed 16

Base Attack/Grapple: +2/+3

Attack: Claw +4 melee (1d3+1)

Full Attack: 2 claws +4 melee (1d3+1), and bite –1 melee (1d3)

Space/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft.

Special Attacks: Improved grab (claw)

Special Qualities: Darkvision 60 ft., Regeneration 3, Scent, Uncanny Dodge

Saves: Fort +4, Ref +6, Will +4

Abilities: Str 13, Dex 16, Con 19, Int 9, Wis 12, Cha 12

Skills: Balance +5 (+13 in forests), Climb +9 [Take 10], Hide +15, Jump –3, Listen +3, Spot +3, Tumble +8

Feats: Alertness, Improved Grapple^B

Environment: Temperate forest
Organization: Solitary, gang (2–4), or band (6–11)
Challenge Rating: 2
Treasure: Standard

Alignment: Usually chaotic neutral
Advancement: By character class
Level Adjustment: –

Tree trolls are small arboreal trolls created by magic gone awry.  They live in thick forests, hiding among the trees and working together to take down prey.  Despite their size, they have proven as ravenous as their larger ancestors.
   Tree trolls stand 3 feet tall and weigh about 30 pounds.  Their rubbery, mottled-green hides are almost completely covered in thick moss-like hair.  They have overlong arms and sharp claws that help them move among the trees.  Their faces appear squashed with long proboscis-like noses extending past their lower jaws.
   Tree trolls speak Giant.

COMBAT
Tree trolls prefer to use their stealth and tumbling abilities to get close to opponents and then latch on, gnawing away at their foes.  Tree trolls have no fear except for fire, which eats away at their treetop homes and flesh.  Tree trolls have simple tactics of attacking one foe after another.  Gangs of tree trolls often swarm out of trees to fall upon one victim.  Even large numbers don’t dissuade them as they relentlessly swarm over one foe after another.
   Improved Grab (Ex):  If a tree troll hits [a Medium or smaller opponent] with a claw attack, it deals normal damage and attempts to start a grapple as a free action without provoking an attack of opportunity (grapple bonus +3).  If it gets a hold, it deals automatic bite damage.  In subsequent rounds, each successful grapple check it makes during successive rounds automatically deals claw damage.
   Uncanny Dodge (Ex):  Tree trolls have the ability to react to danger before their senses would normally allow them to do so.  Tree trolls retain their Dexterity bonus to AC (if any) regardless of being caught flat-footed or struck by an invisible attacker.
   Regeneration (Ex):  Fire and acid deal normal damage to a tree troll.
   If a tree troll loses a limb or body part, the lost portion regrows in 3d6 minutes.  The creature can reattach the severed member instantly by holding it to the stump.
   Skills: Tree trolls have a +8 racial bonus to Balance checks in forested areas, and a +8 racial bonus to Hide checks.








With the recent addition of Huge-sized Giant miniatures, I was giving thought to how to go about using them if I even run another live Mythic Sagas campaign again.  In the opening post of this thread, I mentioned basing Legendary Fire and Frost Giants off of Eldritch Giants from the MMIII.  I will admit this idea was based somewhat upon brainstormed plans to buy Eldritch Giant miniatures, and paint them to get Huge Frost Giants... Well, now there is no need, and there may be a simpler solution that I hit upon when devising how to use some of the monsters from the MM2, which can have wonky CR vs HP ratios.  For example, the Phoenix seems quite lackluster for its CR.  But if one were to take such creatures, increase their size category by 1 (along with the ability stat and natural armor changes that entails), and increase its Hit Dice by 50%, that would be appropriate for the CR of something like the Phoenix.

With the looming release of yet more Huge Giant mini's in tomorrow's Monster Menagerie 3, I applied that line of thinking to Fire and Frost Giants.  It's simple, and allows easy use of the Huge mini's.  But, the Eldritch Giant chassis did have some advantages that were appropriate for depicting the Frost Giants from Norse myth, who were known for their magic use.  It shores up the lacking Will save, and gives them a few SLA's, and the ability to use Arcane magic items as if they were wizards.  For a future return to a Mythic Sagas campaign, I'll probably still go the Eldritch Giant chassis route, but for a simpler approach, here is the application of my above Phoenix philosophy to Fire and Frost Giants.

Increase each species by 7 HD, adding the two stat bumps those provide to Dexterity (to offset the size increase's –2 Dex), increase the size category by one, to Huge, and add +2 to the CR.  You end up with these (plus a few rearranged feats).


GREATER FIRE GIANT
Huge Giant (Fire)

Hit Dice: 22d8+154 (253 hp)
Initiative: –1

Speed: 30 ft. in half-plate armor (6 squares); base speed 40 ft.
Armor Class: 25 (–2 size, –1 Dex, +11 natural, +7 half-plate armor) touch 7, flat-footed 25
Base Attack/Grapple: +16/+38

Attack: Greatsword +28 melee (4d6+21) or slam +28 melee (1d6+14) or rock +14 ranged (2d8+14 plus 2d6 fire)
Full Attack: Greatsword +28/+23/+18/+13 melee (4d6+21) or 2 slams +28 melee (1d6+14) or
   rock +14 ranged (2d8+14 plus 2d6 fire)
Space/Reach: 15 ft./15 ft.
Special Attacks: Rock throwing
Special Qualities: Immunity to fire, low-light vision, rock catching, vulnerability to cold
Saves: Fort +20, Ref +6, Will +11

Abilities: Str 39, Dex 9, Con 25, Int 10, Wis 14, Cha 11
Skills: Climb +15, Craft (any one) +10, Hide –16, Intimidate +6, Jump +17, Move Silently –8, Spot +18

Feats: Cleave, Combat Brute, Improved Bull Rush, Improved Overrun, Improved Sunder,
   Iron Will, Power Attack, Shock Trooper

Environment: Warm mountains

Organization: Solitary, gang (2–5), band (6–9 plus 35% noncombatants plus 1 adept or cleric of
   1st or 2nd level), hunting/raiding party (6–9 plus 1 adept or sorcerer of 3rd–5th level plus
   2–4 hell hounds and 2–3 trolls or ettins), or tribe (21–30 plus 1 adept, cleric, or sorcerer of
   6th or 7th level plus 12–30 hell hounds, 12–22 trolls, 5–12 ettins, and 1–2 young red dragons)
Challenge Rating: 12

Treasure: Standard

Alignment: Often lawful evil
Advancement: By character class
Level Adjustment: –

This giant resembles a mammoth dwarf with coal-black skin, flaming red hair, and a prognathous jaw that reveals dirty ivory teeth.

Fire giants are brutal, ruthless, and militaristic.

   Some fire giants have bright orange hair.  An adult male is 18 feet tall, has a chest that measures 12 feet around, and weighs about 7,500 pounds. Females are slightly shorter and lighter. Fire giants can live to be 350 years old.

   Fire giants wear sturdy cloth or leather garments colored red, orange, yellow, or black. Warriors wear helmets and half-plate armor of blackened steel.
   A typical fire giant’s bag contains 1d4+1 throwing rocks, 3d4 mundane items, a tinderbox, and the giant’s personal wealth. Everything a fire giant owns is battered, dirty, and often singed by heat.

Combat
Fire giants heat their rocks in a nearby fire, geyser, or lava pools, so that they deal extra fire damage. They favor magic flaming swords in melee (when they can get them).  They are also fond of grabbing smaller opponents and tossing them somewhere very hot.

   Rock Throwing (Ex): The range increment is 120 feet for a fire giant’s thrown rocks.
   Rock Catching (Ex): A giant of at least Large size can catch Small, Medium, or Large rocks (or projectiles of similar shape). Once per round, a giant that would normally be hit by a rock can make a Reflex save to catch it as a free action. The DC is 15 for a Small rock, 20 for a Medium one, and 25 for a Large one. (If the projectile provides a magical bonus on attack rolls, the DC increases by that amount.) The giant must be ready for and aware of the attack in order to make a rock catching attempt.





GREATER FROST GIANT
Huge Giant (Cold)

Hit Dice: 21d8+147 (241 hp)
Initiative: –1

Speed: 40 ft. (8 squares)
Armor Class: 23 (–2 size, –1 Dex, +12 natural, +4 chain shirt) touch 7, flat-footed 23
Base Attack/Grapple: +15/+36

Attack: Greataxe +26 melee (4d6+19/×3) or slam +26 melee (1d6+13) or rock +27 ranged (2d8+13)
Full Attack: Greataxe +26/+21/+16 melee (4d6+19/×3) or 2 slams +26 melee (1d6+13) or
   rock +27 ranged (2d8+13)
Space/Reach: 15 ft./15 ft.
Special Attacks: Rock throwing
Special Qualities: Immunity to cold, low-light vision, rock catching, vulnerability to fire
Saves: Fort +19, Ref +6, Will +9

Abilities: Str 37, Dex 9, Con 25, Int 10, Wis 14, Cha 11
Skills: Climb +19, Craft (any one) +10, Hide –10, Intimidate +6, Jump +23, Spot +18

Feats: Brutal Throw, Cleave, Combat Brute, Improved Bull Rush, Improved Overrun, Improved Sunder,
   Power Attack, Shock Trooper

Environment: Cold mountains

Organization: Solitary, gang (2–5), band (6–9 plus 35% noncombatants plus 1 adept or cleric of
   1st or 2nd level), hunting/raiding party (6–9 plus 35% noncombatants plus 1 adept or
   sorcerer of 3rd–5th level plus 2–4 winter wolves and 2–3 ogres), or tribe (21–30 plus
   1 adept, cleric, or sorcerer of 6th or 7th level plus 12–30 winter wolves, 12–22 ogres, and
   1–2 young white dragons)
Challenge Rating: 11

Treasure: Standard

Alignment: Often chaotic evil
Advancement: By character class
Level Adjustment: –

This giant looks like a beefy, muscular human with snow-white skin and light blue hair and eyes.

Frost giants are justifiably feared as brutal and wantonly destructive raiders.
   A frost giant’s hair can be light blue or dirty yellow, and its eyes usually match its hair color. Frost giants dress in skins and pelts, along with any jewelry they own. Frost giant warriors add chain shirts and metal helmets decorated with horns or feathers.
   An adult male is about 21 feet tall and weighs about 8,000 pounds. Females are slightly shorter and lighter, but otherwise identical with males. Frost giants can live to be 250 years old.
   A frost giant’s bag usually contains 1d4+1 throwing rocks, 3d4 mundane items, and the giant’s personal wealth. Everything in a frost giant’s bag is old, worn, dirty, and smelly, making the identification of any valuable items difficult.

Combat
Frost giants usually start combat at a distance, throwing rocks until they run out of ammunition or the opponent closes, then wading in with their enormous battleaxes.
   A favorite tactic is to lay an ambush by hiding buried in the snow at the top of an icy or snowy slope, where opponents will have difficulty reaching them.
   Rock Throwing (Ex): The range increment is 120 feet for a frost giant’s thrown rocks.
   Rock Catching (Ex): A giant of at least Large size can catch Small, Medium, or Large rocks (or projectiles of similar shape). Once per round, a giant that would normally be hit by a rock can make a Reflex save to catch it as a free action. The DC is 15 for a Small rock, 20 for a Medium one, and 25 for a Large one. (If the projectile provides a magical bonus on attack rolls, the DC increases by that amount.) The giant must be ready for and aware of the attack in order to make a rock catching attempt.

[Nanshork]

You live!

[ksbsnowowl]

You live!

Haha! Yes, I do live.  Life has just been VERY busy of late.  Still running two campaigns at my house each week.  My Sunless Citadel campaign is wrapping up; they are 19th level and playing through the last adventure of that series.  I recently moved, and in a few weeks my wife and I will be having our first child.

All the giants in this upcoming set of miniatures has me salivating, and thinking back on all the great times I had running Viking-themed games.  However, three of my four Sunless Citadel players wanted a political intrigue campaign as their top choice once we finish Bastion of Broken Souls, so I'll be tiptoeing into relatively unfamiliar campaign territory for myself, and decided to use a crutch for my first politics-heavy campaign.  I'll be running Paizo's Curse of the Crimson Throne AP, which fortunately for me was published before Pathfinder, so is actually fully 3.5 OGL D&D.  News of the new campaign intrigued several players in my other group, and so I'll actually have a party of 6 PC's for this new campaign, which will be the most players I've ever run for in an on-going, in-person campaign.

I'm still very much involved in D&D.  I just had to prioritize where I focused my efforts in the hobby, and sadly, for the last long while, MinMax slid way down on the list    I do often yearn to get reinvolved here, but I doubt it will ever be as much as it was.  One of my biggest long-term goals is to finish my Sunless Citadel Campaign Journal, but I know it is going to be a years-long project that I'm going to have to take slowly.

[phaedrusxy]

You live!

Haha! Yes, I do live.  Life has just been VERY busy of late.  Still running two campaigns at my house each week.  My Sunless Citadel campaign is wrapping up; they are 19th level and playing through the last adventure of that series.  I recently moved, and in a few weeks my wife and I will be having our first child.

Congratulations!

[Craiconn]

I dig the updates, KSB.  Very nice.  And congrats on the family expansion!

Since you soon will be venturing into a Pathfinder AP (albeit in their 3.5 rule set), you'll likely find a metric tonne of Norse related trolls, hags, giants, etc. in all 6 of Paizo's Bestiaries.  As well as some that are sprinkled throughout the APs and modules but never got included/updated in their Bestiaries.  In fact, I think Paizo's PF 1E has outdone D&D 3.5 in publishing Norse-related content. 

Holler if you need any help locating any of it (I'm Crai over at Plasticrypt, as well).  d20pfsrd.com and archivesofnethys.com should have most of the stat-based stuff.  Backporting PF game mechanics into 3.5 is pretty easy and formulaic. 

[Nanshork]

Congratulations!  I wish I could find an epic D&D group...

[phaedrusxy]

You might be interested in this review that was just started.