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Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 2:49 am Post subject: Dicefreaks Template: Risen |
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Created by Dicefreaks
Creating a Risen
“Risen” is an acquired template that can be added to any living creature (referred to hereafter as the base creature).
The rank of the template the base creature recieves is usually determined by the method and care of the base creature's internment, and/or the amount of power and influence the base creature held in life. A risen creature's rank generally remains static thereafter.
The risen creature has all the base creatures' statistics and special abilities except as noted here.
Size and Type: The base creature's type changes to Undead (Augmented [base creature's type]). Do not recalculate base attack bonus, saves, or skill points. Size is unchanged.
Hit Dice: Increase all current and future Hit Dice to d12s. The ancient dead and mightier also gain bonus HP using their Charisma modifer in place of their Consitution modifer.
Speed: The risen creature has its speed reduced by 10 feet in every mode of movement.
Armor Class: The risen creature has a +5 natural armor bonus per rank or the base creature’s natural armor bonus, whichever is better. The venerable dead and mightier gain a profane bonus to AC equal to their rank. The deified dead and mightier gain a deflection bonus to AC equal to their Charisma modifier.
Special Attacks: The risen creature retain all the base creature’s special attacks and gains those described below. Save DCs are equal to 10 + 1/2 the risen creature’s HD + the risen creature’s Charisma modifer unless otherwise noted.
Despair (Su): At the mere sight of the risen creature, viewers must succeed on a Will save or be paralyzed with fear for 1d4 rounds per rank. Whether or not the save is successful, that creature cannot be affected again by the same risen's despair ability for 24 hours.
Special Qualities: The risen creature retains all the base creature’s special qualities and gains those described below.
Damage Reduction (Su): The embalmed flesh of the risen creature will not yield to mortal weapons, giving the creature damage reduction according to the table below. Their natural weapons are treated as magic and evil for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. The ancient and mightier treat their natural weapons as epic for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction
Energy Vulnerability (Ex): The risen creature is vulnerable to one form energy that it is neither resistant or immune to.
Fast Healing (Ex): The risen creature has fast healing equal to five times its rank.
Immunities (Ex): The risen creature is immune to mind affecting effects, polymorph and one form of energy.
Resistances (Ex): The risen creature has resistance 10 to two forms of energy.
Turn Resistance (Ex): The risen creature has turn resistance equal to its rank plus its Charisma modifer.
Abilities: The base creature's ability scores increase according to the table below. Being undead, the risen creature has no Constitution score. If the creaure's Intelligence is reduced below 3, all of its HD are replaced with undead HD. It retains any racial abilities other than spellcasting or spell-like abilities, but looses all class abilities. The creature's Intelligence can not fall below one as a result of this template being applied.
Skills: Same as the base creature.
Organization: Solitary.
Challenge Rating: +2, with an additional +1 at the restless, ancient, and transcendant ranks.
Treasure: Standard coins; double goods; double items.
Alignment: Any evil.
Advancement: By character class.
Walking Dead; +4 Str, -2 Dex, -8 Int, +2 Wis, +4 Cha. DR 4/-. No salient abilities.
Restless Dead; +4 Str, -2 Dex, -6 Int, +4 Wis, +4 Cha. DR 8/-. 1 salient ability.
Venerable Dead; +6 Str, -4 Int, +6 Wis, +6 Cha. DR 12/-. 2 salient abilities.
Ancient Dead; +6 Str, -2 Int, +8 Wis, +6 Cha. DR 16/-. 4 salient abilities.
Deified Dead; +8 Str, +10 Wis, +8 Cha. DR 20/-. 7 salient abilities.
Transcendant Dead; +8 Str, +2 Int, +12 Wis, +8 Cha. DR 24/-. 11 salient abilities. |
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Risen Salient Abilities
Alternate Form (Su)
The risen may take animal form.
Benefits: The risen can assume the shape of one of any two animals (or dire versions thereof) as a standard action. These animals may not have more HD than the risen itself. This ability is similar to a polymorph spell cast by a caster of a level equal to the risen's HD, except that the risen does not regain hit points for changing form and must choose from among those two forms. While in its alternate form, the risen loses its natural attacks, but it gains the natural weapons and extraordinary special attacks of its new form. It can remain in that form until it assumes another.
Bestial (Ex)
Death has twisted the risen into a bestial, animalistic form.
Prerequisites: Wis 9+.
Benefits: The risen gains two claw attacks and one bite attack, which inflict damage according to the table below:
Size Claw Damage Bite Damage
Fine 1 1
Diminutive 1d2 1
Tiny 1d3 1d2
Small 1d4 1d3
Medium 1d6 1d4
Large 1d8 1d6
Huge 2d6 1d8
Gargantuan 3d6 2d6
Colossal 4d6 3d6
Note: A risen which has taken the Pristine saliant ability may not take the Beastial saliant ability.
Curse of the Pharaoh (Su)
The risen can call down a terrible curse upon those who dare violate its tomb.
Prerequisites: Venerable or mightier, Cha 15+.
Benefits: Whenever any living creature enters the tomb of the risen (for the purposes of this ability, a "tomb" is the area that the Risen regards as its personal dwelling - some very powerful risen have this power cover entire cities), the risen is not only instantly aware of the intruder, its name, alignment and patron deity (if any) but it may also, at its choice, use bestow greater curse upon it. Furthermore, unless the trespasser is of higher level than the risen, it receives no save.
Dark Blessing (Ex)
The risen is utterly evil, and its ties to the negative energy plane protect it.
Prerequisities: Venerable or mightier, cleric level 10+, Cha 21+.
Benefits: The risen may add it's Charisma modifier to all saving throws. This does not stack with the blackguard ability of the same name.
Elemental Mastery (Su)
The risen's command of the elements is legendary.
Prerequisites: Ancient or greater, 20th level cleric with the Air, Earth, Fire or Water domain, immune to corresponding energy type, Elemental Power.
Benefits:
Air: Gains a competence bonus on attack rolls, damage, and Armor Class equal to its rank if both it and its foe are airborne.
Earth: Gains a competence bonus on attack rolls, damage, and Armor Class equal to its rank if both it and its foe are touching the ground.
Fire: Gains a competence bonus on attack rolls, damage, and Armor Class equal to its rank if both it and its foe are touching fire or using weapons with the flaming or flaming burst special abilities.
Water: Gains a competence bonus on attack, damage, and Armor Class equal to its rank if both it and its foe are touching the same body of water.
Elemental Power (Ex)
The risen has great command over the elements.
Prerequisites: Restless or greater, 10th level cleric with the Air, Earth, Fire or Water domain, immune to corresponding energy type.
Benefits:
Air: Fly at twice land speed
Earth: Burrow at twice land speed
Fire: 1d6 extra fire damage on every strike
Water: Swim at twice land speed
Energy Drain (Su)
The risen can permanently drain a creature's lifeforce.
Prerequisitites: Cha 19+, Touch of Death.
Benefits: The risen's natural weapons and unarmed strikes (including its touch attack) deal one negative level per rank. This may be used once per round.
Feeder of Flesh (Ex)
The risen has a ghoul-like craving for the flesh of the dead.
Prerequisites: Restless or mightier.
Benefits: The risen can devour the corpses of the dead, allowing it to consume the negative energy that lingers around corpses. As a full round action, the risen can devour the corpse of a creature of the same size class or smaller, gaining 1 corpse point per HD the target had. The risen can never have more corpse points than its own HD. For every size category the creature is larger than the risen, it takes an additional full round action to devour the corpse.
The risen can spend two corpse points to heal itself for 3 hit points, as a free action.
Grand Seer (Su)
A few risen have achieved such mastery over the necromatic energies that fill them that they can channel the same powers of other risen, allowing them to create massive perturbations of the Temporalis Procealis, through which they witness possible futures.
Prerequisites: Deified or mighter, Seer, Watcher and Feeder of Flesh salient abilities, Cha 20+.
Benefits: When the risen enters a trance using the Seer ability, it can see 1 hour into the future per corpse point spent, instead of one minute. If there are other risen with the Feeder of Flesh salient ability within 100 ft. of the risen, it may use their corpse points to fuel this ability in addition to its own. For every risen with the Grand Seer salient ability within 50 ft. of the risen, it can see an additional one hour into the future with the expenditure of each corpse point (so if five risen with the Grand Seer salient ability were within 50 ft. of each other, each would see 6 hours into the future with the expenditure of each corpse point.)
Greater Rejuvenation (Su)
The risen simply can not be destroyed.
Prerequisites: Ancient or mightier, rejuvenation.
Benefits: Even if completly destroyed, the risen reappears, fully healed, one week (minus one day per rank) after it is reduced to 0 hit points.
Impervious (Ex)
The risen has no discernable weaknesses.
Benefit: The risen has no energy vulnerability.
Indestructable (Ex)
The risen is immune to nearly all attempts to harm it.
Prerequisites: Deified or mightier, Impervious, Invulnerable.
Benefits: The risen is immune to 3 types of energy and has resistance 20 to the other two.
Invulnerable (Ex)
The risen seems near unstoppable.
Prerequisites: Venerable or mightier, Impervious.
Benefits: The risen is immune to 2 types of energy and has resistance 15 to another two.
Mummy Rot (Su)
The risen is infected with foul diseases.
Benefits: The natural weapons and unarmed strikes (including touch attack) of the risen carry a supernatural disease. The Fortitude save, incubation period and damage are according to table below.
Walking: Incubation period 1 hour, damage 1d4 Con and 1d4 Cha.
Restless: Incubation period 10 minutes, damage 1d6 Con and 1d6 Cha.
Venerable: Incubation period 1 minute, damage 1d8 Con and 1d8 Cha.
Ancient: Incubation period 1 round, damage 2d6 Con and 2d6 Cha.
Deified: Incubation period 1 round, damage 3d6 Con and 3d6 Cha.
Transcendant: Incubation period 1 round, damage 4d6 Con and 4d6 Cha.
Unlike normal diseases, mummy rot continues until the victim reaches Constitution 0 (and dies) or is cured as described below.
Mummy rot is a powerful curse, not a natural disease. A character attempting to cast any conjuration (healing) spell on a creature afflicted with mummy rot must succeed on a caster level check (DC equal to 10 + the Risen's HD), or the spell has no effect on the afflicted character.
To eliminate mummy rot, the curse must first be broken with break enchantment or remove curse (requiring a caster level check for either spell), after which a caster level check is no longer necessary to cast healing spells on the victim, and the mummy rot can be magically cured as any normal disease.
An afflicted creature who dies of mummy rot shrivels away into sand and dust that blow away into nothing at the first wind.
Pristine (Ex)
The risen looks as though it were still alive.
Prerequisites: Int 9+
Benefits: The risen moves at the same speed as in life and its Dexterity increases by 2.
Note: A Risen which has taken the Beastial saliant ability may not take the Pristine saliant ability.
Rejuvenation (Su)
The risen has the ability to heal severe wounds in mere seconds.
Benefits: The risen may rejuvenate itself as a full round action that provokes an attack of opportunity. In doing so, it heals 25 points of damage per rank. The creature may do nothing else that round, even as a free action.
Revenant (Ex)
The risen is driven by a terrible thirst for vengeance.
Prerequisites: Victim of murder, Restless or greater.
Benefits: Against it's murderer, the risen gains a profane bonus to Armor Class, saves and Spell Resistance (if applicable) equal to its Charisma modifer. The murderer, upon seeing the risen, is paralysed unless he makes a successful Will save. Finally, if the revanent successfully grapples its murderer, it may inflict 1 point of Constitution damage per round as it slowly throttles its foe.
Seer (Su)
Very rarely, an risen gains such a level of control over the necromatic energies that fill them that they can cause tiny perturbations in the fabric of time, allowing them to glimps brief flashes of what is to come.
Prerequisites: Ancient or mighter, Watcher and Feeder of Flesh salient abilities, Cha 18+.
Benefits: The risen can enter a special trance, which lasts for 10 minutes, during which time the risen cannot percieve its surroundings, and cannot be awoken in any manner short of a wish. For every corpse point the risen spends while in this trance, it can look forward one minute and catch a glimpse of the possible future. This future does not account for the risen using this ability, so it may be changed by the risen's actions.
Spell Resistance (Su)
The risen is supernaturally resistant to spells.
Prerequisites: Venerable or mightier.
Benefit: The risen gains Spell Resitance equal to 13+its HD.
Symbiosis (Ex)
The risen's rotting form is home to some other creature.
Benefits: The creature's body is infested with any one of the following; monstrous scorpions, monstrous centipedes, monstrous spiders, rats, grey ooze, green slime, yellow mold, brown mold, ochre jelly or rats.
Special: A risen may have this ability multiple times, choosing a different infection each time.
Touch of Death (Su)
The very touch of the risen saps the life of the living.
Prerequisitites: Cha 17+.
Benefits: The risen has a touch attack that uses negative energy to deal 1d8 points of damage per rank plus its Charisma modifer to living creatures; a Will save halves the damage. A risen with natural weapons can use its touch attack or its natural weaponry, as it prefers. If it chooses the latter, it deals 1d8 points of extra damage per rank plus its Charisma modifer on one natural weapon attack.
Turn Immunity (Ex)
The risen is immune to the divine control of clerics.
Prerequisites: Venerable or mightier
Benefit: The risen can not be rebuked, turned, controlled or destroyed by clerical turning.
Watcher (Su)
The risen can use the necromatic energies that animate it to tear small holes in reality, allowing it to watch far locations through these perturbations of reality.
Prerequisites: Venerable or mightier, Feeder of Flesh salient ability, Cha 15+.
Benefit: The risen can spend 10 corpse points to cast the scrying spell at will. |
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