Firefox

Firefoxes resemble foxes, but have a bright red fur and breathe fire. They are fast, sleek and agile hunters. A full-grown male can stand as tall as 2-3 feet and weigh up to 150 pounds. They wander forests by day and dungeons by night, and are mostly nocturnal.

Size/Type: Medium Magical Beast
Hit Dice: 6d10+12 (50 hp)
Initiative: +4
Speed: walk 40 ft. (8 squares)
Armor Class: 19 (+4 Dex, +5 natural), touch 10, flat-footed 14
Base Attack/Grapple: +1/+2
Attack: Claw +2 melee (1d6+2)
Full Attack: 2 claws +2 melee (1d6+2) and bite +3 melee (1d8+3 + 1d6 fire)
Space/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: Breathes fire: 15 ft cone, 2d8 points of fire damage, Reflex Save DC 14 for half.
Special Qualities: DR/5 (Cold)
Saves: Fort +4, Ref +9, Will +2
Abilities: Str 12, Dex 18, Con 14, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 10
Skills: Listen +8, Spot +8
Feats: Alertness, Track
Environment: Temperate forests and cave entrances
Organization: Pack
Challenge Rating: 5
Treasure: None
Alignment: Always neutral
Advancement: 7-9 HD (Large); 10-12 HD (Huge)
Level Adjustment: —

Firefoxes occupy cave entrances and shallow caves, where they can take advantage of both the overland and underdark.

Combat

Firefoxes attack their prey on sight, and have a ferocious bite, though they often begin combat by breathing fire at their enemies. They slash with claws and bite with their ravenous, flame-tipped jowels.

Breathes fire (Su): 15 ft cone, 2d8 points of fire damage, Reflex Save DC 14 for half.


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Creature: Skylion (CR 9)

Large Magical Beast (outsider)
Hit Dice: 15d10+30 (112 hp)
Initiative: +3
Speed: 40 ft. (8 squares), Fly 80 ft. (average)
Armor Class: 15 (-1 size, +3 Dex, +3 natural), touch 12, flat-footed 12
Base Attack/Grapple: +15/+20
Attack: Claw + 20 melee (1d4+5)
Full Attack: 2 claws +18 melee (1d4+5) and bite +20 melee (1d8+2)
Space/Reach: 10 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: Pounce, improved grab, rake 1d4+2
Special Qualities: Low-light vision, scent
Saves: Fort +11, Ref +12, Will +6
Abilities: Str 21, Dex 17, Con 15, Int 5, Wis 13, Cha 10
Skills: Balance +7, Hide +3*, Listen +5, Move Silently +11, Spot +5
Feats: Alertness, Run, Improved Grab, Power Attack, Iron Will, Multiattack, Flyby Attack
Environment: Outer Planes (elemental air?, concordiant domains?)
Organization: Solitary, pair, or pride (6-10)
Challenge Rating: 9
Treasure: Standard
Alignment: usually neutral, some lawful tendencies
Advancement: 16-20 HD (Huge)
Level Adjustment: –

This creature, most often seen serving as a noble and beautiful steed to powerful conjurers, originates from snow caped, wind swept peaks on the outer planes. They are strongly empathic and magical creatures, making them excellent steeds, espically if cared for properly. Their form is that of a large white lion, with colored mane and wings (typically sky blue), and are 6 to 9 feet long and weighs 330 to 550 pounds. Females are slightly smaller and lack a mane but use the same statistics.

Combat

Pounce (Ex): If a skylion charges a foe, it can make a full attack, including two rake attacks.

Improved Grab (Ex): To use this ability, a skylion 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, it establishes a hold and can rake.

Rake (Ex): Attack bonus +18 melee, damage 1d4+2.
Immunities (Ex): Skylions have cold and electricity resistance 10.

Skills: Skylions have a +4 racial bonus on Balance, Hide, and Move Silently checks. *In the sky (when viewed from below) or snow, the Hide bonus improves to +12.
In addition, because of their empathic nature, riders can recieve a +5 on their ride checks if the Sky Lion wishes to confer it (usually dependent on their treatment by their rider).


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Native Camp

Gathered here on this dry hilltop under a twisting tree is a group of wyndm. Several patchwork tents are circled around a large cooking fire. Hounds stand and eye you warily as they catch sight of you.

The native population of this region has been forced to live nomadic lives. They travel in two-to-three-family groups, so they will be encountered in groups of 8-32. Feel free to include them if it is useful, otherwise you can omit them.

Creatures: Wyndm folk commoners (8d4), wyndm-wolves (1d4): these nomadic people are wary, as they live in this dangerous swamp, but if approached peacefully they are friendly. With a DC 15 diplomacy check they become helpful, and will offer travelers warm food and a place to rest if they like. They know the swamps well, and can give the characters accurate directions to Elsemere: follow the river upstream. Altogether half of the people in the camp are combatants, and have the stats below.

Wyndm-folk: CR 1, usually NG, commoner 2, AC: 13 (leather armor +2, dex +1) touch 11 flatfooted 12, HD: 2d4+2, HP: 9, Attack: +2 spear 1d8+2 or +2 shortbow 1d6, Fort +1, Ref +1, Will +0

Tactics: If attacked the men and women will fight with spears and shortbows, the wyndm-wolves will circle and flank and trip, while the children hide or flee into the swamps. If the battle goes badly for them, they will abandon the camp and attempt to flee into the swamp.

Treasure: if the camp is looted, roll for treasure for a CR 1 creature for each combatant in the camp.


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Stone Troll

Stone trolls keep their hearts on frigid islands in the middle of fjords and other hard-to-reach places. They can only be killed, or reasoned-with if you bring them their hearts back.

Unfortunately for them, they live lonely lives of solitude because every living being they gaze upon turns to stone, even loved ones. It is this that creates the cold place where a warm heart belongs. Bring a stone troll his heart and he will be grateful, as well as stop turning everyone to stone.

Stone Troll
Size/Type: Large Giant
Hit Dice: 6d8+36 (63 hp)
Initiative: +2
Speed: 30 ft. (6 squares)
Armor Class: 18 (-1 size, +9 natural), touch 11, flat-footed 14
Base Attack/Grapple: +4/+14
Attack: Claw +9 melee (1d6+6)
Full Attack: 2 claws +9 melee (1d6+6) and bite +4 melee (1d6+3) or rock +9 ranged (2d8+6)
Space/Reach: 10 ft./10 ft.
Special Attacks: Rend 2d6+9, Petrifying Gaze
Special Qualities: Darkvision 90 ft., low-light vision
Saves: Fort +11, Ref +4, Will +3
Abilities: Str 23, Dex 12, Con 23, Int 6, Wis 9, Cha 6
Skills: Listen +5, Spot +6
Feats: Alertness, Iron Will, Track
Environment: Cold mountains
Organization: Solitary
Challenge Rating: 6
Treasure: Standard
Alignment: Usually chaotic evil
Advancement: By character class
Level Adjustment: +5

Stone trolls walk upright but because of their lonely depressions, are hunched forward with sagging shoulders. Their gait is uneven, and when they run, their arms dangle and drag along the ground. Stone trolls are not nearly as agile as their brethren, though they are rather strong, able to hurl boulders and former foes encapsulated in stone.

A typical adult stone troll stands 8 feet tall and weighs 1,000 pounds. Females are very rare and are slightly smaller than males. A stone troll’s rocky underbelly is a limestone white, and the rest of the body is a granite gray. The hair is usually greenish black or iron gray, and has the consistency of a clump of sticks.

Stone trolls speak various giant tongues, especially stone giant but also some hill or frost giant, depending on where they have spent most of their time. Their gaze does not effect giants (except other stone trolls), so they are the only creatures that stone trolls often communicate with.

Combat

Stone trolls have no fear of death: They launch themselves toward combat without hesitation, often gazing into the eyes of their prey. They even have no fear of fire, they try to get around the flames and attack.

Rend (Ex)
If a troll hits with both claw attacks, it latches onto the opponent’s body and tears the flesh. This attack automatically deals an additional 2d6+9 points of damage.

Petrifying Gaze (Su): Turn to stone permanently, range 30 feet; Fortitude DC 16 negates. The save DC is Charisma-based.


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Nagy Tömeg Mountains

The Nagy Tömeg are a Mountain range in the center of the Farghol, the northwest border of the Lands of Northbay, the southeast border of the Central Valley.

Deep in the mountains live Deep Gnomes, though they are not often bothered by the Gnomes who live closer to the surface, so there has been little contact between the groups over the ages.

Surface Gnomes live in caves above ground on the north side of the mountains facing the valley, and have built an elaborate series of mechanized lifts to move goods out of the mountains. These lifts also operate in subterranean mines that dot the range. The raw materials and the goods crafted from these materials are the main source of the local economy.

Much of the interior of the range has not been explored by those friendly with humans. It is rumored that fierce Giants live in the center of the mountains. In addition, the bellows of an ancient wyrm have also been heard, coinciding with thunder and lightning storms that rip through the valley in the spring. These have been isolated to emanating from the side of the range that faces Elsemere Wood, where no humans dare go.

Rivers run down the north side of the Nagy Tömeg into the Central Valley. On the floor of the Central Valley live halflings and quarterlings, also more appropriately called three-quarterlings. There are also a few human settlements in the valley, numbering close to 300 inhabitants.


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Phasing Wall of Force

Phasing Wall of Force
Evocation [Force], Time
Level: Sor/Wiz 4, Time 4
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Effect: Wall whose area is up to one 10-ft. square/level
Duration: 1 round /level (D)
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No

A phasing wall of force spell creates an invisible wall of force that phases through time. The wall cannot move (except through time), it is immune to damage of all kinds, and it is unaffected by most spells, including dispel magic. It is, however, affected by Time Stop and other effects that dispel or modify the passage of time. Disintegrate immediately destroys it, as does a rod of cancellation, a sphere of annihilation, or a mage’s disjunction spell. Breath weapons and spells cannot pass through the wall in either direction, although dimension door, teleport, temporal magic and similar effects can bypass the barrier. It blocks ethereal creatures as well as material ones (though ethereal creatures can usually get around the wall by floating under or over it through material floors and ceilings), and all creatures can pass through when it’s out of phase with the current round. Gaze attacks can operate through a phasing wall of force.

The phasing effect means that the wall is there for one round, not there another (forward in time), then there, then not there (backward in time), etc.

The caster can form the wall into a flat, vertical plane whose area is up to one 10-foot square per level. The wall must be continuous and unbroken when formed. If its surface is broken by any object, creature or temporal effect, the spell fails.

Phasing wall of force can be made permanent with a permanency spell. Of course, it still shifts through time, even when permanent.

Material Component

A pinch of powder made from a clear gem and a pinch of sand from an hourglass.

This spell is related to phase object, detailed in an earlier post. This spell, like phase object, were developed by Faduardo Gantonín, a high mage of the Phyloctæte


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A Cadre of Heroes

Today celebrates a very special day: July 7th 2006 marked the very first post on Claw / Claw / Bite ! Since then, we’ve posted 171 times, which means that for a year we’ve given you a new monster, spell, encounter or character to use in your D20 system fantasy games almost every other day!

To celebrate, we’re posting a new group of adventurers: a Cadre of Heroes to oppose the Iron Coven. You’ll see these characters in upcoming Unicorn Rampant adventures such as The Old Rock Tower, The Horror of the Old Ones, the Time Out of Mind Trilogy, and Annointing the Seer. Feel free to use them as NPCs in your games, or as characters when you play.

A Cadre of Heroes

These heroes are a band of friends and companions who have shared many adventures over the years. From humble beginnings, many have risen to fame, some have fallen in battle, some betrayed or turned betrayers, but the bonds of friendship tie them all together.

Over the years they have had run-ins with the Iron Coven, both in groups and singularly.

Aeonados Dy’rashe – Half-elf / half-silver dragon ranger 2
One of a clutch of 5 offspring to a silver dragon, and her lover, a powerful elven druid in the northern reaches beyond the danor mountains. Aeonados has fine, tough silver scales covering his body, vestigal wings, a short tail, and an impressive frill running from his forehead and down his neck.

Kylissa – female half elf bard 5

Terin Goldwrit – male dwarf wizard 5

Adelix – male human summoner, wizard (conjurer) 5

Galenados – Elven Knight figher 5

Tana Brae – wild elf barbarian (female)
Sithadel Veladros – wild elf barbarian / druid (male)
brother and sister

Brother Herott – half-orc priest of Kord, cleric 5

Percivin – male human paladin 5

Apeneone Tesonos – female human druid 5

Winnie Toepelt – female tallfellow halfling rogue 5

Nobinin Glamourwright – male gnome sorcerer 5


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Falconfox

The younger, smaller cousins of eaglewolves, falconfoxes have the head and wings of a falcon and the bodies, legs and tail of a fox. They are sleek and agile hunters in both the sky and in the forest.

A falconfox’s coat ranges in color from a dark to a ruddy brown with occasional flecks of white; its beak is a light tan color. A full-grown male can stand as tall as 4 feet and weigh up to 300 pounds, with a wingspan of 8 feet. They fly through the sky, hunting small prey, and also have the ability to hunt on the ground as foxes, tucking their wings up against their bodies.

Size/Type: Medium Magical Beast
Hit Dice: 3d10+5 (25 hp)
Initiative: +4
Speed: walk 30 ft. (6 squares), fly 60 ft. (12 squares)
Armor Class: 19 (+4 Dex, +5 natural), touch 10, flat-footed 14
Base Attack/Grapple: +1/+2
Attack: Claw +2 melee (1d6+2)
Full Attack: 2 claws +2 melee (1d6+2) and bite +3 melee (1d6+3)
Space/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: Fly-by-attack
Special Qualities: Vision
Saves: Fort +4, Ref +9, Will +2
Abilities: Str 12, Dex 18, Con 14, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 10
Skills: Listen +8, Spot +8
Feats: Alertness, Track
Environment: Temperate forests
Organization: Solitary or pair
Challenge Rating: 2
Treasure: None
Alignment: Always neutral
Advancement: 4-5 HD (Large); 6-8 HD (Huge)
Level Adjustment: —

Falconfoxes build nests at the tops of tall trees, where they live in pairs and raise chicks/pups. Some of their young are born as an falcon or a fox, and are fed to the others of the litter who retain both traits.

Combat

Falconfoxes attack prey smaller than themselves, and often present little danger to humans. But if they hunger, they will occasionally hunt halflings and gnomes. In combat, falconfoxes are ferocious, often fighting to the death, though they have been known to flee to the skies to escape the field of battle. They slash with claws and bite with their beaks, nipping at their prey until they reach a vital artery.


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Pereðil Beóren Möðruvellir


Pereðil has followed his father’s leads and become a skull-collector. He wanders the world (and in time, the planes) in search of the skulls of slain enemies, which he places in his bag of holding. He may not know it yet, but one day, he will raise an undead army from this collection.

Pereðil travels under a set of dark robes and employs poison (in darts, false healing potions, poultices, dusts, and other trickery) in his attempts to murder his adversaries. Unfortunately, he is not too nimble or strong for an elf, so he has some problems following through, and needs a party’s help to survive the deep dungeons in search of new skulls.

Pereðil Beóren Möðruvellir
Medium-size Male Half-Elf
Necromancer 6 Cleric 1
Hit Dice: (6d4)+(1d8)+21
Hit Points: 43
Initiative: -1
Speed: Walk 20 ft.
AC: 11 (flatfooted 11, touch 9)
Attacks: Dart +2;*Dagger -4;*Dagger (Thrown) +2;*Sling -8; ;
Damage: Dart 1d4;*Dagger 1d4-1;*Dagger (Thrown) 1d4;*Sling 1d4-1; ;
Vision: Low-light
Face / Reach: 5 ft. / 5 ft.
Special Qualities: +2 bonus to Spellcraft when learning Necromancy, +2 racial bonus on saving throws against enchantment spells or effects., Elven Blood, Immunity to sleep spells and similar magical effects., Rebuke Undead (Su) 2/day (turn level 1) (turn damage 2d6+0), Spontaneous casting, Summon Familiar
Saves: Fortitude: +7, Reflex: +1, Will: +9
Abilities: STR 9 (-1), DEX 9 (-1), CON 16 (+3), INT 18 (+4), WIS 15 (+2), CHA 9 (-1)
Skills: Appraise 4; Balance -4; Bluff -1; Climb -4; Concentration 13; Craft (Alchemy) 5; Craft (Untrained) 4; Decipher Script 11; Diplomacy 1; Disguise -1; Escape Artist -4; Forgery 4; Gather Information 1; Heal 2; Hide -4; Intimidate -1; Jump -10; Knowledge (Arcana) 9; Knowledge (Architecture and Engineering) 6; Knowledge (Dungeoneering) 5; Knowledge (Geography) 6; Knowledge (History) 7; Knowledge (Local) 6; Knowledge (Nature) 5; Knowledge (Nobility and Royalty) 5; Knowledge (Religion) 8; Knowledge (The Planes) 7; Listen 3; Move Silently -4; Ride -1; Search 5; Sense Motive 2; Spellcraft 16; Spot 3; Survival 2; Swim -7;
Feats: Armor Proficiency (Heavy), Armor Proficiency (Light), Armor Proficiency (Medium), Brew Potion, Heighten Spell, Point Blank Shot, Scribe Scroll, Shield Proficiency, Simple Weapon Proficiency, Spell Penetration
Challenge Rating: 7
Alignment: Neutral Evil

Possessions: Backpack; Dart; Bracers of Armor +2; Bullets, Sling (50); Dagger; Holy Symbol (Skull); Potion of Delay Poison; Robe of Bones; Signet Ring; Sling; Spellbook (Wizard’s/Blank);
Deity: None Domains: Evil, Death
Spells:
Spells per Day: 4+1/4+1/4+1/3+1/0/0/0/0/0
Wizard – Known:
Level 0: Acid Splash, Arcane Mark, Black Dart, Bullet, Cauterize, Cipher, Cubes of Ice, Dancing Lights, Daze, Decode, Detect Magic, Detect Poison, Detect Self, Dim, Dim Illumination, Disrupt Undead, Ember, Eviscerate, Firefly, Flare, Granitehand, Haze, Impure Thoughts, Light, Light My Fire, Lock/Unlock, Mage Hand, Mending, Message, Night-Vision, Open/Close, Pointer, Prestidigitation, Bellamy’s Proper Burial, Puff of Wind, Ray of Frost, Read Magic, Shovel, Signal, Signal Fire, Sort, Sort Coins, Spark, Spectral Dart, Startle, Summon Bag, Summon Garment, Summon Key, Summon Mug, Summon Pipe, Summon Random Item, Touch of Fatigue, Trip, Trip Line
Level 1: Burning Hands, Cause Fear, Chill Touch, Color Spray, Disguise Self, Expeditious Retreat, Ray of Enfeeblement, Reduce Person
Level 2: Blindness/Deafness, Command Undead, False Life, Ghoul Touch, Scare, Spectral Hand
Level 3: Dispel Magic, Gentle Repose, Hold Person, Vampiric Touch
Spells per Day: 3/2+1/0/0/0/0/0/0/0
Cleric – Known:
Level 0: Cipher, Create Water, Cure Minor Wounds, Decode, Detect Magic, Detect Poison, Dim, Dim Illumination, Guidance, Impure Thoughts, Inflict Minor Wounds, Light, Light My Fire, Mending, Pain Touch, Puff of Wind, Purify Food and Drink, Read Magic, Resistance, Sort, Startle, Virtue
Level 1: Bane, Bless, Cause Fear, Cause Fear, Command, Comprehend Languages, Cure Light Wounds, Curse Water, Deathwatch, Detect Chaos, Detect Corruption, Detect Evil, Detect Good, Detect Infraction, Detect Law, Detect Undead, Divine Favor, Doom, Emotional Stability, Endure Elements, Entropic Shield, Glass Shape, Hide from Undead, Inflict Light Wounds, Magic Stone, Magic Weapon, Obscuring Mist, Protection from Chaos, Protection from Good, Protection from Good, Protection from Law, Remove Fear, Sanctuary, Shield of Faith, Stabilize, Summon Monster I, Wall of Darkness


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Eaglewolf


Eaglewolves have the head and wings of an eagle and the torsos and legs of a wolf.

An eaglewolf’s coat ranges in color from brown-black to yellowish brown; its beak is a bright lemony-tan color. A full-grown male can stand as tall as 5 feet and weigh up to 500 pounds, with a wingspan of 12 feet. They are cunning hunters who sail through the sky on their giant wings. They swoop to the ground in almost no time and attack as wolves.

Size/Type: Medium Magical Beast
Hit Dice: 4d10+15 (37 hp)
Initiative: +1
Speed: walk 30 ft. (6 squares), fly 60 ft. (12 squares)
Armor Class: 18 (+3 Dex, +5 natural), touch 10, flat-footed 14
Base Attack/Grapple: +2/+4
Attack: Claw +4 melee (1d6+4)
Full Attack: 2 claws +4 melee (1d6+1) and bite +5 melee (1d8+2)
Space/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: Fly-by-attack
Special Qualities: Vision
Saves: Fort +5, Ref +8, Will +2
Abilities: Str 14, Dex 16, Con 16, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 10
Skills: Listen +8, Spot +8
Feats: Alertness, Track
Environment: Temperate forests and mountain aeries
Organization: Solitary or pair
Challenge Rating: 3
Treasure: None
Alignment: Always neutral
Advancement: 5-7 HD (Large); 8-12 HD (Huge)
Level Adjustment: —

Eaglewolves build aeries high in the mountains, where they live in pairs and raise chicks/pups. Some of their young are born as an eagle or a wolf, and are fed to the others of the litter who retain both eaglewolf traits.

Combat

Eaglewolves attack their prey—any creature bigger than a fox and up to the size of a human—on sight, usually fighting to the death, though they have been known to flee to the skies to escape unexpected danger. They slash with claws and bite with their enormous beaks, trying to grab their prey and rip it apart.


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