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08-07-2006, 03:10 PM
Xig-Yu
Medium Outsider (Incorporeal)
Hit Dice: 5d8+5 (27 HP)
Initiative: +3
Speed: Fly 20' (Good)
AC: 17 (+3 Dex, +4 Deflection), Touch 17, Flat-Footed 14
Base Attack/Grapple: +5/-
Attack: Incorporeal touch +8 Melee (1d6 and Temporal Energy) or Temporal Energy Ray +8 Ranged (1d8 or Temporal Energy)
Full Attack: 4 Incorporeal Touches +8 melee (1d6 and Temporal Energy)
Face/Reach: 5'/5'
Special Attacks: Temporal Energy Lash, Accelerate Magic, Explosion, Quintessence
Special Qualities: Immune to Time effects, Immune to Positive and Negative Energy, Obscurity
Saves: Fort +5, Ref +7, Will +4
Abilities: Str -, Dex 17, Con 12, Int 7, Wis 10, Cha 18
Skills: Bluff +11, Hide +10, Search +6, Sense Motive +8, Spellcraft +6, Spot +8
Feats: Combat Reflexes, Extra Turning
Climate/Terrain: Temporal Energy Plane
Organization: Solitary or Cluster ( 2-8 )
Challenge Rating: 6
Treasure: None
Alignment: Always Neutral
Advancement: 6-9 HD (Medium), 10-15 HD (Large)
Made up of pure time, the Xig-Yu is the most obscure of the Energons, and also one of the most fearsome. *It appears much like the others, with this one having a yellowish hue, rather than the green and red of the others.
Combat: Xig-Yus, like other Energons, like to move in combat, making full use of their incorporeality and Combat Reflexes feat.
Energy Ray (ex): The Xig-Yu's energy ray has a range of 30 feet.
Explosion (su): If a Xig-Yu is reduced to 0 or fewer HP, it explodes in a blast of time, dealing 1d8+9 damage to all creatures in a 20-foot-radius burst (Fortitude DC 16 half; the save DC is charisma based). *Any creature that fails its save also ages one year for every point of damage above 9 that it takes. *This counts for aging penalties and death unless the victim has the Timeless Body ability or is immortal, but not for aging benefits. *One year of this aging can be reversed with a Limited Wish, and all of it can be reversed with a Wish or Miracle. *True dragons and similar creatures are immune to this aging effect. *A Xig-Yu, however, has no opposite and will not attempt to neutralize with another Energon.
Temporal Energy Lash (su): A Xig-Yu can infuse an enemy with Temporal Energy on a hit with an Incorporeal Touch or Ranged Touch Attack. *Any creature hit takes an additional 2d8+5 points of damage, and ages 1d6 years (a Fortitude Save, DC 16, negates this aging effect. *The save DC is charisma-based), subject to the same rules as given under Explosion. *On planes without the Timeless trait, this ability is useable five times per day; on Timeless planes, the Xig-Yu can borrow energy from its future to use this ability at will.
Accellerate Magic (su): A Xig-Yu can flood an area in a 60' radius with time. *This time gravitates to spell effects. *The Xig-Yu makes a Charisma check as a standard action; some spells in the area experience an amount of time in that standard action determined by this charisma check; consult the Turning Undead table.
Hit Dice -4: 1 round
-3: 1 round per racial hit die of the Xig-Yu
-2: 3 rounds per racial hit die of the Xig-Yu
-1: 1 minute per RHD
0: 8 minutes per RHD
+1: 1 hour per RHD
+2: 1 day per RHD
+3: 1 week per RHD
+4: 1 month per RHD.
Spell effects experience the listed amount of time, causing a reduction in their durations equal to the given amount. *This may cause them to expire.
This ability affects 2d6+9 spell levels per use; lowest-level spells are affected first. Advanced Xig-Yu use 2d6+Racial Hit Dice+Charisma Modifier.
A Xig-Yu that advances as a Cleric improves this ability, stacking cleric levels with RHD, instead of gaining Turn or Rebuke Undead. *This ability counts as Turning or Rebuking Undead, but it is neither turning nor rebuking (that is, if a Prestige Class requires the ability to do either, this ability satisfies the requirement. *If it requires turning, this does not, likewise for Rebuking).
This ability can be used as normal (11 times per day) on the Material plane and planes with similar time traits. *On timeless planes, it can be used at will.
Immune to Time Effects (ex): Due to the large concentration of time in it, a Xig-Yu is unaffected by time effects, such as a Haste, Slow, or Temporal Stasis spell, instead healing 1d8 HP per spell level, plus 1 HP per caster level (maximum 5 per spell level) when affected by such magic. *One notable exception is Time Stop, which it can "piggyback" on, also entering the faster timestream, whenever it is cast within 300 feet.
Immune to Positive and Negative Energy (ex): Because it is animated by pure time, a Xig-Yu is unaffected by positive and negative energy, such as Cure or Inflict spells.
Obscurity (ex): Due to the little-known nature of the plane of time, a Xig-Yu is more obscure than its hit dice would indicate, causing any Knowledge check to identify it or determine its powers to suffer a -10 penalty. *A check that fails by 10 or less correctly identifies it as an Energon but from neither the Positive nor Negative plane; a check that fails by 5 or less or that identifies it as an Energon on the Temporal Energy Plane tells that it is from the Temporal Energy Plane.
Quintessence (sp): Once per day, a Xig-Yu may collapse some time from its form into a dollop of goo. *This functions exactly as the power Quintessence (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/powers/quintessence.htm), except that it is a spell-like ability and inflicts 1d8 damage on the Xig-Yu when it is cast. *This does not function on timeless planes.
(Edited: Added Quintessence, clarified Obscurity, and made Dragons immune to this thing's magic aging. Also made some changes to Accelerate Magic)
Medium Outsider (Incorporeal)
Hit Dice: 5d8+5 (27 HP)
Initiative: +3
Speed: Fly 20' (Good)
AC: 17 (+3 Dex, +4 Deflection), Touch 17, Flat-Footed 14
Base Attack/Grapple: +5/-
Attack: Incorporeal touch +8 Melee (1d6 and Temporal Energy) or Temporal Energy Ray +8 Ranged (1d8 or Temporal Energy)
Full Attack: 4 Incorporeal Touches +8 melee (1d6 and Temporal Energy)
Face/Reach: 5'/5'
Special Attacks: Temporal Energy Lash, Accelerate Magic, Explosion, Quintessence
Special Qualities: Immune to Time effects, Immune to Positive and Negative Energy, Obscurity
Saves: Fort +5, Ref +7, Will +4
Abilities: Str -, Dex 17, Con 12, Int 7, Wis 10, Cha 18
Skills: Bluff +11, Hide +10, Search +6, Sense Motive +8, Spellcraft +6, Spot +8
Feats: Combat Reflexes, Extra Turning
Climate/Terrain: Temporal Energy Plane
Organization: Solitary or Cluster ( 2-8 )
Challenge Rating: 6
Treasure: None
Alignment: Always Neutral
Advancement: 6-9 HD (Medium), 10-15 HD (Large)
Made up of pure time, the Xig-Yu is the most obscure of the Energons, and also one of the most fearsome. *It appears much like the others, with this one having a yellowish hue, rather than the green and red of the others.
Combat: Xig-Yus, like other Energons, like to move in combat, making full use of their incorporeality and Combat Reflexes feat.
Energy Ray (ex): The Xig-Yu's energy ray has a range of 30 feet.
Explosion (su): If a Xig-Yu is reduced to 0 or fewer HP, it explodes in a blast of time, dealing 1d8+9 damage to all creatures in a 20-foot-radius burst (Fortitude DC 16 half; the save DC is charisma based). *Any creature that fails its save also ages one year for every point of damage above 9 that it takes. *This counts for aging penalties and death unless the victim has the Timeless Body ability or is immortal, but not for aging benefits. *One year of this aging can be reversed with a Limited Wish, and all of it can be reversed with a Wish or Miracle. *True dragons and similar creatures are immune to this aging effect. *A Xig-Yu, however, has no opposite and will not attempt to neutralize with another Energon.
Temporal Energy Lash (su): A Xig-Yu can infuse an enemy with Temporal Energy on a hit with an Incorporeal Touch or Ranged Touch Attack. *Any creature hit takes an additional 2d8+5 points of damage, and ages 1d6 years (a Fortitude Save, DC 16, negates this aging effect. *The save DC is charisma-based), subject to the same rules as given under Explosion. *On planes without the Timeless trait, this ability is useable five times per day; on Timeless planes, the Xig-Yu can borrow energy from its future to use this ability at will.
Accellerate Magic (su): A Xig-Yu can flood an area in a 60' radius with time. *This time gravitates to spell effects. *The Xig-Yu makes a Charisma check as a standard action; some spells in the area experience an amount of time in that standard action determined by this charisma check; consult the Turning Undead table.
Hit Dice -4: 1 round
-3: 1 round per racial hit die of the Xig-Yu
-2: 3 rounds per racial hit die of the Xig-Yu
-1: 1 minute per RHD
0: 8 minutes per RHD
+1: 1 hour per RHD
+2: 1 day per RHD
+3: 1 week per RHD
+4: 1 month per RHD.
Spell effects experience the listed amount of time, causing a reduction in their durations equal to the given amount. *This may cause them to expire.
This ability affects 2d6+9 spell levels per use; lowest-level spells are affected first. Advanced Xig-Yu use 2d6+Racial Hit Dice+Charisma Modifier.
A Xig-Yu that advances as a Cleric improves this ability, stacking cleric levels with RHD, instead of gaining Turn or Rebuke Undead. *This ability counts as Turning or Rebuking Undead, but it is neither turning nor rebuking (that is, if a Prestige Class requires the ability to do either, this ability satisfies the requirement. *If it requires turning, this does not, likewise for Rebuking).
This ability can be used as normal (11 times per day) on the Material plane and planes with similar time traits. *On timeless planes, it can be used at will.
Immune to Time Effects (ex): Due to the large concentration of time in it, a Xig-Yu is unaffected by time effects, such as a Haste, Slow, or Temporal Stasis spell, instead healing 1d8 HP per spell level, plus 1 HP per caster level (maximum 5 per spell level) when affected by such magic. *One notable exception is Time Stop, which it can "piggyback" on, also entering the faster timestream, whenever it is cast within 300 feet.
Immune to Positive and Negative Energy (ex): Because it is animated by pure time, a Xig-Yu is unaffected by positive and negative energy, such as Cure or Inflict spells.
Obscurity (ex): Due to the little-known nature of the plane of time, a Xig-Yu is more obscure than its hit dice would indicate, causing any Knowledge check to identify it or determine its powers to suffer a -10 penalty. *A check that fails by 10 or less correctly identifies it as an Energon but from neither the Positive nor Negative plane; a check that fails by 5 or less or that identifies it as an Energon on the Temporal Energy Plane tells that it is from the Temporal Energy Plane.
Quintessence (sp): Once per day, a Xig-Yu may collapse some time from its form into a dollop of goo. *This functions exactly as the power Quintessence (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/powers/quintessence.htm), except that it is a spell-like ability and inflicts 1d8 damage on the Xig-Yu when it is cast. *This does not function on timeless planes.
(Edited: Added Quintessence, clarified Obscurity, and made Dragons immune to this thing's magic aging. Also made some changes to Accelerate Magic)