Pathfinder RPG: Bladecypher Protean

When it comes to outsiders, proteans are an interesting addition. In a game that is frequently a game of good and evil, proteans are neither. Infact, they are defined as chaos incarnate. That is their hook. Proteans are to destroy and remove all semblance of order to reality.

When I first wrote the bladecypher, there were only few proteans created. So I wanted a powerful force for nothingness for the players to face. My first thought was that it should be able to unmake just about anything in a certain range. Not only that, they should make lawful creatures pay just for the insult of being near the protean. That was the original concept of the bladecypher. I hope you enjoy it.

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Protean, Bladecypher

This flying creature’s body is covered with enormous plates resembling an exoskeleton. Long blades extend from several of its fingers and its head appears to be the skull of a terrifying demon.

Bladecypher CR 20

XP 307,200
CN Huge outsider (chaotic, extraplanar, protean, shapechanger)
Init +8; Senses blindsense 120 ft., darkvision 60 ft., detect law; Perception +41
Aura lawbane aura (60 ft.)

Defense

AC 37, touch 17, flat-footed 28 (+8 Dex, +1 dodge, +20 natural, –2 size)
hp 396 (24d10+264); fast healing 15
Fort +25, Ref +22, Will +18
Defensive Abilities amorphous anatomy, freedom of movement; DR 15/epic and lawful; Immune acid, polymorph; Resist electricity 10, sonic 10; SR 36

Offense

Speed fly 80 ft. (perfect), swim 80 ft.
Melee 2 bladeclaws +29 (2d8+7/17–20 plus 4d6 chaotic), bite +29 (2d6+7 plus 2d6 bleed and warpwave), tail +27 (2d6+3 plus grab)
Ranged disintegrating ray +30 touch (25d6)
Space 15 ft.; Reach 15 ft.
Special Attacks constrict (2d6+3)
Spell-Like Abilities (CL 21st; concentration +25)
Constant—detect law, tongues
At will—chaos hammer (DC 18)
3/day—dispel law (DC 19), quickened chaos hammer (DC 18), summon (level 7, 1d4 imentesh B2 80%)
1/day—cloak of chaos (DC 22, self only), summon (level 8, bladecypher 60%)

Statistics

Str 24, Dex 26, Con 32, Int 16, Wis 30, Cha 18
Base Atk +24; CMB +33 (+37 grapple); CMD 52
Feats Ability Focus (disintegrating ray), Alertness, Combat Expertise (–7/+7), Combat Reflexes, Critical Focus, Dodge, Greater Feint, Improved Critical (bladeclaw), Improved Feint, Magical Aptitude, Multiattack, Quicken Spell-like Ability (chaos hammer)
Skills Bluff +31, Fly +12, Intimidate +31, Knowledge (arcana, planes) +30, Perception +41, Sense Motive +41, Spellcraft +34, Stealth +27, Swim +15, Use Magic Device +35
Languages Abyssal, Protean; telepathy 100 ft., tongues
SQ change shape (greater polymorph)

Ecology

Environment any (Limbo)
Organization solitary, pair, disruption (3–5)
Treasure none

Special Abilities

Bladeclaw (Su) This primary natural weapon deals extra chaotic damage equal to 4d6 to lawful creatures and 2d6 to neutral creatures. No extra damage is dealt to chaotic creatures. A bladeclaw threatens a critical hit on a 19–20.
Disintegrating Ray (Su) Once every 1d4 rounds, a bladecypher can release a thin green ray as a standard action. Upon a successful touch attack against a target within 300 feet, the target sustains 25d6 points of damage. If the target is killed with a disintegrating ray, it is reduced to a fine dust. A disintegrating ray affects living creatures and objects, including those composed entirely of force, such as a wall of force. A successful Fortitude save (DC 28) reduces this damage to 10d6. The save DC is Charisma-based.
Lawbane Aura (Su) All lawful creatures within 60 feet of a bladecypher suffer 2d6 points of chaotic damage and are staggered for the round. A lawful creature that succeeds on a Fortitude save (DC 26) receives half damage and is not staggered. The save DC is Charisma-based.

If a keketar is a priest and prophet of primal chaos, then a bladecypher is a holy warrior and inquisitor. Cunning, dangerous and determined to put an end to all order, a bladecypher can cut lawful creatures to shreds in no time at all. It brings down all threats to the community, whether external or internal. What drives it forward, however, is making sure that worshippers of chaotic deities do not fall into a regular pattern, bringing order into their lives. The non-euclidean armored plates on its body keep it safe from most attacks and prevent non-epic weapons from dealing any substantial damage.

A bladecypher is constantly changing its height and weight, but it typically is between 12 and 15 feet tall and weighs between 7,000 and 15,000 pounds.

May 23, 2018 0

Pathfinder: Gibbering Glob

When it comes to monsters, there are some D&D classics that everyone just loves. Owlbears spring instantly to mind. Gelatinous cubes is another one. Bugbears, drow, multicolored dragons, and a whole host of others make the game instantly recognizable. Then there are the ones that Wizards owns and doesn’t let anyone out side of some license touch. Things like a panther with tentacles on it’s back or a human sized race if Cthulhus. The great classic, however, is the floating eye ball with little eyes on stalks. That one is well known.

Making those monsters with the serial numbers filed off is a proud tradition that goes a long way back. To claim that that monster was not a source of inspiration would be untrue. That was only one source of inspiration. Another was the gibbering mouther from the Pathfinder Bestiary. So when I set out to create the Book of Beasts: Legendary Foes, I wanted a high level version of that monster in my book. To make it unique, we added in flavor from other sources, including the classic monster that we will not name.

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Gibbering Glob

The entire surface of this red, ball-like creature is covered with eyes and mouths. A constant cacophony surrounds this creature as each mouth speaks in a different language.

Gibbering Glob CR 25

XP 1,638,400
CE Huge aberration
Init +16; Senses all-around vision, darkvision 120 ft.; Perception +47
Aura gibbering aura (60 ft., DC 33)

Defense

AC 44, touch 24, flat-footed 32 (+12 Dex, +4 insight, +20 natural, –2 size)
hp 565 (39d8+390); fast healing 30
Fort +23, Ref +25, Will +28
Defensive Abilities amorphous; DR 10/epic; Immune death effects, disease, energy drain, mind-affecting effects, negative energy, paralysis, poison, polymorph; Resist acid 20, cold 20, electricity 20, fire 20, sonic 20; SR 39

Offense

Speed 5 ft., fly 30 ft. (good)
Melee 12 bites +36 (2d6+8/19–20 plus grab)
Ranged 24 eye rays +40 (2d6 energy/19–20 plus eye effects)
Space 15 ft.; Reach 10 ft.
Special Attacks swallow whole (4d6 acid plus 4d6 cold plus 4d6 electricity plus 4d6 fire plus 4d6 sonic, AC 20, hp 56)

Statistics

Str 26, Dex 34, Con 30, Int 18, Wis 20, Cha 18
Base Atk +29; CMB +39 (+43 grapple); CMD 65
Feats Blinding Critical, Critical Focus, Dazzling Display, Deadly Aim (–8/+16), Flyby Attack, Hover, Improved Critical (bite), Improved Critical (eye ray), Improved Initiative, Improved Iron Will, Improved Precise Shot, Iron Will, Point Blank Shot, Precise Shot, Shatter Defenses, Skill Focus (Linguistics), Spell Focus (necromancy), Stealthy, Weapon Focus (bite), Weapon Focus (eye ray)
Skills Escape Artist +58, Fly +54, Intimidate +46, Knowledge (arcana) +46, Linguistics +49, Perception +47, Spellcraft +46, Stealth +50
Languages Aklo, Common, Terran, Undercommon and 39 other languages

Ecology

Environment any underground
Organization solitary, pair
Treasure triple

Special Abilities

Amorphous (Su) A gibbering glob’s body is constantly in flux. There is a 75% change that any critical hit or sneak attack scored against the gibbering glob is negated and normal damage is rolled instead.
Eye Effects (Su) Upon a successful attack, an eye ray also deals an additional effect as per a particular spell. The spell only affects the target of the eye ray. The exact effect is randomly determined. A gibbering glob possesses a 25th caster level for these effects. These spells are: (01–05%) baleful polymorph (DC 19), (06–10%) disintegrate (DC 20), (11–15%) dominate monster (DC 23), (16–20%) energy drain (DC 24), (21–25%) feeblemind (DC 19), (26–30%) finger of death (DC 22), (31–35%) flesh to stone (DC 20), (36–40%) greater dispel magic, (41–45%) harm (DC 21), (46–50%) hold monster (DC 19), (51–55%) horrid wilting (DC 23), (56–60%) implosion (DC 23), (61–65%) irresistible dance (DC 22), (66–70%) mage’s disjunction (DC 23), (71–75%) power word blind (DC 21), (76–80%) power word kill (DC 23), (81–85%) power word stun (DC 22), (86–90%) prismatic spray (DC 21), (91–95%) slay living (DC 20), and (96–00%) temporal stasis (DC 22). These save DCs are Charisma-based.
Eye Rays (Su) The whole of a gibbering glob’s body is covered with eyes and the gibbering glob can shoot out rays of harmful energy at a creature that deal 2d6 points of energy damage. The exact kind of energy is determined randomly (01–20% acid, 21–40% cold, 41–60% electricity, 61–80% fire, 81–00% sonic). No more than 6 rays can be aimed at a single creature in a single turn. The range is 150 feet.

Gibbering Aura (Su) The cacophony of speech emanating from the scores of mouths that make up the gibbering glob forces all within 60 feet of the creature to succeed at a Will save each round (DC 33) or suffer the effects of an insanity spell. This is a mind-affecting, sonic attack. The save DC is Charisma-based.

A disgusting, floating mass of mouths and eyes, a gibbering glob speaks just about every language known and it can make a reasonable approximation of any language it does not know. However, with so many mouths speaking at any one time, any creature that comes close typically finds the constant noise to be maddening.

A gibbering glob is about 14 feet in diameter and weighs about 4,000 pounds.

May 2, 2018 0

Pathfinder: Jack-In-Irons

It was just last month that we released our latest Pathfinder adventure Deadly Delves: The Dragon’s Dream. This amazing high-level Pathfinder adventure is a perfect way to move through he upper levels of play. It features high level challenges, monsters, traps, haunts and much more. We already shared one of those high level monsters—the godling. Today we are sharing with you another one of those terrors, the jack-in-irons.

This monster is nothing but a chain inhabited by a spirit—whether angry, confused, or in pain—making it an undead creature. It is difficult to hit, owing to the fact that a miss just passes right through the links. Atop a mound of hit points and resistance to spells and channeled energy, it can hit with a melee attack out to a range of 120 feet. this means that just about anywhere you can see is a potential place for it to kill something. It originally appeared in the Book of Beasts: Legendary Foes, a monster book for high level games. You run a high level game download this adventure and monster book from the JBE Shop today.

Jack-In-Irons CR 17

XP 102,400
CE Medium undead
Init +7; Senses bloodsense 60 ft., darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +34
Aura frightful presence (120 ft.; DC 29)

Defenses

AC 32, touch 17, flat-footed 25 (+7 Dex, +15 natural)
hp 273 (26d8+156)
Fort +16, Ref +15, Will +20
Defensive Abilities channel resistance +4, hardness 10; Immune cold, spiked chain, undead traits; SR 28
Weaknesses vulnerable to force damage

Offense

Speed 20 ft.; fly 20 ft. (poor)
Melee 6 spiked chains +28 (2d4+8/19–20 plus grab)
Space 5 ft.; Reach 120 ft.
Special Attacks chain command, rend (2 spiked chains, 2d4+12), sundering rend

Statistics

Str 26, Dex 24, Con —, Int 15, Wis 20, Cha 22
Base Atk +19; CMB +27 (+31 grapple, sunder); CMD 44 (46 vs. sunder)
Feats Bleeding Critical, Combat Refexes, Critical Focus, Disruptive, Great Fortitude, Greater Penetrating Strike, Greater Sunder, Hover, Improved Sunder, Penetrating Strike, Power Attack (–5/+10), Spellbreaker, Weapon Focus (spiked chain)
Skills Fly +32, Intimidate +35, Knowledge (religion) +31, Perception +34, Sense Motive +34, Stealth +36
SQ fighter’s iron

Special Abilities

Bloodsense (Su) A jack-in-irons knows if any creature within 60 feet has ever killed a living creature.
Chain Command (Su) All chains (including spiked chains) within 120 feet of a jack-in-irons are under this undead creature’s command. A creature wielding a spiked chain within 120 feet of a jack-in-irons must succeed on an opposed Charisma check against the jack-in-irons to attack with the weapon. On a failed check, the creature cannot wield its weapon in combat.
Fighter’s Iron (Ex) A jack-in-irons counts as a 19th-level fighter for purposes of qualifying for feats.
Spiked Chain Immunity (Su) A jack-in-irons is immune to damage from spiked chains.
Spiked Chains (Ex) A jack-in-irons’ spiked chains threaten a critical hit on a 19–20. These spiked chains cannot be disarmed.
Sundering Rend (Ex) A jack-in-irons can perform a sunder attempt with its spiked chains. If two spiked chains successfully deal damage to an object with a sunder attempt, they automatically deal rend damage to the sundered object.

April 25, 2018 0

Pathfinder: Godling

Continuing our series of monsters released every Wednesday, we bring you one this week from our latest adventure—Deadly Delves: The Dragon’s Dream. This one is an aquatic blog of swamp mater that is worshipped as a god, where it gets its name from. This monster first appeared in our exceptional collection of high level monsters—Book of Beasts: Legendary Foes. Its original inspiration is from the Lovecraft story Call of Cthulhu where there was a creature in the Louisiana swamp that men worshiped as a god.

It was this creature that author Landon Wilkler took and make the initial source of problems that the players are investigating in his Dragon’s Dream adventure. I must admit that I love this adventure and not just because he is using more than one creature from my monster books. Landon did an amazing job crafting an adventure that your players will remember for years to come. At such a high level, I hope it helps you craft the story you want to tell on your way to level 20.

Download Deadly Delves: The Dragon’s Dream, a level 16 Pathfinder adventure, today at the JBE Shop. You can also find it at DriveThruRPG/RPGNow, Paizo, and the Open Gaming Store.

Godling CR 17

XP 102,400
NE Huge ooze (aquatic)
Init +13; Senses Blindsight 240 ft.; Perception +40

Defenses

AC 31, touch 17, flat-footed 22 (+9 Dex, +14 natural, –2 size)
hp 264 (23d8+161)
Fort +14, Ref +16, Will +20
DR 10/bludgeoning; Immune acid, electricity, ooze traits, piercing; Resist cold 10, fire 10; SR 25
Weaknesses vulnerable to sonic

Offense

Speed 40 ft., swim 120 ft.
Melee 6 tentacle +23 (1d8+5/19-20 plus grab plus poison), bite +25 (2d6+10)
Space 15 ft.; Reach 15 ft. (60 ft. with tentacles)
Special Attacks dominating song (DC 23), swallow whole (3d6 acid damage, AC 17, hp 26)

Statistics

Str 30, Dex 28, Con 25, Int 19, Wis 36, Cha 15
Base Atk +17; CMB +29; CMD 54
Feats Alertness, Combat Expertise (–5/+5), Combat Refexes, Deceitful, Defensive Combat Training, Greater Feint, Improved Critical (tentacle), Improved Feint, Improved Initiative, Multiattack, Skill Focus (Bluff, Linguistics)
Skills Bluff +35, Disguise +29, Linguistics +33, Perception +40, Sense Motive +40, Stealth +24 (+40 in swamps), Swim +18; Racial Modifiers +16 Stealth when in a swamp
Languages Abyssal, Aquan, Celestial, Common, Infernal plus 19 others; songspeech
SQ amphibious

Special Abilities

Dominating Song (Su) A godling can sing an enchanting song that dominates all intelligent creatures within 120 feet that fail a DC 23 Will save, as per the spell dominate person. A dominated creature receives a new Will each round to resist this effect. A creature that successfully saves against the dominating song is charmed, as per the spell charm person, for 1d3 rounds but afterwards is immune to this godling’s dominating song ability for 24 hours. This is a compulsion, language-dependent, mind-affecting effect. The save DC is Charisma-based.
Poison (Ex) Tentacle—injury; save Fort DC 28, frequency 1/round for 8 rounds, effect 1d4 Con plus stun, cure 3 consecutive saves. The save DC is Consitution-based.
Songspeech (Ex) When a godling speaks, it communicates in all languages it knows at once. A creature hears a language it knows while the other languages sound like a chorus singing musical notes.
Water Healing (Su) When a godling is touching water, it gains fast healing 10.

March 21, 2018 0

The 2017 Not Going to Gen Con Sale for Print Books

As you are gearing up for Gen Con, getting ready the year pilgrimage to Indianapolis, I am sad to say that JBE will not be attending this year. That, however, does not mean that you should be sad because we just relaunched our Not Going to Gen Con Sale. This year, it is all about the print books.

That’s right, this sale is on books you can hold in your two hands. Those that love the feel of the covers, the smell of paper, the sight of seeing the book on your shelf, and the ability to make notes in the margins, this sale is for you. You can grab these books for a nice discount.

How much of a discount you ask? Easy. All of our print books that are more than $10 are $5 off. If the book is $10 or less, it is $2 off. That simple. And this is on ALL of our print books, even the one we released only a few short months ago. So if there is a new release you wanted and you wanted it in print, now is your chance to pick it. Do you want to read it now? Well that is even easier. For $2 more, you can get the PDF. This means you can devour it now and still have the print book on your shelf.

Which books are on sale? Great question.

Monster Books (PFRPG)
Book of Beasts: Legendary Foes
Book of Beasts: Monsters of the Shadow Plane
Book of Beasts: Monsters of the River Nations

Adventures (PFRPG)
Deadly Delves: The Gilded Gauntlet
Deadly Delves: To Claw the Surface
Shadowsfall: Temple of Orcus

Player Races (PFRPG)
Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Compendium
Book of Heroic Races Compendium
Book of Heroic Races: Half-Faerie Dragons
Book of Heroic Races: Seedlings

Traveller
d66 Compendium
Creatures of Distant Worlds Compendium
Mech Tech ‘n’ bot: Fighters and Small Ships
Character Datafile

Fifth Edition
Deadly Delves: Rescue from Tyrkaven

13th Age Compatible
Deadly Delves: Reign of Ruin

This sale is exclusively at DriveThruRPG and RPGNow. So hurry over there and order your books today. This sale will not last long. Share this sale with your friends on Facebook and Twitter as well as with your regular gaming group. I am sure they will want these books in their hands as well.

August 11, 2017 1

Sale: Its the Black Friday 10-Day Sale

This year, we at Jon Brazer Enterprises are happy bring you our Black Friday Sale for 10 full days.

Whether you are playing Pathfinder, Traveller, 13th Age, or Legend, there is something here for you. Pathfinder GM’s can download anything in our Book of Beasts line or players can snag themselves some new spells from the Book of Magic series. Grab some new vehicles or ships for Traveller. Snag yourself some undead agents for your 13th Age game. Or join a cult with Legendary Factions.

Get some of our best titles for 40% off today at DriveThruRPG/RPGNow. Happy gaming.

November 24, 2014 0

Pathfinder: Book of Beasts: Legendary Foes Now in Print

The Book of Beasts: Legendary Foes, the premiere monster book for for high level and mythic Pathfinder games, is now available in print. This book is chocked full of monsters of terrifying power, difficult to build NPCs to be feared, demigods that inspire awe and trembling, and traps to keep your players on their toes, all of which at a level of difficulty that few have seen to date. Order it today at your local game store, DriveThruRPG/RPGNow, Paizo, d20PFSRD, or many fine gaming websites.

August 26, 2013 2

Pathfinder: Traps of Doom

All week long we are looking at what is in the Book of Beasts: Legendary Foes. Monday we listed all the monsters, NPCs, demigods and traps by CR. Tuesday we showed off the artwork within. Wednesday showed you how complex the NPCs were with all the class levels, archetypes, racial options, and templates layered on top of each other. Finally, today were are showing off the traps within.

High level traps are in short supply and imaginative traps that are more than a spell are even more rare. So we bring you a total of 12 traps covering CRs ranging from 15 to 24. Below are two such traps. We hope that these will be useful in making your players afraid and enhancing your world.

Collapsing Wall of Skulls CR 19
Type mechanical; Perception DC 29; Disable Device DC 29
Effects
Trigger location; Reset manual
Effect collapsing wall (20d6 bludgeoning damage); DC 25 Reflex avoids; multiple targets (all targets in a 5 ft. x 30 ft.-square area), onset delay (1 round)
Both sides of this thirty foot long hallway are composed entirely of humanoid skulls. One of the walls is a trap. The skulls on that wall are designed to fall on all those in the hallway, crushing them beneath their weight. The trap’s trigger is the five-foot space in front of the locked door at the end of the hallway. Any creature that stands on that spot for more than a round will trigger an avalanche of skulls. If a creature stands on the trigger and leaves before the end of its next turn, the trap’s timer resets. Trap cost: 4,750 gp. Construction DC: Craft (traps) 35.

Acid Spray Trap CR 23
Type mechanical; Perception DC 44; Disable Device DC 44
Effects
Trigger touch; Reset automatic (requires 1 day to regenerate acid); Bypass hidden lock (DC 35 Perception to locate, DC 40 Disable Device to open without a key)
Effect acid spray (16d6 acid damage) DC 29 Reflex half; multiple targets (all targets in a 40-ft. by 80 ft.-square room)
Triggering an acid spray trap requires touching the handle of a door that leads deeper into the dungeon. Once it is triggered, acid sprays out of a number of tiny holes in the stonework around the room (Perception check DC 45 to notice). Nowhere in the area is safe from the acid, although a Reflex save (DC 29) reduces the damage by half. A hidden lock, near the dungeon’s original entrance, prevents the acid from spraying. Trap cost: 28,000 gp. Construction DC: Craft (traps) 40.

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July 19, 2013 0

Pathfinder: Beyond Monsters, Legendary NPCs

All week long, we are sharing what is in the Book of Beasts: Legendary Foes monster book for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Monday we showed you a listing of all monsters, NPCs, demigods and traps by CR. Yesterday, we showed you some of the beautiful full-color art within. Today we want to talk to you about the NPCs.

Originally, I was going to post another a monster from the book, but I have actually posted several monsters from the book both here on JonBrazer.com (such as the millennial worm and the blightrat) as well as some in our newsletter (sign up here for exclusive previews). So today I decided to share with you details on the NPCs.

At its core, the Book of Beasts: Legendary Foes is a monster book, it is, however, so much more than that. This book contains within some of the hardest to build NPCs out there. You will not find any dwarf fighters here. We are talking about monsters with archetyped class level and templates stacked on top of each other to make a truly dizzying array of ability to throw at your players. We know how difficult it is to come up with some really spectacular array of NPCs across multiple books. So we took care of that for you.

Here are all of the options you will find within the Book of Beasts: Legendary Foes:

Banshee witch 12
Awakened fortune-blessed unseelie dire tiger rogue (thug) 11
Half-fiend drider sorcerer 9
Fire giant ranger (skirmisher) 14
Oread worm that walks cleric 19
Wyrm magma dragon ravener
Aasimar lich sorcerer 13 dragon disciple 6
Ghost cyclops rogue 9
Shadow demon fighter 14
Ratfolk diviner (foresight) 3 oracle 6 mystic theurge 10
Dark stalker juju zombie antipaladin 19

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July 17, 2013 1