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Demon, Nabasu

CR 8.00 Outsider CE Medium HD 9
This lanky fiend's mouth is filled with sharp fangs, while great bat-like wings stretch from its scaly hide.

Nabasus are birthed directly into the Material Plane from the Abyss, where they feed on innocent souls to mature. Only when finally sated can a nabasu return to the Abyss. Rumor holds that even then the nabasu's lifecycle does not change, and that further developments await them as they continue to grow. These vile demons form from the souls of evil gluttons, particularly from cannibals, blood-drinkers, and those who prefer the tang of undead flesh.

HP
103 (9d10+54)
AC
22, touch 14, flat-footed 18 (+3 Dex, +1 dodge, +8 natural)
Init
+7
Speed
30 ft., fly 60 ft. (average)
Fort
+9
Ref
+9
Will
+9
BAB
+9
CMB
+15
CMD
29
Melee
2 claws +15 (1d6+6), bite +15 (1d8+6)
DR
10/cold iron or good
SR
19
Racial Modifiers
+8 Perception, +8 Stealth in shadowy areas
str
22
+6
dex
17
+3
con
22
+6
int
15
+2
wis
16
+3
cha
19
+4

Weapons: Martial, Simple

Consume Life — When a nabasu creates a ghoul with its gaze attack, it gains a growth point. It gains a bonus equal to its growth point total on attack rolls, CMB rolls, saving throws, caster level checks, and skill checks. Its maximum hit points increase by 10 for each growth point, and its caster level for spell-like abilities increases by 1. For every 2 growth points, its natural armor bonus, SR, and CR increase by 1. Every time it gains a growth point it makes a DC 30 caster level check—success indicates it matures (gaining both the advanced and the giant simple templates) and plane shifts to the Abyss in a burst of smoke. A nabasu can have a maximum of 20 growth points—it automatically matures if it has not done so already when it reaches 20 growth points.

Death-Stealing Gaze — As a free action once per day per growth point (minimum of 1/day), a nabasu can activate its death-stealing gaze for a full round. All living creatures within 30 feet must succeed on a DC 18 Fortitude save or gain a negative level. A humanoid slain in this manner immediately transforms into a ghoul under the nabasu's control. A nabasu's gaze can only create one ghoul per round—if multiple humans perish from the gaze in a round, the nabasu picks which human becomes a ghoul. The save DC is Charisma-based.

sneak attack +2d6

Special Abilities

Consume Life from text
When a nabasu creates a ghoul with its gaze attack, it gains a growth point. It gains a bonus equal to its growth point total on attack rolls, CMB rolls, saving throws, caster level checks, and skill checks. Its maximum hit points increase by 10 for each growth point, and its caster level for spell-like abilities increases by 1. For every 2 growth points, its natural armor bonus, SR, and CR increase by 1. Every time it gains a growth point it makes a DC 30 caster level check—success indicates it matures (gaining both the advanced and the giant simple templates) and plane shifts to the Abyss in a burst of smoke. A nabasu can have a maximum of 20 growth points—it automatically matures if it has not done so already when it reaches 20 growth points.
Death-Stealing Gaze from text
As a free action once per day per growth point (minimum of 1/day), a nabasu can activate its death-stealing gaze for a full round. All living creatures within 30 feet must succeed on a DC 18 Fortitude save or gain a negative level. A humanoid slain in this manner immediately transforms into a ghoul under the nabasu's control. A nabasu's gaze can only create one ghoul per round—if multiple humans perish from the gaze in a round, the nabasu picks which human becomes a ghoul. The save DC is Charisma-based.
Sneak Attack +2d6 from text

Feats, Traits & Items

Cleave from Feat

As a standard action, you can make a single attack at your full base attack bonus against a foe within reach. If you hit, you deal damage normally and can make an additional attack (using your full base attack bonus) against a foe that is adjacent to the first and also within reach. You can only make one additional attack per round with this feat. When you use this feat, you take a –2 penalty to your Armor Class until your next turn.

Combat Expertise from Feat

You can choose to take a –1 penalty on melee attack rolls and combat maneuver checks to gain a +1 dodge bonus to your Armor Class. When your base attack bonus reaches +4, and every +4 thereafter, the penalty increases by –1 and the dodge bonus increases by +1. You can only choose to use this feat when you declare that you are making an attack or a full-attack action with a melee weapon. The effects of this feat last until your next turn.

Dodge from Feat

You gain a +1 dodge bonus to your AC. A condition that makes you lose your Dex bonus to AC also makes you lose the benefits of this feat.

Calculated: +1 Ac

You get a +4 bonus on initiative checks.

Calculated: +4 Initiative
Power Attack from Feat

You can choose to take a –1 penalty on all melee attack rolls and combat maneuver checks to gain a +2 bonus on all melee damage rolls. This bonus to damage is increased by half (+50%) if you are making an attack with a two-handed weapon, a one handed weapon using two hands, or a primary natural weapon that adds 1-1/2 times your Strength modifier on damage rolls. This bonus to damage is halved (–50%) if you are making an attack with an off-hand weapon or secondary natural weapon. When your base attack bonus reaches +4, and every 4 points thereafter, the penalty increases by –1 and the bonus to damage increases by +2. You must choose to use this feat before making an attack roll, and its effects last until your next turn. The bonus damage does not apply to touch attacks or effects that do not deal hit point damage.

Acrobatics +15, Fly +15, Knowledge (arcana) +14, Knowledge (planes) +14, Perception +23, Sense Motive +15, Stealth +15 (+23 in shadowy conditions), Survival +15

spell-like abilities:
At will—Deeper Darkness, At will—Teleport, Greater, At will—Telekinesis (DC 19), 3/day—Enervation, 3/day—Silence (DC 16), 3/day—Vampiric Touch, 1/day—Hold Person, Mass (DC 21), 1/day—Regenerate (DC 21)
Details
Type
Outsider
Alignment
CE
Size
Medium
Environment
any (Abyss)
Organization
solitary
Treasure
standard
Senses
darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +23
Languages
Abyssal, Celestial, Draconic; telepathy 100 ft.
Source
Bestiary
Source

Bestiary

Attribution

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Sources Used in This Record
13 House/Core
  • Uses feat: Cleave (Feat) — core content under OGL 1.0a
  • Uses feat: Combat Expertise (Feat) — core content under OGL 1.0a
  • Uses feat: Dodge (Feat) — core content under OGL 1.0a
  • Uses feat: Improved Initiative (Feat) — core content under OGL 1.0a
  • Uses feat: Power Attack (Feat) — core content under OGL 1.0a
  • Knows spell: Deeper Darkness (Spell) — core content under OGL 1.0a
  • Knows spell: Teleport, Greater (Spell) — core content under OGL 1.0a
  • Knows spell: Telekinesis (Spell) — core content under OGL 1.0a
  • Knows spell: Enervation (Spell) — core content under OGL 1.0a
  • Knows spell: Silence (Spell) — core content under OGL 1.0a
  • Knows spell: Vampiric Touch (Spell) — core content under OGL 1.0a
  • Knows spell: Hold Person, Mass (Spell) — core content under OGL 1.0a
  • Knows spell: Regenerate (Spell) — core content under OGL 1.0a
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