150 lines
5.2 KiB
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150 lines
5.2 KiB
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ability_mods:
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cha_mod: -1
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con_mod: 1
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dex_mod: 4
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int_mod: -3
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str_mod: -2
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wis_mod: 1
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ac: 19
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ac_special: null
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active_abilities:
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- action_cost: None
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critical_failure: null
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critical_success: null
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description: A peck from a cockatrice hardens the flesh of the creature struck.
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The target must succeed at a DC 20 Fortitude save or become slowed 1 (or slowed
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2 on a critical failure). Further failed saves against calcification increase
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the slowed condition. Once a creature's actions are reduced to 0 by calcification,
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that creature becomes petrified.Every 24 hours after it was petrified, the victim
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can attempt a DC 20 Fortitude save to recover. On a success, it becomes flesh
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again, but is slowed 1 for the next 24 hours. On a critical success, the creature
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recovers and isn't slowed. On a failure, the creature remains petrified, but can
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try again in 24 hours. On a critical failure, the petrification is permanent,
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and the creature can't attempt any more saves.
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effect: null
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failure: null
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frequency: null
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full_description: null
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generic_description: null
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maximum_duration: null
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name: Calcification
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range: null
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raw_description: '**Calcification** (__incapacitation__, __primal__, __transmutation__)
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A peck from a cockatrice hardens the flesh of the creature struck. The target
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must succeed at a DC 20 Fortitude save or become slowed 1 (or slowed 2 on a critical
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failure). Further failed saves against calcification increase the slowed condition.
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Once a creature''s actions are reduced to 0 by calcification, that creature becomes
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petrified.Every 24 hours after it was petrified, the victim can attempt a DC 20
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Fortitude save to recover. On a success, it becomes flesh again, but is slowed
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1 for the next 24 hours. On a critical success, the creature recovers and isn''t
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slowed. On a failure, the creature remains petrified, but can try again in 24
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hours. On a critical failure, the petrification is permanent, and the creature
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can''t attempt any more saves.'
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requirements: null
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saving_throw: null
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stages: null
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success: null
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traits:
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- incapacitation
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- primal
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- transmutation
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trigger: null
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alignment: N
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automatic_abilities: null
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description: 'Ugly and aggressive, the dread cockatrice stalks garbage pits and hillside
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dumps in search of prey that it can turn to stone with its petrifying beak and subsequently
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consume piece by broken piece. Cockatrices resemble gaunt and sickly roosters with
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bat wings and serpentine tails, and they rarely grow more than 2 feet tall and twice
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as long. Their absentminded clucking gives smart prey ample warning of their presence,
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and when angered cockatrices let out a shrill crow like that of a rooster. Their
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peck releases a magical toxin that causes flesh to quickly calcify, and any creature
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pecked repeatedly by an irritable cockatrice eventually transforms into a stone
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statue of itself.
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The first cockatrice is rumored to have hatched from a rooster''s egg incubated
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on a dung hill by a toad. Whether or not the rumor is true, the cockatrice''s monstrous
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appearance certainly doesn''t contradict its strange and filthy origin story, and
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these creatures are more than capable of propagating on their own. Cockatrices are
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remarkably fecund and gather in flocks of up to a dozen members. Each flock contains
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only a few females. The males—which differ in appearance from the females by having
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warty wattles and gnarled combs— often fight with each other, with lower-ranking
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males eventually driven away to find their own lairs or compete among other flocks.
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Most creatures who run afoul of a solitary cockatrice do so with one of these surly
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outcasts.
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Cockatrice lairs are often littered with fragments of statuary from past victims—although
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these are as likely to be remnants of frogs, lizards, and insects as people. Curiously,
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weasels and ferrets, who infiltrate cockatrice lairs to steal their eggs, are immune
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to the creatures'' petrifying bites. For unknown reasons, cockatrices are both terrified
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of and enraged by conventional roosters, and they are equally likely to flee or
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attack when confronted by one.
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Particularly brave (or foolhardy) individuals sometimes keep cockatrices as pets
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or guard animals. In their natural habitat among plains, forests, and sewers near
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humanoid settlements, cockatrices are content to live off vermin or scraps of waste,
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but their greatest pleasure is consuming warm meals of freshly petrified flesh.
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**__Recall Knowledge - Beast__ (__Arcana__, __Nature__)**: DC 18'
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hp: 45
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hp_misc: null
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immunities:
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- calcification
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level: 3
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melee_attacks:
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- action_cost: One Action
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damage:
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formula: 1d8-2
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type: piercing
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name: beak
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plus_damage:
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- formula: null
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type: calcification
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to_hit: 13
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traits:
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- finesse
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- magical
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name: Cockatrice
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perception: 8
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ranged_attacks: null
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saves:
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fort: 8
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fort_misc: null
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misc: null
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ref: 11
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ref_misc: null
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will: 6
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will_misc: null
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senses:
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- darkvision
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size: Small
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skills:
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- bonus: 11
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misc: null
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name: Acrobatics
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sources:
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- abbr: Bestiary
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page_start: '66'
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page_stop: null
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speed:
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- amount: 20
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misc: null
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type: Land
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- amount: 40
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misc: null
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type: fly
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spell_lists: null
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traits:
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- Beast
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