#scott purdy

[siryl]

"Olethrodaemon" by Scott Purdy. It comes from a Pathfinder sourcebook, but would look right at home in the Ghostbusters cartoon.

[monstermondays]

Nuckelavee (CR 12)

  - Art Credit to Scott Purdy (on deviantART)

A mounted horseman gallops forth, soaked head to toe in gore and waving a blade with wild abandon. Yet as he moves, it becomes clear that horse and rider are joined as one—a humanoid torso sprouting from equine withers—and the gore is a grisly vision of naked muscle and leaking veins.

Nuckelavee Large Fey, Chaotic Evil --------------------- Armor Class: 18 (natural) Hit Points:  160 (16d10+64) Speed: 50ft, swim 50ft. --------------------- STR       DEX      CON      INT     WIS       CHA 18(+4)   16(+3)   18(+4)    8(-1)   14(+2)   14(+2) --------------------- Proficiency: +5 Saving Throws: Strength +9, Dexterity +8, Wisdom +7 Skills: Perception +7, Stealth +8 Condition Immunities: Charmed, Exhaustion, Frightened, Paralyzed Damage Immunities: Poison Damage Resistances: Cold; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from nonmagical attacks that aren't cold iron Senses: Darkvision 120ft, Passive Perception 17 Languages: Sylvan, does not speak Challenge: 12 ---------------------- Charge: If the nuckelavee moves at least 20 feet straight toward a target and then hits it with an attack with its longsword on the same turn, the target takes an extra 2d8 slashing damage. If the target is a creature, it must also succeed on a DC 17 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.

Horrifying Visage: Any creature that starts its turn within 60ft of the nuckelavee and can see it must make a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or become frightened for 1 minute. A frightened creature cannot take reactions. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of its turns, with disadvantage if the nuckelavee is in its line of sight. If the creature succeeds on its saving throw, or the effect ends early for it, it is immune to the nuckelavee's Horrifying Visage for the next 24 hours.

Innate Spellcasting: The nuckelavee may cast the following spells innately without expending material components. Charisma is its spellcasting ability modifier.        - 3/Day: Control Water, Fog Cloud

Regeneration: The nuckelavee regains 10 hit points at the start of its turn, or 20 hit points if it is in contact with water. If the nucklevaee takes fire or radiant damage, this trait doesn't function at the start of the nuckelavee's next turn. The nuckelavee dies only if it starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesn't regenerate.

Two Heads: The nuckelavee has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks and on saving throws against being blinded, deafened, and stunned.

Underwater Camouflage: The nuckelavee has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made while underwater. ----------------------- ACTIONS

Multiattack: The nuckelavee attacks twice with its longsword and then attacks once with a back kick.  The nuckelavee also can use two reactions each round to make attacks of opportunity, one with its longsword and one with its back kick.

Longsword (Melee Weapon Attack): +9 to hit, reach 5ft, one target; Damage (1d8+4) slashing damage and (3d6) poison damage.

Back Kick (Melee Weapon Attack): +9 to hit, reach 5ft, one target; Damage (2d8+4) bludgeoning damage and the target is knocked prone unless they succeed on a DC 17 Strength saving throw.

Mortasheen Breath (Recharge 5-6): As an action, the nuckelavee can exhale a 30ft cone of diseased air.  Any creatures within the cone must make a DC 17 Constitution saving throw.  On a failure, they take 12d8 points of poison damage and gain the poisoned condition until they complete a long rest. On a success, they take half as much damage and are not poisoned. A poisoned creature may repeat the saving throw at the end of their turn, ending the condition on a success. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Living Irony: The dreaded nuckelavee is a manifestation of pollution and filth, be it the natural decay of a red tide or the intrusive pollution of sewage and other urban waste. A nuckelavee is a living irony—a carrier of disease and a spreader of corruption that unleashes its wrath against other sources that bring corruption into the world. The corruption spread by nuckelavees only serves to further their own sense of self-loathing and overall rage. While nuckelavees might, incidentally, carry out vengeance for the victims of such pollution, defending the denizens of their rivers, swamps, and bogs is not their primary drive, for they revel in inflicting the very corruption they hate and enjoy little more than watching their enemies sicken and die.

Keep It Close: Folktales tell of talismans to carry—fetishes of seaweed garlands, horsehair soaked in brine, or vials of sanctified seawater—or of prayers to recite to ward away nuckelavees or convince them the bearer is innocent. In truth, the protection afforded by such things against the vile plague-bearers is haphazard at best.  Some scholars theorize that it is not the talismans or prayers by themselves that keep the nuckelavee at bay, but the rather the sincere belief that is invested into them by the monster’s would-be-victims. In other words, faith is what keeps such monsters away.  A pity that faith is in such short supply in these dark times.

Despoiler’s Bane: Among the cruelest and most monstrous creations of the fey, nuckelavees ride forth from black waters to wreak bloody vengeance upon those who despoil nature. Horrifying, skinless amalgams of man and horse, these monstrous avengers embody every wound and wickedness suffered by the wilds, their bodies loosing trails of gore and the pounds of their webbed hooves beating an inescapable threnody for all who earn their ire. Once they emerge from their refuges beneath cool waves or rivers, only destruction satisfies their merciless crusades, either that of their victims or their own.

[weirdletter]

Cthulhu Tales: Shub-Niggurath, by Scott Purdy, via DeviantArt.

[forbidden-sorcery]

Strange Things In My Head by Scott Purdy

[thecreaturecodex]

Upas

“The Sick Tree” © Scott Purdy, accessed at his deviantArt here

[Because sometimes you just need a giant poison tree.]

Upas This large tree has grayish bark, oblate leaves and small red fruits. Holes in its trunk appear stained, as if with some resinous chemical leaking from within.

The upas, sometimes called the poison tree or death tree, is a carnivorous plant that feeds itself on poisoned carcasses. It resembles an ordinary tree in nearly all respects, but its roots often extend upwards like the knees of spidery legs—which is how it walks when on the move. Its main way of killing its victims is by emitting a toxic vapor from holes in its bark—these leak greenish slime which evaporates on contact with the air and spreads in a wide cloud of deadly droplets. Creatures that survive the initial poisoning but are not quick to flee are beaten to a pulp by the upas’ mobile branches.

An upas frequently travels, making an ambling path through their forest homes in order to create new sources of dead bodies on which to feed. They feed slowly by absorbing nutrition through their roots, and these massacre sites may have the treasures of their victims. An upas is of a barely animal intelligence, and they are just sensible enough to flee from an opponent capable of resisting their poison and damaging them with fire or magical slashing weapons.

An upas stands up to 60 feet tall and grows to maturity rapidly, within 20 years of being planted. They can live for hundreds of years as poisonous predators. A slain upas tree’s resin can be used to create black lotus extract—removing the extract requires a DC 20 Craft (alchemy) check and extracts an additional dose for every 5 by which the DC is exceeded. Unless preserved using alchemical reagents worth 2,200 gp per dose, this extract loses its potency in 1 week.

Upas      CR 12 XP 19,200 N Gargantuan plant Init +3; Senses low-light vision, Perception +22, tremorsense 30 ft. Defense AC 25, touch 5, flat-footed 25 (-4 size, -1 Dex, +20 natural) hp 171 (18d8+90); fast healing 5 when rootedFort +16, Ref +7, Will +7 DR 10/magic and slashing; Immune acid, plant traits; Resist cold 10, electricity 10 Defensive Abilities root Offense Speed 20 ft. Melee 4 slams +18 (2d6+8/19-20) Space 20 ft.; Reach 20 ft. Special Attacks poison cloud Statistics Str 26, Dex 8, Con 21, Int 1, Wis 14, Cha 9 Base Atk +13; CMB +25 (+27 bull rush); CMD 34 (36 vs. bull rush) Feats Awesome Blow, Blind-fight, Improved Bull Rush, Improved Critical (slam), Improved Initiative, Lightning Reflexes, Lunge, Power Attack, Weapon Focus (slam) Skills Perception +22 SQ camouflage Ecology Environment warm or temperate forests Organization solitary or grove (2-6) Treasure incidental Special Abilities Camouflage (Ex) An upas at rest looks so like a mundane tree that it can only be identified as a creature with a successful DC 25 Perception, Knowledge (nature) or Survival check. Poison Cloud (Su) Three times per day as a standard action, an upas can emit a cloud of faint greenish mist in a 60 foot radius. The cloud does not obscure vision, but in all other ways acts as a cloudkill spell (Fortitude DC 24). The cloud persists for 1 round per HD of the upas (18 rounds for a typical specimen) and does not move by itself—rather it remains centered on the upas. The cloud can be dispersed by a moderate wind in 4 rounds and a strong wind in 1 round. The save DC is Constitution based. Root (Ex) As a move action, an upas can plunge its roots into the soil, drawing nutrition but limiting its mobility. A rooted upas gains fast healing 5 and a +8 bonus to its CMD to avoid bull rush, trip or other forced movement, but cannot move by itself. It can uproot itself as a move action.

[fhtagn-and-tentacles]

CTHULHU 

by Scott Purdy from Cthulhu tales

[type40capsule]

Doctor Who Card Game - Nyssa by ScottPurdy

[siryl]

“Unprecedented Floods” by Scott Purdy.