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Demon, Gadacro

Gadacros, also known as eyethieves, are demonic scavengers formed from the souls of petty sadists. They are cowardly yet savage, lusting after the aqueous humors in their victims' eyes. Gadacros follow behind demonic hordes, picking off stragglers and survivors. A few act as spies for more powerful demons or mortal summoners. A gadacro appears as a deformed bat-winged child, covered in purple scales and with vicious claws on its twisted hands. Many wear necklaces of eyeballs.

Gadacros gather in small flocks led by a single powerful individual, often with the advanced and/or giant simple templates or levels in rogue or barbarian. A gadacro leader commonly pits its underlings against each other for its own amusement. The resentment such mistreatment breeds ensures that gadacro leaders rarely live long.

GADACRO (Eyethief) CR: 3 XP: 800 CE Small outsider (chaotic, demon, evil, extraplanar) Init: +4; Senses: Darkvision 120 ft., superior low-light vision; Perception +11 __________________________________ AC: 15, touch 15, flat-footed 11 (+4 Dex, +1 size) hp: 30 (4 HD) Fort +3, Ref +8, Will +4 Defensive Abilities: Sudden escape; DR 5/cold iron or good; Immune: Electricity, poison; Resist: Acid 10, cold 10, fire 10 __________________________________ Speed: 20 ft., fly 40 ft. (perfect) Melee: Talon +9 (1d6/18-20/x3) Special Attacks: Blinding strike, piercing talons, sneak attack +2d6 Spell-Like Abilities (CL 4th, concentration +5): 1/day - Earthbind, mirror image, summon (level 2, 1d2 gadacros, 35%) __________________________________ Str 11, Dex 18, Con 15, Int 8, Wis 10, Cha 12 Base Atk: +4; CMB: +3; CMD: 17 Feats: Flyby Attack, Weapon Finesse Skills: Acrobatics +11, Escape Artist +15, Fly +14, Perception +11, Sense Motive +7, Stealth +15; Racial Modifiers: +4 Escape Artist, +4 Perception Languages: Abyssal, Celestial, Draconic; telepathy 100 ft. __________________________________ Environment: Any (The Abyss) Organization: Solitary, murder (2-6), or clutch (7-12) Treasure: Standard __________________________________ Blinding Strike (Ex): A gadacro can forgo its sneak attack damage or extra damage on a confirmed critical hit to instead blind its opponent for 5 rounds. A creature that has been blinded in this way cannot be affected again until it has recovered from the current effect. Creatures that lack eyes are immune. Earthbind (Sp): Once per day as a standard action, a gadacro can target a single creature within 140 feet with yellow strings of magical energy that loop about the target's wings and body, dragging it to the ground. A successful Fortitude save (DC 13) negates this effect. The save DC is Charisma-based. This effect hinders the subject's ability to fly (whether through natural or magical means) for four minutes. If the target fails its saving throw, its fly speed (if any) becomes 0 feet. An airborne creature subjected to this effect falls to the ground as if under the effect of a feather fall spell. Even if a new effect would grant the creature the ability to fly, that effect is suppressed for the duration of this ability. Earthbind has no effect on other forms of movement, or even on effects that might grant airborne movement without granting a fly speed (such as jumping or levitate or air walk spells). This is a transmutation effect and the equivalent of a 2nd-level spell. Piercing Talons (Ex): A gadacro's talons are impossibly sharp, threatening a critical hit on a roll of 18-20 and dealing triple damage. Sudden Escape (Su): If a gadacro takes damage from a melee attack, it can, as an immediate action, disappear in a puff of smoke and brimstone and reappear in a square up to 20 feet away to which it has line of sight. Superior Low-Light Vision (Ex): A gadacro sees four times as well as a human does in dim light.

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Slaad, Black

Save for the great slaad masters themselves, no beings embody the raw destructive power of chaos like black slaadi. Beings of pure entropy, black slaadi appear as a toad-shaped blot of utter darkness from which its two diamond eyes gleam.

Black slaadi are an enigma, for little has been written on these vastly powerful beings. They wander the Maelstrom, pursuing inscrutable goals and spreading wanton destruction for ends that make sense only in their insane minds. A handful of black slaadi serve as emissaries for the great slaad masters, but most are too devoted to chaos to bend the knee to another being.

BLACK SLAAD (Void Slaad) CR: 20 XP: 307,200 CN Huge outsider (chaotic, extraplanar, shapechanger, slaad) Init: +12; Senses: Darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +32 Aura: Entropic (20 ft.) __________________________________ AC: 39, touch 17, flat-footed 30 (+8 Dex, +1 dodge, +22 natural, -2 size) hp: 350 (20 HD); regeneration 5 (lawful weapons, lawful spells) Fort +24, Ref +14, Will +21 Defensive Abilities: Insanity (DC 29); DR 15/lawful; Immune: Sonic; Resist: Acid 5, cold 5, electricity 5, fire 5; SR 31 __________________________________ Speed: 40 ft. Melee: Bite +32 (4d6+14/19-20), 2 claws +32 (2d8+14 plus poison and energy drain) Ranged: Ray of entropy +26 touch (20d10; see below) Space: 15 ft.; Reach: 15 ft. Special Attacks: Energy drain (2 levels, DC 29) Spell-Like Abilities (CL 18th, concentration +27): At will - Chaos hammer (DC 23), deeper darkness, dispel law (DC 24), fear (DC 24), fly, greater dispel magic, greater teleport (self plus 50 lb. of objects only), magic circle against law, shatter (DC 21) 1/day - Cloak of chaos (DC 27), implosion (DC 28), summon (level 9, any 1 CR 19 or lower slaad, 100%), word of chaos (DC 26) __________________________________ Str 39, Dex 26, Con 35, Int 25, Wis 28, Cha 28 Base Atk: +20; CMB: +36 (+40 sunder); CMD: 53 (57 vs. sunder) Feats: Cleave, Combat Expertise, Dodge, Great CleaveB, Greater Sunder, Improved Critical (bite), Improved Initiative, Improved Sunder, Mobility, Power Attack, Spring Attack, Whirlwind AttackB Skills: Acrobatics +31, Bluff +32, Escape Artist +31, Intimidate +32, Knowledge (arcana, religion, one other) +27, Knowledge (planes) +30, Perception +32, Sense Motive +32, Spellcraft +30, Stealth +23, Swim +34 Languages: Abyssal, Draconic, Slaad; telepathy 100 ft. SQ: Change shape (shapeshift), zone of oblivion __________________________________ Environment: Any (The Maelstrom) Organization: Solitary Treasure: Double __________________________________ Poison (Ex): Bite - injury; save Fort DC 32; frequency 1/round for 6 rounds; effect 1d6 Con damage; cure 3 consecutive saves. The save DC is Constitution-based. Ray of Entropy (Su): Once every 1d4 rounds as a standard action, a black slaad can fire a ray of chaotic energy at a target creature with a ranged touch attack. The ray deals 20d10 points of damage and the creature is surrounded by a shroud of crackling energy. Any time the creature takes damage while the shroud persists, the shroud deals 1d10 points of damage to the creature; a successful Fortitude save (DC 29) negates the damage and dissipates the shroud. The save DC is Charisma-based. Zone of Oblivion (Su): When killed, a black void fills the space around a black slaad in a 30-ft. radius, blocking line of sight and dealing 5d10 points of damage to any creature that enters or starts its turn in the area. The zone lasts for 1 hour before dissipating. BLACK SLAAD ENTROPES The most powerful black slaadi are creatures given over totally to the power of chaos and destruction. These beings, known as entropes, border on demigodhood. A black slaad entrope is typically a CR 21 to CR 25 monster (a range shared with the various lesser slaad masters, with the range of CR 26 and above being the domain of the true slaad masters themselves). The majority of entropes simply advance in Hit Dice, but many have several levels of barbarian, fighter, or oracle, and a few have levels of alchemist, cleric, druid, or sorcerer. In addition to any benefits a black slaad entrope might gain from its class levels, all entropes possess one additional unique ability over and above those granted by its race and class. Listed here are three sample entrope abilities, but these samples are by no means the entirety of the strange powers an entrope might wield. Child of Entropy (Su): Reality itself begins to break down in the presence of the entrope. The area within 100 feet of the entrope gains the subjective gravity, erratic time, highly morphic, strongly chaos-aligned, and wild magic planar traits. The area returns to normal when the entrope leaves or dies. The entrope can suppress or resume this aura at will. Elemental Chaos (Su): A storm of elemental energy swirls around the entrope. Any creature that comes within 20 ft. of the entrope takes 2d10 points each of acid, cold, electricity, fire, and sonic damage. The entrope can suppress or resume this aura at will. Harbinger of Anarchy (Su): The mere sight of the entrope breaks the minds of all those who set eyes on it. Any creature that sees the entrope must make a Will save (DC 10 + 1/2 entrope's racial HD + the entrope's Charisma modifier) or be affected as if by the insanity spell (CL 20th). The entrope can suppress or resume this ability at will.

(And that, at long last, wraps up my slaad conversions. There are a couple I missed - the flux and putrid slaadi from 4E spring to mind, and I may do them eventually - but the black slaad completes the CR 1/2 to CR 20 spread of major outsider races. Maybe now I can finally get around to their lawful counterparts...)

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Slaad, Golden

  No slaadi embody their race's chaotic nature better than the golden slaadi. At the heart of the vast chaos storms that wrack the Maelstrom, the golden slaadi sing beautiful songs of madness, gathering their lesser kin from far and wide into great choirs of insanity. Their very forms are powered by storms of energy that make their physical forms unstable and prone to collapse. Their gleaming bodies shine vibrantly as they revel in mayhem and destruction.

They are boddhisatvas of entropy, living lives of utter chaos as examples to their kind. A golden slaad is capable of breathtaking acts of kindness and unspeakable acts of evil, so random and remorseless as to seem insane. They seek to share the wonder and glory of chaos with all beings they come across. Golden slaadi are incredibly wise and can be founts of sage advice, yet their alien minds make communicating with them an exercise in futility.

(Flavor text inspired by "I'm a sload! I'm a sload!" at Monstrous Television.)

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Demon, Evistro

  Evistros, also known as carnage demons, are demons formed from the souls of wrathful brutes such as orcs, ogres, or human thugs. They may also sometimes evolve from dretches that overcome their natural slothfulness and give themselves over to blind rage. Evistros roam the Abyss in unruly mobs, spreading murder and destruction in their wake. They are commonly rounded up by more powerful fiends into demonic hordes and sent into battle behind a first wave of dretches, who are spurred forward in fear of the carnage demons' wrath.

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Slaad, White

The slaadi have hundreds of conflicting stories about their origins. The most radical story is that all these stories are true: that slaadi once existed in countless contradictory timelines simultaneously, and that they were somehow locked into this one, single, constricting reality eons ago. The white slaadi may be proof that this story is true.

White slaadi, also known as chronos slaadi, have an uncanny insight into the flow of time. They receive constant glimpses of times that were, times that will be, and times that once could have been, granting them an almost transcendant view of reality. They are unbelievably wise and insightful, but their view of all the myriad ways of reality makes them distant and unpredictable, even for slaadi.

White slaadi are obsessed with breaking down the structured bonds of reality, seeding chaos storms in the void of the Maelstrom and railing against the order imposed on the multiverse by the forces of law. This makes them more like the proteans than most of their kind, and white slaadi often serve as free agents in the serpentine ones' hordes.

A strange theory has been formulating in the minds of some white slaadi for the last few centuries. The two eldest slaad masters, Ygorl and Ssendam, created the Spawning Stone - the great artifact and eldritch location that draws the slaadi to its surface and drives them to mate. Certain white slaadi believe that Ygorl and Ssendam created the Spawning Stone to lock the slaadi into a certain set number of toadlike forms or species out of fear that a new, more powerful slaad form would arise and overthrow them - effectively betraying their entire race by imposing Order on beings of pure Chaos. These white slaadi rage against the slaad masters and seek to destroy the Spawning Stone, an act that could potentially destroy the entire slaad race... or doom the entire multiverse as the slaadi return to their primordial, transcendant, apocalyptic forms.

WHITE SLAAD (Chronos Slaad) CR: 15 XP: 51,200 CN Medium outsider (chaotic, extraplanar, shapechanger, slaad) Init: +4; Senses: Darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +28 Aura: Entropic (5 ft.) __________________________________ AC: 35, touch 22, flat-footed 30 (+4 Dex, +1 dodge, +7 insight, +13 natural) hp: 243 (18 HD); regeneration 5 (lawful weapons, lawful spells) Fort +18, Ref +10, Will +18 Defensive Abilities: Insanity (DC 25), part the veil; DR 10/lawful; Immune: Sonic; Resist: Acid 5, cold 5, electricity 5, fire 5; SR 26 __________________________________ Speed: 30 ft. Melee: Bite +23 (1d8+5), 2 claws +23 (1d6+5 plus daze plus infestation) Special Attacks: Advantage of time, sneak attack +8d6, temporal split Spell-Like Abilities (CL 15th, concentration +21): At will - Chaos hammer (DC 21), deeper darkness, fear (DC 21), fly, greater teleport (self plus 50 lb. of objects only), invisibility, see invisibility, shatter (DC 19) 3/day - Cloak of chaos (DC 23), word of chaos (DC 22) 1/day - Summon (level 6, 1 gray slaad 35% or 1d3 blue slaadi 60%) __________________________________ Str 20, Dex 19, Con 24, Int 19, Wis 25, Cha 22 Base Atk: +18; CMB: +23; CMD: 45 Feats: Acrobatic Steps, Dodge, Lightning Stance, Mobility, Nimble Moves, Spring Attack, Step Up, Toughness, Wind Stance Skills: Acrobatics +25, Bluff +27, Intimidate +27, Fly +25, Knowledge (arcana) +25, Knowledge (planes) +25, Perception +28, Sense Motive +28, Spellcraft +25, Stealth +25 Languages: Abyssal, Common, Draconic, Slaad; telepathy 100 ft. SQ: Change shape (polymorph) __________________________________ Environment: Any (The Maelstrom) Organization: Solitary or troop (1 white slaad, 1 gray slaad, and 2-5 red slaadi) Treasure: Standard __________________________________ Advantage of Time (Ex): Whenever a white slaad reappears after its temporal replicas have been destroyed, all enemies it can see are flat-footed against it until the end of its next turn. Daze (Ex): Whenever a white slaad makes a successful claw attack, the creature it hit must make a Fortitude save (DC 24) or become dazed. On each of the creature’s turns, it gets another Fortitude save to remove the dazed condition. The save DC is Strength-based. Infestation (Su): Chaos phage. Bite - injury; save Fort DC 26, onset 1 day, effect 1d3 Dex and 1d3 Charisma, cure 2 consecutive saves. An afflicted humanoid reduced to Charisma 0 by chaos phage immediately dies as a slaad tadpole burrows out of its skull. The tadpole eventually matures into a slaad of CR 8 or less, chosen by the GM (or a green slaad if the victim was an arcane spellcaster). This is an infestation effect. A remove disease spell (or similar effect) instantly halts an infestation, but immunity to disease offers no protection, as the infestation itself is caused by a parasite. Part the Veil (Ex): A white slaad can sift through the ever-changing veils of probability to sense attacks coming before they hit. It gains an insight bonus to AC and CMD equal to its Wisdom modifier (+7 for a typical white slaad). Temporal Split (Su): Three times per day as a swift action, a white slaad can pull replicas of itself from the past and future. The white slaad splinters into six temporal replicas, each appearing in an unoccupied space within 30 feet of the white slaad’s previous space. The white slaad disappears, and it cannot attack or be attacked until it reappears. The temporal replicas thereafter act on the white slaad’s turn at the same initiative count. The temporal replicas have the same stats as the white slaad, except as follows: they cannot use any spells or spell-like abilities, they deal only 1d6 additional damage on a sneak attack, they cannot infest their opponents with chaos phage, and they are instantly destroyed whenever they take any damage. When the last temporal replica has been destroyed, the white slaad reappears within 30 feet of the space occupied by that replica on its next initiative count and can act normally (see Advantage of Time above).

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Demon, Yaenit

(Yaenit with a mutated quasit)

One of the vilest acts committed by the demon goddess Lamashtu, the Mother of Monsters, was the corruption of a legion of holy hound archons when the forces of Heaven sent them to avenge her murder of Curchanus, the god of beasts. The archons profoundly underestimated Lamashtu's newfound power, and were devoured by the newly ascended goddess one and all. Lamashtu took their souls into herself and let them gestate for a year and a day, after which time she birthed them again as the first yaenits, demons with the heads of jackals or hyenas and consumed with lust and hatred.

Yaenits serve Lamashtu alone. They feel no purpose in life but to fight, breed, and spread fear, and are commonly conjured by Lamashtu's priests for those purposes. A great many half-fiend gnolls and fiendish hyenas owe their existence to these mockeries. Female yaenits are usually more powerful than the males; they often possess a third eye in reflection of their creator, and appear pregnant even when not; many gain class levels as clerics or antipaladins. Yaenits may be mistaken for gnolls at first glance, but the prevalence of random mutations and palpable aura of wrongness that hangs over them quickly dispels that illusion.

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Slaad, Death

Though not the most powerful inhabitants of the Maelstrom, death slaadi are among the most feared. They embody naked ambition and the will to enact it, and are perhaps the ultimate expression of the unmitigated selfishness of the slaad race, consuming land, resources, and even the souls of their victims.

Death slaadi are warlords who corral weaker slaadi into destructive armies of conquest. While such armies rarely last long due to their inherent disorder, death slaadi rarely have difficulty forging new armies through force of arms or sheer charisma when the drive to conquer strikes. Many believe that death slaadi are evil; however, while they care little for the lives of their victims, they act out of short-sighted greed, not malice, and their rampages can be stayed if given adequate reason to do so.

DEATH SLAAD CR: 13 XP: 25,600 CN Medium outsider (chaotic, extraplanar, shapechanger, slaad) Init: +10; Senses: Darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +23 Aura: Entropic (5 ft.) __________________________________ AC: 29, touch 17, flat-footed 22 (+6 Dex, +12 natural, +1 dodge) hp: 172 (15 HD); regeneration 5 (lawful weapons, lawful spells) Fort +15, Ref +11, Will +15 Defensive Abilities: Insanity (DC 23); DR 10/lawful; Immune: Sonic; Resist: Acid 5, cold 5, electricity 5, fire 5; SR 24 __________________________________ Speed: 30 ft. Melee: +1 bastard sword +22/+17/+12 (1d10+7/19-20), bite +19 (2d10+3 plus stun), claw +19 (3d6+3 plus stun); or bite +21 (2d10+6 plus stun), 2 claws +21 (3d6+6 plus stun) Special Attacks: Absorb essence Spell-Like Abilities (CL 15th, concentration +21): At will - Chaos hammer (DC 20), deeper darkness, fear (DC 20), finger of death (DC 23), fireball (DC 19), fly, greater teleport (self plus 50 lb. of objects only), invisibility, see invisibility, shatter (DC 18) 3/day - Circle of death (DC 20), cloak of chaos (DC 22), word of chaos (DC 21) 1/day - Summon (level 6, 1d2 red or blue slaadi 60% or 1d2 green slaadi 40%) __________________________________ Str 23, Dex 23, Con 23, Int 18, Wis 22, Cha 22 Base Atk: +15; CMB: +21; CMD: 38 Feats: Combat Expertise, Cleave, Dodge, Improved Initiative, Mobility, Multiattack, Power Attack, Spring Attack Skills: Acrobatics +24, Climb +24, Escape Artist +21, Intimidate +24, Knowledge (planes) +22, Knowledge (one other) +19, Perception +24, Spellcraft +21, Stealth +24, Use Magic Device +24 Languages: Abyssal, Common, Draconic, Slaad; telepathy 100 ft. SQ: Change shape (Small or Medium humanoid, alter self) __________________________________ Environment: Any (The Maelstrom) Organization: Solitary or pair Treasure: Double __________________________________ Absorb Essence (Su): Whenever a death slaad kills a living creature, it consumes a small portion of its victim’s soul. It gains a +1 bonus to AC, saves, and attacks for 1 hour. Multiple kills are cumulative. Stun (Ex): Three times per day, a death slaad can attempt to stun its opponent on an attack with one of its natural weapons. If the opponent fails on a DC 23 Fortitude save, it is stunned for 1 round in addition to taking normal damage from the attack. The save DC is Wisdom-based.

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Demon, Sarumzhi

Sarumzhis are demons of the air, embodiments of the storm's wrath given evil and destructive purpose. The first sarumzhis were created by the demon lord Pazuzu, King of the Wind Demons, by consuming evil souls and breathing them forth again in the form of avian terrors. Since then, sarumzhis have bred true throughout the Abyss, and while thousands of them flock to Pazuzu's side to join him in acts of destruction, millions more inhabit the wild places of the Abyss, seeking out titanic howling storms and reveling in the wind and lightning.

Given their birdlike appearance, sarumzhis are easily mistaken for vrocks, but sarumzhis hate and fear those more powerful demons, even when both serve under the same master. Sarumzhis most often live as little more than hateful animals, but some greater demons enslave them to use as messengers.

SARUMZHI CR: 3 XP: 800 CE Medium outsider (air, chaotic, demon, evil, extraplanar) Init: +3; Senses: Darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +13 __________________________________ AC: 16, touch 14, flat-footed 13 (+3 Dex, +1 dodge, +2 natural) hp: 32 (5 HD) Fort +5, Ref +4, Will +6 DR 5/cold iron or good; Immune: Cold, electricity, poison; Resist: Acid 10, fire 10; SR 14 __________________________________ Speed: 30 ft., fly 80 ft. (perfect) Melee: Bite +7 (1d6+2), 2 claws +7 (1d4+2) Ranged: Air blast +8 (see below) __________________________________ Str 14, Dex 16, Con 13, Int 5, Wis 15, Cha 10 Base Atk: +5; CMB: +6; CMD: 20 Feats: Dodge, Flyby Attack, Skill Focus (Perception) Skills: Acrobatics +11, Fly +11, Perception +13, Survival +10 Languages: Abyssal; telepathy 100 ft. __________________________________ Environment: Any land (The Abyss) Organization: Solitary or flock (3-12) Treasure: Standard __________________________________ Air Blast (Su): At will, a sarumzhi can form a powerful sphere of fetid air and send it whistling toward a target as a ranged touch attack (maximum range 100 ft., no range increment). If the attack hits, the target takes 2d6 points of damage and must make a successful Strength check (DC 13) or be pushed 5 feet directly backward and knocked prone. The save DC is Constitution-based.