Expert Player's Guide. Volume III. Epic Monsters.pdf

Contents

Epic Monsters

Credits

Contents

Editor

Mark Gedak

Introduction

Layout

Matt Sharp

Encyclopae dia of

Epic Monsters 4

Cover Art

Vincent Hie

Logo & Cover Design

Anne Stokes

Appendix A: Epic

Level Antagonists 198

Interior Illustrations

Dave Allsop, Adriano Batista, Alexandre Benhossi, Eric

Bergeron, Jim Brady, Matthias Celso, Brent Chumley, Anthea

Dilly, Marcio Fiorito, David Grifﬁth, Renato Guedes, Will

Hammock, Vincent Hie, Ryan Horvath, Vitor Ishimura, Ricardo

Jaime, Kythera, Rhonda Libbey, Eric Lofgren, Jim McSweeney,

David Esbri Molinas, Danilo Moretti, Jon Netherland, Randy

Nunley, Tony Parker, Scott Purdy, Chris Quilliams, Fred

Rawles, Moises Donoso Segundo, Chad Sergesketter, Carlos

Silva, Jamie Simms, Ronald Smith, Anne Stokes, Joey Stone,

Christophe Swal, Simon Taylor and Alexandro Villen

Appendix B:

A dditional Feats 223

Appendix C: Monsters

by Chal lenge Rating

252

RPG Manager

Ian Belcher

Production Director

Alexander Fennell

Open Game License

255

Proofreading

Mark Quennell

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Introduction

INTRODUCTION

the Lord of the Infernum, and Bodiless Ao (from the

ﬁnal chapter of the Drow War) all make an appearance

in this section. There is also an appendix containing a

comprehensive list of epic level feats for use in your game,

additional standard feats possessed by monsters within this

book and old feats updated to expand them beyond normal

levels (1-20 level games).

From a mechanical point of view any monster with 21 Hit

Dice or more qualiﬁes to begin taken epic level feats even

if their Challenge Rating is below 20. Other creatures

such as the Cat Lord have both Challenge Rating and

Hit Dice below the magic number of 20, yet as animal

lord he is an immortal minor deity of cats with potential

to be an active player in the larger world. The creatures

presented in this book hopeful will cover all three aspects

and provide games masters with a wealth of creatures for

emerging and ongoing epic level campaigns.

Welcome to the 3 rd volume of the Expert Player’s Guide

series – Epic Monsters .

Special Thanks

We would also like to thank Jeffrey Visgaitis and all the

ﬁne folks at Inner Circle Games for allowing us to bring

the epic monsters from their critically acclaimed PDF

monster supplement, Legends of Avadnu into print for the

ﬁrst time.

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Monsters by Type

A listing of all the monsters published in this volume,

organised by type and subtype.

Aberration: Abominion, barbed serpent, copse mother,

devourer worm, gibbering orb, ha-naga, hagunemnom,

neh-thalggu, thorciasid, vermiurge, worm that walks

(Air): Air elemental dragon, breeze dragon, chichimec,

ﬁrestorm, hurricane elemental, primal air elemental, wild

titan

Animal: Legendary bear, legendary tiger

(Aquatic): Dagon, dragon whale, galasian leviathan,

nightswimmer, stygian leviathan, Vepar

(Chaotic): Abashakt, behemoth, Caziel, chaos dragon,

chthonian titan, clown demon, Dagon, dreadspawn, dream

larva, Fraz-urb’luu, hecatoncheires, infernal, Jubilex,

Kostchtchie, Lord of Chaos, Lord of the Insane, mercurial,

meriginus, Orcus, Pazuzu, phane, Sonechard, Tsathogga,

Vepar, wild titan, xixecal

(Cold): Hoary hunter, hoary steed, shadow of the void,

slorath, winterwight, xixecal

Construct: Adamantine golem, anaxim, astral sentinnel,

combat golem template, cosmic sentinel, ﬂesh colossus,

furnace golem, garbage colossus, hellforged golem, iron

colossus, jade colossus, living construct, mithral golem,

runic golem, sentinel, stone colossus, umbral blot

Dragon: Advanced dragon, armouredon, blaze dragon,

breeze dragon, draco invictus, dragon whale, epic dragon,

force dragon, prismatic dragon

(Earth): Blaze dragon, earth elemental dragon, landslide

elemental, malebolge, primal earth elemental

Elemental: Air elemental dragon, earth elemental dragon,

ﬁre elemental dragon, ﬁrestorm, hurricane elemental,

inferno elemental, landslide elemental, maelstrom

elemental, primal air elemental, primal earth elemental,

primal ﬁre elemental, primal water elemental, water

elemental dragon

Epic Monsters

This tome is the perfect companion to the revised epic

level rules presented in the Dungeon Master’s Guide

and designed for as a resource for games masters whose

campaigns are nearing epic levels of play and need

additional support to take their campaign beyond 20 th

level. With all the monsters drawn from open game

sources, including the revised monsters from the Epic

Level Handbook , Epic Monsters is the deﬁnitive source of

challenges for the emerging epic level campaign.

Epic Monsters is primarily a huge collection of unique,

epic and near epic level monsters to challenge your party

with once they reach 21 st level or even in the levels

leading up to epic levels. In addition to the more than

150 monsters packed into this tome, we have included an

appendix of powerful epic level antagonists. Immortals,

E pic level play means many things to many

different people. To some it implies a campaign

designed with far-reaching goals and challenges,

with the actions of player characters playing a role in

the destiny of a world or worlds. To others it may be

mechanically simple as to be the point where my character

reaches 21 st level. In many ways both view are correct.

Introduction

(Evil): Abashakt, Amon, atropal, Baaphel, Bael,

behemoth, Caasimolar, Caizel, camatzotz, chaos dragon,

chichimec, chthonian titan, clown demon, Dagon,

Demoriel, dreadspawn,dream larva, fell archon, Fraz-

urb’luu, Geryon, Gorson, hecatoncheires, hellephant,

Hutijin, infernal, Jubilex, knosirius lumina, Kostchtchie,

Lucifer, malebolge, meriginus, Moloch, n’gathhau

template, Orcus, Pazuzu, phaeton, phane, Sonechard,

Titivilus, true gorgons, Tsathogga, uvuudaum, Vepar, wild

titan, Xaphan, xixecal

(Extraplanar): Abashakt, air elemental dragon, Amon,

anaxim, atropal, Baaphel, Bael, behemoth, behemoth

eagle, behemoth gorilla, bestarius lumina, bygone,

Caasimolar, Caizel, camatzotz, chaos dragon, chichimec,

chthonian titan, clown demon, Dagon, Demoriel,

dreadspawn, dream larva, earth elemental dragon,

eidoneus lumina, elder titan, fell archon, ﬁre elemental

dragon, ﬁrestorm, Fraz-urb’luu, garbage colossus, Geryon,

hecatoncheires, hellephant, hurricane elemental, Hutijin,

infernal, inferno elemental, Jubilex, knosirius lumina,

Kostchtchie, landslide elemental, Lord of Chaos, Lord

of the Insane, Lucifer, maelstrom elemental, meriginus,

Moloch, mothering mass, neh-thalggu, n’gathhau

template, nightswimmer, Orcus, Pazuzu, phaeton, phane,

primal air elemental, primal earth elemental, primal ﬁre

elemental, primal water elemental, pseudonatural template,

Sonechard, stygian leviathan, titanic creature template,

Titivilus, true gorgon, Tsathogga, uvuudaum, Vepar, water

elemental dragon, wild titan, Xaphan, xixecal

Fey: Hoary hunter, leshay, true mistji

(Fire): Blaze dragon, ﬁre elemental dragon, ﬁrestorm,

inferno elemental, lavawight, phaeton, primal ﬁre

elemental, shape of ﬁre

(Force): Force dragon

Giant: Dread giant, ferrous giant, khasep-sa

(Good): Bestarius lumina, eidoneus lumina, knosirius

lumina

Humanoid: Half-titan template

(Incorporeal): Neh-thalggu, phane, shadow of the void,

shape of ﬁre, true mistji

(Lawful): Amon, anaxim, atropal, Baaphel, Bael,

Caasimolar, Demoriel, Geryon, Gorson, Hutijin, infernal,

Lucifer, Moloch, Titivilus, true gorgon, Xaphan

(Lumina): Bestarius lumina, eidoneus lumina, knosirius

lumina

Magical Beasts: Behemammoth, brachyurus, hoary

steed, primasaurus, scion of war, sirrush, slorath, stygian

leviathan, tayellah, three-headed sirrush, typhoeon

Monstrous Humanoid: Galasian leviathan, gloom,

gynnean xiir

(Native): Cat lord, mouse lord

(N’gathhau): N’gathhau template

Ooze: Genius loci, primordial ooze

Outsider: Abashakt, Amon, Baalphel, Bael, behemoth,

behemoth eagle, behemoth gorilla, bestarius lumina,

bygone template, bygone, Caasimolar, Caizel, camatzotz,

cat lord, chaos dragon, chichimec, chthonian titan, clown

demon, Dagon, Demoriel, dreadspawn, dream larva,

eidoneus lumina, elder titan, fell archon, Fraz-urb’luu,

Geryon, Gorson, hecatoncheires, hellephant, Hutijin,

infernal, Jubilex, knosirius lumina, Kostchtchie, Lord of

Chaos, Lord of the Insane, Lucifer, malebolge, mercane,

mercurial, meriginus, Moloch, mothering mass, mouse

lord, Orcus, Pazuzu, phaeton, pseudonatural template,

Sonechard, titanic creature template, Titivilus, true gorgon,

Tsathogga, unraveller, uvuudaum, Vepar, Xaphan

Plant: Copse spawn, elder treant, mu spore, rotwood

(Psionic): Hagunemnom

(Shapechanger): Cat lord, mouse lord, hagunemnom

(Swarm): Ruin swarm

Undead: Atropal, demilich, hunefer, lavawight,

nightswimmer, shadow of the void, shape of ﬁre,

winterwight

Vermin: Devastation beetle, devastation centipede,

devastation scorpion, devastation spide, ruin swarm

(Voidspawn): Dreadspawn

(Water): Breeze dragon, maelstrom elemental, primal

water elemental, water elemental dragon, wild titan

New Subtypes

Lumina: A lumina possesses the following traits (unless

otherwise noted in a creature’s entry).

c Hover (Su): Lumina magically hover 2 inches above

the ground. This grants them a permanent feather fall

effect with personal range.

c Material Allergy (Ex): Though they normally ﬂoat

above the ground and avoid prolonged contact with

other creatures, lumina suffer greatly when exposed

to the imperfections of material not from their home

plane. Their skin blackens and peels, and they feel

incredible pain. A lumina who spends 1 full round in

contact with matter not from its home plane suffers

15 points of damage and is sickened for 1 round. The

contact can be through grappling, entangling, being

pinned in a cave-in, willingly holding a normal object,

or any other source.

c Regeneration (Ex): A lumina takes normal damage

from its material allergy, epic evil-aligned weapons,

and from spells or effects with the evil descriptor.

c Resistance to electricity 30 and ﬁre 30.

N’gathhau: N’gathhau are immune to poison and acid;

resistance to ﬁre 5, resistance to cold 5. All n’gathau have

various mutilations, determined by DM choice or by

rolling on the Random Mutilation Table (see N’gathhau

entry) .

Voidspawn: Calling and summoning spells cast within 30

feet gain the evil descriptor (altering their effects, in the

case of spells where the creature conjured is affected by

the descriptor), even if the caster could not normally cast

evil spells. A creature that kills a voidspawn must succeed

on a DC 10 + ½ HD + Cha modiﬁer Will save or have

the voidspawn’s aura cling to it for 24 hours. While the

evil aura does not replace the creature’s natural aura, it is

revealed as surrounding the creature by detect evil spells

and similar effects.

Encyclopaedia - A

Abominations

ability damage. They are immune to mind-affecting

effects (charms, compulsions, phantasms, patterns, and

morale effects), and are immune to one of ﬁve energy

types (speciﬁc to the abomination).

Resistances (Ex): Abominations have ﬁre resistance 20,

cold resistance 20, and damage reduction of at least 10/

epic (certain abominations have higher damage reduction).

Abominations all have signiﬁcant spell resistance.

Abominations resist detection, and are all treated as if

affected by a nondetection spell of a caster level equal to

the abomination’s HD.

Building

Abominations

Abominations are a grouping of the outsider type in the

same way that demons are a grouping of the outsider type.

The accompanying table indicates the average values

an abomination of a given size might have for its basic

physical scores. Abominations also share several other

characteristics.

Special Qualities (Ex): All abominations have the spell-

like ability to use true seeing at will. Abominations are

not subject to death from massive damage, and they have

maximum hit points per Hit Die. Abominations have the

blindsight extraordinary ability to a range of 500 feet.

Abominations can choose both non-epic and epic feats as

part of their feat selection.

Abomination Traits

All abominations are born directly (or indirectly) from

a god and some lesser creature (or idea), but none are

favoured, wanted or loved. Still, they all share a tiny spark

of deiﬁc energy, which grants them the qualities described

in below. (Note: deity rules are used , abominations are

rank 0 deities.)

Telepathy (Su): Abominations can communicate

telepathically with any creature within 1,000 feet that has

a language.

Summon Creature (Sp): Abominations can summon

creatures associated either with the portfolio of their

godly progenitor or with their imprisonment. Summoned

creatures serve the abomination without question.

Summoned creatures automatically return whence

they came after 1 hour, or sooner if slain. See speciﬁc

abomination entries for additional details on summoning.

Immunities (Ex): Abominations are immune to

polymorphing, petriﬁcation or any form-altering attack.

They are not subject to energy drain, ability drain or

Abomination Characteristics by Size

Size Str Dex Con

# of

Slam Bite Claw Gore

Fine 12–13 26–27 12–13

4d8–

9d8

— 1d6 1d4 1d4

Diminutive 14–15 24–25 14–15

7d8–

13d8

1d4 1d8 1d6 1d6

Tiny 18–19 22–23 16–17

10d8–

21d8

1d6 2d6 1d8 1d8

Small 26–27 20–21 20–21

19d8–

33d8

1d8 2d8 2d6 2d6

Medium 34–35 18–19 24–25

27d8–

38d8

2d6 4d6 2d8 2d8

Large 42–43 16–17 28–29

36d8–

50d8+

2d8 4d8 4d6 4d6

Huge 50–51 14–15 32–33

47d8–

58d8+

4d6 8d6 4d8 4d8

Gargantuan 58–59 12–13 36–37

56d8–

70d8+

4d8 8d8 8d6 8d6

Colossal 66–67 10–11 40–41 71d8+ 8d6 16d6 8d8 8d8

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