Fantasy Monster: Clown Giant

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Clown Giant

The body of this giant is weirdly disproportionate, with oversized feet, hands, and bulbous nose, its skin white, red, and black.

CR 5; XP 1,600
CN Large Humanoid (giant)

Init +8; Senses low-light vision; Perception +14

Defense
AC 18, touch 13, flat-footed 14 (+4 Dex, +5 natural, –1 size)
hp 55 (10d8+10)

Fort +4; Ref +11; Will +4

Defensive Abilities funny bone

Offense
Speed 40 ft.

Melee slapstick +10/+5 (2d4+4 plus bounce)

Ranged thrown pie +10 touch (laughing madness)

Space 10 ft.; Reach 10 ft.

Statistics
Str 18, Dex 18, Con 12, Int 15, Wis 13, Cha 13
Base Atk +7; CMB +12; CMD 29

Feats Acrobatic Step, Combat Reflexes, Defensive Combat Training, Improved Initiative, Nimble Moves

Skills Acrobatics +17, Escape Artist +17, Perception +14, Perform (comedy) +14

Languages a pidgin of Aklo, Common, and Giant

SQ impossible compression

Ecology
Environment any
Organization solitary, pair, or band (3–10)
Treasure standard

Special Abilities

Funny Bone (Ex) Clown giants threat Acrobatics, Escape Artist, Perception, and Perform (comedy) are class skills. A clown giant affected by hideous laughter or similar effects does laugh insanely, but remains standing and fully capable of acting, and gains +2 morale bonus to attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, and saving throws.

Impossible Compression (Su) Any number of clown giants can fit in a 5-ft. space, though they can't really take any physical actions, other than leaving that space, if there are more than two compressed in such way. They also seem to be able to hold breath indefinitely in extradimensional spaces.

Slapstick (Su) Clown giants are armed with various silly looking clubs which they use to slap anyone around them, and they seem able to conjure them into their hands with a swift action, if needed. Creature struck by the slapstick is subject to a free combat maneuver check from clown giant that doesn't provoke attacks of opportunity. If successful, the target is forcibly moved 5 feet in direction of clown giant choosing, plus additional 5 feet for each 5 point the combat maneuver check exceeded the target's CMD.

Thrown Pie (Su) Clown giants can conjure and throw large pies, using them as thrown splash weapon. Creatures struck directly by the thrown pie are staggered for 1 round, or on a failed Will saving throw (DC 16) become either confused or afflicted by hideous laughter (50% chance for either) for 1d4+1 rounds. Creatures splashed by the pie become staggered for 1 round on a failed Will saving throw (DC 16). The saving throw DC is Charisma-based.

Clown giants are a tribe of dwarfish cloud giants who believe that existence is a cosmic joke,  devoid of any serious and deep meaning or purpose, eternally laughing at the absurdity of life and death.

Fantasy Monster: Grim Puppeteer

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Grim Puppeter

A massive silhouette of fuzzy shadows with grotesquely thin arms and legs resembling thin sticks. It wears a giant raven skull as a mask and many hands extend from its back, holding shadowy strings extending into the darkness.

CR 12; XP 12,800
CN Large Fey

Init +9; Senses low-light vision, deathwatch; Perception +29

Aura necromantic strings (100 ft.)

Defense
AC 27, touch 19, flat-footed 22 (+5 deflection, +5 Dex, +8 natural, –1 size)
hp 156 (24d6+72); regeneration 10 (fey-bane weapons and effects)

Fort +11; Ref +19; Will +15

Defensive Abilities dual affinity; DR 10/cold iron

Offense
Speed 40 ft.

Melee 5 string lashes +16 touch (3d6 plus immobilization or reposition, 19–20/×2 plus bleed or sickened)

Space 10 ft.; Reach 30 ft.

Spell-Like Abilities (CL 20th, concentration +21)

Constant—deathwatch, shield of faith

Statistics
Str 20, Dex 20, Con 16, Int 13, Wis 13, Cha 17
Base Atk +12; CMB +18; CMD 50

Feats Acrobatic Step, Bleeding Critical, Blind-Fight, Combat Reflexes, Critical Focus, Defensive Combat Training, Diehard, Endurance, Improved Critical (string lash), Improved Initiative, Nimble Moves, Sickening Critical

Skills Knowledge (nature) +28, Knowledge (religion) +25, Perception +28, Perform (puppetry) +30, Sense Motive +28, Sleight Of Hand +32, Stealth +28

Languages Aklo, Common, Sylvan

Ecology
Environment any
Organization solitary or pair
Treasure standard

Special Abilities

Dual Affinity (Su) A grim puppeteer is a weird liminal being between life and death. It can be healed by both negative and positive energy, like it was living being and undead at the same time. 

Necromantic Strings (Su) Many tangled immaterial strings extend from a grim puppeteer, attaching themselves to dead bodies nearby, including those buried underground, and animating them as zombies or skeletons, according to their state. A grim puppeteer can have up to 48 HD of undead puppets animated in this way, with no puppet exceeding 12 HD. As soon as any of the undead is destroyed, the freed strings attach to another corpse within range. Undead animated by this power gain +2 bonus to attack rolls, damage rolls, saving throws, and AC, and they all move on the initiative of the grim puppeteer animating them.

String Lash (Su) A grim puppeteer can lash with some of its strings against those who would interfere with its plays, using them as melee touch attacks. Creatures struck suffer 3d6 points of damage. Medium or smaller creatures have to choose between either being forcibly moved up to 20 feet, according to grim puppeteer's whim, or become unable to move from their position for 1d4+1 rounds (the choice is made immediately, before the movement is revealed).

Grim puppeteers are fascinated by mortal beings death, passing, and corpses, finding their mortality perplexing. While they perceive life itself, sudden transition from constant move to persistent stillness catches them off guard and makes them try to poke and prod dead things to move like they did before. When that doesn't helps, they go around making them move and playing them, like a child might play with dead pets.

While they bear no ill will toward the living, they are capricious, impatient and prone to temper tantrums, sometimes leading to even more mortals stopping to move of their own...

Fantasy Monster: Toothless Fairy

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Toothless Fairy

A little, old looking lady floats in air. Her cruel glee exposed bloody, toothless gums.

CR 11; XP 12,800
CE Small Fey

Init +10; Senses low-light vision; Perception +29

Defense
AC 25, touch 25, flat-footed 18 (+5 deflection, +6 Dex, +1 dodge, +2 insight, +1 size)
hp 150 (20d6+80)

Fort +9; Ref +20; Will +14

Defensive Abilities foresight; DR 10/cold iron

Offense
Speed 20 ft., fly 20 ft. (perfect)

Special Attacks bloody teeth, toothless chewing

Spell-Like Abilities (CL 20th, concentration +21)

Constant—foresight, shield of faith

Statistics
Str 10, Dex 22, Con 16, Int 13, Wis 15, Cha 13
Base Atk +10; CMB +15; CMD 43

Feats Agile Maneuvers, Alertness, Defensive Combat Training, Dodge, Flyby Attack, Hover, Improved Initiative, Lightning Stance, Toughness, Wind Stance

Skills Fly +39, Heal +25, Intimidate +24, Knowledge (nature) +24, Perception +29, Sense Motive +29, Stealth +33

Languages Aklo, Common, Sylvan (spoken with a strong lisp)

SQ malicious relief

Ecology
Environment any
Organization solitary or pair
Treasure standard

Special Abilities

Bloody Teeth (Su) A toothless fairy can conjure seven bloodied teeth that strike up to seven targets unerringly, like magic missile. Each creature struck suffers 2d4+1 points of bleed damage per tooth that hit it and is afflicted with toothless chewing curse.

Malicious Relief (Su) A toothless fairy can remove both mundane and supernatural toothache, including her own or another toothless fairy's toothless chewing curse, but it requires the subject to name seven other people (they must be real people that the recipient honestly believe to be alive) to become targets for the toothless fairy. A person who was subject to costly relief won't suffer another toothache for at least a year.

Toothless Chewing (Su) All creatures struck by a toothless fairy's bloody teeth become cursed with persistent toothache that prevents them from eating solid food. Each time they try to eat solid food, they become wrecked with pain on a failed Fortitude saving throw (DC 21), vomiting anything they attempt to eat for the next 24 hours. Even on success, eating becomes a painful and tiresome ordeal. Particularly soft and bland food might grant +2 bonus to the saving throw. Restoration or regeneration can suppress this pain for a day. This is a curse and pain effect.

Toothless fairies might have been born out of nightmares of losing teeth or suffering of old people whose teeth have decayed into broken remnants, and they definitely love to spread such torment on others.

While they can be bargained with, the price for relief they bring is always inflicting such pain on others, and they are clearly finding a sadistic satisfaction both in the suffering of the victims and the distress suffered by those who chose to save themselves by pointing new targets.

Fantasy Monster: Thornwall

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Thornwall

A thick tangle of thorns spread quickly across the ground, forming an almost solid wall of growths.

CR 1; XP 400
N Large Plant

Init +1; Senses low-light vision, tremorsense 20 ft.; Perception +1

Defense
AC 12, touch 10, flat-footed 12 (+1 Dex, +2 natural, –1 size)
hp 16 (3d8+3); regeneration 5 (fire or plant-killing effects)

Fort +4; Ref +2; Will +2

Defensive Abilities all-around vision, impassable; Immune plant traits

Offense
Speed 20 ft.

Melee slam +2 (2d4+1)

Space 10 ft.; Reach 5 ft.

Special Attacks hedge wall

Statistics
Str 12, Dex 12, Con 12, Int —, Wis 13, Cha 1
Base Atk +2; CMB +4; CMD 15 (25 against bull-rush and overrun, can't be tripped))

Ecology
Environment plains, forests, gardens
Organization solitary, pair, or hedge (3–12)
Treasure standard

Special Abilities

Hedge Wall (Ex) A group of two or more thornwalls, with each thornwall being adjacent side-to-side to at least one other thronwall, forms a powerful intertwined formation, gaining +1 bonus to attack rolls, damage rolls, saving throws, and AC for each thornwall in the group, to a maximum of +12, and splitting the damage suffered equally between all its members.

Impassable (Ex) As each thornwall is a moving piece of thorny hedge that fully occupies its space and extends around 6 to 7 feet in the air, it is extremely hard to pass through, granting it a +10 bonus to CMD against bull-rush and overrun attempts, and increasing DC of Acrobatics checks to move through its space by 10. Failed attempts to bull-rush, overrun, or move through its space inflict 2d4+1 points of piercing damage. Only creatures four or more size categories smaller can freely move through its space, forcing Tiny creatures attempting to move through thornwall space to make Acrobatics checks. Thornwalls ignore light and heavy vegetation by growing around and through it.

Thornwalls are living walls of tangled thorny bushes that not so much move, as swiftly grow across the ground, leaving withered husks behind. Multiple patches of thornwalls can intertwine together forming impenetrable, and almost literal walls of vegetation.

Fantasy Monster: Wall Of Faces

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Wall Of Faces

Countless imprints of faces raise out of this massive mound of translucent ooze.

CR 13; XP 25,600
CN Colossal Ooze (aquatic)

Init +9; Senses darkvision 60 ft., blindsight 60 ft.; Perception +37

Defense
AC 28, touch 12, flat-footed 23 (+5 deflection, +5 Dex, +16 natural, –8 size)
hp 204 (32d8+64); fast healing 10

Fort +20; Ref +17; Will +17

Defensive Abilities all-around vision; Immune ooze traits

Weakness susceptible to speak with dead

Offense
Speed 30 ft., swim 30 ft.

Melee bite +22 (3d6+5, 19–20/×2)

Space 30 ft.; Reach 10 ft.

Special Attacks countless bites, devour faces

Statistics
Str 20, Dex 20, Con 14, Int 21, Wis 21, Cha 21
Base Atk +24; CMB +37; CMD 

Feats Bleeding Critical, Blind-Fight, Blinding Critical, Critical Focus, Defensive Combat Training, Diehard, Endurance, Improved Critical (bite), Improved Initiative, Improved Iron Will, Improved Lightning Reflexes, Iron Will, Lightning Reflexes, Staggering Critical, Vital Strike, Weapon Focus (bite)

Skills Intimidate +37, Knowledge (geography) +37, Knowledge (history) +37, Knowledge (local) +37, Knowledge (nature) +37, Knowledge (nobility) +37, Perception +37, Swim +13

Languages speaks a pidgin of dozens of humanoid languages in a maddening chorus of disjointed voices

SQ amphibious, constriction, stretching

Ecology
Environment any
Organization solitary
Treasure standard

Special Abilities

Countless Bites (Ex) During a full attack, a wall of faces can make up to four bite attacks against each creatures within its reach. It can also make any number of attacks of opportunity each round.

Devour Face (Ex) When a humanoid or monstrous humanoid creature is reduced to 0 or less hit points within reach of wall of faces attack, it is pulled inside the wall of faces space and slowly devoured, until only an impression of its face remains imprinted in the ooze.

Stretching (Ex) A wall of faces can stretch across large surface areas, such as floors, corridors, chimneys, or even ceiling, remaining immobile but cognizant of its surroundings.

Susceptible To Speak With Dead (Ex) A wall of faces can be targeted with speak with dead effect, despite not being dead. If the caster manages to finish the first full round of casting uninterrupted, the wall of faces becomes calm and docile without a saving throw, and its faces will answer any questions given to them as part of this spell as if they were dead bodies – the caster can call the faces by name, role or achievements in life, or other distinguishing characteristics, though it might cause a cacophony of answers if multiple faces meet the criteria used. This effect is broken if any threatening action is taken against the wall of faces. A wall of faces become immune to speak with dead for the next 24 hours afterwards.

Wall of faces is an oozing mass of slime that devours faces and retains shreds of their knowledge, memories, and identities, though not their souls. It is a mad entity, full of contradictory superficial instincts and desires, but underneath it all there is merely a hunger for more.

Fantasy Monster: Swatterfly

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Swatterfly

An oversized fly carved out of wood that buzzes around on large membranous wings.

CR 2; XP 600
N Small Construct

Init +4; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision; Perception +1

Defense
AC 15, touch 15, flat-footed 11 (+4 Dex, +1 size)
hp 21 (2d10+10)
Fort +0; Ref +4; Will +1

Defensive Abilities evasion, rapid movement; Immune construct traits

Weakness vulnerability to acid

Offense
Speed 20 ft., fly 40 ft. (perfect)

Melee 2 wing slaps +4 (1d6+1)

Special Attacks faceswat

Statistics
Str 12, Dex 18, Con —, Int —, Wis 13, Cha 1
Base Atk +2; CMB +3; CMD 16

Feats Hover^B

Skills Fly +14, Perception +1, Stealth +8

Ecology
Environment urban, ruins
Organization solitary, pair, or swarm (3–20)
Treasure none

Special Abilities

Faceswat (Ex) A swatterfly can make two wing slap attacks during an aerial charge, and the target of its charge becomes staggered for 1d3+1 rounds on a failed Reflex saving throw (DC 15). Creatures that lack discernible faces, or are mindless and lacking any self-preservation instinct can't be staggered by this ability. The saving throw DC is Dexterity-based.

Rapid Movement (Ex) Creatures that are dazzled, staggered, or slowed can't make attacks of opportunity against a swatterfly.

Swatterflys are big flies carved out of wood with wings made out of stretched bladders that were designed to retaliate against flyswatting by a mad druid... Or maybe they were just intended as autonomous flyswatters that went rogue as soon as they were released. The result was the same, either way – oversized fly-shaped constructs that pesters people by flying into their faces in the most unexpected moments.

A swatterfly can be picked as an improved familiar by a 7th level caster.

Fantasy Monster: Mosquito Hag

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Hag, Mosquito

A little hag with a crooked nose resembling a proboscis without mouth underneath, surrounded by a cloud of mosquitos that mimic her movements.

CR 1; XP 400
CE Tiny Monstrous Humanoid

Init +1; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision; Perception +7

Aura mosquito swarm (10 ft.)

Defense
AC 13, touch 13, flat-footed 12 (+1 Dex, +2 size)
hp 16 (3d10)
Fort +1; Ref +4; Will +4

Defensive Abilities mosquito swarm; Immune swarm damage, insect-transmitted diseases

Weakness mosquito swarm

Offense
Speed 30 ft.

Melee 2 claws +5 (1d3)

Special Attacks mosquito swarm (2d4 bleed), spreading swarm

Spell-Like Abilities (CL 3rd, concentration +4)

1/day—obnoxious messenger (summons a Tiny swarm of mosquitos that acts as animal messenger), obnoxious spy (summons a Tiny swarm of mosquitos that acts as a visible arcane eye)

At Will—dancing lights, open/close, unseen servant (1 active at a time)

Statistics
Str 10, Dex 13, Con 10, Int 12, Wis 13, Cha 13
Base Atk +3; CMB +1; CMD 12

Feats Nimble Moves, Run

Skills Climb +6, Knowledge (nature) +4, Perception +7, Stealth +15, Swim +6

Languages Aklo, Common, Giant

SQ hold breath (1 hour)

Ecology
Environment forests, jungles, and marshes, coasts of lakes and pools of standing water
Organization solitary or coven (3 hags of any kind)
Treasure standard

Special Abilities

Mosquito Swarm (Ex) A mosquito hag constantly spawns and reabsorbs her own mosquitos, forming a swarm that surrounds her whenever she goes. It inflicts 2d4 points of bleed damage at the start of the hag's turn to all creatures within 10 feet and grants the hag a concealment, but it also makes her vulnerable to area damage like a regular swarm. All effects that repel, kill, or control insects and swarms, deal 2d4 points of damage to the hag per turn of exposure. Additionally, a mosquito hag can pinpoint location of any corporeal creature within her swarm range as if using blindsight. A mosquito hag can suppress and release her swarm as a free action.

Spreading Swarm (Ex) A mosquito hag can take a full-round action to extend her swarm to 30-ft. radius spread for 1 round. It returns to its normal size at the end of turn in which the mosquito hag hadn't used this ability.

Mosquito hags are terribly annoying pests that live in places where mosquitos can thrive. Noticeable, they have no mouth – they feed on blood sucked by their mosquito swarms, and speak by modulated buzzing of the thousands of insect wings.

Mosquito hag grants its coven an ability to cast summon swarm and insect plague.