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Cat Blob

A huge hair mass of flesh, comprising of dozens of yowling, hissing cats, slithers towards you. You swear that you can barely hear a human screaming over the cats yowling.

Cat Blob CR 5

XP 1,600

N Large Ooze

Init -5 ; Senses Blindsight 60 ft

Perception -5

AC 4. touch 4, flat footed 4 (-5 dex, -1 size)

hp 87(7d8+56)

Fort +10; Ref -3; Will -3

Immune: Ooze traits

Weakness: Water allergy

Speed 10 feet

Melee Slam +4 (1d6 +2d4 cat scratching +Disease)

Space 10 ft. Reach 5 ft

Special Attacks Cat Scratch, Disease

Str 10, Dex 1, Con 26, Int -, Wis 1, Cha 1

Base Atk +5; CMB +6; CMD 11 (Can't be tripped)

Environment Any urban or ruins

Organization Solitary

Treasure incidental.

Water Allergy (Ex): Cat Blobs hate water. They will not come within 10 feet of a large body of water and will not go out when its raining. Anyone who is infected with the Cat Blob's disease (See below) can make submerge themselves in water to get a free save at +4 to overcome the disease each round. If a Cat Blob comes into contact with water, it becomes staggered for one round.

Cat Scratch (EX): Whenever a Cat Blob slams into a target, the cats that make up its body claw and scratch at the victim. This has no effect on people in sturdy armor, or has good natural armor (+5 or better).

Cat Tumor disease (Su) The Cat Blob carries a horrible disease similar to the one that spawned it. Anyone struck with the cat scratch ability quickly suffers a horrible disease which rapidly converts their flesh into a mass of yowling, living cats. The statistics for the disease are as follows.

Cat Tumors: Cat Scratch-Injury Save: Fort DC 21, Onset 1 hour, Frequency 1/hour, effect 1d6 Dexterity damage and 1d6 Intelligence damage. When Both Intelligence and Dexterity become zero the victim becomes a cat blob. Cure 2 consecutive saves.

It is unknown what sort of madness spawned the Cat Blob. Some say it was an attempt by wizards to create the ultimate mouser. Others say that an overeager young shapeshifter overtaxed themselves and was turned into a monster, some believe that its a distant relative to the Chaos Beast. Whatever the answer, the Cat Blob is a horrific mass of conjoined cats which instinctively lash out and attack anyone who draws near. Although not much of a match of a well armed and prepared adventuring party, their ability to create more of their kind through the clawing and biting of the cats that comprise the mass is the stuff of nightmares.

The typical Cat Blob is about 10 feet in diameter and weighs about a thousand pounds.

Authors notes: Hey, sorry about no posting this week. I did make a monster over the previous week, but am saving it for something else. I did this one tonight because it came as a request from a good friend of mine. And actually gave me some encouragement that people were actually reading this thing.

Anyways, above we have the Cat Blob, my first Ooze. Its based on a particular episode of the show Steven Universe, where the titular kid, trying to learn how to control his innate shapeshifting powers, accidentally becomes what can be best described as a Cat Shoggoth. For the built itself I mainly based it off of the Gelatinous Cube, with the same ability scores, but with more hit die and a new ability. I decided to give it the ability to create other Cat Blobs because, I'm big into body horror and besides that was a major part of the episode.

In any case, if anyone else has any requests, let me know. I'll be happy to see what I can do. In the meanwhile I will make an attempt to create more monsters for the blog in the future with more regularity.

Agathion, Rodental

A tiny, well groomed mouse dressed like a nobleman stands with his sword at the ready, prepared to strike against any enemy.

Rodental CR 3

XP 800

NG Small Outsider (Agathion, Extraplanar, Good)

Init +8; Senses Low Light Vision

Aura Good Hope (30 feet)

Perception +10

AC 15, Touch 15, Flatfooted 11(Size +1, Dexterity +4)

hp 30 (4d10+8)

Fort +3; Ref +8; Will +7 +4 to poison

DR 5/evil or silver, Immune Electricity, Petrification

Resistance Cold 10, Sonic 10 SR 15

Speed 40 feet,

Melee +1 Holy Rapier +9 (1d4+2, critical 18-20/X2, +2d6 against evil creatures)

Spell like abilities (CL 4, Concentration +8)

At will-Speak with animals, Stabilize, Detect Poison

3/day- Bless, Burning disarm (DC 15), Swallow your fear, Unbreakable Heart

1/day-Aid, Bulls Strength, Shield Other

Str 12, Dex 18, Con 14, Int 12, Wis 16, Cha 18

Base Atk +4; CMB +4; CMD 14

Feats Weapon Finesse, Improved Initiative

Skills Acrobatics +8, Diplomacy +8, Knowledge (Planes) +8, Perception +10, Sense Motive +10, Stealth +11, Use Magic device +8

Languages Celestial, Common, Draconic, Infernal, Speak with animals, Truespeech

SQ Lay on hands (2d6, 6/day, ad a 4^th level paladin)

Environment Any land (Nirvana)

Organization Solitary, duo, or honor guard (2-8 plus one other Agathion, usually a Vulpinal or Avoral)

Treasure Standard (+1 Small Holy Rapier plus other).

Good Hope (Su): A Rodental's aura acts as the spell Good hope on all good or neutral aligned creatures within 30 feet.

Small but plucky, the Rodental are the penultimate dashing heroes, despite their small stature and sometimes iconic appearance, they are never one to shy away from a battle, launching headfirst into any fight. However, their true ability is to inspire others into fighting for what's right. For if even a lowly rodent can stand up and fight against evil, then anyone can do it.

Rodental's often appear when inexperienced do gooders are on the ropes against superior evil foes, they will fight to defend their young allies, lending their magic to them to give them a second wind to fight back, or at very least distract an enemy long enough for their new friends to get away. Many a first time adventurer owes their life to these swashbuckling Agathion.

Rodental also sometimes serve as bodyguards to more powerful Agathion, accompanying them on important missions or meetings. Rodentals have a friendly rivalry with the cat like Silvanshee, and the two subspecies love to try and outdo one another.

A Rodental is 2 feet tall and weighs 40 pounds.

Authors note: And here we have my first good aligned monster, and my first dabbling into one of the established Outsider races. Plus my first attempt to give a monster a magic weapon. In any case I think I did alright. I wonder about the spell like abilities a bit. Of course all of these will probably need serious editing at some point.

In any case, next time we wrap up Rat Week.

Trinket Rat

Sitting amid the collection of gold coins and treasure is a golden figurine of a rat, studded with gems and shining rubies for eyes.

Trinket Rat CR 6

XP 2,400

N Tiny Construct

Init ; Senses

Perception

AC 19, Touch14, Flat footed 17 (+2 size, +2 Dexterity, +5 natural)

hp 44 (8d10)

Fort +2; Ref +4; Will +2

DR 5/Adamantine Immune Construct traits

Speed 40 feet

Melee Bite +10 (1d3-4 Plus curse)

Space 1ft. Reach 0

Special Attacks Curse of the Rat

Str 2 , Dex 14, Con- , Int -, Wis 11, Cha 1

Base Atk +8; CMB +2; CMD 14 (18 against trips)

Feats -

Skills -

Languages -

Environment Any

Organization Solitary

Treasure Double Standard

Curse of the Rat (Su): Curse—Bite; Save Will DC 14 ; Onset 1 minute; Frequency 1/day; Effect Paranoia and 1d6 charisma damage per day. When the target reaches zero charisma, they are transformed into a Dire Rat. This effect is similar to the Baleful Polymorph spell, except it changes the target into a Dire rat. The DC of the save is Wisdom based.

The Trinket rat is a devious trap often left in vaults and store rooms in order to punish any thief unfortunate enough to encounter it. The Trinket Rat resembles an ornate golden stature of a small rat, studded with valuable stones. An irresistible prize for any thief. Unfortunately once the Rat animates, it begins biting any would be thieves. While these bits do little, they carry with them a horrible curse.

The curse of the Trinket rat slowly turns the victim into a rat, causing them to become paranoid and reclusive, the victim frequently finds a dark, out of the place to hide, emerging only to scrounge for food. As the curse progresses, the victim becomes filthier and more disgusting and disagreeable, as well as growing more rat like features (Fur, whiskers, longer teeth, even a tail), until the curse consumes them and they are turned entirely into a disgusting dire rat.

The Trinket Rat is about a foot in length and weighs about five pounds.

Trinket Rat

CL: 10^th Price: 18,000 GP

Requirements: Craft Construct, Baleful Polymorph, Bestow curse, Lesser Geas, Caster must be 10^th level.

Skill: Craft (Metal Working) DC 17

Cost: 9,000 GP

Authors note: And here we have my first construct. I actually really like this one. It was simple, and has a nasty little trick. Not much else to say about this one except I like making constructs. Much less busy work with skills and feats and such. Happy New Years everyone!

Blight Rat Swarm

A mass of skull faced black rodents swarm over the helpless beggar, tearing at his flesh, the people nearby just watch, a look of resigned apathy on their faces.

Blight Rat Swarm CR 4

XP 1,200

NE Tiny Outsider ( Native, Swarm)

Init +8; Senses Darkvision 60 ft, Detect Good

Perception +11

Aura Apathetic aura (DC 15)

AC 16, Touch 16, Flatfooted 12 (+4 Dex, +2 size)

hp 32 (5d10+5)

Fort +5; Ref +8; Will +2

DR 5/Good or Magic, Immune Disease, Poison, Enchantment/charm

Defensive Abilities: Swarm Traits

Speed 15 feet, climb 25, Swim 25

Melee Swarm (1d6 + corruption)

Space 10 feet Reach 0 feet

Special Attacks Corruption, Distraction (DC 13)

Spell Like abilities (CL 5^th)

Constant- Detect Good

Str 2 , Dex 18, Con 12, Int 10, Wis 12, Cha 16

Base Atk +5; CMB -; CMD -

Feats Improved Initiative, Self Sufficient, Ability Focus (Corruption)

Skills Climb +13,, Intimidate +12, Perception +11 Stealth +21, Survival +10 Swim +13, Racial bonus: Uses Dexterity for climb and swim checks

Languages Abyssal, Common, Infernal

SQ Blight Community

Environment Any Urban

Organization Solitary, Mass (2-6 swarms) or Horror (2-24 swarms)

Treasure Standard

Apathetic Aura (Su): The Blight Rat generates an aura which instills feelings of hopelessness and grim acceptance in injustice and horrors in those around them. This functions as a Crushing Despair spell at 60 feet, but only affects good and neutral aligned creatures. The DC is Charisma Based.

Corruption (Su): When a Blight Rat swarm attacks a victim, they don't just devour their flesh, they literally eat out the best parts of their soul. Anyone who takes damage from a Blight Rat's bite must make a Will save (DC 15) or have their alignment shift one degree towards Neutral Evil. The Alignment change can be revered with an application of a remove curse, break enchantment, or dispel evil spell, or by destroying the Blight Rat swarm responsible for the attack. The save DC is Charisma based. This is a mind affecting ability.

Blight Community (Su): Blight Rats derive their name from the fact that their mere presence invites corruption, both physical and moral, to wherever they nest. When one or more Blight Rats infest a city, it begins to negatively effect that city. Every week that the Blight Rat infestation continues, the corruption and crime modifier of that city increase by one, while the law and society modifiers decrease by one. For every month the Blight rats infest the city, its overall alignment shifts one step towards Neutral Evil. The presence of multiple swarms does not affect the rate of corruption, but every swarm must be destroyed for the deterioration ceases.

A Bless spell cast upon a building which can be considered the “Center” of a town (Such as town hall, an important temple, or a famous monument which represents the city) will prevent the blight from progressing for one month, but will not reverse it as long as the rats live. If the Blight Rats are destroyed, the blight reverses itself at the same rate of its progression. A Dispel evil or Wish spell will also restore the town to normal immediately, but if the Blight Rats continue to infest the town, the corruption will start all over again.

A physical manifestation of urban decay, apathy, and despair, the Blight Rats are tiny skull faced rats which breed in the darkness, wherever they go, these intelligent hissing rats devour purity and hope and leave only corruption and misery in their wake.

It is unknown where the Blight Rats originate from, all that is known is when they manifest, they cause a steady and measurable decay in whichever city they take up residence: Crime and corruption become more prevalent, law enforcement becomes weaker, and even law abiding people became close minded and judgmental. Even the most sparkling utopia can become a blighted urban wasteland with a Blight Rat infestation.

Blight Rats are about the size of normal rats.

Authors Note: Okay, I suppose this one isn't TECHNICALLY a Dire Rat variant, but this is about rats in general.

This was the second concept I came up with for Rat Week. Its basically built around manipulating the Settlement modifiers found in the Game Master Guide. I've never seen any monster that modifies these stats, so I thought it would be a unique mechanic.

Anyways, hope you guys enjoyed it.

Kringle

The short, bearded old character wears a red suit with white trim, has pointed ears and a red nose, and has a huge sack of toys slung behind its back.

Kringle CR 6

XP 2,400

LG small Fey

Init +3; Senses Low Light Vision

Perception +16

AC 19, Touch 19, Flatfooted 16 (+1 size, +5 Deflection, +3 Dexterity)

hp 55 (10d6+20)

Fort 5; Ref +10; Will +10

Speed 20 feet

Melee: Light Hammer +9 (1d3+4)

Spell Like Abilities (CL 10^th)

Constant-Speak with Animals, Spider Climb

At Will- Invisibility, Clairaudience/Clairvoyance,

3/day- Passwall, Gaseous Form, Deep Slumber (DC 18),

1/day- Modify Memory (DC 21), Dimension Door (DC 19)

1/week- Animate Objects, Minor creation

Str 18, Dex 16, Con 14 , Int 14, Wis 16, Cha 20

Base Atk +5; CMB +8; CMD 21

Feats Animal Affinity, Nimble Moves, Acrobatic Steps,Skill focus (Craft), Craft Wondrous Item

Skills Acrobatics +16, Climb +14 Craft (Woodworking) +17, Escape Artist, +16, Handle Animal +17, Knowledge (Local) +15, Knowledge (Nature) +15, Perception +16 Stealth, +16, Racial Bonus: +8 to climb from Spider Climb

Languages Common,Sylvan, Speak With Animal

SQ Master Builder, Protective Toys, Flying Reindeer

Environment: any cold land

Organization Family (2-20 plus 3-18 Reindeer (Use Elk from Bestiary 3))

Treasure Standard

Master Builder (SU): Masters of building wooden toys, Kringle can produce masterwork wooden items at a quarter of the normal time. They are also capable of producing any wondrous item at one half the construction price, even if they do not have access to the spells required to make said item.

Protective Toys (SU): Kringle often give out special toys to children whom they feel are in dangerous situations. A Kringle can imbue one of the following spells onto a toy, which activates when a child is in danger: Good Hope, Heroism, Protection Against Evil, Sanctuary, Teleport (to either a place considered safe by a child, or the Kringle's home). This effect only works one time. And cannot be activated manually; it only activates when the child is in life threatening danger.

Flying Reindeer (SP): The Kringle have a natural affinity with herd animals, in particular Reindeer. Once per month a family of Kringle can imbue up to eight Reindeer (or similar creatures) with the power of magical flight. This functions as the Overland flight spell, lasting from sunset to sunrise.

The Kringle are a race of kindly, gnome like fae who have a deep love for children, and spend all of their time crafting beautiful wooden toys in order to give as gifts to good and kind children.

While gentle and kindly, Kringle's are very protective of their young charges, and do not take kindly to adults who abuse or harm children. Many a cruel orphan headmaster or drunken abusive parent has had tales of being pulled out of their bed in the dead of night by invisible hands, stuffed into a sack, and beaten within an inch of their lives with mallets before being left in the woods.

Kringle's use their magic to watch the children in nearby settlements, then they visit at night, using their magic to enter homes and leave toys for good boys and girls. For ill behaved children, they leave sticks and iron ingots. Although this is often construed as a form of punishment, its actually meant to be a warning; to use these items to defend themselves against more malicious fey who like to prey on bad children.

Kringle usually live in the remote woods, snow covered mountains, and on icy tundra. Some are even said to live in the farthest reaches of the frozen north. Kringle prefer to live close to human settlements so they have children to give their toys to.

The schedule with which Kringle's visit children varies based on need and location. Kringle living near larger, more populous areas will visit kids fairly regularly to leave toys, while ones living in more remote locals will only do it annually, usually coinciding some great winter festival, usually one dedicated to a good aligned Deity. In this case the Kringle will use their ability to give their animal friends flight to hit all the surrounding communities in a single night.

Kringle are friends to animals, able to speak their languages, their strongest allies are herd animals such as Elk and Reindeer, which they use as mounts. In addition, in the ancient past, the Kringle somehow earned the favor of their fellow Fae. No Fae, even the evil tribes, will not directly interfere with the Kringle's operations. And if any force attempts to threaten the Kringle, the other Fae tribes will organize quickly to their defense. Many a tribe of Goblin, Orcs, and Giants have found themselves facing a combined army of Dryads, Pixies, Satyrs, and other Faeries after they tried to make sport of the silly short old men.

Kringle are three feet tall and weigh about 100 pounds. They typically resemble squat old men and women dressed entirely in red with white trim. Males are often known for having long white beards.