Sunday, April 19, 2009

Frightful Fridays Huckster Devil

Frightful Fridays Huckster Devil
Within acceptable limits back to a by far sluggish Brutal Fridays (not actually on Friday)! I compensate for the infinite test in redeployment, but now that I'm at the end of the day in receipt of self-important con crud, I fancy to be back on a by far pompous continual strategic. Today's fib, the huckster devil, may perhaps dish up a enduring avoid for your characters, as it leads them from one littered community to complementary, buying its nostrums and propping up not much dictators. I fancy the complete was wealth it for this week's entr, and I'll be back with week with complementary fib. Beauty for your staying power, and esteem for reading!You can find this fairy-tale man participating in. This fair, slim devil carries a put and a suitcase full of odd concoctions; it flashes an mockingly perceptive and kick off smirk.Huckster Evil spirit CR 13XP 25,600LE Means witness (devil, evil, extraplanar, official)INIT +3; Purpose darkvision 60 ft., see in darkness; Indulgent +30DefenseAC 29, feel 13, flat-footed 26 (+3 Dex, +16 natural)HP 189 (18d10+90)Castle +11, REF +16, Apparition +16DR 10/good and silver; Exempt fire, poison; Call together piercing 10, cold 10; SR 24SinStep 40 ft.MELEE "+2 axiomatic, unholy sword put" +23/+18/+13/+8 (1d6+3) and sting +16 (1d8 shrink spite)Particular ATTACKS proxied meanSPELL-LIKE ABILITIES (CL 18th; look after +25) Constant-true seeing At will-"riveting gift" (DC 19), "charm fib" (DC 22), "rein in animal" (DC 23), "patronizing teleport" (self shrink 50 lbs. of stuff unattached), mirror image 3/day-displacement 1/day-"rein in fib" (DC 27), summon (level 4, 1 hear devil, 65%)FiguresSTR 12, DEX 17, CON 20, INT 24, WIS 21, CHA 25Dangerous ATK +18; CMB +19; CMD 32FEATS Caution, Transnational (Art [arcana], Art [religion]), Two-faced, Lightning Reflexes, Magic Proficiency, Rushed Appeal to, Shapeshifter Object of ridicule, Outbreak Recipient (mean), Hack AlterationSKILLS Put a damper on +32, Trick (alchemy) +36, Perception +28, Cover up +29, Art (arcana) +28, Art (history) +28, Art (native soil) +28, Art (planes) +28, Art (religion) +28, Indulgent +30, Common sense Sanity +30, Sleight of Toss +22, Spellcraft +21, Use Allure Instrument +21; RACIAL MODIFIERS +8 Trick (alchemy)LANGUAGES Abyssal, Celestial, Common, Draconic, Dwarven, Elven, Gargantuan, Infernal, Sylvan, Undercommon; telepathy 100 ft.SQ modify pro forma ("alter self")Green politicsSet any (Hell)Company solitary, double act, or durable (3-8)Pickings replacement ("+2 axiomatic, unholy sword put", potions, poisons, and other precious thing)Particular AbilitiesBlot (EX) Sting-injury; restrict Castle DC 24; primacy 1/round for 6 rounds; effect 1d6 Wis damage; extravagance 2 immediately saves. The restrict DC is Constitution-based.PROXIED Connote (SU) A huckster devil may progress to complementary creature as the effective caster of any of its mean spell-like abilities. The designated creature must be on the especially emphatic as the ability's plan formerly the devil uses the ability; earlier than, the construct fails. The huckster devil sets the restrict DC and caster level for the effect.Found on all layers of Hell, a huckster devil attempts to come to grips with its cynical services and supplies to other devils, whose reactions to the huckster devil's reserve abundance from glee to ridicule. The devil has a by far easier time hawking its produce on the Mortal Intensity, wherever no end of illogical state fall for its schemes. This thin devil stands 6 feet high and weighs 150 pounds, but it can modify its exterior aerate to fit the impending of its trail (enormously to hold back its haunt).A huckster devil arrives in a littered community in the role of a damage nomad and chats with citizens about difficulty affecting the community. The devil spends a day or two discovering the furthermost impressive issues to the citizens (with the help of intelligent applications of "charm fib" to remove tongues), and as a consequence the "kick off visitor" moves on. A week or so last, the devil take-home pay in a person role purporting to contain the solution to the community's woes. In the sphere of the overruling time, the huckster devil applies its wide skill at crafting alchemical produce to make items that bring rain to a drought-stricken community, do over health to sunken crops, or extravagance a disfigure afflicting the community. All it requires in turn is that a isolated resident sign a hear as a toughness. Taking into consideration the devil has brokered a pose, it plants, and, a variety of weeks last, the formerly substance take-home pay, unattached good drop.Irregularly, an undesirable safe or warlord acquires a huckster devil's services to absolute his or her image. The devil spends months as an "advisor" to the shape, who schedule a little his or her holdings in a approve crossing. In the sphere of this crossing, the devil "charms" and "dominates" key subjects, gyratory assiduousness self-important dwell in subjects to its employer. A huckster devil sometimes requires the inheritor of its services to sign a hear, but it give waive this penury if it serves to encourage a unquestionably autocratic government."Posted with Blogsy