| Eiliya |
Hi there, everyone.
I'm fairly new at DMing and recently tried my hand at making a custom monster. Let it be known that I did this without having read through the monster creation rules written down in the Bestairy, I just sort of wrote what I felt would be a good creation. Now that I'm done with it, I would like some feedback about it (it is a highly specialized creature, by the way, made for a specific campaign I am running) and maybe also some help on balancing it if it is too unbalanced to see play. Thank you for your time, everyone.
Twilight Initiate - Blackscale Skulk
CE Medium Undead
Init +8, Darkvision 60 ft, Perception +6
Defenses
AC 16, touch 14, flat-footed 12 (+4 dex, +2 natural)
Hp 16 (3d8+3)
Fort +2, Ref +5, Will +3
DR 5/good, Immunities (undead traits)
Offenses
Speed 40 ft.
Melee Twilight Dagger +6 (1d4+2 plus *poison), Twilight Chains +6 (1d6+2, reach, trip)
Special Attacks: Black Bolt, Poison, Twilight Pool (4 pts)
Statistics
Str 15, Dex 18, Con --, Int 3, Wis 11, Cha 12
Base Atk: +2, CMB: +4, CMD: 16
Feats: Improved Initiative, Weapon Finesse
Skills: Acrobatics +7, Climb +8, Intimidate +7, Perception +6, Stealth +10
Languages: Understands all spoken langauges, but cannot speak itself.
Special Abilities
Black Bolt: The Black Bolt is a ranged, supernatural attack that targets two creatures that can be no more than 30 ft. from each other. It has a range of 60 ft. and inflicts 2d6 points of damage to both targets. Each target is entitled a Reflex saving throw (DC 12, cha based) to halve the damage.
Poison: The Blackscale Skulk uses a very potent type of poison known as the Twilight Poison. It enters the victim through external injury and permits no saving throw. The twilight poison has an immediate but non-permanent effect that reduces the victims intelligence and wisdom scores by 1d4. This ability score damage returns at the speed of one point per ability score per hour.
Twilight Pool: This is a pool of dark energies permits the Blackscale Skulk to perform special abilities. The points in the pool is calculated by HD+Cha Mod (minimum 1) and can be used in the following ways; Black Bolt (2 pts), Poison (1 pts, last for 1 minute), Twilight Step (1 pts, teleports the Blackscale Skulk back to the Twilight Isles).
All in all, there are seven types of these monsters, whom I group together as Twilight Soldiers, and each type has four different difficulty levels, all of which I plan on constructing. But before I move on with my project, I'd like some constructive critizism and feedback on this monster. I also need help determining the CR of this one (it's supposed to be fairly low, I imagine 1 or 2). Once again, thanks for taking the time to read this far, I really appreciate it.