Str 19, Dex 23, Con 15, Int 8 Wis 12, Cha 16
Base Atk +4; CMB +8; CMD 23
FeatsWeapon Finesse, Improved Natural Armor, Iron Will, Outflank (bonus from Hunter class), Pack Flanking (shared Teamwork feat)
Skills Acrobatics +10 (+18 balancing or jumping), Climb +10, Perception +5/+7 (additional +8 for scent), Stealth +14/+16, Survival +5/+7, Swim +8; Racial Modifiers +8 Acrobatics when balancing or jumping, +4 Stealth, +2 to Perception, Stealth, Survival and Know. Geography when travelling on water. The golden cat uses its Dexterity modifier for Climb checks.
Languages Common (cannot speak); telepathy 100 ft.
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SPECIAL ABILITIES
-------------------- Luck/Unluck (Su): When a golden cat selects an “owner” it grants that creature good fortune. Three times per day, so long as the golden cat is within 40 feet, the owner can reroll one die roll and take the most favorable result. Only one die can be rerolled each round. This ability is a power of the cat, not the owner, though the owner can simply telepathically communicate its desire to the cat. A golden cat cannot be forced to activate this ability if it does not wish to do so (unless magically compelled). Each time the golden cat activates this ability and the owner rerolls a die, all other creatures (including the owner’s allies) within 40 feet of the golden cat must reroll one die roll and take the least favorable result each time.
Tiger Form: Can Change into Tiger form once a week (standard action, form lasts for 6 rounds).
Link (Ex): A hunter can handle her animal companion as a free action, or push it as a move action, even if she doesn’t have any ranks in the Handle Animal skill. The druid gains a +4 circumstance bonus on all wild empathy checks and Handle Animal checks made regarding an animal companion.
Share Spells (Ex): The druid may cast a spell with a target of “You” on her animal companion (as a touch range spell) instead of on herself. A druid may cast spells on her animal companion even if the spells normally do not affect creatures of the companion's type (animal). Spells cast in this way must come from a class that grants an animal companion. This ability does not allow the animal to share abilities that are not spells, even if they function like spells.
Evasion (Ex): If an animal companion is subjected to an attack that normally allows a Reflex saving throw for half damage, it takes no damage if it makes a successful saving throw.
Favoured Terrain: The animal companion gains a +2 bonus on initiative checks and Knowledge (geography), Perception, Stealth, and Survival skill checks when she is in this terrain. An animal companion traveling through her favored terrain normally leaves no trail and cannot be tracked (though she may leave a trail if he so chooses).
Freebooter's Bane (Ex): At 1st level, the freebooter can, as a move action, indicate an enemy in combat and rally her allies to focus on that target. The freebooter and her allies gain a +1 bonus on weapon attack and damage rolls against the target. This ability applies only to allies who can see or hear the freebooter and who are within 30 feet of the freebooter at the time she activates this ability.
Sprint (Ex): Once per hour, a small cat can move at 10 times its normal speed (500 feet) when it makes a charge.
Devotion : An animal companion gains a +4 morale bonus on Will saves against enchantment spells and effects.
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TRICKS
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As a magical beast with an INT of 8, she knows all the tricks.
ECOLOGY
These fickle creatures are highly sought after due to their magical ability to grant luck to one fortunate enough to be selected as an owner. Such owners are known to spend extravagant amounts of wealth keeping the golden cat lavishly protected and comforted. Despite this, golden cats have been known to grow bored with an owner and strike out on their own in search of a new owner to bestow its good luck upon. While prized by their owners for the luck they bestow, golden cats are equally despised by the owner’s allies for the bad luck they bring.
Golden cats tend to lair in forested areas or hilly terrain, usually near civilized lands where the population is the greatest (it makes finding an owner easier). They favour humans and elves as owners above all other races, disdaining the less civilized races such as orcs, half-orcs, goblinoids, and so on. A golden cat never takes one of the aforementioned races as an owner.
A golden cat appears as a normal cat with rich golden fur and green eyes. Like all cats, a golden cat enjoys catching mice, rabbits and small birds. They tend to avoid attacking things larger than themselves unless cornered and defending themselves. Even then, they seek escape as soon as possible.
Tiger Stats (once per week):
Tiger (Cat, Great)
This powerful feline predator moves with a deadly grace, its reddish-orange fur slashed with black stripes.
Tiger CR 4
XP 1,200
N Large animal
Init +6; Senses low-light vision, scent; Perception +8
DEFENSE AC 14, touch 11, flat-footed 12 (+2 Dex, +3 natural, –1 size)
hp 37 (5d10+10)
Fort +8, Ref +7, Will +3
OFFENSE Speed 40 ft.
Melee 2 claws +10 (1d8+6 plus grab), bite +9 (2d6+6 plus grab)
Space 10 ft.; Reach 5 ft.
Special Attackspounce, rake (2 claws +10, 1d8+6)
STATISTICS Str 23, Dex 15, Con 17, Int 8, Wis 12, Cha 16
Base Atk +4; CMB +11 (+15 grapple); CMD 23 (27 vs. trip)
FeatsImproved Initiative, Skill Focus (Perception), Weapon Focus (claw) Skills Acrobatics +10, Perception +8, Stealth +7 (+11 in areas of tall grass), Swim +11; Racial Modifiers +4 Acrobatics, +4 Stealth (+8 in tall grass)
ECOLOGY
Environment any forests
Organization solitary or pair
Treasure none
Tigers stand more than 3 feet tall at the shoulder and are about 9 feet long. They weigh from 400 to 600 pounds.
Tigers are usually the top animal predators in their territories, and have been known to kill bears, crocodiles, giant snakes, wolves, and even other great cats. Even humanoids are far from safe, especially in cases where a tiger has developed a taste for humanoid flesh. Tigers prefer terrain with plenty of cover and proximity to water as their hunting grounds.
ECOLOGY
Environment any forests
Organization solitary or pair
Treasure none
Tigers stand more than 3 feet tall at the shoulder and are about 9 feet long. They weigh from 400 to 600 pounds.
Tigers are usually the top animal predators in their territories, and have been known to kill bears, crocodiles, giant snakes, wolves, and even other great cats. Even humanoids are far from safe, especially in cases where a tiger has developed a taste for humanoid flesh. Tigers prefer terrain with plenty of cover and proximity to water as their hunting grounds.
Neko's Backstory:
She had been born a human woman, nine hundred years ago – the youngest daughter of the second son of a lesser nobleman. She had been considered a handsome young woman with her copper hair, fair skin and bright green eyes. Her father had been a well-established and affluent Mercery, trading in imported silk, linen, and fustian. She had an older brother and sister. Her brother worked alongside her father as a cloth merchant. Her mother had been a society matron, busy with her committees, tea parties and philanthropic work. Her older sister had married some well-to-do bore and provided him with an heir. Her family lacked for nothing. She had always been a bright girl, with an easy charm. She attracted the eye of a newcomer in town. An earl’s second son, he had said of his station. She had fallen in love with him at first sight and he had pursued her with a determination. Her parents deemed it a suitable match for their youngest child. Their betrothal happened a month into their courtship. He had the blackest of hair and the keenest silver eyes.
It was after their betrothal that she learned of his gambling appetite and of his associates who dabbled in the Dark Arts. He had promised her that neither would pose an threat to their love – that he would protect her from any harm, always.
One late night he was set upon by a cardsharp whom he owed a fair bit of coin. He was beaten almost to death and was discovered and brought back to her family’s townhouse. He had asked her, begged her with his halting, ragged breath to bring his associates to his bedside for they would know what to do. She had been scared but she listened and sent one of the servants with a note. They came as requested with their twisted idols, incense, dark liquids and strange fetishes. The associates asked her how much she loved him and how much she would be willing to risk to bring him back from the brink and have him hale by her side. She had promised everything – desperate to save her beloved. They then spoke words in some unintelligible tongue and the lights flickered and the bedchamber shook as if the walls would crumble down around them. It was then she was sprayed with some kind of sanguine fluid and her eyes rolled back and she felt her very essence pulled by force from her body and her screams filled the room. She felt as if she was dying right along with her beloved and then everything went black and when she awoke she was no longer a young woman. She had been transformed into a small, golden cat. Frightened and anxious she tried to speak, but issued only cat-like sounds. She screamed inside her mind and she found she could make the words heard by another, although broken and staggered. It was then she saw her beloved rise from the bed, the dark bruising all but vanished, the broken bones mended, his handsome form restored to full vigour. She looked up at him and through her mind spoke to him, but the words would not form coherently. The associates whispered something to him and he turned to stare at her. She pleaded for him to stay, to have the associates return her to her true form so they could be together. He laughed, a cruel sound, and told her it could not be reversed and then promptly left with the associates.
Alone, in her family’s townhouse with every piece of her once pure heart broken and her mind senseless with pain, loss and betrayal. She could not remain in the house for her mother abhorred cats and would probably beat her with broom. So, she ran away and did what she could to survive in the world, as decades fell away and time became an endless blur. Her heart grew guarded, resentful, and love became defined by treachery and unfaithfulness. She made a vow to never allow another female to ever be betrayed by a man before marriage. That no man could be trusted with a woman’s heart and body before the formal oaths of marriage were made and sealed before the gods.
