Fleshwarping question


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Hi I'm just wondering if anyone at Paizo could tell me if the flesh warped creatures are going to be stand alone creatures or a template since I plan to have an Npc char in the campaign I'm going to run be flesh warped. If its not a template would it be possible to point me towards something I could use as a template since the NPC will be a non standard race (catfolk).

Thank you for your time


This is just a guess, but i'd say since the

Spoiler:
drow, when fleshwarped, turn into driders,
that other creatures would become other, individual creatures.

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From the teasers and what has been written on the messageboards so far, most fleshwarped creatures are non combatants per se.

Driders, and the fleshwarped elf and troglodyte seem to be more of the exception than the rule to this. Each creature that is subject to fleshwarping turns into a specific 'mutation' of itself. I'm sure some of the Paizo high command will say soemthing more official here shortly.


Kevin Mack wrote:

Hi I'm just wondering if anyone at Paizo could tell me if the flesh warped creatures are going to be stand alone creatures or a template since I plan to have an Npc char in the campaign I'm going to run be flesh warped. If its not a template would it be possible to point me towards something I could use as a template since the NPC will be a non standard race (catfolk).

Thank you for your time

It will not be a template. Fleshwarping has a different and unique effect on each race/ species affected. I suggest you refer to some good horror movies for inspiration as to what happens to your catfolk NPC.

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Dennis da Ogre wrote:
Kevin Mack wrote:

Hi I'm just wondering if anyone at Paizo could tell me if the flesh warped creatures are going to be stand alone creatures or a template since I plan to have an Npc char in the campaign I'm going to run be flesh warped. If its not a template would it be possible to point me towards something I could use as a template since the NPC will be a non standard race (catfolk).

Thank you for your time

It will not be a template. Fleshwarping has a different and unique effect on each race/ species affected. I suggest you refer to some good horror movies for inspiration as to what happens to your catfolk NPC.

Well does anyone have any idea of templates maybe from the monster manual's or another source I could use? Or a monster that could pass as a flesh warped catfolk? (Probably a cr 10 critter for when there going to run into it)


Kevin Mack wrote:
Dennis da Ogre wrote:
Kevin Mack wrote:

Hi I'm just wondering if anyone at Paizo could tell me if the flesh warped creatures are going to be stand alone creatures or a template since I plan to have an Npc char in the campaign I'm going to run be flesh warped. If its not a template would it be possible to point me towards something I could use as a template since the NPC will be a non standard race (catfolk).

Thank you for your time

It will not be a template. Fleshwarping has a different and unique effect on each race/ species affected. I suggest you refer to some good horror movies for inspiration as to what happens to your catfolk NPC.
Well does anyone have any idea of templates maybe from the monster manual's or another source I could use? Or a monster that could pass as a flesh warped catfolk? (Probably a cr 10 critter for when there going to run into it)

Using the idea of a drider as a base... I think A wemic is a good starting point for a catfolk fleshwarp.... Dunno if they went 3E, but I know in one of the expanded books they have a template for making centaur style creatures out of anything..... Just my thoughts...

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Fleshwarped creatures are not templates. The drider is a fleshwarp. We'll be statting up two more fleshwarps in Pathfinder #16. They're not templates.

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Kevin Mack wrote:


Well does anyone have any idea of templates maybe from the monster manual's or another source I could use? Or a monster that could pass as a flesh warped catfolk? (Probably a cr 10 critter for when there going to run into it)

liger...

they're....like, my favorite animal.


I happen to know that Nick Logue is a flesh-warped bush baby.

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Seriously; I'm working on it.
Not in my basement or nothing.

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Kevin Mack wrote:
Well does anyone have any idea of templates maybe from the monster manual's or another source I could use? Or a monster that could pass as a flesh warped catfolk? (Probably a cr 10 critter for when there going to run into it)

Well this probobly counts as thinking outside the box; turn them into some form of unique, very agile and stealthy assassin critter. Make them hairless, small, and compact but sinewy, quick and deadly. Something akin to the race of killers used by Grand Admiral Thrawn in Timothy Zahn's 'Heir to the Empire' trilogy.

But, and this is key, give them a *very* limited life span, say 9 weeks [9 lives and all that] as well as infertile; a built in safe guard the Drow devised so that the race could not turn on thier creators for any extended period of time.

As for stats go with a very modified Quickling with some assassin prc abilities. Or if you really want to go crazy use an updated version of the Cat Lord from 1 st ed monster manual.

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baron arem heshvaun wrote:
Kevin Mack wrote:
Well does anyone have any idea of templates maybe from the monster manual's or another source I could use? Or a monster that could pass as a flesh warped catfolk? (Probably a cr 10 critter for when there going to run into it)

Well this probably counts as thinking outside the box; turn them into some form of unique, very agile and stealthy assassin critter. Make them hairless, small, and compact but sinewy, quick and deadly. Something akin to the race of killers used by Grand Admiral Thrawn in Timothy Zahn's 'Heir to the Empire' trilogy.

But, and this is key, give them a *very* limited life span, say 9 weeks [9 lives and all that] as well as infertile; a built in safe guard the Drow devised so that the race could not turn on thier creators for any extended period of time.

As for stats go with a very modified Quickling with some assassin prc abilities. Or if you really want to go crazy use an updated version of the Cat Lord from 1 st ed monster manual.

Interesting suggestion but my idea was to have had the Npc as a flesh warped for quite a length of time (several years)


Werepanther ?

THERE panther !

::Ducks!::

Quack!

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If you look here, you will see what a Fleshwarped Elf looks like. Are you sure you want to risk your catfolk turning into something like that?

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Charles Scholz wrote:
If you look here, you will see what a Fleshwarped Elf looks like. Are you sure you want to risk your catfolk turning into something like that?

Yes I am. Then again I'm the DM that's known for the dogs abuse his NPC's get.

Sczarni

Kevin Mack wrote:
Charles Scholz wrote:
If you look here, you will see what a Fleshwarped Elf looks like. Are you sure you want to risk your catfolk turning into something like that?
Yes I am. Then again I'm the DM that's known for the dogs abuse his NPC's get.

Catfolk should turn into ROUS the drider is a insult to the drow... whats a bigger insult to a cat than turning into a big rat... and that would explain why they pounce like they do in the movie, it doesn't exlain why they are in the fireswamp, however..

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