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I'm writing a one-shot adventure and am looking for an intelligent monster for the big baddy. She must be able to drain the life source from someone and in turn receive youth from that life source. Is there any Pathfinder monster like that? I have been unable to locate one. (I'm kinda new to this, if you couldn't tell!) Level is open at this point.
Thanks for your help.
Dan
I'm writing a one-shot adventure and am looking for an intelligent monster for the big baddy. She must be able to drain the life source from someone and in turn receive youth from that life source. Is there any Pathfinder monster like that? I have been unable to locate one. (I'm kinda new to this, if you couldn't tell!) Level is open at this point.
Thanks for your help.
Dan
I'm not aware of a monster that can "receive youth" - but wraiths can be pretty lethal with their ability drain capabilities. And should be pretty straight-forward to run mechanics-wise.
Off the top of my head (and a quick scan of the PRD -- look under "links" to the left) I can't think of anything specific that does that as written.
Were I you, personally I'd do a leveled NPC rather than a monster--specifically, I'd do a witch. Two reasons -- it fits cosmology, and most non-humanoids don't worry about aging.
She would have to be at least 10th level to have the following hex ability--which I realize isn't QUITE what you're looking for, but it approaches it:
Cook People (Su): The witch can create fabulous spells by cooking an intelligent humanoid creature in her cauldron, either alive or dead. Using this hex creates one meal or serving of food of the witch's choice, typically a delicious stew or a dough suitable for cookies, pastries, or other desserts. Cooking the victim takes 1 hour. Eating the food provides one of the following benefits for 1 hour: age resistance, bear's endurance, bull's strength, cat's grace, eagle's splendor, fox's cunning, neutralize poison (instantaneous) owl's wisdom, remove disease (instantaneous). Alternatively, the witch can shape the dough into a Small, humanlike creature, animating it as a homunculus for 1 hour. The witch must have the cauldron hex to select this hex. Using this hex or knowingly eating its food is an evil act.
I bolded the fact that she can use this to get the benefit of the spell "age resistance." Obviously this is about devouring someone for their youth/vitality, not draining them. But for as written abilities, it's the closest I can think of off the top of my head.
Alternately, I would create a custom major hex that would go something along the lines of (I am making this up as I type, mind):
"Beauty Drain (Su): The witch must grapple the target. If the target remains grappled, she may make a melee touch attack that bestows 1 negative level upon the target and the effects of age resistance, as the spell, on the witch for an ((appropriate duration of time)). If the target has the negative levels cured by divine magic, the witch loses the effects of the age resistance immediately."
Or something like that.
If you wanted to do a monster, I would suggest starting with an existing monster and tweaking them. Some possibilities:
- Variant succubus. She has a life drain worked into her statblock already. But maybe she needs it to fuel her alter self ability or some such.
- Variant hag. Similar to above.
- Some kind of undead creature that drains the living to hold onto a semblance of life. I'd start at creatures like vampires, which are corporeal and have a draining attack.