Hykariuts and their nonexistant Spell Resistance


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Should these CR 18 behemoths have it? Without it, there’s no way for them to break from a Greater Planar Binding spell, meaning that any spellcaster with enough Cajones to drag one to the material plane is virtually guaranteed its service.

Was this an oversight or was it intended?

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CoeusFreeze wrote:

Should these CR 18 behemoths have it? Without it, there’s no way for them to break from a Greater Planar Binding spell, meaning that any spellcaster with enough Cajones to drag one to the material plane is virtually guaranteed its service.

Was this an oversight or was it intended?

I suspect it was intended as a weakness placed within them that would likely be unknown to most unskilled casters. Since the knowledge DC would be around 38 to Identify them

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Author of the the hykariut here:

Inevitables sure do look like they have spell resistance consistently, so not including it in this stat block was likely an oversight on my part; looking at my submitted manuscript from a year ago, it's absent without any comment to indicate the omission was on purpose.

I'm not really in any position to institute formal clarification on this or prophesy future errata if the creature's reprinted, so I'll just provide a bit of advice for your personal use: go ahead and give the hykariut the standard SR [11 + CR], or SR 29. It fits with the expected defenses for inevitables.

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