The Butcher from Diablo I to Pathfinder

[Seemos Yantra]

I'm having a bit of trouble trying to pick a creature in which to base in order to recreate the infamous Butcher from Diablo I into Pathfinder rules as well as giving stats to The Butcher Cleaver. Any advice would be deeply appreciated...

[Mike Kimmel]

I'd start with ogre or ogrekin and go from there.

[Balgin]

You know there was a series of about 3 products for 3rd edition that covered Diablo 2 pretty well. One was the 3.5 reprint of a 3.0 product and the other was just random item generation tables. That one was called the Diablerie. I can't remember what the main campaign book was. I think there was a version of The Butcher in there that might be a good point of reference.

As for a base creature I'd say somewhere between ogre and hill giant. Given Pathfinder's ogre's tendency towards cleavers and savage butchery I'd say it would be a good match.

[Jeff Harris 982]

For the cleaver I would go 2d6 base dmg, large 2handed weapon 18-20x2 crit range, maybe make it magical +1 enhancement bonus and keen to further increase crit range and keep to the theme.

Wereboar with the giant simple template might do it for the Butcher himself.

"Fresh meat!"

[Turin the Mad]

ogre, the cleaver is a variant ogre hook (bonus to sunder instead of trip), advanced simple template, class levels in barbarian, fighter or ranger (adds more ability score improvements for free), background skills: Profession (butcher, cook).

[Seemos Yantra]

Thank you a lot to everybody. You guys rock!