Help requested - Half-Erinye Template

[Andre Roy]

Good day,

A bit of a backgrounder. In a setting I'm building, there are 2 isolated subcultures that are tainted.

On one side, you have a group lead by a Succubus and her descendants; using the Half-Sucubus template and the Succubus-blooded Tiefling template (from 4 winds' Player's Option: Aasimars, Tieflings and Elementals Templates).

On the other side, you have a similar group lead by an Erinye and her descendants. I have the Erinye-Blooded Tiefling template from the same source, but Not a Half-Erinye Template.

That's where I would need some help: developing a Half-Erinye template similar to and roughly on par with the Half-Succubus above, while being more flavorful than the generic Half-Fiend template These Half-finds template are for NPC's only, PC would, at the most, have access to the Tiefling Template.

[Andre Roy]

I'Ve got a first draft done by comparing: Succubus - Half-Demon (Succubus) template - Half-Fiend base template. And did something similar for a Erinye - Half-Devil (Erinye) Template- Half-Fiend Base template

As for the Half-Succubus template, I will only indicate how the Half-Erinye differs from the Base Template.

Resistance: Half-Erinye does not have resistance to elctricity. Everything else is unchanged.
Combat: Half-Erinye does not gain Claw or Bite attach as the Erinye doesn't have any themsleves.
Alternate Spell-like Ability: Replace Desecrate with Mirror Image, Replace Poison 3/day with Fear 3/Day, Replace Unhallow with Greater Teleport
Stats IncreaseSTR+2, DEX+4, CON+4, INT+2, WIS+2, CHA+4
Special Ability Half-Erinye has the Erinye's Entangle ability instead of the Half-Find Smite Good.

Note 1: I have change the DR for the base templete to X/GOOD as it made more sense in my mind then the X/MAGIC from the Bestiary.

Note 2: The Half-Succubus doesn't have the bite attack from the Base Template as a Succubus has none.

Any Suggestion or Constructive criticism would be appriciate. As indicated before, This is for some NPCs and will not be in the hand of PCs

[JDLPF]

Take a look at the Devil-Bound Creature templates from Green Ronin. Erinyes add +2 CR for a bunch of extra stats, spell-likes and other bonuses (which is a bit under-CRed in my opinion).

If not a viable option out of the box, it's a good starting point for building your custom template. They also have a Demon-Possessed Creature template for a Succubus themed character or NPC.

[Andre Roy]

I saw those and decided to pass on them as they are not quite what I'm looking for. They are about getting possessed/bound to a fiend rather than being born to/sired by a fiend (which the half-fiend template and the hslf-succubus variant cover).

Granted that distinction could be handwaved, but I figured tweaking the Half-fiend template to get half-Devil specific bloodline like Paizo did in Demons Revisited Half-Demon variant template would be simpler and easier to achieve and to keep more or less on par.