Nightcrawler

Although the nightcrawler might appear to be little more than an immense and frightening vermin, with its centipede-like body and numerous glowing eyes, it is actually incredibly intelligent. When not cleansing the deep caverns of life, the nightcrawler spends its time plotting how best to carry out its own private stages of the overall nightshade plan to expunge life from all worlds, conferring with its undead minions and, when necessary, observing living creatures from afar while invisible to learn about hidden enclaves that its depredations might otherwise have missed.

It would be one thing if the nightcrawlers remained in the deep caverns, for these regions are rife with foul life the world is better off without. Yet unfortunately for those who dwell upon the surface, nightcrawlers often crawl up through the tunnels to bring their devastation to the night above. Although they always retreat underground before the first tentative rays of dawn color the eastern skies, they can spread an incredible amount of ruin in the span of a few short hours each night.

A nightcrawler is 60 feet long and weighs 10,000 pounds.

Special Abilities

Energy Drain (Su) A creature that has been swallowed whole by a nightcrawler gains 1 negative level each round.

Poison (Su) Sting—injury; Save Fort DC 28; Frequency 1/round for 6 rounds; Effect 1d4 Constitution drain and 1 negative level; Cure 3 consecutive saves. The save DC is Charisma-based.

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Attributes

33, Touch 6, Flat-footed 33 (+27 Natural, -4 Size)

Alignment

Aura

Desecrating Aura (30 Ft.)

Base Atk

+18

CMB

+37 (+41 Grapple)

CMD

47 (Can't Be Tripped)

CR 18

Cha

Con

&Mdash;

Creature Type

Undead (Extraplanar, Nightshade)

15/good And Silver

Dex

Environment

Any (Negative Energy Plane)

Feats

Combat Expertise , Command Undead , Critical Focus , Greater Vital Strike , Improved Critical (Bite), Improved Critical (Sting), Improved Initiative , Improved Vital Strike , Iron Will , Power Attack , Quicken Spell-like Ability ( Cone Of Cold ), Staggering Critical , Vital Strike

Fort

+16

312 (25d8+200)

Immune

Cold , Undead Traits

Init

Ce Gargantuan Undead ( Extraplanar , Nightshade ) +4

Int

Languages

Abyssal, Common, Infernal; Telepathy 100 Ft.

Melee

Bite +32 (4d10+18/19-20 Plus 4d6 Cold And Grab ), Sting +32 (4d6+18/19-20 Plus 4d6 Cold And Poison )

Organization

Solitary Or Pair

Racial Modifiers

+8 Stealth In Dim Light And Darkness

Reach

20 Ft.

Ref

+10

Senses

Darksense, Darkvision 120 Ft., Detect Magic , Low-light Vision, Tremorsense 120 Ft.; Perception +33

Size

Gargantuan

Skills

Intimidate +34, Knowledge (Arcana) +33, Knowledge (Planes) +30, Knowledge (Religion) +33, Perception +33, Sense Motive +33, Spellcraft +33, Stealth +16 (+24 In Darkness), Swim +40

Space

20 Ft.

Special Attacks

Channel Negative Energy (9d6, Dc 31, 9/day), Energy Drain (1 Level, Dc 28), Swallow Whole (4d10+22 Bludgeoning Plus Energy Drain, Ac 23, 31 Hp)

Speed

30 Ft., Burrow 60 Ft.

Spell Resistance

Spell-Like Abilities

(Cl 18th; Concentration +24) Constant— Air Walk , Detect Magic , Magic Fang At Will— Contagion (Dc 20), Deeper Darkness , Greater Dispel Magic , Invisibility , Unholy Blight (Dc 20) 3/day—quickened Cone Of Cold (Dc 21), Confusion (Dc 20), Haste , Hold Monster (Dc 21) 1/day— Finger Of Death (Dc 23), Mass Hold Monster (Dc 25), Plane Shift (Dc 23), Summon (Level 8, 6 Greater Shadows)

Str

Treasure

Standard

Weaknesses

Light Aversion

Will

+23

Wis

153,600

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