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Pathfinder: Phantasm Swarm

Swarms are a pain in the butt. Physical weapons are of not much use against them if at all. Spells that target only a single creature are downright useless. You have to rely on area effect spells to take them out. Otherwise, you’re running away.

Incorporeal creatures are a pain in the butt. Physical weapons are of little use. Spells that don’t deal force damage or positive energy are not very effective. You’re have to rely on a small selection of spells and certain divine casters to take them out. Otherwise, you’re running away.

So when creating the Book of Beasts: Monsters of the Shadow Plane, I thought why not combine the two. That would make a monster that is just downright terrifying and perfect for a higher level game. The only thing that would make it even worse is if one of those classes you would normally rely upon were less effective. That would be evil! The result of that is below.

You can find this creature and more that are equally awesome in the Book of Beasts: Monsters of the Shadow Plane at the JBE Shop. This book is also available at DriveThruRPG/RPGNow, Paizo, and the Open Gaming Store.

Phantasm Swarm

A cloud of dark malevolent energy manifests itself as a roiling mass of angry skulls and grasping hands. The parts move and act as one – a single entity driven to destroy all that is holy.
PHANTASM SWARM CR 12
XP 19,200
CE Tiny undead (incorporeal, swarm)
Init +10; Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +32

DEFENSE

AC 23, touch 23, flat-footed 16 (+4 deflection, +6 Dex, +1 dodge, +2 size)
hp 102 (12d8+48)
Fort +8, Ref +12, Will +14
Defensive Abilities channel resistance +2, incorporeal, swarm traits; Immune undead traits; SR 20 (divine spells only)

OFFENSE

Speed fly 40 ft (perfect)
Melee swarm (1d8 Wisdom damage)
Space 10 ft.; Reach 0 ft.
Special Attacks distraction (DC 22), hatred of religion (+2 Wis)

STATISTICS

Str —, Dex 23, Con —, Int 13, Wis 22, Cha 18
Base Atk +9; CMB +13; CMD 28
Feats Dodge, Hover, Improved Initiative, Improved Lightning Reflexes, Lightning Reflexes, Mobility, Skill Focus (Perception), Skill Focus (Stealth), Step Up
Skills Fly +33, Knowledge (religion) +16, Perception +27, Spellcraft +16, Stealth +35
Languages Aklo, Common
SQ divine spell resistance

ECOLOGY

Environment any (Plane of Shadows)
Organization solitary, pair, or mass (3-5)
Treasure none

SPECIAL ABILITIES

Divine Spell Resistance (Su) A phantasm swarm has spell resistance against divine spells equal to 8 + its total HD. Arcane spells are not subject to this spell resistance.
Hatred of Religion (Su) The only thing a phantasm swarm hates more than religious holy/unholy symbols are those bearing them. The Wisdom damage dealt by the swarm attack is increased by +2 if the targeted creature possesses some kind of obvious holy/unholy symbol or channels energy.
Wisdom Damage (Su) A phantasm swarm’s attack deals 1d8 points of Wisdom damage to a living creature. This is a negative energy effect. A creature dies if this Wisdom damage equals or exceeds its actual Wisdom score.
It is done. These souls will never reincarnate nor will they be at peace. We have made them an offer and they chose to reject it. They refuse to work for us; they will have all eternity together to regret their decision. It is too late for them to reconsider now. Their souls are now damned for all time. Let them writhe in torment and remember their loss with no end. Pain is all they shall ever know.
– Thykan Rast, cleric of Asmodeus, “Ledger of Souls”
It is said that souls that reach their final reward forget their earlier lives. Less known is that souls forbidden from this reward never forget. Over the course of centuries, clusters of these tortured souls have gathered together on the Plane of Shadows to form a phantasm swarm, an entity more powerful than just the combined ectoplasmic energy of the souls alone. Its collective hatred for priests and all divine casters—the living intermediaries to the afterlife—gives a phantasm swarm power. The ghostly lynch mob now seeks revenge.
A phantasm swarm, armed with all its loathing of divinity, will attack any creature it identifies as an agent of a deity, regardless of the religion or alignment. Wearing a holy/unholy symbol or simply invoking the name of a deity may be enough for a phantasm swarm to exact retribution for its wretched state of disembodied unrest on a worshipful creature.
Magic bludgeoning weapons deal half damage to a phantasm swarm. All other magic weapons deal one quarter damage. Mundane weapons do no harm this furious soul cloud.

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Pathfinder: Memitim Psychopomp

When it comes to ferrying the dead off to their afterlife, preventing them from haunting the living, I think Christmas. Well, a Dickens-inspired Christmas, at least. Of course there’s the holiday classic movie, It’s a Wonderful Life, or the 80’s variation I grew up on, One Magic Christmas. In more recent times my times my wife is a huge fan of the The Family Stone. What can I say, Christmas entertainment always involved quite a bit of death when I was a kid. That and someone saying, “you’ll shoot your eye out,” but that is beside the point.

Not long ago, I concluded a series where I was expanding the list of monsters on the summon monster lists. Well, given the season and my odd association, I submit the memitim psychopomp to be added to the summon monster IX list, if you are including Pathfinder Compatible supplements on the list of monsters you be summoned to the battlefield.

Psychopomp, Memitim

One arm covered in heavy metallic armor and the other covered in rune-like tattoos, this winged figure is both escort and executioner of the lost.

Memitim CR 14
XP 38,400
N Huge outsider (extraplanar, psychopomp)
Init +6; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision, spiritsense 60 ft.; Perception +28

DEFENSE

AC 29, touch 14, flat-footed 23 (+5 armor, +6 Dex, +10 natural, -2 size)
hp 199 (19d10+95)
Fort +16, Ref +12, Will +17
Defensive Abilities hidden body; DR 15/adamantine; Immune death effects, disease, poison; Resist cold 10, electricity 10; SR 28

OFFENSE

Speed 40 ft., fly 60 ft. (average)
Melee +1 mighty cleaving speed scythe +22/+22/+17/+12/+7 (3d6+7/19-20/x4)
Space 15 ft.; Reach 15 ft.
Spell-Like Abilities (CL 14th; concentration +18)
At Will–dispel magic, halt undead (DC 17), vampiric touch
3/day–bestow curse (DC 18), quickened dispel magic
1/day–finger of death (DC 21), undeath to death (DC 20), wavesof exhaustion

STATISTICS

Str 19, Dex 22, Con 20, Int 16, Wis 23, Cha 18
Base Atk +19; CMB+25; CMD41
Feats Combat Casting, Combat Reflexes, Craft Magic Arms and Armor, Greater Spell Penetration, Improved Critical (scythe), Hover, Master Craftsman (Craft [weapons]), Quicken Spell-Like Ability (dispel magic), Spell Penetration, Vital Strike
Skills Craft (weapons) +25, Diplomacy +26, Fly +24, Intimidate +26, Knowledge (religion, planes) +25, Perception +28, Sense Motive +28, Stealth +20
Languages Abyssal, Celestial, Common, Infernal, Shadowspeak, Undercommon
SQ ghost touch

ECOLOGY

Environment any (Plane of Shadows, Purgatory)
Organization solitary
Treasure standard (huge +1 mighty cleaving speed scythe, huge +4 full plate armor (arm only), other treasure)

SPECIAL ABILITIES

Armor While a memitim wears no armor, its left arm is made out of metal armor. Because it is a part of the memitim, it takes none of the penalties of wearing armor. If this arm is cut off, a huge size creature can wear it immediately as the arm from a suit of Huge +4 full plate armor. The arm possesses a maximum Dex bonus of +1, armor check penalty of -7, 35% arcane spell failure, no reduction in base speed, and weights 40 lbs.

Ghost Touch (Su) A memitim treats all natural and wielded weapons as if it had the ghost touch ability.

Hidden Body (Su) It is harder to score additional damage against the memitim due to the concealment provided by its long robe. When a critical hit or sneak attack is scored on the memitim, there is a 50% chance that the attack deals normal damage.

Spiritsense (Su) A memitim notices, locates, and can distinguish between living and undead creatures within 60 feet, just as if it possessed the blindsight ability. When the god of life and death selects a being to die. The marked one meets his death at the place and time appointed. Should his soul or body continue on and become one of the unliving, the memitim returns it to its intended destination—by force, if necessary.

This psychopomp first appeared in the JBE release Book of Beasts: Monsters of the Shadow Plane. Download this monster book today at the JBE Shop.

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Pathfinder: So How Many Monsters Are Included?

All month long, you can grab all of JBE’S Pathfinder Compatible releases from 2009 to 2016 for $20. This begs the question: how many monsters are included? For that matter, how many trap? And spells? And what else? 

Well, we have the answers. In this great bundle, you will get:

  • Over 150 new and varied monsters
  • More than 150 new spells
  • Upwards of 130 new magic items
  • Well over 200 class options, including archetypes, bloodlines, mysteries, orders, spirits, talents, discoveries, tricks, animals companions
  • Countless feats
  • About 30 new vehicles
  • Over 35 traps
  • 20 new and expanded playable races
  • And much, much more

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Pathfinder: JBE’s Big Book of Everything

March to an Amazing Sale

Jon Brazer Enterprises is offering for the month of March everything we produces for Pathfinder from our first book all the way to the end of 2016 for the crazy price of only $20. That is over 90% off the regular price. This includes some of the highest rated monster books produced for Pathfinder, more than 16 new and expanded player races, exceptional adventures, details on the Plane of Shadows, some of the best options for your spellcaster, imaginative vehicles, all the rules needed for exploring a region and establishing a kingdom, and much, much more. With all of these, your only limit is your imagination.

For $20, you get these great books:

Book of Beasts

  • Legendary Foes
  • Monster Variations
  • Monsters of the River Nations
  • Monsters of the Shadow Plane
  • Wandering Monsters 1
  • War on Yuletide

Book of Friends and Foes

  • Assassins in the River Nations
  • Ratfolk of the Ruins
  • Under the Mountain

Book of Heroic Races

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  • Advanced Gillmen
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Book of Magic

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  • Pirate Spells
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Book of Multifarious Munitions

  • 10 Pirate Ships
  • Vehicles of War

Book of the Faithful

  • Celtic Subdomains
  • Oracle Mysteries
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Deadly Delves Adventures

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  • Doom of the Sky Sword
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  • Reign of Ruin
  • Rescue from Tyrkaven
  • To Claw the Surface
  • Encounters and Maps: Cave of Kobolds

Riyal’s Research

  • Haunts
  • Traps

Shadowsfall

  • Favored Class Options
  • Guide to Umbral Kobolds
  • Shadow Plane Player’s Companion
  • Shadowsfall Legends: Pawn, Deception and Sacrifice
  • Shadowsfall Legends: Storm of Shadows
  • Shadowsfall Legends The Gem that Caught Fire
  • Temple of Orcus

Other

  • Book of the River Nations: Complete Player’s Reference for Kingdom Building
  • Cavalier Mounts
  • Treasury of the Sands

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Sale: One Day Only $2 Sale on Pathfinder, Traveller, 5e, and 13th Age

Book of Beasts: Legendary Foes (PFRPG)

Book of Beasts: Legendary FoesToday only, we are running a $2 Sale on all of our items currently on sale that normally sell for more than $4. That is a minimum of 50% off the regular price and as much as 80% off. That’s right, you can get our PDFs that are normally $10 for the rock bottom price of $2. This mean for Pathfinder you can grab for $2:

d66 CompendiumFor Traveller, be sure to grab:

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The “Not the GM’s Day Sale” Going on NOW

Book of Beasts: Legendary FoesThe Not the GM’s Day Sale is going on right now at d20PFSRD.com. Take 30% off all our releases over $1. That means 30% off the Book of the River Nations, 30% off Book of Beasts: Monsters of the Shadow Plane, 30% off Book of Heroic Races: Reapers, 30% off Book of Beasts: Legendary Foes, and even, oh myyy, 30% off Treasury of the Sands, our latest release of Magic Items designed for the Mummy’s Mask AP.

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Pathfinder: Our Present To You

Shadowsfall: Shadow Plane Player's CompanionIt’s the holiday season, whether you celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah or Boxing Day or the Winter Solstice or Festivus or any others. Our present to you this season is a $2 sale on printer Shadowsfall books. As the days grow shorter, play on the Plane of Shadows, where high noon looks light twilight and a blood red moon shines on a good night. Grab the Book of Beasts: Monsters of the Shadow Plane and Shadowsfall: Shadow Plane Players Companion in print today for a holiday miracle of a price.

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Pathfinder: Favored Class Options for Non-Favored Races

Shadowsfall: Favored Class OptionsLets face it. Some races get the short end of the stick. Races that are not in the core rulebook are treated as second class races. They do not have much in the way of archetypes, favored class options, etc.

So we at JBE decided to do something about that. For all the non-core book races mentioned in the Shadowsfall: Shadow Plane Player’s Companion, we gave them a full list of favored class options for you to use in any game, even if it is not Shadowsfall. We covered all classes in the Pathfinder Core Rulebook and the Advanced Player’s Guide, as well as the Magus and Gunslinger. Additionally we included support for the four classes in Psionics Unleashed, the Time Thief, Time Warden and the Malefactor. Here are just a few of those favored class options.

Dhampir
Druid: Add +1/4 to the damage of a bite attack.
Paladin: Add a +1/3 bonus on saving throws against death effects.
Soulknife: Add +1/3 on critical hit confirmation rolls when using mind blade (maximum bonus of +5). This bonus does not stack with Critical Focus.

Drow
Gunslinger: Add +1/6 to the dodge bonus granted by the gunslinger’s nimble class feature (maximum increase of +2).
Monk: Add +1 to the monk’s CMD when resisting a dirty trick and +1/2 to the number of stunning attacks he can attempt per day.
Time Thief: When using the steal time temporal talent, add +1/2 to the effective class level of the time thief, but only to determine the ability’s duration.

Fetchling
Cavalier: Add 5 feet to your mount’s darkvision (to a maximum of 30 feet). If your mount does not have darkvision, the mount gains darkvision 5 feet. If the cavalier ever replaces his mount, the new mount gains this bonus to its darkvision distance.
Psion: Add 1/4 power known from the psion power list. This power must be at least one level below the highest power level the psion can manifest.
Witch: The witch’s familiar gains resistance 1 against either cold or electricity. Each time the witch selects this reward, he increases his familiar’s resistance to one of those energy types by 1 (to a maximum of 10 for any one energy type).

Wayang
Cleric: Add +1/4 to the character’s channel resistance. If the cleric does not possess channel resistance, add channel resistance +1/4.
Magus: Add +1/2 point of cold damage to magus spells that deal cold damage.
Malefactor: Add a +1/4 bonus to your aura of misfortune ability.

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Pathfinder: We’re Not Going To PaizoCon Sale

Book of the River Nations: Complete Players' Reference for Kingdom BuildingThis is the first year in a while that Jon Brazer Enterprises will not be attending PaizoCon. We will miss you all and hope everyone there has a good time.

But if you are like me and cannot make it this year, we have a surprise for you. All this week, we are running the “We’re Not Going To PaizoCon Sale” at Paizo.com. Grab all of our PDFs that are over $1 for 25% off all week.

So if you are looking for more monsters, get all the Book of Beasts for 25% off.
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Pathfinder: Class Options from Shadowsfall

Shadowsfall: Shadow Plane Player's CompanionThe Shadowsfall: Shadow Plane Player’s Companion details the Plane of Shadows in a player friendly way. It provides you with short descriptions of the whole area plus it provides with a number of character options that help you to get a feel for the setting through a number of class options. Below are two such class options found in this Player’s Companion, one for a cleric, the other for a cavalier. We hope it enhances your world and your game.

Order of the Blackened Heart (Cavalier Order)
Cavaliers who join the order of the blackened heart dedicate themselves to purity of mind and body through the use of pain and torture, much like their kyton masters. Members of this order tend to be cruel and ruthless towards those who cannot defend themselves. Most of this order’s members dwell within the stronghold of Bloodchain, but they can be found in the Outlands as well as all other strongholds – even Bastion is home to a few members of this order.
Edicts: The cavalier must at all times seek self-perfection through pain and suffering, looking to cut away the parts of her life that cause weakness. She must be honest to the point of cruelty, able to make hard choices, and ready at all times to enforce those choices. She chooses to inflict pain upon those she cares about the most, cutting away their weaknesses and making them stronger.
Challenge: Whenever an order of the blackened heart cavalier issues a challenge, she inflicts 1 point of non-lethal damage to the target of her challenge in addition to the normal damage she deals. This non-lethal damage increases by +1 for every four levels the cavalier possesses.
Skills: An order of the blackened heart cavalier adds Heal (Wis) and Knowledge (planes) (Int) to her list of class skills. In addition, an order of the blackened heart cavalier adds her Strength modifier to her Intimidate skill when attempting to demoralize a creature. This bonus does not stack with the Intimidating Prowess feat.
Order Abilities: A cavalier belonging to the order of the blackened heart gains the following abilities as she increases in level.
Pain Giver (Ex): At 2nd level, the cavalier excels at inflicting pain upon her foes. She can inflict non-lethal damage with a weapon that normally deals lethal damage without taking the normal -4 penalty to her attack rolls.
Fear Monger (Ex): At 8th level, the cavalier is a master at making the weak fear her. Anytime a cavalier inflicts nonlethal damage upon her target, the cavalier may attempt to demoralize that target as a free action. Also, she gains the amount of non-lethal damage she inflicted upon her target as a bonus to the demoralize attempt.
Deadly Strike (Ex): At 15th level, the cavalier brings death to the weak. As long as the cavalier’s attack inflicts non-lethal damage, she may choose to inflict 1d4 points of Constitution damage on the same attack. She can use this ability once per round

Shadow Subdomain
Associated Domains: Darkness.
Replacement Power: The following granted power replaces the eyes of darkness power of the Darkness domain.
Overwhelmed by Shadow (Su): At 8th level you can cause a creature to become overwhelmed with darkness, costing the creature its darkvision. If a creature within 30 foot fails its Will save, it loses its darkvision ability for a number of rounds equal to 1/2 your cleric level. You can use this ability once per day at 8th level, and an additional time per day for every four levels beyond 8th.
Replacement Domain Spells: 1st—shadow weapon (favored weapon only) UM, 3rd—shadow step UM, 5th—shadow projection

Download Shadowsfall: Shadow Plane Player’s Companion from DriveThruRPG/RPGNow, Paizo.com or d20PFSRD.

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Pathfinder: Release your Inner Kobold

Fight the Dark Side

The brave and noble (er, I mean cowardly and underhanded) umbral kobold survives the Plane of Shadows through stealth and guile—and, with this race guide, so can you. This supplement provides an exciting look into the life of everyone’s favorite miniscule draconic creature, along with full stats that are balanced to play seamlessly alongside the races from the Pathfinder Core Rulebook. In this player supplement, you will find all-new alternate racial traits, character traits, archetypes, feats, spells, deities and much more for your umbral kobold PC. Play the kobold race that you always wanted to play—grab the Shadowsfall: Guide to Umbral Kobolds today!

What Stories Will They Tell of Your Character?

This 16 page PDF details the umbral kobold race, their place in Shadowsfall and gives players racial options such as feats, spells, alternate class and racial choices and more. Download Shadowsfall: Guide to Umbral Kobolds today at DriveThruRPG/RPGNow, Paizo.com and d20PFSRD today.

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Pathfinder: Those Pesky Kobolds

I hope you enjoyed our little April Fool’s joke yesterday. Today, however, we are presenting you something with enough seriousness that it could have been an April Fool’s release: kobold player characters. For all the kobold-lovers out there, myself included, we always wanted a kobold that was balanced against the Pathfinder Core Rulebook so we are not weaker than those that take humans or halflings. Or even gnomes.

Well one of the goals I had when I started Shadowsfall was to make a kobold variant that was on par, power wise, and with the umbral kobolds, I believe we have achieved that.

Umbral kobolds, like their Material Plane brethren, are pesky creatures that are looked down upon by the “big” races. On the Plane of Shadows, however, they are on the side of life against the insurmountable hordes of mindless undead that roam the Outlands and devour all that they find. Unlike humans, drow, dhampirs, fetchlings, wanderers, and the other countless races of the plane, umbral kobolds have a high birth rate and reach maturity quickly. So an umbral kobold tribe that is attacked by undead but a handful survive can replenish their numbers back to full strength in a mere 2-4 years.

For today’s preview we are showing you the racial traits for the umbral kobold. I hope you enjoy them in your own game.

Umbral Kobold Racial Traits
–2 Strength, +2 Dexterity, +2 Intelligence: Umbral kobolds are fast and a quick study but physically weak.
Small: Umbral kobolds are Small creatures and gain a +1 size bonus to their AC, a +1 size bonus on attack rolls, a –1 penalty to their CMB and CMD, and a +4 size bonus on Stealth checks.
Normal Speed: Umbral kobolds have a base speed of 30 feet.
Darkvision: Umbral kobolds can see in the dark up to 60 feet.
Natural Armor: Umbral kobolds gain a +1 natural armor bonus to AC.
Crafty: Umbral kobolds gain a +2 racial bonus on Craft (trapmaking), Perception, and Profession (miner) checks. Craft (trapmaking) and Stealth are always class skills for an umbral kobold.
Light Sensitivity: Umbral kobolds are blinded for 1 round if exposed to bright light, such as sunlight or the daylight spell. Umbral kobolds are also dazzled for as long as they remain in areas of bright light.
Languages: Umbral kobolds begin play speaking Common and Draconic. Umbral kobolds with high Intelligence scores can choose from the following: Aklo, Dwarven, Gnome, Shadowspeak, and Undercommon.