Dust Element Creature

Dust Element Creatures

Dust Element Creatures are most at home in the Quasi-elemental Plane of Dust or other similar places, they could also be found in the Negative Energy Plane or the Plane of Earth. They appear as swirling grey clouds of dust containing the general form of their material counterparts. Their eyes are pockets within the dust.

Creating a Dust Element Creature Dust element is an inherited template that can be added to any corporeal creature of the types: aberration, animal, dragon, fey, giant, humanoid, magical beast, monstrous humanoid, plant or vermin. A dust element creature uses all of the base creature’s stats unless otherwise noted. Do not recalculate the creature’s hit dice, BAB and so on.

Type: The creature’s type changes to elemental and it gains the earth subtype.

Special Attacks: A dust element creature retains the special attacks of the base creature, and also gains the following.

Decaying Attack (Ex): The touch of a dust element creature causes matter and living material to slowly decay. The natural attacks of the dust element creature deal an amount of Strength damage based on its HD as shown below. Those reduced to zero Strength, will suffer Constitution damage from its further attacks. Against objects it instead inflicts additional damage based on the table below.

Special Qualities: A dust element creature retains all of the base creature’s special qualities and also gains the following:

Darkvision 60 feet

Damage Reduction (Ex): They gain DR based on the table below. If the base creature already has damage reduction, use the better of the two.

Skills: Same as base creature. If intelligence is at least 4, it speaks Terran.

Environment: Quasi-elemental plane of dust.

Challenge Rating: HD 3 or less as base creature; HD 4 to 7 as base creature +1; HD 8+ or more, as base creature +2

Alignment: Usually neutral.

Level Adjustment: As the base creature +5.