Rootpitter (3.5e Template)

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Date Adopted:	5/19/09
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Contents 1 Rootpitter 1.1 Description 1.2 Creating a Rootpitter 1.2.1 Size and Type 1.2.2 Hit Dice 1.2.3 Attack 1.2.4 Special Attacks 1.2.5 Special Qualities 1.2.6 Skills 1.2.7 Environment 1.2.8 Organization 1.2.9 Challenge Rating 1.2.10 Advancement 1.2.11 Level Adjustment

[edit] Rootpitter

[[3e Summary::The host is taken over by a parasitic plant, turning the creature itself into a plant-type]]

[edit] Description

Plant-like creatures with leaves growing out of their heads, rootpitters are actually victims possessed by the seeds of a parasitic fruit. The fruit is able to grow in any climate, so rootpitters are of all different types. It takes a DC 15 Spot or Knowledge (Nature) Check to realize that the rootpitter fruit is being ingested, or a DC 15 Heal Check to purge the stomach of the seeds before the plant takes root. Otherwise, in 2d4 hours, the creature takes on the rootpitter template, and a DC 20 heal check is required to remove the plant via surgery.

[edit] Creating a Rootpitter

Rootpitter is an acquired template, and can be applied to any living non-plant with an intelligence score of 3 or more. This excludes outsiders.

[edit] Size and Type

The creature’s type and subtype change to plant(augmented). Do not recalculate the creature’s base attack bonus, or saves. Size is unchanged as well.

[edit] Hit Dice

The host's hit dice remain unchanged

[edit] Attack

The rootpitter retains it's ability to utilize manufactured weapons. It gains no natural weapons

[edit] Special Attacks

• Poison(Sp): Rootpitters can add poison secreted from their salivary glands to any weapon for one attack per day at 1HD and a +1 for every 2HD thereafter. (Damage 1d4 Dexterity/Paralysis for 1 round)

[edit] Special Qualities

• Low-light vision.
• Immunity to all mind-affecting effects (charms, compulsions, phantasms, patterns, and morale effects).
• Immunity to poison, sleep effects, paralysis, polymorph, and stunning.
• Take 150% damage from fire attacks.
• Not subject to critical hits.
• As Plants, they breathe and eat, but do not sleep.

[edit] Skills

• +4 to hide when in forested areas.
• +4 to diplomacy when dealing with plants and other rootpitters.

[edit] Environment

Typically rootpitters are found in forested areas, where they can be around the plants that they consider their families.

[edit] Organization

Rootpitters, exiled by their host's race, see themselves as a race of their own. Despite this fact, they generally are found in solitude, their only companionship being the plants around them.

[edit] Challenge Rating

+2

[edit] Advancement

By character class

[edit] Level Adjustment

+1

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