![]() The player decided to take those because while she thought playing a cute lil magic robot would be fun, she didn't want to spend an entire adventure path being a cold and heartless creature that's always at risk of instant death. (I don't normally allow third party stuff, but looking at Emotional, it was fine.) One of the players in my Pathfinder game is playing a Wyrwood with Living Machine and Emotional alternate racial traits. Not gonna say what it's from to avoid spoilers BUT! ![]() As a result, forestdwelling basilisks may have scales of a verdant emerald color to match surrounding vegetation, while a basilisk that lives in the desert may be a sandy brown or shale color.Alright so there's a lot of things happening here. They tend to dwell in caves or sheltered areas, and their hides often bear complexions that allow them to more easily blend with their environments. Lairsīasilisks can be found in almost any terrestrial environment, including forests, hills, mountains, plains, and swamps. Some legends suggest that a basilisk's blood can transmute common stones into other material, but this is likely a case of witnesses misinterpreting the magical restoration of previously petrified creatures or body parts. What causes these unusual congregations of basilisk activity is unknown.įor unknown reasons, weasels and ferrets are immune to the basilisk's stare, and they sometimes sneak into basilisk lairs while a parent is hunting in order to consume eggs or freshly hatched young. Though they are normally solitary creatures that come together only to mate and lay eggs, there are periodic reports of regions being infested with unusual numbers of basilisks. ![]() These reptiles make hissing sounds when moving about that turns to a guttural gurgle when they're agitated. This has even led to the saying " as slow as a well-fed basilisk.” Certainly basilisks are well-known for their slow gait and slothful nature, but a predator that can turn its prey to stone with a glance hardly has much need for speed.Īn adult basilisk is 13 feet long from head to tail and weighs roughly 300 pounds. This digestive process is extremely slow and inefficient, causing the basilisk to move so lethargically that it appears as if in mid-petrification itself. Once a victim has been turned to stone, the basilisk crunches the fossilized corpse with its powerful jaws and lets its potent stomach acids do the rest. Folklore holds that, much like for the cockatrice, the first basilisks hatched from leathery eggs laid by snakes and incubated by roosters, but little in the basilisk's physiology lends any credence to this claim.Ī basilisk prefers to eat petrified flesh. The basilisk is an eight-legged reptile with a nasty disposition and the ability to turn creatures to stone with its gaze. A single basilisk contains enough blood to coat 1d3 Medium creatures in this manner. A creature petrified in this manner that is coated (not just splashed) with fresh basilisk blood (taken from a basilisk that has been dead no longer than 1 hour) is instantly restored to flesh. If the creature was already slowed by this ability or Petrifying Glance, a failed save causes the creature to be petrified permanently. If it fails and has not already been slowed by Petrifying Glance or this ability, it becomes slowed 1. ![]() That creature must attempt a DC 22 Fortitude save. Petrifying Gaze ( arcane, concentrate, incapacitation, transmutation, visual) The basilisk stares at a creature it can see within 30 feet. ![]()
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