Half-Deva

No matter the form, half-Devas are always appear commanding and authoritative, having metalic skin, cold piercing  eyes, metallic wings, or some other sign of their higher nature.

CREATING A HALF-DEVA

“Half-Deva” is an inherited template that can be added to any living, corporeal creature with an Intelligence score of 4 or higher and nonchaotic alignment (referred to hereafter as the base creature).

A half-Deva uses all the base creature’s statistics and special abilities except as noted here.

 

There are four kinds of Half Deva, some have wings some have none, some have retractable feather wings, and some can fully suppress their deva side.    Those who suppress their deva said gain control shape as a class skill.  Changing form is a full round action. While in humanoid form you do not suffer a plus three level adjustment.

 

Chance	Half Deva type
1-20	No wings/ No flight, +10ft and +5 to jump and climb check
21-45	Feather wings
46-70	Retractable feather wings (while retracted only a spot check 20 can identify that you have them)
71-100	Full changing

 

Check (Involuntary Change): An affected character that can suppress his deva side must make a check at a special time this may be on a specific day of the week or month, perhaps during the day or on a full moon, each time this special time come resist involuntarily assuming deva form. An injured character must also check for an involuntary change after accumulating enough damage to reduce his hit points by one-quarter and again after each additional one-quarter lost.  Each time the DC increases by +5.

 

Involuntary Change	Control Shape DC
Resist involuntary change	30
Resist involuntary change (when injured)	20

 

On a failed check, the character must remain in deva form until the next dawn, when he automatically returns to his base form. A character aware of his condition may make one attempt to return to humanoid form (see below), but if he fails, he remains in deva form until the next dusk.

Retry (Involuntary Change): Check to resist an involuntary change once each time a triggering event occurs.

Check (Voluntary Change): In addition, a character may attempt to use this skill voluntarily in order to change to deva form or return to humanoid form, regardless of the state of the moon, the sun, when he has been injured, or whatever.

 

Voluntary Change	Control Shape DC
Return to humanoid form (Deva form time)	25
Return to humanoid form (Not deva form time)	20
Voluntary change to deva form (Deva form time)	15
Voluntary change to deva form (Not deva form time)	20
* For game purposes

 

Retry (Voluntary Change): A character can retry voluntary changes to deva form or hybrid form as often as he likes. Each attempt is a standard action. However, on a failed check to return to humanoid form, the character must remain in deva form until the next dawn, when he automatically returns to humanoid form.

 

Retractable Wings: A character with retractable wings must make a special check to extend or retract the wings.  Extending or retracting wings is a Standard action.

Voluntary Change	Control Shape DC
Retract Wings	15
Extend Wings	10

 

 

Size and Type: The creature’s type changes to outsider. Do not recalculate the creature’s Hit Dice, base attack bonus, or saves. Size is unchanged. Half-Devas are normally native outsiders.

Speed: A half-Deva has wings made of metallic feather like shards and can fly at twice the base creature’s base land speed (Average maneuverability). If the base creature has a fly speed, use that instead.   It gains +10 feet to his base land speed.

Armor Class: Natural armor improves by +3 (this stacks with any natural armor bonus the base creature has).

Attack: Half-Devas gains a slam attack which is considered magic and adamantine for DR purposes.

Size	Damage
Fine	1
Diminutive	1d2
Tiny	1d3
Small	1d4
Medium	1d6
Large	1d8
Huge	2d6
Gargantuan	2d8
Colossal	3d6

Special Attacks: A half-Deva retains all the special attacks of the base creature and also gains the following special abilities.

Smite Chaos (Su): Once per day a half-Deva can make a normal melee attack to deal extra damage equal to its HD (maximum of +20) against a chaotic foe.

Spell-Like Abilities: A half-Deva with an Intelligence or Wisdom score of 8 or higher has two or more spell-like abilities, depending on its Hit Dice, as indicated on the table below. The abilities are cumulative

Unless otherwise noted, an ability is usable once per day. Caster level equals the creature’s HD, and the save DC is Charisma-based.

HD	Abilities
1–2	Protection from Chaos 3/day, Bane
3–4	Hold person, detect chaos
5–6	Inflict serious wounds, neutralize poison
7–8	Order’s wrath, remove curse
9–10	Dominate person
11–12	Dictum
13–14	Shield of law 3/day, canonize
15–16	Iron body
17–18	Summon monster IX (Devas only)
19–20	Regenerate

Special Qualities: A half-Deva has all the special qualities of the base creature, plus the following special qualities.

—Darkvision out to 60 feet.

—Immunity to disease.

—Resistance to cold 10, electricity 10, and sonic 10.

—Damage reduction: 5/magic (if HD 11 or less) or 10/magic (if HD 12 or more).

—A half-Deva’s natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

—Spell resistance equal to creature’s HD + 10 (maximum 35).

— +4 racial bonus on Fortitude saves against poison.

Abilities: Increase from the base creature as follows: Str +4, Dex +4, Con +4, Int +4, Wis +2, Spi +2, App +2.

Skills: A half-Deva gains skill points as an outsider and has skill points equal to (8 + Int modifier) x(HD +3). Do not include Hit Dice from class levels in this calculation—the half-Deva gains outsider skill points only for its racial Hit Dice, and gains the normal amount of skill points for its class levels. Treat skills from the base creature’s list as class skills, and other skills as cross-class.

Challenge Rating: HD 5 or less, as base creature +1; HD 6 to 10, as base creature +2; HD 11 or more, as base creature +3.

Alignment: Always lawful (any).

Level Adjustment: Same as base creature +4.