Half-Infernal

No matter its form, a half-infernal is always hideous to behold, having dark scales, horns, glowing red eyes, bat wings, a fetid odor, or some other obvious sign that it is tainted with evil.

CREATING A HALF-INFERNAL

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

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

 

There are four kinds of Half Infernal, some have wings some have none, some have retractable bat wings, and some can fully suppress their infernal side.    Those who suppress their infernal 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 Infernal type
1-20	No wings/ No flight, +10ft and +5 to jump and climb check
21-45	Bat wings
46-70	Retractable bat wings (while retracted only a spot check 20 can identify)
71-100	Full changing

 

Check (Involuntary Change): An affected character that can suppress his infernal 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 infernal 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 infernal 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 infernal form until the next dawn.

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

Check (Voluntary Change): In addition, an afflicted lycanthrope aware of his condition may attempt to use this skill voluntarily in order to change to infernal 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 (Infernal form time)	25
Return to humanoid form (Not infernal form time)	20
Voluntary change to infernal form (Infernal form time)	15
Voluntary change to infernal form (Not infernal form time)	20
* For game purposes

 

Retry (Voluntary Change): A character can retry voluntary changes to infernal form or humanoid 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 infernal or hybrid 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 Hit Dice, base attack bonus, or saves. Size is unchanged. Half-infernals are normally native outsiders.

Speed: A half-infernal has a chance of having bat wings. Unless the base creature has a better fly speed, the creature can fly at the base creature’s base land speed (average maneuverability). 

 

Armor Class: Natural armor improves by +1 (this stacks with any natural armor bonus the base creature has).

Attack: A half-infernal has two claw attacks and a bite attack, and the claws are the primary natural weapon. If the base creature can use weapons, the half-infernal retains this ability. A half-infernal fighting without weapons uses a claw when making an attack action. When it has a weapon, it usually uses the weapon instead.

Full Attack: A half-infernal fighting without weapons uses both claws and its bite when making a full attack. If armed with a weapon, it usually uses the weapon as its primary attack and its bite as a natural secondary attack. If it has a hand free, it uses a claw as an additional natural secondary attack.

Damage: Half-infernals have bite and claw attacks. If the base creature does not have these attack forms, use the damage values in the table below. Otherwise, use the values below or the base creature’s damage values, whichever are greater.

Size	Bite Damage	Claw Damage
Fine	1	—
Diminutive	1d2	1
Tiny	1d3	1d2
Small	1d4	1d3
Medium	1d6	1d4
Large	1d8	1d6
Huge	2d6	1d8
Gargantuan	3d6	2d6
Colossal	4d6	3d6

Special Attacks: A half-infernal retains all the special attacks of the base creature and gains the following special attack.

Smite Good (Su): Once per day the creature can make a normal melee attack to deal extra damage equal to its HD (maximum of +20) against a good foe.

Spell-Like Abilities: A half-infernal with an Intelligence or Wisdom score of 8 or higher has 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	Darkness 3/day
3–4	Desecrate
5–6	Unholy blight
7–8	Poison 3/day
9–10	Contagion
11–12	Blasphemy
13–14	Unholy aura 3/day, unhallow
15–16	Horrid wilting
17–18	Summon monster IX (infernals only)
19–20	Destruction

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

—Darkvision out to 60 feet.

—Immunity to poison.

—Resistance to acid 10, cold 10, electricity 10, and fire 10.

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

—A half-infernal’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).

Abilities: Increase from the base creature as follows: Str +4, Dex +4, Con +2, Int +4, Spi +6, App –4.

Skills: A half-infernal 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-infernal 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 4 or less, as base creature +1; HD 5 to 10, as base creature +2; HD 11 or more, as base creature +3.

Alignment: Always evil (any).

Level Adjustment: +3.