Dexo-Pus, Sentient, 10 tentacled Octopus variant

I was originally going to call this creature the Hexopus but then realized that this was the greek base for six, not ten. While I still kinda like that sound better, I'm gonna stick with the Dexo. Think of this as a sentient, kinda nasty, octopus creature, with fully capable tentacles. As they age, they learn to utilize more of their tentacles in combat.

Dexopus

N Medium Aberration
Init +1 Senses Darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +0

 DEFENSE

AC 12 touch 12, flat-footed 10 (+2 Dex)
hp 13hp (2d8+4 con)
Fort +2, Ref +2, Will +3

 OFFENSE

Speed 30 ft., Swim 40 ft.
Melee Tentacle +4 (1d4+1)
Ranged Spear +4 (d6)
Hindrance: -1 on constitution checks / saves if they do not bathe once a day

 STATISTICS

Str 12, Dex 14, Con 14, Int 10, Wis 11, Cha 9
Base Atk +1 CMB +2 CMD 13
Feats Weapon Finesse
Skills Escape Artist +6, Swim +12, Climb +3; Racial Modifiers +2 Escape Artist, +4 Swim
Languages Lizardith
Other Gear Net, Spear or other hunting items

 ECOLOGY

Environment Any non desert
Organization   Pool (2-4) or Pod (20-80)
Treasure Value  Average (Coins or gems)

 SPECIAL ABILITIES

The Dexopus is a cunning creature capable of using complex tactics. It appears the same as their water-based, animal kin the octopus, except it has ten tentacles and is either red, pink or orange in colour. Their tentacles are approximately ten feet in length, but they use most of it for their height which mirrors a five foot tall humanoid.

Like their ocean kin they are incredible swimmers, most are just as good on land and many have fantastic climbing abilities. Enemies often believe they are solely water-based, but this is not true, they only need to soak themselves in water for one hour a day, and many pods are in the mountains or forests, so they are not actually bound to oceans.

Just the same as many creatures, they desire wealth and magic, if they can do so through peaceful means, like commerce. If not, they are willing to take any risks necessary. They make allies with like-minded creatures, equally willing to partner with humanoids or monsters for mutual defense. Though not violent, they are aggressive beings, as they look for ways to increase their influence. Since much magic and money are found underground, that's where the dexopus tends to settle down. They sometimes welcome other aberrations into their communities - especially those gifted with magic.

Lizardith is one of the most utilized languages in my game world. Lizard Men are highly intelligent and virtually control large portions of the under-earth caverns, sharing and competing with Dwarf for food & resources. The Dexopus often have small pod towns in warm caverns, but are more likely to be competitors than allies with the Lizard Men.

HD Advancement
3 HD +5 in skills; Gain 1 Feat; +1 in Natural AC
4 HD +2 to any attribute; +5 in skills, Multiattack
5 HD Gain 1 Feat; +5 in skills; +1 in Natural AC, Increase Tentacle Damage
6 HD +2 to any attribute; +5 in skills; Perfect Climb
7 HD +1 in Natural AC; Gain 1 Feat,  Gain additional tentacle attack (3rd attack using tentacle)
8 HD +2 to any attribute, Increase Tentacle Damage
9 HD +1 in Natural AC; +5 in skills; Gain 1 Feat, Increase Tentacle Damage
10 HD +4 to any two attributes; +10 in skills, +3 in Natural AC, Gain additional tentacle attack (4th tentacle  attack), Gain 2 Feat

A Dex-o-Pus normally advances through this table. If they take a level in any class, they are unable to advance any further on this table. Most members of their pod advance using the HD table below, but some members pick rogue, ranger or sorcerer class. Most of their leaders are usually sorcerers who have gained 2-4 levels.

Ink Cloud A dex-o-pus can emit a 10-foot-radius sphere of ink once per hour as a free action. The ink provides total concealment for one round and a 50% chance of missing with aimed attacks and a 25% chance with physical attacks for another two rounds. Some Dexopusi specialize with ink clouds, they are able to increase either the length of time the cloud will increase vision.

Sticky Tentacles (Ex): Their tentacles have small suckers that enable a powerful sticky capacity if it is able to latch on to someone or something. Add +6 bonus on CMD if holding on to someone.

Perfect Climb: As long as they have eight or more tentacles touching a wall or ceilings, treat as they are affected by the Spider Climb Spell, so they never fall unless forced down. They can attack no more than once if also maintaining their grip to climb, or twice if they are simply standing still.

Increase Tentacle Dmg: 1-4 HD: 1d4 dmg; 5-7 HD 1d6 dmg, 8 HD 1d8 dmg, 9 HD 1d10 dmg, 10 HD 2d12 dmg

Frush

Frush, are weird tentacled creatures that reside in the ships and many temples mostly in and around the Isle of Oromos. They can telepathically move things, and best known for their capacity to move ships, skimming across the top of the shiven, While they are fully cognizant of the prime world much of their energies exist on the astral, so they are creatures stuck between the different planes and realities.

Frush
City, D&D, D20, Nyssa, Pathfinder, Electronic

CR 5
N Medium Aberration
Init +0 Senses Darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +8

 DEFENSE
AC 17 touch 10, flat-footed 17 (+5 natural)
hp 26 hp (4d8+8 con)
Fort +3, Ref +1, Will +5

 OFFENSE
Speed 20 ft., Climb 20 ft, Swim 20 ft
Melee Grapple +4 (1d8+3)
Special Attacks  Psionics, Constrict (1d4+3), Imp Grab
Special Qualities: All Around sight

 STATISTICS
Str 7, Dex 10, Con 13, Int 13, Wis 10, Cha 13
Base Atk +3 CMB +6 CMD 16
Feats Mind-Link
Skills +9 Perception , +9 Survival, +9 Deception
Languages Understand basic common but speak via Mindlink

 ECOLOGY
Environment  Underground or City Tunnels and Jammers
Organization  Solitary
Treasure Value Double
Advancement By HD 5 - 8 (Medium), 9-16 (Large)
Alignment: Neutral (50% tend towards LN)

Frush are medium sized collections of sentient pink plazene - appearing as frazzled strings emerging from a core glowing spiked ball. It has all the functions and features of other mortal creatures such as eyes and ears, yet they mostly ignore these as they highly prefer to touch through their plazene, their nerve tentacles. When they move, they blast new tentacles to new location, then pull themselves towards that direction and the other planted tentacles drop. It seems to take considerable effort and co-ordination, so it is obvious that there is a centralized intelligence controlling the motion. The challenge is most of the time they are inanimate, blobs on a wall or ceiling, almost invisible except to those that are already aware of them.

Who or how they were discovered was lost long ago, but they have a presence in many cities where they are relied on for their unnerving capacity to monitor and control. Light, sound, even motion can be tracked, simply by having a frush view an area. When they are placed they subtlely control for the betterment of their masters. They take over any area, mechanically controlling any object or device with movement in a 90 foot radius. Many parks and jails in Oromos among many other places have a Frush in a central location, controlling and commanding the physical structure.

Oromians around 500 hundred years ago learned to plant a Frush inside a ship to enable movement. The creature needs to settle and once it does enables the ship to move through the First Ether Plane - physically moving the ship, usually a few feet above the ground. Eventually they realized with higher level specialized wizards to pilot the ship, they could travel into and out of the astral enabling travel between known portals in hours, instead of the days it used to take. These ships are called Jammers, and enable movement through-out the domains, but only by the Oromians, who control and manipulate the ships for trade purposes.

Psionics: PSP: 25; DC 14+ (1d12); Manifests as a 5th level Psionic

Powers: Biocurrent, Control Movement, Create Sound, Levitate, Sense Presence

Mind-Link is my basic psionic telepathy. Any creature with the psionic feat and a current reserve of 1 PSP, can contact an Open Mind, free of PSP charge and send or receive a short message within a 1 mile radius. They can do this any round, but it is an action to send information, except on the first round of mental transmission.

Swamp Swimmer (Dianoga)

Every now and then I am hit by a sudden blast of nostalgia and think of an old toy or game or song that I want to use in my game inspired write-ups. This was definitely one of them. I was looking for the trash monster (Dianoga) from the original Star Wars movie, didn't see it quickly online, and decided to write it up.


Swamp Swimmer (Dianoga)

CN Large aberration
Init +6; Senses blindsight 60 ft.; Perception +5

AC 21, touch 12, flat-footed 17 (-1 Size, +3 Dex, +8 natural)
hp 60hp (8d8+24 con)
Fort +5, Ref +7, Will +6
Defensive Abilities freedom of movement

Speed 20 ft., Swim 40 ft.
Melee bite +11 (1d8+5), 3 tentacles +8 (1d4+3)
Space 5 ft.; Reach 10 ft.

Str 21, Dex 16, Con 18, Int 5, Wis 11, Cha 7
Base Atk +11; CMB +11; CMD 24
Feats Blind-Fight, Improved Initiative, Lightning Reflexes, Power Attack
Skills Swim +15, Perception +5, Stealth +17 (Bonus +10 Stealth and Swim in water or swampy environments)
Languages None spoken (some may understand lizardith or common)
SQ Change colour (add +10 to stealth checks for up to 10 minutes)

Environment Swamp or forest (prefers a wet environment)
Organization solitary
Treasure Incidental
Advancement Large (9 - 15 HD), Huge (16-24 HD)

This creature appears to be a large green-grey slug with at least five ten foot long tentacles and a single eye on a stalk that it can subtly raise out of the water to view everything around it.  It hunts in watery or swampy areas, using it's camouflage abilities to sneak up to their prey. While it can survive on oozes and small creatures that reside in swampy areas, it prefers to hunt larger more intelligent things. Some Swamp Swimmers learn to drown their opponents then store the carcases underwater to feed on them later.

They are equally as active during the day or night. They are solitary creatures, budding one or two tadpole offspring every four to five years, that swim off to survive on their own without need of nurturing.

Many lizardith bards, druids & rangers prefer a Swamp Swimmer to accompany them in their tasks. Unless compelled to, Swamp Swimmers prefer to stick to watery areas, but it can survive for weeks away from its natural habitat. 

Tennianos (Tentacle Man)

I have a whole bunch of creatures that I have statted up as exercise, as in how would I do this? This was one of the first, an octopus man that gains multiple tentacle. A dark figure in the cities, trying to take apart of the structures that bind and control others.

Tentacle Man        (Tennianos)                                      CR 2

N Medium Humanoid
Init +1 Senses Perception +X

 DEFENSE

AC 14 touch 13, flat-footed 11 (+1 Dex, +1 natural, +2 leather armor)
hp 11hp (2d8+2 con)
Fort +4, Ref +1, Will +1
Defensive Abilities    DR    Immune    Resist

 OFFENSE

Speed 30 ft.
Melee  Hammer or Swort Sword +2 (1d6+1 )
Special Attacks 2 Talons +2 (1d6+1)

 STATISTICS

Str 12, Dex 13, Con 13, Int 10, Wis 12, Cha 7
Base Atk +1 CMB +2 CMD 13
Feats Multi-attack (tentacles)
Skills +2 Climb , +2 Survival, +3 Stealth
Languages Any Local
*Strength for their tentacles is +4 higher for the purposes of grapple checks

 ECOLOGY

Environment  Usually Urban
Organization  Solitary  (Part of a Cult)
Treasure Value Average (Coins or gems)
Advancement HD Progression below



Appear to be a nondescript person with simple work items & clothing often reside in poor and urban locations. They are usually part of a secret cult dedicated to bringing down the structures of lawful authority.



Normally just called the tentacled man, they have long been known to exist in cities but they are extremely secretive. These cultists are involved in terrible rituals, intent on warping kidnapped victims to do their testing on. The Tentacled Man is just the muscle, a shadowy figure in the night.



While not exceptionally strong, their augmentation enables them to hold on to their victim quite well. At low HD, they are usually single saboteurs, assigned to cause confusion or backup when needed by their commanders. At mid or higher tier levels they are the leaders of small groups of warriors whether they be fighters, thieves or just common riff-raff. They always have a  minimum of six tentacles, however they can only utilize a certain number of them at any given time. Assume at 6 HD and lower they have six tentacles, at higher levels they have twice the number of tentacles as compared to their maximum number of attacks. Their tentacles regenerate quite quickly when severed, taking a week to regrow any losses from battle. It's rumored that the tentacles separate
upon the death of the Tennianos but their fate from that point is unknown.



Highly associated with evil cults, but they are not always the same alignment. They as a group desire the break-up of formalized structures and rules, and over half of them work with evil cults, but a large portion of them work agaisnt lawful systems put in place by evil groups and tend towards good instead of evil. The Tennianos are not a separate species but an aberrational growth. There are human, elf, halfling versions of them - dedicated to the same goals.



Advancement
3 HD Non-Magic Venom Immunity; Reach + 5 feet; +5 skill points; Gain new feat
4 HD Gain + 2 to any 2 Ability Scores; Tentacle + 1d6 dmg; +1 to AC; +5 skill points
5 HD Attack with three tentacles; +5 skill points; Gain new feat, Dmg Reduction 5 /Silver
6 HD Reach + 10 feet;+1 to AC; +5 skill points; Gain new feat
7 HD Gain + 2 to any 2 Ability Scores; Imp Grapple; Tentacle 1d8; +5 skill points; Gain new feat
8 HD Rage (1/day); +1 to AC; +5 skill points; Dmg Reduction 5 /+1
9 HD Attack with four tentacles (-2 to BAB, d4 dmg); +5 skill points; Tentacle 1d10
10 HD Reach +15 ft; +1 to AC; +5 skill points; Dmg Reduction 10 /+1 ft; Gain new feat
11 HD Rage (3/day); Attack with five tentacles(-3 to BAB, d6 dmg); +1 to AC; +5 skill points
12 HD Gain + 2 to any Ability Scores; Tentacle 2d6; +5 skill points; Gain new feat
13 HD +1 to AC; +5 skill points, Dmg Reduction 10 /+2
14 HD Attack with six tentacles (-4 to BAB, d8 dmg);+5 skill points; Gain new feat
15 HD Gain + 3 to any 2 Ability Scores; +3 to AC; +12 skill points; Tentacle (3d6)

If a Tennianos attacks purely for damage, use the damage listed according to their HD.



If they attack multiple targets, use the BAB adjustment and damage listed for their HD in brackets.



When a Tennianos grapples an opponent they use grapple rules to seize their foe. At the start of their next turn, they can apply any number of free tentacles (number of attacks by tentacle). For each additional tentacle that they could attack with add +2 to the CMD the foe needs to beat to escape the grapple. The foe only needs to beat this once to escape from the Tennianos - not multiple times.