Carcass Crab
Huge Magical Beast
Hit Dice: 12d10+60 (126 hp)
Initiative: +1
Speed: 30 ft. (6 squares)
Armor Class: 23 (-2 size, +1 Dex, +8 natural, +6 armor), touch 9, flat-footed 22
Base Attack/Grapple: +12/+28
Attack: Claw +18 melee (2d6+8) or barb +11 ranged (1d4 plus poison)
Full Attack: 2 claws +18 melee (2d6+8) or barb +11 ranged (1d4 plus poison)
Space/Reach: 15 ft./15 ft.
Special Attacks: Bite 1d6+4, improved grab, poison
Special Qualities: Adhesive, darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision, spiny defense
Saves: Fort +13, Ref +9, Will +4
Abilities: Str 26, Dex 13, Con 20, Int 5, Wis 10, Cha 9
Skills: Hide +1*, Spot +7
Feats: Awesome Blow, Improved Bull Rush, Point Blank Shot, Power Attack, Precise Shot
Environment: Warm aquatic
Organization: Solitary
Challenge Rating: 8
Treasure: No coins; no goods; standard items
Alignment: Usually neutral
Advancement: 13-18 HD (Huge); 19-36 HD (Gargantuan)
Level Adjustment: --

What looked at first like a mound of corpses and discarded armament now shifts and moves, eight legs and two massive claws emerging from beneath it. Four eyes on stalks snake out from above the claws.

The carcass crab is a warped mutation of natural life found in the Mournland, and occasionally in Valenar and Darguun. Though essentially a giant crustacean, it augments its natural armor by attaching the detritus of battle -- bits of armor, weapons, and bodies -- to its hard shell with a natural adhesive. This provides both protection and camouflage in the wasted battlefields of the Mournland, the creature's preferred hunting ground.

Combat

Carcass crabs are hardly brilliant or subtle opponents. They make minimal use of their camouflage to get close to potential prey, then try to grab one opponent and scurry off to make a meal of it. It can also hurl poisonous barbs at targets out of claw's reach.

Bite (Ex): A carcass crab can make a bite attack (attack bonus +13) when it is grappling an opponent, in addition to making a single attack with a claw. This bite attack is not subject to the usual -4 penalty for attacking with a natural weapon in a grapple. The crab must begin its turn grappling to use its bite -- it can't begin a grapple and bite in the same turn.

Improved Grab (Ex): To use this ability, the carcass crab must hit with a claw attack.

Poison (Ex): Barb -- Injury, Fortitude DC 21, initial and secondary damage 1d6 Dex. The save is Constitution-based.

Adhesive (Ex): A carcass crab uses a natural adhesive to attach pieces of armor, weapons, and whole corpses to its shell. Typically, this grants the crab an armor bonus of +6 to its AC, equivalent to banded mail, but it is possible to find crabs with better or worse protection. A crab suffers no armor check penalty from this protection.

Spiny Defense (Ex): A carcass crab's shell is covered with sharp spines that protrude from between attached metal and bodies. Combined with spears and swords affixed to its shell, these spines offer the crab some protection against attacks. A creature that hits a carcass crab with natural weapons or unarmed attacks takes 1d6 points of piercing damage.

Skills: *In areas where heaps of corpses and discarded weapons and armor are common, including the Mournland, carcass crabs gain a +8 circumstance bonus on Hide checks.

Dinosaur, Fastieth
Medium Animal
Hit Dice: 2d8+2 (11 hp)
Initiative: +1
Speed: 50 ft. (10 squares)
Armor Class: 14 (+1 Dex, +3 natural), touch 11, flat-footed 13
Base Attack/Grapple: +1/+3
Attack: Bite -2 melee (1d3+1)
Full Attack: Bite -2 melee (1d3+1)
Space/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: --
Special Qualities: Low-light vision, scent
Saves: Fort +4, Ref +4, Will +0
Abilities: Str 15, Dex 13, Con 12, Int 2, Wis 11, Cha 4
Skills: Jump +11, Listen +6, Spot +6
Feats: Run
Environment Warm plains
Organization: Solitary, pair, or pack (3-6)
Challenge Rating: 1/2
Treasure: None
Alignment: Always neutral
Advancement: 3-6 HD (Medium)
Level Adjustment: --

This human-sized, two-legged lizard has large eyes, brightly-colored and patterned scales, and strong-looking legs.

Fastieths are the most common mounts of the halflings of the Talenta Plains, chosen and bred for speed. They are too small to carry a human, but can carry a halfling with light gear fairly easily and at a good pace.

Combat

Fastieths are not trained for battle and generally prefer to flee rather than fight, but they can deliver a nasty bite if pressed. The bite attack is treated as a secondary attack (-5 penalty on the attack roll) and adds only half of the fastieth's Strength bonus to damage.

Carrying Capacity: A light load for a fastieth is up to 66 pounds; a medium load, 67-133 pounds; a heavy load, 134-200 pounds. A fastieth can drag 1,000 pounds.

Dolgaunt
Medium Aberration
Hit Dice: 2d8+2 (11 hp)
Initiative: +3
Speed: 30 ft. (6 squares)
Armor Class: 16 (+3 Dex, +3 natural), touch 13, flat-footed 13
Base Attack/Grapple: +1/+3
Attack:Tentacle +3 melee (1d3+2)
Full Attack:2 tentacles +3 melee (1d3+2)
Space/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft. (10 ft. with tentacles)
Special Attacks: Tentacle whip, vitality drain
Special Qualities: Blindsight 360 ft., damage reduction 5/byeshk or magic
Saves: Fort +1, Ref +3, Will +5
Abilities: Str 14, Dex 16, Con 12, Int 13, Wis 15, Cha 11
Skills: Balance +7*, Climb +6*, Hide +6, Jump +5, Listen +5, Move Silently +6, Spot +5
Feats: Combat Reflexes, Improved Trip[B]
Environment: Underground
Organization: Solitary, cell (2-12), or company (7-12 plus 2-5 4th-level dolgaunt monks plus 20-50 dolgrims)
Challenge Rating: 2
Treasure: Standard
Alignment: Always lawful evil
Advancement: By character class
Level Adjustment: +3

This gaunt figure resembles a pale, emaciated hobgoblin. It moves with eerie grace despite its blind and empty eye sockets. Its skin is covered in a layer of writhing cilia, and a mane of longer tendrils surrounds its head. Two long, whiplike tentacles extend from its shoulders.

When the daelkyr emerged from Xoriat to conquer Eberron, they captured and transformed many of the world's indigenous creatures to create an army of hideous warriors. Bred from hobgoblin stock, dolgaunts are cold and efficient killers often placed in command of groups of chokers, dolgrims, and other creatures. A dolgaunt is blind but can perceive its surroundings through the sensitive cilia that covers its skin. It can also absorb liquids through these tendrils, allowing it to drain the vital fluids out of any creature that it touches. A dolgaunt is about the same size as a hobgoblin, but far leaner and bonier.

Dolgaunts live grim, ascetic lives spent training for battle. Forming monastic cells in the depths of Khyber, they occasionally perform surface errands for their sinister masters or work with the Cults of Dragon Below.

Dolgaunts speak Common and Undercommon. They have also developed a mode of communication that uses subtle movements of their skin tendrils; this allows a dolgaunt to silently communicate with other dolgaunts within 30 feet.

Combat

Graceful and deadly, a dolgaunt relies on the reach of its tentacles to harm or hinder its enemies. Dolgaunts do not speak in combat unless they are issuing commands to underlings. Dolgaunts rarely use weapons or armor but may make use of magic belts, bracers, boots, or cloaks.

Vitality Drain (Ex): If a dolgaunt gets a hold of an opponent, it can burrow into the flesh of its victim and draw out vital fluids using the tendrils that cover its skin. On a successful grapple check, the dolgaunt deals 1 point of temporary Constitution damage in addition to normal damage. An injured dolgaunt recovers 2 hit points every time it successfully uses this ability.

Blindsight (Ex): A dolgaunt possesses blindsight out to a range of 360 feet; beyond this range, it can discern nothing. A dolgaunt's blindsight makes it immune to gaze attacks.

Because it is blind, a dolgaunt cannot read or use scrolls.

Skills: *A dolgaunt gains a +4 racial bonus on Balance and Climb checks, as its tentacles and the tendrils on its skin help it find purchase on almost any substance.

Dolgaunt Characters

Most dolgaunts advance as monks, although a few are clerics dedicated to the Cults of the Dragon Below or, in rare cases, to one of the Dark Six. The dolgaunt's favored class is monk.

Byeshk: Mined in the Byeshk and Graywall Mountains bordering Droaam, this rare metal is prized by smiths for use in jewelry and weapons. It has a lustrous purple sheen and is hard and dense. A bludgeoning weapon whose head is made of byeshk has a +1 enhancement bonus on damage rolls. In addition, byeshk weapons of any type are able to bypass the damage reduction of daelkyr, which are resistant to all other weapons. The market price modifier of a byeshk weapon is +1,500 gp. Byeshk is very difficult to work into armor, and offers no significant advantage over iron armor.

Byeshk has a hardness of 17 and 35 hit points per inch of thickness. An item made of byeshk weighs 50% more than the same item made of iron. Byeshk is difficult to work, increasing the DC of Craft checks to create or repair an item made from it (see "Skills" in Chapter 3: Heroic Characteristics).

Warforged Titan
Huge Construct
Hit Dice: 12d10+40 (106 hp)
Initiative: -1
Speed: 50 ft. (10 squares)
Armor Class: 25 (-2 size, -1 Dex, +18 armor), touch 7, flat-footed 25
Base Attack/Grapple: +9/+26
Attack: Axe +16 melee (2d8+9/x3) or maul +16 melee (2d8+9/x3)
Full Attack: Axe +16 melee (2d8+9/x3) and maul +11 melee (2d8+9/x3)
Space/Reach: 15 ft./15 ft.
Special Attacks: Powerful charge +3d6, trample 2d6+13
Special Qualities: Construct traits, damage reduction 10/adamantine, darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision, resistance to acid 10, cold 10, electricity 10, fire 10, and sonic 10
Saves: Fort +4, Ref +3, Will +4
Abilities: Str 28, Dex 8, Con -- , Int 3, Wis 11, Cha 1
Skills: Jump +32
Feats: Awesome Blow, Cleave, Improved Bull Rush, Power Attack, Powerful Charge
Environment: Any land
Organization: Solitary
Challenge Rating: 8
Treasure: None
Alignment: Usually lawful neutral
Advancement: 13-24 HD (Huge); 25-48 HD (Gargantuan)
Level Adjustment: --

A huge golem forged of composite materials swings a massive axe and maul as it shambles forward.

Among the first warforged created during the Last War, titans are a small step forward from massive, mindless war golems. Warforged titans are not true living constructs like other warforged; they are barely sentient, with just enough intelligence to follow changing commands in the heat of battle.

Combat

Warforged titans are slow and stupid, but their awesome strength and sheer size makes them fearsome in battle.

Powerful Charge (Ex): Thanks to its Powerful Charge feat, a Huge warforged titan deals an extra 3d6 points of damage when it charges. A Gargantuan titan deals an extra 4d6 points of damage when it charges.

Trample (Ex): 2d6+13 points of damage; Reflex half DC 25. The save DC is Strength-based.

Construct Traits: A warforged titan has immunity to poison, sleep effects, paralysis, stunning, disease, death effects, necromancy effects, mind-affecting effects (charms, compulsions, phantasms, patterns, and morale effects), and any effect that requires a Fortitude save unless it also works on objects or is harmless. It is not subject to critical hits, subdual damage, ability damage, ability drain, fatigue, exhaustion, or energy drain. It cannot heal damage, but it can be repaired.