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Feb 16, 2013 -- 1:33PM, elecgraystone wrote:

Please let me know what you think. This is just a first run and I'd like to see how others think it's balanced with the base races.

Lesser medusa where breed by combining a normal medusa and Doppelgangers in hopes of making a race of assassins that could sneak into a stronghold before activating it's petrification gaze. The race was a major failure and left to fend for itself.

Lesser Medusa (a human looking female with snake hair)
Size: medium
Ability Adjustment: +1 Cha
Speed: 35'
Low-Light Vision: 30'
Dark Vision: 10' [You treat darkness in that radius as normal light.]
Keen Senses: Advantage on checks to detect hidden creatures.
Snake Hair: A d4 light finesse weapon. The snakes can drink poison without fear of harm and can inject it at will.
Changeling blood: As an action, you may disquise your Snake Hair as normal hair of any length, color and style. This is a physical transformation and not an illusion. Changeling blood may be maintained indefinitely but Snake Hair may not be used until it's cancelled. Ending Changeling blood does not require an action
Minor Petrification: As an action, make a skill check using CHA against one creatures CON within 100'. On a win, movement is reduces to 0. This can be done at will and lasts until the characters next turn.

Lesser Maedar (a muscular, hairless humanoid male w/ stony skin.
Size: medium
Ability Adjustment: +1 con
speed:  30'
Low-Light Vision: 30'
Dark Vision: 10'  [You treat darkness in that radius as normal light.]
Maedar Resilience: Advantage on petrification and poison saves and resistance to poison. Also immune to medusa poison (see Bestiary) .
Medusa Lore: Gain Heal skill and may use it to treat petrification.
Magic in the blood: Maedar may spend 1 hp to act as if he spent a use of a healers kit and he may use his CON for the check.
Unstoppable: Movement pentalties are reduced by 10'.
Stony fists: Unarmed attacks gain the light property. 

* drink poison may be altered/changed depending on on the poison system.

FEATS:

Consume Poison
Prerequisite: Medusa
Benefit: During a short rest (or 5 min), the medusa may consume poison from a monster that was defeated and had a physical attack with a poison effect. Until the character makes an extended rest, they may use that poison effect on a successful attack with snake hair or they consume poison again. After using the effect it is gone and only one effect can be held at one time.

Do forgive me this little necromancy, but this image was too cool.



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My idea is poison, curses and sickness should can be added like monster templates.

For example:

Rat : 5 XPs.

Rat infected with bubonic plague: 5 + 20 XPs.

Scorpion: 5 XPs

Scorpion with poison level 3: 5 + 15 XPs 

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Other option could be PG like a attack with poison damage. If victim is zero hitpoints is petrificied like he was frozen, but if medusa is low level the petrification would be temporal. The "poison" is healing by resting, and the petrification end when character has recover all hit points what were lost by the "petrifying poison".
 

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Medusa lore:

1. It is replaced with a bonus to healing skill

2. The maedar can treat petrification like a free proficienty to heal PG.

3. Like a spell-like abilitie or speding a powers to do a counter-spelling.