Popobawa
Popobawas are small humanoid bats known for their shapeshifting abilities and dark magic. They live mostly in Agartha (Hollow Earth), but often fly up to the surface at night to hunt.
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CREATURE TRAITS (12 XP)
- Types Size 4 Sapient Bipedal Organism (Humanoid, Popobawa)
- Reach 5 feet
- Speed Land 20 feet, Climbing 20 feet, Gliding 30 feet
ATTRIBUTES (0 XP)
- +2 Dexterity, -2 Intelligence, +2 Wisdom
LANGUAGES (0 XP)
- Starting Languages: Popobawan, Undercommon.
- Bonus Languages: Any common languages.
INNATE ABILITIES (17 XP)
- Bite (1 XP): Popobawas have Innate Weapon (Bite) attack dealing 1d4 piercing damage.
- Climbing (2 XP): Popobawas have a 20-foot climbing speed and +2 innate bonus to skill rolls made to Climb.
- Echolocation (12 XP): Popobawas can "see" using echolocation via the Blindsense 4 (Echolocation) ability with the Blindsight (+1) and Keen Search (+1) upgrades.
- Gliding (1 XP): Popobawas have a Flight 4 with the Gliding -2 and Hand-operated -2 downgrades giving them 40-foot gliding speed and a +2 innate bonus to Acrobatics rolls.
- Near-sighted Darkvision (1 XP): Popobawas have low-light vision and darkvision but are naturally near-sighted, suffering double the normal range increment penalties to ranged attack rolls and Perception rolls based on visual sight.
ADDITIONAL ABILITIES
Popobawa begin with their innate traits and can gain additional traits from the following list as feats.
Camouflage (1 RP): Popobawa can develop scarring, mange, or scabs that look like a rocky surface allowing them to hide among stalagmites, stalactites, and similar rocky terrain. While hiding in such terrain, they are treated as having one degree better concealment than they actually have for the purposes of Stealth, to a maximum of total concealment.
Carrion Eater (2 XP): Popobawa have strong immune systems granting them minor resistance against ingested poison and disease, including eating rotten food.
Claws (1 XP): Some popobawa have an innate weapon claw attack on each hand dealing 1d4 slashing damage.
Bat Form (2 XP): Beast Shape (tiny bat or medium bat)
Dive
Extended Echolocation (4 XP): Your Blind Sense increases to Tier 6.
Extra Arms (3 XP): Some popobawa have two arms in addition to their wings, allowing them to use their arms while gliding or flying but disabling their ability to use their wings as arms.
Humanoid Shape (1 XP): Some popobawa can transform into a goblin-like humanoid as if per Alter Self. This is a tier 1 innate magical power.
Fast Climbing (2 XP): Your climbing speed increases by 10 feet each time trait is added to a maximum equal to your land speed.
Fast Gliding (2 XP): Your gliding speed increases by 10 feet each time trait is added to a maximum equal to twice your land speed.
Flight (4 XP): Your gliding speed improves to a flying speed so long as your altitude is lower than 10 times your glide speed.
Shadow Magic (1 XP): You gain Teleportation as a tier 1 innate magical power with the Illusion, Darkness, and Teleport types. It has the limited downgrade requiring it to be used only to teleport to and from places of dim or darker lighting but increasing its distance as if it were 1 tier higher than normal.
Shapeshifter (2 XP): You gain the Shapechanger type, granting you minor resistance to morph and polymorph effects and the ability to dispel such effects from yourself as an action as if using dispel magic with a tier equal to half your level. This is an innate extraordinary effect.