LOKISKINDER

Giants are renowned for their strength and physical power, but less well known is their skill at deception and misdirection. This quality, the legacy of the earliest ages, has been spread throughout the giant races and further.

Appearance

Lokiskinder have a certain roguish air to them, but otherwise appear as normal members of their race.

Creating a Lokiskinder

“Lokiskinder” is an inherited template that can be added to any giant, humanoid, or monstrous humanoid with an Intelligence score of 3 or higher (referred to hereafter as the base creature).

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

Size and Type: The creature’s type is unchanged. It gains the chaotic subtype, even if its alignment is not chaotic. It gains the shapechanger subtype. Size is unchanged.

Special Attacks: A lokiskinder has all the special attacks of the base creature, plus the following special qualities.

Spell-Like Abilities: A lokiskinder with an Intelligence or Wisdom score of 8 or higher has two or more 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 three times per day. Caster level equals the creature’s HD, and the save DC is Charisma-based.

Special Qualities: A lokiskinder has all the special qualities of the base creature, plus the following special qualities:

+3 bonus to Will saves versus Enchantment spells and abilities.

Abilities: Increase from the base creature as follows: Dex +4, Con +2, Int +4, Chr +4.

Skills: Lokiskinder gain a +4 racial bonus to Bluff and Disguise checks.

Challenge Rating: HD 8 or less, as base creature +2. HD 9 or more, as base creature +3.

Alignment: Always non-lawful.

Level Adjustment: HD 8 or less, as base creature +3; HD 9 or more, as base creature +3