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Preface The Dark Menagerie Abyssal Lamprey Acid Shambler Arcane Devourer Arcane Symbiote Arch Lurker Assassin’s Bane Athentia the Great Sphinx Bane Cloud Bitter Tree Blade Beast Blood Barnacles Blood Crone Blood Maiden Blood Moth Blood Reaper Blood Sea Jellyfish Blood Sprite Blood Zombie Bloodfly Bloodman Bonewing Burned Ones Carnival Krewe, Bone Bosun Carnival Krewe, Heron Priest Carnival of Shadows, Dark Harlequin Carnival of Shadows, Shadowjester Carnivorous Tree Carrion Hound Chaos Globe Chern’s Children Cloudsting Corpse Whisperer Daemon, Grisly Minstrel Daemon, Moon Daemon, Plague Angel Dananshee Dark Womb Darkling Sentinel Demon, Abyssal Larva Demon, Blade Demon, Blood Horror Demon, Leonine Demon, Locust Deryth (Disjoined) Deryth (Joined)

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Despair Devil, Heartclutch Devil, Iron Dragon, Slarecian Dream Folk Dreamwrack Dreamwraith Elder Larva Face Stealer Filcher Flailing Dreadnought Flayed Giant Flesh Strippers Forest Walker Gallows Eye Gallows Vine Gauntling Gaurak Troll Golem, Crystal Golem, Quicksilver Golem, Serpent Golem, Sword Golem, Tar Golem, Venom Grotesque Grotesque Herder Grotesque Parasite Guardian of the Damned Hagling Hope Howling Abomination Hrinruuk‘s Hound Ioun Beholder Iron Dragon Kadum’s Leviathan Keel Crusher Leeching Willow Legion of One Lightning Hawk Lurker Below Mirror Fiend Mist Reaper Moon Giant Naga, Crown Naga, Hollow Night-Touched Controller Night-Touched Hound

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Pestilite Pilfer Sprite Piscean, Black Piscean, Green Piscean, Red Prey chaser Quicksilver Stalker Ratman, Daywalker Ratman, Stalker Ratman, White Wraith Razorfin Dolphin Sagon Sand Mummy Sand Wyvern Scar Twin Seeker’s Bane Shackledeath Shadow Lord Shadowcat Shadowraven (Eyes of Golthain) Shard Spider Shockbat Siege Undead, Boneman Siege Undead, Meatman Siege Undead, Sandman Skein Skeletal Host Skin Weaver Skiver Skull King Skullworm Slarecian Gatekeeper Slarecian Shadowspawn Slarecian Worm Slime Reaver Soul Guardian Spectral Plant Spined Lizard Stench Toad Stone Zombie

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Stormchild Sundered Mage Sundered Woman Surged Giant Sutak Swamp Fisher Swamp Tyrant Tar Beetle Tattooed Corpse Tauron Tempus Twin Thought Drinker T h u 1 k a n Thunder Kite Time Killer Totem of Mormo Touch Corrupter Tundra Lord Tuscar Ukrudan Stalker Unitaur Unlife Vangal’s Chosen Vermin Host, Cockroach Vermin Host, Leech Vermin Host, Rat Vermin Host, Spider Vertigen Wickerman Windrider Wirebound Berserker Wolfrat Appendix One: Template Creatures Belsameth Spider Blood Sea Mutant Bloodless Conundrum Creatures Hex Creatures Appendix Two: Creatures by Challenge Rating Appendix Three: Monster Summoning Tables Appendix Four: Open Game License

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Welcome to Creature Collection 11: Dark Me- nagerie! Just a few words before you dive into the nest of fiends that follows. First, for those of you who missed Creature Collection and Relics 15’ Rituals, you should know that the creatures that follow were designed for use in any fantasy campaign setting. Part of their description shows you how the creatures specifically relate to Sword & Sorcery Studio’s Scarred Lands setting, and you can use as much or as little of that information in your own campaign as you like.

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Finally, we’re having great fun producing and publishing our line of 3rd edition compatible books and Scarred Lands campaign setting books. We’d really like to thank all the fans who have jumped on board early and given their support to the Scarred Lands through DM’ing the on-line Fangsfall cam- paign, starting up websites, and just badgering us to get these books produced faster!

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And finally, thanks to all the writers who have responded to our Open Writer Calls and contributed their own creativity to the Scarred Lands. Keep it coming, folks!

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lamprey can then use its magical abilities to take Abyssal Lamprey control and force the creature to attack other (usually sentient) creatures. If it is attacked when it has no host,

Hit Dice: 3d8 (13 hp) the abyssal lamprey will do everything in its power to Initiative: +I (Dex) flee, including using its transmutation abilities. Speed: Improved Grab (Ex): To use this ability, the AC: abyssal lamprey must hit with its bite. Once success- Attacks: Bite +4 melee ful, the abyssal lamprey can use dominate animal to Damage: Bite ld3 control an animal victim. It can also use its other FaceIReach: spell-like abilities on the host animal, as described Special Attacks: below. The abyssal lamprey will not knowingly use Special Qualities: this ability against

SpelLLike Abilities: At will - Dominate ani- Saves: mal; 3/day - alter self, barkskin, bull’s strength, cat’s Abilities: grace, darkuislon, endurance, enlarge, expeditious re- Skills: treat, maec fang and shocking grasp; l/day - blink,

greater magtc fang, poison and haste. Feats: Toughness Barkskin, dominate animal, poison, maec fang and Climate/Temain: Any aquatic greater mgtc fang are as the spell cast by a 15th-level Organization: Solitary druid (save DC 12 + spell level). The rest of the abilities Challenge Rating: 4 are as the spell cast by an 8th-level sorcerer (save DC 12 Treasure: None + spell level). The abyssal lamprey’s abilities affect itself Alignment: Always chaotic evil and its host. The host does not receive a saving throw Advancement Range: 4-6 HD(Smal1); 7-12 HD (Medium-size) to avoid the affects of these spell-like abilities. These

abilities treat the lamprey and host animal as one Description creature. For example, if the lamprey activates shocking

P‘@, Its host Can attack to discharge the spell. Slml* larlY, if an ability such as barkdun 1s activated, It affects both the lamprey and its host- When the lamprey 1s separated from the host animal, all spell-like effects are likewise removed from that animal, but remain with lamprey- If the lamprey reattaches, It must reactivate these abilities for them to affect the animal.

Small Outsider (Chaotic, Evil)

5 ft., swim 40 ft. 17 (+l size, +5 natural, +1 Dex)

5 ft. by 5 Ft./5 ft lmproved grab, spell-like abilities Damage reduction 5/silver, SR 5, poi- son immunity, fire resistance 20 Fort +3, Ref +4, Will t 5 Str 10, Dex 13,Con 11, Int 17, Wis15,Cha15 Concentration +5, Hide +3, Listen 4, Knowledge (Blood Sea) +5, Spot +5

On the Blood Sea, tales abound of ferocious beasts - normal sea creatures changed into ferocious killers with deadly magical abilities. Many have speculated on the of these creatures’ appearance - hostile spellcasters, a plot by the brine hags, the mutative qualities of the Blood Sea, and other theories are all popular. Whatever the truth of these other theories, one real source of the beasts is the demonic creatures known as abyssal lampreys.

Abyssal lampreys are spawned in a particularly dark river in the Abyss. Attracted by the evil and corruption of the Blood Sea, these creatures often accompany summoned demons or slip into the Scarred Lands through planar rifts. Once in the Blood Sea, a lamprey immediately finds a host and uses its abilities to enhance the host. The enhanced host is then set to work, spreading destruction and terror throughout its range, allowing the lamprey to feed from both its meals and the fear that it creates. Abyssal lampreys frequently lump from host to host, which makes them very diffi- cult to catch.

The lamprey drives all of its host creatures to acts of unnatural ferocity and violence. Intelligent prey is favored, as the lamprey gains sustenance from the fear that the host creates. Dominated sharks attack lone fishermen and bathers. Giant squid assault ships and try to drag them down, then devour the survivors. Whales ram large vessels or smash small ones to kindling with their tails. All of these creatures attack with suicidal ferocity, driven on by the lamprey, which can simply detach and swim away if its host is killed.

Combat The abyssal lamprey avoids sentient hosts, attack-

ing only animals directly. Once attached to a host, the

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