Gargoyles
Look, it's just a statue - you have nothing to worry about!
Racial Traits
Average Height: 5'4" - 5'10"
Average Weight: 310 lb. - 360 lb.
Ability Scores: +2 Strength, +2 Constitution or +2 Intelligence
Size: Medium
Speed: 6 squares, glide (clumsy) 6 squares
Vision: Low-light
Languages: Common, choice of one other
Skill Bonuses: +2 Arcana, +2 Endurance
Living Construct: You are a living construct. You do not need to eat, drink, breathe, or sleep. You never make Endurance checks to resist the effects of starvation, thirst, or suffocation. All other conditions and effects affect you normally.
Loping Run: When you take the run action on land, increase your speed by an additional 2.
Stone Form: You gain the stone form power.
Stone Physiology: You have resist 1. Increase this to resist 2 at level 11, and to resist 3 at level 21. In addition, you have a +5 racial bonus to saving throws against disease.
Unsleeping Watcher: You do not sleep and instead enter a state of inactivity for 4 hours to gain the benefits of an extended rest. While in this state, you are fully aware of your surroundings and notice approaching enemies and other events as normal, have resist 20, but must spend a standard action to return to activity or communicate.
Enormous humanoid statues with powerful wings, gargoyles are all that remains of a race that once explored the furthest reachest of reality and magic. While they may appear bestial, the stone flaked-hide of a gargoyle hides a mind far quicker than most species, with a natural aptitude for the arcane arts. Of course, weighing over three-hundred pounds of nearly pure muscle, they have an equal aptitude for physical violence.
Play a gargoyle if you want . . .
Stone Form
Gargoyle Racial Power
Threatened, you release a trickle of the magic that allows you to sleep for centuries, turning into nigh-unbreakable stone.
Encounter
Minor Action
Personal
Effect: You become a statue and gain resist 15 to all damage and tremorsense 10. You lose all other senses and can take no actions in stone form other than reverting to your normal form (as a minor action).
At level 11, the resistance increases to 30, and at level 21, it increases to 45.
- to be difficult to injure.
- to be able to soar through the sky.
- to be a member of a race that favors the artificer, warlord, and wizard classes.
Physical Qualities
Generally coming in well under six foot tall, gargoyles project an aura of immensity, their wide shoulders and set-apart legs making them seem bigger than they actually are. Couple that with their immense weight, and one would expect them to be slow, even plodding - which isn't at all the case. Gargoyles are capable, when the situation calls for it, of moving as quickly as any creature of flesh and blood, and their enormous arms are easily able to squeeze the life from softer creatures.
Gargoyles have wide, clawed feet and similar hands. The two are so similar because gargolyes are capable of walking - and running at great speed - on all fours. Across their back are broad, powerful wings, and a tail helps ofset the top-heavy creatures. While not quite as indestructable as tales sometimes make them out to be, gargoyles are, in fact, made out of a sort of living stone. Lighter and flexible, it can be cut, burnt, and frozen, but it is still far more durable than the hide of any other known creatures. Despite this fact, a gargoyle's wings are still not strong enough to allow for flight - very little can lift the bulk of a gargoyle, even when not shifted. Gargoyles instead use their wings to glide, allowing them to cover vast distances without touching the ground.
While gargoyles do not need to sleep, physically, they do require mental rest. Doing so requires them to mentally slow down their bodies, allowing them to harden into true stone (and more than doubling their weight). This process takes five minutes, on average, though a gargoyle can snap out of it almost instantly.