Gashadokuro

Level 13

Creature· evilUncommonHugeLegacy

AC 33

HP 230 (void healing)

Speed 25 ft.

Fort +26

Ref +21

Will +24

Perc +24

Size Huge

Uncommon

evilundead unholy

Immunities bleed, death effects, disease, paralyzed, poison, unconscious

Resistances cold 10, electricity 10, fire 10, piercing 10, slashing 10

Languages common

Senses darkvision

Skills athletics +27, intimidation +24

Recall Knowledge religion DC 33

Attacks

Melee Jaws +27/+22/+17(reach 10 ft., unarmed)

Damage: 3d12+14 piercing

Effect: grab

Melee Claw +27/+23/+19(agile, reach 15 ft., unarmed)

Damage: 3d8+14 slashing

Abilities

Starvation Auradefensive(aura, divine, mental)

60 feet. Any creature that ends its turn in the aura feels the intense pain of starvation and must attempt a DC 30 fortitude save. On a failure, the creature becomes Fatigued and takes 6d6 untyped damage. Damage and fatigue a creature takes from this aura can't be healed until the affected creature has eaten a full meal.

Void Healingdefensive

A creature with void healing draws health from void energy rather than vitality energy. It is damaged by vitality damage and is not healed by vitality healing effects. It does not take void damage, and it is healed by void effects that heal undead.

Breath Weapon◆◆offensive(divine)

The gashadokuro breathes a spray of bone shards in a 30-foot cone. Each creature in the area takes 8d12 piercing damage (DC 34 reflex). It can't use Breath Weapon again for 1d4 rounds.

Corpse Consumptionoffensive(divine)

If the gashadokuro kills a creature with Swallow Whole, it immediately regains Hit Points equal to the swallowed creature's level. As long as the gashadokuro still exists, creatures consumed in this way can't be resurrected except by Wish or a similarly powerful effect.

Swallow Whole◆offensive(attack)

Large, (3d6+8) bludgeoning, Rupture 24 The monster attempts to swallow a creature of the listed size or smaller that it has grabbed or restrained in its jaws or mouth. If a swallowed creature is of the maximum size listed, the monster can't use Swallow Whole again. If the creature is smaller than the maximum, the monster can usually swallow more creatures; the GM determines the maximum. The monster attempts an athletics check opposed by the grabbed creature's Reflex DC. If it succeeds, it swallows the creature. The monster's mouth or jaws no longer grab a creature it has swallowed, so the monster is free to use them to Strike or Grab once again. The monster can't attack creatures it has swallowed. A swallowed creature is Grabbed, is Slowed 1, and has to hold its breath or start suffocating. The swallowed creature takes the listed amount of damage when first swallowed and at the end of each of its turns while it's swallowed. If the victim Escapes this ability's grabbed condition, it exits through the monster's mouth. This frees any other creature grabbed in the monster's mouth or jaws. A swallowed creature can attack the monster that has swallowed it, but only with unarmed attacks or with weapons of light Bulk or less. The swallowing creature is Off-Guard against the attack. If the monster takes piercing or slashing damage equaling or exceeding the listed Rupture value from a single attack or spell, the swallowed creature cuts itself free. A creature that gets free by either Escaping or cutting itself free can immediately breathe and exits the swallowing monster's space. Effect: Engulf and Swallow Whole If the monster dies, a swallowed creature can be freed by creatures adjacent to the corpse if they spend a combined total of 3 actions cutting the monster open with a weapon or unarmed attack that deals piercing or slashing damage.

Grab◆offensive

Requirements The monster's last action was a successful Strike that lists Grab in its damage entry, or the monster has a creature Grabbed or Restrained Effect If used after a Strike, the monster attempts to Grapple the creature using the body part it attacked with. This attempt neither applies nor counts toward the creature's multiple attack penalty. The monster can instead use Grab and choose one creature it's grabbing or restraining with an appendage that has Grab to automatically extend that condition to the end of the monster's next turn.

Description

The dreaded gashadokuro is an undead haunter of the night, spawning as a giant skeleton that rises from the earth in the aftermath of a mass starvation event. These enormous creatures then seek to inflict their unending hunger on the living.

A gashadokuro that comes about due to a poor growing season is more prone to stalk remote village farmlands at night, while a gashadokuro that arose from the victims of a government-instigated food shortage has few compunctions about stomping straight into bustling cities in broad daylight. These latter gashadokuro even seem to target aristocrats and government authorities-whether or not they were the same politicians whose negligence resulted in the famine in the first place-leading many to believe that the gashadokuro seeks to slake its thirst for revenge even more than it seeks to sate its unending hunger.