Consorts
Racial Traits
Ability Adjustments: +2 Con,TO +2ANY Wis,1 -2 StrABILITY
Hit Points: 24
Size and Type: Consorts are medium oozes with the shapechanger subtype, but they do not gain the normal ooze immunities.
Ooze Movement: Consorts have a land speed of 30 feet, a climb speed of 10 feet, and gain the compression universal creature rule.
LimitedContact Telepathy: Consorts can communicate telepathically with any creatures withinthey 30are feetin physical contact with and whom they share a language. Conversing telepathically with multiple creatures simultaneously is just as difficult as listening to multiple people speak.
Strange Biology: Like most oozes, a consort's body doesn't have discernable organs or other real anatomy. Consorts are immune to the flanked condition, and cannot use any type of augmentation other than personal augmentations.
Polymorphic Form: A consort can change shape at will. Consorts gaincan also use the followingspell spell-likepolymorph (1st level) once per day as a extraordinary ability. The target for this spell is personal. The effective caster level is equal to the consort's character level.
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EnergyHost Feeder:Dependence: Consorts don't need to eat like most creatures. Instead, they need tomust feed off of a host organism regularly in order to survive. Any creature without the unliving trait can serve as an host. A consort mustavoids bondstarvation by bonding with a creaturehost perand remaining bonded for at least 8 total hours in a day. While bonded, a consort has total cover and the Bondingparalized ability,condition, below,but formay several hours out of every 24 hour period. This can usually be done during an 8-hour rest period. If it failschoose to doleave so,its host at will.
Alternate Racial Traits
Sticky Movement
You have a thicker, yet stickier consisitencey than most consorts. You have a land speed of 30 feet, and a climb speed of 10 feet. This racial trait replaces ooze movement.
Dense Form
This racial trait replaces strange biology.
Feats
Solidified Shape
Prerequisites: strange biology racial trait
Benefit: You are able to keep your form a bit more solid than most other types of consorts. You can now use biotech augmentations, but you are no longer immune to the flanked condition.
Experienced Shapeshifter
Prerequisite: polymorphic form racial trait, character level 7th
Benefit: You can use your polymorph (1st level) ability three times per day, and you gain the spell polymorph (2nd level) as thoughan extraordinary ability that you can use once per day, with a target of personal.
Master Shapeshifter
Prerequisite: Experienced Shapeshifter, polymorphic form racial trait, character level 7th
Benefit: You can use your polymorph (1st level) ability at will, and it hasgains gonea withoutpermanent foodduration. You can use your polymorph (2nd level) ability three times per day. You gain the spell polymorph (3rd level) as an extraordinary ability that you can use once per day, with a target of personal.
Symbiosis
Prerequisites: host dependence racial trait
Benefit: You gain the spell detect affliction as a constant extraordinary ability that can only target your host. You also gain stabilize as an extraordinary ability that can only target your host.
Improved Symbiosis
Prerequisites: Symbiosis, host dependence racial trait
Benefit: You can leave a small portion of yourself behind in your host. As a reaction when your previous host is required to make a saving throw, you can use this small portion to influence them, allowing them to reroll, and optionally use your modifier for the sameappropriate amountsave. This piece deteriorates and is absorbed into your host after 24 hours.
Parasitism (Combat)
Prerequisites: host dependence racial trait
Benefit: You can forcibly make a host of time.
Bonding:creature Asthat you are grappling at the beginning of your turn as a full action, a consort can bond with a living aberration, animal, dragon, humanoid, magical beast, or monstrous humanoid that it is touching, optionally making an unarmed strike as part of thisswift action. An unwilling host can prevent this bonding with a successful DCFortitude 15 Fortitude save. The bonding lasts until either consortsave or hostyou iscan killed,be the consort chooses to leave its host, or the consort isforcibly removed with a medicalsuccessful procedureMedicine (usuallycheck. requiring a successfulThe DC 25 Medicine check).
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Improved Parasitism (Combat)
Prerequisites: Parasitism, host dependence racial trait
Benefit: Your unarmed attack gains grab. This works as the grab universal creature rule, meaning that you only must hit your target's KAC+4 in order to perform the initial grapple combat maneuver.
Normal: You have to make an attack and a grapple combat maneuver check as separate actions. Your initial grapple combat maneuver check would have to hit your target's KAC+8.
Mitosis
Prerequisites: Symbiosis or Parasitism, host dependence racial trait
Benefit: You can leave a small portion of beingyourself targetedbehind byin effectsyour orhosts. attacks while bonded. The pair uses the host creature's AC, with the consort providingAs a +2reaction bonus.when The consort may cast a spell with a rangeone of personalyour onhosts theiris hostrequired insteadto of on themselves. Any spell cast this way ends immediately if the two are separated. When makingmake a saving throw, bothyou creaturescan rollspend simultaneously,1 resolve in order to use this small portion to influence them, forcing them to reroll, and takeat your discretion, use your modifier for the worstappropriate save. This piece deteriorates and is absorbed into your host after 24 hours.
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Adapt Host: Consorts gainin a modified24 versionhour of the 1st-level Polymorph spell as a spell-like ability, with a few important changes: first, it has a range of personal (including a host through the Bonding ability). Third, this ability costs 1 Resolve Point. For these effects, their effective caster level is their character level.
If the consort ever gains the Polymorph spell through other means, the four forms gained from this spell count towards the maximum number of forms that can be learned through the Polymorph spell as though they have learned the spell a second time. This spell may be cast up to the highest spell level that the consort knows the Polymorph spell, but costs a number of Resolve Points equal to the spell level used.
Impede Host: Consorts gain a modified version fo the Baleful Polymorph spell as a 1st-level spell-like ability. This ability otherwise functions exactly as Adapt Host, above.period.