Child of the Briar

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CR 1

NE T Plant

Initiative: +3 Senses: low-light vision; Perception +7

The ligneous figure’s eyes gleam like polished walnuts, and the sly smile seems oddly placed on the tiny body, covered in spikes and thorns. The creature’s waist is no thicker than a clenched fist, its sinuous arms no wider than a finger but twice the length of its body.

Defense

AC: 17, touch 15, flat-footed 14 (+3 Dex, +2 natural, +2 size)

HP: 9 2d8

Fortitude: +3 Reflex: +3 Will: +0 ( Children of the briar count as both plant and fey for any effect related to type. )

Defensive Abilities: plant traits Weaknesses: Fire DR: 5/cold iron

Offense

Speed: 20 ft | Climb 10 ft

Melee: 2 claws +6 (damage 1d2-2 plus grab)

Special Attacks:

Spitdart Tongue

Every child of the briar can shoot a wooden spike from its mouth every other round. Treat this as a Tiny dart.
(1 damage, base range 20 ft.)

Thorny Grapple

A child of the briar’s long thorny limbs enable it to grapple creatures up to 2 size categories larger than itself. It adds its Dexterity modifier instead of Strength modifier to any damage inflicted while grappling.

Space: 2-1/2 ft Reach: 5 ft.

Spell-like Abilities:

(Caster Level 2nd)

3/day -

- briar magic (DC 12)

1/day -

- entangle (DC 13)

briar magic

A child of the briar can cast any cantrip from the sorcerer/wizard spell list (save DCs Cha-based).

entangle

As a standard action, two or more children of the briar in the same square can produce an effect identical to the standard spell entangle within the 5-ft. square they occupy.
(DC 10 + number of children of the briar in the square).
Briar children are immune to this ability, but other entangle effects affect them normally.

Statistics

Str 6, Dex 17, Con 11, Int 13, Wis 10, Cha 14

Base Attack: +1 CMB: +2 (+6 grapple) CMD: 10

Feats: Weapon Finesse

Skills:

Bluff +4
Climb +8
Perception +7
Stealth +14 (+20 in forest)

Racial Modifiers: +8 Climb, +2 Perception, +6 Stealth while in forest

Languages: Briarclick (spoken only), Common, Sylvan

SQ: fey blood

Ecology

Environment: temperate forest

Organization: solitary, gang (2–8), or nest (9–24)

Treasure: standard (usually small items)

Borrowed from d20 Pathfinder SRD with thanks! They in turn cite Midgard Bestiary for Pathfinder RPG, (c) 2012 Open Design LLC; Author: Adam Daigle with Chris Harris, Michael Kortes, James MacKenzie, Rob Manning, Ben McFarland, Carlos Ovalle, Jan Rodewald, Adam Roy, Christina Stiles, James Thomas, and Mike Welham.

Note: Grab normally only applies to a melee opponent of equal or lesser size. Everything else is too big. Because of their thorny grapple Special Attack, a Child of the Briar can grab two sizes higher, up to Medium, which should let many Pathfinders into consideration!

Children of the briar are a frequent nuisance to fey and mortal alike. They grow in many briar patches but sometimes spawn when a sorcerer or magical creature’s blood is spilled on the forest floor. Despite their size, they gather in great numbers, cultivating the thorny thickets into veritable fortresses. Wise men flee when they hear their clicking language in the underbrush, for the children have a taste for blood and all the capricious wickedness of spiteful children.

From their lairs, the children of the briar creep far and wide to spy on the forest’s inhabitants, sometimes using spiders, monstrous centipedes, and giant dragonflies as mounts. They converse with travelers bearing interesting news, but their words are thorned with gleeful malice, jealous bile, and lies. They are not above murder. They bargain what they learn for trinkets, favors, and drops of spilled blood.

A caster of 3rd level or higher can gain a child of the briar as a familiar using the Improved Familiar feat.

Created by

Jarissa.

System

Pathfinder 1e

Statblock Type

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