Yoshies revised

[thethan]

Yoshies.

Yoshies are bipedal dinosaur like beings. They hail form the mythical Yoshie’s isle. Where once a year, all Yoshies return to, to mate and hatch eggs.

Personality
Loyal and obedient friends and some time steeds, Yoshies and kind and sometimes-wild creatures with a taste for unusual food.
Physical description
Yoshies are bipedal dinosaur like beings with two small hands with opposable thumbs. They have large heads and feat and their bodies are capable of supporting a rider. Yoshies have a rather unique physical adaptation: a long sticky tongue they can use as a melee weapon to attack, grab and swallow whole smaller creatures.
Most yoshies are green, but blue, red and gold Yoshies are known to exist. Its very difficult to tell what gender any particular Yoshie is at first site since both male and females look identical and can lay eggs. But eggs laid by males are infertile and will not hatch. Sciences believe that this is some kind of weird biological quirk left over from their dinosaur origins. Yoshies have the amazing ability to eat and digest just about anything smaller than they are.

Relations
Yoshies get along well with humans, toadstools, and will allow close friends to ride them as a steed. They also love shyguys, and koopas and consider them both fantastic delicacies. This has lead both shyguys and koopas to distrust Yoshies, though those that can control their hunger can become good friends.

Alignment
Lands:
The isle of Yoshie; All Yoshies are born on this island and grow up on it. When they reach maturity they then venture out into the world. Once a year all Yoshies have an irresistible urge to return to their isle where they lay and fertilize eggs.

Religion
Languages
Yoshiese, Common
Names: Yoshie
Adventures
Stats

• +2 strength, -2 intelligence, -2 wisdom,
  
• Large size: as a large sized creature they receive a +4 bonus to grapple checks as well as a –4 to hide checks. They have a space and reach of ten feet.
  
• Natural weapons: slam-attack (tongue) 1d6, swallow whole Yoshies are always proficient with their natural weapons.
  
• improved grab feat, Yoshies gain the improved grab feat even if they do not meet the prerequisites for it.
  
• special combat abilities: Swallow Whole, Egg Trap
  
• base land speed: 40ft
  
• favored class:
  

Improved Grab (Ex)

To use this ability, a Yoshie must hit an opponent of up to one size smaller with its slam attack. It can then attempt to start a grapple as a free action without provoking an attack of opportunity. If it wins the grapple check, it establishes a hold and can try to swallow the foe the following round.

Swallow Whole (Ex)

A Yoshie can try to swallow a grabbed opponent of up to two sizes smaller by making a successful grapple check. The swallowed creature takes 2d8+8 points of bludgeoning damage and 8 points of acid damage per round from the Yoshie’s gizzard. A swallowed creature can cut its way out by using a light slashing or piercing weapon to deal 25 points of damage to the gizzard (AC 12). Once the creature exits, muscular action closes the hole; another swallowed opponent must cut its own way out.

Egg trap (EX)

After swallowing a creature a Yoshie can choose to encase the victim in an egg and expel at will. The victim can attempt to make a strength check (dc 15) to break free, if a victim doesn’t he begins suffocating as per the suffocation rules listed on page 304 of the Dungeon Master’s guide*


Game rules information
* Suffocation

A character who has no air to breathe can hold her breath for 2 rounds per point of Constitution. After this period of time, the character must make a DC 10 Constitution check in order to continue holding her breath. The save must be repeated each round, with the DC increasing by +1 for each previous success.

When the character fails one of these Constitution checks, she begins to suffocate. In the first round, she falls unconscious (0 hit points). In the following round, she drops to -1 hit points and is dying. In the third round, she suffocates

[DM]

Idea:

Once swallowed, the yoshi's body quickly encased the victim within an egg on the yoshi's turn, one round after the victim was swallowed. The victim is allowed a Reflex save to resist the encasing effect (DC ?). If the victim succeeds, the encasing effect is delayed until the yoshi's next turn, when the victim will have to make another Reflex save. (This is because the encasing effect is an automatic function of the body.) If the check fails, the victim is encased and the egg is ready for use on the yoshi's next turn.

[Khondar Hagglefist]

So how much damage would shooting this thing at someone do?

[Khondar Hagglefist]

And the rule for suffocating should be that when they are in the egg they have to start holding there breath because there is no air. Then when they cant hold there breath any longer they begin to suffocate. I think that would be nicer.

[Khondar Hagglefist]

And what happens when the egg hits the opponent?

[Khondar Hagglefist]

Scrath the suffocation thing if that whats you were originaly intending to do, by the way. I was just thinking that you might have automatically start suffocating. Cause that would suck.

[DM]

Yeah, the suffocating rules are fabulous.

I propose that the egg deal 1d6 + Str (basically, a large bullet) damage. Upon hitting anything (whether or not it hits the intended target), it breaks and whatever was encased within is now prone in the square the egg landed in.

[thethan]

I never really thought about giving Yoshies the ability to fire their eggs, a-laugh Birdo. I was thinking more along the lines of them the ability to just eat and crap out people inside of eggs like in smash brothers. Letting them fire their eggs like in Mario World seems way too powerful. I actually think they are really powerful anyway, we might need to give them a Level adjustment to balance them out.

[DM]

Oh, ok.