Provincial Jiang-shiCreature 11
Source Pathfinder Book of the Dead
Perception +22 (darkvision, breathsense (precise) 60 feet)
Languages Common, Necril, Tien
Skills Acrobatics +16, Athletics +22, Intimidation +20, Religion +22
Str +5, Dex +3, Con +4, Int +3, Wis +7, Cha +3
AC 31; Fort +21; Reflex +18; Will +24;
HP 130 (fast healing 10, void healing, one more breath)
Speed 15 feet
Immunities death effects, disease, paralyzed, poison, prone, sleep
Resistances Physical 10
Claw
+22 (+18, +14) to hit (agile, unarmed) 2d10+11 PiercingMace
+23 (+18, +13) to hit (magical, shove) 2d6+11 BludgeoningBreathsense (Precise) 60 feet
A jiang-shi can't perceive living creatures beyond 5 feet except with their breathsense. A living creature within the listed range who holds its breath is Invisible to the jiang-shi for as long as it holds its breath. To hold its breath in this way, a creature must have one hand free to fully plug its nose or cover its mouth.
Fast Healing 10A monster with this ability regains the given number of Hit Points each round at the beginning of its turn.
Jiang-Shi VulnerabilitiesAll jiang-shi possess the following vulnerabilities.
- Revulsion A jiang-shi can't voluntarily come within 10 feet of a brandished mirror or the sound of ringing handbells. A creature can Interact with a mirror or handbell to brandish or ring the item for 1 round (similar to Raising a Shield). If the jiang-shi involuntarily comes within 10 feet of an object of their revulsion, they gain the Fleeing condition, running from the object of their revulsion until they are 10 feet or farther from the object. After 1 round of being exposed to the object of their revulsion, a jiang-shi can attempt a DC 25 will save as a single action, which has the concentrate trait. On a success, they overcome their revulsions for 1d6 rounds (or 1 hour on a critical success).
- Bitter Epiphany A jiang-shi is afflicted by severe melancholia when reminded of their debased nature and the truth of their existential disconnection from living beings. When a jiang-shi sees an altar with at least 1 Bulk of food offerings to ancestor spirits, they must attempt a DC 25 will save. They are then temporarily immune to Bitter Epiphany for 1 minute.
Critical Success The jiang-shi is unaffected.
Success The jiang-shi is Stupefied 1 for 1 round.
Failure The jiang-shi is Stupefied 2 for 1 minute.
Critical Failure The jiang-shi is stupefied 2 and Confused for 1 minute.
One More Breath (divine, void)Unlike other undead, a jiang-shi isn't destroyed at 0 HP. Instead, they fall Unconscious and awaken in 1 minute with 1 Hit Point. Scattering at least 1 Bulk of glutinous rice or hen eggs on an unconscious jiang-shi destroys them permanently. If the jiang-shi was reduced to 0 HP by an attack from a weapon made of duskwood, they're destroyed immediately.
Void HealingA 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.
Warped FuluThe jiang-shi has corrupted the fulu attached to their brow. The jiang-shi is immune to spells cast from a magic item without expending a spell slot, such as from a scroll or wand. A creature can Steal the fulu to remove it, rolling against the jiangshi's Perception DC. This immediately ends the jiang-shi's immunity to these effects. If a creature then destroys the removed fulu with an Interact action, the jiang-shi also loses their fast healing ability. A jiang-shi can create a replacement fulu by spending 1 uninterrupted hour inscribing a strip of paper (or similar) with a writing instrument.
Drain Qi (divine)Requirements A Grabbed, Paralyzed, Restrained, Unconscious, or willing creature is within the jiang-shi's reach
Effect The jiang-shi drains the victim's life energy, or qi, through their breath. This requires an athletics check against the victim's Fortitude DC if the victim is grabbed and is automatic for any of the other conditions. The victim is Drained 1 and the jiang-shi regains 13 healing HP, gaining any excess as temporary Hit Points. Draining qi from a creature that's already drained doesn't restore any HP to the jiang-shi but increases the victim's drained condition value by 1, killing the victim when it reaches drained 5. If the victim has the ability to cast ki spells, it can spend 1 Focus Point to avoid becoming drained. This protects it only from the current attack, not from subsequent attempts to Drain Qi.
A victim's drained condition value decreases by 1 every week. If the creature restricts their diet to glutinous rice for at least 1 day and spends 10 minutes dancing, jogging, or otherwise engaging in vigorous physical activity by succeeding at a DC 25 athletics check, it reduces its drained condition by 1.
Rigor MortisThe jiang-shi ignores difficult terrain and effects that would render them Prone. A jiang-shi can't take the Drop Prone action. When they Leap they don't trigger reactions that are normally triggered by move actions, such as Attacks of Opportunity.
GrabRequirements 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 [/act 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.
Divine Innate Spells (DC 32, +22 to hit)
1st Level: Fear, Harm
3rd Level: Bind Undead
4th Level: Enervation, Ghostly Tragedy
5th Level: Shadow Blast
6th Level: Spirit Blast, Vampiric Exsanguination
Jiang-shi are terrifying hopping vampires from Tian Xia. Though similar to other vampires—they are undead, drain vital energy from the living, and can be slain only in specific ways—jiang-shi feast upon the breath of the living, also known as qi or ki, instead of blood. While they possess unique powers, including their magic-deflecting paper fulus, extraordinary jumping ability, and immunity to sunlight, jiang-shi also possess unique vulnerabilities, such as the inability to see living creatures save through breathsense, a revulsion to bells and mirrors, and near-stupefying melancholia. Thankfully, most jiang-shi can't create vampiric spawn.
Roused rudely from their nightmarish slumber, the provincial jiang-shi roams the villages and graveyards around their domain searching for sustenance to slake their hunger.
Traits
Anything that doesn't list another rarity trait (uncommon, rare, or unique) automatically has the common trait. This rarity indicates that an ability, item, or spell is available to all players who meet the prerequisites for it. A creature of this rarity is generally known and can be summoned with the appropriate summon spell.
UndeadOnce living, these creatures were infused after death with void energy and soul-corrupting unholy magic. When reduced to 0 Hit Points, an undead creature is destroyed. Undead creatures are damaged by vitality energy and are healed by void energy, and don't benefit from healing vitality effects.
UnholyEffects with the unholy trait are tied to powerful magical forces of cruelty and sin. They often have stronger effects on holy creatures. Creatures with this trait are strongly devoted to unholy causes, and often have weakness to holy. If a creature with weakness to unholy uses an unholy item or effect, it takes damage from its weakness.
VampireUndead creatures who thirst for blood, vampires are notoriously versatile and hard to destroy.