Monsters / Cyclops
Cyclops
CR 5 - 1,600 XP - NE Large Humanoid
Stat block
AC19 (touch 8, flat-footed 19)HP65 (10d8+20)SavesFort +9, Ref +2, Will +4Meleegreataxe +11/+6 (3d6+7/x3)Rangedheavy crossbow +5 (2d8/19-20)Speed30 ft.AbilitiesStr 21, Dex 8, Con 15, Int 10, Wis 13, Cha 8BAB / CMB / CMD+7 / +13 / 22Senseslow-light vision; Perception +11Environmentany temperate or tropical
Combat brain - every behavior cites its line (3 rules)
Built only from this entry: stat-block special attacks, the printed Int score, the creature type, its feats and senses, and the behavioral prose of its own description. Nothing invented - an uncited behavior is a test failure.
bruiser (from abilities)
abilities: Str 21 over Dex 8 - plant and full-attack, soak the hits
abilities: Str 21 over Dex 8 - plant and full-attack, soak the hits
power-attack (from feats)
feats: Power Attack - trades accuracy for damage when the hit is likely
feats: Power Attack - trades accuracy for damage when the hit is likely
targets-weakest (from alignment)
alignment NE, Int 10 - picks off the wounded and the unarmored first
alignment NE, Int 10 - picks off the wounded and the unarmored first
From the entry
Once per day as an immediate action, a cyclops can peer into an occluded visual spectrum of possible futures, gaining insight that allows it to select the exact result of one die roll before the roll is made. This effect can alter an action taken by the cyclops only, and cannot be applied to the rolls of others.
Many thousands of years ago, the solemn cyclopes ruled vast kingdoms, yet today their glories are long forgotten. What few cyclopes survive seldom aspire higher than protecting their lairs and seeking out their next meals. This latter task occupies a great deal of their focus, for the monstrous appetites and vacuous hunger of the cyclopes control the race's destiny and may have led to their original downfall so long ago.
The average cyclops stands 9 feet tall and weighs 600 pounds. Both males and females are almost completely bald, with stringy patches of dark hair occasionall...