Monsters / Phoenix
Phoenix
CR 15 - 51,200 XP - NG Gargantuan Magical Beast
Stat block
AC28 (touch 14, flat-footed 20)HP210 (20d10+100)SavesFort +17, Ref +19, Will +14Melee2 talons +24 (2d6+8/19-20 plus 1d6 fire) and bite +24 (2d8+8 plus 1d6 fire)Speed30 ft., fly 90 ft. (good)AbilitiesStr 27, Dex 25, Con 20, Int 23, Wis 22, Cha 22BAB / CMB / CMD+20 / +32 / 50Sensesdarkvision 60 ft., detect magic, detect poison, low-light vision, see invisibility; Perception +37Environmentwarm desert and hills
DR 15/evilimmune firevulnerable vulnerable to coldSR 26
Combat brain - every behavior cites its line (4 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.
flyby (from feats)
feats: Flyby Attack + fly speed - strike and wing away each pass
feats: Flyby Attack + fly speed - strike and wing away each pass
aoo-coverage (from feats)
feats: Combat Reflexes - movement through its reach is punished
feats: Combat Reflexes - movement through its reach is punished
strikes-first (from feats)
feats: Improved Initiative - it moves before you do
feats: Improved Initiative - it moves before you do
night-hunter (from senses)
senses: darkvision 60 ft., detect magic, detect poison, low-light vision, see invisibility; Perception +37 - hunts where prey is blind
senses: darkvision 60 ft., detect magic, detect poison, low-light vision, see invisibility; Perception +37 - hunts where prey is blind
From the entry
A slain phoenix remains dead for only 1d4 rounds unless its body is completely destroyed by an effect such as disintegrate. Otherwise, a fully healed phoenix emerges from the remains 1d4 rounds after death, as if brought back to life via resurrection. The phoenix gains 1 permanent negative level when this occurs, although most use greater restoration to remove this negative level as soon as possible. A phoenix can self-resurrect only once per year. If a phoenix dies a second time before that year passes, its death is permanent. A phoenix that dies within the area of a desecrate spell cannot self-resurrect until the desecrate effect ends, at which point the phoenix immediately resurrects. A phoenix brought back to life by other means never gains negative levels as a result.
A phoenix can cause its feathers to burst into fire as a free action. As long as its feathers are burning, it inf...