Actions/Abilities/Traits:   (D&D 5e)

 

Action

Bite

Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 10 (2d4 + 5) piercing damage.

 

Action

Claw

Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d6 + 5) slashing damage plus 4 (1d8) acid damage.

 

Action

Multiattack

The babau makes one Bite attack and two Claw attacks.

 

Action

Summon

(1/day)The babau has a 40% chance to summon 1 babau. The summoned demon appears in an unoccupied space within 60 feet of the babau, but can't summon other demons. It remains for 1 minute, until it or the first babau is slain, or until the first babau takes an action to dismiss it.

 

Special

3/day

dispel magic

 

Special

At will

darkness, see invisibility

 

Special

Innate Spellcasting

The babau's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 14). It can cast the following spells without requiring material components.

 

Special

Protective Slime

Any creature that touches the babau, or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet takes 4 (1d8) acid damage. Any nonmagical weapon made of metal or wood that hits the babau corrodes. After dealing damage, the weapon takes a permanent and cumulative -1 penalty to damage rolls. If its penalty drops to -5, the weapon is destroyed. Nonmagical ammunition made of metal or wood that hits the babau is destroyed after dealing damage.

 

Actions/Abilities/Traits:   (OSR)

 

Special

Protective Slime

A layer of acidic slime coats a babau's skin. Any creature that strikes a babau with a See Invisibility Telepathy natural attack or unarmed strike takes 1d6 acid damage from this slime if it fails a Breath save. A creature that strikes a babau with a melee weapon must make a save or the weapon takes this same amount of acid damage; if this damage penetrates the weapon's AC, the weapon gains the broken condition. Ammunition that strikes a babau is automatically destroyed after it inflicts its damage.

 

Special

zz

You can See Invisibility, as per the spell, as a constant ability.

 

Special

zz

You can mentally communicate with any other creature within 100 feet that has a language. It is possible to address multiple creatures at once telepathically, although maintaining a telepathic conversation with more than one creature at a time is just as difficult as simultaneously speaking and listening to multiple people at the same time.

 

Actions/Abilities/Traits:   (Pathfinder 1e)

 

Action

Feat 1

Combat Reflexes

 

Action

Feat 2

Improved Initiative

 

Action

Feat 3

Iron Will

 

Action

Feat 4

Skill Focus (Stealth)

 

Action

Melee 1

2 claws +12 (1d6+5)

 

Action

Melee 2

bite +12 (1d6+5) or longspear +12/+7 (1d8+7/x3)

 

Action

Melee 3

bite +7 (1d6+2)

 

Special

1/day-summon (level 3, 1 babau at 40%)

1/day-summon (level 3, 1 babau at 40%)

 

Special

At will

darkness, dispel magic, greater teleport (self plus 50 lbs. of objects only)

 

Special

Constant

see invisibility

 

Special

Protective Slime (Su)

A layer of acidic slime coats a babau's skin. Any creature that strikes a babau with a natural attack or unarmed strike takes 1d8 points of acid damage from this slime if it fails a DC 18 Reflex save. A creature that strikes a babau with a melee weapon must make a DC 18 Reflex save or the weapon takes 1d8 points of acid damage; if this damage penetrates the weapon's hardness, the weapon gains the broken condition. Ammunition that strikes a babau is automatically destroyed after it inflicts its damage.

 

Actions/Abilities/Traits:   (Pathfinder 2e)

 

Ability

Ability

+1 to all saves vs. magic

 

Ability

Critical Failure

As failure, except the weapon used to Strike the babau becomes broken, unless the weapon is made of a material that is immune to acid.

 

Ability

Critical Success

The attacker is unaffected.

 

Ability

Divine Innate Spells

DC 24; 5th dimension door; 4th dimension door (at will); 2nd darkness; Constant (5th) see invisibility

 

Ability

Failure

The attacker takes 2d6 acid damage.

 

Ability

Grievous Strike

The babau attacks with the intent of creating a particularly horrific and gory wound. The babau makes a melee Strike. This counts as two attacks when calculating the daemon's multiple attack penalty. If this Strike hits, the babau deals an additional 2d6 damage of the same damage type, and the creature struck is frightened 2.

 

Ability

Mercy Vulnerability

Babaus revel in gore, and when wounds are healed, they recoil in pain. When a creature heals from damage that the babau dealt on their last turn with Grievous Strike, sneak attack, or a critical hit, the demon takes 4d6 mental damage. The babau can take this mental damage only once per round.

 

Ability

Reactive Slime [Reaction]

Circumstance: Trigger: A creature within the babau's reach successfully hits th

Trigger: A creature within the babau's reach successfully hits the babau with a Strike; Effect The babau excretes a gout of acidic, bloodlike slime against the attacker and its weapon. The attacker must attempt a DC 24 Reflex save.

 

Ability

Rituals

DC 24; 1st abyssal pact

 

Ability

Sneak Attack

The babau's Strikes deal an extra 2d6 precision damage to flat-footed creatures.

 

Ability

Success

The attacker takes 1d6 acid damage.

 

Offense

Melee

Circumstance: combat round (melee)

longspear +17 [+12/+7] (evil, magical, reach 10 feet), Damage 1d8+7 piercing plus 1d6 evil

 

Trait

Demon

A family of fiends, demons hail from or trace their origins to the Abyss. Most are irredeemably chaotic evil and have darkvision.

 

Trait

Fiend

Creatures that hail from or have a strong connection to the evil-aligned planes are called fiends. Fiends can survive the basic environmental effects of planes in the Outer Sphere.

 

Item

+1 longspear

 

Language

Abyssal

Celestial

Draconic

telepathy 100 feet

 

Perception

darkvision

see invisibility

 

Resistance

acid 10

 

Weakness

cold iron 5

good 5