the gossamer

The Japanese doppelgänger. Residents of the gutted pagoda. The kumo are at war with the oni and okami. Built off the 5E/4E drider. I didn’t get to use these in the original adventure but ended up using them later as as assassins. JORO-GUMO SHADOW DANCER (HYBRID) Large monstrosity (yokai, joro-gumo), chaotic evil Armor Class 19 (black silk kimono embroidered with […]

Ha Jau the Doku Dragon

Ha Jau was once a Lung dragon and part of the Celestial Bureaucracy, however, he was punished for his greed and turned into a hog for a 1,000 years. A repurposed HA JAU, the ACCURSED Huge dragon (lung, poison), lawful evil Armor Class 19 (Natural Armor) Hit Points 207 (18d12 + 90) Speed 40 ft., fly […]

gakimushi nest

The original cut content used phase spiders which I didn’t really feel was very “Oriental Adventures”. Swapped them with these guys. Had my PCs head scratching but otherwise a fairly straightforward encounter. Gakimushi Nest Lurking in the upper arms of a 100’ high keteleeria is a particularly dense web which shrouds the whole canopy of the tree, which chokes […]

Gakimushi Nest

buso geisha

Stole the idea from the Paizo Jade Regent boards. I felt it fit my game very well since one of my PCs is an oiran/geiko. My PCs skipped the Pagoda portion of the dungeon but a more deadly version was in the Munasukaru’s Penance area. BUSO GEISHA (GREATER TIGBUANA BUSO) Medium undead, chaotic evil Armor […]

kumo

The Japanese doppelgänger. Residents of the gutted pagoda. The kumo are at war with the oni and okami. Built off the 3e aranea. Kumo Large monstrosity (shadowlands, shapechanger), lawful evil Armor Class 14 (natural armour, 17 with mage armour) Hit Points 39 (6d10 + 6) Speed 50 ft., climb 30 ft. STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 14 (+2) […]

HUSK SPIDER

The husk spider guards the tunnel between the Pagoda and Munasukaru’s Penance. Perception DC 22: The spider is desiccated and moves awkwardly. You think it might actually be an undead husk of a spider! HUSK SPIDER Huge undead, chaotic evil Armor Class 11 (natural armor) Hit Points 136 (13d12 + 52) Speed 40 ft., climb 30 ft. STR DEX CON […]

The Okami

The Okami are the spawn of Munasukaru. Full bloodied Okami (i.e. their father was another oni or fiend) are ja noi oni. Half blooded Okami (i.e. their father was a non-oni, in this case a hobgoblin bakemono) are either humanoids or monstrosities depending on what exactly is birthed. They both have similar appearances – long […]

The Pinnacle and Writhing Tower

I simplified this encounter as the PCs engaged this encounter right after the swine shogun which was a pretty epic battle. I also changed it to a straight up cyclops-oni (a reskinned cyclops). If the PCs had this encounter first and prevented the gong from being run then I would have ran it as written. The Pinnacle […]