General Rules: Monsters - Hell Hound

Hell Hound (from the Monster Manual)
Medium Outsider [Evil, Extraplanar, Fire, Lawful]

Hit Dice: 4d8 + 4 (22 hit points)
Initiative: +5
Speed: 40 feet
Armor Class: 16 (+1 Dexterity, +5 natural); touch 11, flat-footed 15
BAB/Grapple: +4/+5
Attack: Bite +5 melee (1d8+1 plus 1d6 fire, bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing, 20 x2)

Full Attack: Bite +5 melee (1d8+1 plus 1d6 fire, bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing, 20 x2)

Space/Reach: 5 feet by 5 feet/5 feet
Special Attacks: Breath weapon, fiery bite
Special Qualities: Darkvision 60 feet, immunity to fire, scent, vulnerability to cold
Saves: Fortitude +5, Reflex +5, Will +4
Abilities: Str 13, Int 6, Wis 10, Dex 13, Con 13, Cha 6
Skills: Hide +13, Jump +12, Listen +7, Move Silently +13, Spot +7, Survival +7 (+15 when tracking by scent)
Feats: Improved Initiative, Run, Track
Environment: Hells
Organization: Solitary, pair, or pack (5 - 12)
Challenge Rating: 3
Treasure: None
Alignment: Always lawful evil
Advancement: 5 - 8 Hit Dice (Medium); 9 - 12 Hit Dice (Large)
Level Adjustment: +3 (cohort)

Hell hounds are aggressive, fire-breathing canines from the Infernal Realms. Specimens are frequently brought to the Three Worlds to serve evil beings, and many have established indigenous breeding populations.

A typical hell hound stands 4½ feet high at the shoulder and weighs 120 pounds.

Hell hounds do not speak, but understand Infernal.

Combat
Hell hounds are efficient hunters. A favorite pack tactic is to surround prey quietly, then attack with one or two hounds, driving it toward the rest with their fiery breath. If the prey doesn't run, the pack closes in. Hell hounds track fleeing prey relentlessly.

A hell hound's natural weapons, as well as any weapons it wields, are treated as evil-aligned and lawful-aligned for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Breath Weapon (Su): 10-foot cone, once every 2d4 rounds, damage 2d6 fire; Reflex save DC 13 for half damage. The save DC is Constitution-based.

Fiery Bite (Su): A hell hound deals an extra 1d6 points of fire damage every time it bites an opponent, as if its bite were a flaming weapon.

Skills: Hell hounds gain a +5 racial bonus on Hide and Move Silently checks. Hell hounds gain a +8 racial bonus on Survival checks when tracking by scent due to their keen sense of smell.

Hell Hounds Workers as Familiars
Hell hounds can serve as familiars for characters eligible to obtain familiars including arcane engineers, hexblades, mind weavers, shadowsworn, sorcerers, and wizards. To do so, the character must be be within one alignment step of lawful evil, take the Improved Familiar feat, have a Base Attack Bonus of at least +5, and be at least a 5^th-level caster.

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