General Rules: Monsters - Auran Creature (Template)

Auran Creature (from the Manual of the Planes)

Auran creatures dwell in the Elemental Plane of Air. They appear as shifting clouds in the same general form as similar material beings, with darker bits of fog for eyes and mouth.

"Auran" is a template that can be added to any corporeal aberration, animal, dragon, fæy, giant, humanoid, magical beast, monstrous humanoid, plant, or vermin. The creature's type changes to "elemental (air)". Auran creatures encountered in the Three Worlds have the "extraplanar" subtype. It uses all the base creature's statistics and special abilities except as noted here.

Hit Dice: Change to d8.

Speed: An auran creature has a fly speed of 100 feet, unless the base creature has a higher fly speed, with perfect maneuverability.

Armor Class: Same as the base creature.

Attacks: Same as the base creature.

Damage: Same as the base creature.

Special Attacks: An auran creature retains all the special abilities of the base creature and also gains the following ones:

• Air Mastery (Ex): Airborne creatures suffer a -1 penalty on attack and damage rolls against an auran creature.

Hit Dice	Damage Reduction
1 - 7	-
8 - 11	5/+1
12+	10/+1

Special Qualities: An auran creature retains all the special qualities of the base creature, and also gains the following ones:

• Elemental: Immune to poison, sleep, paralysis, and stunning, Not subject to critical hits.
• Darkvision with a range of 60 feet.
• Damage reduction (see the table to the right).

If the base creature already has one or more of these special qualities, use the better value. If an auran creature gains damage reduction, its natural weapons are treated as +1 weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Saves: Same as the base creature.
Abilities: Change from the base creature as follows: Dexterity +6.
Skills: Same as the base creature. If the auran creature has an Intelligence of 4 or greater, it speaks Auran.
Feats: Same as the base creature with the added feat Flyby Attack.
Climate/Terrain: Same as the base creature.
Organization: Same as the base creature.
Challenge Rating: Variable (see below):

Hit Dice	CR
Up to 3	Same as base creature
3 to 7	Base creature +1
8+	Base creature +2

Treasure: Same as the base creature.
Alignment: Usually neutral.
Advancement: Same as the base creature.
Level Adjustment: Same as base creature +2.

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