Lamia Goliath:
Prerequisites: Character Level 10th, Total of 120HD eaten with the swallow whole ability, Lamia race
Effect: Become a huge-sized creature.
Among the Lamia who yet retain the more bloodthirsty ways of their ancestors, there are said to be a select few among them who retain their ancestor’s ability to grow ever stronger with each meal they devour, their bodies morphing and changing to accommodate their new power in various ways. While for some this might never manifest outwardly, some, after gorging themselves on prey, find themselves literally swelling with power, their already massive forms growing in size again and again...until they become veritable titans, standing taller than some small buildings. What was once the apex predator of the Lamia people that evolved to survive in a much rougher world is now a terrifyingly capable predator capable of untold destruction.
Lamia Mindbreaker:
Prerequisites: Character Level 8th, Sadistic Charmer Alternate Racial, Lamia race
Effect: Gain a 30ft aura that forces any being to enter it to make a will save equal to your spell DC for a 4th level spell or be immediately affected by a charm monster spell. The target gains a +5 to the saving throw if you or your allies are currently threatening it, just as the spell. If you aren’t a caster, use CHA as your casting stat. Once a target has been affected by this effect, it cannot be affected again for 24 hours.
An odd mutation that comes about only in the most charming and sadistic Lamia, Mindbreaker Lamia gain the ability to charm others just by being close to them, their bodies evolving and changing to produce clouds of potent pheromones, invisible to the naked eye, that subdues and subjugates any they wish. While it is rare for a Lamia to not use such an ability to better catch her prey and to better evade the prying eyes of those who might attack her for her deeds, there occasionally a lamia who develops this mutation through random chance instead of a concentrated sadism, and they frequently make use of this ability in their daily lives to persuade any merchants, lords, or important people to give them better deals on goods...or, if they are a merchant themselves, convincing their very own customers to pay them what they wish them to pay.
Serpentine Grappler Goddess:
Prerequisites: Character level 12th, Lamia Twintail Alternate Racial, Serpentine Grappler Alternate Racial, Improved Grapple, Lamia race
Effect: Gain two more tails, both of which count as primary natural attacks. You are treated as one size larger for the purposes of grappling.
Amongst the Lamia people, who, contrary to what some might think of them due to their tendency to be vain, cruel, and sadistic, there frequently come from their numbers those Lamia who tread the path of the warrior, their culture’s worship of the virtues of Strength and Beauty creating warrior-women of unshakeable confidence and power. Using their tails and arms to grapple and crush their foes, there are a rare few among these amazons of the Lamia who, after being blessed with two tails and enjoying the endowments they bring in combat and out of combat, find themselves sprouting even more tails, becoming goddesses of the way of the grapple and veritable terrors of combat to their foes. Capable of independent grabbing and choking with each tail, these Lamias are terrifyingly potent at their art, yet most lack the traditional bloodlust and sadism that many others possess in favor of the ultimate ‘Beautiful Strength’.
Jormunganda's Grip:
Prerequisites: Lamia Race, 'Serpentine Grappler' Alternate Racial Trait, Character level 8th
Effect: Gain the Strangle Universal monster rule. Additionally, if you initiate a grapple check while a creature is non-hostile to you or is otherwise unaware of your presence, they must make a perception check opposed by your grapple roll or they cannot use immediate actions or similar actions of any kind in response to this grapple attempt. Once you have them grappled, all nearby creatures must make a perception check, opposed by a stealth or bluff roll from you, or fail to notice the creature's presence, that it is grappled, or anything is wrong.
In their never-ending quest for perfection, the Lamia who walk the path of the grappler learn the art of the unseen grapple, wrapping around their prey before they realize what's happening...once they strike, their thick tail(s) wrap around and smother their foe, silencing their cries for help and completely engulfing them in their thick tail coils so that their allies are completely unaware of their plight. With the power of Jormunganda filling them, they can strike and strangle before the battle even begins.
Jormunganda's Infinite Grapple:
Prerequisites: Lamia Race, 'Serpentine Grappler Goddess' Alternate Racial Feat, 'Jormunganda's Grip' Racial Feat, Character level 18th
Effect: You may, once per day as a free action on your turn, make a grapple check against all enemy creatures within 60ft. Each enemy you successfully grapple is pulled to be adjacent to you(This does not provoke AoO), and must make a fortitude save equal (DC 10 + 1/2 HD + CHAMOD) or be dealt constriction damage as a coup de grace. On a successful save, they are deal constriction damage and are no longer grappled, though they remain adjacent to you.
The Ultimate technique for those Lamia who pursue the path of the grappler, the infinite grapple is a blessing given to the chosen of Jormunganda herself. Capable of summoning the infinite girth of The World-Serpent herself for the briefest of moments, these Lamia grapple their foes from afar and yank them in close, furiously folding their grappled enemies in half and compacting them until their corpses resemble broken, bloody meatballs and piles of blood, meat, and bone.
Practiced Devourer:
Prerequisites: 'Swallow Whole' universal monster ability, Character level 8th
Effects: Gain the effect of the 'Fast Swallow' Universal monster rule.
With their Societal Emphasis on Strength and Beauty, it is no wonder some Lamia seek to perfect and master the art of devouring their enemies. These Lamia train their throats and swallowing power each day until they learn the ways of the Fast Swallow, granting them the ability to devour live prey as easy as breathing.
Lamia Thoughteater:
Prerequisites: Lamia race, 'Swallow Whole' universal monster ability, Lamia Alternate Racial 'Primal Digestion', Character Level 6th
Effects: Every time you successfully deal damage as per the 'Swallow Whole' ability to a creature inside your stomach, you may cast a Detect Thoughts effect on them with a DC for the will save of (10 + HD + CHAMOD) as if you had focused for three rounds.
If that creature then expires within you as per the 'Swallow Whole' ability, you may then devour several of its most important memories, gaining some of its most treasured secrets and information.
Considered an odd, and even a feared mutation amongst Lamia kind, these ‘Thoughteater’ Lamia’s scales glow an eerie Iridescent purple and and dark indigos, ethereal energies wafting off their bodies like fumes from flame. The stuff of Lamia society hearsay, rumor, and persecution, the Thoughteater Lamia have the capability to suck the very memories, thoughts, and deepest secrets of the prey they digest within their stomachs, their otherworldly power worming and burrowing into their prey’s mind like a twisted psychic scalpel. Feared even by their own kind, they frequently prefer solitude and, rarely, the company of more tolerant races.
Thickscale Stomach:
Prerequisites: Lamia race, Lamia Alternate Racial 'Thick Scales', 'Swallow Whole' universal monster ability, Character level 8th
Effects: Your AC counts as 2 higher to creatures inside you for the purposes of cutting out of your stomach. This counts as a dodge bonus to your AC, and you may add your full natural armor bonus to your AC instead of 1/2 for the purposes of foes cutting out of your stomach.
Normal: Your Ac for the 'Swallow Whole' Ability is (10 + 1/2 Natural armor bonuses), ignoring all size and dex bonuses or penalties.
Considered to be a highly desired and sought-after gift, the Thickscale Stomach is, to most lamia, a sign that they were born to consume their foes. While not all who receive such a gift seek to use it to wantonly gorge themselves, some instead preferring to use it to better devour their enemies instead of wanton cruelty, all see these thicker, more durable scales that line their stomachs and replace the normal scales Lamia possess as gifts and blessings, their durability meaning those they attempt to swallow and digest will have a much harder time cutting their way free of their bellies...and are more likely to dissolve into nothing within them.
Forktongue Hunter:
Prerequisites: Lamia race, Lamia Alternate Racial 'Hunter's Scent', Character level 4th
Effects: Your scent range is increased by 30ft, and you can no longer be detected by the scent ability or scent-based perception if you do not wish it.
Special: This feat can be taken multiple times. Each time you take it after the first your scent range increases by 15 feet.
To those occasional Lamia born with the sense of smell of a true hunter, this is the pinnacle of their craft. Honed, Improved, and Perfected upon by just such Lamia who seek to master the art and way of the hunter, the Forktongue Hunter lamia are highly capable predators, living their lives as hunters and trappers and, occasionally, hunters of more live, sentient prey thanks to their even more sensitive senses of smell. Finally, no matter how easily they should or should not be detectable by smell, these Lamia have learned the ways and, through some lucky gifts and mutations/evolutions, learned how to disguise and mask their scents so none, not even their own kind, can suss them out by smell. In short, they are the perfect hunters.
Horrific Gorging:
Prerequisites: Bite attack, Large or larger, Swallow whole universal monster ability
Effects: As a full-round action, you can completely consume a dead, unconscious, paralyzed, or otherwise helpless humanoid creature that you could normally swallow with your swallow whole ability. When you do, you deal bite damage as a critical hit and swallow the humanoid as your swallow whole special ability. Allies of the swallowed creature within 30 feet that can see you indulge in this horrific feast must succeed at a Will save (DC = 10 + 1/2 your Hit Dice + your Charisma modifier) to avoid being shaken for 1d4 rounds. This part of the ability is a mind-affecting fear effect.
Terrifyingly Effective eaters, these Lamia have learned how to inspire terror in those nearby when they feast upon their foes. In the space of but a few horrific seconds, these Lamia can chew up and gulp down an entire humanoid body.
Consume Essence:
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +6, 'Primal Digestion' Alternate Racial Trait, Evil Alignment, Swallow whole universal monster ability
Effects: When you start your turn having swallowed at least one creature, each swallowed creature must succeed at a Fortitude save (DC = 10 + 1/2 your Hit Dice + your Charisma modifier) or gain a temporary negative level. Swallowed creatures that die from these negative levels are consumed as per disintegrate. This is a death effect.
Special: If you are of the undead type, each time a swallowed creature gains a temporary negative level from this ability, you add 5 temporary hit points to the number of hit points that swallowed creatures must deal to escape, up to a maximum of 15 temporary hit points. These temporary hit points last for 10 minutes.
Having perfected and honed their eating and swallowing habits and even gained complete, perfect control of their own stomachs and digestive systems, these Lamia have become apex predators to all foes who challenge their digestive power, instead weakening them with every gulp, swallow, and gurgle. Creatures that these Lamia swallow are quickly absorbed and soon utterly annihilated, wiped from existence entirely within their stomachs.
Child of Utopia:
Prerequisite: Dragonborn, Lamia, or Kobold race, Character level 1st Only
Effect: Gain the homebrew spell Resonate as an at-will spell-like ability, cast homebrew Spell Overseer's Imperious Resonation 1/day.
Some Dragonborn, Lamia, and even the odd Kobold find that they cannot trace their lives back to where they were born. Their friends, loved ones, and associates all speak of them as if they speak of myth...one day, they simply were. Blessed with vague, indistinct memories of their true draconic parents, of a city where magic and stone are as one, of being cast down, far down...they cannot recall it, but they carry within them memories, emotions, and recollections of the secretive place which the True Dragons now call home...of Utopia...and strangely, they find that the ancient ruins of the High Humans respond intrinsically to their command.
Hyperactive Digestion:
Prerequisites: Lamia Race, Character Level 12th, “Swallow Whole’ Universal Monster Rule, ‘Primal Digestion’ alternate racial trait
Effects: Change all Swallow Whole damage die to d12’s. You may choose to deal bludgeoning damage with your swallow whole ability, but at half damage as normal.
Some Lamia who count themselves among the lucky few capable of healing their wounds through the digestion of their prey, find that their stomachs suddenly supercharge their digestive power, becoming so powerful as to melt even stone and metal, to say nothing of normal flesh. These Lamias can swallow their prey and, barely before their prey has landed in their stomach, find that they have already been broken down into a fine slurry by their insanely powerful stomach acids. Feared even amongst their own kind occasionally for their unbridled power, these Lamias are the pinnacle of digestive power and consumption.
Favored Food:
Prerequisites: Lamia Race or Sentient Slime Race, 'Swallow Whole' Universal monster rule
Effects: Select a creature type from the ranger favored enemies table. You gain a +2 on all Charisma based checks against creatures of the selected type. In addition, you gain a +2 on all CMB, CMD, Grapple, and all checks made to grapple or swallow creatures of that type. You also gain +1 AC to determine if creatures of that type can attack you from inside. You may make knowledge checks untrained when attempting to identify these creatures.
Special: At 10th and 20th level, you may select an additional favored food. In addition, at each such interval, the bonus against any one favored food(including the one just selected, if so desired) increases by +2. If you select humanoids or outsiders as a favored food, you must also choose an associated subtype, as indicated on the ranger favored enemies table. If a specific creature falls into more than one category of favored enemy, your bonus does not stack; you simply use the higher bonus.
Among the races who count other creatures as one of their main food sources, it is not uncommon for some amongst them to gain a fancy or liking towards a certain type of creature to serve as their meals. Though their tastes and preferences can be as varied as the stars in the sky, these creatures find themselves a bit more capable when hunting any beings that would fit the mould of their favorite foods...becoming more adept at recognizing and charming them, as well as learning how better to swallow and digest them, these creatures and their twisted eating habits soon become the stuff of nightmares for their preferred meals.
Lamia Fleshqueen
Prerequisites: Lamia Race, 'Swallow Whole' Universal Monster Rule, 1st level only, CHA 17+
Effects: For every 100HD you ingest with the 'Swallow Whole' Universal monster rule, you gain a racial +2 bonus to CHA. You may gain this effect a maximum of 5 times, at which point you cannot gain any more bonuses. The first time you hit the 100HD goal and when you hit each goal thereafter, the next goal increases by 50HD and your total resets to 0.(100->150->200->250->300)
Though their species is known for their love of live prey, some Lamias are born with the innate, highly coveted gift of being able to put those they digest to good use for their own physical forms. With each creature that melts away inside them, these Lamias’ bodies burgeon and expand in all the right places, filling them out in the ways that their prey and any they encounter would find most appealing so as to make them even more charming.
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