Sample Dustform Creatures

Dustform Ankheg

A massive, segmented insectile horror sculpted from jagged sandstone and shifting grit. It emerges from the dunes with a dry, rasping grind of its mandibles, its eyes nothing more than dull, unblinking facets of obsidian.^AI

Combat

A dustform creature’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. This creature loses the base creature’s improved grab and spit acid special attacks.

Skills: A dustform ankheg has a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment.

Source: Sandstorm, page 161; Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 14.

Dustform Ashworm

This massive worm-shape is composed of shifting purple-tinted grit. It moves through the dunes with a dry, rasping sound.^AI

A dustform creature’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. This creature loses its poison special attack, which is replaced by its breath weapon.

Evasive Diver (Ex): In areas of sand (not packed earth or stone), the dustform ashworm feels more secure because of its evasive diver ability. If it makes a successful Reflex saving throw against an attack that normally deals half damage on a successful save, the ashworm instead manages to instantly dive below the protective sand or earth and takes no damage.

Skills: A dustform ashworm has a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment.

Source: Sandstorm, pages 140 and 161.

Dustform Baboon

This creature resembles a powerful primate formed entirely from shifting sand and dry grit. It moves with a strange, grinding fluidity, its features blurring slightly as dust trails behind its limbs.^AI

Combat

A dustform baboon’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Skills: Baboons have a +8 racial bonus on Climb checks and can always choose to take 10 on Climb checks. Dustform creatures have a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment.

Source: Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 268; Sandstorm, page 161.

Dustform Badger

This squat, powerful creature appears to be a badger composed of grit and packed earth. It lacks the fierce growl of its living counterparts, moving instead with a dry, rasping sound like stone on stone.

Combat

A dustform badger’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Skills: A badger has a +4 racial bonus on Escape Artist checks. Dustform creatures have a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment.

Source: Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 268; Sandstorm, page 161.

Dustform Bat Swarm

A churning cloud of grit and sand-sculpted shapes sweeps across the dunes. The dry, rustling sound of a thousand stony wings replaces the squeaks of living bats.^AI

A dustform creature’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. This swarm loses its wounding and distraction special attacks; its blindsense is upgraded to the dustform template’s blindsight.

Skills: A dustform bat swarm has a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment. It retains its +4 racial bonus on Listen and Spot checks.

Source: Sandstorm, page 161; Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 239.

Dustform Camel

A tall, humped beast made of scouring sand and sun-bleached grit. It stands motionless until commanded, its presence accompanied by the faint smell of dry earth.^AI

This dustform camel is based on the dromedary camel depicted in Sandstorm.

Combat

A dustform camel’s bite is treated as a secondary attack and adds only half the its Strength bonus to the damage roll.

A dustform camel’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Sure Feet (Ex): A dustform camel has broad feet that helps it travel easily over sand and similar loose surfaces. They treat shallow sand as normal terrain and deep sand as shallow sand. See Sand Travel for descriptions of shallow and deep sand.

Skills: A dustform camel has a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment.

Source: Sandstorm, pages 161 and 192.

Dustform Cheetah

A sleek, feline form sculpted from yellow-tan grit. It stands perfectly still, though its surface seems to vibrate with a restless, internal wind.^AI

Combat

A dustform creature’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. This creature loses its trip special attack.

Sprint (Ex): Once per hour, a dustform cheetah can move ten times its normal speed (500 feet) when it makes a charge.

Skills: A dustform cheetah has a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment.

Source: Sandstorm, page 161; Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 271.

Dustform Deinonychus

This lean, bipedal predator is sculpted from scouring sand and sun-bleached grit. Its wicked claws are jagged edges of flint, and it moves with a silent, grinding grace that betrays its stony composition.^AI

Combat

A dustform creature’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. This creature loses its pounce special attack.

Skills: A dustform deinonychus has a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment. It retains its +8 racial bonus on Hide, Jump, Listen, Spot, and Survival checks.

Source: Sandstorm, page 161; Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 60.

Dustform Diprotodon

This hippopotamus-sized beast is sculpted from coarse, sun-bleached grit and jagged sandstone. Its thick legs end in heavy claws that churn the sand into a haze with every step, and its massive tusks appear as unyielding pillars of flint.^AI

Combat

A dustform diprotodon’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. This creature loses its trample special attack.

Skills: A dustform diprotodon has a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment.

Source: Sandstorm, pages 148 and 161.

Dustform Dire Badger

This squat, muscular shape is formed of tightly packed, abrasive sand. It moves with a rhythmic grinding sound, its heavy claws leaving deep, dusty furrows in the earth.^AI

Combat

A dustform creature’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. This creature loses its rage special attack.

Skills: A dustform dire badger has a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment.

Source: Sandstorm, page 161; Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 62.

Dustform Dire Bat

This massive, leathery shape is sculpted from dark, abrasive silt. It glides through the air with a dry, rustling sound, its eyeless face turning with eerie precision toward its prey.^AI

Combat

A dustform creature’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. Its former blindsense is replaced by the template's blindsight.

Skills: A dustform dire bat has a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment. It has a +4 racial bonus on Spot and Listen checks.

Source: Sandstorm, page 161; Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 62.

Dustform Dire Jackal

This hulking canine shape is composed of tightly packed, wind-sculpted sand. It moves with a predatory silence, its jaw opening to reveal teeth of jagged sandstone.^AI

A dustform creature’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. This creature loses its trip special attack, which is replaced by its breath weapon.

Skills: A dustform dire jackal has a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment. It retains a +4 racial bonus on Jump checks and a +4 racial bonus on Survival checks when tracking by scent.

Source: Sandstorm, pages 150 and 161.

Dustform Dire Lion

A hulking feline engine of destruction made of fused sand and flint. Jagged stone ridges protrude from its back and shoulders, and its eyes glow with a dim, hollow light from within its shifting, abrasive mane.^AI

Combat

A dustform creature’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. This creature loses its pounce, improved grab, and rake special attacks.

Skills: A dustform dire lion has a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment. It retains its +4 racial bonus on Balance, Hide, and Move Silently checks. In areas of tall grass or heavy undergrowth, the Hide bonus improves to +12.

Source: Sandstorm, page 161; Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 63.

Dustform Dire Rat

This oversized rodent appears to be carved from sun-bleached sandstone. Its eyes are nothing more than pits of dark sand, and a fine silt falls from its fur as it scuttles across the dunes.^AI

Combat

Skills: Dire rats have a +8 racial bonus on Swim checks. They also have a +8 racial bonus on Climb checks and can always choose to take 10 on Climb checks. Dustform creatures have a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment. A dire rat uses its Dexterity modifier for Climb and Swim checks.

Source: Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 64; Sandstorm, page 161.

Dustform Triceratops

This three-horned behemoth is a moving mesa of fused sediment and parched clay. Its massive head-frill is a jagged slab of canyon wall, and its horns are pillars of unyielding sandstone that rasp with the sound of grinding stone.^AI

Combat

The natural weapons of a dustform triceratops are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. This creature loses its powerful charge and trample special attacks.

Skills: A dustform triceratops has a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment.

Source: Sandstorm, page 161; Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 61.

Dustform Dire Tortoise

A massive, boulder-like entity sculpted from sun-bleached grit and hardened clay. Its spiked shell appears as a jagged outcrop of desert rock, and its head—a heavy slab of sandstone—can snap forward with the sudden, jarring speed of a collapsing cliffside.^AI

Combat

A dustform creature’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. This creature loses its trample special attack.

Lightning Strike (Ex): A dustform dire tortoise can lash out very rapidly. On the first round of combat, it gets a surprise round regardless of whether it has been noticed. A creature that notices the dustform dire tortoise is still treated as flat-footed during this round.

Skills: A dustform dire tortoise has a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment. It retains its +12 racial bonus on Hide checks in rocky terrain.

Source: Sandstorm, pages 151 and 161.

Dustform Dire Vulture

A massive, hunched silhouette of grit and sun-baked silt. Its naked, reptilian head is etched with deep furrows like cracked earth, and a perpetual haze of dust falls from its wings like a spectral shroud.^AI

Combat

A dustform dire vulture’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. This creature loses its stench and resistance to disease abilities.

Skills: A dustform dire vulture has a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment. It retains its +4 racial bonus on Spot and Survival checks.

Source: Sandstorm, pages 152 and 161.

Dustform Dog

The statistics block below contains details for more than one size or type of dustform dog. Use the horizontal scrollbar below it to display the desired one or select from the links below that.

Dustform Dog • Dustform Riding Dog

This canine figure is composed of swirling sand and grit. Though it retains the shape of a dog, its features are blurred, and its eyes are nothing more than dark hollows in a shifting face.

Combat

A dustform dog attacks any creature it perceives as a threat without hesitation. It typically leads with its breath weapon before moving in to strike with its heavy slam or bite.

A dustform dog’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Skills: All dustform dogs have a +4 racial bonus on Jump checks. They also have a +4 racial bonus on Survival checks when tracking by scent, and a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks in sandy or dusty environments.

Source: Sandstorm, page 161; Monster Manual, page 271–272.

Dustform Donkey

These creatures are roughly shaped out of shifting sand and dust, animated by desert magic. While they resemble the surefooted beasts of burden used by travelers, they possess none of the animal’s temperament.

A dustform donkey’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Combat

A dustform donkey primarily uses its slam attack or its breath weapon, having lost the instinctive flight response of a living animal.

Skills: Dustform donkeys have a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment. They also retain the +2 racial bonus on Balance checks from the base creature.

Source: Sandstorm, page 161; Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 272.

Dustform Dunewinder

A massive serpentine engine of destruction composed of shifting dunes and jagged obsidian shards. It moves with a rhythmic, rasping sound, and its mouth is a dark pit that periodically exhales a blinding sandstorm.^AI

Combat

A dustform dunewinder’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. This creature loses its improved grab, death throes, poison, and shred special attacks.

Breath Weapon (Ex): 60-ft. line, once per hour, 10d6 sand, Reflex DC 17 half. The save DC is Charisma-based.

Immunity to Dessication (Ex): A dustform dunewinder has immunity to any spell or effect that deals magical dessication damage, as well as to any damage that results from failed Constitution checks to resist the effects of dehydration. A dustform dunewinder cannot become dehydrated.

Skills: A dustform dunewinder has a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment. It retains its +8 racial bonus on Hide checks (increasing to +12 in sand).

Source: Sandstorm, pages 159 and 161.

Dustform Eagle

A raptor shaped from fine, sun-baked silt. Its feathers are sharp flakes of shale that rustle like dry leaves, and its eyes are pinpricks of dim light within a head of hardened clay.^AI

Combat

A dustform creature’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Skills: A dustform eagle has a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment. It retains its +8 racial bonus on Spot checks.

Source: Sandstorm, page 161; Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 272.

Dustform Elephant

A colossus of animated earth and shifting silt. Its massive tusks are jagged spears of sun-bleached flint, and its heavy tread shakes the ground with the dry, rasping weight of a mountain collapsing into sand.^AI

Combat

A dustform elephant’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. This creature loses its trample special attack.

Skills: A dustform elephant has a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment.

Source: Sandstorm, page 161; Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 272.

Dustform Formian

The statistics block below contains details for the first three castes of dustform formian. Use the horizontal scrollbar below it to display the desired one or select from the links below that.

Dustform Formian Worker • Dustform Formian Warrior • Dustform Formian Taskmaster

These creatures look like ant-men sculpted from dry, shifting sand. They move with the same mechanical precision as their living counterparts, but with a dry rasping sound of grinding grit.^AI

Combat

A dustform formian’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Dustform Formian Worker ⬆️

While dustform formian workers retain the spell-like abilities cure serious wounds and make whole, they rarely have the numbers or impetus to actually use these special qualities. In theory, a druid could summon them in sufficient numbers to try this, but she would be better off just casting cure serious wounds on her own. Casting summon desert ally IV to call up four dustform formian workers to try make whole might be possible with careful direction. Dustform creatures, despite being mindless, do understand the languages they knew in life. However, formians in life don’t speak but commicate telepathically through the hive mind. Most druids do not have magic to do this

Dustform Formian Warrior ⬆️

Losing the poison special attack is less than optimal, but otherwise a dustform formian warrior remain a formidible threat.

Dustform Formian Taskmaster ⬆️

While dustform formian taskmasters retain the telepathy ability, they have neither the mind to communicate or understand what they receive telepathically.

Source: Sandstorm, page 161; Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 108.

Dustform Giant Ant

The statistics block below contains details for more than one caste of giant ant. Use the horizontal scrollbar below it to display the desired one or select from the links below that.

Dustform Giant Ant Worker • Dustform Giant Ant Soldier • Dustform Giant Ant Queen

These hulking insects look like massive ants sculpted from dry, packed earth and shifting grit. They move with an unnatural, jerky precision, their mandibles clicking with the sound of grinding stone.^AI

A dustform creature’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. These constructs lose all special attacks of the base creature, including improved grab and the soldier's acid sting.

Skills: Dustform giant ants have a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment. They retain the +4 racial bonus on Survival checks when tracking by scent and the +8 racial bonus on Climb checks. A dustform giant ant can always choose to take 10 on Climb checks, even if rushed or threatened.

Source: Sandstorm, page 161; Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 284.

Dustform Giant Banded Lizard

This massive reptile has powerful jaws, sharp claws, and a thick, heavy tail. While it appears as though faint bands of color might mark the lizard's skin, the shading is occluded by the shifting dust of which the creature seems composed.

Combat

A dustform giant banded lizard is an aggressive and deadly foe. Its already potent combat abilities have been enhanced with a devastating breath weapon and construct immunities.

A dustform giant banded lizard’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Skills: The dustform giant banded lizard has a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks in sandy or dusty environments.

Source: Sandstorm, page 161, 164. Corrected the saves based on the good Fortitude and poor Reflex and Will saves of the base giant banded lizard.

Dustform Giant Eagle

A magnificent avian silhouette composed of swirling, sun-bleached grit. Its feathers are jagged flakes of sandstone that rasp together like grinding stones as it banks through the desert air.^AI

Combat

A dustform creature’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Evasion (Ex): With a successful Reflex save against an attack that allows a Reflex save for half damage, a dustform giant eagle takes no damage.

Skills: A dustform giant eagle has a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment. It retains its +4 racial bonus on Spot checks.

Source: Sandstorm, page 161; Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 93.

Dustform Giant Fire Beetle

A thick-shelled insect formed of packed grit and sun-baked mud. Its mandibles grind with a dry sound, and two large glands on its head pulse with an eerie, internal light that flickers through the cracks in its sandy carapace.^AI

Combat

Luminescence (Ex): A giant fire beetle possesses two glowing glands that cast light in a 10-foot radius; they continue to glow for 1d6 days after the beetle dies, provided they are not crushed or dissolved.

Skills: Dustform creatures have a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment.

Source: Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 285; Sandstorm, page 161.

Dustform Giant Owl

A massive owl-shaped figure carved from solid sandstone and held together by swirling desert winds. It glides through the air with a dry, hushed rustle, its wings leaving a faint trail of dust in its wake.^AI

Combat

A dustform creature’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Skills: A dustform giant owl has a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment. It retains its +8 racial bonus on Listen checks and +4 racial bonus on Spot checks. When in flight, it gains a +8 bonus on Move Silently checks.

Source: Sandstorm, page 161; Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 205.

Dustform Giant Stag Beetle

A massive beetle-like automaton composed of fused grit and sun-baked earth. Its oversized mandibles resemble jagged, grinding stone shears, and a fine mist of dust vents from its joints as it plods forward with mechanical precision.^AI

Combat

A dustform creature’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. This creature loses its trample special attack.

Skills: A dustform giant stag beetle has a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment.

Source: Sandstorm, page 161; Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 285.

Dustform Hawk

A small raptor composed of wind-sculpted grit. Its feathers are sharp, overlapping flakes of stone that rasp like sandpaper when it beats its wings, and it tracks its prey through the shifting heat of the desert air.^AI

Combat

A dustform hawk’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Skills: Hawks have a +8 racial bonus on Spot checks. Dustform creatures have a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment.

Source: Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 273; Sandstorm, page 161.

Dustform Hippopotamus

An immense, barrel-chested mammal carved from sun-baked clay and coarse desert grit. Its massive mouth, lined with tusks of jagged flint, vents a constant stream of dust as it stamps the ground with the weight of shifting stone.^AI

Combat

A dustform creature’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. This creature loses its hold breath special quality.

Skills: A dustform hippopotamus has a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment. It has a +8 racial bonus on any Swim check to perform some special action or avoid a hazard. It can always choose to take 10 on a Swim check, even if distracted or endangered. It can use the run action while swimming, provided it swims in a straight line.

Source: Sandstorm, pages 161 and 193.

Dustform Hyena

This creature resembles a hunched, powerful canine with a sloping back, though its form is composed of coarse sand and packed dust. It moves with a silent, eerie grace across the dunes.

A dustform hyena’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Combat

Trip (Ex): A dustform hyena that hits with its bite attack can attempt to trip the opponent (+4 check modifier) as a free action without making a touch attack or provoking an attack of opportunity. If the attempt fails, the opponent cannot react to trip the hyena.

Skills: Dustform hyenas have a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment. They retain the +4 racial bonus on Hide, Listen, and Spot checks from the base creature.

Source: Sandstorm, page 161; Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 274.

Dustform Jackal

A dustform jackal is identical in all statistics to a dustform dog.

Dustform Lion

A powerful feline form carved from packed silt and shifting dunes. A thick mane of abrasive sand swirls around its neck, and its heavy paws leave scorched, dusty tracks in their wake.^AI

Combat

A dustform creature’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. This creature loses its improved grab, pounce, and rake special attacks.

Skills: A dustform lion has a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment. It retains its +4 racial bonus on Balance, Hide, and Move Silently checks. In areas of tall grass or heavy undergrowth, the Hide bonus improves to +12.

Source: Sandstorm, page 161; Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 274.

Dustform Locust Swarm

A churning cloud of grit and animated husks. The sound of their clicking wings is replaced by the dry rasp of stone on stone, and a fine film of dust settles over everything in their path.^AI

Combat

A dustform locust swarm deals 2d6 points of damage to any creature whose space it occupies at the end of its move. Its swarm attack is treated as a magic weapon for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Skills: A dustform locust swarm has a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment. It retains its +4 racial bonus on Spot checks.

Source: Sandstorm, pages 152 and 161.

Dustform Megaraptor

A towering, prehistoric predator sculpted from hardened silt and sharp obsidian-like grit. Its sickle-shaped talons are jagged slabs of flint, and it moves with a terrifying, hushed hiss like a desert wind scouring bone.^AI

Combat

A dustform creature’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. This creature loses its pounce special attack.

Skills: A dustform megaraptor has a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment. It retains its +8 racial bonus on Hide, Jump, Listen, Spot, and Survival checks.

Source: Sandstorm, page 161; Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 60.

Dustform Monstrous Centipede

The statistics block below contains details for the sizes of dustform monstrous centipede available via summon desert ally. Use the horizontal scrollbar or the links below to navigate.

Medium • Large • Huge • Gargantuan • Colossal

A segmented horror constructed of interlocking plates of sandstone and grit. It scuttles with an unsettling, dry rasp, its mandibles clicking like grinding flint.^AI

Combat

A dustform monstrous centipede’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Skills: Monstrous centipedes have a +4 racial bonus on Spot checks, and a +8 racial bonus on Climb and Hide checks. They can use either their Strength or Dexterity modifier for Climb checks, whichever is higher. Monstrous centipedes can take 10 on Climb checks, even if threatened or distracted. Dustform creatures have a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment.

Source: Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 286; Sandstorm, page 161.

Dustform Monstrous Scorpion

The statistics block below contains details for more than one shape, size, or type of this creature. Use the horizontal scrollbar below it to display the desired one or select from the links below that.

Small • Medium • Large • Huge • Gargantuan

Combat

A dustform creature's own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Skills: Dustform monstrous scorpions have a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment. They also retain the +4 racial bonus on Climb, Hide, and Spot checks from the base creature.

Source: Sandstorm, page 161; Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 287.

Dustform Monstrous Spider

The statistics block below contains details for more than one shape, size, or type of this creature. Use the horizontal scrollbar below it to display the desired one or select from the links below that.

Small • Medium • Large • Huge • Gargantuan • Colossal

Combat

Dustform monstrous spiders come in two general types: hunters and web-spinners. Dustform web-spinners are that in name only as their web special attack is replaced by the dustform template’s breath weapon. Savvy casters of summon desert ally spells will always summon a dustform hunting spider, and that is the spider represented in the statistics block above. If a caster insists on summoning a dustform web-spinner that can’t spin webs, reduce its base land speed by 10 feet.

When conjured with a summon monster spell, the caster chooses whether a dustform monstrous spider is a hunter or a web-spinner. If summoning multiple dustform monstrous spiders with a single spell, all must either be hunters or web-spinners.

A dustform monstrous spider’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Skills: Dustform monstrous spiders have a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment. They also retain the +8 racial bonus on Climb checks and the +4 racial bonus on Hide and Spot checks from the base creature. A monstrous spider can always choose to take 10 on Climb checks, even if rushed or threatened. Monstrous spiders use either their Strength or Dexterity modifier for Climb checks, whichever is higher.

Hunting dustform spiders have a +10 racial bonus on Jump checks and a +8 racial bonus on Spot checks. Web-spinning dustform spiders do not get their racial bonus on Hide and Move Silently checks when using their webs because they can’t actually spin webs. Seriously, don’t summon these losers.

Source: Sandstorm, page 161; Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 288.

Dustform Owl

The statistics presented here describe dustform nocturnal birds of prey from 1 to 2 feet long, with wingspans up to 6 feet. They combine both talons into a single attack.

Combat

A dustform owl’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Skills: Dustform owls have a +8 racial bonus on Listen checks and a +14 racial bonus on Move Silently checks. Dustform owls have a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment.

Source: Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 277; Sandstorm, page 161.

Dustform Protoceratops

This construct resembles a desert-dwelling dinosaur formed from grit and sand. While it lacks the living creature’s defensive instincts, its mass is incredibly difficult to pierce.

A dustform creature’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Skills: Dustform protoceratops have a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment. They retain the +4 racial bonus on Survival checks from the base creature.

Source: Sandstorm, pages 147 and 161.

Dustform Raven

Dustform ravens are about 2 feet long and have wingspans of about 4 feet. They combine both claws into a single attack.

The statistics presented here can describe most nonpredatory dustform birds of similar size.

Combat

A dustform raven’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Skills: Dustform ravens have a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment.

Source: Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 278; Sandstorm, page 161.

Dustform Rhinoceros

A massive, slate-colored beast built from layers of compressed silt and flint. Its singular horn is a jagged spire of obsidian, and a low, grinding sound like shifting tectonic plates accompanies every heavy, dust-caked step.^AI

Combat

The natural weapons of a dustform rhinoceros are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. This creature loses its powerful charge special attack.

Skills: A dustform rhinoceros has a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment.

Source: Sandstorm, page 161; Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 278.

Dustform Serval

Combat

A dustform serval’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Skills: Dustform servals have a +4 racial bonus on Balance, Climb, Hide, and Move Silently checks, and a +8 racial bonus on Jump and Listen checks. Dustform servals have a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment.

Source: Sandstorm, pages 161 and 194.

Dustform Snake, Viper

All dustform snakes have the following characteristics.

Serpentine: All snakes have this special quality.

Skills: Dustform snakes have a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment. They also retain the +4 racial bonus on Hide, Listen, and Spot checks and the +8 racial bonus on Balance and Climb checks from the base creature. A snake can always choose to take 10 on a Climb check, even if rushed or threatened.

Snakes use either their Strength modifier or Dexterity modifier for Climb checks, whichever is higher.

A snake has a +8 racial bonus on any Swim check to perform some special action or avoid a hazard. It can always choose to take 10 on a Swim check, even if distracted or endangered. It can use the run action while swimming, provided it swims in a straight line.

The statistics block below contains details for more than one size of dustform viper. Use the horizontal scrollbar below it to display the desired one or select from the links below that.

Viper:  Small • Medium • Large • Huge

Combat

Dustform viper snakes rely on their slamming strikes and their breath weapon, having lost the lethal venom of their living counterparts.

A dustform creature’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Source: Sandstorm, page 161; Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 279.

Dustform Tyrannosaurus

A towering monument of animated grit and sun-cracked earth that looms over the dunes. Its massive skull is a jagged boulder of sandstone, and when its jaws part, they exhale a dry, choking cloud of silt instead of a roar.^AI

Combat

A dustform creature’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. This creature loses its improved grab and swallow whole special attacks.

Skills: A dustform tyrannosaurus has a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment. It retains its +2 racial bonus on Listen and Spot checks.

Source: Sandstorm, page 161; Monster Manual (version 3.5), page 61.

Dustform Vulture

This avian scavenger appears to be composed entirely of packed silt and dust. Its wings shed a constant stream of sand as it glides through the air, yet it remains as light as the winds that carry it.^AI

A dustform creature’s own natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. This creature loses its resistance to disease as it no longer possesses a biology to infect.

Skills: A dustform vulture has a +8 racial bonus on Hide checks made in a sandy or dusty environment. It retains the +4 racial bonus on Spot and Survival checks.

Source: Sandstorm, pages 161 and 195.