Grafts are not complete monsters in themselves. Rather, they are nonsentient monstrous body parts added to existing creatures to enhance them—arms, legs, wings, and the like.
Grafts have no statistics of their own. A graft might enhance some ability or characteristic of the creature it’s attached to, or grant the creature some new ability. For example, a fiendish arm might grant the creature longer reach or an improved natural attack. Some grafts are capable ofindependent action—this usually means that the creature with the graft gains an extra single move or attack action each round, usually of a specific kind (a natural attack with a fiendish clawed arm, for example).
Grafts are not magic items, but in game terms they function very much like magic items. A character with the Graft Flesh feat can create and apply grafts. The creator must be in a quiet and comfortable setting, usually an alchemical laboratory but in some cases an evil temple or similar locale. He needs a supply of materials, which usually involve flesh taken from another creature ofthe appropriate type. The cost for the materials is subsumed in the cost for creating the graft. Creating a graft costs half the given market price.
If spells are involved in the prerequisites for making the graft, the creator must have prepared the spells to be cast, must know the spells (in the case ofasorcerer or bard), or must have access to spell-like abilities that duplicate the spells. The creator need not provide any material components or focuses the spells require, nor are any XP costs inherent in a prerequisite spell incurred in the creation of the graft. The act of working on the graft expends the spells from the creator’s currently prepared spells, just as if they had been cast.
A graft is not a magic item: It does not radiate magic once completed, it does not count against a creatures limit for magic items worn, it does not have a caster level, and it is very hard, if not impossible, to salvage as treasure. It does, however, count against the treasure value of the creature with the graft, which means that creatures with grafts are still appropriate challenges for their normal Challenge Rating, but have reduced treasure.
Creations of the vile aboleths, these are extra body parts that can be attached to the body of another corporeal creature.
Aboleths frequently apply these grafts to skum or other enslaved creatures. The process involves psionic transformation of the subject, which few aboleths know how to perform. In general, aboleth grafts can be added only to skum or to creatures that have already undergone transformation as a result of being hit by an aboleth’s tentacles.
If a transformed creature with aboleth grafts later receives a heal spell to reverse the transformation, the grafts dry up and wither over the course of 1d4+1 days, falling off at the end of this period. If the graft replaced one of the creature’s own limbs or other organs, a regenerate spell is required to restore the original body part.
Aboleth Tentacle: An aboleth tentacle typically replaces an arm or forelimb on the grafted creature, though sometimes it is attached just above a forelimb or below an arm The creature gains a +4 bonus to Strength when using the tentacle for any purpose, including attacking. A successful natural attack with the tentacle deals 1d6 points of damage plus the grafted creature’s adjusted Strength bonus, and can cause the struck creature to transform. Affected creatures must succeed on a Fortitude save (DC 10 + ½ grafted creatures HD + grafted creatures Con modifier) or begin to transform as if struck by an aboleth’s tentacle.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (aboleth), creator must be an aboleth; Market Price: 50,000 gp.
Amphibious Skin: This invasive graft can only be applied to a creature with the aquatic subtype. It replaces the grafted creature’s skin entirely with a thick membrane. The grafted creature gains the amphibious special quality, allowing it to breathe both air and water.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (aboleth), creator must be an aboleth; Market Price 30,000 gp.
Inksac: An inksac is normally placed inside a creature’s abdomen; a vent protrudes just beyond the surface of the creature’s skin above each hip. Once per minute as a free action, the creature can emit a cloud of jet-black ink in a spread with a radius of twice the creature’s natural reach. This cloud provides concealment to all creatures in the area. Even creatures that can normally see in such conditions (such as with darkvision or low-light vision) are affected by concealment when in a cloud of ink. Only a daylight spell (or a higher-level light spell) can allow creatures in the area to see. The ink cloud does not form unless the creature is in water; on land it just spews out as a big inky mess.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (aboleth), creator must be an aboleth; Market Price 9,000 gp.
Mucus Projector: This graft consists of a large, fleshy sac with a tubelike extension. It is typically grafted onto a creature’s back so the tube can extend up over a shoulder. A creature with a mucus projector can activate it once every 1d4 rounds as a standard action. When activated, it contracts violently and sprays a thin stream of aboleth mucus out of the tube. The creature must make a ranged touch attack to strike its intended target, which must be within 30 feet. On a hit, the target must succeed on a Fortitude save (DC 10 + ½ grafted creature’s HD + grafted creature’s Con modifier) or begin to transform as if struck by an aboleth’s slime. A mucus projector works equally well on the surface or underwater.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (aboleth), creator must be an aboleth; Market Price 36,000 gp.
Mucus Sheath: A mucus sheath actually involves extensive skin grafts, resulting in the subject being constantly coated ina thin layer of mucus. This sheath adds 10 feet to the creatures swim speed and gives it a +10 circumstance bonus on Escape Artist checks. It also serves as a focus for certain psionic abilities to better affect the subject: The grafted creature takes a −4 penalty on Will saves against mind-affecting effects. The mucus also doubles the range at which an aboleth can effectively control a slave, to 2 miles.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (aboleth), creator must be an aboleth; Market Price: 5,000 gp.
Skum Eyes: Skum eyes are bulbous and fishlike. This graft cannot be added to skum, since they already have its abilities. The grafted creature gains a +2 racial bonus on Spot checks, increasing to +4 while it is underwater.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (aboleth), creator must be an aboleth; Market Price: 600 gp.
Skum Tail: This graft cannot be added to skum, since they already have an identical appendage. A skum tail is slender and muscular, and it gives the creature a natural swim speed of 40 feet. Like any creature with a natural swim speed, the grafted creature need not make Swim checks to move at swim speed underwater, and gains a +8 racial bonus im checks made to perform some special action or avoid a hazard. The grafted creature can always choose to take 10 on a Swim check, even if rushed or threatened when swimming, and can use the run action while swimming, if it swims in a straight line.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (aboleth), creator must be an aboleth; Market Price: 6,000 gp.
Waterjet: This long, thin tube is normally grafted onto a creature’s back. The grafted creature can use this graft once per minute while swimming to double its normal swim speed for 1 round.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (aboleth), creator must be an aboleth; Market Price: 2,500 gp.
To a beholder, every kind of creature—including other beholders who vary even slightly from itself—is an abomination fit only to be destroyed. Any attempt to transfer the perfection of the beholder form to another creature is abhorrent to beholders—and that is exactly what beholder grafts are. These are created and implanted by deranged cultists who worship beholders (usually human but sometimes goblinoid) in an attempt to become more like the creatures they idolize.
Beholder grafts are created by bizarre beholder cults, and are generally applied only to their members. These cults are usually made up of subterranean creatures such as kobolds, troglodytes, or derro.
Crown of Eyes: A crown of eyes consists of six small eyes that are set into a creatures skull all around its circumference. Their vision is poor (half normal range), but they have darkvision with a range of 60 feet and confer all-around vision on the grafted creature. This gives the grafted creature a +4 racial bonus on Search and Spot checks and prevents it from being flanked.
Prerequisite: Graft Flesh; Market Price: 60,000 gp.
Eye Stalk: An eye stalk is grafted onto a creature’s head and connected to its nervous system. The creature can use it to produce an eye ray as a standard action three times per day; the effect exactly duplicates one of a beholder’s smaller eye rays. An individual eye stalk can produce only one kind of ray. The grafted creature uses its own attack bonus to determine whether the ray hits its target, but the effect’s save DC is always 18. The ray has a range of 150 feet.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (beholder) plus one of the following spells: charm monster, charm person, disintegrate, fear, finger of death, flesh to stone, inflict moderate wounds, sleep, slow, or telekinesis; Market Price: 195,000 gp.
Gazing Eye: This graft replaces one of the creature’s own eyes and gives it a gaze attack. This attack can charm monster, cause sleep, petrify, or cause fear. It has a range of 30 feet and a save DC of 16 (including a +2 bonus because only one of the grafted creature’s eyes can make the attack), but otherwise functions like a beholder’s eye rays.
Prerequisite: Graft Flesh (beholder) plus one of the following spells: cause fear, charm monster, flesh to stone, or sleep; Market Price: 195,000 gp.
Plated Skin: A plated skin graft covers the creature’s vulnerable body parts with bony plates like those that protect a beholder. The creature’s natural armor bonus increases by +4.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh, barkskin; Market Price: 64,000 gp.Replacement Eye: A replacement eye is grafted into the creature’s skull in place of one of its own eyes. The grafted creature can use it to produce an eye ray as a standard action three times per day; the effect exactly duplicates one of a beholder’s smaller eye rays. An individual replacement eye can produce only one kind of ray. The grafted creature uses its own attack bonus to determine whether the ray hits its target, but the save DC is always 18. The ray has a range of 50 feet.
Prerequisite: Graft Flesh (beholder) plus one of the following spells: charm monster, charm person, disintegrate, fear, finger of death, flesh to stone, inflict moderate wounds, sleep, slow, or telekinesis; Market Price: 195,000 gp.
Third Eye: Implanted in the forehead above the creatures normal eyes, a third eye duplicates the effects of a beholder’s large central eye, producing an antimagic cone similar to an antimagic field cast by a 13th-level sorcerer. This small eye only affects a 50-foot three times per day.
Prerequisite: Graft Flesh (beholder), antimagic field; Market Price: 165,000 gp.
Fiendish grafts are body parts of a fiendish nature that can be attached to the body of another corporeal creature.
There are a number of ways to acquire a fiendish graft. Certain magical devices have been discovered that enfold a creature, remove one of its limbs, dealing 6d6 points of damage, and replace the limb with a fiendish graft (or sometimes a fiendish familiar; see Fiendish Symbionts), restoring 5d6 points of damage in the process.
Certain prestige classes also entail the addition of a fiendish graft to a character. The acolyte of the skin gains a fiendish skin at 1st level, and with increasing levels becomes more closely attuned to the graft. Other prestige classes are likely to exist that bestow different kinds of fiendish grafts.
Even when a character gains a fiendish graft as a prestige class benefit, however, a fiendish entity typically bestows the graft at the climax ofa dark ritual. Characters without such specific prestige classes can perform similar rituals in order to gain the benefits of a fiendish graft. Such a ritual requires 10 rounds and deals 1d4 points of damage to the character per round.
Finally, demons or devils with at least four levels in the fiend of corruption prestige class may grant fiendish grafts as a special ability. They grant these “gifts” as rewards to characters who are progressing well along the path of corruption, often in exchange for the mortal creature’s soul.
Creatures of good alignment with a fiendish graft must make a successful Will save (DC 15) every day or take 1d3 points of Wisdom damage as the experience drives them slowly mad.
Creatures of a nonevil alignment must make a Will save (DC 15) each day or succumb to temptation to perform an evil act. This may result in an alignment change, eventually.
When characters with fiendish grafts interact with nonevil NPCs, a −6 circumstance penalty is applied on all Charisma-based checks (Diplomacy, Bluff, and so on). This penalty applies even if the NPC is unaware of the graft’s presence, since it reflects the subtle twisting of the host’s personality.
| Creature Size | Flexible Arm, Long Arm, Fiendish Jaw | Clawed Arm, Grappling Tentacle, Trampling Leg |
|---|---|---|
| Fine | — | 1 |
| Diminutive | 1 | 1d2 |
| Tiny | 1d2 | 1d3 |
| Small | 1d3 | 1d4 |
| Medium | 1d4 | 1d6 |
| Large | 1d6 | 1d8 |
| Huge | 1d8 | 2d6 |
| Gargantuan | 2d6 | 2d8 |
| Colossal | 2d8 | 4d6 |
Charming Eye: This eye has a golden iris and an hourglass-shaped pupil like a goat’s. The grafted creature gains the ability to see perfectly in darkness of any kind, even magical darkness. In addition, the grafted creature gains a charming gaze attack. Anyone within 30 feet of the grafted creature that meets its eyes must make a Will saving throw (DC 14) or be charmed (as if by charm monster) for one day per total Hit Dice of the grafted creature. The save DC against this effect reflects a +2 bonus because only one of the grafted creatures eyes can make the attack. The grafted creature is immune to its own gaze attack.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (fiendish), charm monster, true seeing, creator must be a fiend; Market Price: 120,000 gp.
Clawed Arm: A clawed arm is muscular and sinewy, with a large, clawed hand. The grafted creature gains a +4 bonus to Strength when using the arm for any purpose, including attacking. If it is not holding anything or being used to perform another action, the grafted creature can direct the clawed arm to make one natural attack per round, using the creature’s base attack bonus and adjusted Strength modifier. This attack is in addition to the creature’s normal actions in a round. A successful attack deals damage based on the creature’s size (see Table: Fiendish Graft Damage by Creature Size) plus the creature’s adjusted Strength bonus.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (fiendish), bull’s strength, haste, creator must be a fiend; Market Price: 50,000 gp.
Fast Leg: Long and agile, a fast leg increases the creature’s speed by 10 feet when not wearing heavy armor or carrying a heavy load. Further, the creature gains a +5 competence bonus on Climb and Jump checks.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (fiendish), expeditious retreat, jump, creator must be a fiend; Market Price: 4,000 gp.
Fearsome Eye: This eye is bright red in color and has a black iris. The grafted creature gains the ability to continuously see invisibility as the spell from a 20th-level caster. In addition, the grafted creature gains a fear gaze attack. Anyone within 30 feet of the grafted creature that meets its eyes must make a Will saving throw (DC 14) or be paralyzed with fear for 1d4 rounds. The save DC against this effect reflects a +2 bonus because only one of the grafted creature’s eyes can make the attack. The grafted creature is immune to its own gaze attack.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (fiendish), fear, see invisibility, creator must be a fiend; Market Price: 120,000 gp.
Feathered Wings: Feathered wings resemble those of a vrock or erinyes: large and birdlike, though often bearing claws at the top joint. The grafted creature can fly at a speed equal to twice its normal land speed, with average maneuverability. When not flying, the grafted creature can use the wings to buffet and disorient its opponents, Each round, in addition to its normal attacks, it can make a Bluff check (opposed by its opponent’s Sense Motive check). If this check is successful, the grafted creature’s attacks in that round gain a +2 circumstance bonus.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (fiendish), fly, creator must be a fiend; Market Price: 10,000 gp.
Fiendish Ear: A fiendish ear is large and fan-shaped, with sharp spikes connected by thick membranous skin. A creature with a fiendish ear receives a +4 racial bonus on Listen checks and gains the benefit of the Blind-Fight feat.
Any time the grafted creature rolls a natural 1 on a Listen check, the ear transmits sound from the Windswept Depths of Pandemonium. The grafted creature is deafened for 1d4+1 rounds and suffers the effects of a confusion spell for the same duration. While deafened, it loses the benefit of the Blind-Fight feat.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (fiendish), creator must be a fiend; Market Price: 2,500 gp.
Fiendish Jaw: This is a large, heavy jawbone covered in thick, scaly skin. Two large tusks protrude from a row of sharp, crooked teeth. These tusks allow the grafted creature to make a gore natural attack, dealing damage based on the grafted creature’s size (see Table: Fiendish Graft Damage by Creature Size).
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (fiendish), creator must be a fiend; Market Price: 2,000 gp.
Fiendish Skin: Fiendish skin improves the grafted creature’s natural armor bonus by +1 and grants it a +2 inherent bonus to Dexterity. In addition, the grafted creature gains darkvision with a range of 60 feet. Once per day, the grafted creature can use poison as the spell from a 16th-level caster (Fort save DC 18 + grafted creatures Cha modifier).
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (fiendish), barkskin, cat’s grace, poison, creator must be a fiend; Market Price: 55,000 gp.
Flexible Arm: A flexible arm is long and flexible like a tentacle, with a crude, three-fingered claw at the end. Ifit is not holding anything or being used to perform another action, the grafted creature can direct the arm to make one natural attack per round, using the grafted creatures base attack bonus and Strength modifier. This attack is in addition to the grafted creatures normal actions in a round. A successful attack deals damage based on the grafted creatures size (see Table: Fiendish Graft Damage by Creature Size) plus its Strength bonus.
If the grafted creature uses the flexible arm to wield a weapon, all attacks with that weapon take a −2 penalty. Once per day, as a standard action, the grafted creature can direct the arm to cast magic missile as a 5th-level caster.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (fiendish), haste, magic missile, creator must be a fiend; Market Price: 27,000 gp.
Grappling Tentacle: A grappling tentacle strongly resembles a flexible arm—it is a long tentacle with barbed hooks instead of fingers or claws at the end. It cannot use a weapon effectively, though it can perform gross manipulation such as pulling a large lever or lifting a portcullis. The grafted creature gains a +4 bonus to Strength when using the tentacle for any purpose. When the grafted creature grapples, it uses its adjusted Strength score (with the tentacles bonus) and gains an additional +4 bonus on its grapple checks made to hold, pin, or damage an opponent. It does not gain this special bonus when trying to break free of a grapple.
The grappling tentacle can be used to make natural attacks, dealing damage based on the grafted creatures size (see Table: Fiendish Graft Damage by Creature Size) plus its adjusted Strength bonus. It does not confer the benefits of the improved grab special attack.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (fiendish), bull’s strength, creator must be a fiend; Market Price: 20,000 gp.
Long Arm: A long arm is thin and wiry, and unusually long for the grafted creature’s size. The grafted creature’s natural reach for attacks made with the arm or weapons held in the arm increases by 5 feet. Though it cannot take independent action, the arm can be used to make natural attacks, dealing damage based on the grafted creature’s size (see Table: Fiendish Graft Damage by Creature Size).
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (fiendish), creator must be a fiend; Market Price: 5,000 gp.
Membranous Wings: Membranous wings resemble those of a succubus, pit fiend, or bat. The grafted creature can fly at a speed equal to twice its normal land speed, with average maneuverability. The grafted creature gains resistance to fire 10 and cold 10.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (fiendish), fly, protection from energy, creator must be a fiend; Market Price: 50,000 gp.
Springing Leg: This extremely long leg is bent, either forward (like a frog’s) or backward (like a grasshopper’s). The creature gains a +30 competence bonus on Jump checks. The creatures normal land speed is reduced by 10 feet, however, because of the discrepancy between its two legs.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (fiendish), jump, creator must be a fiend; Market Price: 35,000 gp.
Sting Tail: A sting tail is long and thick, with a segmented, chitinous appearance and a stinger like that of a scorpion at the end. The grafted creature can direct the sting tail to make one natural attack per round, using the grafted creature’s base attack bonus and Strength modifier. This attack is in addition to the grafted creature’s normal actions in a round. A successful attack deals 2d4 points of damage (regardless of the grafted creature’s size) plus the grafted creature’s Strength bonus. In addition, the stinging tail delivers a poison (Fort DC 14 negates) with each successful attack. Initial and secondary damage are the same (1d6 Str).
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (fiendish), haste, poison, creator must be a fiend; Market Price: 50,000 gp.
Strong Leg: A strong leg is thick and muscular. A creature with this leg gains a +2 inherent bonus to its Constitution score.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (fiendish), endurance, creator must be a fiend; Market Price: 8,000 gp.
Trampling Leg: A trampling leg is short and thick, ending in a stumplike foot similar to an elephant’s. As a standard action during its turn each round, the grafted creature can move up to its speed and literally run over opponents at least one size category smaller than itself. This attack deals bludgeoning damage based on the grafted creature’s size (see Table: Fiendish Graft Damage by Creature Size). A trampled opponent can attempt either an attack of opportunity at a −4 penalty or a Reflex save (DC 10 + ½ the grafted creatures HD + grafted creatures Str modifier) for half damage.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (fiendish), bull’s strength, polymorph, creator must be a fiend; Market Price: 5,000 gp.
Whip Tail: A whip tail is long and thin, and lashes around behind the grafted creature as if of its own volition. As a full-round action, the grafted creature can direct the tail to attack one creature within a radius equal to the creature’s natural reach plus 10 feet. The tail uses the grafted creatures base attack and size modifier and adds a Strength modifier of +2, dealing 1d6+3 points of damage on a successful hit (regardless of the grafted creature’s size and Strength). Wounds from the whip tail burn fiercely, causing the struck creature to be dazed for 1 round unless it makes a successful Fortitude save (DC 11).
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (fiendish), ghoul touch, creator must be a fiend; Market Price: 8,000 gp.
Some say that the mind flayers were the first creatures to experiment with grafts and develop the techniques of attaching flesh from one creature to another. Others say fiends hold that dubious honor, and a fiend of corruption taught the process to an illithid. Whatever the case, it is undeniably true that many experienced illithids have mastered the Graft Flesh feat and used it to bestow a wide variety of grafts upon their thralls. These grafts often make the thralls more useful in combat against the mind flayers’ enemies, but they also weaken the thralls’ will. A creature with an illithid graft of any kind takes a −4 penalty on Will saves against mind-affecting spells, psionic powers, and effects.
Mind flayers commonly add grafts to their thralls. An illithid needs only the Graft Flesh feat to bestow these grafts, so horribly transformed thralls are quite common in illithid settlements.
The process of creating a ceremorph (see the half-illithid template) is a much more radical transformation of the host creature than an illithid graft.
| Creature Size | Goring Horn | Grasping Mandibles | Raking Tentacle | Rending Claw |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fine | 1d2 | 1d3 | — | 1 |
| Diminutive | 1d3 | 1d4 | 1 | 1d2 |
| Tiny | 1d4 | 1d6 | 1d2 | 1d3 |
| Small | 1d6 | 1d8 | 1d3 | 1d4 |
| Medium | 1d8 | 2d6 | 1d4 | 1d6 |
| Large | 2d6 | 2d8 | 1d6 | 1d8 |
| Huge | 2d8 | 4d6 | 1d8 | 2d6 |
| Gargantuan | 4d6 | 4d8 | 2d6 | 2d8 |
| Colossal | 4d8 | 8d6 | 2d8 | 4d6 |
Antennae Graft: A pair of long antennae sprout from the grafted creature’s head, and hundreds of inch-long hairs are embedded into its shoulders and arms. The combined effect of these complex sensory organs is to give the grafted creature tremorsense, allowing it to sense the location of anything within 60 feet that is in contact with the ground.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (illithid), creator must be an illithid; Market Price: 20,000 gp.
Burrowing Claws: This graft replaces both of the recipient’s hands with thick-fingered claws tipped with iron-hard ridges. The recipient gains a −4 penalty on Disable Device, Open Lock, and Sleight of Hand checks, but gains a burrow speed of 20 feet. The creature can even burrow through solid stone or any other material with hardness of no more than 8. The claws allow the creature to deal lethal damage with its unarmed strikes. Illithids gift thralls with these grafts when they need to expand a cavern’s size or dig new tunnels through the stony ground.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (illithid), creator must be an illithid; Market Price: 30,000 gp.
Climbing Legs: Climbing legs jut out from the creature’s body. Each has a knee that bends to the creature’s side, and ends in a splayed foot with large, sticky pads on the four toes. The overall effect strongly resembles the legs and feet of a gecko. The creature can walk up walls and even upside down on ceilings at a speed of 15 feet, as if wearing slippers of spider climbing.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (illithid), creator must be an illithid; Market Price: 4,000 gp.
Darksight Eyes: These pale, pupilless eyes are similar in appearance to the eyes of an illithid. The graft recipient gains darkvision out to 60 feet. Illithids graft these eyes into favored thralls that can more easily accomplish their jobs in the lightless underground if they can see.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (illithid), creator must be an illithid; Market Price: 24,000 gp.
Goring Horn: This graft alters the entire facial structure of the creature, lengthening its face into a bestial muzzle and attaching a long, sharp horn. The grafted creature can make a natural attack with the horn, dealing piercing damage based on the grafted creatures size (see Table: Illithid Graft Damage by Creature Size). The creature also gains the benefit of the Improved Bull Rush feat.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (illithid), creator must be an illithid; Market Price: 8,000 gp.
Grasping Mandibles: These are a huge pair of chitinous mandibles strongly resembling those of an umber hulk, grafted onto either side of the creature’s mouth (with accompanying enlargement of the jaw and its muscles). The grafted creature deals slashing damage with its bite attack based on the grafted creature’s size (see Table: Illithid Graft Damage by Creature Size). If the grafted creature hits an opponent that is at least one size category smaller than itself with its bite attack, it deals normal damage and attempts to start a grapple as a free action without provoking an attack of opportunity. Each successful grapple check it makes during successive rounds automatically deals bite damage.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (illithid), creator must be an illithid; Market Price: 15,000 gp.
Hauling Back: This graft contorts and strengthens the creature’s spine and back muscles, while forcing it to stoop low enough to use its hands while walking. A hauling back applied to a bipedal creature turns it into a quadruped for the purposes of determining carrying capacity. Illithids typically apply this graft to Large or larger creatures, since the benefit is minimal for Medium creatures and nonexistent for smaller ones.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (illithid), creator must be an illithid; Market Price: 2,000 gp.
Mind Blast Relay: This strange graft is implanted into the depths of the grafted creature’s brain. The graft gives the creature complete immunity to mind blasts. Further, any mind flayer within 60 feet of a creature with a mind blast relay graft can automatically detect the graft when it uses telepathy on that creature. A mind flayer can then choose to relay its mind blast attack into that creature by activating its own mind blast. Once the mind blast is relayed, the mind flayer can choose to either allow the mind blast to manifest (in which case it does so in a 20-foot-radius blast centered on the grafted creature) or to relay it to a new creature with a mind blast relay within 20 feet of the current creature. A mind flayer can continue to relay its mind blast as a free action again and again until it gets to the mind blast relay it desires, at which point the creature allows it to manifest. Each time a mind blast is relayed, the DC to save against its effect is reduced by 2. A mind flayer must maintain line of sight to each creature in the chain of mind blast relays, but otherwise the only practical limit to the usefulness of this graft is the number of relays available and the original save DC of the illithid’s mind blast.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (illithid), creator must be an illithid; Market Price: 50,000 gp.
Raking Tentacle: This is a long, flexible tentacle with sharp, bony protrusions at the end. It replaces an arm or forelimb, allowing the grafted creature to make a natural attack with the raking tentacle. The tentacle deals slashing damage based on the grafted creature’s size (see Table: Illithid Graft Damage by Creature Size). It extends the grafted creature’s natural reach by 5 feet but cannot be used to wield a weapon or perform any fine manipulation. The grafted creature takes a −2 penalty on all skill checks requiring the use of hands.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (illithid), creator must be an illithid; Market Price: 5,000 gp.
Rending Claw: A rending claw is actually an entire arm—overlong for the grafted creature’s height (typically reaching all the way to the floor) and powerfully muscled. The hand boasts long, sharp claws resembling knife blades. The grafted creature can make a natural attack with the rending claw, dealing slashing damage based on the grafted creatures size (see Table: Illithid Graft Damage by Creature Size). The rending claw deals ×3 damage on a critical hit. The grafted creature takes a −4 penalty on skill checks that require precision or fine manipulation with the rending claw.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (illithid), creator must be an illithid; Market Price: 5,000 gp.
Weapon Graft: While most grafts are living tissue attached to another living body, a weapon graft is exactly what the name suggests: a normal, masterwork, or magic melee weapon grafted onto the hand of a thrall so it is never unarmed. The weapon actually becomes a natural weapon, though its other properties are unchanged. The grafted creature receives a +1 bonus on all attack and damage rolls with the weapon, as long as it is proficient with the weapon. However, it cannot use the hand with the graft for anything but combat, and it takes a −2 penalty on all skill checks requiring the use of hands.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (illithid), creator must be an illithid; Market Price: weapon price + 1,000 gp.
Maug spellcasters apply special grafts onto maugs when they create more of their race on the plane of Acheron. All maug grafts are construct grafts, usually made from the stone of Thuldanin, the second layer of Acheron. Only maugs understand the secrets of their creation, but spellcasting maugs often transform their followers with such grafts.
| Creature Size | Roller | Stone Spitter | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stone | Bullet | Increased | ||
| Fine | 1d6 | — | 1 | 1d2+1 |
| Diminutive | 1d8 | 1 | 1d2 | 1d3+1 |
| Tiny | 2d6 | 1d2 | 1d3 | 1d4+l |
| Small | 2d8 | 1d3 | 1d4 | 1d6+1 |
| Medium | 4d6 | 1d3 | 1d4 | 1d6+1 |
| Large | 4d8 | 1d4 | 1d6 | 1d8+1 |
| Huge | 8d6 | 1d6 | 1d8 | 1d10+1 |
| Gargantuan | 8d8 | 1d8 | 1d10 | 2d6+1 |
| Colossal | 16d6 | 1d10 | 2d6 | 2d8+1 |
Locking Hand: This stone hand is designed so that its fingers can clasp and lock together. It replaces a creature’s normal hand. When used to make unarmed attacks, it deals normal damage unless the attacker chooses to take a −4 penalty to deal nonlethal damage. A locking hand does not change the amount of damage a creature deals with its unarmed or natural attacks.
The main purpose of a locking hand is to strengthen a creature’s grip, making it more difficult to disarm the creature or dislodge an item from its grasp. The grafted creature gets a +5 bonus on any roll to avoid being disarmed, to oppose attempts to escape a grapple, to catch itself while falling, and to hold onto a surface when damaged while climbing. A creature with more than one locking hand stacks the bonuses of each hand involved in the activity.
Locking hands can be locked and unlocked as easily as a creature can make a fist; they do not inhibit spellcasting or skill use. The bonus from a locking hand stacks with that provided by a locked gauntlet.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (maug), bull’s strength, creator must be a maug; Market Price: 2,000 gp.
Rollers: Six great stone cylinders beneath a pyramid of rock, rollers replace the creature’s legs and feet. Rollers add 20 feet to the grafted creature’s land speed and give it the ability to trample foes, but the grafted creature takes a −8 penalty on Climb, Ride, and Swim skill checks. The grafted creature cannot run.
As a standard action during its turn each round, the grafted creature can move up to its speed and run over opponents at least one size category smaller than itself. This attack deals bludgeoning damage based on the creature’s size (see Table: Maug Graft Damage by Creature Size). A trampled opponent can attempt either an attack of opportunity at a −4 penalty or a Reflex save (DC 10 + ½ grafted creatures HD + grafted creatures Str modifier) for half damage.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (maug), expeditious retreat, polymorph, creator must be a maug; Market Price: 10,000 gp.
Shoving Arm: A shoving arm is a pistonlike stone appendage that ends in an upright, flattened stone hand. It is attached a creature’s torso along with a stone “belt” to secure it in place. The arm is useless for most activities, but once per round as an attack action it can be used to make a special shoving attack against any opponent within 5 feet of the grafted creature. The grafted creature makes a melee touch attack that does not provoke an attack of opportunity. If it hits with its shoving arm, it and the struck opponent make opposed Strength checks as though the grafted creature had made a bull rush attack. In addition to the normal bonuses, the grafted creature adds a special +5 bonus on this roll. If the grafted creature wins, the defender is pushed back 5 feet plus an additional 1 foot per point by which the grafted creature exceeded the defender’s result. The grafted creature does not move with the shoved defender.
For purposes of shoving unattended objects, the shoving arm has a Strength equal to 10 + the Strength of the grafted creature. The shoving arm can push creatures and objects in straight lines only.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (maug), bull’s strength, creator must be a maug; Market Price: 2,000 gp.
Shudder Plate: Usually placed in the chest of a creature, a shudder plate looks like a thin square of shale set in a stone frame. Specially designed and enhanced, a shudder plate quietly shakes and vibrates in its case, giving the grafted creature a supernatural understanding of the area surrounding it. If the grafted creature is in contact with the ground, it can sense the location of anything within 15 feet that is also in contact with the ground. In addition, the grafted creature takes a −4 penalty on Move Silently skill checks.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (maug), see invisibility, creator must be a maug; Market Price: 8,000 gp.
Spike Stones: These small round stones are inserted into the surface of the flesh of a creature, all over its body. The grafted creature can cause them to grow as a standard action that does not provoke an attack of opportunity. The stones suddenly lengthen into sharp spikes, capable of piecing flesh and armor alike. In a grapple, the spikes deal 2d4 points of piercing damage in addition to normal grapple damage when the grafted creature makes a successful grapple check. A grafted creature can also use the spikes as a light weapon that deals 1d4 points of piercing damage; in conjunction with an unarmed or natural attack, the spike stones deal an additional 1d4 points of piercing damage with each hit.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (maug), spike stones, creator must be a maug; Market Price: 4,000 gp.
Stone Spitter: A stone spitter is a boxlike or binlike device, usually affixed to the shoulder of a creature. At the weapon’s base is a tube from which stones can be fired with amazing accuracy and deadly effect. A creature grafted with a stone spitter can use it to fire a stone have a range increment of 50 feet, dealing damage according to the grafted creature’s size (see Table: Maug Graft Damage by Creature Size).
Six times per day, the stone spitter can fire its ammunition at a supernaturally high velocity and power. Such attacks deal damage one die type higher than normal (use the “Increased” column on Table: Maug Graft Damage by Creature Size) and have a +1 enhancement bonus on attack and damage rolls. A stone spitter can be loaded with up to 50 stones or sling bullets.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (maug), magic stone, creator must be a maug; Market Price: 2,000 gp.
Although they once used these grafts on themselves to great success, the silthilars’ current incarnation as hivemind swarms makes it impossible for them to continue the practice. Yet the silthilar are loath to give up the skills and tradition. Silthilar have taken to providing these grafts to paying customers. They have also been known to provide grafts to allies or friends who perform services for them.
Silthilar grafts function only when applied to a living corporeal creature; applied to any other creature, they rot away over the course of 2d4 days.
Chitin Plating: This graft consists of numerous interlocking chitin plates grafted onto the creature’s skin. These plates are tough, yet flexible, and grant the recipient a natural armor bonus ranging from +1 to +5. This natural armor bonus does not stack with any other natural armor bonus the creature might possess as a virtue of his race, but it does stack with enhancement bonuses to natural armor granted by magic such as barkskin or an amulet of natural armor.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (silthilar); Market Price: 4,000 gp (+1), 16,000 gp (+2), 36,000 gp (+3), 64,000 gp (+4), 100,000 gp (+5).
Flexible Spine: This invasive graft replaces the creature’s spine, including the spinal cord, with a much more flexible and efficient set of nerves and vertebrae. The graft grants a +4 racial bonus on initiative checks, Balance checks, Escape Artist checks, and Tumble checks.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (silthilar), regenerate; Market Price: 91,000 gp.
Extended Legs: This graft extends the creature’s legs, making it taller and faster. The creature’s height increases by 5%, but this does not increase the creature’s size category. The creature’s base land speed increases by 5 feet.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (silthilar), longstrider; Market Price: 91,000 gp.
Healing Blood: This unique graft consists of a total transfusion of blood. The creature’s original blood supply is drained completely and replaced with a similar fluid that grants the grafted creature fast healing 2.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (silthilar), regenerate; Market Price: 182,000 gp.
Rudimentary Eyespots: This graft consists of several patches of light-sensitive skin placed on the back of the grafted creature’s neck and the back of each hand. These patches improve the grafted creature’s vision, granting it a +4 bonus on Spot checks. In addition, the creature can no longer be flanked.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (silthilar), regenerate; Market Price: 60,000 gp.
Silthilar Bones: This graft transforms and augments the creature’s skeletal structure, making it stronger. The grafted bones improve the creature’s Constitution score by 2 points.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (silthilar), bear’s endurance; Price 110,000 gp.
Silthilar Heart: This complex graft adds several augmentations to the grafted creature’s heart and cardiovascular system. If the grafted creature drops below 1 hit point but not below −10 hit points, the graft immediately generates a pulse of magic healing that cures 4d8+20 points of damage. A silthilar heart can generate this healing only once every 24 hours.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (silthilar), cure serious wounds, contingency; Price 91,000 gp.
Silthilar Muscles: This graft transforms and augments the creature’s existing muscles. The grafted muscles improve the creature’s Strength score by 2 points.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (silthilar), bull’s strength; Price 110,000 gp.
Silthilar Tendons: This graft replaces the creature’s tendons, making the creature more adroit and coordinated. The grafted tendons improve the creature’s Dexterity score by 2 points.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (silthilar), cat’s grace; Price 110,000 gp.
The results of vile experimentation by living necromancers and death priests seeking to become more like what they revere while remaining on this side of death, undead grafts are formed of nonliving flesh attached to a still-living body.
Any spellcaster with the Graft Flesh feat and the proper prerequisites can create and apply an undead graft. Members of the pale master prestige class receive certain grafts for free as they advance in levels, and become more adept in the use of their grafts as well.
Bonemail: Bonemail resembles armor crafted from interlocking bones and shards of bone, but is actually part of the grafted creature’s body. Bonemail grants a +2 natural armor bonus to the grafted creature’s AC.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (undead), animate dead; Market Price: 16,000 gp.
Bodak’s Eye: This white, empty eye fits into a humanoid creature’s empty eye socket and allows the grafted creature to make a death gaze attack once per day. The creature must use a standard action to target a creature with the gaze, and the range of the effect is 30 feet. A DC 15 Fortitude save negates the effect. Unlike an actual bodak’s death gaze, a target that dies from this attack does not transform into a bodak 24 hours later.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (undead), finger of death; Market Price: 25,000 gp.
Enervating Arm: An enervating arm is a gaunt limb of desiccated, leathery flesh. It grants a +4 inherent bonus to the grafted creature’s Strength. Twice per day, the grafted creature can use an enervating touch to bestow one negative level on a living creature. Removing the negative level requires a DC 14 Fortitude save. A touch that misses does not count against the daily limit.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (undead), enervation; Market Price: 40,000 gp.
Eye of Flame: This crimson eye-shaped gem fits into a humanoid creature’s empty eye socket and can produce a fireball once per day upon command. The fireball deals 10d6 points of damage (Reflex DC 14 half). Half of the damage is fire damage, and the other half is divine damage that affects even targets resistant to fire.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (undead), fireball; Market Price: 10,800 gp.
Ghostly Arm: This gray, incorporeal arm can’t be used to manipulate solid objects. However, the grafted creature can use the ghostly arm to deliver an incorporeal touch attack that deals 1d6 points of damage, the equivalent of a ghost’s corrupting touch attack. Treat the arm as a secondary weapon, but because it is incorporeal the arm has no Strength score and therefore gains no bonus or penalty on damage rolls from the user’s Strength.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (undead), ethereal jaunt; Market Price: 6,000 gp.
Mohrg’s Tongue: This long, cartilaginous tongue bears sharp claws at its tip. The grafted creature can make touch attacks with the tongue (treat it as a secondary weapon). A successful touch paralyzes the target for 1d4 minutes (Fortitude DC 17 negates).
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (undead), ghoul touch; Market Price: 24,000 gp.
Mummified Eye: This hard, round orb fits into a humanoid creature’s empty eye socket and looks much like a normal eye at first glance, but it has a distinctly dry appearance and does not move in the socket. The grafted creature can use the eyebite spell as a 12th-level caster once per day.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (undead), eyebite; Market Price: 50,000 gp.
Mummified Hand: This withered hand is swathed in the remnants of funereal wrappings. The grafted creature can use the mummified hand to deliver a slam attack; the damage dealt is the same as that dealt by a zombie of the creature’s size. In addition, three times per day the grafted creature can deliver mummy rot with a slam attack. The choice to use mummy rot must be made before the attack is rolled; if the attack misses, the daily use is lost. The Fortitude save to resist the mummy rot is DC 16.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (undead), contagion; Market Price: 16,200 gp.
Paralyzing Arm: A paralyzing arm is a hardy limb of preserved undead flesh. It grants a +4 inherent bonus to the grafted creature’s Strength. Twice per day, the grafted creature can use a paralyzing touch. A living creature touched must make a Fortitude save (DC 14) or be paralyzed for 1d6+2 minutes. Elves are immune to this paralyzing touch. A touch that misses does not count against the daily limit.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (undead), gentle repose, ghoul touch; Market Price: 40,000 gp.
Skeletal Hand: The grafted creature can use this bony hand to make claw attacks. The damage dealt is the same as that dealt by a skeleton of the creature’s size.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (undead), animate dead; Market Price: 3,000 gp.
Undead Skin: This mottled gray hide grants the grafted creature 25% resistance to critical hits and sneak attacks, similar to armor of light fortification. This resistance doesn’t stack with similar abilities.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (undead), animate dead; Market Price: 16,000 gp.
Vampiric Fangs: This set of sharp teeth replaces the creature’s existing teeth. The grafted creature gains the ability to drain blood from a living victim with its fangs by making a successful grapple check. If it pins the foe, it drains blood, dealing 1d4 points of Constitution damage each round. On each such successful drain attack, the grafted creature gains 5 temporary hit points that last for up to 1 hour.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (undead), vampiric touch; Market Price: 25,000 gp.
Weakening Arm: A weakening arm is a skeletal forelimb that grants a +4 inherent bonus to the grafted creature’s Strength. Twice per day, the grafted creature can use a weakening touch. A living creature touched takes 1d6 points of Strength damage. A touch that misses does not count against the daily limit.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (undead), ray of enfeeblement; Market Price: 40,000 gp.
Zombie Arm: A zombie arm is a perpetually rotting limb. It grants a +2 inherent bonus to the grafted creature’s Strength, but also permanently reduces the grafted creature’s Dexterity by 2. The grafted creature can use the zombie arm to make slam attacks; the damage dealt is the same as that dealt by a zombie of the creature’s size.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (undead), animate dead; Market Price: 25,000 gp.
Yuan-ti grafts are serpentine body parts that can be attached to the body of another corporeal creature.
The monstrously powerful yuan-ti anathemas (described earlier in this book) are the primary creators of yuan-ti grafts, since they can create them quickly. Other yuan-ti that work closely with humanoid agents or cultists often learn the Graft Flesh feat and enhance their minions with these grafts.
Added Tail: Extending from the creature’s tailbone rather than replacing its legs, an added tail gives the grafted creature a natural swim speed equal to half its land speed. Like any creature with a natural swim speed, the grafted creature need not make Swim checks to move at its swim speed underwater, and gains a +8 racial bonus on Swim checks made to perform some special action or avoid a hazard. The grafted creature can always choose to take 10 on a Swim check, even if rushed or threatened when swimming, and can use the run action while swimming, if it swims in a straight line. The grafted creature also gains a +4 racial bonus on Balance checks, and can constrict Small or smaller creatures: with a successful grapple check, it deals 1d4 points of bludgeoning damage plus 1½ times its Strength modifier to the grappled foe.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (yuan-ti), creator must be a yuan-ti; Market Price: 6,000 gp.
Poison Fangs: These long, sharp fangs allow the grafted creature to deliver poison (Fort DC 17 negates) with its bite. Initial and secondary damage are the same (1d6 Con). If the grafted creature did not previously have a natural bite attack, it can bite only a grappled foe (delivering the poison with a successful grapple check to pin the creature) or a helpless opponent.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (yuan-ti), creator must be a yuan-ti; Market Price: 8,000 gp.
Replacement Tail: This tail replaces the grafted creatures legs or rear limbs. The grafted creature’s base land speed is reduced by 10 feet, but it can climb and swim at half its original land speed. The creature can constrict Medium-size or smaller creatures: With a successful grapple check, it deals 1d4 points of bludgeoning damage plus 1½ times its Strength modifier to the grappled foe.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (yuan-ti), creator must be a yuan-ti; Market Price: 12,000 gp.
Scaly Skin: This yuan-ti skin improves the grafted creatures natural armor bonus by +3.
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (yuan-ti), creator must be a yuan-ti; Market Price: 36,000 gp.
Serpent Arm: This is a long, flexible arm ending in a snake head. The grafted creature can make one bite attack with the arm, dealing 1d4 points of damage plus poison (Fort DC 17 negates). Initial and secondary damage are the same (1d6 Con).
Prerequisites: Graft Flesh (yuan-ti), creator must be a yuan-ti; Market Price: 12,000 gp.
Source: Most of this text is found in Fiend Folio from Appendix 2: Grafts and Symbionts (pages 207 through 215). However, the undead grafts come from Libris Mortis, which was a later (version 3.5) publication and had more undead grafts than were listed in the Fiend Folio, including all the ones in that publication. Other grafts were grafted from Lords of Madness, pages 215 through 217. The styles of all of these graft sources were integrated to a single common style to retain the most information.