GUARDIAN DAEMON

Neutral Man-sized or Large Monster (extraplanar)

FREQUENCY: Very rare

NO. APPEARING: 1-3

SURPRISE: 33%

SENSES infravision

ARMOR CLASS: 1

MOVE: 9"

HIT DICE: 8 (hp 36)

% IN LAIR: nil

TREASURE TYPE: See description

THAC0: 12

MELEE: 2 claws (1d12 each), bite (1d6)

SPECIAL ATTACKS: breath weapon; Hits As: +2

SPECIAL DEFENSES: immune to charm, fear, hold, sleep, polymorph effects; DR/+2 (magic-none)

MAGIC RESISTANCE: Standard

INTELLIGENCE: Very

MORALE: +40%

SAVES: Poison 11; Petrify 12; Wand 13; Breath 13; Spell 14

LANGUAGES: Can speak and understand all languages

LEVEL: VII (XP 1,275 + 10 per hp)

These daemons vary in size and form—examples encountered have resembled TYPE II or TYPE IV demons, large bears and wild cats. They are summoned by Evil high priests to guard treasure and though their movement for melee purposes is 9" they are constrained never to leave the treasure they guard, unless released by the summoner.

Despite their variation in size and form they always exhibit certain characteristics in common:

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d.)

immunity to charm, hold, sleep, polymorph and fear;

immunity to non-magical weapons and to magical weapons with a bonus less than +2;

ability to speak and understand all languages; and

ability to breathe fire in a cone 30' long with a 10' base diameter inflicting 5-30 hit points of damage (saving throw will halve damage).

In melee the daemon attacks with a bite for 1-6 hit points of damage and two claws, each inflicting 1-12 hit points of damage, since they are unable to use their breath weapon on a target within 10-ft.

The nature of their summoning usually (80%) leaves them invulnerable to one other particular form of attack (e.g. fire or swords) in addition to those specified above.

Guardian daemons have no treasure of their own (on the Prime Material Plane—they may well own treasure in their natural home) and will always be guarding the treasure of their summoner, so treasure must be determined by reference to the summoner. In that treasure there will usually be at least one clerical scroll and/or a magical device of clerical nature.

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