SHEDU

Lawful Good Large Monster (extraplanar, psionic)

FREQUENCY: Rare

NO. APPEARING: 2-8 (VII. 1-2)

SURPRISE: 33%

SENSES: infravision

ARMOR CLASS: 4

MOVE: 12" — fly 24" (Class C)

HIT DICE: 9 + 9 (49 hp)

% IN LAIR: 25%

TREASURE TYPE: G

THAC0: 10

MELEE: 2 hooves (1d6 each)

SPECIAL ATTACKS: psionics - Hits As: +3

SPECIAL DEFENSES: phasing

MAGIC RESISTANCE: 80%

INTELLIGENCE: Exceptional (15-16)

MORALE: +46%

SAVES: Poison 7, Petrify 8, Wand 9, Breath 8, Spell 10

LANGUAGES: Shedu, others (see description), telepathy (100-ft.)

PSIONIC ABILITY: 140-200; Attack/Defense: All/All

LEVEL: VII (XP 1,950 + 14 per hp)

Shedu travel about the world seeking to further the ends of lawful good, helping allied creatures when in need.

Although shedu can attack with their powerful front hooves, they are more likely to use their psionic abilities: 3 major and 5 minor disciplines. All such abilities are performed at 9th level of mastery.

Campaign Rule. Their psionic ability points have been doubled based on figures given in OD&D. For typical psionic abilities, see Greater Shedu.

Shedu can become ethereal at will, and they frequently travel the astral and ethereal planes.

Shedu have their own language and know most human tongues; as they have a limited form of telephathy, shedu generally communicate by direct mind contact.

SHEDU, Greater

Lawful Good Large Monster (extraplanar, psionic)

FREQUENCY: Very rare

NO. APPEARING: 1-2

SURPRISE: 33%

SENSES: infravision

ARMOR CLASS: 2

MOVE: 15" — fly 30" (Class B)

HIT DICE: 14 + 14 (77 hp)

% IN LAIR: nil

TREASURE TYPE: nil

THAC0: 8

MELEE: 2 hooves (3d6 each)

SPECIAL ATTACKS: psionics - Hits As: +4

SPECIAL DEFENSES: phasing

MAGIC RESISTANCE: 105%

INTELLIGENCE: Genius (17-18, Wis 16-18)

MORALE: +84%

SAVES: Poison 3, Petrify 4, Wand 5, Breath 4, Spell 6

LANGUAGES: Shedu, others (see description), telepathy (100-ft.)

PSIONIC ABILITY: 240-300; Attack/Defense: All/All

LEVEL: IX (XP 5,250 + 20 per hp)

Greater shedu are close allies of their lesser cousins. They typically rule any group of 6 or more normal shedu, doing so most beneficently.

The attacks of greater shedu are by powerful blows of the forehooves.

They radiate protection from evil within a 10-foot radius.

They can become ethereal and invisible at will.

Greater shedu have 7 minor and 4 major psionic disciplines which they perform at 14th level of mastery.

Greater shedu perform the disciplines of dimension walk, probability travel, and teleportation without any strength cost whatsoever.

Usual minor disciplines are: clairaudience or clairvoyance, detection of evil or detection of magic, domination or hypnosis, molecular agitation, object reading or sensitivity to psychic impressions, and precognition. Usual major disciplines are: body control or energy control, mass domination or mind bar, molecular manipulation or telekinesis (3,150 gp weight), and shape alteration.

Campaign Rule. Their psionic ability points have been doubled based on changes to normal shedu.

In addition to the languages of Lawful Good, lammasu, shedu, Common, and root languages, greater shedu can speak telepathically with most animals and monsters and can even communicate with plants in an elementary manner.

While preferring the warm, dry climes which all lammasu and shedu favor, greater shedu are prone to roam the Prime Material, Astral, and Ethereal Planes seeking to succor creatures of Good alignment, aid them, and combat Evil.

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