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Dero Strangler

Creature 3 — dero, humanoid

Dero stranglers specialize in capturing living victims, and they are often called upon to aid in abductions. Deros are short, wiry humanoids with milky white eyes, gray-blue skin, and wild shocks of off-white or gray hair. The descendants of a mysterious type of fey abandoned in the deepest, darkest caverns of Golarion, deros are the subject of fearful legends and folk tales to most of the world's surface races. They skulk beneath major metropolitan areas, performing cruel and twisted experimen

Source: pathfinder-monster-core

Perception +6
Skills athletics +11, intimidation +7, medicine +6, stealth +10
Str
+4
Dex
+3
Con
+3
Int
+0
Wis
-1
Cha
+2
AC 19 Fort +10 Ref +8 Will +6
HP 45
Immunities confused
Speed 20 feet

Offense

Melee Spiked Chain +11, Damage 1d8+6 bludgeoning
Ranged Hand Crossbow +10, Damage 1d6+2 piercing

Abilities

Ill Glow (disease, light) — A non-dero living creature that starts its turn Grabbed or Restrained by the strangler is exposed to the sickly blue light from the strangler's cytillesh toolkit. It must succeed at a DC 19 Fortitude save or become Sickened 1. This has no effect if the strangler isn't wearing the toolkit.
Vulnerable to Sunlight — A dero strangler takes 8 untyped damage for every hour they're exposed to sunlight.
Dero Medicine (healing, manipulate) —
Strangle (attack, nonlethal) —

Spells

Darkness (rank 2)
Revealing Light (rank 2)
Daze (rank 1)
Light (rank 1)
Read Aura (rank 1)

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