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So darn lazy!
Despite the incongruity
of the size of the cat’s head compared to its polar bear body, the white fur
coloration is seamless in this weird combination.
Polar Cat CR 4
XP 1,200
CN Large magical beast
Init +2; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light
vision, scent, snow vision; Perception +9
DEFENSE
AC 18, touch 12,
flat-footed 15 (+2 Dex, +1 dodge, +6 natural, –1 size)
hp 42 (5d10+15)
Fort +7, Ref +6, Will +4
Immune cold
OFFENSE
Speed 40 ft.,
swim 30 ft.; ice walk
Melee bite +8
(1d6+4 plus 1d6 cold grab), 2 claws +8 (1d4+4)
Space 10 ft.; Reach 5 ft.
Special Attacks
breath weapon (30-ft.-radius cloud, 5d6 cold damage, Reflex DC 15 for half,
usable every 1d4 rounds), pounce, rake (2 claws +8, 1d4+4)
STATISTICS
Str 18, Dex 15, Con 16, Int 7, Wis 13, Cha 12
Base Atk +5; CMB +10 (+14 grapple); CMD 23 (27 vs. trip)
Feats Dodge, Iron
Will, Mobility
Skills Acrobatics
+7 (+11 to jump), Perception +9, Stealth +3 (+11 in snow), Swim +12; Racial Modifiers +8 Stealth in snow
ECOLOGY
Environment cold coastlines
and plains
Organization
solitary, pair, or clowder (3–8)
Treasure none
SPECIAL ABILITIES
Breath Weapon (Su)
For 1d4 rounds after a polar cat uses its breath weapon, the area is treated as
difficult terrain and creatures inside the area take a –4 penalty on Perception
checks.
Ice Walk (Ex) A
polar cat moves across icy surfaces without penalty and does not need to make
Acrobatics checks to run or charge on ice. On snow and ice, it is sure-footed
and gains a +4 bonus to CMD.
Snow Vision (Ex) A
polar cat can see perfectly well in snowy conditions and doesn’t take any
penalties on Perception checks while in snow.
While most crossbreeds are the result of wizards tinkering
with nature for their own experimental ends, polar cats are a druidic invention,
combining the ferocity of the polar bear with the keen hunting abilities of the
cat. The arctic druids who created polar cats hoped to have a creature capable
of hunting wintry predators, such as winter wolves and white dragons. Encouraged
by their initial successes, they allowed the creatures to breed freely and
spread across the tundra.
Unfortunately, when left to their own devices, polar cats
are lazy and only hunt trespassers which blunder into their territory. Their
polar bear origins make them powerful swimmers, but they reluctantly enter the
water. They are also mercurial creatures, sometimes giving up on combat after receiving
a single wound only to relentlessly follow the one who inflicted the wound and
ambush it. Polar cats have an intense hatred for winter wolves, however, and
fight to the death when they encounter the wolves. Rumors tell of the polar
cats’ love for salmon, and one could supposedly gain the temporary friendship
of a polar cat by feeding it at least five pounds of salmon. No one has been
able to verify these claims.
Polar cats stand roughly five feet tall at the shoulder and
weigh an average of 700 pounds.
Polar cats can be summoned with summon nature’s ally V.
