Shredskin
A shredskin is a wretched undead creature created either when a humanoid is skinned alive to be preserved as a trophy or otherwise killed in a terrifying way that leaves much of its upper half unharmed, such as being dissolved feet-first in acid. A fragment of the creature's soul animates the skin and seeks vengeance on those who created it, all the while trying to find a comfortable body for it to use as it did when it was alive. A shredskin may attack on its own and try to squeeze the life out of a living humanoid to use it as a body, or it might control another undead such as a skeleton, zombie, or ghoul, covering it like a morbid costume. In either case, it abandons its borrowed body if it finds a better one or the old one is destroyed. A shredskin is usually recognizable by creatures who knew it in life.
Because it lacks a lower half, a shredskin is 3-4 feet tall and weighs only 10-15 pounds.
- HP
- 22 (4d8+4)
- AC
- 14, touch 13, flat-footed 12 (+2 Dex, +1 natural, +1 size)
- Speed
- fly 40 ft. (average)
- Init
- +2
- Melee
- bite +6 (1d4), 2 claws +6 (1d4 plus grab)
- BAB
- +3
- CMB
- +4 (+8 grapple)
- CMD
- 14 (can't be tripped)
- Fort
- +2
- Ref
- +3
- Will
- +4
constrict (1d4), control body, enshroud, grab (Medium)
compression
Fly +4, Perception +7, Stealth +13
Constant-detect undead
1/day-command undead (DC 13)
- Type
- Undead
- Alignment
- NE
- Size
- Small
- Environment
- any land
- Senses
- darkvision 60 ft., detect undead; Perception +7
- Languages
- Common (can't speak)
- Source
- Bestiary 4
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