"Nabassus are unusual in that they are the only true demons who are forced to live a significant part of their lives on the Material Plane. As a result, these sinister creatures bear a particular hatred for those that dwell there, as if they blame the denizens of the Material Plane for the humility of this exile."
Another demon to add to your choice of beasties, the Nabassu is a great foe that your players probably won't have seen before (at least not in NWN).
Two versions are included: the Juvenille Nabassu, CR 7, and the adult version, CR 16. Though the versions are based on the original D&D versions, some tweaks have been made. The Nabassu does still get its Death Gaze and Feed ability, which are both implemented through scripting so that no custom content is required. Note though that I highly recommend you change the adult Nabassu's appearance to "Abishai: Balck **" if using the CEP (it currently looks like a gargoyle which doesn't really do it justice, but I wanted to make this non-CEP-friendly).
I have flagged this as requiring HotU, but in actuality the scripting as far as I know only needs the custom AI system from "X2_INC_SWITCHES" which should be availible to everyone with a sufficiently high version (I just can't remember which one it is).
The Nabassu's Abilities:
As a demon, the Nabassu gets standard demon traits. It also has some decent melee attacks and a few spells. Most powerful, however, are its ability to kill foes and turn their bodies into ghouls, and its feed ability which strengthens it after eating a victim.
As the Nabassu is an intelligent creature, the Juvenille version would make a good foe for reasonably low-mid-level PCs (see the Wizards website for ideas) and the adult a good end boss for mid-high PCs (a.k.a Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast). Either way, you can use/reuse/modify this however you want (though a mention would be appreciated if you do use it).
I've added a few more pictures. They're fairly dark too but a Nabassu really wouldn't attack in daylight, and to be honest there's not that much more to see... the creature uses the existing gargoyle model (though like I said, the CEP Abishai is great for it), it's the AI and scripting which makes it good. _________________________ In production: The Dragon Dynasty All my other stuff
It's a Nabassu, it likes the dark :-).
I'll see if I can get a better one though, but it probably won't be before Christmas time ish since I only have NWN1 installed on my home computer. _________________________ In production: The Dragon Dynasty All my other stuff
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