Intellect Devourer

Intellect Devourer CR 10

Devoid of a head, or any features at all save for four short, clawed legs, this creature’s body looks like a large, glistening brain.

XP 9,600
CE Small aberration
Init +8; Senses blindsight (thermal) 60 ft., detect magic; Perception +24

DEFENSE HP 160

EAC 23; KAC 25
Fort +12, Ref +12, Will +11; DR 10/adamantine, epic, and magic; Immunities fire, mind-affecting effects; Resistances cold 20, electricity 20, sonic 20; SR 21
Weaknesses vulnerability to good-aligned weapons

OFFENSE

Speed 40 ft.
Melee claw +22 (3d4+13 S)
Multiattack 4 claws +16 (1d10+13 S)
Offensive Abilities body thief, id stimulation, trick attack +3d8
Spell-Like Abilities (CL 8th)

3/day—mystic cure (2nd-level), mind probe (DC 17)
At will—confusion (DC 16, single target only), daze monster (DC 15, no HD limit), mind thrust (2nd-level, DC 15), invisibility

STATISTICS

Str +3, Dex +8, Con +1, Int +2, Wis +0, Cha +5
Skills Bluff +19, Culture +19, Disguise +19, Sense Motive +19, Stealth +19
Languages telepathy 100 ft.

SPECIAL ABILITIES

Body Thief (Su)

As a full-round action that provokes an attack of opportunity, an intellect devourer can reduce its size, crawl into the mouth of a helpless or dead humanoid, and burrow into the victim’s skull to devour its brain. This is a coup de grace attempt. If the victim is slain (or already dead), the intellect devourer usurps control of the body and may use it as its own, as if it controlled the target via a dominate person spell. The intellect devourer has full access to all of the host’s defensive and offensive abilities save for spellcasting and spelllike abilities (although the intellect devourer can still use its own spell-like abilities). A host body may not have been dead for longer than 1 day for this ability to function, and even successfully inhabited bodies decay to uselessness in 7 days (unless this time is extended via spells or effects that preserve corpses). As long as the intellect devourer occupies the body, it knows (and can speak) the languages known by the victim and basic information about the victim’s identity and personality yet has none of the victim’s specific memories or knowledge. Damage done to a host body does not harm the intellect devourer, and if the host body is slain, the intellect devourer emerges and is dazed for 1 round. Only a 5th-level or higher mystic cure can restore the victim of body theft. Once per day as a standard action, an intellect devourer can unerringly teleport onto the head of a helpless or dead creature it can see within 100 feet.

Id Stimulation (Su)

Once per minute as a standard action, an intellect devourer can overstimulate the pleasure and pain receptors of a creature within 100 feet. The target is Stunned”>stunned for 1d4+1 rounds; a successful DC 18 Will save reduces the duration to 1 round. This is a mind-affecting effect.

Vulnerability to Good-Aligned Weapons (Ex)

Weapons with a good alignment bypass an intellect devourer’s damage reduction and deal an additional 50% damage.