or lower as a spell-like ability once per day, or enough experience points to gain a level Tentacles At the start of a round, Ubbo-Sathla’s nucleus spawns a number of immense tentacles that attack each and every creature in the area of influence These tentacles automatically hit for 10d6 points of bludgeoning damage per influence stage, with a successful Reflex save halving the damage In addition, each time a character takes damage from one of these tentacles, roll 1d10 on the following table to determine any additional effect that occurs beyond the bludgeoning damage When you roll on this table to determine the additional result, add Ubbo-Sathla’s current stage to the result—thus, at stage 4, you’ll roll 1d10+4 and there is no chance of a tentacle having no additional affliction Ubbo-Sathla, called Tome Keeper and Unbegotten Source, is a mindless primeval being When the world was created, unknown cosmic forces created the Tablets of the Gods and forged Ubbo-Sathla as their guardian Part-fungus, part-animal, part-plant, all hideous, Ubbo-Sathla’s quivering mass guarded the Tablets until they corroded into indecipherable ruin While technically not a Great Old One, UbboSathla commands the power and terror of one No cult truly worships it, though a few tribes have learned how Roll Result or less No additional affliction to summon and control it Ubbo-Sathla itself ceaselessly 5–6 Hallucination: The victim must make a successful Will save or become confused for the following round writhes but does not normally move from place to Poison: Tentacle—injury; save Fort; frequency 1/round for rounds; effect 1d4 Str drain and 1d4 Wis damage; cure consecutive saves Vampirism: Ubbo-Sathla is healed of damage equal to 1/4 of that inflicted by the tentacle strike Parasitic Spores: The victim must make a successful Will save or parasitic spores seize control of the victim’s mind Once afflicted in this way, the victim falls under the thrall of Ubbo-Sathla and does everything possible to defend the nucleus This is a mind-affecting disease effect, and is permanent until cured by remove disease or similar spell place It prefers to remain in one place and defend the Tablets of the Gods It mindlessly but violently lashes out at any intruders, of which it encounters few Some believe Ubbo-Sathla was the first form of life on multiple planets It absorbed energy from its environment and spawned tiny (harmless) lesser entities from its surface, called “efts”, which may eventually evolved into plants, animals, and fungi Ubbo-Sathla and the Tablets cannot properly be separated, as the creature uses the Tablets as a sort of external skeleton to give itself support and form The Tablets contain primal wisdom, including the secrets to life and death They are written in a cosmic tongue suitable only for the minds of superintelligent beings Absorption: The victim must make a successful Fortitude save or be pulled into Ubbo-Sathla’s body and absorbed This instantly kills the victim (who can thence only be restored to life via miracle, true resurrection, or wish) and heals damage to Ubbo-Sathla equal to the victim’s normal maximum hit points that reason in dozens of dimensions at once At the Undulant Terrain The ground within Ubbo-Sathla’s influence is coated with a thick, trembling layer of protoplasm This layer of sludge transforms the area into Legends hold that the Tablets deteriorated over 10 or more 284 difficult terrain Oozes not treat this area as difficult terrain center of the Tablets, surrounded by them, is UbboSathla’s large “fruiting body” atop a mass of tentacles or stalks, while more limbs wrap around the Tablets, holding them upright in turn The entire mass of elder wisdom and raw protoplasmic horror is as one monstrosity time as their function was fulfilled and Ubbo-Sathla slowly lost its purpose After millions of years the