Symbiant Adaptation Prerequisites: Symbiant race Benefit: Your vulnerability to fire and sonic damage is reduced to 25%, and you only suffer a –2 penalty to non-damaging fire, light, and sonic effects Symbiant Adaptation, Improved Prerequisites: Resistant Symbiant, symbiant race Benefit: Choose fire or sonic You are no longer vulnerable to damage of the chosen type, nor you take any penalties to your saving throws against non-damaging effects of that type (if you chose fire, this applies to light effects as well) Symbiant Convergence Symbiants with a symbiant convergence can exhibit minor, moderate, or major traits, as shown in Table: Symbiant Convergence Hive Knowledge: You gain Knowledge (any 1) as a class skill At 12th level, you gain Signature Skill as a bonus feat for that skill Power Attack (Ex): You gain Power Attack as a bonus feat If you have barrage, you can apply your penalty to the saving throw DC and add the damage bonus to the damage dealt with that ability to each creature Ability Score Bonus (Su): You gain a +1 enhancement bonus to Dexterity At convergence level 9, you also gain a +2 enhancement bonus to Strength At convergence level 15, you also gain a +2 enhancement bonus to Constitution Wounding Bite (Ex): Your bite attack gains the wounding weapon special ability At convergence level 8, it gains keen At convergence level 20, it gains vorpal Crushing Tendrils (Ex): At the start of each of your turns, you deal savagery damage as a symbiant of your character level to any creature grappled by you or grabbed by one of your tendrils Symbiant Affinity (Ex): You gain a +2 enhancement bonus on Acrobatics, Climb, Intimidate, and Stealth checks This bonus increases to +4 with convergence level 11 and +6 with convergence level 17 Natural Armor Bonus (Ex): You gain a +1 natural armor bonus This increases to +2 at convergence level 18 Save Bonuses (Ex): You gain a +2 bonus on saving throws against poison At convergence level 13, you gain a +2 resistance bonus on all saves At convergence level 19, you gain a +4 resistance bonus on all saves Rending Claws (Ex): Once per round, If you hit an opponent with at least claws, you deal an additional 1d10 points of damage plus 1-1/2 times your Strength modifier Swallow Whole (Ex): When you confirm a critical hit with your bite attack, or reduce a creature to or fewer hit points with bite, you can attempt a grapple check with a +4 bonus against it as a free action If you succeed, the creature is swallowed whole This functions against any creature up to one size larger than you You can only have one creature swallowed whole at a time in this way A conscious, swallowed creature keeps the grappled condition, while you not A swallowed creature can try to cut its way free with any light slashing or piercing weapon (the amount of cutting damage required to get free is equal to 1/10 of your total hit points), or it can just try to escape the grapple Your AC against such an attack is 10 + 1/2 your natural armor bonus, with no modifiers for size or Dexterity If a swallowed creature cuts its way out, you cannot use swallow whole again until the damage is healed If the swallowed creature escapes the grapple, success puts it in the nearest free space adjacent to you, where it may be bitten or swallowed again If no such space exists, it falls prone in your space Symbiant Convergence (Major) Purchase/ Reward Cost (in gp) Level/ Hit Dice Trait (moderate 1/2 level, minor 1/4 level) Hive Knowledge Power Attack Dexterity +1 1,250 gp Wounding Bite 2,000 gp Symbiant affinity +2 2,850 gp +1 to natural armor 4,000 gp Crushing Tendrils 5,875 gp Wounding Bite (keen) 8,250 gp Strength +2 11,500 gp 10 +2 on saves against poison 15,500 gp 11 Symbiant affinity +4 20,500 gp 12 Hive Knowledge 27,000 gp 13 +2 on saving throws 35,000 gp 14 Rending Claws 46,250 gp 15 Constitution +2 60,000 gp 16 Swallow Whole 78,750 gp 17 Symbiant affinity +6 102,500 gp 18 +2 to natural armor 132,500 gp 19 +4 on saving throws 171,250 gp 20 Wounding Bite (vorpal) 220,000 gp — 750 gp 197