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Bone Skiff

By Félix Resurrección Hidalgo - Reproduction from art bookhttp://pezseum.blogspot.com/2009/11/navigating-underworld-felix.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9852586, Bone Skiff
By Félix Resurrección Hidalgo – Reproduction from art bookhttp://pezseum.blogspot.com/2009/11/navigating-underworld-felix.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9852586

Small compared to other sea-going vehicles, a bone skiff can be completely manned by a single creature.

Source: Pathfinder d20pfsrd.com

This is because the vehicle itself is an undead creature, able to follow the orders of the driver. The design is similar to a boat of similar size, but it is composed entirely of bones covered in a thin layer of leathery skin stretched across its macabre frame. In the very center of the skiff is a grand throne made of bone and rotting flesh. Both armrests of the bone throne are equipped with a throttle to control the zombie arms that line the outside of the bone skiff, allowing it to move forward. Other controls on the throne allow those same arms to strike at creatures or vehicles that come close to the skiff.

Bone Skiff
Gargantuan water vehicle (undead)

Squares 18 (15 ft. by 30 ft.); Cost 15,000 gp
DEFENSE
AC 6; Hardness 3

hp 216 (107)

Base Save +0
OFFENSE
Maximum Speed 30 ft.; Acceleration 30 ft.

CMB +4; CMD 14

Ramming Damage 4d8
DESCRIPTION
Propulsion magic

Driving Check Spellcraft or Use Magic Device; command undead driving

Forward Facing front of vehicle

Driving Device throttles

Driving Space bone throne

Decks 1

Weapons 12 slams (1d6+4)
SPECIAL ABILITIES
Command Undead Driving (Su): A driver with the Command Undead feat can expend a use of channel negative energy to avoid making driving checks, lasting 1 hour per cleric level. The driver automatically succeeds on all driving checks required to maneuver the vehicle. A bone skiff counts as a 12 HD creature for the purpose of determining the number of Hit Dice of undead creatures the driver can control. The driver must be sitting on the grand throne when using channel energy to gain control of the bone skiff.  

Slam A total of 6 zombified arms emerge from each side of the bone skiff; the arms are 5 feet apart. No more than 6 slam attacks can threaten a single target at any point in time. The driver must make a drive check to attack with the arms. Command Undead provides no bonus to these attack rolls. Ordering the bone skiff to make any number of slam attacks is a standard action.

Undead Subtype A bone skiff is healed by negative energy and harmed by positive energy.

Source Book of Multifarious Munitions: Vehicles of War, © 2013, Jon Brazer Enterprises; Author Dale C. McCoy, Jr

Section 15: Copyright Notice – Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Ultimate Combat

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Ultimate Combat. © 2011, Paizo Publishing, LLC; Authors: Jason Bulmahn, Tim Hitchcock, Colin McComb, Rob McCreary, Jason Nelson, Stephen Radney-MacFarland, Sean K Reynolds, Owen K.C. Stephens, and Russ Taylor.

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