# Blackstone Gigant >[!rimg]+ > ![[Placeholder2.png]] <div class="grid-container"><div class="MON">Blackstone Gigant</div> <div class="CR">CR 18 (153,600 XP)</div> <div class="SOU">Fiend Folio pg. 21</div> <div class="SYS">Dungeons & Dragons 3.5</div></div> NE Gargantuan Construct **Init** +2 **Senses** darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision; **Perception** +16 #### defense **AC** 31, 4 touch, 33 flat-footed (-2 Dex, +27 natural, -4 size) **hp** 236 (32d10+60) **Fort** +10, **Refl** +10, **Will** +12 **Feint** 42, **Demoralize** 42 **DR** 15/adamantine; **SR** 29 **Immune** construct traits; **Resist** acid 20, cold 20, electricity 20, fire 20 #### offense **Speed** 40 ft., climb 20 ft., fly 40 ft. (perfect) **Melee** 4 slams +46 (4d8+17 plus petrification) **Space** 20 ft., **Reach** 20 ft. **Special Attacks** trample (8d8+25, DC 43) #### statistics **Str** 45, **Dex** 7, **Con** —, **Int** 6, **Wis** 10, **Cha** 10 **BAB** +32, **CMB** +44, **CMD** 52, **TA** +45, **RTA** +26 **Feats** [[Blind-fight]], [[Cleave]], [[Combat Reflexes]], [[Great Cleave]], [[Greater Sunder]], [[Improved Bull Rush]], [[Improved Critical]] (slam), [[Improved Initiative]], [[Improved Sunder]], [[Improved Vital Strike]], [[Iron Will]], [[Lightning Reflexes]], [[Power Attack]], [[Stand Still]], [[Vital Strike]], [[Weapon Focus]] (slam) **Skills** Climb +25, Fly +16, Perception +16 **Languages** Common **SQ** animate statue #### special abilities ### Animate Statue (Su) A blackstone gigant can use one or more of its attacks to touch and animate any creatures it turned to stone with its petrification power. This ability works like an _animate objects_ spell cast by a 20th-level caster, except that the petrified creature can be of any size. The animated stone statue has the statistics of an animated object of its size and composition, with a hardness of 8, +1 natural armor and +10 movement speed. All such animated objects are under the mental control of the blackstone gigant or its creator, who can give orders to a statue as a free action. Such statues remain animated for 20 rounds. A blackstone gigant cannot animate a petrified creature more than once, and it often destroys statues after the duration of its animate statue ability expires. ### Petrification (Su) Whenever a blackstone gigant damages an opponent with a slam attack, that creature must succeed on a DC 26 Fortitude save or be turned into a statue as per the spell flesh to stone. #### ecology **Terrain** Any land **Organization** Solitary **Treasure** None **Advancement** 33–54 HD (Gargantuan); 55–96 HD (Colossal) A blackstone gigant is an enormous construct created by a powerful cleric to be either a bodyguard or a guardian of a sacred site. Possessed of a limited intelligence, a blackstone gigant can serve as an assassin or retrieve an object or creature. Most blackstone gigants look like fierce, eight-armed women. Evil creators sometimes carve blackstone gigants to look like mariliths or other demonic creatures. Blackstone gigants have the power to petrify foes, and they often take grisly trophies from creatures defeated in such a manner and craft them into a belt of petrified arms or a necklace of petrified heads. ### Combat A blackstone gigant enters melee fearlessly, wading in among smaller opponents with its trample ability and then flailing about it with its many arms, hoping to petrify as many foes as it can. It then animates any statues it created and orders them to attack. Should the animated statues be too weak to aid in the fight, the blackstone gigant often destroys any foes it petrifies, preventing them from being returned to flesh during the battle. ### Construction A blackstone gigant’s body is carved from a single block of hard, black stone weighing at least 50,000 pounds. A blackstone gigant costs 200,000 gp to create, which includes 5,000 gp for the body. Assembling the body requires a successful DC 25 Craft (sculpting) or (stonemasonry) check. The creator must be 20th level and be able to cast divine spells. Completing the ritual requires the Craft Construct feat, _animate object_, _flesh to stone_, _geas/quest_, and _miracle_.