No Oni, Akuma (CR 13)

Large Outsider (Evil and Shadowlands)
Alignment: Always neutral evil
Initiative: +2 (Dex); Senses: Listen +16 and Spot +16
Languages: Telepathy 100 ft.


AC: 19 (-1 size, +2 Dex, +8 natural), touch 11, flat-footed 17
Hit Dice: 12d8+48 (102 hp); DR: 15/jade
Fort +12, Ref +10, Will +9
Speed: 40 ft.
Space: 10 ft./10 ft. (5 ft. with tongues)
Base Attack +12; Grapple +12
Attack: 2 claws +16 melee; or 3 tongues +11 melee touch +11 ranged
Full Attack: 2 claws +16 melee; or 3 tongues +11 melee touch +11 ranged
Damage: Claw 1d6+5, tongue 1d6 fire
Special Attacks/Actions: Improved grab, burning tongues, spell-like abilities, fear aura
Abilities: Str 20, Dex 14, Con 18, Int 11, Wis 13, Cha 15 (Ego: 9)
Special Qualities: SR 23, oni qualities, regeneration 5
Feats: Cleave; Dodge; Great Cleave; Mobility; Power Attack
Skills: Bluff +17, Concentration +19, Knowledge (Shadowlands) +15, Listen +16, Search +15, Sense Motive +16, Spellcraft +15, and Spot +16
Advancement: 13-24 HD (Large); 25-36 HD (Huge)
Climate/Terrain: Shadowlands
Organization: Solitary or squad (1 plus 2-8 lesser oni [kamu, sanru, or ugulu])
Treasure/Possessions: Standard

Source: Oriental Adventures

Improved Grab (Ex): The oni must hit with a tongue attack to use this ability. If it gets a hold on its opponent, it inflicts 1d6 points of fire damage each round it holds the opponent.

Burning Tongues (Ex): Any tongue hit leaves burning saliva on the victim. The saliva inflicts an additional 1 point of fire damage each round after the hit. This damage does not stack with the damage the oni inflicts on a held opponent. The damage continues until the saliva is washed away, which requires vinegar or alcohol.

Spell-Like Abilities: At will - cloud of Taint, deeper darkness, desecrate, detect good, detect magic, doom. These abilities are as the polls cast by a 12th-level maho-tsukai (save DC 19 + spell level).

Fear Aura (Su): Oni are shrouded in a constant aura of terror and evil. Creatures within a 30-foot radius must succeed at a Will save (DC 18) or become shaken. Shaken creatures suffer a -2 morale penalty on attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, and saving throws.

Regeneration (Ex): Oni take normal damage from jade or Kuni crystal weapons, and from honorable or blessed weapons of at least +2 enhancement.

Immunities (Ex): Oni are immune to poison.

Resistances (Ex): Oni have cold, fire, and acid resistance 10.

Alternate Form (Su): Oni can assume any humanoid form of Small to Large size as a standard action. When using this ability, oni gain a +10 circumstance bonus on Disguise checks.

Telepathy (Su): Oni can communicate telepathically with any creature within 100 feet that has a language.

Skills: All oni receive a +10 circumstance bonus on Disguise checks when using their alternate form ability.

Evil Subtype

A subtype usually applied only to outsiders native to the evil-aligned Outer Planes. Evil outsiders are also called fiends. Most creatures that have this subtype also have evil alignments; however, if their alignments change, they still retain the subtype. Any effect that depends on alignment affects a creature with this subtype as if the creature has an evil alignment, no matter what its alignment actually is. The creature also suffers effects according to its actual alignment. A creature with the evil subtype overcomes damage reduction as if its natural weapons and any weapons it wields were evil-aligned (see Damage Reduction).

Shadowlands Subtype

Shadowlands are the source of evil in the campaign setting of Rokugan, the festering pit from which oni crawl, slither, and fly to wreck their foul destruction on humanity. The denizens of the Shadowlands are inhuman monstrosities. Many of them are spirits bound into corporeal form, and most are shapeshifters. Of all the creatures found in the Shadowlands, only the nezumi remain uncorrupted by the foul taint of the place - all others are utterly, irredeemably evil.

Shadowlands creatures share a certain immunities and vulnerabilities. They are immune to harmful effects of the Shadowlands Taint, for they are already fully corrupted by their very nature. Even if they have damage reduction, they are harmed by jade and obsidian weapons, and they cannot regenerate or naturally heal wounds dealt by such weapons. They are also affected by crystal weapons (Chapter 8, Oriental Adventures) (Note: Non-magical weapons made out of crystal, or crystal weapons created by means other than the Craft Crystal Weapon feat, have no special properties against Shadowlands creatures.)

For purposes of detect Taint, spellcasting, and other effects, a Shadowlands creature is considered to have a Taint score equal to half its Charisma score (round down). Undead creatures add +1 to this number, while outsiders add +2.