This pale yellow humanoid has blank, bulging white eyes and gangly arms and legs. It clutches a pickaxe in its knobby hands.
Pech CR 3
XP 800
Init +1; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision; Perception +10
Defense
AC 16, touch 12, flat-footed 15 (+1 Dex, +4 natural, +1 size)
hp 27 (6d6+6)
Fort +5, Ref +6, Will +6
DR 5/cold iron; Immune petrification; SR 14
Weaknesses light blindness
Offense
Speed 20 ft.
Melee mwk heavy pick +9 (1d4+6/×4)
Special Attacks earth mastery, pech magic, stone knowledge
Spell-Like Abilities (CL 10th; concentration +11)
3/day—stone shape, stone tell
Statistics
Str 19, Dex 12, Con 13, Int 12, Wis 13, Cha 12
Base Atk +2; CMB +5; CMD 16
Feats Cleave, Great Fortitude, Power Attack
Skills Climb +13, Craft (stonemasonry) +14, Knowledge (dungeoneering) +7, Knowledge (engineering) +7, Perception +10, Profession (miner) +11, Stealth +14; Racial Modifiers +4 Craft (stonemasonry), +4 Profession (miner)
Languages Terran, Undercommon
Ecology
Environment any underground (Plane of Earth)
Organization solitary, pair, gang (3–4), pack (5–10), or tribe (11–40 plus 50% noncombatants, 1–4 fighters of 2nd–4th level, and 1–2 druids of 2nd–4th level)
Treasure standard (masterwork heavy pick, other treasure)
Special Abilities
Earth Mastery (Ex) A pech gains a +1 bonus on attack and damage rolls if both it and its foes are touching the ground. If an opponent is airborne or waterborne, the pech takes a –4 penalty on attack and damage rolls. These modifiers are not precalculated into the statistics here.
Pech Magic (Sp) Four pechs working together can cast wall of stone once per day. Eight pechs working together can cast stone to flesh (DC 17) once per day. These spell-like abilities function at CL 10th. Each pech must use a full-round action to take part in the casting. The save DCs are modified by the highest Charisma modifier in the group.
Stone Knowledge (Ex) A pech's knowledge of earth and stone grants a +1 racial bonus on attack and damage rolls and the benefits of the Improved Critical feat against creatures and objects made of stone or earth or with the earth subtype. Knowledge (dungeoneering), Knowledge (engineering) and Profession (miner) are always class skills for a pech.
Untold ages ago, the pechs served forgotten masters in the deepest caverns of the world. In time, their masters moved on, leaving the pechs bereft of guidance. Some sought refuge in seemingly safer tunnels nearer the surface. The unspeakable horrors they encountered there transformed them into derros over the course of several generations. Those pechs that stayed close to their ancestral caverns survive to this day, though in such small numbers and in such isolation that few of the surface world know of their existence.
Pechs are skilled miners and stonemasons, and are at times employed or enslaved as such by other subterranean races. They have learned to hide the entrances to their lairs most carefully, blending their narrow entranceways into the living rock such that they can only be seen from exactly the right angle. When interlopers do find a pech's lair, they are met with open arms, friendly advice, and a firm insistence that the pech is to be left alone.
The typical pech stands only 3-1/2 feet tall, but its dense flesh gives it a weight of 100 pounds.