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Painted Landscape

Resembling a large mural, a painted landscape attacks by animating the very landscape it depicts: trees, castles, or even snow-capped mountains.

Recall Knowledge - Construct (Arcana, Crafting): DC 32
Unspecific Lore: DC 30
Specific Lore: DC 27

Elite | Normal | Weak
Proficiency without Level

Changes from being Elite are marked in red below.
NOTE: The +2 damage bonus to non-strike offensive abilities (+4 if the ability is limited, such as spells) is NOT factored in.

Elite Painted LandscapeCreature 11

Rare Gargantuan Construct Mindless 
Source Pathfinder #218: Titanbane pg. 87
Perception +21; tremorsense (imprecise) 60 feet
Skills Athletics +23, Stealth +24
Str +7, Dex +5, Con +4, Int -5, Wis +5, Cha -5
AC 32 (28 when broken); Fort +24, Ref +20, Will +22
HP 175; Hardness 15; Immunities bleed, death effects, diseased, doomed, drained, fatigued, healing, mental, nonlethal attacks, paralyzed, poison,sickened, spirit, unconscious, vitality, void; Weaknesses acid 10
Construct Armor A painted landscape's Strikes splatter paint on the target. On a critical hit, this paint swiftly dries, and the target becomes clumsy 1 for 10 minutes. As an Interact action, the target or an adjacent creature can remove enough paint to end the condition.
Speed 15 feet
Melee [one-action] branch +26 [+21/+16] (reach 20 feet), Damage 2d10+2+11 bludgeoning plus sticky paintEngulf [three-actions] DC 31, 6d6 bludgeoning, Escape DC 31, Rupture 20Mural [one-action] (concentrate) Until the next time it acts, the animated landscape appears to be a mural on a flat surface that's at least 10 by 20 feet in area. It has an automatic result of 42 on Deception checks and DCs to pass as a mural.Painted Replica [one-action] (divine) Requirements A creature died while engulfed by the painted landscape; Effect The painted landscape absorbs the creature, causing the creature's likeness to appear in the mural. Any gear carried by the dead creature remains left behind (but still appears as part of the painting). The painted landscape regains 2d6+20 HP when it absorbs a creature.Sticky Paint A painted landscape's Strikes splatter paint on the target. On a critical hit, this paint swiftly dries, and the target becomes clumsy 1 for 10 minutes. As an Interact action, the target or an adjacent creature can remove enough paint to end the condition.

All Monsters in "Painted Creatures"

NameLevel
Painted Griffon5
Painted Landscape10
Painted Pontifex9
Painted Ram8
Painted Soldier7

Painted Creatures

Source Pathfinder #218: Titanbane pg. 86
This mindless construct takes the form of a two-dimensional portrait given life or an illustration painted in three dimensions with magical pigments.

Sidebar - Additional Lore Painted Behavior

Painted creatures typically adopt the behaviors of whatever they resemble. This results in creatures like a painted sheep bleating worriedly and grazing, even though any grasses consumed sit inertly inside its improvised belly before eventually seeping though its body and plopping on the ground.

Intelligent creatures animated in this way sometimes develop a limited vocabulary. However, the construct remains mindless, their utterances follow only the most simplistic logic, and their words fall short of anything that could be considered conversation. With careful instruction, such constructs can perform mundane chores.

Sidebar - Treasure and Rewards Painted Treasure

A painted creature’s gear is part of the creature and is also made of magical paint. Such gear can’t be disarmed. If the painted creature drops any gear, the item melts into a glob of paint a moment later—after dealing damage, for thrown and projectile weapons. Painted gear (including ammunition) is restored to a painted creature automatically 24 hours after it’s lost.

At the GM’s discretion, a talented PC artist might rescue a painted item by immediately and successfully Repairing it, using a hard DC of the painted creature’s level. This might allow PCs to recover a unique (even magical) item that existed only in the original artist’s imagination.