IX Mythos Bestiary brain cylinder is deaf and suffers a 20% spell-failure Languages: A brain cylinder retains all the base chance Spell-like abilities function normally when creature’s languages, but cannot hear or speak unless used by a brain cylinder, as they are activated mentally the proper attachments are affixed to the cylinder Likewise, psychic magic functions normally for a Attaching or detaching one of these devices to a brain brain cylinder, although the traumatizing distraction cylinder is a standard action of being a detached brain makes emotion components difficult When casting a psychic magic spell with an emotion component, a brain cylinder must make a concentration check (DC = 15 + spell level) in order to cast the spell successfully BAB: A brain cylinder has a base attack bonus of +1 but cannot make attacks on its own If the base creature had class levels and thus retained its Hit Dice, the brain cylinder’s base attack bonus is the same as that of the base creature Abilities: A brain cylinder is treated in many ways as an object as well as a construct It has no Strength or Constitution score, and its Dexterity is reduced to (thus giving it a –5 penalty on all Dexterity-based checks) The trauma of being transplanted from a body to a cylinder results in a –2 penalty to the base creature’s Wisdom Feats: A brain cylinder loses all feats gained as a result of racial Hit Dice save for one feat of its choice A brain cylinder retains all feats gained as a result of class levels and associated Hit Dice Note that some feats become useless for a brain cylinder if it no longer qualifies for them Skills: A brain cylinder treats all skills as class skills It retains all skill ranks gained from class levels The brain cylinder loses all skill ranks gained from its racial Hit Dice, but gains skill points equal to + its Int modifier (minimum 1) if it gained racial Hit Die as a result of applying this template Although a brain cylinder loses the base creature’s skill ranks, it retains the knowledge it had as that creature and gains an insight bonus to the base creature’s skills equal to the base creature’s skill ranks in that skill 303