Image from The Godzilla Power Hour Episode 12: The Sub-Zero Terror, accessed at the Non-Alien Creatures Wiki here
[Commissioned by @glarnboudin, who’s got a real Hanna-Barbera theme going. Given the watchuki’s weird technology and propensity for disguising themselves as humans in the episode, I can’t help but wonder if they were inspired by Lovecraft’s “The Whisperer in Darkness”, which posits that the explanation for the Abominable Snowman are in fact hyper-intelligent alien fungi. So I looped around, and made these the creations of the mi-go.
I ran into a bit of a frustrating hiccup, with what @prokopetz refers to as the “Sim-Dungeon” vibe of D&D 3.x and its descendant, Pathfinder RPG. The ability to do 3d6 cold damage as a ranged touch attack is not an overpowered ability for a CR 3 creature, but I wanted to make the cold beams come from an item, like they do in the source material. And the costs of a magic item with this capacity would be way outside the normal treasure for a CR 3 encounter. If this cheat bothers you, make the “watchuki wand” a supernatural ability of these creatures rather than an item.]
Watchuka CR 3 LE Monstrous Humanoid This stocky humanoid has white fur over gray skin. Its face is mostly obscured by a beard and moustache, with piercing red eyes. It is naked save for a harness, off of which hang various strange tools and devices.
The watchuki (watchuka is singular) are an offshoot of the yeti. Although their forebears are strong yet peaceful creatures, watchuki are smaller and weaker but more cruel minded. They are in fact an artificial race—created through a selective breeding program by the mi-go, who were attempting to create a servitor race to handle the grunt work of creating technological items for them while the mi-go engaged in more intellectually satisfying endeavors. Thus, even the dimmest watchuka has an inherent talent for combining magic and technology, using this primarily to forge weapons of war. Many watchuki enclaves now exist separately from their mi-go creators, and some watchuki have forgotten their alien legacy.
Perhaps due to this engineered heritage, watchuki are prone to mutation. About one in three watchuki are born with the giant simple template—these are frequently mistaken for ordinary yeti. Very rarely a Great Watchuka will be born—these creatures are of animal intelligence but are grow to incredible strength and size. A Great Watchuka is a megaprimatus with the magical beast type and the fear gaze and cold resistance of a watchuka.
Watchuka Wand Price4,000 gp; Aurafaint evocation; CL3rd;Weight1 pound This thin silvery rod is favored by watchuka as a weapon. Three times a day as a standard action, a watchuka wand can fire a ray of cold; treat this as a ranged touch attack with a range of 120 ft and no range increment. A creature struck takes 3d6 cold damage and must succeed a DC 13 Fortitude save or take 1d6 points of Dexterity damage. These items are typically made using watchuka item crafting: the construction requirements below are for non-watchuka crafters. Construction Requirements Cost2,000 gp Craft Wondrous Item, ray of enfeeblement, snowball
