Editing Barathu (section)

===Alternate Racial Traits===

Collective Connection: +2 racial bonus to checks to recall knowledge. Replaces Strange Anatomy.

Fluid Self: +2 racial bonus to saving throws against mind-affecting effects. Replaces Strange Anatomy.

Internal Cheistry: Gain the following options instead of the typical options available for the Early Stage Adaptation ability.
*The barathu gains an acid spray ranged natural attack that deals 1d3 acid damage with a 30-foot range increment. A PC using this ability is considered armed and gains a unique Weapon Specialization with this attack at 3rd level, allowing them to add 1-1/2 × their character level to their damage rolls with this attack. The acid spray cannot be disarmed or sundered and doesn't require ammunition.
*The barathu secretes a frictionless slime. When the barathu uses early stage adaptation to gain this ability, they can immediately attempt to use Acrobatics to escape a grapple without spending another action.
*Lighter-than-air gases increase the barathu’s fly speed by 15 feet.
*Soothing psychoactive chemicals grant the barathu a new saving throw against each ongoing mind-affecting effect that is affecting them.
*A cloud of fumes spreads over a 20-foot radius from the barathu, affecting the area as a smoke grenade. Barathus are immune to the choking effects of this cloud.

Mineral Exoskeleton: Gain these options instead of the typical options available for the Early Stage Adaptation ability.
*Added reinforcement to their external shell grants the barathu DR 1/–.
*Dangerous growths function as a natural weapon that deals 1d3 bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage. A barathu PC using this ability is armed, and this attack cannot be disarmed or sundered. If a barathu PC using this ability is at least 3rd level, they gain a unique Weapon Specialization with these natural weapons, allowing them to add 1-1/2 × their character level to damage rolls with this attack.
*Spikes grow from fleshy surfaces, dealing 1d6 piercing damage to each creature that hits the barathu with an unarmed or natural attack.
*Reinforced tentacles function as powerful but slow limbs, granting a burrow speed and land speed of 10 feet.
*The area covered by the barathu's shell expands, granting a +2 racial bonus to AC but reducing the barathu’s flight speed to 0.

Student of Liavara: You gain the following spell-like abilities. Replaces Early Stage Adaptation.
*At will: daze, telepathic message
*1/day: mind link, mind thrust (1st level)