Fiendish Orcish Berzerker Horde

One of my Savage Tide players plays a teifling cleric who focuses on conjuring monsters. He asked about developing a creature, or a group of creatures that he can summon using the Summon Monster spells, who would be the same basic creatures at each level but would improve as he used higher level Summon Monster spells. I love coming up with custom stuff like this that makes the story we're all telling richer, so I started working with him to come up with something.

First I wanted to get a ballpark of how tough of a creature you get form SM 1-9. A little surveying and I came up with this chart. It's just an average of some monsters you get for each level of the spell.

SM level HD CR
1 1 1
2 2 2
3 4 3
4 6 4
5 8 5
6 10 5-7
7 12 6-9
8 15 8-10
9 18 11-12

His character is one of the daughters of his previous characters, Doombringer, an Orcish Warblade who died and became a petitioner in Archeron before traveling back to the mortal world to help throw down the Temple of Elemental Evil. That character retired to the outer planes somewhere and became something of a lord. Therefore we decided that his daughter could summon up orcish hordes from the netherworld to aid her. These are the stats for the summoned orcs, one stat block for each Summon Monster spell from 1 to 9.

Orcish Berzerkers in your game: Feel free to borrow these bruisers for your game. If your players ever end up in archeron, or if they're facing any type of orcish warlord these guys make a great army, or even just a crack squad or extra-bloodthirsty orcs in a group of normal orcs.

For your players, they could just as easily be re-cast as berzerkers from valhalla or another heavenly realm, summoned by a good cleric to help in their battles.

Summon Monster 1 orcish berzerker - CR 1
ce medium outsider
Init +0
Senses: darkvision

AC: 13 (studded leather +3)
HP: 9 (HD: 1d8+1)
Fort: +3 Reflex: +0 Will: -1
Resist cold & fire 5
Spell Resistance 6

Speed: 40 feet
Attack: greataxe +5 (1d12 + 4)

Special Abilities: rage (+2 / +3 to attacks, +1 hp, -2 AC)
Feats: Weapon Focus Greataxe

Skills: Climb +5, Jump +5
Abilities: Str 17 Dex 11 Con 12 Int 6 Wis 8 Cha 6

Equipment: Greataxe, Studded Leather Armor



Summon Monster 2 orcish berzerker - CR 2
ce medium outsider
Init +0
Senses: darkvision

AC: 14 (studded leather +3, natural armor +1)
HP: 13 (HD: 2d8+2)
Fort: +4 Reflex: +0 Will: -1
Resist cold & fire 5
Spell Resistance 7

Speed: 40 feet
Attack: greataxe +6 (1d12 + 4)

Special Abilities: rage (+2 / +3 to attacks, +2 hp, -2 AC)
Feats: Weapon Focus Greataxe

Skills: Climb +5, Jump +6
Abilities: Str 17 Dex 11 Con 12 Int 6 Wis 8 Cha 6

Equipment: Greataxe, Studded Leather Armor



Summon Monster 3 orcish berzerker - CR 3
ce medium outsider
Init +0
Senses: darkvision

AC: 15 (studded leather +3, natural armor +2)
HP: 22 (HD: 4d8+4)
Damage Reduction: 5 / magic
Fort: +5 Reflex: +1 Will: +0
Resist cold & fire 5
Spell Resistance 9

Speed: 40 feet
Attack: greataxe +9 (1d12 + 6)

Special Abilities: rage (+2 / +3 to attacks, +4 hp, -2 AC)
Feats: Weapon Focus Greataxe, Cleave

Skills: Climb +7, Jump +8
Abilities: Str 18 Dex 11 Con 12 Int 6 Wis 8 Cha 6

Equipment: Greataxe, Studded Leather Armor



Summon Monster 4 orcish berzerker - CR 4
ce medium outsider
Init +0
Senses: darkvision

AC: 16 (studded leather +3, natural armor +3)
HP: 37 (HD: 6d8+6)
Damage Reduction: 5 / magic
Fort: +6 Reflex: +2 Will: +1
Resist cold & fire 5
Spell Resistance 11

Speed: 40 feet
Attack: greataxe +11 (1d12 + 6)

Special Abilities: rage (+2 / +3 to attacks, +6 hp, -2 AC)
Feats: Weapon Focus Greataxe, Cleave, Power Attack

Skills: Climb +8, Jump +9
Abilities: Str 18 Dex 11 Con 12 Int 6 Wis 8 Cha 6

Equipment: Greataxe, Studded Leather Armor



Summon Monster 5 orcish berzerker - CR 5
ce medium outsider
Init +0
Senses: darkvision

AC: 17 (studded leather +3, natural armor +4)
HP: 44 (HD: 8d8+8)
Damage Reduction: 5 / magic
Fort: +7 Reflex: +2 Will: +1
Resist cold & fire 10
Spell Resistance 13

Speed: 40 feet
Attack: greataxe +13 (1d12 + 6)

Special Abilities: rage (+2 / +3 to attacks, +8 hp, -2 AC)
Feats: Weapon Focus Greataxe, Cleave, Power Attack

Skills: Climb +9, Jump +10
Abilities: Str 18 Dex 11 Con 13 Int 6 Wis 8 Cha 6

Equipment: Greataxe, Studded Leather Armor



Summon Monster 6 orcish berzerker - CR 6
ce medium outsider
Init +0
Senses: darkvision

AC: 18 (studded leather +3, natural armor +5)
HP: 58 (HD: 10d8+10)
Damage Reduction: 5 / magic
Fort: +8 Reflex: +3 Will: +2
Resist cold & fire 10
Spell Resistance 15

Speed: 40 feet
Attack: greataxe +15 (1d12 + 6 / 19-20 x 2)

Special Abilities: rage (+2 / +3 to attacks, +10 hp, -2 AC)
Feats: Weapon Focus Greataxe, Cleave, Power Attack, Improved Critical Greataxe

Skills: Climb +10, Jump +11
Abilities: Str 18 Dex 11 Con 13 Int 6 Wis 8 Cha 6

Equipment: Greataxe, Studded Leather Armor




Summon Monster 7 orcish berzerker - CR 8
ce medium outsider
Init +0
Senses: darkvision

AC: 19 (studded leather +3, natural armor +6)
HP: 81 (HD: 12d8+24)
Damage Reduction: 10 / magic
Fort: +10 Reflex: +4 Will: +3
Resist cold & fire 10
Spell Resistance 17

Speed: 40 feet
Attack: greataxe +17 (1d12 + 6 / 19-20 x 2)

Special Abilities: rage (+2 / +3 to attacks, +24 hp, -2 AC)
Feats: Weapon Focus Greataxe, Cleave, Power Attack, Improved Critical Greataxe

Abilities: Str 18 Dex 11 Con 14 Int 6 Wis 8 Cha 6

Skills: Climb +11, Jump +12
Equipment: Greataxe, Studded Leather Armor




Summon Monster 8 orcish berzerker - CR 10
ce medium outsider
Init +0
Senses: darkvision

AC: 20 (studded leather +3, natural armor +7)
HP: 96 (HD: 15d8+30)
Damage Reduction: 10 / magic
Fort: +11 Reflex: +7 Will: +4
Resist cold & fire 10
Spell Resistance 20

Speed: 40 feet
Attack: greataxe +19 (1d12 + 6 / 19-20 x 2)

Special Abilities: rage (+2 / +3 to attacks, +30 hp, -2 AC)
Feats: Weapon Focus Greataxe, Cleave, Power Attack, Improved Critical Greataxe, Lightning Reflexes

Skills: Climb +13, Jump +13
Abilities: Str 18 Dex 11 Con 14 Int 6 Wis 8 Cha 6

Equipment: Greataxe, Studded Leather Armor




Summon Monster 9 orcish berzerker - CR 12
ce medium outsider
Init +1
Senses: darkvision

AC: 23 (dex +1, studded leather +3, natural armor +9)
HP: 111 (HD: 18d8+36)
Damage Reduction: 10 / magic
Fort: +13 Reflex: +9 Will: +7
Resist cold & fire 10
Spell Resistance 23

Speed: 40 feet
Attack: greataxe +23 (1d12 + 6 / 19-20 x 2)

Special Abilities: rage (+2 / +3 to attacks, +36 hp, -2 AC)
Feats: Weapon Focus Greataxe, Cleave, Power Attack, Improved Critical Greataxe, Lightning Reflexes, Iron Will

Skills: Climb +14, Jump +15
Abilities: Str 18 Dex 12 Con 14 Int 6 Wis 8 Cha 6

Equipment: Greataxe, Studded Leather Armor