Tasloi
Small Humanoid
Hit Dice:	1d8 (4 hp)
Initiative:	+3 (Dex)
Speed:	20 ft. Climb 40ft.
AC:	15 (+1 size, +1 Small Wooden Shield, +3 Dex)
Attacks:	Short sword -1 melee or Javelin +4 ranged or net +4 ranged
Damage:	Short sword 1d6-2, Javelin 1d6-2, net (special)
Face/Reach:	5 ft. by 5 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks:	Nil
Special Qualities:	Low-Light Vision
Saves:	Fort+0, Ref+5, Will+0
Abilities:	Str 7, Dex 16, Con 10, 
	Int 8, Wis 10, Cha 9
Skills:	Climb+8*, Hide+15*, Listen+3, Move Silently+11*, Spot+5
Feats:	Alertness
Climate/Terrain:	Any Warm Forest or Jungle
Organization:	Solitary, Pair, Clutch (3-6), Band (10-20), Tribe (10d10)
Challenge Rating:	1
Treasure:	Standard
Alignment:	Usually Chaotic Evil
Advancement:	by Character Class

Tasloi are long-legged, flat-headed humanoids. They walk in a crouching posture, touching their knuckles to the ground from time to time. Their skins are a lustrous green and are thinly covered with coarse black hair. Their eyes are similar to a cat's and are gold in color.
	Often they can be heard at night, speaking in their high, whispery voices. Tasloi speak their own tongue and can also speak the languages of monkeys and apes. About 5% of their kind have learned a pidgin common that they use when trading.

Combat: Tasloi like to hide in treetops and drop down on the weak and unwary. 
Skills: They are quick and nimble in the trees, but slow and clumsy on the ground. When they are in jungle, Tasloi receive a +8 racial bonus to Climb, Hide, and Move Silently checks. 
Light Sensitivity (Ex): Tasloi hate daylight and suffer a -2 circumstance penalty to their attack rolls, saves, and checks when fighting in bright sunlight or within the radius of a daylight spell.
Exotic Weapon Proficiency (Ex): All Tasloi are automatically proficient in the net.

Habitat/Society: The tasloi live in loosely-structured bands of several families. In every band of 70 or more, there is a chief of 5 Hit Dice. There is a 30% chance that any band has a shaman. Tasloi shamans may advance up to 5th level.
	When found in their lair, in addition to the males, there are females and young equal to 70% and 50% of the number of males, respectively. Females fight as males, but the young do not fight at all. The lair consists of a series of 1d6 large trees with 4d6 platforms 50-100 feet above the ground. All the trees are connected by vines and ropes. There is a 60% chance that the tasloi have 1d6 trained giant spiders and a 20% chance that they have 2d4 trained giant wasps. Tasloi are able to ride these wasps for great distances, and the spiders aid in the construction, protection, and overall maintenance of the tree-village.

Ecology: It is not known where and how tasloi originated. It is likely they have been around for many millennia, interbreeding in deep isolated jungles. Their primitive lifestyle has probably existed in much the same fashion for thousands upon thousands of years.
	While certainly among the least fearsome of all jungle creatures, tasloi are perhaps worth worrying about in numbers, or after fleeing encounters with nastier jungle denizens. Tasloi know the location of such lairs and often set up obvious escape routes for any creature that foolishly finds itself confronting the beast. The tasloi then lay their traps along the escape path and wait for the weakened, unsuspecting creatures to run through blindly. This strategy is highly successful, apparently, as the tasloi boast many more trophies than their small size and limited prowess might otherwise indicate.