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Marshlight
Gargantuan Ooze (Aquatic)
Hit Dice: 12d10+84 (150 hp)
Initiative: -5
Speed: 20 ft. (4 squares), swim 20 ft. (4
squares)
Armor Class: 1 (-4 size, -5 Dex), touch 1,
flat-footed 1
Base Attack/Grapple: +9/+32
Attack: Slam +16 melee (4d6+16 plus
poison)
Full Attack: Slam +16 melee (4d6+16 plus
poison)
Space/Reach: 20 ft./15 ft.
Special Attacks: Improved grab, incendiary
burst, poison, swamp gas
A number of small glowing lights begin
to bob and weave through the air over the vast
swampy pool.
Combat
An attacking marshlight might be mistaken
for an elemental, rising as a shapeless mass that
resembles an animate composite of water, muck,
and decomposing vegetable matter. It attacks with
devastating slams, and is also capable of emitting
dangerous swamp gasses.
Marshlights rarely retreat from combat,
being mindless and voracious.
Improved Grab (Ex): To use this ability, the
marshlight must hit with a slam attack. It can then
attempt to start a grapple as a free action without
provoking an attack of opportunity. If it wins the
grapple check, it establishes a hold and poisons its
opponent each round.
Incendiary Burst (Ex): Seven times per
day, as a free action once per round, a marshlight
can cause one of its swamplights to explode. The
resulting 50-foot burst deals 7d6 points of fire
damage to any creature within the area (Reflex DC
23 half). The save DC is Constitution-based.
Poison (Ex): Contact, Fortitude DC 23,
initial damage 1d4 Str, secondary damage 1d6 Str.
The save DC is Constitution-based.
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Special Qualities: Blindsight 60 ft.,
boglike, create swamplights, immunity to
fire, ooze traits
Saves: Fort +11, Ref -1, Will -1
Abilities: Str 33, Dex 1, Con 24, Int —, Wis
1, Cha 1
Skills: Swim +19
Feats: —
Environment: Any marsh
Organization: Solitary
Challenge Rating: 11
Treasure: None
Alignment: Always neutral
Advancement: 13-24 HD (Gargantuan);
19-36 HD (Colossal)
Level Adjustment: —
Swamp Gas (Ex): At will, as a standard
action, a marshlight can release a cloud of swamp
gas similar in effect to a stinking cloud spell (DC
23, caster level 12th). Twice per day, it can make
this cloud similar to a cloudkill spell (DC 23,
caster level 6th). In each case, the range of the gas
cloud is 30 feet, but it otherwise functions as the
appropriate spell. The save DCs are Constitutionbased.
Boglike (Ex): A motionless marshlight so
closely resembles a stretch of boggy ground that it
takes a DC 20 Spot check to notice one. A creature
that fails to notice a marshlight and walks into it is
automatically hit with a melee attack for slam and
poison damage.
Create Swamplights (Su): At will, a
marshlight can create swamplights, small hovering
spheres of light similar to those made by a dancing
lights spell (caster level is equal to the marshlight’s
HD). The swamplights resemble the lights of the
spell, and a marshlight has the same limits on how
many it may create at one time.
Skills: A marshlight has a +8 racial bonus on
any Swim check to perform some special action or
avoid a hazard. It can always choose to take 10 on
a Swim check, even if distracted or endangered. It
can use the run action while swimming, provided
it swims in a straight line.
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