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Bog Beast
Large Monstrous Humanoid
Hit Dice: 5d8+20 (42 hp)
Initiative: +0
Speed: 30 ft. (6 squares)
Armor Class: 14 (-1 size, +5 natural), touch
9, flat-footed 14
Base Attack/Grapple: +5/+14
Attack: Claw +9 melee (1d6+5)
Full Attack: 2 claws +9 melee (1d6+5)
Space/Reach: 10 ft./10 ft.
Special Attacks: Disease, improved grab,
rend 2d6+7
Special Qualities: Darkvision 60 ft., lowlight
vision
The bog beast is a large, shaggy, fur-covered,
vaguely humanoid creature that makes its home in
bogs and swamps. It has two large upright tusks
of pale white protruding from its mouth. Its hands
sport sharp claws with filthy nails. Its eyes are dull
brown in color and its fur is brownish-yellow. The
bog beast stands over 9 feet tall and weighs around
1,100 pounds. It makes its lair amid overgrown
swamplands and attacks just about any creature
that travels too close to its lair.
Combat
Bog beasts attack with their claws, fighting
to the death. A creature killed by a bog beast
is dragged back to the beast’s lair, where it is
devoured.
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Saves: Fort +5, Ref +4, Will +5
Abilities: Str 20, Dex 11, Con 18, Int 5, Wis
12, Cha 9
Skills: Listen +7, Spot +7
Feats: Alertness, Power Attack
Environment: Temperate and warm marsh
Organization: Solitary or pack (2-5)
Challenge Rating: 5
Treasure: None
Alignment: Always neutral
Advancement: 6-10 HD (Large); 11-15 HD
(Huge)
Level Adjustment: —
Disease (Ex): Filth fever—claw, Fortitude
DC 16, incubation period 1d3 days; damage 1d3
Dex and 1d3 Con. The save DC is Constitutionbased.
Improved Grab (Ex): To use this ability, a
bog beast must hit an opponent of up to Large size
with both claw attacks. 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 rends.
Rend (Ex): A bog beast grappling an
opponent latches onto the opponent’s body and
tears the flesh. This attack automatically deals an
additional 2d6+7 points of damage each round.
Blood Floater: Considered a sign of bad luck by most aquatic species, the blood floater is a plant
that takes root in the bodies of dead creatures as they drift through the sea. Their seeds lodge in corpses
and use those nutrients to grow, eventually sprouting a number of roots through the body and a handful
of stalks, each tipped in a bright red flower that smell as blood to aquatic creatures. The flowers are
poisonous if ingested.
If the creature consuming the plants fails a Fortitude save (DC 16), they inflict 1d6 points of initial
and secondary Constitution damage. The blood floater uses its attractive flowers to fool sea creatures
into digesting its poison, gathering more corpses for its seeds. This grisly ptactice sometimes leads to
large floating piles of corpses as the blood floaters increase in number. These plants are also common in
aquatic cemeteries. Collecting this poison involves a successful Survival check of DC 16, or a Knowledge
(nature) check of DC 14, and takes one hour to produce a single dose. The poison has a market value of
20 gp in flower form and 100 gp in processed, oil form.