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Combat
The ravelly pad is a mindless eating machine,
concerned first with filling its big belly, and second
with protecting itself. It attacks anything that comes
within reach, and will attempt to pack whatever
creatures will fit into its stomach, killing whatever
won’t fit to attract animals that will. Because of the
creature’s discriminate eating habits, there is usually
a bit of treasure to be found nearby in the silt amidst
the bones of former meals.
Constrict (Ex): A ravelly pad deals 1d8+5
points of damage with a successful grapple check.
Improved Grab (Ex): To use this ability, a
ravelly pad must hit with its 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 can constrict
or attempt to swallow the foe in the following
round.
Swallow Whole (Ex): A ravelly pad can try
to swallow a grabbed opponent of Small or smaller
size by making a successful grapple check. Once
inside the plant’s mass, the swallowed creature
Sea Walker
Large Magical Beast
Hit Dice: 9d10+9 (58 hp)
Initiative: +3
Speed: 30 ft. (6 squares)
Armor Class:18 (-1 size, +3 Dex, +6 natural),
touch 12, flat-footed 15
Base Attack/Grapple: +9/+15
Attack: Bite +10 melee (2d8+3)
Full Attack: Bite +10 melee (2d8+3)
Space/Reach: 10 ft./5 ft. (10 ft. with bite)
Special Attacks: —
Special Qualities: Darkvision 60 ft., low-light
vision, water walk
Saves: Fort +7, Ref +11, Will -2
Abilities: Str 15, Dex 17, Con 13, Int 2, Wis
3, Cha 2
This long-necked reptile uses vestigial wings
and a flap of skin upon its back as sails of a sort to
almost skate across the surface of the lake.
Combat
The sea walker can be a deadly foe,
especially when the wind is in its favor (and a sea
walker generally waits to attack large prey until it
has a favorable path). It sweeps by boats and uses
its long neck to reach onto the deck and pluck
unfortunate sailors away.
Water Walk (Ex): A sea walker can walk
over water as though with a water walk spell.
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takes 2d6 points of acid damage per round. A
swallowed creature can climb out of the plant
with a successful grapple check. This returns it to
the plant’s maw, where another successful grapple
check is needed to get free. A swallowed creature
can also cut its way out by using a light slashing or
piercing weapon to deal 10 points of damage to the
ravelly pad’s interior (AC 10). Once a swallowed
creature cuts an exit, the plant can no longer use this
attack.
A Medium ravelly pad’s expanding interior
can hold 1 Small, 4 Tiny, 16 Diminutive, or 32 Fine
creatures.
Blindsense (Ex): In addition to using its
rudimentary eyes, a ravelly pad can sense the minute
electrical impulses created by moving muscles
within 30 feet.
Skills: A ravelly pad 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.
Skills: Listen +3, Spot +5
Feats: Alertness, Combat Reflexes, Lightning
Reflexes, Skate-By Attack (see below)
Environment: Any aquatic
Organization: Solitary, pair, pod (1-8) or
cluster (9-20)
Challenge Rating: 5
Treasure: Standard
Alignment: Always neutral
Advancement: 10-18 HD (Large); 19-27 HD
(Huge)
Level Adjustment: —
Skate-By-Attack
[General]
You are skilled at making fast attacks while
walking on the surface of water.
Prerequisites: Water walk, as a spell,
spell-like ability, or supernatural or extraordinary
ability.
Benefit: When walking across the surface
of water and using the charge action, you may
move and attack as if with a standard charge and
then move again (continuing the straight line of
the charge). Your total movement for the round
can’t exceed double your normal land speed. You
do not provoke an attack of opportunity from the
opponent that you attack.
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