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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. 97 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. 5
5 Shipwreck Ooze Large Ooze (Aquatic) Hit Dice: 4d10+8 (30 hp) Initiative: -5 Speed: Swim 15 ft. (3 squares) Armor Class: 4 (-1 size, -5 Dex), touch 4, flat-footed 4 Base Attack/Grapple: +3/+11 Attack: Slam +6 melee (1d8+6 plus 1d6 acid) Full Attack: Slam +6 melee (1d8+6 plus 1d6 acid) Space/Reach: 10 ft./10 ft. Special Attacks: Acid, constrict 1d8+6 and 1d6 acid, engulf Shipwreck oozes lie in wait underwater, using their natural camouflage to surprise the unwary. Named for where they were first discovered— inside the bows of sunken ships—shipwreck oozes are amorphous masses of sticky, acidic jelly. A shipwreck ooze’s translucent body resembles a large air pocket, often resting on the sea surface or rising from the depths. Nearly weightless, shipwreck oozes drift through water as they seek to find and envelop prey. They feed on any organic material they come in contact with, and can even dissolve steel. Shipwreck oozes cannot survive exposure to air. They rely on water to keep their membranes moist, and on land, a shipwreck ooze quickly withers and dies. As its “skin” cracks, an ooze’s fluid core spills out through thousands of tiny ruptures, creating a high-pitched whine like that of a shrieking child. Combat Shipwreck oozes, when not floating near the surface of a body of water, cling to the ceilings of underwater caves and shipwrecks. When creatures pass below, they descend and engulf their prey. Acid (Ex): A shipwreck ooze is composed of acid that dissolves organic material and metal, but not stone. Any melee hit or constrict attack deals acid damage. Armor or clothing dissolves and becomes useless immediately unless it succeeds on a DC 14 Reflex save. A metal or wooden weapon that strikes a shipwreck ooze also dissolves immediately unless it succeeds on a DC 14 Reflex save. The save DCs are Constitution-based. The shipwreck ooze’s acidic touch deals 14 points of damage per round to wooden or metal objects, but the ooze must remain in contact with the object for 1 full round to deal this damage. 98 Special Qualities: Blindsight 80 ft., camouflage, dehydration, ooze traits Saves: Fort +3, Ref -4, Will -4 Abilities: Str 19, Dex 1, Con 15, Int —, Wis 1, Cha 1 Skills: Hide –9*, Swim +12 Feats: — Environment: Any aquatic Organization: Solitary or school (2-7) Challenge Rating: 5 Treasure: None Alignment: Always neutral Advancement: 5-8 HD (Large); 9-12 HD (Huge) Level Adjustment: — Constrict (Ex): A shipwreck ooze deals automatic slam and acid damage with a successful grapple check. The opponent’s clothing and armor take a -4 penalty on Reflex saves against the acid. Engulf (Ex): A shipwreck ooze can mow down Large or smaller creatures as a standard action. The ooze merely has to move over the opponents, affecting as many as it can cover. Opponents can make opportunity attacks, but if they do so they are not entitled to a saving throw. Those who do not attempt attacks of opportunity must succeed on a DC 16 Reflex save or be engulfed; on a success, they are pushed back or aside (opponent’s choice) as the ooze moves forward. Engulfed creatures are subject to the ooze’s acid, and are considered grappled and trapped within its body. The save DC is Strength-based Dehydration (Ex): A shipwreck ooze that is removed from water takes 4d10 points of damage every round until it is submerged again. Blindsight (Ex): A shipwreck ooze’s entire body is a primitive sensory organ that can ascertain prey by water vibrations within 80 feet. Beyond that range, they are considered blinded. Shipwreck oozes are invulnerable to gaze attacks, visual effects of spells such as illusions, and other attack forms that rely on sight. Skills: A shipwreck ooze 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. * A shipwreck ooze has a +13 racial bonus to Hide checks when motionless and immersed in water.
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Alphabetical Listing of Monsters Ad
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Aberration: Grethell (2), Feasting
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1/4 Lurking Lizard Tiny Animal (Aqu
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1/3 Drowner Fish Tiny Animal (Aquat
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1/2 Delusion Hummer Diminutive Verm
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1 Carp Eater Medium Monstrous Human
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1 Eyeburn Eel Medium Animal Hit Dic
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1 Mantafai Small Fey (Aquatic) Hit
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1 Rakklethorn Toad Small Magical Be
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2 Barrow Roach Large Undead Hit Dic
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2 Dragonfish Small Magical Beast (A
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2 Gray Lady Medium Undead (Incorpor
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2 Iridescent Coral Small Plant Hit
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2 Marsh Assassin Medium Monstrous H
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2 Poisonous Frog Swarm Diminutive A
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2 Skin Wraith Medium Undead Hit Dic
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2 Spinal Leech Hazard (CR 2) These
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2 Waterlost Medium Undead (Aquatic)
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3 Devil Bine Medium Plant Hit Dice:
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3 Fungoid Medium Plant Hit Dice: 5d
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Page 61 and 62: 3 Swamp Troll Large Giant (Aquatic)
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Page 65 and 66: 4 Awabi Large Monstrous Humanoid (A
Page 67 and 68: 4 Crystal Ooze Medium Ooze (Aquatic
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Page 73 and 74: 4 Gharian Large Monstrous Humanoid
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Page 83 and 84: 5 Archer Clam Huge Vermin (Aquatic)
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Page 89 and 90: 5 Dingonek Huge Magical Beast (Aqua
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Page 129 and 130: 7 Iron Crab Medium Magical Beast (A
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Page 133 and 134: 7 Mire Horror Gargantuan Aberration
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8 Giant Anemone Huge Animal (Aquati
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8 Nommo Medium Monstrous Humanoid (
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8 Riptide Horror Medium Magical Bea
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8 Vampiric Ooze Large Undead Hit Di
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9 Blind Lasher Large Magical Beast
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9 Fisherman Large Outsider (Aquatic
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9 Lightmaw Large Magical Beast (Aqu
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9 Mammoth Slug Gargantuan Vermin Hi
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9 War Whale Huge Animal Hit Dice: 1
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10 Dragonship Gargantuan Construct
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10 Sanguine Stalker Large Aberratio
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11 Blood Naga Large Aberration (Ext
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11 Juhivai Huge Aberration (Aquatic
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11 Mokele M’bembe Gargantuan Anim
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12 Giant Sea Slug Gargantuan Vermin
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12 Russet Diver Huge Humanoid (Aqua
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13 Froghemoth Huge Aberration Hit D
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14 Morgathrell Gargantuan Magical B
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15 Blackwater Slough Huge Ooze Hit
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15 Sea Giant Gargantuan Giant (Aqua
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16 Kalavij Gargantuan Aberration (A
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16 Stinging Grappler Huge Magical B
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16 War Snail Colossal Vermin Hit Di
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20 Northern Sea Dragon Gargantuan D
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