Remorhaz

Remorhaz Level 7 Lurker Solo
Huge Elemental Beast (fire) XP 1500
Initiative +8 Senses Perception +4; tremorsense
Aura Heat (fire) aura 3; enemies that start their turns in the aura take 5 fire damage.
HP 320; Bloodied 160; Surge value: 80
AC 23; Fortitude 23, Reflex 21, Will 17
Saving throws +5
Action points 2
Speed 6, burrow 4 (tunneling), icewalk

Bite (standard; at-will)
Reach 2; +12 vs AC; 2d6 + 5, plus the target is grabbed (until escape). The remorhaz cannot make bite attacks while grabbing a creature, but it can use clamping jaws.

Snatch (standard; at-will)
Reach 2; +12 vs AC; 2d6 + 5, plus the target is grabbed (until escape). Secondary attack: +10 vs Reflex; 2d8 + 5 damage; Miss: Half damage.

Clamping Jaws (minor; at-will)
If a remorhaz begins its turn with a target grabbed in its jaws, it makes an attack against the grabbed creature: +10 vs. Reflex; 2d8 + 5 damage. Miss: Half damage.

Swallow (standard; at-will) * Fire
The remorhaz attempts to swallow a bloodied Medium or smaller creature it is grabbing; +10 vs. Fortitude; on a hit, the target is swallowed and restrained (no save) and takes 5 damage plus 10 fire damage on subsequent rounds at the start of the remorhaz's turn. The swallowed creature can make melee basic attacks only, and only with one-handed or natural weapons. If the remorhaz dies, any creature trapped in its gullet can escape as a move action, ending that action in a square formerly occupied by the remorhaz.

Undermine (standard; recharge 5, 6) * Fire
While burrowing, the remorhaz superheats the snow and ice around it causing a steam explosion. Close burst 2; +10 vs Reflex; 4d8 + 5 fire damage and the target is prone. Miss: Half damage and the target is not prone.

Enraged Heat (free, when first bloodied; encounter) * Fire
An enraged remorhaz generates heat so intense that anything touching it risks catching fire; until the end of the encounter, the remorhaz's Heat aura causes an additional 5 ongoing fire damage (save ends).

Alignment Unaligned; Languages -

Skills Stealth +9

Str 20 (+8) Dex 13 (+4) Wis 12 (+4)
Con 16 (+6) Int 5 (+0) Cha 10 (+3)

Tactics: The remorhaz will usually lie in wait hidden under snow and ice until it detects something moving nearby. When the remorhaz has grabbed an opponent it will move away while burrowing and use Clamping Jaws on the grabbed foe until it is bloodied, after which the remorhaz will use Swallow.

Sample Level 9 Encounter
1 Remorhaz
2 Blazing Skeletons (former victims perhaps?)


Lesser Remorhaz Level 7 Lurker
Large Elemental Beast (fire) XP 300
Initiative +8 Senses Perception +4; tremorsense
Aura Heat (fire) aura 2; enemies that start their turns in the aura take 5 fire damage.
HP 66; Bloodied 33
AC 21; Fortitude 21, Reflex 18, Will 17
Speed 6, burrow 4 (tunneling), icewalk

Bite (standard; at-will)
+12 vs AC; 2d6 + 5, plus the target is grabbed (until escape). The remorhaz cannot make bite attacks while grabbing a creature, but it can use clamping jaws.

Clamping Jaws (standard; at-will)
If a remorhaz begins its turn with a target grabbed in its jaws, it makes an attack against the grabbed creature: +10 vs. Reflex; 2d8 + 5 damage. Miss: Half damage.

Enraged Heat (free, when first bloodied; encounter) * Fire
An enraged remorhaz generates heat so intense that anything touching it risks catching fire; until the end of the encounter, the remorhaz's Heat aura causes an additional 5 ongoing fire damage (save ends).

Alignment Unaligned; Languages -

Skills Stealth +9

Str 20 (+8) Dex 13 (+4) Wis 12 (+4)
Con 16 (+6) Int 5 (+0) Cha 10 (+3)

swallow strikes me as something you want an elite to have, not a normal.

Maybe even solo, style wise they fit the bill for a lone terror.

That is true. I will create a solo version and then change the other one into "Lesser Remorhaz" or something.

besides the type issue, I like it.

Created a solo version and made the old version into a weaker Lesser Remorhaz.

Looks great and very close to the 4E Remorhaz I wrote up. The one I wrote up was a Lv.20 Solo Lurker (the adventure I'm using it in starts at Lv.20) and was almost a straight copy of the Elder Purple Worm. I really like the other abilities you added. I'm definately going to have to borrow those for mine.