Shade said:An interesting aside, the other two frogs treat their tongues as melee touch attacks, while the toads treat them as ranged touch attacks...
Tongue (Ex): As a standard action, a killer frog may attack a foe up to 15 feet away with its tongue. If it hits, it deals no damage but immediately makes a grapple check (see Improved Grab, above). A killer frog is not considered to be grappling a foe if it uses its tongue to grapple. Once it grapples a foe, the frog can drag him into its square if the creature isn't too heavy (a standard killer frog can pull up to 230 pounds in this manner) whereupon it immediately makes a free bite attack against the foe, gaining a +2 circumstance bonus on its attack roll.
A killer frog's tongue has AC 13, and can be severed if it takes 5 points of slashing damage. The tongue regrows in one day.
Adhesive Tongue (Ex): A monstrous frog within 20 feet of its prey lashes out with its sticky tongue instead of leaping. To use this ability, a monstrous frog must hit an opponent up to one size category larger than itself with a tongue attack. It can then attempt to start a grapple as a free action without provoking attacks of opportunity. If it wins the grapple check, it successfully snares its prey with its tongue. The prey is automatically drawn into the frog's mouth in the following round. If the tongue is struck (AC 15) for any amount of damage, the frog releases the victim and does not attack that PC again.
Combat: In their natural surroundings, archer frogs' coloration gives them a natural camouflage, imposing a -3 penalty to opponents' surprise rolls.
Once the prey is within the mouth, the archer frog's acidic saliva begins the process of digestion, causing an addition 1d4 hp damage each round, until the prey has been totally liquefied and swallowed. Non-organic materials (such as armor, weapons, and jewelry) are not digested; these items are spit out by the archer frog after dissolving its meal.
Once an archer frog has "speared" a victim on its tongue, it is virtually defenseless until its current victim is dissolved. For this reason, an archer frog prefers to target solo prey; parties of two or more capable of fighting back are seldom attacked.
The frogs have large, expandable throat-sacs which hold prey in much the same manner as a pelican's beak. This enables a full-grown archer frog to digest something as large as an elf or human in its mouth.
Not sure about Improved Initiative as the bonus should only be for the first round. We could give it a bonus to Hide so that it has a better chance of surprising it's opponent and thus go in the surprise round before normal Initiative begins.Shade said:Racial bonus on Hide checks? Improved Initiative?
It's rather like a 'premature' swallow whole effect - just in the mouth rather than the stomach.