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Stone Snake Working Draft
Stone Snake
Large Magical Beast (Earth)
Hit Dice: 8d10+16 (60 hp)
Initiative: +5
Speed: 20 ft. (4 squares), climb 20 ft.
Armor Class: 22 (-1 size, +1 Dex, +12 natural), touch 10, flat-footed 21
Base Attack/Grapple: +8/+17
Attack: Slam +13 melee (2d10+7/19-20) or bite +12 melee (1d8+5 plus petrifying venom)
Full Attack: Slam +13 melee (2d10+7/19-20) or bite +12 melee (1d8+5 plus petrifying venom)
Space/Reach: 10 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: Petrifying venom
Special Qualities: Darkvision 60 ft., DR 10/bludgeoning, immunity to fire, immunity to poison, scent
Saves: Fort +8, Ref +7, Will +3
Abilities: Str 21, Dex 13, Con 15, Int 1, Wis 12, Cha 2
Skills: Balance +9, Climb +13, Hide +8, Listen +7, Spot +7
Feats: Improved Critical (slam), Improved Initiative, Weapon Focus (slam)
Environment: Subterranean
Organization: Solitary or pair
Challenge Rating: 6
Treasure: Triple goods (gems only)
Alignment: Always neutral
Advancement: 9-12 HD (Large); 13-24 (Huge)
Level Adjustment: —
A large serpent, the thick hide of its segmented body looks like granite.
Stone snakes get their name because their bodies are made up of a stony mineral, and because their bite can turn living creatures into stone.
A stone snake eats mineral matter, mostly by scavenging from crystalline formations underground. However, it prefers to eat prey it has petrified with its venom. The snake drags prey off to its lair and then slowly swallows it whole, digesting the meal over the course of several days. If a petrified victim is too big to swallow, the stone snake smashes it to pieces with blows from its snout. A stone snake is unable to digest certain types of gems, such gemstones can often be found among the refuse in a stone snake's lair.
Stone snakes are encountered individually or in mated pairs. Female stone snakes lay 1-6 eggs in early fall, and then guard their nest while the male provides food. The eggs share the parents' coloration and are about 1½ feet long. Newly hatched young are alabaster white; they slowly develop camouflaging hues over their first six months, then are driven from the nest to survive on their own.
A typical stone snake is 20 to 25 feet long and weighs 1200 to 1500 pounds. Coloration matches most kinds of granite, ranging from eggshell to rosy pink, with striations of mauve to black.
COMBAT
A stone snake usually hides and waits for potential prey to approach it, then attacks with a lightning-quick jab of its blunt, stony snout or a bite with its petrifying fangs. It adds 1½ times its Strength bonus to the damage of this slam attack.
Petrifying Venom (Su): A stone snake's bite injects a virulent supernatural poison (DC20 Fort save). The initial damage slows the victim (as the spell) for 1d4+1 minutes, the secondary damage permanently turns the victim to stone. Effects that resist poison, such as the delay poison spell, antitoxin or a dwarf's resistance to poison, will affect a stone snake's petrifying venom as if it were mundane poison. Petrifying venom can be treated with the Heal skill as if it were poison, but with a -5 penalty on the skill check. A petrified victim can only be returned to normal by a stone to flesh spell or similar magic. The save DC is Constitution-based and includes a +4 racial bonus.
Skills: Stone snakes have a +4 racial bonus on Hide, Listen, and Spot checks and a +8 racial bonus on Balance and Climb checks. A stone snake can always choose to take 10 on a Climb check, even if rushed or threatened. Snakes use either their Strength modifier or Dexterity modifier for Climb checks, whichever is higher.
Stone Snake
Large Magical Beast (Earth)
Hit Dice: 8d10+16 (60 hp)
Initiative: +5
Speed: 20 ft. (4 squares), climb 20 ft.
Armor Class: 22 (-1 size, +1 Dex, +12 natural), touch 10, flat-footed 21
Base Attack/Grapple: +8/+17
Attack: Slam +13 melee (2d10+7/19-20) or bite +12 melee (1d8+5 plus petrifying venom)
Full Attack: Slam +13 melee (2d10+7/19-20) or bite +12 melee (1d8+5 plus petrifying venom)
Space/Reach: 10 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: Petrifying venom
Special Qualities: Darkvision 60 ft., DR 10/bludgeoning, immunity to fire, immunity to poison, scent
Saves: Fort +8, Ref +7, Will +3
Abilities: Str 21, Dex 13, Con 15, Int 1, Wis 12, Cha 2
Skills: Balance +9, Climb +13, Hide +8, Listen +7, Spot +7
Feats: Improved Critical (slam), Improved Initiative, Weapon Focus (slam)
Environment: Subterranean
Organization: Solitary or pair
Challenge Rating: 6
Treasure: Triple goods (gems only)
Alignment: Always neutral
Advancement: 9-12 HD (Large); 13-24 (Huge)
Level Adjustment: —
A large serpent, the thick hide of its segmented body looks like granite.
Stone snakes get their name because their bodies are made up of a stony mineral, and because their bite can turn living creatures into stone.
A stone snake eats mineral matter, mostly by scavenging from crystalline formations underground. However, it prefers to eat prey it has petrified with its venom. The snake drags prey off to its lair and then slowly swallows it whole, digesting the meal over the course of several days. If a petrified victim is too big to swallow, the stone snake smashes it to pieces with blows from its snout. A stone snake is unable to digest certain types of gems, such gemstones can often be found among the refuse in a stone snake's lair.
Stone snakes are encountered individually or in mated pairs. Female stone snakes lay 1-6 eggs in early fall, and then guard their nest while the male provides food. The eggs share the parents' coloration and are about 1½ feet long. Newly hatched young are alabaster white; they slowly develop camouflaging hues over their first six months, then are driven from the nest to survive on their own.
A typical stone snake is 20 to 25 feet long and weighs 1200 to 1500 pounds. Coloration matches most kinds of granite, ranging from eggshell to rosy pink, with striations of mauve to black.
COMBAT
A stone snake usually hides and waits for potential prey to approach it, then attacks with a lightning-quick jab of its blunt, stony snout or a bite with its petrifying fangs. It adds 1½ times its Strength bonus to the damage of this slam attack.
Petrifying Venom (Su): A stone snake's bite injects a virulent supernatural poison (DC20 Fort save). The initial damage slows the victim (as the spell) for 1d4+1 minutes, the secondary damage permanently turns the victim to stone. Effects that resist poison, such as the delay poison spell, antitoxin or a dwarf's resistance to poison, will affect a stone snake's petrifying venom as if it were mundane poison. Petrifying venom can be treated with the Heal skill as if it were poison, but with a -5 penalty on the skill check. A petrified victim can only be returned to normal by a stone to flesh spell or similar magic. The save DC is Constitution-based and includes a +4 racial bonus.
Skills: Stone snakes have a +4 racial bonus on Hide, Listen, and Spot checks and a +8 racial bonus on Balance and Climb checks. A stone snake can always choose to take 10 on a Climb check, even if rushed or threatened. Snakes use either their Strength modifier or Dexterity modifier for Climb checks, whichever is higher.
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