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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6312426" data-attributes="member: 57383">Gammaroid Working DraftGammaroidColossal Magical BeastHit Dice: 100d10+1,300 (1,850 hp)Initiative: +6Speed: 20 ft. (4 square), fly 450 ft. (clumsy), burrow 20 ft.Armor Class: 60 (–8 size, –2 Dex, +60 natural), touch 0, flat-footed 60Base Attack/Grapple: +100/+148Attack: Bite +125 melee (16d6+32/19–20)Full Attack: Bite +125 melee (16d6+32/19–20) and 2 claws +125 melee (3d8+16/19–20)Space/Reach: 500 ft./200 ft.Special Attacks: Flame sheath, improved grab, ramming, swallow wholeSpecial Qualities: Camouflage, damage reduction 15/—, fast healing 3, fortification, fire immunity, hardened abilities, low-light vision, retract, spinning flight, starbornSaves: Fort +71, Ref +56, Will +40Abilities: Str 74, Dex 6, Con 37, Int 1, Wis 12, Cha 8Skills: Spot +104Feats: Cleave, Damage Reduction (×5), Diehard, Dire Charge,  Endurance, Epic  Endurance, Epic Fortitude, Epic Prowess, Epic Reflexes,  Epic Will, Fast  Healing, Flyby Attack, Great Cleave, Great Fortitude,  Hover, Improved  Critical (bite), Improved Critical (claw), Improved Bull  Rush, Improved  Initiative, Improved Multiattack, Improved Overrun,  Improved Sunder,  Iron Will, Lightning Reflexes, Multiattack, Power  Attack, Snatch, Stand  Still, Superior Initiative, WingoverEnvironment: AnyOrganization: SolitaryChallenge Rating: 42Treasure: NoneAlignment: Always neutralAdvancement: 101+ HD (Colossal)Level Adjustment: —A turtle of almost inconceivable size, with a head the size of a  fortress and a body as big as an island. Its shell resembles an ancient  asteroid pitted with meteor craters. The creature's sharp-edged, hook-tipped beak and massive claws suggest it is a predator.Gammaroids are enormous space-going turtles that appear to be distant  relatives of the giant snapping turtle. These voracious beasts prey on  other spaceborn lifeforms, with their favorite food being gossamer  nobles. Gammaroids tend to ignore humanoid-scale creatures and  spelljamming vessels, but a particularly hungry one may try to smash a  ship apart to devour its occupants.A resting gammaroid is hard to distinguish from an asteroid. Many  victims who wandered close to one only realize their mistake when the  gammeroid's head shoots out of its shell and seizes them in its jaws.Female gammaroids visit planets to spawn. They seek out volcanic areas  and burrow miles underground until they find a suitable pocket of magma,  where they lay a clutch of two to eight eggs. The eggs take up to five  decades to hatch. The newborn hatchlings tunnel upwards, devouring any  subterranean creature they happen upon, until they reach the surface and  fly into space.A typically gammaroid measures about 1500 feet from snout to   tail, with a shell up to 1000 feet across, and weighs at least 2 million tons.   The largest specimens can have shells 2,500 feet in diameter or more.COMBATAn attacking gammaroid likes to use its Ramming attack, especially  against numerous opponents smaller than itself. If it faces a  substantial foe, such as a truly Colossal monster or massive  spelljamming ship, it strikes with both claws and bite with a Dire  charge or full attack, usually adding at least 25 points of Power Attack to its attacks.Camouflage (Ex): Gammaroids are so  massive their own gravity accretes a layer of rocks and dust upon a  body. This covering allows a gammaroid to pull its head and limbs into  its shell  and imitate an asteroid. So long as the gammaroid does not   move, it requires a DC 25 Spot check for another creature to notice the imposture.A gammaroid loses this camouflage coating if it moves by Spinning  Flight, since the centripetal forces of its rotation hurls the accreted  material away. It must replace the coating if it wishes to use  Camouflage again. In areas thick in dust and rocks, such as a planetary  ring, a gammaroid  can cover itself in camouflaging material in an hour  or so. In an asteroid  belt it may take days or weeks of accretion to  create this covering, or  up to several months if the asteroid belt is  particularly thin.Flame Sheath (Ex): A gammaroid using Spinning Flight can envelop itself in a fireball of superheated air as a free action. This Flame Sheath has a diameter of 2,000 feet and does 12d6 fire damage per round to everything within it. The Flame Sheath is  centered on the gammaroid and moves as the gammaroid moves. A gammaroid  can maintain a Flame Sheath for as long as it wishes, but the Flame  Sheath immediately ends if the gammaroid stops using Spinning Flight.A gammaroid cannot create a Flame Sheath when surrounded by vacuum,  since the heat and flames will instantly disperse into an airless void.  This is not usually a problem for a gammaroid travelling in space, since  their own gravity field carries an air envelope along with the  creature.Fortification (Ex): Whenever a critical hit or sneak attack is  scored on a gammaroid there is a 75% chance that the special  attack is negated and its damage is rolled normally, similar to the  effect of armor enchanted with the Moderate Fortification quality. This  chance increases to 100% when the gammaroid withdraws its appendages into  its shell.Hardened Abilities (Ex): A gammaroid is so enormous that  it  ignores the first 10 points from any ability drain or ability damage   attack it receives. (e,g, an attack that would normally do 13 Dexterity  damage would only inflict 3 Dex damage to a gammaroid).Improved Grab (Ex): To use this ability, the gammaroid must hit with its bite attack. If it gets a hold, it  automatically deals bite damage and can attempt to swallow the opponent.Ramming (Ex): As a standard action, a gammaroid that is using  Spinning Flight (see  below) can fly at up to triple speed (1,350 feet)  and ram any target  whose space it enters, usually a spelljamming ship or flying  creature.  If the ramming attack hits an object weighing at least one-tenth as much   as the gammaroid, the gammaroid must end its movement in the target's   space. This attack  deals 12d12+48 points of damage, plus an additional 12d6   fire if the gammaroid is employing its Flame Sheathe ability (see   above). If the target is a creature, it can attempt  either an attack of   opportunity or a DC 92 Reflex save for half damage.  The save DC is   Strength-based.If a gammaroid rams a ship, in addition to the above damage it also    makes a  Strength check to breach its hull. The breach DC varies with  the   type of vessel rammed, but is normally 18 plus 1 per 10 feet of  length, although an adjustment of between –5 to +10 may apply due to the  sturdiness of design, materials and/or craftsmanship. A typical 50-foot  merchant ship or 75-foot longship is breach DC of 25, a typical  100-foot warship is DC 30 (See Chapter 5 of the DMG for   information about ships). Success normally holes the hull, causing the  ship to founder in 1d10  minutes. Success by 15   or more (e.g. a result  of 40+ against a breach DC 25 longship)   immediately destroys the ship  by shearing the hull in half or smashing   it to splinters.Regardless of the check result, every creature aboard a ship rammed by a gammaroid must attempt a DC 20 Reflex saving throw. Success means the creature takes 1d12 points of    damage from being thrown about by the impact; failure means the creature    is hurled overboard.Retract (Ex): A gammaroid  can pull in its head  and  limbs to  protect its vulnerable areas. While retracted, the  gammaroid can still  fly, but is unable to use its land or burrow speed. A retracted  gammaroid can sense its surroundings normally and attack by  ramming or  flame shroud, but cannot use its bite or claw attacks. Retracting into  its shell grants the gammaroid heavy   fortification (100% resistance to  critical hits), plus a +20  bonus to its natural armor bonus, a +10  bonus to its damage reduction  and a +4 bonus to its Reflex saving throws.Spinning Flight (Ex): A gammaroid that has retracted into its   shell can spin around with  incredible speed while flying. If the   spinning gammaroid makes a double move action (such as a charge attack),   it can move three times its  normal flying speed (1,350 ft.). A  gammaroid that uses the run action while in  spinning flight still only  moves four times its normal speed (1,800 ft.), or five times (2,250 ft.)  if it has the Run feat.Starborn (Ex): A gammaroid can exist comfortably in the harsh  conditions of space. A gammaroid takes no  damage from radiation or fire and is immune to pressure and  decompression damage, so can move easily between the vacuum of space to  the crushing magma beneath a planet's crust.Swallow Whole (Ex): A gammaroid can try to swallow a  grabbed opponent with a Space up to 50 ft. by making a  successful grapple check. It can also swallow a non-resisting creature or object with a Space up to 100 ft. as a full round action. Once inside, the  opponent takes 8d6+32 points of crushing damage plus 8d6 points of acid  damage per round from the gammaroid's digestive juices. A  swallowed creature can cut its way out by using a light slashing or  piercing weapon to deal 60 points of damage to the  gammaroid’s gut (AC 40). Once the creature exits, muscular action closes  the hole; another swallowed opponent must cut its own way out. A gammaroid's interior can hold 6 Colossal, 25 Gargantuan, 100 Huge, 400 Large, or 1600 Medium or smaller opponents.Carrying Capacity: Due to their prodigious size and sturdy build, gammaroids can bear immensely heavy loads. Their carrying capacity is a hundred times that of an ordinary creature with their size and Strength. A typical  gammaroid can carry a light load of up to 286,720 tons, a medium load of  286,721-573,440 tons, a heavy load of 573,441-860,160 tons, and can  drag 4,300,800 tons.Originally appeared in MC9 - Spelljammer Monstrous Compendium (1991).</blockquote>

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