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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BOZ" data-source="post: 77675" data-attributes="member: 1241">KAMPFULTSmall PlantHit Dice: 2d8+4 (11 hp)Initiative: +1 (Dex)Speed: 10 ftAC: 18 (+1 size, +1 Dex, +6 natural)Attacks: 6 slams +3 meleeDamage: Slam 1 and constrictionFace/Reach: 5 ft by 5 ft/5 ftSpecial Attacks: Improved grab, constrictionSpecial Qualities: Plant, camouflageSaves: Fort +5, Ref +1, Will +0Abilities: Str 15, Dex 12, Con 14, Int 6, Wis 11, Cha 14Climate/Terrain: Any undergroundOrganization: SolitaryChallenge Rating: 2Treasure: NoneAlignment: Usually neutral (evil tendencies)Advancement: 3-4 HD (Small); 5-6 HD (Medium-Size)The kampfult is a stumpy tree creature, said to be a corrupted offshoot of atreant.  This plant, also called the sinewy mugger, has a withered decrepitappearance, with a four foot long body resembling a decayed tree stump with sixrope-like appendages.  These rope-like appendages are six feet long, and areused to attack.  There are six appendages for movement, each one foot in length,spaced evenly around the stump body.   The underside of the plant's stump core is very soft and porous.  It isthrough this underside that this carnivorous plant absorbs its food.Occasionally, incidental treasure from past victims can be found underneath thestump, but the chances of finding anything are unlikely.   This monster is usually only found in subterranean areas.  The kampfult mayhave originally inhabited thick woodlands, where its power to disguise itselfhelped it blend in with local flora.  This monster has been actively hunted downby humans and driven underground, making it rare to find one in another habitat.COMBATThe kampfult prefers to disguise itself as harmless vegetation, a chopped downtree stump, to surprise its opponents.  Once it begins combat, it will try toattack as many creatures at once as it can hit.  These carnivorous trees areweak, and prefer to attack small, lone creatures.  When a victim is killed, thekampfult pulls the body underneath its stump, spraying a decaying catalyst onthe food to break down its organic tissue.   Improved Grab (Ex): To use this ability, the kampfult must hit with at leastone of its slam attacks.  If it gets a hold, it can constrict.   Constriction (Ex): Creatures held by a kampfult's ropey appendages aresubject to mild constriction damage of 1 hit point per round.  The appendagewill maintain the hold until the kampfult dies, or the victim breaks free.Anything with a Strength score of 16 or higher can break free automatically, andanything weaker must roll a Strength check against the kampfult's Strength.  Atentacle can be severed by a slashing weapon by hitting it for 2 points ofdamage.   Camouflage (Ex): The kampfult has the ability to disguise its form as anordinary withered tree stump.  It hold out or pulls in its appendages to makethem blend in among vines and creepers.  Underground, it typically appears asropes or nets lying near a tree stump.  A successful Spot check (DC 13) willreveal a kampfult as a threat.   Plant: Immune to mind-influencing effects, poison, sleep, paralysis,stunning, and polymorphing.  Not subject to critical hits.The kampfult first appeared in the Monster Manual II (1983), then in theGreyhawk Monstrous Compendium MC5 (1990).</blockquote>

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