looking for stats of man 'o' war

[ceratitis]

an octopus is very diffeent to a jellyfish. it uses suckers to grapple while a jellyfish uses poison to disable. another issue as a dm is the octopus (at least in real life) are smart and cunning while jellyfish are mindless.
Z

 

[Huw]

or any other medusa (real life not the greek myth) type. if you could post them or a link i would be most gratful
Z

<pedant>Men o'war ain't medusae, they're colonial polyps.</pedant>

Don't have my books handy, but there is a jellyfish swarm (Stormwrack?). 2e had loads of jellyfish monsters, so there should be some conversions floating about ('scuse the pun).

I'd treat the man o'war as a hazard, not a monster. DC20 to spot, DC25 swim to avoid (if spotted), poison of your choice (DC14 with 1d8 dex and con primary and secondary damage sounds about right).

A sea wasp is much nastier. They've got eyes, and are active predators.

 

[Staffan]

 

[Nyaricus]

http://biodidac.bio.uottawa.ca/thumbnails/filedet.htm?File_name=HYDR008B&File_type=GIF

http://www.716ink.com/gallery/albums/2004-03-28/00_00_00_2.sized.jpg

http://www.dnr.sc.gov/marine/sertc/images/photo gallery/Portuguese Man O War .jpg

Man 'o Wars. Very ugly looking things, but brilliantly coloured.

 

[Question]

Hmm in that case can i have stats for a housefly please?

 

[glass]

its a type of jellyfish, google it.

IIRC, they are not actually jellyfish, are they? They look like them, but are not related.

EDIT: Wikipedia agrees with me:

The Portuguese Man O' War (Physalia physalis), also known as the bluebottle, is commonly thought of as a jellyfish but is actually a siphonophore—a colony of four sorts of polyps.

glass.