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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 4698393" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span>    <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">No, it’s Constrict <strong>or</strong> Gnaw, not Constrict <strong>and</strong> Gnaw, the Otyugh doesn't do both simultaneously.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">In some earlier editions, if an otyugh is constriction a foe and they stop moving, the otyugh sometimes starts tearing chunks out of them while continuing to fight with its other tentacle and bite. I think I’d better add a bit to the Combat tactics to explain that:</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">An otyugh only uses its gnaw attack against grappled opponents when it senses they are helpless or too puny to pose a threat, constricting foes that continue to put up a serious fight.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> It doesn’t have any notes as to how it reacts to losing a fight, better add something about that too:</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Otyughs know they are too slow to flee a fight, although they may retreat to a secure bolt-hole, such as a hollow under a mound of garbage or a cistern that can only be reached by swimming down a pipe filled with sewage. If faced with death, an otyugh may try to trade its treasure for its life, grimly fighting to the death if this offer fails.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> Neo-otyughs are craftier, so I think I should describe a few more options.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Neo-otyughs know they are too slow to flee a fight, although they may retreat to a secure bolt-hole, such as a hollow under a mound of garbage or a cistern that can only be reached by swimming down a pipe filled with sewage. If faced with death a neo-otyugh will bargain and bluff for its life, willingly giving up treasure to save themselves. They are intelligent enough to be deceitful, some neo-otyughs will lure their captors toward traps and allied monsters, or only give up a portion of their treasure while pretending to surrender everything they own.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> If such ploys fail, the neo-otyugh will grimly fight to the death.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Oh, and seeing as to how I’ve mentioned allied monsters, that deserves some explanation in the general text:</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Otyughs can eat almost anything organic and thrive on a diet of filth. They often form symbiotic relationships with other creatures, often tribes of humanoids or dangerous monsters. In return for their allies’ dung and refuse they serve as living waste disposals, and may provide addition services such as a sentry or treasure guardian.</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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