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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 9558376" data-attributes="member: 6779196">You kind of answered your own question here. The skeleton has its shortsword and shortbow listed as gear because it’s meant to be actual gear the adventurers can loot after killing the skeleton. The Kuo-Toa doesn’t have its strange spear, sticky net, or sticky shield listed as gear because they’re only meant to exist as part of the Kuo-Toa’s stat block, not recoverable after killing the Kuo-Toa. This may strike you as kind of stupid (it certainly does me), but I do suspect that’s the intent nonetheless. If you don’t like that, I would recommend either making custom gear to represent these Kuo-Toa armaments, or deciding that they’re “strange” and “sticky” because they’re made of some exotic substance like Kuo-Toa mucous, which dissolves when the Kuo-Toa is killed.EDIT: A third option might be to say the AC is all natural armor, the “sticky shield” reaction is not actually a shield at all but just the Kuo-Toa grabbing the weapon, and say it’s using a normal spear two-handed.My interpretation would be that 2 AC is coming from the sticky shield and 11 AC is coming from natural armor (i.e. scales). But I agree I miss this actually being written out.Yeah, a lot of these choices are quite strange.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 9558376, member: 6779196"] You kind of answered your own question here. The skeleton has its shortsword and shortbow listed as gear because it’s meant to be actual [I]gear[/I] the adventurers can loot after killing the skeleton. The Kuo-Toa doesn’t have its strange spear, sticky net, or sticky shield listed as gear because they’re only meant to exist as part of the Kuo-Toa’s stat block, not recoverable after killing the Kuo-Toa. This may strike you as kind of stupid (it certainly does me), but I do suspect that’s the intent nonetheless. If you don’t like that, I would recommend either making custom gear to represent these Kuo-Toa armaments, or deciding that they’re “strange” and “sticky” because they’re made of some exotic substance like Kuo-Toa mucous, which dissolves when the Kuo-Toa is killed. EDIT: A third option might be to say the AC is all natural armor, the “sticky shield” reaction is not actually a shield at all but just the Kuo-Toa grabbing the weapon, and say it’s using a normal spear two-handed. My interpretation would be that 2 AC is coming from the sticky shield and 11 AC is coming from natural armor (i.e. scales). But I agree I miss this actually being written out. Yeah, a lot of these choices are quite strange. [/QUOTE]

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