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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6946213" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Not really invincible. You've got only a 25% chance of getting infested with four scarabs, and if you are, you and three other PCs could still cut all the scarabs out of you in a single round, or you could take four turns cutting them all out of yourself at the cost of taking 6d6 extra damage over those three extra turns. Nasty, yes, but so are CR 2 Intellect Devourers. And as noted previously, you're unlikely to actually have been infected by four scarab beatles in one blow.The main advantage from my perspective of having to cut each scarab out separately is that it (1) increases the body horror factor, and (2) reflects what scarab beatles are actually like in The Mummy. None of this &quot;you kill four scarab beatles with one swift stab of your dagger,&quot; no, you have to cut them all out of your body separately, unless you have a paladin or something to cure you instantly.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 6946213, member: 6787650"] Not really invincible. You've got only a 25% chance of getting infested with four scarabs, and if you are, you and three other PCs could still cut all the scarabs out of you in a single round, or you could take four turns cutting them all out of yourself at the cost of taking 6d6 extra damage over those three extra turns. Nasty, yes, but so are CR 2 Intellect Devourers. And as noted previously, you're unlikely to actually have been infected by four scarab beatles in one blow. The main advantage from my perspective of having to cut each scarab out separately is that it (1) increases the body horror factor, and (2) reflects what scarab beatles are actually like in The Mummy. None of this "you kill four scarab beatles with one swift stab of your dagger," no, you have to cut them all out of your body [I]separately[/I], unless you have a paladin or something to cure you instantly. [/QUOTE]

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