Send In The Clowns… (or, Converting the Oddballs)

[freyar]

I'd agree about the spell immunity sounding like the usual kind.

Agreed to Hide and Move Silently bonus. The scent idea is nice!

I unfortunately can't think of smothering damage. Even being engulfed by an ooze doesn't suffocate you.

 

[Shade]

Found one!

Suffocate (Ex): A common raffamoffyn can asphyxiate a wrapped creature by drawing the air from its lungs. This attack automatically deals 1d4 points of damage per round.

Wrap (Ex): With a successful grapple check, a raggamoffyn can wrap itself around any foe it has already grabbed with another successful grapple check. The monster forms a skintight layer around the wrapped victim, covering it from head to toe but leaving enough space for the creature to breathe through its mouth and nose. Attacks on such a target deal half their damage to the monster and half to the wrapped creature. An affected creature can extract itself by making a successful grapple check. Once it has wrapped a creature, the raggamoffyn can attempt to control it on its next action.

 

[freyar]

Excellent! So let's give these a big grapple bonus, then (once grappling) they can choose to suffocate (rather than pin)?

 

[Shade]

That sounds about right.

 

[freyar]

So give it improved grab and note that it can suffocate with a second grapple check.

Suffocate (Ex): A gello monster can asphyxiate a grappled creature by drawing the air from its lungs. With a successful grapple check, this attack deals 1d4 points of damage per round.

How large of a grapple bonus? +12 or more?

 

[Shade]

Updated.

Getting started on the "snarfing" ability...

Vulnerable to Snarfing (Ex): The best way to destroy a gello monster is to eat it. Bite attacks deal normal damage to a gello monster, and do not cause it to split. Creatures without bite attacks may attempt to bite a gello monster. Treat this attack as if the creature had a natural bite attack. Damage is based on the creature's size: Fine = 1, Diminutive = 1d2, Tiny = 1d3, Small = 1d4, Medium = 1d6, Large = 1d8, Huge = 2d6, Gargantuan = 2d8, Colossal = 4d6.

Other things to incorporate:

Bitten off bits must be swallowed. Parts that are spit out are treated as if the gello monster had split?

A creature must make Con checks/Fort saves after consuming so much or become "full"?

 

[freyar]

Looks like a good start! I don't think spit out parts are big enough to function separately, though, so I wouldn't include splitting.

Fort saves or having to stop eating makes sense. DC 10 + 1 per bite, made after each bite (to be able to continue after) or else sickened for some length of time?

 

[Shade]

Those mechanics seem appropriate.

I'm trying to think of a way to encourage actual digestion rather than bite and spit, bite and spit...

 

[freyar]

Hmmm, maybe split would work, since you can split down to pretty small parts. How about any bite of 3 or more hp can function as a gello monster (because that's what you'd get if you split a 5 or more hp gello monster normally)?

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Swallow whole attacks should have their usual effects on these things too.