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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Urklore" data-source="post: 1540072" data-attributes="member: 842">WOW! I guess Sea Anemone's are NOT plants! Egads, do we make them animals now? Vermin since they have no int?Thought we were going to have the poison do Str and Dex damage? Do you think straight Dex dmg is ok? The poison affects the nervous and muscular systems so both stats might be needed for poison damage.Cr7, so this creature would be a challenge for 4 7th level characters? DO you think CR5-6 might be in order? I think 4 7th level PCs, if they were not grappled would have an easy time with this thing.100 or so tentacles, only 3 attacks per round? Perhaps 3 attacks per round to any creature in it's reach? Just a thought out loud. Squids and their ilk have only 8 tentacles and they can bring all 8 to bear on a foe. Just thinking out loud here.Hard to decide on the tentacles. I could not find anything in research on how long a tentacle would take to grow back, or even if they DO grow back for Anemones. Since some spieces reproduce by splitting part of their body off, it can be assumed they can regenerate the tentacles. I would gestimate this,since it is large-sized and has 100 or more tentacles, they cannot be that thick or strong, so that a good sword swing would be able to sever one? Perhaps 4hp and 8hp respectively for large and huge-sized species? 1-3 days regrowth for a tentacle? If it has 100 or more tentacles, perhaos if 10% or 20% (10-20) or more tentacles are lost it tries to withdraw. All guestimations on my part.Cool Links<a href="http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/invertebrates/seaanemone/Seaanemoneprintout.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/invertebrates/seaanemone/Seaanemoneprintout.shtml</a><a href="http://biodiversity.uno.edu/ebooks/ch1.html#ch1" target="_blank">http://biodiversity.uno.edu/ebooks/ch1.html#ch1</a>From one site:The sea anemone is considered to be the flower of the sea. Sea anemones look like plants, but they are really meat-eating animals. Sea anemones come in different sizes and many different colors.The sea anemone can attach itself to rocks or coral. In the center of the sea anemone is their mouth. In order for the sea anemone to eat, they must wait for their food to swim by. Then they sting it with their tentacles, and then push it into their mouth.Sea anemones spend most of their lives in one place. They can attach themselves to rocks. Some even bury themselves in the mudFrom another site:Carnivorous and always hungry, a sea anemone is not a plant, as some people might think, but a silent slow-motion predator that will devour any small animal careless enough to stray within reach of its deadly tentacles. Equipped with tiny poisonous harpoons and digestive enzymes so strong they can digest the flesh of a small animal in 15 minutes, the sea anemone belies its harmless appearance. Sea anemones are animals belonging to the phylum Cnidaria, which includes the jellyfish, corals and sea pens. They live in all oceans from the shore to a depth of 10,000 metres, and range in size from one centimetre to almost two metres in diameter. They attach themselves to rocks, wharves and other hard surfaces, or construct burrows in mud and sand. Sea anemones have a flat upper surface, with a central mouth surrounded by tentacles, a tubular body, and a flat base that attaches to the substrate. A sea anemone uses its tentacles to capture prey and defend itself against predators. Every tentacle is covered with thousands of tiny stinging capsules called nematocysts. Each capsule contains a coiled hollow thread with a barb on the end. The threads carry a minute amount of poison capable of paralysing or killing small animals. When a small fish, shrimp or crab comes into contact with the tentacles, hundreds of the capsules burst open and fire their barbed threads like harpoons, which pierce the skin of the animal and inject their poison. The thread remains attached to the tentacle so, like a harpooned whale, the victim is held by its captor. The anemone moves all the nearby tentacles into position to sting and hold its prey until it is subdued by the poison. It then moves the prey to its mouth and swallows it whole. Later, it spits out any nondigestible parts, such as bones and shells. Although some tropical species can inflict painful stings, none of British Columbia's anemones are poisonous to humans. Sea anemones have no visible sense organs, but they can distinguish between edible and inedible items. If you were to drop a piece of paper onto its tentacles, a sea anemone would grasp but then discard it. But if you first soaked the paper in clam juice, the anemone would eat the paper, because it tastes like food.</blockquote>

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