Monster Specification

Carrion Crawlers

Carrion Crawlers

Typical Monster Level ("ML"): 2 to 5

Typical Number Encountered: d12 (often group together in packs)

Usual Alignment(s): N/N

Description: insectoid, with multiple legs and tentacles

Habitat: Dungeons (especially cave complexes), Green Areas, Wilderness Areas, Underwater (on seabed only)

Language: none, but communicate by simplistic chirrupping

Chars: Co 3d6, Wp 2d4

Movement:

Rate Melee Travelling
Crawl 3 ft/sec 2 mph
Scamper 5 ft/sec 3 mph
Scuttle 7 ft/sec 4.5 mph
Rush 10 ft/sec n/a

Can move at equal speed on floors, walls, ceilings or the seabed, due to suckers on multiple feet.

Fighter Abilities:

ML/3, FRU AMR    D = 25 + (5ML) %    RD = 5 + (5ML) %    5 + (5ML) HP

Attack Modes:

8 Tentacles @ A = 12ML %, DAM = dn, where n is the number of functioning Tentacles (i.e. d8 when none Severed), if penetrate ADS to do >= 0 DAM, touch of Tentacles causes Paralysis @ BTS(55+5ML)% (Co), repeat st to recover every 1 min

A Paralised target loses control of his body, but retains control of his mind and senses. The Crawler does not gain control of the target's body. A Paralised target will freeze / float in place (with eyes open if they were when paralised), and become vulnerable to being killed by the Crawler or its pack, but be able to cast thought or reflex Spells.

Bite @ A = 10ML %, DAM = 2d4 + (ML-2)

Will attack with Tentacles, to Paralise their prey, and then feed on it with Bite.

HitLoc Table:

HitLoc Area

Front

Side

Rear
Tentacles 01 to 20 01 to 10 n/a

Head

21 to 40

11 to 30

n/a
Body n/a 31 to 80 01 to 25

Legs

41 to 50

81 to 125

26 to 35

ADS: 0 all over

Effects of Specific Damage:

Hit Loc Area

%age HP Damage taken

Effects

Tentacles

 

 per 10% 1 Tentacle Severed
80% All Tentacles Severed, will flee
Head 20% Unconscious, carries on attacking for d6 sec, Co check vs Death
40% Dead, carries on attacking for d6 sec (can still Paralise)
   

Body

 

 

 80% Incapacitated, Co check vs Death
160% Death
   

Legs

 

 50% Movement * 3/4
70% Movement * 1/2

 

 90% Movement * 1/4
100% Movement * 0 (immobilised)

No Bleeding effects.

Thievish Abilities:

M on Th Activities:

Defensive ThL = 0

Other Abilities / Powers / Notes:

  1. Immune to Paralisation.
  2. All have Water Breathing (salt or freshwater).
  3. Carrion Crawlers are scavengers, that will attack and consume or carry away any flesh that is dead or can be paralised.  They perform a useful function in cleaning up the Dungeons and Ocean floor.
  4. They lay their eggs in Paralised bodies or rotting corpses, which they carry away to their nests in hidden caves.  The hatched young (ML1) feed on the bodies or corpses until they reach ML2 and crawl off in search of other food.

Back to Monsters index

Back to Encounters index