Monster Specification

Gargoyles / Kopoacinth

Typical Monster Level ("ML"): 2 to 8

Typical Number Encountered: d4

Usual Alignment(s): E/C

Description: a variety of demonic forms, often stone-like, as per the gargoyles that decorate churches and cathedrals.  Kopoacinth are Sea-Gargoyles and have aquatic forms, usually wingless but with gills and webbed hands and feet.

Habitat:

Gargoyles: Dungeons, Green Areas, Wilderness Areas, Cities (typically on the roofs of temples pretending to be decorative gargoyles)
Kopoacinth: at Sea / Underwater

Language: Gothic, and some speak a bit of Black Chaos, Valdrean or Orcish

Chars: Co 4d8, Wp 3d8

Movement:

Rate Melee Travelling
Walk 3 ft/sec 2 mph
Scamper 4 ft/sec 3 mph
Lope 6 ft/sec 4 mph
Charge 10 ft/sec n/a

Gargoyles can also Fly at up to 20 ft/sec = 120 ft/MR = 13.5 mph

Kopoacinth can also Swim at up to 15 ft/sec = 90 ft/MR = 10 mph

Fighter Abilities:

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

Attack Modes:

Butt (initial charge attack only) @ A = 8ML%, DAM = 2d6

Claw @ A = 10ML %, DAM = d8

Bite @ A = 8ML %, DAM = 2d4

Weapon @ A = 8ML%, DAM as per Weapon +2 (Gargoyles favour Polearms, Kopoacinth favour Tridents)

HitLoc Table:

HitLoc Area

All Aspects

Head

01 to 13
Wings (*2) [not Kopoacinth] 14 to 38

Arms (*2)

20 to 38

Chest

39 to 75

Abdomen

76 to 105
Legs (*2) 106 to 125

Tail

115 to 125

ADS:

HitLoc Area

 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0

Head

 4 4 2 1 0 4 1 2 4 4
Wings 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4

Arms

 4 2 2 1 0 0 1 2 2 4

Chest

 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 2

Abdomen

 2 2 1 1 0 0 1 1 2 2
Legs 4 2 2 1 0 0 1 2 2 4

Tail

 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2

Effects of Specific Damage:

Hit Loc Area %age HP Damage taken Effects
Head 15% Unconscious, Co check vs Death
  30% Decapitation, Death
Wings (*2) 30% Co check vs Wing Crippled
  60% Wing Crippled (spirals to ground), Co check vs Wing Severed
  90% Wing Severed (plummets to ground)
Arms (*2) 20% Co check vs Leg Crippled
  40% Leg Crippled, Co check vs Leg Severed
  60% Leg Severed
Chest 80% Incapacitated, Co check vs Death
  160% Death
Abdomen 60% Co check vs Death/MR
  120% Death
Legs (*2) 25% Co check vs Leg Crippled
  50% Leg Crippled, Co check vs Leg Severed
  75% Leg Severed
Tail 10% Co check vs Tail Crippled
  20% Tail Crippled, Co check vs Tail Severed
  30% Tail Severed

Do not Bleed

Thievish Abilities:

none

Other Abilities / Powers / Notes:

  1. Invulnerability 3: invulnerable to non-magical and silver attacks, vulnerable to magical attacks, other beings with Invulnerability 3 are vulnerable to it.  For further details see the Notes to the Elementalist Invulnerability Spell.
  2. Kopoacinth have Water Breathing in fresh and salt water.
  3. Attack viciously and fight to the death.

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