Thognorok
This obscene mass looks like a melted blob crossed with a spider, ceaselessly lashing out with its hairy, wriggling legs.
Thognorok (CR 4)
Medium Outsider (Aquatic, Chaotic, Evil, Extraplanar, Qlippoth)Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Initiative: -1
Senses: Darkvision 60 feet; Perception +9
Speed: 20 feet, Swim 30 feet
Space: 5 feet
Defense
Armor Class: 16, touch 9, flat-footed 16 (-1 Dex, +7 natural)Hit Points: 37 (5d10+10)
Saving Throws: Fort +6, Ref +0, Will +5
All-Around Vision Amorphous
Damage Reduction: 5/cold iron or lawful
Immunity: cold, mind-affecting effects, poison
Energy Resistance: acid 10, electricity 10, fire 10
Spell Resistance: 15
Offense
Melee: 3 bites +7 (1d6+1 plus poison)Reach: 5 feet
Special Attacks: acid Web (+4 ranged, DC 16, 5 hp), horrific appearance, poison
Spell-Like Abilities (CL 5th; Concentration +6):
- 3/day- Acid Arrow, Protection From Law, Vomit Swarm
- 1/day- Excruciating Deformation (DC 14)
Statistics
Str | Dex | Con | Int | Wis | Cha |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
13 (+1) | 8 (-1) | 15 (+2) | 8 (-1) | 13 (+1) | 12 (+1) |
CMB +6
CMD 15 (can't be tripped)
Feats: Ability Focus (acid Web), Skill Focus (Stealth), Weapon Focus (bite)
Skills: Climb +9, Intimidate +9, Knowledge (planes) +7, Perception +9, Stealth +10, Swim +9
Languages: Abyssal; telepathy 100 ft.
Special Qualities: Amphibious, Compression
Special Abilities
Acid Web (Su)
This ability functions like the web universal monster ability, except a creature entangled by a thognorok's web also takes 1 point of acid damage each round.Horrific Appearance (Su)
Any creature that witnesses a thognorok's horrific appearance could find itself overwhelmed with revulsion at the qlippoth's constantly sprouting and waving insectile legs, becoming sickened for 1d6 rounds (Will DC 13 negates). The save DC is Charisma-based.Poison (Ex)
- Delivery: Bite-injury
- Fortitude Save: 14
- Frequency: 1/round for 4 rounds
- Track: Moderate Strength
- Saves: 2 consecutive saves
Ecology
Environment: AnyOrganization: solitary, pair, or gang (3-5)
Treasure: none
Although thognoroks are considered servitor qlippoth of Rovagug, they are actually sentient symbiotes that once had the misfortune of dining on the Rough Beast's skin, blood, and other fluids. Equally at home on solid ground or swimming through toxic liquids, a thognorok hunts and consumes foreign materials and creatures that would impede its endless hunger to feed on more divine flesh-whether Rovagug's or another deity's.
Because of its tainted connection with the god of destruction, a thognorok obeys any telepathic or chemical command transmitted to it by the god-whether it be a direct command, or even the orders of a powerful priest of the foul god. Thognoroks are rarely directly controlled by Rovagug; instead, they're left to their own destructive rampages. The exception to this is when they accumulate in vast numbers near planar scars and rifts on the Material Plane where the god left some fleck of his terrible carapace or dripped vile and blasphemous liquid from his wounds.
In such instances, the thognoroks try to fulfil whatever whim possessed the deity at the moment of his ages-old passing, typically the destruction of some site of celestial power or other random act of devastation. A common thognorok measures about 5 feet tall and weighs over 200 pounds.
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