THE MAW - a sailor’s nightmare
No Enc. (1)
Size: Huge
Alignment: Chaotic
Movement: 60', 120’ swim
Armorclass:-2
Hit Dice: 9
Attacks: 1 (Bite/Spell)
Damage: 4d6 (+ special)
Magic Resistance: 55%
XP: 2,000 + 12/hp
THE MAW is the bane of sailors and terror of coastal communities. A series of luminous antenna draw the eye to the creature’s monstrous form. Accompanying the creature is a cacophony of confusing sights and sounds. Its huge snaking body is formed from the fevered dreams of the mad. Hundreds of mouths can be seen gasping for air and press through the creature’s ethereal skin. These are the mouths of doomed sailors who perished in the belly of the beast. Their sussurous gasps only adds to the confusion. THE MAW’s powerful lamprey mouth can breach the hulls of vessels with ease. Lashed to the beast is a barnacle-encrusted bell from a long sunken vessel. It’s discordant tolling, combined with the maddening spectacle, can unhinge even the soundest mind.
Due to its otherworldly composition THE MAW is immune to normal weapons. THE MAW fears and is vulnerable to flame. Those seeing the creature must make a save versus spells or fall under the effect of a confusion spell - see the custom confusion chart below. Those who fall prey to the confusion effect inevitably descend into cannibalistic madness.
Custom Confusion Table
Due to its otherworldly composition THE MAW is immune to normal weapons. THE MAW fears and is vulnerable to flame. Those seeing the creature must make a save versus spells or fall under the effect of a confusion spell - see the custom confusion chart below. Those who fall prey to the confusion effect inevitably descend into cannibalistic madness.
Custom Confusion Table
| d% | Action |
| 01-10 | Self hate - Attack self. Preferably with a bladed weapon in a self mutilating frenzy |
| 11-20 | Must resist - Regains control of self if only for a moment - acts normally |
| 21-50 | Life is futile - Rants incoherently about the insignificance of man |
| 51-70 | I’m so hungry - feast on nearest corpse or grapple and bite closest creature |
| 71-00 | Kill them all! - Attacks nearest creature with murderous intent |
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This was the end boss for my one page dungeon entry 'Rot Tower'. The beast was sketched out in only the roughest detail in the entry itself. I was thinking along the line of Cthulhu and some weird fantasy - Lamentations of the Flame Princess lines when I wrote 'Rot Tower'. I'll probably post the entry on the blog at some point.
This was the end boss for my one page dungeon entry 'Rot Tower'. The beast was sketched out in only the roughest detail in the entry itself. I was thinking along the line of Cthulhu and some weird fantasy - Lamentations of the Flame Princess lines when I wrote 'Rot Tower'. I'll probably post the entry on the blog at some point.
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