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This caterpillar is green
with brown mottling. Minute leaves protrude from its skin.
Blattraupe CR 3
XP 800
N Tiny magical beast
Init +7; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light
vision, tremorsense 60 ft.; Perception +7
DEFENSE
AC 17, touch 15,
flat-footed 14 (+3 Dex, +2 natural, +2 size)
hp 30 (4d10+8)
Fort +6, Ref +7, Will +2
Defensive Abilities
leaf armor
OFFENSE
Speed 20 ft.,
climb 10 ft.
Melee bite +9
(1d3–4
plus poison)
Space 2½ ft.; Reach 0 ft.
Special Attacks
poison, wood destroyer
STATISTICS
Str 2, Dex 17, Con 14, Int 3, Wis 13, Cha 8
Base Atk +4; CMB +5; CMD 11 (can't be tripped)
Feats Improved Initiative, Weapon Finesse
Skills Climb +11,
Perception +7, Stealth +15 (+19 in forests); Racial Modifiers +4 Stealth in forests
ECOLOGY
Environment
temperate and warm forests
Organization
solitary, pair, pile (3–6)
Treasure none
SPECIAL ABILITIES
Blattraupe Poison
(Ex) Bite—injury; save Fort DC
14; frequency 1/round for 6 rounds; effect 1d4 Dex damage and victim gains
the benefit of barkskin; if a victim is
reduced 0 Dex, it is petrified; cure
2 consecutive saves. A creature that successfully bites the blattraupe is
subject to its poison.
Leaf Armor (Ex)
Once per day as a full round action, a blattraupe extrudes leaves from its
body, which then surround it, granting it an additional +2 natural armor bonus
and DR 2/piercing. However, its base speed drops to 15 feet when it uses this
ability. This effect lasts for 1 hour, at which point the leaves fall off.
Wood Destroyer (Ex)
A blattraupe bypasses a wooden object’s first 5 points of hardness. Additionally,
it adds its Dexterity modifier, instead of Strength modifier, to damage against
plant creatures and wooden objects. Finally, the blattraupe benefits from the
Improved Sunder feat when attempting to sunder a wooden object.
A blattraupe is a woodland menace, and trees riddled with perfectly
round holes mark its territory. Since the caterpillar is somewhat intelligent, it manages its lair to prevent absolute destruction of the trees supporting
it. Fortunately for the creature, its poisonous bite causes victims to petrify
into wooden effigies, and it can feast on such victims at its leisure. Because
the blattraupe devours petrified victims entirely, very little persists to warn
travelers about the dangers of blattraupen-infested woods. Worse, the creatures
silently wriggle their way onto wagons and into backpacks to relocate to
settlements where they can find wood aplenty. It takes very little time for a
blattraupe to inflict terrible damage to structures, often toppling them as the
creature indulges its gluttonous appetite at the base of such buildings.
Malicious druids and those opposed to nature employ
blattraupen; the former to create life-like wooden statues to adorn their
homes, and the latter to destroy forests and flush out prey. While blattraupen
are reticent to destroy trees, it is possible to coerce them into it—usually by
starving them.
A 7th-level neutral spellcaster with the Improved Familiar
feat and the wild empathy class feature can gain a blattraupe as a familiar. While
the creature serves as a familiar, the spellcaster gains a +1 natural armor
bonus.
