Climat/Terrain | Swamp | ||
Organisation | Pack | ||
Fréquence | Très rare | ||
Diète | Carnivore | ||
Cycle d'activité | Night | ||
Intelligence | 2-4 - Semi intelligence | ||
Trésor | Nil | ||
Alignement | Neutre Mauvais | ||
Nombres | 2-20 | ||
Classe d'armure | 5 | ||
Mouvement |
Au sol :
15" Vol : - Classe de vol : Nage : Enfouissement : Web : |
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Dés de vie | 2+2 | ||
Thac0 | 19 | ||
Nbre d'attaques | 3 | ||
Dommage / attaques | 1-4/1-4/1-4 | ||
Attaques spéciales | Nil | ||
Défenses spéciales | Nil | ||
Résistance à la magie | Nil | ||
Taille |
M - man-size ( 4+' to 7' ) (6’ long) |
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Morale | 15-16 - Champion | ||
Valeur en XP | 65 xp |
Commentaires :
Bog hounds are large dogs, about the size of war dogs, created from a cursed bog. Sculpted of straw and mud, the hounds are given life by wicked magic or a curse. They are sometimes created by the exceptionally strong will of a creature that can shape life. Their color is a muddy brown with splotches of yellow, and their most frightening feature is their lack of eyes; they have only empty black sockets. Each pack of bog hounds is led by a moor hound, an individual creature of exceptional strength and power. As long this creature exists, the pack cannot be permanently destroyed. |
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Combat :
When hunting, bog hounds set up an unearthly howling that only subsides when they close in. They attack by flanking their victims and closing from all sides at once. In combat, they act as ordinary hounds, unless their pack leader (the moor hound) or their master instructs them to perform another task. When slain, they return to their original materials, dissolving into scattered straw and mud as a gasp of vapor escapes from the bodies. (In some cases the power of the animating curse may form additional bog hound bodies over time, in other cases the master might construct more.) The bog hounds are vulnerable to natural sunlight. If they are exposed to the sun, their supernabral essence evaporates like fog, and they become inanimate statues of straw and mud, trapped in the pose in which the light first caught them. These can be destroyed by the slightest touch; unless extreme care is taken they cannot be moved. |
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Ecologie : The bog hound pack is created by a powerful curse or possibly by malevolent necromantic magic. While their diet is listed as carnivorous, in truth they need to eat nothing. When they attack, they savage and devour any living creature of flesh and bone that they hunt. They gain no sustenance from eating; they are simply supernaturally vicious. |