Stone Pudding Working Draft
Stone Pudding
Large Ooze
Hit Dice: 5d10+25 (52 hp)
Initiative: -1
Speed: 10 ft. (2 squares), climb 10 ft.
Armor Class: 16 (-1 size, -5 Dex, +12 natural), touch 4, flat-footed 16
Base Attack/Grapple: +3/+8
Attack: Slam +4 melee (1d6+1 plus 2d6 acid)
Full Attack: Slam +4 melee (1d6+1 plus 2d6 acid)
Space/Reach: 10 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: Acid, constrict 1d6+1 plus 2d6 acid, improved grab
Special Qualities: Blindsight 60 ft., immunity to slashing and piercing damage, immunity to acid, cold, electricity and fire damage, ooze traits, spell resistance 14, split
Saves: Fort +6, Ref -4, Will +1
Abilities: Str 13, Dex 1, Con 20, Int 6, Wis 11, Cha 1
Skills: Climb +9, Hide -6*, Move Silently +1, Listen +7
Feats: Improved Initiative, Weapon Focus (B)
Environment: Underground
Organization: Solitary or mass (2-4)
Challenge Rating: 4
Treasure: None
Alignment: Always neutral evil
Advancement: 6-9 HD (Large); 10-15 HD (Huge); 16-30 HD (Gargantuan)
Level Adjustment: —
A sluggishly moving lump of flesh, its thick slimy skin is the color of wet, grey stone.
Stone puddings are a variety of subterranean pudding, a family of underground oozes related to the black pudding. All subterranean puddings are intelligent, unlike most oozes, but they only use their intelligence to pursue food and reproduction. They have no interest in more abstract goals.
A typical stone pudding measures 8 feet across and 1 feet thick. It weighs about 3,000 pounds.
COMBAT
Stone puddings climb the walls and ceilings of cramped underground passages, hiding until prey passes beneath. Then they fall on their victims, taking and dealing falling damage, and constrict the most vulnerable of their opponents.
Acid (Ex): A stone pudding secretes a digestive acid that only dissolves flesh. Any melee hit or constrict attack deals acid damage.
Blindsight (Ex): A stone pudding's entire body is a primitive sensory organ that can ascertain prey by scent and vibration within 60 feet.
Constrict (Ex): A stone pudding deals automatic slam and acid damage with a successful grapple check.
Improved Grab (Ex): To use this ability, a stone pudding must hit with its slam attack. It can then attempt to start a grapple as a free action without provoking an attack of opportunity. If it wins the grapple check, it establishes a hold and can constrict.
Split (Ex): Fire and electricity attacks deal no damage to a stone pudding. Instead the creature splits into two identical puddings, each with half of the original's current hit points (round down). A pudding with 10 hit points or less cannot be further split and dies if reduced to 0 it points.
Skills: A stone pudding has a +4 racial bonus on Listen and Move Silently checks. Stone puddings have a +8 racial bonus on Climb checks and can always choose to take 10 on a Climb check, even if rushed or threatened.
*A stone pudding has a +12 circumstance bonus to Hide checks in natural underground terrain such as caves.