Hagfish
for ~~~Ocean~D&D~~~
Attribute Requirements: Cha less than 6
Alignment: Chaos
Weapons: Rasping tongue (1 pt damage only)
Armor: None
Communication: Abyssal
Movement: Free Swim 20m (60ft)
Hagfish teem in great, writhing covens at the bottom of the sea. Buried in mud, they raise eyeless faces heavenward praying for corpsefall. And when it comes they ascend from the Abyss to feed. Rarely, a hagfish will seek to follow a school of adventuring fishes, feeding from the devastation left in their wake. They never leave a fallen companion behind.
| Level | XP | HD | Slimes per Day | Attack Bonus | D/W/P/B/S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | +0 | 13/14/13/15/16 |
| 2 | 1,750 | 1+1 | 2 | +0 | 12/14/12/14/15 |
| 3 | 3,500 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 12/14/12/14/15 |
| 4 | 7,000 | 2+1 | 3 | +1 | 11/11/11/13/14 |
| 5 | 14,000 | 3 | 4 | +1 | 11/11/11/13/14 |
| 6 | 28,000 | 3+1 | 4 | +2 | 10/11/10/12/13 |
| 7 | 50,000 | 4 | 6 | +2 | 9/9/8/11/12 |
| 8 | 100,000 | 4+1 | 6 | +2 | 9/9/8/11/12 |
| 9 | 160,000 | 5 | 8 | +3 | 9/9/8/11/12 |
| 10 | 220,000 | 5+1 | 8 | +3 | 8/8/8/10/11 |
| 11 | 280,000 | 6 | 10 | +3 | 8/8/8/10/11 |
| 12 | 340,000 | 6+1 | 12 | +4 | 7/7/5/9/10 |
Blindsense
Hagfish are blind, but they can sense living creatures by scent within 40m (120ft). This allows the hagfish a save vs. paralysis to negate surprise for any party they travel with.
Hagfish may also track living creatures within 1 hex on a 4-in-6 chance.
The dead cannot surprise a hagfish at all, may be tracked unerringly, and sensed within 160m (480ft).
Burrowing
Hagfish may burrow in mud, silt, or a corpse to hide, detected only on a 1-in-6 chance.
Loose Skin
Hagfish take half damage from jaws and crushing attacks.
Slime
Hagfish can produce slime a number of times per day, as listed above. This has two manifestations:
- When damaged, a hagfish may release slime reflexively, clogging its attacker’s gills and preventing it from further aggression. The attacker may save vs. breath each round to recover; until then, it suffocates. Mammals and molluscs are immune to this effect.
- A hagfish may instead thrash about to produce slime in a general area. This is as the nanite power Slime, though this is not a nanite ability. A coven of hagfish working together can produce great clouds of slime, cloaking an entire region in choking viscosity.
Hagfish themselves are immune to the effects of slime, as they easily scrape it from their bodies by tieing themselves into knots.
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