Purple Worm¶

No. Appearing: 1
Armour Class: 17
Hit Dice: 20
Attacks: Bite 3d12+3 and Stinger (poison)
Nat 19: special
Attributes: S:24 D:8 C:24 I:3 P:14 W:15 Ch:2
Luck: 16
Move: 90 ft slithering, swimming or burrowing

The purple worm is a colossal, 100 ft column of rubbery flesh and a circular maw filled with row upon row of man sized teeth. They hunt in seas and burrow beneath the earth, rarely surfacing except in times of extreme scarcity, or summoned by apocalyptic cults. Purple worms detect their prey through smell, ground vibrations and echolocation to a distance of 240 ft.

Worms swallow their prey whole on a natural attack roll of 18+, make Off Turn Attacks and have a 15 ft reach. A swallowed target may attack the monster's guts with a small weapon such as a dagger, suffering 3d10 crushing and acidic damage on the monster's turn.

In addition to the worm's dreaded bite, it has a poison tail stinger that instantly kills humanoid targets that fail a Luck (Con) save. An adventurer has a 40% chance of harvesting 1d4 doses of poison from a dead purple worm.