Bat, Giant Flying Fox
- Armor Class
- 6 [13]
- Hit Dice
- 3
- Attacks
- Bite (1d6)
- Special
- disease, darkvision
- Move
- 3 Fly 18 (3)
- HDE/XP
- 3/60
Description
Giant Flying Foxes are a special variety of giant bats. It is similar in appearance to some jungle fruit bats, only much larger and carnivorous. A giant flying fox has typical bat senses, having a natural sonar that grants it Darkvision to a range of 90 feet.
A giant flying fox has a wingspan over 15 feet and weighs over 200 pounds. Its bite may carry disease, much like a giant rat's bite. Any bite has a 5% chance of causing disease. A character who suffers one or more bites where the die roll indicates disease will sicken in 3d6 hours. While sick, the victim loses 1 hit point per hour and suffers a -1 penalty on attack rolls. After each hour of fever, the victim may make a saving throw, adjusted by Constitution bonus or penalty if the Referee uses such adjustments; success breaks the fever and ends the disease. Cure (Cause) Disease also ends the disease. A victim reduced to 0 hit points by the fever dies; otherwise, normal healing may begin once the disease ends.
Source note: This creature is converted from The Basic Fantasy Field Guide of Creatures Malevolent and Benign – Omnibus Edition, 1st Edition Release 4, © 2010–2025 Chris Gonnerman, R. Kevin Smoot, James Lemon, Matt Sluis, and Contributors. The Basic Fantasy Field Guide textual material is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International; this page adapts that creature to White Box.