Beetle, Giant Bombardier
- Armor Class
- 4 [15]
- Hit Dice
- 2
- Attacks
- Bite (1d6)
- Special
- hot gas spray 2d6, save half; all-around vision
- Move
- 12
- HDE/XP
- 3/60
Description
Giant bombardier beetles have red head and thorax sections and black abdomens. They are 3 to 4 feet long. In combat, a giant bombardier beetle bites opponents in front of it, and sprays a cone of very hot and noxious gases from a nozzle in the rearmost tip of the abdomen. This toxic blast causes 2d6 points of damage to all within a cone 10' long and 10' wide at the far end (a saving throw for half damage is allowed). A giant bombardier beetle can use this spray attack up to five times per day, but no more than once per three rounds. Faced with enemies attacking from one direction, a giant bombardier beetle may choose to turn away and use the spray attack rather than biting.
Giant bombardier beetles, like most beetles, have about the same visual acuity in all directions, and thus suffer no penalty to AC when attacked from behind.
See Also
Other creatures grouped under Beetle: Beetle, Giant Boring, Beetle, Giant Oil, Beetle, Giant Rhinoceros, Beetle, Giant Stag, Beetle, Giant Tiger, Beetle, Giant Water.
Source note: This creature is converted from Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game, 4th Edition Release 142, © 2006–2025 Chris Gonnerman. The Basic Fantasy textual material is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International; this page adapts that creature to White Box.