Dancing Monitor
- Armor Class
- 6 [13]
- Hit Dice
- 4
- Attacks
- Bite (1d6)
- Special
- poison
- Move
- 9
- HDE/XP
- 5/240
Description
Dancing Monitors are a large variety of lizards that secrete an oil on their skin that facilitates the delivery of poison and venom. When they are agitated, they stand up on their hind legs and whirl and flail about. As they dance, they strike their victims and transfer the oil from their skin, and then they bite their victims to deliver a lethal dose of venom.
Dancing monitors will first make at least one successful touch attack against their victims, coating them with oily venom. Each successful touch imposes a cumulative -1 penalty on the victim's later saving throws against poison for 24 hours. Once a target is weakened, the monitor goes in for the kill with a venomous bite; a bitten victim must make a saving throw against poison or die. The oil may be cleaned off with soap and water, although this is normally impossible in the middle of combat.
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.