Gas Spore
- Armor Class
- 9 [10]
- Hit Dice
- ½
- Attacks
- Touch (spore injection)
- Special
- death explosion, spore injection
- Move
- Fly 3
- HDE/XP
- 2/30
Description
Gas Spores are strange, non-intelligent fungal creatures that strongly resemble some form of oculus (as described on page 195), especially in poorly-lit areas; unless examined closely (within 10 inches) characters are 90% likely to mistake the gas spore for one of the various forms of flying eye monster.
Killing a gas spore will cause it to explode, inflicting 6d6 points of damage on all within a 20-foot radius; a successful saving throw against magic reduces damage by half.
If a gas spore hits (simply by touching a living creature with a successful attack roll), it injects spores into the victim. At this point the monster dies, deflating harmlessly; the victim will then die in 2d12 hours, and their body will sprout 2d4 new gas spores immediately thereafter.
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.