Piercer (or Stalag)
- Armor Class
- 4 [15]
- Hit Dice
- 1 to 4
- Attacks
- Attack (1d6)
- Special
- stalactite camouflage, drop attack, vulnerable after miss
- Move
- 3
- HDE/XP
- 1-4/15-120
Description
A Piercer (sometimes called a Stalag) is a cone-shaped shelled creature resembling some kind of snail or other invertebrate. They are found in a range of sizes, with a group typically having members of several different sizes; each individual piercer is about 1.5 feet long per hit die. They can move about as snails do, at a rate of about 10' per round, and can climb hard surfaces at full speed, even moving unhindered while upside down. However, they move substantially faster when attacking.
Piercers hunt prey by hanging upside down in natural caverns, where their conical shells strongly resemble normal stalactites. They lie in wait until a victim walks beneath them, at which point they attack by simply dropping on their prey, stabbing with their pointed shells.
If this attack fails, the piercer has no further effective attack and will try to flee; of course if given enough time a piercer will return to its place on the ceiling, and if any victims are available it may be able to attack again.
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.