Serpent, Giant Devouring
- Armor Class
- -4 [23]
- Hit Dice
- 36
- Attacks
- Bite or Tail (9d6)
- Special
- poison
- Move
- 18
- HDE/XP
- 38/9,800
Description
A Giant Devouring Serpent is an enormous snake thousands of feet in length. It has jet-black and extraordinarily hard scales that are covered in faintly- purple pulsating runes. It is the scourge of cities, devouring them entirely and leaving only a featureless crater. They are extraordinarily rare; it is common for there to be not a single sighting in a century.
It attacks by biting, with a successful hit delivering a potent toxin; the victim must make a saving throw against poison or die. While biting it may thrash its colossal body around, causing massive destruction to everything around it. Once every 5 rounds it may choose to devour those in its surroundings. This affects all within 100 feet of the mouth of the serpent, dealing 5d6 points of damage and healing the serpent by half of the total damage inflicted. Additionally this will annihilate any buildings or terrain within this 100-foot radius.
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.