Shark, Megalodon

Twelfth-century bestiary folio showing sailors and a great whale. — On Whales, Ashmole Bestiary / Wikimedia Commons.

Armor Class: 5 [14]
Hit Dice: 12
Attacks: Bite (3d6)
Special: None
Move: Swim 21
HDE/XP: 12/2,000

Description

Megalodon is a species of giant, prehistoric shark (though these statistics could also be used for any kind of giant shark). They generally range from 25 to 55 feet in length, and are apex predators, preying even upon whales and sea monsters. Like other sharks, they can smell blood in the water miles away, and they may have the same ability to detect the electromagnetic fields of living creatures as do great white sharks. They are otherwise much like any other shark, being swift and ravenous hunters.

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.