Monster: Salt Mephit

Monster: Salt Mephit

This one has interesting abilities that inflict itching or dehydrate creatures.

Salt Mephit [Monster Manual, page 184]

76 points

Attribute Modifiers: ST-1 [-10]; IQ-1 [-20]; HT+1 [10].

Secondary Characteristic Modifiers: SM-1.

Advantages: Blunt Claws [3]; DR 1 [5]; Doesn’t Eat or Drink [10]; Flight (Cannot Hover, -15%; Winged, -25%) [24]; Infravision [10]; Regeneration (Fast; Accessibility, Only if in an arid environment, -30%) [35].

                Breath Weapon: Small Piercing Attack 1d (Costs Fatigue, 1 FP, -5%; Jet, +0%; Magical, -10%; Side Effect, Itching, +60%) [5].

Drain Moisture: Fatigue Attack 1d (Area Effect, 4 yards, +100%; Cosmic, Irresistible Attack, +300%; Costs Fatigue, 4 FP, -20%; Dehydration, +20%; Emanation, -20%; Magical, -10%; No Signature, +20%) [49].

Disadvantages: Brittle [-15]; Curious (12) [-5]; Skinny [-5]; Vulnerability (Sound, x2) [-20].

Creature Type: Outsider (Earth).

Typical Stats

ST:	9	HP:	9	Speed:	5.25
DX:	10	Will:	9	Move:	5 ground, 10 air (cannot hover)
IQ:	9	Per:	9
HT:	11	FP:	11	SM:	-1
Dodge:	8	Parry:	8 (unarmed)	DR:	1

Blunt Claws (10): thrust 1d-2 crushing (KYOS: 1d-3 crushing), Reach C.

Breath Weapon (13): A 10-yard jet of salt crystals erupts from the mephit’s mouth. It uses Innate Attack (Breath) to hit. Don’t apply range penalties; treat this as a long melee weapon rather than a ranged attack. It does 1d small piercing damage, and has a 1/2D range of 5 yards. If any damage penetrates the target’s DR, he must make a HT roll, at -1 per 2 points of injury or suffer from itching skin and eyes for (20 – HT) minutes. The target is at -2 to DX for the duration of the itch. Scratching for one full second relieves the itch, but the target can do nothing else while scratching. This ability costs 1 FP to use.

Drain Moisture: By spending 4 FP, a salt mephit can drain moisture from the area around him. Every creature within 4 yards of him takes 1d fatigue damage. Treat FP lost to the attack identically to FP lost to dehydration for all purposes, notably recovery.

                Traits: Brittle; Curious (12); Doesn’t Eat or Drink; Flight (Cannot Hover; Winged); Infravision; Regeneration (Fast; Accessibility, Only if in an arid environment); Skinny; Vulnerability (Sound, x2).

Skills: Brawling-12; Innate Attack (Breath)-10; Innate Attack (Gaze)-10.

Creature Type: Outsider (Earth).