ability_mods: cha_mod: -4 con_mod: 7 dex_mod: -1 int_mod: -5 str_mod: 7 wis_mod: 2 ac: 25 ac_special: null alignment: N automatic_abilities: null description: 'These massive, primeval relatives of ordinary slugs squirm slowly through swamps and grasslands. Giant slugs are always voracious and prefer to eat flesh or plants high in water content. They frequently consume livestock or strip bare entire orchards or melon crops. For cattle, pigs, or other sizable meals, they first shred the creatures using their radula—tongue-like appendages covered in teeth— to make them easier to consume. The mucus secreted by a giant slug is powerfully acidic and viscous. Wherever it travels, the creature leaves a trailing brown strip that kills most vegetation. Farmers and ranchers, especially those living near swamps known to contain giant slugs, keep close tabs on these journeys. Many almanacs go into great detail on slug migration and mating seasons. Since each giant slug needs its own wide hunting ground, the creatures typically come into proximity to mate only once a year. Either or both slugs can become impregnated, and any that do typically lay a clutch of around 100 eggs. They usually lay these eggs in a shallow bog or a cool, humid cave. Giant slugs tend to travel at night, as the creatures dislike sunlight and dry weather. They have been known to seek out locations like barns, the undersides of bridges, or even fortifications like castles for shelter as dawn starts to break. Woe to the unprepared farmer who ambles out at sunrise to milk the cows but instead finds that a giant slug has made the barn its home! Subterranean giant slugs don''t have to worry about sunlight, and crawl about on no schedule in particular. Narrow tunnels pose little obstacle for them, as the creatures can easily compress their bodies. These factors make their movements very unpredictable, so they pose quite a menace for underground peoples like __kobolds__ or __xulgaths__. **__Recall Knowledge - Animal__ (__Nature__)**: DC 24' hp: 165 hp_misc: null immunities: null items: null knowledge_checks: dc: 24 skills: - Nature languages: null level: 8 melee: - action_cost: One Action damage: formula: 2d10+10 type: slashing name: radula plus_damage: - formula: null type: mucus to_hit: 21 traits: - reach 15 feet - action_cost: One Action damage: formula: 2d8+10 type: bludgeoning name: foot plus_damage: - formula: null type: mucus to_hit: 21 traits: - reach 10 feet name: Giant Slug perception: 14 proactive_abilities: - action_cost: None critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: The giant slug can fit through tight spaces as if it were a Large creature. While __Squeezing__, it can move at its full Speed. It can Squeeze through spaces that typically fit only a Medium creature, but it does so at the usual Speed for Squeezing. effect: null effects: null failure: null frequency: null full_description: null generic_description: null name: Malleable range: null raw_description: '**Malleable** The giant slug can fit through tight spaces as if it were a Large creature. While __Squeezing__, it can move at its full Speed. It can Squeeze through spaces that typically fit only a Medium creature, but it does so at the usual Speed for Squeezing.' requirements: null success: null traits: null trigger: null - action_cost: None critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: Any creature hit by the giant slug or that moves into its mucus trail is coated in sticky, caustic mucus. It takes 1d4 __persistent acid damage__ and takes a -5-foot status penalty to its Speeds while the damage persists. effect: null effects: null failure: null frequency: null full_description: null generic_description: null name: Mucus range: null raw_description: '**Mucus** Any creature hit by the giant slug or that moves into its mucus trail is coated in sticky, caustic mucus. It takes 1d4 __persistent acid damage__ and takes a -5-foot status penalty to its Speeds while the damage persists.' requirements: null success: null traits: null trigger: null - action_cost: None critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: Any square the giant slug moves into is coated in mucus. These spaces are difficult terrain, and any creature that moves into one or ends its turn in one is subjected to the slug's mucus. After an hour, the mucus dries and the area is no longer difficult terrain. effect: null effects: null failure: null frequency: null full_description: null generic_description: null name: Mucus Trail range: null raw_description: '**Mucus Trail** Any square the giant slug moves into is coated in mucus. These spaces are difficult terrain, and any creature that moves into one or ends its turn in one is subjected to the slug''s mucus. After an hour, the mucus dries and the area is no longer difficult terrain.' requirements: null success: null traits: null trigger: null - action_cost: Three Actions critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: Large or smaller, foot, DC 27 effect: null effects: null failure: null frequency: null full_description: null generic_description: null name: Trample range: null raw_description: '**__Trample__** [Three Actions] Large or smaller, foot, DC 27' requirements: null success: null traits: null trigger: null ranged: - action_cost: One Action damage: formula: 3d6 type: acid damage name: disgorged mucus plus_damage: - formula: null type: mucus and 1d6 acid splash damage to_hit: 17 traits: - brutal - range increment 50 feet - splash rarity: Common resistances: - amount: 10 type: acid ritual_lists: null saves: fort: 21 fort_misc: null misc: null ref: 11 ref_misc: null will: 14 will_misc: null sense_abilities: null senses: - Perception +14 - no hearing - scent (imprecise) 60 feet size: Huge skills: - bonus: 19 misc: null name: 'Athletics ' source: - abbr: Bestiary 2 page_start: 244 page_stop: null speed: - amount: 20 type: Land - amount: 15 type: climb spell_lists: null traits: - N - Huge - Animal type: Creature weaknesses: - amount: 5 type: salt