Crab
Crabs are aquatic crustacean scavengers with pincers. A tiny beast.
| Hit Points: 1 | Armor: 0 |
| Hit it: easy | Dodge it: easy |
| Movement: slow, swim slow | Size: tiny |
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It can detect nearby movement, walk on any surface, even upside down and breathe underwater. It can’t see well.
Attacks (1/round)
Pinch. The crab makes a grapple attempt.
Crab Swarm
| Hit Points: 7 | Armor: 1 |
| Hit it: easy | Dodge it: easy |
| Movement: slow, swim slow | Size: medium swarm |
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It can detect nearby movement, walk on any surface, even upside down and breathe underwater. It can’t see well.
In a swarm, creatures resist single target attacks. However, they take double damage from area of effect attacks.
Attacks (1/round)
Swarm. The target automatically take 1 point of damage and must save or be grappled.
Giant Crab
A human-sized crab
| Hit Points: 5 | Armor: 2 |
| Hit it: easy | Dodge it: normal |
| Movement: normal, swim normal | Size: medium |
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It can detect nearby movement, walk on any surface, even upside down and breathe underwater. It can’t see well.
Attacks (1/round)
Pinch. The crab makes a grapple attempt. On success, the target takes 1D6 damage and is grappled.
Encounter
Number : 1D4 Swarms or 1D6 giant crabs
Lair : Sharp, sea-eroded rocks full of holes and varech.
Desire : Food
Tame It
If you have captured this beast, you can spend the equivalent of 1 bag of silver in food between two adventures to tame it. It is now one of your followers. Each extra bag of gold spent training the beast teaches it a one-word order. Otherwise, it only acts to eat or in self-defence.
Hunt It
Crabs are delicious. You need as many crabs as there are players, or one giant crab to make a day’s ration.
If you have access to an artisan and a workshop, you can spend loot between two adventures to create something with parts of the beast. The object you craft can be anything mostly made of the provided materials. It will have the value of what you invest in it. Discuss what you want with the referee.