Leech, Hunting

From Garamondia’s Optical Dungeon

Pack-hunting fast leeches. Leech-things about as long as a forearm, with sharp, rigid mouth-parts. Surprisingly quick. Sometimes domesticated as something like a hunting hound; the smell of blood drives them into a frenzy. A tiny beast.



 
Hit Points: 1 Armor: 0
Hit it: hard Dodge it: normal
Movement: climb normal Size: tiny
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It can smell very well and feel vibrations, allowing it to easily spot their preys in the dark, even invisible ones. It can’t see.

Attacks (1/round)

Ripping Mouth. The leech makes a meelee attack (1 damage). If the target is bleeding, inflicts 1D4 damage instead.



Swarm of Hunting Leeches

 
Hit Points 10 Armor: 0
Hit it: easy Dodge it: normal
Movement: climb normal Size: medium swarm
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It can smell very well and feel vibrations, allowing it to easily spot their preys in the dark, even invisible ones. It can’t see.

In a swarm, creatures resist single target attacks. However, they take double damage from area of effect attacks.

Attacks (1/round)

Shredding Mouths. The leech makes a meelee attack (1D6 damage). If the target is bleeding, inflicts 1D10 damage instead.



Encounter

Number : 1D4 Swarms Lair : A brackish pool with 1D10 festering swarms in it
Desire : Eating

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

Hunter leeches dont produce natural painkillers like their cousins, but are much easier to tame. They are edible.

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.

Written on November 14, 2020