Rootmouth
Beast · no Crown (Meridian)
T2d6Minor
Colonial animal organisms disguised as flowering bushes with luminous blossoms, grabbing creatures with muscular tendrils and digesting them with light-activated enzymes.
Tier 2 · Role Minor · Pool Vigor 4 · AC 13 · ATK +4 · Save DC 13 · Dmg 2 (flat)
| Stat | Score | Mod | Die |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body | 16 | - | - |
| Mind | 4 | - | - |
| Sense | 8 | - | - |
| Heart | 12 | - | - |
| Cunning | 14 | - | - |
| Fate | 12 | - | - |
A Minor has no attribute mechanics: the scores describe the creature, they do not roll.
Passives
Disguised Predator
Motionless, it passes for a flowering bush with luminous blossoms until it strikes.
Photosynthetic Digestion
A creature engulfed in its cavity takes 1 Vigor damage at the start of its turn, or 2 Vigor damage in full sunlight. In darkness the enzymes go inert and do nothing.
Maneuvers
Tendril Grab
A muscular tendril lashes a creature within 10 ft. Body save (DC 13) or it is grabbed.
Engulf
Drags a grabbed creature into its digestive cavity. Body save (DC 13) or the target is restrained inside and subject to Photosynthetic Digestion until it tears free.
Tactics
GM tactics
Rootmouths wait motionless along game trails. They grab the first creature to pass within reach, engulf it, and hold it while digestion does the work. They ignore other threats unless those threats attack them directly.
Running it
Rules
- One Vigor pool of 2 x Tier, no Vitality. It breaks and flees with 2 left, and dies at 0. The pool does not regenerate.
- A hit deals a flat 2, no roll. A crit (natural 20 only) rolls d6 and never lands below 2.
- Crits on a natural 20 only.
- Minor: no stat modifiers or dice in play; its scores describe the creature, they do not roll.
- With 2 Vigor left it breaks and flees, out of the fight but alive; Fanatics fight on to 0 instead.
- At 0 Vigor it is dead: 4 total damage, and a single blow of 4 or more kills it on the spot.
- Vigor damage is simply damage against a Minor: its whole pool is Vigor.
- Group morale: when its group loses half its number, fled or dead, the rest check morale.
- NPCs never take wounds.