Rug of Smothering
Construct · no Crown (Mundane)
T1d4Minor
Deceptive floor coverings, rugs of smothering ensnare and suffocate, mimicking harmless tapestries.
Tier 1 · Role Minor · Pool Vigor 2 · AC 10 · ATK +2 · Save DC 11 · Dmg 1 (flat)
| Stat | Score | Mod | Die |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body | 14 | - | - |
| Mind | 4 | - | - |
| Sense | 10 | - | - |
| Heart | 10 | - | - |
| Cunning | 6 | - | - |
| Fate | 10 | - | - |
A Minor has no attribute mechanics: the scores describe the creature, they do not roll.
Passives
Construct Nature
Immune to poison, disease, charm, and fear. Motionless, it is indistinguishable from an ordinary rug. Mindless: it never flees. It falls inert in an antimagic field.
Damage Transfer
While it smothers a creature, blows against the rug alternate: the rug takes the first hit's damage, the smothered creature takes the next, and so on.
Maneuvers
Smother
Flings itself onto a creature within 15 ft. Body save (DC 11) or the target is restrained and blinded inside the rug, cannot breathe, and takes 1 Vigor damage at the start of each of its turns.
Tactics
GM tactics
Lies flat on the floor, indistinguishable from a normal rug. When a creature steps on it or walks over it, the rug strikes. Prioritizes lone targets. Damage Transfer makes it dangerous to attack while it smothers an ally.
Running it
Rules
- One Vigor pool of 2 x Tier, no Vitality. It breaks and flees with 1 left, and dies at 0. The pool does not regenerate.
- A hit deals a flat 1, no roll. A crit (natural 20 only) rolls d4 and never lands below 1.
- Crits on a natural 20 only.
- Minor: no stat modifiers or dice in play; its scores describe the creature, they do not roll.
- With 1 Vigor left it breaks and flees, out of the fight but alive; Fanatics fight on to 0 instead.
- At 0 Vigor it is dead: 2 total damage, and a single blow of 2 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.