Ravager Beetle
This creature is covered in a jet black carapace with whitish markings crisscrossing its back and gold-tinted wing covers.
Ravager Beetle (CR 2)
Medium VerminAlignment: Neutral
Initiative: +0
Senses: Darkvision 60 feet, Tremorsense 60 feet; Perception +0
Speed: 30 feet, Fly 20 feet (poor)
Space: 5 feet
Defense
Armor Class: 19, touch 10, flat-footed 19 (+9 natural)Hit Points: 26 (4d8+8)
Saving Throws: Fort +6, Ref +1, Will +1
Immunity: mind-affecting effects
Offense
Melee: bite +6 (1d8+4 plus poison and Grab)Reach: 5 feet
Statistics
| Str | Dex | Con | Int | Wis | Cha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 (+3) | 10 (+0) | 14 (+2) | - | 10 (+0) | 6 (-2) |
CMB +6
CMD 16 (24 vs. Trip)
Feats:
Skills: Fly -4
Languages:
Special Abilities
Gnaw (Ex)
A ravager beetle that is grappling a foe and chooses to damage the foe with an additional grapple check deals twice its normal bite damage (2d8+8 points of damage for most ravager beetles), in addition to injecting an additional dose of poison with each successful check.Poison (Ex)
- Delivery: Bite-injury
- Fortitude Save: 14
- Frequency: 1/round for 6 rounds
- Track: Moderate Constitution
- Initial Effect: excruciating pain (See text)
- Saves: 1 save
The poison causes extruciating pain in its victim, applying a -2 penalty to all attack rolls, checks, and saves. Multiple bites do not result in cumulative penalties to attack rolls, checks, and saves. The effect lasts for as long as the poison is active in a victim (until the save is made or the duration expires)..
Ecology
Environment: Temperate ForestsOrganization: solitary, pair, cluster (3-8) or nest (9-20)
Treasure: none
Ravager beetles are omnivorous beetles found in temperate or warm forests, hills, and swamps. While generally sustaining themselves on a diet of foliage and grasses, they sometimes scavenge the remains of creatures killed by other predators. Like most beetles, a ravager has a thick plated carapace and two large mandibles it uses to crush and chew its food. Its carapace is black in color with several white streaks crisscrossing it. Its mandibles are dark bluish-black. Its wing covers are black with hints of gold. A typical ravager beetle is about 4 feet long.
Ravagers have a single life cycle that spans an entire year. Females generally lay 4-8 eggs in soft earth or soil and within two weeks the larva emerges. Young are almost always born in the warmer spring and early summer months. Young are noncombatants and rely solely on their mother for protection and food, feeding generally for 10 days before entering the pupa stage. After about 20 days, the pupae become adults.
Ravager beetles are generally scavengers by nature, and rarely attack, except in times when food is scarce. Even then, they usually limit their attacks to weakened, sleeping, wounded, or otherwise incapacitated prey. When attacking, ravager beetles lock onto an opponent with their mandibles and continue biting and crushing the target until it is dead.
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