FREQUENCY: Rare
FREQUENCY: Rare
([Dungeon Level III])
FREQUENCY: Very rare
([Cold Civilized Mountains])
FREQUENCY: Very
rare ([Cold Wilderness Mountains])
FREQUENCY: Very rare ([Cold Temperate
Mountains]) <x>
FREQUENCY: Very rare ([Temperate Wilderness
Mountains])
FREQUENCY: Very
rare ([Tropical Civilized Mountains])
FREQUENCY: Very
rare ([Tropical Wilderness Mountains])
NO. APPEARING: 1-4
ARMOR CLASS: 4
MOVE: @1"
HIT DICE: 3
% IN LAIR: 100%
TREASURE TYPE: Incidental
NO. OF ATTACKS: 2
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 2-8/2-8
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Adhesive trap line
SPECIAL DEFENSES: [SB]
INTELLIGENCE: Semi-
ALIGNMENT: Neutral
SIZE: M
LEVEL/X.P. VALUE: IIII | 85 * 3
Cave fishers are hard-shelled, many legged
creatures that live by trapping animals
in the subterranean
world.
To trap its prey, a cave fisher
employs a super-strong, highly adhesive
filament which xtends from
its proboscis. This filament is 60-feet
long, and tipped with a powerful
adhesive sucker. A cave fisher can shoot
this filament from its proboscis
with great SPEED && accuracy,
striking as a 6 HD monster.
It will then "reel in" its prey at a rate
of 15 feet per round, using a complex
organic winch housed in an armored protuberance
behind its head. A
cave fisher can pull in prey weighing
up to 400 pounds (4000 gp weight).
The adhesive on the sucker head also coats
the filament, and it can be
dissolved by liquids with a high alcohol
content or a cave fisher's blood,
which also contains a lot of alcohol.
The filaments are so strong that they
can be cut only by a +1 or better
edged weapon and so thin that there is
only a 20% chance of noticing them within
10 feet and no chance beyond
that distance.
When the cave fisher's prey is drawn in,
the creature kills & dismembers it
with its pincers, cutting it into pieces
suitable for ingestion.
Two of the cave fisher's 8 legs end in
powerful pincers. The other 6 are
used by the creature to attach itself
to the rock of its hiding place,
cementing itself into place with the same
adhesive that coats its filament.
Cave fishers prefer to hide on ledges over
much-traveled paths. They
string their filaments across a likely
spot for catching small flying creatures.
If something enters the cave fisher's
range but does not blunder
into its filament, the creature will silently
reel in its filament (taking 1
round to do so) and then fire at the potential
victim. If it misses, it will try
again for as long as the prey is in range.
A cave fisher's ledge or niche is usu.
covered with the bones & belongings
of its victims. If the local animals learn
to avoid a cave fisher's abode,
it will dissolve its bindings and crawl
on to a new AREA where the prey is less wary.
