SUGO

ORIGIN: Acheron
FREQUENCY: Very rare
NO. APPEARING: 1
ARMOR CLASS: -2/-3
MOVE: 18”
HIT DICE: 14
% IN LAIR: Nil
TREASURE TYPE: Nil
NO. OF ATTACKS: 8
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 1-4 per attack
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Sucking (see below) 
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Immune to cold and acid; takes 1.5 damage from fire
MAGIC RESISTANCE: 30%
INTELLIGENCE: Very high
ALIGNMENT: Lawful Neutral (evil tendencies) 
SIZE: L (tentacles are 7-8' long)
PSIONIC ABILITY: 150
    Attack/Defense Modes: A, C / G, I

All the marshes, bogs, swamps, slime, 
mud && quicksand in the world are 
spawned from Acheron, the Plane of 
Slime. As the River of sorrows passes 
through the Nine Hells, it becomes gradually 
wider && wider, until it becomes a vast, 
near-impenetreble, stinking bog: Acheron. 

Lurking in the mud are horrible creatures 
callled Sugos. Juiblex himself created 
them, but they turned against him 
&& all of the other of Chaos. They 
greedily devour the little bugs && large 
worms of Acheron, but would much 
rather seek greater prey. 

A Sugo appears as a flattish brown
disc with a large red eye in the top center. Radiating from the sides of the disc 

are eight slimy, brown tentacles, each 
equipped with a large grey sucker cup at 
the end. Sugos blend in perfectly with 
the bog, and thus surprise opponents on 
a 1-4. 

A Sugo will attempt to attach its suckers 
to several adventurers (each requires a 
successful "to hit" roll) && suck their 
flesh away. The Sugo will do 1-4 pts. 
damage per round, and will only 
remove its sucker if the victim is killed 
or the tentacle is chopped off. 

How to chop a tentacle off: Each time a
hit at a specific place on a tentacle is to
be made, the player must tell the DM he
is hitting at that place. Each tentacle can
absorb 8 pts. of damage, regardless of
the hit points of the Sugo’s body. Each
tentacle has an AC of -3 (because it is
harder to aim at a specific point rather
than the general creature). If the Sugo’s
body takes its full hit points in damage,
the creature will die regardless of the
rules in this paragraph. These rules only
apply when chopping a tentacle off.

By Patrick Amory