HodagCreature 6

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Source Pathfinder Bestiary 2
Perception +14 (darkvision, scent (imprecise) 30 feet)
Languages Common, (can't Speak Any Language)
Skills Athletics +15, Stealth +14, Survival +12
Str +5, Dex +4, Con +5, Int -2, Wis +4, Cha +0

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AC 24; Fort +17; Reflex +14; Will +12;
HP 90
Speed 25 feet (burrow 15 feet)

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Jaws +17 (+12, +7) to hit 2d8+8 Piercing
Claw +17 (+13, +9) to hit (agile) 2d6+8 Slashing
Spiked Tail +17 (+12, +7) to hit (reach 10, versatile p) 2d6+8 Bludgeoning

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Darkvision

A monster with darkvision can see perfectly well in areas of darkness and dim light, though such vision is in black and white only. Some forms of magical darkness, such as a 4th-level Darkness spell, block normal darkvision. A monster with Greater Darkvision, however, can see through even these forms of magical darkness.

Scent

Scent involves sensing creatures or objects by smell, and is usually a vague sense. The range is listed in the ability, and it functions only if the creature or object being detected emits an aroma (for instance, incorporeal creatures usually do not exude an aroma).

If a creature emits a heavy aroma or is upwind, the GM can double or even triple the range of scent abilities used to detect that creature, and the GM can reduce the range if a creature is downwind.

Trackless

A hodag sweeps the ground behind it with its tail as it moves, obscuring its tracks. The DCs of checks to Track a hodag are increased by 10.

Ferocity

Trigger The monster is reduced to 0 HP.

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Effect The monster avoids being knocked out and remains at 1 HP, but its Wounded value increases by 1. When it is Wounded 3, it can no longer use this ability

Rip and Tear

The hodag makes two claw Strikes and one jaws Strike in any order.

Toss

The hodag Strides, then makes a Strike against a target in reach. If it moves at least 20 feet and succeeds at its Strike, the hodag deals damage normally and then attempts an Athletics check against the creature's Fortitude DC to toss the enemy into the air.

On a success, the tossed creature is thrown 10 feet in a straight line in the direction of the hodag's choice and then lands Prone. If the creature is knocked into a solid object, it takes 1d6 bludgeoning damage as well before landing prone. The hodag can instead toss a creature straight up in the air. The creature lands in the same square where it started, takes 1d6 bludgeoning damage, and lands prone.

Knockdown

Requirements The monster's last action was a success with a Strike that lists Knockdown in its damage entry.

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Effect The monster knocks the target Prone.

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Because they are often described only in drunken retellings of loggers' or miners' tales, hodags are considered by many to exist only in the local folklore of remote areas. However, some individuals have actually encountered these dangerous beasts firsthand, and even fewer have lived to tell their tales.

Hodags are reptilian creatures the size of bulls. These vicious predators' long claws can tear creatures apart in seconds. Their backs sport dozens of long spines that run from their snouts all the way down the length of their powerful tails. Their wide mouths are full of sharp and twisted rows of teeth not unlike those of a shark. The hodags' rough, scaly hides carry hues of green and brown, allowing them to blend into their forest surroundings where they ambush prey. Only their glowing red eyes reveal their presence, though hodags have learned to use this to their advantage by drawing attention to their eyes in one area, then closing their eyes and stealthily moving to another area to cause their prey to misconstrue their location.

In the wintertime, when snow and ice blankets a region, hodags grow a foul-smelling coat of greasy, dark-brown fur that sprouts in tufts from between their scales. A typical hodag measures over 10 feet long from snout to tail and weighs upward of 700 pounds.

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Traits