Size:
Large
Type:
Animal
Form:
quadruped
Temper:
# App:
± solitary
Lair:
Diet:
Combat Dice:
0
Hit Points:
0
Attack Rank:
0
Passive Defense:
0
Active Defense:
Damage Reduction:
0
Role:
brute
Ground:
± 30 ft.
Climb/Arboreal:
Flight:
Swim:
Benthic:
Burrow:
± 15 ft.
Ethereal:
Actions/Abilities/Traits: Pathfinder 1e
Actions/Abilities/Traits: Pathfinder 1e
Special
Spiked Tail (Ex)
A hodag's tail spikes allow the creature's tail slap to deal both bludgeoning and piercing damage. A hodag's tail slap is a primary attack.
Special
Toss (Ex)
A hodag charging 20 feet or more that damages a foe with an attack can throw its foe with a special combat maneuver check. The opponent must be corporeal and at least one size category smaller than the hodag. If the combat maneuver check succeeds, the hodag's opponent is thrown 10 feet through the air in a direction chosen by the hodag and falls prone. The hodag can only toss its opponent in a straight line. If an obstacle prevents the creature's movement, both the creature tossed and the object struck take 1d6 points of damage, and the creature falls prone in the space adjacent to the obstacle. A hodag can also toss an opponent 10 feet up into the air. The victim lands in the same square it started in, falls prone, and takes 1d6 points of damage.
Special
Trackless (Ex)
A hodag sweeps its tail behind itself in a way that obscures its tracks. Attempts to track a hodag have their normal DC increased by +10.
Action
Feat 1
Improved Iron Will
Action
Feat 2
Iron Will
Action
Feat 3
Power Attack
Action
Feat 4
Vital Strike
Action
Melee 1
bite +11 (1d8+4)
Action
Melee 2
2 claws +11 (1d6+4)
Action
Melee 3
tail slap +11 (1d4+4)
Treasure
incidental
Environments
temperate forests or marshes
Actions/Abilities/Traits: Pathfinder 1e
A creature covered in green and brown fur with a horned, frog-shaped head and spikes running along its back and tail stalks forward, its fanged face twisted in a leering grin.
Hodags are carnivorous nocturnal predators that stalk temperate forests, hills, and plains.
Taste for Domestic Life. While fierce, hodags prefer to kill easy prey. Many stalk the lands outside farms, villages, and even small cities, attacking livestock, pets, and travelers. Hodags have been known to break down the doors of houses, barns, and other buildings to get at prey inside.
Solo Hunters until Mating. Hodags are generally solitary creatures with large territories. Babies are abandoned by their mothers after birth. There is an exception for one week each year in spring just after the end of winter. Hodags within several hundred miles instinctually gather in a prey-filled area, which never seems to be the same place twice. The hodags gorge on as much food as possible and engage in mating rituals. When the week is over, the hodags disperse, returning to their territories.
Impossible to Train. Hodags are born with strong predator instincts, which helps the young survive after being left by their mothers. Many believe this same instinct makes hodags impossible to train, but such claims only make them more valuable targets for those who collect exotic pets.
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