Roper

Actions/Abilities/Traits: Basic Fantasy

Offense

1 bite or 1 crush + special

Circumstance: Combat

1 bite or 1 crush + special

Special

Darkvision

60-foot Darkvision.

Special

Camouflage

Its coloration and temperature changes to match the features of the surrounding cave. It hunts prey by standing very still and imitating rock. This tactic often allows the roper to attack with surprise.

Special

Strand Attack

If a roper hits with a strand attack, the strand latches onto the opponent's body. This deals no damage but drags the stuck opponent 10 feet closer each subsequent round unless that creature breaks free (requires an open doors check). If a roper can draw in a creature within 10 feet of itself, it will bite with a +4 attack bonus in the same round. A strand has 10 HP and can be attacked instead of the body of the roper. If the strand is currently attached to a target, the attacker takes a -4 penalty on its attack roll. Severing a strand deals no damage to the roper itself.

Special

Resistances

Immune to electricity and takes half damage from cold but is vulnerable against fire, saving at -4. It is otherwise very highly magically resistant, making all magical saves (except fire-based) with a +4 bonus.

Environments

underdark

A 9-foot tall creature that tapers from 3-4 feet in diameter at the base to 1 foot at the top, weighing 2,200 pounds

A Roper stands 9 feet tall and tapers from 3 or 4 feet in diameter at the base to 1 foot across at the top. It weighs 2,200 pounds. A roper has 60-foot Darkvision and its coloration and temperature changes to match the features of the surrounding cave. It hunts prey by standing very still and imitating rock. This tactic often allows the roper to attack with surprise. When prey comes within reach, it lashes out with its strands. In melee, it bites adjacent opponents with its powerful maw. If a roper hits with a strand attack, the strand latches onto the opponent's body. This deals no damage but drags the stuck opponent 10 feet closer each subsequent round unless that creature breaks free (requires an open doors check). If a roper can draw in a creature within 10 feet of itself, it will bite with a +4 attack bonus in the same round. A strand has 10 HP and can be attacked instead of the body of the roper. If the strand is currently attached to a target, the attacker takes a -4 penalty on its attack roll. Severing a strand deals no damage to the roper itself.

Basic Fantasy Field Guide Omnibus

Actions/Abilities/Traits: Basic Fantasy

Actions/Abilities/Traits: BECMI

Action

1 bite/6 strands

5-30/weakness

Actions/Abilities/Traits: BECMI

Actions/Abilities/Traits: OSE

Environments

underdark

Actions/Abilities/Traits: OSE

Actions/Abilities/Traits: OSRIC

Environments

Frequency: Rare

underdark

Offense

1 Attack

Circumstance: Combat

2d10+2

Offense

Special Attacks

Circumstance: Combat

See below

Defense

Special Defenses

Circumstance: Combat

See below

Resistance

Magic Resistance

Circumstance: innate

80%

Special

Rope Strands

6 rope-like appendages secrete a powerful and poisonous adhesive and can lash out up to 50-ft. A successful 'to hit' roll will weaken the target, decreasing its strength ability score by 50% (rounded down) within 1d3 rounds and lasting 2d4 turns; with multiple hits having a cumulative strength drain effect. An ensnared victim can break the strand by performing a Minor Test of Strength but for every round the victim is roped he or she will be dragged 10-ft closer to the roper.

Special

Bite

Creatures within 10-ft of the roper are subject to its vicious bite attack, this attack automatically hits any victim held by the strands of the roper.

Special

Strand Properties

A strand can be sliced with an edged weapon but the attack must do a minimum of 6 points of damage in a single attack to the AC 0 tentacle to sever it. The strand of a roper can easily pull 800 lbs and can lift about a third of that amount.

Special

Resistances

Besides its base 80% magic resistance, the roper is completely immune to electricity based damage including lightning, ropers are also resistant to cold based magic and take only half damage from any such attacks.

Special

Vulnerability

Susceptible to fire, saving vs fire based attacks at -4. Any fire based magic attacks, however, must still overcome the monster's magic resistance.

Special

Treasure

Ropers do not hoard treasure but their acidic bile cannot dissolve platinum or gemstones. Cutting open the gizzard of a roper has a 40% chance of yielding 3d6 (3-18) platinum pieces and 30% chance of 4d6 (4-24) gems.

A 9-foot tall creature that tapers from 3-4 feet in diameter at the base to 1 foot at the top, weighing 2,200 pounds

Ropers are cavern-dwelling monsters and are frequently mistaken for stalagmites. These monsters are grey-green in colour, standing around 8-ft to 12-ft tall, with a hide that mimics the smooth limestone formations of a natural cavern. Ropers are about 3-ft to 4-ft at the base and approximately 1-ft wide at the apex. These monsters are almost always encountered in their stalagmite shape but can alter their appearance to some degree. A roper can assume the shape of a pillar, a boulder, or flatten themselves and lie flat to appear as no more than an irregularity on the walking surface of the cavern floor. It can also cling to a cavern ceiling (or wall) and appear as a stalactite. Through means of tiny adhesive cilia on its underside, the roper can move slowly and these cilia are what allow it to cling upside down to the ceiling.

OSRIC

Actions/Abilities/Traits: OSRIC

Actions/Abilities/Traits: Pathfinder 2e

Ability

Circumstance: Trigger: A creature moves from beyond the reach of the roc's wing

+2 status to all saves vs. magic

Ability

Extend Strands

4 circumstance penalty to Stealth checks, and while they're retracted, it can't use its strand Strikes.

Ability

Flurry of Strands

The roper makes a strand Strike with each of its strands (except those that are immobilizing creatures). Each attack must be against a different target. These attacks count toward the roper's multiple attack penalty, but its multiple attack penalty doesn't increase until after all the attacks.

Ability

Pull the Strands

The roper pulls every creature grabbed by its strands toward itself. The roper rolls a single Athletics check and compares the result to each immobilized creature's Fortitude DC. The roper pulls each creature it succeeds against up to 25 feet closer and each creature it critically succeeds against up to 50 feet closer.

Ability

Reactive Lash

Circumstance: Trigger: A creature within reach of the roper's strand leaves a s

The roper makes a strand Strike against the triggering creature.

Ability

Sticky Strand

Any creature hit by a roper's strand is enfeebled 1 and grabbed. Each additional hit from a strand increases the enfeebled condition value by 1 (to a maximum of enfeebled 4). This enfeebled value decreases by 1 every 8 hours. The roper can move while it has a creature grabbed with a strand, but it automatically releases the creature if it moves beyond the strand's reach. The roper can release an grabbed creature as a free action. A creature can sever a strand with a target attack that hits AC 27 and deals at least 18 slashing damage. This doesn't deal any damage to the roper itself, though it can no longer attack with a severed strand.

Offense

Melee

Circumstance: combat round (melee)

jaws +21 [+16/+11], Damage 2d12+12 piercing

Trait

Aberration

Aberrations are creatures from beyond the planes or corruptions of the natural order.

Language

Aklo

Undercommon

Perception

darkvision

Resistance

electricity 10

Weakness

fire 10

Actions/Abilities/Traits: Pathfinder 2e