Breathless Thicket

Level 6Hazard (Complex)

HazardUncommonLargeRemaster

58 (BT 29)

Speed

0 ft.

Perception

Fort

+18

Ref

+11

Will

Stealth DC

environmental plant

Immunities critical-hits, precision

Weaknesses fire 15

Recall Knowledge DC 24 (nature)

Attacks

Melee Sinewy Leaves +20 (reach 10 ft.) plus branch grab

Abilities

Branch Ambush↺

Trigger A creature that breathes steps within 5 feet of a thicket

Effect The thicket makes a sinewy leaves Strike against the triggering creature. The hazard then rolls initiative.

Branch Grab

If the breathless thicket hits a creature with its leaves, that creature becomes Grabbed by the thicket. Unlike with a normal Grab, the creature isn't Immobilized, but it can't move beyond the reach of the thicket's leaves. A creature can sever a branch by Striking against AC 18 and dealing at least 12 slashing damage. A branch doesn't have the thicket's Hardness, and damaging it doesn't deal damage to the thicket ().

Suffocate◆◆

Requirements The breathless thicket has Grabbed one or more creatures that breathe

Effect The dead flowers of the breathless thicket begin pulling oxygen from its victims' lungs. Each creature grabbed by the breathless thicket takes 4d6 nonlethal bludgeoning damage and must attempt a DC 26 fortitude save.

Critical Success The creature takes no damage and can immediately attempt to as a free action.

Success The creature takes half damage and is Stupefied 1 for

Disable DC 28 nature (expert) or DC 28 survival (expert) to recognize the thicket for what it is and avoid it

A 10-foot-wide patch of dead shrubs with wilted flowers steals the breath of the living.