Black Scorpion
With a carapace the color of polished obsidian and a penchant for attacking villages, this humongous scorpion is one of the desert's most frightening predators. A black scorpion measures 60 feet from tip to the base of its stinger.Legacy Content
N Gargantuan Animal
Source Bestiary 2 pg. 234
Elite Changes are marked. The +2 damage bonus to non-strike offensive abilities (+4 if the ability is limited, such as spells) is NOT factored in.
Recall Knowledge DC 35 • Animal (Nature)
Perception +29; darkvision, tremorsense (imprecise) 90 feet
Skills Athletics +32
Str +9, Dex +4, Con +6, Int -5, Wis +6, Cha -4
AC 40; Fort +31, Ref +27, Will +27
HP 295
Speed 50 feet
Melee [one-action] pincer +32 [+28/+24] (agile, reach 30 feet), Damage 3d12+2+15 slashing plus GrabMelee [one-action] stinger +32 [+27/+22] (reach 30 feet), Damage 3d8+2+15 piercing plus black scorpion venomBlack Scorpion Venom (poison) Saving Throw DC 38 Fortitude; Maximum Duration 6 rounds; Stage 1 2d12 poison damage and clumsy 2 (1 round); Stage 2 3d12 poison damage, clumsy 2, and slowed 1 (1 round); Stage 3 4d12 poison damage, clumsy 4, and slowed 2 (1 round)Greater Constrict [one-action] 2d12+12 bludgeoning, DC 38Rapid Stinging [two-actions] The black scorpion makes three stinger Strikes, each against a different target. Its multiple attack penalty applies to each attack, but the penalty increases only after all the attacks have been made.All Monsters in "Scorpion"
Source Bestiary pg. 285Chitinous scourges of deserts, forests, savannas, and badlands, scorpions are deadly arachnids with powerful pincers and a painful sting. Scorpions can be found in nearly every climate, where they hunt their prey with a mixture of patient stealth and raw strength. Most scorpions live in underground burrows, either as lone hunters or part of a larger colony. These arachnids are so feared and dangerous that in many cultures, they are treated as deities or dualistic symbols of both death and protection from said death.
Scorpion Venom
While scorpions are often symbols of death or evil, their venom can be extracted and used for a wide variety of medical applications. A character can milk an incapacitated giant scorpion to extract raw scorpion venom, which can be used as raw materials to craft
giant scorpion venom or
lesser antiplague. To determine the value of ingredients you gain each day and the DC of the appropriate
Medicine or
Lore check, use the level 3 task entry in
Table 4–2: Income Earned.
The Desert Rider
Those rescued from death in the burning sands often recount the same dying vision: a strange, silver-eyed woman whose scarlet silk tents stand on the back of a colossal black scorpion, riding out of a shattered city and leading an army of the dead across a sea of glass toward the world of the living. Millennium-old paintings on the walls of rediscovered tombs depict a similar desert rider. The identity of this red-robed woman is unknown.