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Gug
A gug's most horrid feature is its barrel-shaped head, which splits vertically to reveal numerous rows of sharp, yellow teeth and an open throat. Its eyes, located on either side of its head-jaw, are small but keen. Bony ridges protect a gug's eyes from the frantic flailing of its prey, as it prefers meals of raw and writhing meat over fungi and molds. It grips said prey with powerful arms that split at the elbow into a pair of forearms, giving it four clawed paws. These monstrous brutes are covered with shaggy black fur, often crusted with blood and gore.Although gugs may seem bestial, they have keen and wicked intellects. Gugs lair far underground, but they sometimes come to the surface to hunt on dark nights, either alone or in small groups. As they possess voracious appetites, most gugs consume the creatures they catch, but some instead kidnap their victims and retreat below the surface, leaving only a lingering stench and odd, clawed paw prints. Victims are taken to rancid lairs marked with strange runes and sacrificed to the gugs' wicked gods of blood, darkness, and nightmares. Dire rumors tell of lightless gug cities made of titanic blocks of stone far underground, where powerful gug leaders preach their vile doctrines to howling mobs of their fellows.
Gugs have a strange relationship with ghouls, which seems to date from their shared origin in a distant subterranean world. Gugs live in fear of ghouls, despite towering over them. Some ghouls use this to their advantage by influencing gugs to attack opposed underground communities.
Gugs stand 16 feet tall and weigh 2,000 pounds, although they have an eerie, graceful gait that belies their immense size. Their light step and ability to squeeze through very small crannies makes gugs common bogeymen in tales of strange disappearances or bloody massacres.
Some particularly bloodthirsty gugs gain awful powers as gifts from their eldritch patrons. These monsters, known as savants, are never less than 12th level in power and gain several occult innate spells. Though each savant's precise mix of spells varies, they normally grant invisibility, offer power to manipulate and change rock, or invoke awful and destructive energies upon living flesh.
Recall Knowledge - Aberration (Occultism): DC 27
Unspecific Lore: DC 25
Specific Lore: DC 22
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Changes from being Weak are marked in red below.NOTE: The -2 damage penalty to non-strike offensive abilities (-4 if the ability is limited, such as spells) is NOT factored in.
Weak GugCreature 9
Large Aberration Source Monster Core 2 pg. 184
Perception +17; darkvision
Languages Sakvroth
Skills Acrobatics +17 (+21 to Squeeze), Athletics +21, Stealth +17, Survival +15
Str +7, Dex +3, Con +6, Int +0, Wis +3, Cha +0
AC 28; Fort +20, Ref +15, Will +17
HP 155
Reactive Strike [reaction]
Speed 40 feet, climb 20 feet
Melee [one-action] jaws +21 [+16/+11] (reach 15 feet), Damage 2d12-2+13 piercingMelee [one-action] claw +21 [+17/+13] (agile, reach 15 feet), Damage 2d8-2+13 slashingEerie Flexibility Despite its size, the gug's multiple joints allow it to fit through tight spaces as if it were a Medium creature. While Squeezing, it can move at its full Speed.Furious Claws [two-actions] The gug makes up to four claw Strikes, each against a different target. These attacks all count toward the gug's multiple attack penalty, but the penalty doesn't increase until after the gug makes all its attacks.Rend [one-action] claw
Eldritch Gods
Gugs don't traditionally make religion and faith a key part of their society, but gug cities always feature prominent temples to obscure gods whose faith has passed from view on most mortal worlds. Most gugs certainly know of entities such as Azathoth, Nyarlathotep, and Yog-Sothoth, but even among gugs, these Outer Gods are more feared and respected than prayed to.
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