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Trapper

The stone floor ripples and shakes as a toothy, gnashing maw opens in its center, and then the edges of the room curl up and inward to reveal an underside of wriggling tendrils and fetid digestive juices.

Trapper CR 8

XP 4,800
N Huge aberration
Init +5; Senses blindsense 10 ft., darkvision 60 ft., scent; Perception +25

DEFENSE

AC 21, touch 9, flat-footed 20 (+1 Dex, +12 natural, –2 size)
hp 123 (13d8+65)
Fort +10, Ref +5, Will +11
DR 10/piercing or slashing; Resist cold 10, fire 10
Weaknesses light sensitivity

OFFENSE

Speed 10 ft., climb 5 ft., fly 40 ft. (poor)
Melee slam +17 (3d6+15 plus grab)
Space 15 ft.; Reach 10 ft.
Special Attacks constrict (3d6+15), smother

STATISTICS

Str 30, Dex 12, Con 19, Int 14, Wis 17, Cha 13
Base Atk +9; CMB +21 (+25 when grappling); CMD 32 (can’t be tripped)
Feats Blind-Fight, Combat Reflexes, Great Fortitude, Improved Initiative, Skill Focus (Perception), Skill Focus (Stealth), Toughness
Skills Climb +18, Fly +0, Knowledge (Dungeoneering) +15, Knowledge (Local) +15, Perception +25, Sense Motive +16, Sleight of Hand +14, Stealth +19 (+27 in rocky areas); Racial Modifiers +4 Stealth (+12 in rocky areas)
Languages Aklo, Common, Undercommon


Editor's Note

Although not mentioned in the creature's special quality section, the core creature's description indicates this creature is amorphous and provides the following description:

Amorphous (Ex) Lurkers above and trappers are immune to precision damage (like sneak attacks) and critical hits, and can move through an area as small as one-quarter their space without squeezing or one-eighth their space when squeezing.


ECOLOGY

Environment underground
Organization solitary
Treasure standard

Female lurking rays, known as trappers, are the masterminds of their race. Too large to fly (and often gravid with wriggling young), the intelligent trappers dig themselves depressions in the floor of a chamber and then lie in them, changing their coloration and texture perfectly to blend with the rest of the floor, and sometimes even creating protrusions in the shape of items they know to be valuable to their prey creatures. When a lulled individual steps onto the trapper’s back, the ray twists itself up around it, smothering and beating it senseless before drawing it into its maw for slow digestion.

Though quite intelligent, even by human standards, trappers devote almost all of their mental faculties to perfectly remembering every sensory detail about their surroundings, in order to make their chameleon-like disguise all the more cunning and difficult for their prey to resist.

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Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Misfit Monsters Redeemed. Copyright 2010, Paizo Publishing, LLC; Authors: Adam Daigle, Crystal Frasier, Colin McComb, Rob McCreary, Jason Nelson, and James L. Sutter.

Trapper from the Tome of Horrors Revised. © 2002, Necromancer Games, Inc.; Author: Scott Greene, based on original material by Gary Gygax.