Deep Sea Serpent
CR 19, N Gargantuan Magical beast (aquatic)
Senses: Perception 23, Darkvision 120, Low Light Vision
Speed: 10 ft., swim 50 ft. Skills: Athletics 22, Stealth 8
Languages: None
Ability Scores: Str 39 (+35), Dex 20 (+26), Con 28 (+30), Int 2 (+5), Wis 17 (+12), Cha 11 (+9)
INIT: +9 CP: +23 HP: 333 (23d10+207) SA: -- DC: 32
AC: 34 Touch: 12 Flat-footed: 28 [+6 Dodge, +22 Natural, -4 Size]
SR: -- Vulnerable: -- Resistant: Fire 30 Bypass: --
Immunity: Cold Effect Immunity: --
Power Attack (ex) - A Deep Sea Serpent may choose to take a penalty to its attack roll (up to -5). For each point of penalty, the Deep Sea Serpent does one extra point of damage. The Deep Sea Serpent must decide to use power attack at the beginning of its turn and it applies to all attack made until the start of its next turn.
Powerful Tail (ex) - The Deep Sea Serpent's tail slap is always a primary attack. When it deals damage to an object with its tail slap or via constrict damage, it ignores the first 10 points of hardness that object possesses.
Water Breathing (ex) - The creature can breathe under water.
Attacks
- Melee (Natural) - 1 x bite +33 (6d10+14/19-20 plus grab). Reach: 20 ft. Grab - Each time this attack is successful, the Deep Sea Serpent can make a grapple check as a free action to see if it holds his opponent. If successful, the opponent is grappled. Grabbing does not provoke an attack of opportunity
- Melee (Natural) - 1 x tail slap +33 (6d8+14/19-20 plus grab). Reach: 20 ft. Grab - Each time this attack is successful, the Deep Sea Serpent can make a grapple check as a free action to see if it holds his opponent. If successful, the opponent is grappled. Grabbing does not provoke an attack of opportunity
Surge (Full Round)(ex) - The Deep Sea Serpent can surge forward as a full-round action at a speed of 400 feet. It must move in a straight line but does not provoke attacks of opportunity while surging.
Swallow Whole (ex) - When a Deep Sea Serpent has an opponent grappled at the beginning of its turn (no larger than one size smaller), it can attempt a grapple check to swallow him. Swallowed foes take double damage (half from the bite and half from constriction). Standard damage (bludgeoning) recurs automatically each round. Swallowed creatures are considered grappled (the creature is not). They can escape by climbing out of the creature's gullet (successful grapple check), or by cutting their way out with a L or VL weapon. If you cut your way out, the Deep Sea Serpent is unable to swallow another creature whole against until the wound heals.
Vital Strike (ex) - As a standard action, the Deep Sea Serpent can make one attack at full bonus that deals additional damage. Roll the damage from the attack twice before adding other damage bonuses. This extra weapon damage is not multiplied on a critical hit but is still added to the total.
Elusive (Full Round)(ex) - As a full-round action while in water, the Deep Sea Serpent can move up to 200 feet without leaving any trace of its passing (identical in effect to pass without trace). An elusive Deep Sea Serpent gains a +40 circumstance bonus on its Stealth check. In addition, except when in combat, the Deep Sea Serpent is considered to be under the effects of a nondetection spell. Both of these effects function at caster level 20th and cannot be dispelled.
Environment: any ocean
Organization: None
Treasure: triple
This enormous, water-dwelling serpent has bright, bulging eyes and rounded jaws filled with long, jagged teeth.
An enormous monstrosity that makes its home in the darkest depths of the ocean's trenches, the deep sea serpent is as elusive as it is terrifying, the nightmare of sailors making their ways over the vast and seemingly bottomless waters. A deep sea serpent is rarely seen unless it wishes to be seen, and the beast usually has its own mysterious reasons for occasionally coming to the surface. At other times, those reasons are gruesomely obvious-the deep sea serpent rises to the surface to crush ships and devour sailors who tumble from the freshly shattered hulls. It is thought that in incredibly remote parts of the underwater world, even more powerful deep sea serpents exist, beasts with supernatural luminous lures that can be used to blind foes, or with the ability to create overwhelming blasts of electricity that stun or even outright slay prey with a single stroke. Yet perhaps the most unnerving are the rumors of deep sea serpents that possess a remarkable intelligence. Such creatures, if they even exist, are rarely if ever seen near the surface-both their naturally elusive natures and the remote reality of their habitats mean that ensuring the veracity of these claims requires truly extraordinary efforts. A typical deep sea serpent measures 50 feet long and weighs 35,000 pounds.
