Skunk
CR 0, N Tiny Animal
Senses: Perception 5, Low Light Vision, ScentThis special quality allows a creature to detect approaching enemies, sniff out hidden foes, and track by sense of smell. Creatures with the scent ability can identify familiar odors just as humans do familiar sights. The creature can detect opponents within 30 feet by sense of smell. If the opponent is upwind, the range increases to 60 feet; if downwind, it drops to 15 feet. Strong scents, such as smoke or rotting garbage, can be detected at twice the ranges noted above. Overpowering scents, such as skunk musk or troglodyte stench, can be detected at triple normal range. When a creature detects a scent, the exact location of the source is not revealed-only its presence somewhere within range. The creature can take a move action to note the direction of the scent. When the creature is within 5 feet of the source, it pinpoints the source's location. A creature with the scent ability can follow tracks by smell with a perception check instead of using the Track skill.
Speed: 30 ft. Skills: None
Languages: None
Ability Scores: Str 3 (-2), Dex 15 (+4), Con 9 (+1), Int 2 (-4), Wis 12 (+1), Cha 6 (-2)
INIT: +2 CP: +0 HP: 3 (1d8-1) SA: -- DC: 13
AC: 14 Touch: 14 Flat-footed: 12 [+2 Dodge, +2 Size]
SR: -- Vulnerable: -- Resistant: -- Bypass: --
Immunity: -- Effect Immunity: --
Attacks
- Melee (Natural) - 1 x bite +4 (1d3-4). Reach: 2-1/2 ft.
- Melee (Natural) - 2 x claws +4 (1d2-4). Reach: 2-1/2 ft.
- Ranged - 1 x spray +4 touch (musk). Range: 10 feet
Musk (ex, 2/day) - Up to twice per day, a skunk can spray a stream of noxious musk at a single target within 10 feet as a standard action. With a successful ranged touch attack, the creature struck by this spray must make a CON save or be stunned (level 1) for 1d4 rounds by the horrific stench. A successful save reduces the effect to only 1 round of being stunned. A creature cannot use the scent ability as long as it is affected by this musk.
Environment: temperate forests
Organization: solitary, pair, surfeit (3-5)
Treasure: none
Built like a small badger, this creature has black fur with white stripes running from its face to its fluffy tail, which is raised in warning.
These small mammals are well known to humanoids and forest creatures alike, with their distinctive black-and-white-striped markings and infamous scent glands. Creatures like big cats or wolves that normally would make a meal of such a small creature give skunks plenty of space, for they have learned well that the combination of black and white on a skunk's back equates to a hideously overpowering stench.
The stats here describe the common nonaggressive skunk. Skunks squirt their musk at potential predators in hopes of forcing the predator to flee. If this fails, the skunk looks for the quickest route possible for itself to escape. If cornered, a skunk bites its opponents.
