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Delver (3pp)

This huge slug-like creature has two enormous paddles for arms which end in a row of black claws, a single multifaceted eye at the front of its torso seems to takes in the world around it dispassionately.

Delver CR 9
XP 6,400
N Huge Aberration
Init +5 Senses darkvision 60 ft., tremorsense 60 ft.; Perception +20
 DEFENSE

AC 24 touch 9, flat-footed 23 (+1 Dex, +15 natural, -2 size)
hp 157 (15d8+75)
Fort +10, Ref +6, Will +11
Immune Acid

 OFFENSE
Speed 30 ft., Burrow 10 ft.
Melee 2 slams +17 (1d6+8 plus 2d6 acid)
Space 15 ft. Reach 10 ft.
Special Attacks corrosive Slime
 STATISTICS
Str 27, Dex 13, Con 21, Int 14, Wis 14, Cha 12
Base Atk +11 CMB +21 CMD 32
Feats Alertness, Blind-Fight, Cleave, Improved Sunder, Great Fortitude, Improved Initiative, Power Attack, Toughness
Skills  +19 Intimidate, +20 Knowledge (Dungeoneering), +20 Knowledge (Nature),+20 Perception, +8 Stealth, +20 Survival (+22 underground), +8 Swim
SQ Stone Shape
 SPECIAL ABILITIES

Corrosive Slime (Ex)

A delver produces a mucus-like slime that contains a highly corrosive substance. The slime is particularly effective against stone. A delver’s mere touch deals 2d6 points of acid damage to organic creatures or objects. Against metallic creatures or objects, a delver’s slime deals 4d8 points of damage, and against stony creatures (including Earth Elementals) or objects it deals 8d10 points of damage. A slam attack by a delver leaves a patch of slime that deals 2d6 points of damage on contact and another 2d6 points of damage in each of the next 2 rounds. A large quantity (at least a quart) of Water or weak acid, such as vinegar, washes off the slime. An opponent’s armor and clothing dissolve and become useless immediately unless the wearer succeeds on a DC 22 Reflex save. Weapons that strike a delver also dissolve immediately unless the wielder succeeds on a DC 22 Reflex save. A creature attacking a delver with natural weapons takes damage from its slime each time an attack hits unless the creature succeeds on a DC 22 Reflex save. These save DCs are constitution-based.

Stone Shape (Ex)

A delver can alter its slime to temporarily soften stone instead of dissolving it. Once every 10 minutes, a delver can soften and shape up to 25 cubic feet of stone, as a stone shape spell (caster level 15th).

Lore

Characters with ranks in Knowledge (dungeoneering) can learn more about delvers. When a character makes a successful skill check, the following lore is revealed, including the information from lower DCs.

Knowledge (Dungeoneering)

DC Result

19 This huge creature is a delver, an intelligent subterranean dweller that feeds on the rocks that it dissolved with a corrosive slime that covers its body. This result reveals all aberration traits.

24 The slime that covers a delver is corrosive to most objects, highly corrosive to metallic objects or creatures, and devastating against stone objects or creatures. A delver can also alter the effect of its slime so that instead of disolving stone, it can soften it instead, much like using the spell stone shape. Most delvers speak Terran and Undercommon.

29 Most delvers are shy and inoffensive creatures, but like with nearly all species, there are exceptions to this rule. Delvers can also become addicted to metal which acts like an intoxicating drug to them. Such addicted specimens can also act very unlike most of their kin.


Monster Lore from WOTC Community Forums - Monsters and Races - Monster Lore Compendium. Copyright 2007-2008, Author: Evandar_TAybara
 ECOLOGY
Environment Underground
Organization Solitary
Treasure Value None

Adult delvers are 14 feet long 10 feet wide, and 8 feet high weighing on average 6000 lbs. Elder Delvers can grow to gargantuan size.

Delvers, are a ponderous slug-like creature responsible for many of the passable tunnels of the underdark. They are eternal and patient creatures who live by consuming rock at a gradual pace uncaring about the world above them. A shy and reclusive creature the vast majority of delvers avoid contact with other races, only so much as coming near their own kind for the purpose of mating. Although hermaphroditic delvers must begin the process of budding young by crossing the slime trail of another delver, though such a trail can be up to a week old. Despite the inoffensive temperament of most of their race delvers have a fearsome reputation among the who know them as 'miner's bane' due to their appetite for metals which excite their alien minds as alcohol does to humans. Most delvers indulge only occasionally but for rogue delvers pursue metal to hedonistic excess and show few qualms about slaying miners or others who bear metal equipment.

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System Reference Document. Copyright 2000, Wizards of the Coast, Inc.; Authors: Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams, based on material by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.