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Cockroach Swarm

Like a pestilent black tide, a ravenous horde of thousands of tiny, clacking cockroaches washes over everything in its path.

Cockroach Swarm CR 2

XP 600
N Diminutive vermin (swarm)
Init +2; Senses darkvision 60 ft., tremorsense 30 ft.; Perception +4

DEFENSE

AC 16, touch 16, flat-footed 14 (+2 Dex, +4 size)
hp 26 (4d8+8)
Fort +6, Ref +3, Will +1
Defensive Abilities swarm traits, Immune weapon damage
Weaknesses light sensitivity, swarm traits

OFFENSE

Speed 20 ft., climb 20 ft., fly 30 ft. (poor)
Melee swarm (1d6)
Space 10 ft.; Reach 0 ft.
Special Attacks distraction (DC 14)

STATISTICS

Str 1, Dex 15, Con 14, Int —, Wis 10, Cha 2
Base Atk +3; CMB —; CMD —
Skills Climb +10, Fly +4, Perception +4, Stealth +14; Racial Modifiers +4 Perception
SQ hold breath

SPECIAL ABILITIES

Hold Breath (Ex)

A cockroach can hold its breath for a number of rounds equal to four times its Constitution score before it risks drowning.

ECOLOGY

Environment Environment any temperate, warm, or urban
Organization solitary, pair, or intrusion (3–20 swarms)
Treasure none

Swarms of flesh-eating cockroaches are extremely virulent pests. Normally carnivorous scavengers, these vermin quickly transform into aggressive hunters when amassed in great numbers, actively seeking out territory and food and gravitating to locations that readily provide both, such as dumps, graveyards, sewers, swamps, and other foul areas filled with rotting waste.

Although a flesh-eating cockroach swarm prefers to feed on rot and carrion, these ravenous creatures do not balk at attacking living creatures as large as an elephant if given a chance.

Section 15: Copyright Notice - Bestiary 2

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary 2, © 2010, Paizo Publishing, LLC; Authors Wolfgang 
Baur, Jason Bulmahn, Adam Daigle, Graeme Davis, Crystal Frasier, Joshua J. Frost, Tim 
Hitchcock, Brandon Hodge, James Jacobs, Steve Kenson, Hal MacLean, Martin Mason, Rob 
McCreary, Erik Mona, Jason Nelson, Patrick Renie, Sean K Reynolds, F. Wesley Schneider, 
Owen K.C. Stephens, James L. Sutter, Russ Taylor, and Greg A. Vaughan, based on material 
by Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, and Skip Williams.