Fire Crab (Medium)

Family: Fire Crab

Medium elemental, unaligned

Armor Class 15 (natural armor)
Hit Points 75 (10d8 + 30)
Speed 30 ft., swim 30 ft.

STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
18 (+4) 10 (+0) 16 (+3) 2 (-4) 14 (+2) 2 (-4)

Skills Athletics +7
Damage Vulnerabilities cold
Damage Immunities fire
Condition Immunities charmed
Senses darkvision 60 ft., tremorsense 60 ft., passive Perception 12
Languages understand Ignan but can’t speak
Challenge 5 (1,800 XP)

Special Traits

  • Heated Body. A creature that touches the medium fire crab or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of it takes 7 (2d6) fire damage.

Actions

  • Multiattack. The medium fire crab makes two claw attacks
  • Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage plus 7 (2d6) fire damage. If both claw attacks hit in the same turn and the target is Large size or smaller, the target is grappled (escape DC 15). While grappled, the target is restrained and takes 7 (2d6) fire damage at the start of its turn. The fire crab can only grapple one target at a time and cannot perform a claw attack while grappling a target.
  • Constrict. If a target is grappled, the medium fire crab squeezes it and the target takes 8 (1d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage and 7 (2d6) fire damage.

About

This crab is the size of a riding horse, with a square-shaped reddishbrown carapace covered with dark-red and yellow markings. Flames lick its body, erupting at irregular intervals from its underbelly. Its eyes are perched on the end of two large eyestalks that protrude from the center of the carapace.

Section 15: Copyright Notice

Tome of Horrors © 2018, Frog God Games, LLC; Authors: Kevin Baase, Erica Balsley, John “Pexx” Barnhouse, Christopher Bishop, Casey Christofferson, Jim Collura, Andrea Costantini, Jayson ‘Rocky’ Gardner, Zach Glazar, Meghan Greene, Scott Greene, Lance Hawvermale, Travis Hawvermale, Ian S. Johnston, Bill Kenower, Patrick Lawinger, Rhiannon Louve, Ian McGarty, Edwin Nagy, James Patterson, Nathan Paul, Patrick N. Pilgrim, Clark Peterson, Anthony Pryor, Greg Ragland, Robert Schwalb, G. Scott Swift, Greg A. Vaughan, and Bill Webb