Dreamsnake
Armour Class: 7
Hit Dice: 1-1**
Move: 90' (30')
Attacks: 1 bite
Damage: 1-4 + special
No. Appearing: 1-2 (1-8)
Save As: F1
Morale: 7
Treasure Type: Nil
Alignment: Neutral
XP Value: 7
These small serpents are exceedingly slender, with wedge-shaped heads, icy-white scales tinged with green, and bright red eyes. Their fangs are crystalline and razor sharp. Dreamsnakes are deceptively gentle and slow to obviously attack; they feed on mental energy, not flesh and blood.
A dreamsnake's first attack will always be to dreamthief instead of using its poisonous bite (said venom causing a -4 penalty to Int and Dex for three hours); this "attack" requires only physical contact. If a save vs. spells is failed, the dreamsnake spirits away one significant memory or dream (DM's discretion) and the victim is stunned, unable to act, for one round. The dreamsnake will generally take that round to try to escape.
Twelve hours are required for a dreamsnake to "digest" stolen mental energies. If its jewel-like brain is consumed by its victim or victims before that span of time, the memories may be regained.
4 comments:
Nice monster! It would be too harsh to have some of these in a pit trap though wouldn't it? ;-)
@satyre:
Nice monster! It would be too harsh to have some of these in a pit trap though wouldn't it? ;-)
No worse than your garden-variety cobras or rattlers, I imagine -- after all, those critters have save-or-die standard bites in BEMCI ;3
Hmm.. I'm thinking about what happens if someone else eats the brain. A villain might be breeding Dreamsnakes, train them, send them out to steal memories and dreams from his enemies, and then consume the brain once the snake returns.
@The Rubberduck:
The original version of the dreamsnake worked in tandem with a type of naga that did exactly that, so it's certainly an option --
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