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Pathfinder Second Edition

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Purple Worm

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The Purple Worm is the most Common and Infamous of the cave worms, a much‑feared monster wandering the twisting tunnels of the Darklands that is capable of carving out entire cave systems. Tunnels bored by a Purple Worm don’t always last long after these creature’s passage, and areas where they nest are maddening mazes of passageways that lead nowhere, yet navigating the labyrinth to find the worm’s central nest often yields amazing treasures left behind by the worm’s prior victims.

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Purple Worm

Creature 13

NGargantuanAnimal
  • Perception20; darkvision, tremorsense (imprecise) 100 feet
  • Skills athletics 30
  • Str9Dex-1Con7Int -5Wis-1Cha-1
  • AC 32 Fort28Ref21Will21
  • HP 270
  • Inexorable The purple worm recovers from the paralyzed, slowed, and stunned conditions at the end of its turn. It’s also immune to penalties to its Speeds and the immobilized condition, and it ignores difficult terrain and greater difficult terrain.
  • Rock Tunneler A purple worm can burrow through solid stone at a Speed of 20 feet. It can leave a tunnel if it desires, and it usually does.
  • Shake It Off TriggerThe purple worm would be affected by a condition or adverse effect (such as baleful polymorph). Effect: The purple worm negates the triggering condition or effect. Effects from artifacts, deities, or a similarly powerful source can’t be avoided in this way.
  • Fast Swallow TriggerThe purple worm Grabs a creature. Effect: The worm uses Swallow Whole.
  • Speed40 feet, burrow 40 feet, swim 20 feet
  • Melee jaws 28 (deadly 2d10, reach 15 feet) Damage3d10+15 piercing plus Improved Grabstinger 28 (agile, poison, reach 15 feet) Damage2d12+15 piercing plus purple worm venombody 26 (reach 15 feet) Damage1d10+13 bludgeoning
  • Ranged regurgitate 26 (brutal, range increment 60 feet) (range 60)Damagevaries (see ability) —
  • Purple Worm Venom (poison) Saving Throw: DC 32 Fortitude, Maximum Duration: 6 rounds; Stage 1: 5d6 (5d6) poison damage and enfeebled 2 (1 round), Stage 2: 6d6 (6d6) poison damage, and enfeebled 2 (1 round); Stage 3: 8d6 (8d6) poison damage and enfeebled 2 (1 round).
  • Regurgitate The purple worm can violently regurgitate a creature or boulder it has swallowed to make a ranged Strike. The Strike deals bludgeoning damage depending on the size of the projectile: Tiny deals 2d6+13 (2d6+13), Small 3d6+13 (3d6+13), Medium 4d6+13 (4d6+13), Large 5d6+13 (5d6+13), and Huge 6d6+13 (6d6+13). A regurgitated creature takes falling damage from the height of the target or from 20 feet, whichever is greater. Boulders occupy space in the worm’s stomach as a creature of equivalent size, and purple worms often have several boulders swallowed. A purple worm can use a single action to swallow a new boulder.
  • Swallow Whole (attack) Huge, 3d6+9 (3d6+9) bludgeoning, Rupture 24. The monster attempts to swallow a creature of the listed size or smaller that it has grabbed in its jaws or mouth. If a swallowed creature is of the maximum size listed, the monster can’t use Swallow Whole again. If the creature is smaller than the maximum, the monster can usually swallow more creatures; the GM determines the maximum. The monster attempts an Athletics check opposed by the grabbed creature’s Reflex DC. If it succeeds, it swallows the creature. The monster’s mouth or jaws no longer grab a creature it has swallowed, so the monster is free to use them to Strike or Grab once again. The monster can’t attack creatures it has swallowed. A swallowed creature is grabbed, is slowed 1, and has to hold its breath or start suffocating. The swallowed creature takes the listed amount of damage when first swallowed and at the end of each of its turns while it’s swallowed. If the victim Escapes this ability’s grabbed condition, it exits through the monster’s mouth. This frees any other creature grabbed in the monster’s mouth or jaws. A swallowed creature can attack the monster that has swallowed it, but only with unarmed attacks or with weapons of light Bulk or less. The engulfing creature is flat-footed against the attack. If the monster takes piercing or slashing damage equaling or exceeding the listed Rupture value from a single attack or spell, the engulfed creature cuts itself free. A creature that gets free by either Escaping or cutting itself free can immediately breathe and exits the swallowing monster’s space. If the monster dies, a swallowed creature can be freed by creatures adjacent to the corpse if they spend a combined total of 3 actions cutting the monster open with a weapon or unarmed attack that deals piercing or slashing damage.
  • Thrash The worm makes a Strike once against each creature in its reach. It can Strike up to once with its jaws, up to once with its stinger, and any number of times with its body. Each attack counts toward the worm’s multiple attack penalty, but the multiple attack penalty doesn’t increase until after it makes all the attacks.
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