Rolling Cabbage | Monster / NPC | Pathfinder 1e | Statblocks & Sheets | World Anvil

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CR 3

Rolling Cabbage

N M Plant, carnivorous
Initiative: -3 Senses: blindsense 60 ft., bloodsense 60 ft.; Perception +0

What a completely harmless yet unusual variety of cabbage!

Defense

AC: 15, touch 7, flat-footed 15 (-3 Dex, +8 natural)
HP: 30 4d8+12
Fortitude: +7 Reflex: -2 Will: +1
Defensive Abilities: can't be tripped Immune: all mind-affecting effects (charms, compulsions, morale effects, patterns, and phantasms), paralysis, poison, polymorph, sleep, and stun Weaknesses: Fire

Offense

Speed: 5 ft
Melee: 6 vine leaves +4 , damage is 1d6+1
Special Attacks:

Bloodsense (Ex)

A Rolling Cabbage can detect any living creature that has blood in its body to a range of 60 feet by scent.

 

Smother (Ex)

By making a successful grapple check (with a +2 bonus for every vine-leaf attached to a foe at the beginning of its turn), a rolling cabbage can cover a grappled opponent’s nose and mouth. An opponent caught in this way must hold its breath or begin suffocating. A vineleaf attached in this way does not drain blood.

Statistics

Str 12, Dex 5, Con 16, Int –, Wis 10, Cha 10
Base Attack: +3 CMB: +4 or +8 to grapple CMD: 11

Ecology

Environment: temperate forests, or the farms of Purgatory Gulch
Treasure: solitary, patch (2-5), or bed (6-10)

While still young, the blood-sucking cabbage appears to be a wild cabbage with six green outer leaves and assorted magenta inner leaves. It may be well-rooted in the ground. Or it may be uprooted in a mild breeze, whereupon it will roll across the grassland.
Eventually it will lodge against something ... suitable.

In its feeding phase, rows of tiny thorns like shark's teeth unfold from the lowest edges of the green leaves. Tightly coiled runner vines whip outward to latch onto the warm food source. A creature looking closely (within five feet or less) at the runner vines may notice that the vines are translucent; blood seems to course through them once they are fully unfurled. Four of the green leaves latch onto their prey, while the fifth and sixth reach up to stifle any carbon dioxide sources such as mouths or nostrils, or else stabilize the cabbage's position on the nearest inert surface.

No one has yet reported what a rolling cabbage looks like once it is full-grown



see also Jupiter Bloodsucker writeup on d20 Pathfinder SRD   Rolling cabbage, also known as "Blood-sucking cabbage", are a phenomenon local to the Oatman Canyon area. For plot reasons they are particularly attracted to the scent of freshly heated salt, garlic, and rosemary, all smoked over pecan wood.


Created by

Jarissa.

System

Pathfinder 1e

Statblock Type

Monster / NPC

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