Beetle, Giant Fire

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Giant fire beetles are huge, being 18 to 30 inches long, and have shiny black carapaces. Each has a pair of glowing red organs located just below their eyes which illuminate a radius of 10 feet around the creature. These glands continue to glow for 1d6 days after one is killed, and may be removed and used for illumination by any adventurers not too squeamish to do so. They are normally timid but will fight if cornered. Like most beetles, they have more or less the same visual acuity in all directions, and thus those who attack them from behind receive no bonus to do so.

Armor Class

Hit Dice

1+2

Attack Bonus

—

Move

40'

Attacks

1 bite

Damage

2d4 bite

No. Appearing

1d8, Wild 2d6, Lair 2d6

Save As

Fighter: 1

Morale

Treasure Type

None

Roll attacks — tap to roll

bite

Source: Core • Extracted from your PDFs, no hallucination.