Giant constrictors usually fight heaped up in a loose, coiling mass the size of a haystack, but can shoot out their bodies in incredible speed, crawl and loop their way up walls and across ceilings with ridiculous speed, and if they manage to throw a loop around you, they can coil and drag you into their heaped mass of muscular loops and squeeze you to death faster than seems possible. Giant constrictor snakes can use their flickering tongues, which give them Keen Scent ability, to hunt prey even when line of sight is restricted, though they also use their normal vision and hearing to ignore the miss chances that using Keen Scent alone would give them. Watching a giant constrictor whip its mass across open ground by literally throwing massive loops of its huge body ahead and then pulling itself forward is eerily unnatural, and frankly, dangerous. They are surprisingly fast, given how large they are, easily able to chase down prey that evades their initial assault. Giant constrictor snakes are not poisonous, but don't really need to be. Like all constrictor snakes, giant constrictor snakes crush their prey to death and then swallow them whole. Their dark scales, mottled with greens, greys, browns, even black and dull red, make them hard to spot, and they are readily mistaken for logs, branches, tree stumps, mossy columns, and other terrain features. They are aggressive predators who rely on their massive size, colossal strength, and scaly hides to protect them from any prey that tries to defend itself against being eaten. If the constrictor snake fails a grapple check, the target creature is not grappled and takes no damage.ĭespite their incredible size (easily stretching ten paces long, and sometimes much bigger) giant constrictor snakes travel in packs. While in a grapple that the constrictor initiated with the Constrict ability, the constrictor snake does not suffer from any of the penalties normally associated with being in a grapple, can make attacks of opportunity (using its bite attack) against nearby enemies who provoke it, and it retains its full move speed. The constrictor snake may maintain the grapple as a swift action each round, and each round it succeeds, it continues to deal 2d8+10 points of crushing (physical, common) damage to the target, without the need for a separate attack roll.įurthermore, a constrictor snake can be engaged in a Constrict-initiated grapple with up to two medium-sized creatures simultaneously (or one large creature), dealing damage to all Constricted creatures each round with a single swift action, though it must roll to maintain the grapple once for each creature grappled. If it succeeds, the constrictor snake Grapples the target and immediately deals 2d8+10 points of crushing (physical, common) damage to the target. To do so, it makes a Maneuver Offense check (1d20 + 23 versus the target's Maneuver Defense. As a standard attack action, the constrictor snake may attempt to constrict a target within its reach.
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