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A Colony Crab may appear, on first glance, to be a large (4' to 6' long) stony shellfish with huge pincers and a blindly aggressive disposition. A successful Per roll reveals that its form is curiously jagged and blocky, like a crude sculpture (or a creature constructed out of Lego blocks, if a delver has ever seen a Lego block).

A Colony Crab is not, in fact, a single creature. It is a crab-shaped amalgamation of hundreds of stony-headed fish called Colony Trout. When nutrition becomes scarce in the underground lakes which they frequent, the fish come together and form themselves into Colony Crabs in order to hunt for prey on land. Each fish's head, facing outward, becomes part of the armored integument, and their tails intertwine to provide what is effectively solid muscle fiber.

Colony Crabs are notorious (in locales where they are found) for both their strength and resilience, and their poor taste. Worse than ground sloth, if you can believe it.

Key stats

ST 16 (4' crabs) to 24 (6' crabs) DX 13 IQ 1 (Per 8) HT 13 (4' crabs) to 12 (6' crabs) DR 5 Dmg. thr +3 cut Injury Tolerance: Diffuse Extra Attack 1 Blind Brawling (15) Blind-fighting (11)

A failed death check represents a failure of the aggregate nervous system. Individual Colony Trout may still be alive and wriggling, but the Colony Crab itself disintegrates into a mass of slippery fish bodies.

Creator: sjmdw45