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IX Mythos Bestiary dhole: this generally requires a successful DC 30 Climb check, and unlike the normal rules above about dholes and attacks of opportunity, a Small or larger creature that climbs on a dhole’s body provokes an attack of opportunity from the monster (typically a slam attack) Overwhelming Strength (Ex) A dhole always applies 1-1/2 times its Strength modifier on all natural weapon attacks Tremor (Ex) Each round in which a dhole uses its burrow speed to travel at least 50 feet, it affects the area through which it burrows as if by an earthquake spell (a dhole that moves slower than this still causes the ground to rumble, but not significantly enough to emulate an earthquake) This earthquake affects an area equal to the space the dhole moved through and to a 60 foot-radius around that area “Below him the ground was festering with gigantic dholes; and even as he looked, one reared up several hundred feet…” —Through the Gates of the Silver Key; H P Lovecraft Dholes are enormous maggot-like beings which literally Dholes can survive in the magma deep under the hollow out entire worlds, ultimately destroying them world and in the iron core of planets They cool off The inhabitants of worlds infested by dholes typically this core as they burrow, weakening the planet and focus largely on spells and anti-dhole tactics in an eventually causing the core to solidify The dholes effort to slow their worlds’ destruction Almost always, generate huge tunnels and earthquakes as they burrow, this effort ultimately fails, though dogged defense causing amazing destruction that should terrify any can often hold off a world’s fate for centuries or even mortal millennia Truly gigantic, dholes can grow up to miles in length and weigh hundreds of thousands or millions of tons Even the Great Old Ones think twice before meddling with these supreme worms Dhole reproduction follows a bizarre generationalternation method, which is how they travel from planet to planet When a dhole gives birth, its new larva does not appear in the material plane; instead, it emerges in the Dreamlands as a bhole hatchling This creature lives and grows in the Dreamlands until it Dholes in Combat Dholes are unfazed by extreme temperatures and are not harmed by the strongest poisons or acid They can burrow through the earth at an incredible speed, creating an environmental hazard as much as presenting a combat challenge They prefer to spit on smaller foes from miles away or simply roll over them, reserving bites and grappling for enemies of comparable size to themselves becomes an adult bhole At that point, it gives birth to a cluster of larvae in the material universe, typically at the heart of a planet or in an area already infested by dholes, to assist in finishing off a world they have invaded These offspring are dhole hatchlings The terrifying reality of this method of reproduction is that there is no way to prevent dholes from attacking a given world They don’t travel to it from space: they simply appear within it, at the whim of a monstrous Dreamlands creature 321
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