NEW MONSTER: GROUGGE

GROUGGE 

FREQUENCY: Rare

NO. APPEARING: 1-4
ARMOR CLASS: 5
MOVE: 12”
HIT DICE: 3+3
% IN LAIR: Nil
TREASURE TYPE: Nil
NO. OF ATTACKS: 2
DAMAGE/ ATTACK: 1-6/1-6
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Shock for 3-8
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Nil
MAGIC RESISTANCE: Standard
SAVE: Fighter 4
INTELLIGENCE: Semi-
ALIGNMENT: Neutral
SIZE: M (4' in diameter)
PSIONIC ABILITY: Nil
LEVEL/ X.P. VALUE: III/ 85+4/hp 

These fierce predators resemble some bastard version of scorpion and spider. The body is wide like that of a spider, but it has has six jointed legs and two cruelly barbed claws. Its color is dull gray with streaks of crimson or bright blue. 

Much like a scorpion, the grougge has a tail. This segmented member ends not with a stinger but with a glowing blue point which the creature uses to administer an electric shock. It can deliver this attack once every two melee rounds, doing 3-8 points of damage to any one target within 2”. No saving throw is possible, but the grougge needs to make a “to hit” roll. Against victims in metal armor, the attack is at +4.