NEW MONSTER: VEGETABLE MAN

VEGETABLE MAN

FREQUENCY: Very rare

NO. APPEARING: See below

ARMOR CLASS: 10

MOVE: 12”

HIT DICE: 1

% IN LAIR: 100%

TREASURE TYPE: Nil

NO. OF ATTACKS: 1

DAMAGE/ ATTACK: By weapon

SPECIAL ATTACKS: Nil

SPECIAL DEFENSES: See below

MAGIC RESISTANCE: Standard

SAVE: Fighter 1

INTELLIGENCE: Semi- to low

MORALE: 50%

ALIGNMENT: Neutral

SIZE: M

PSIONIC ABILITY: Nil

LEVEL/ X.P. VALUE: I/ 10+1/hp

Vegetable men are humans, demi-humans, or humanoids who have been magically changed by Wandra Triskelion into plant life forms. They do not have to be vegetable, as they can also be a fruit type, and they do not have to have started as men, although as plant beings they lack gender.

The curse that Wandra uses allows a saving throw vs spells. If the saving throw is failed, then the new vegetable man must make another saving throw vs spells. If this roll is also failed then the vegetable man is a now a loyal slave of Wandra, as if powerfully charmed, even willing to fight former friends or perform awful actions for her.

Upon being turned into a vegetable man, the victim retains class abilities, hit points, etc. The statistics given above are for normal humans, demi-humans, or humanoids or 1 or less hit die who have been turned into vegetable men. Vegetable men must reroll their intelligence score using a 1d4+2. Alignment changes to neutral while they remain a vegetable man, but alignment and intelligence revert to normal if they are cured (such as by the application of a remove curse spell). Vegetable men are not intelligent enough to cast spells.

Vegetable men take half damage from cold attacks, although when faced by such an attack form they must save vs spells of fall unconscious for 1-6 turns. They are immune to spells that affect the mind, such as sleep, charm person, or hold person, but are affected by spells that affect plants, such as hold plant.

The following types of vegetable men are among those that have been encountered: apple, asparagus, broccoli, carrot, grapefruit, potato, spinach, tomato, and turnip.