ALGOID

Chaotic Neutral Man-sized Plant (5-ft, 150-lbs)

FREQUENCY: Very rare

NO. APPEARING: 1-6

SURPRISE: 33%

SENSES: plant senses

ARMOR CLASS: 5

MOVE: 6"

HIT DICE: 5 (hp 23)

% IN LAIR: 20%

TREASURE TYPE: D (x½)

THAC0: 15

MELEE: 2 slams (1d10 each)

SPECIAL ATTACKS: animate plant - Hits As: +1

SPECIAL DEFENSES: amorphous, plant traits, immune to fire-electricity, immune to psionic attacks, DR/bludgeoning, DR/+2 (half)

WEAKNESS: vulnerability to part water or lower water (d6/CL)

MAGIC RESISTANCE: Standard

INTELLIGENCE: Semi-

MORALE: +20%

SAVES: Poison 11, Petrify 12, Wand 13, Breath 13, Spell 14

PSIONIC ABILITY: 100 + 1d20 - Attack/Defense: A/-

LEVEL: V (XP 280 + 5 per hp)

This creature appears as a green humanoid with coarse, rough features.

Its appearance is misleading, however — it is in fact a colony of algae which, assembled in this form, has developed some mobility and a rudimentary intelligence. Its form is only of a temporary nature.

It attacks otherwise with its powerful fists each of which can inflict 1-10 hit points of damage.

It is immune to psionic attacks but can deliver one mind blast per day.

Campaign Rule. Each algoid can attack non-psionic targets using a psionic blast once per day (as the attack uses 20 psionic attack points and the attack requires 100+ attack points to attack a non-psionic).

The algoid has control over certain types of trees, similar to the control exerted over trees by the treant. The types of tree over which the algoid has control are those which will be found near its normal habitat (swamp, lakeside pasture—at all events close to water of some kind whether stagnant or otherwise); thus it will be able to control two willows, water-oaks, cypresses or other similar varieties of tree. Trees thus controlled move at 3" rate and strike with two attacks per round for 1-10 hit points of damage each.

Campaign Rule. If there are no trees but only vines in the area, the algoid can animate two vines as per the vines of a choke creeper once per day.Each strangle vine (AC 6, HD 5, hp 2, MV 1", THAC0 15, Melee constrict (1d4), Save 13/14/15/16/16, AL N, Int Non-, SA constrict, strangle) is 9-ft long and does 1d4 constriction damage per round to a creature grabbed. There is a 10% chance (non-cumulative) per round that the victim will be strangled. If so, the victim loses consciousness at the end of the next round when a vine strangles. The victim then asphyxiates for 3d6 segments before death occurs. See Breathing.

Edged weapons will pass through an algoid without doing any damage, unless they have a magical bonus of +2 or better in which case they inflict half normal damage. Blunt weapons—magical or otherwise—will do full damage.

Despite their immunity to certain forms of magical attack (fireball, lightning) algoids are particularly vulnerable to part water and lower water spells, each of which inflict 1-6 hit points of damage per experience level of the spell caster.

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