June 21st, 2010
Burrowing Boar
Large Animal
Hit Dice: 10d8+21 (67 hp)
Initiative: +1
Speed: 40 ft. (8 squares), burrow 10 ft. (2 squares)
Armor Class: 18 (-1 size, +8 natural, +1 dex), touch 11, flat-footed 17
Base Attack/Grapple: +8/+20
Attack: Gore +13 melee (1d8+13)
Full Attack: Gore +13 melee (1d8+13)
Space/Reach: 10 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: Ferocity
Special Qualities: Low-light vision, scent, tremorsense 60 ft.
Saves: Fort +9, Ref +7, Will +9
Abilities: Str 29, Dex 12, Con 17, Int 2, Wis 13, Cha 8
Skills: Climb +5, Listen +10, Spot +9
Feats: Alertness, Endurance, Iron Will, Die Hard
Environment: Temperate forests
Organization: Solitary or herd (5–8)
Challenge Rating: 6
Treasure: None
Alignment: Always neutral
Advancement: 11-17 HD (Huge)
Level Adjustment: -
Burrowing boars are omnivorous and spend most of their time rooting around underground, digging deep tunnels under the roots of large trees. They viciously attack anything that approaches them or disturbs their tunnels, however.
Burrowing boars grow up to 12 feet long and weigh as much as 2,000 pounds.
Combat
A burrowing boar charges its opponent, trying to rip the target open with its tusks.
Ferocity (Ex): A burrowing boar is such a tenacious combatant that it continues to fight without penalty even while disabled or dying.
Tags: animal, creature, large
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June 15th, 2010
This weightless, dull metallic ring appears in tarnished hues of gold, white gold, platinum, silver, or any other metal of the Realms. The rings occasionally contain a setting of a semi-precious stone for adornment and/or to affect improved results. The wearer receives a -5 penalty to all attempts to bluff or otherwise speak deceptively while wearing the ring. These rings are often required of politicians, merchants, children, and the accused in lands that favor honest dealings.
Often these rings are slipped onto fingers by those who wish to engage in deals with those who do not trust them. Though arguably an untrustworthy act itself, this is an effective one, analogous to employing a truth serum in this world. The weightlessness of the ring enables this application of its power.
Price: 1,500gp, Craft Wondrous Item, zone of truth.
Tags: Magic Item, ultima, virtue
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June 2nd, 2010
This plain leather belt aids the wearer’s attacks against opponents of opposite alignments. The wearer receives a +1 for each term of alignment that is opposite its opponent. Against opponents of the same alignment, the belt curses its wearer with a -2 to hit. For example, a LG wearer receives a +2 bonus against all attacks on CE opponents, and a +1 bonus against LE. The same owner would suffer a -2 penalty on all attacks against LG opponents.
Price: 5,500gp, Craft Wondrous Item.
Tags: belt, Magic Item, ultima
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May 31st, 2010
Hey, everyone!
We’ve been busy setting up some new infrastructure and typesetting material for release on rpgnow.com. As today is Memorial Day in the U.S., we’d like to further celebrate by laying to rest our old site. Be advised that the URL you should be using to access this blog is clawclawbite.com.
We’ve moved to our own self-hosted Wordpress installation, leaving the Google-hosted Blogger home we’ve been using for the last 4 years. This will give us more flexibility and control over our IP as we move forward as a collaboration between Unicorn Rampant Publishing and Inverspace Press.
Thanks, Blogger, for helping to get us off the ground. And thanks, dear readers, for your support these past four years.
Onward and upward!
Tags: announcement, news, site
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May 12th, 2010
This plain, slightly tattered clock projects the wearer’s more humble virtues. As a result, against onlookers with any sense of humility, the wearer receives a +5 on all diplomacy and bluff checks.
Wearing the cloak in scenarios that call for more formal attire will penalize these skill checks.
The minor version provides a +2 bonus, and the greater version provides a +10 bonus on the associated skill checks.
Price: 1,000gp, Craft Wondrous Item. Owners of the cloak will often require a humble deed be done before they part with the cloak as the result of a transaction.
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May 10th, 2010
Thanks everyone who sent in an entry to our April contest. We’ll post the results, including the top 3 entries soon. And, send in an entry for May’s contest, eh?
Thanks also for bearing with us as we finalize plans to migrate our site to a Wordpress installation on our own servers. There’s something downright satisfying about that.
We are also about to embark on an 8-post journey of virtuous items for any adventuring avatar. They should be fun additions to your role playing games, and bring back shades of your gaming past.
Stay tuned.
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May 1st, 2010
Thanks to all of you who submitted entries to our April contest, Dastardly Denizens. We’re happy to announce May’s contest, Awe-inspiring Items.
Write up your favorite item with a description of its origin, magical (or non-magical) effects, price, construction costs in materials, skills, and (if appropriate) time and experience. Artifacts are also welcome, as they are physical items wielded in much the same way as any other item.
“Post”mark your entries (to clawclawbite ATE gmail.com) by the end of May to be considered for the contest. Winners will appear in CCB 19 this summer.
By submitting an entry, you allow us to post the content of your entry, and reuse the entry for Claw/Claw/Bite magazine.
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April 6th, 2010
Use the month of April to create a dastardly creature, and you’ll win free copies of Claw/Claw/Bite and our inaugural issue of Tailslap. Entries are due on the last day of the month, at which point, our next contest will be announced.
Be creative. Be crazy. Enter as often as you’d like; no purchase necessary. Have fun with this. Email entries to clawclawbite@gmail.com.
Winners will be printed in CCB 18!
Entries may be printed in future issues of CCB or future collections released by Unicorn Rampant Publishing.
UPDATE (response to Comment #1): To help structure your entries, borrow a template from one of our recent creature entries, described in detail in the D20 SRD, or use the Pathfinder bestiary system, including an introduction, stat block, and a description in your entry.
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April 5th, 2010
In case you’ve wondered what we’ve been up to these past few weeks, well…
After almost 4 years working with Blogger, we’ve decided to move on to Wordpress, and will be hosting the site off our own shiny server. We expect to make this move in another few days, once the blog software is completely installed, configured, and the data migrated over. We’ll keep you posted as to when the move will be made.
Those of you using the clawclawbite.blogspot.com address, please migrate over to clawclawbite.com, which will stay with us wherever we move in the future. Consider that link the permanent home of the magazine.
Thanks again for your support…
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Burrowing Boar