Giant Lizard / Fire Lizard
- Habitat
- Warm marshes, tropical hills, caves and deep tunnels
- Biomes
- trop-seasonal, +wetland, +underground
- Spawn
- solo, day
- Temper
- Aggressive ambush predator
- Threat
- High
- Rarity
- Uncommon–Very Rare
- Move
- run.
- Special
- A solid bite traps the victim in its jaws, grinding for heavy repeating damage until it breaks free
| Variant | STR | DEX | CON | INT | Health | Damage | Armor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fire | 35 | 3 | 32 | 2 | 459 | 113 | 28 |
| Giant | 15 | 11 | 14 | 1 | 132 | 28 | 20 |
A family of monstrous reptiles far larger than any natural lizard. The common giant kind sprawls through swamps as a lazy, indiscriminate eater that swallows anything edible. Horned cousins prowl tropical highlands, ambushing from cover with raking claws and crushing jaws. The cave-dwelling sort scuttles up sheer walls and ceilings on suction-padded feet and lashes out a long sticky tongue to drag prey into its mouth. Rarest and deadliest is the fire lizard, a gray, red-mottled brute resembling a wingless dragon that exhales a searing cone of flame and shrugs off heat entirely. All are tough-hided, slow-witted and ravenous, making them dangerous lair-guardians and prized for their armoured skins.
Behavior
- Ambushes from water, undergrowth or shadow with a sudden lunge.
- Clamps prey in its jaws and grinds it for steady damage until it stops struggling.
- Cave-dwellers cling to walls and ceilings and strike with a snaring tongue.
- Fire lizards hoard shiny metal and gems, raiding every fortnight then digesting in their dens.
- Mostly solitary, though swamps may hold whole broods from egg to elder.
Abilities
- Crushing Grip. A bite that locks on and inflicts heavy, repeating damage.
- Fire Breath. The fire lizard's cone of flame; it is itself immune to heat and fire.
- Wall Crawl. Cave kin scale vertical stone and hang from ceilings.
- Snaring Tongue. A long whip-tongue that seizes and reels in lighter prey.
Drops & Crafting
- Thick scaled hide (heavy armour leather)
- Curved claws and fangs
- Fire-lizard fat rendered into flame-resistant oil
- Large clutch eggs (valuable, edible)
- Abundant reptile meat
- Hoarded gems and scrap metal from a fire-lizard den