Planar Bestiary
An anokapsik is an enormous fiendish predator of the Abyss that terrorizes all creatures in their territory. They're similar in shape to a Material Plane Tyrannosaurus rex, but with armored plates, spiked joints, extra eyes on their body, and erratic tufts of hair, feathers, or fingerlike tendrils.
An anokapsik hunts by chasing down any live prey that is smaller than themself (whether beast, demon, or other strange creature of the Abyss) but is just as willing to devour carrion, gigantic bones, or anything vaguely digestible (including fleshy animate portions of their plane).
The ferocity and strength of anokapsiks make them appealing as pets for demon lords, fiendish generals, and other powerful entities of the Abyss. These semi-tamed creatures are often modified so their attacks inflict additional acid or poison damage, but sometimes their master imbues them with an unusual ability such as flight, a breath weapon, or teleportation.
Anokapsiks have been known to cannibalize their own mates and young when food is scarce.
Motive: Hungers for flesh
Environment: The Lower Planes, usually solitary or in small groups serving as demonic cavalry
Health: 53
Damage Inflicted: Major wound (11 points)
Armor: 1
Movement: Short
Modifications: Speed defense as level 5 due to size; resists fear as level 10
Combat: An anokapsik attacks twice each round, once with their bite and once with their tail. The tail attack inflicts a moderate wound (6 points) plus 3 points of damage from acid, lighting, or other exotic energy.
A bite victim takes damage and—if human-sized or smaller—must succeed on a Might defense task or be held unable to move in the anokapsik's mouth until the victim can escape or is swallowed. The held target's Speed defense tasks are hindered.
If the anokapsik begins their turn holding a victim in their mouth, the demon probably swallows the target. A swallowed target takes 10 points of damage each round from the digestion process. The swallowed creature is blinded and hindered but can attack from within if wielding a weapon. If the anokapsik takes 8 points of damage or more on a single turn from the swallowed creature, they regurgitate the victim, which falls prone in front of the demon. If the anokapsik dies, a swallowed creature can also wiggle free.
The Anokapsik is immune to damage from poison.
Interaction: Anokapsiks are savage, ferocious demons, always hungry and, except for those that are tamed by other demons, seize any opportunity to eat.
Use: Foes the PCs hope to overcome have made a deal with demons of the Abyss, gaining a small force of anokapsik cavalry for their trouble.
Loot: Anokapsiks swallow victims whole, equipment and all. Sometimes valuables can still be found after the digestion process is complete.
GM Intrusion: The anokapsik swallows a target they hold in their mouth, or tosses the victim off a cliff, through a portal, into lava, and so on.