Lost Company Press
This colossal worm, with mucus-coated purple scales, tunnels through the earth with terrifying ease. It devours everything in its path, using its massive, gaping maw lined with rows of jagged teeth. The creature's immense size and appetite make it a natural disaster when it surfaces. Despite its name, an adult purple worm is a riot of colors due to the various soils it's consumed and absorbed into its scales over its lifetime.
Motive: Insatiable hunger, territorial dominance
Environment: Underground lairs, sometimes surfacing in desolate places (Underground)
Health: 24
Damage: 8 points
Armor: 3
Movement: Immediate when burrowing, short when on the surface
Modifications: Climbing and tunneling as level 9; Attacks and Might defense as level 9 due to size and strength
Combat: The purple worm attacks primarily by biting, but it can also slam its body into opponents for the same damage. Victims struck by the bite must make a Might defense roll. On a failure, the creature swallows the victim whole, inflicting an automatic 10 points of damage per round due to digestive acids until the victim escapes or the worm is slain. The worm can have up to two medium-sized creatures in its gullet at the same time.
Interactions: The purple worm is not intelligent and cannot be reasoned with. Its primary drive is to consume organic matter, which sometimes includes unfortunate adventurers.
Uses: A mining operation has unearthed a dormant purple worm. As it awakens, it wreaks havoc on the surrounding settlement, a danger the miners are ill-equipped to handle.
Loot: Adventurers brave enough to cut their way out of the beast—or dissect it afterward—might find precious metals and gemstones among the undigested rubble in its gullet.
GM Intrusion: As a player character narrowly avoids a bite, the ground beneath them gives way, revealing another tunnel in the worm's vast network— possibly filled with hazardous gases, or worse, more purple worms.