Acidriad

Acidriads are vermiform (worm-shaped) creatures that melt down foods with acid, gaining abilities based on what they eat (see below). A typical acidriad is four to six feet long (SM+0) and has a disturbingly human-like face. Acidriads can emulate human speech, although they scarcely understand what they're saying.
== Hunting Patterns ==
Acidriads emulate the sounds of animals around them, usually hunting in pairs. Since they do not consume prey whole (like snakes), they can share whatever creature they manage to take down. Acidriads are technically omnivorous, but vary wildly depending on their diet. Vegetarian acidsshorthand for acidriads, as this writer feels they need a nickname can be compact, slow, and lazy as cows, while predatory acids are stealthy and vicious. Some acidriads even consume garbage, and can grow to immense size if positioned in an ideal spot, like a landfill.
== Varying Diets ==
It is unknown what determines an acidriad's diet, as they seem to be "locked" into one type of diet or another. A steel-and-glass-eating Landfill Acid seems unable or unwilling to consume meat or vegetables, for instance. These dietary variants also produce some rather striking variations on their acid attack.
Diet 	Description 	Alteration to Acid Attack
(Baseline) 	The original acid attack. Very corrosive. 	2d corrosion. Acidriads can only spit around three times a day. A clever acidriad who misses a shot is likely to simply retreat and find another opportunity to attack. Bites can inflict 1d corrosion as well, although it seldom wastes acid on a seemingly-dead opponent.
 	 	
Vegetarian 	Algae, leaves, seaweed, etcetera. These acidriads have little need to attack adventurers, but larger ones may be quite territorial. 	Anyone damaged by the acid attack also must roll HT-4 per minute, taking 1d-1 toxic damage on a failure. This ends after 10 cycles (10 minutes), on a successful HT roll, or if the target gets an antivenom.
Carnivorous 	Carnivorous acidriads already tend to be dangerous from their tendency to attack creatures made of meat (i.e. most adventurers). 	Inflicts Bad Smell for 1d hours. The least bad effect for the most dangerous acidriad.
Garbage 	Through some arcane process, this animal consumes cardboard, rubber, plastic, metals and glass. The final product seems to give the acid attack a hydrocarbon blend--i.e. it's highly flammable.	Acid attack is highly flammable--a single point of Burn can set it off, doing 1d-1 burning for several seconds!
Modern, packaged food	Preservatives, artificial flavors, chemical additives. In reality, these are just like any other edible material, but to an acidriad, they create a powerful binding attack! 	Acid jet gets a linked Binding attack, with ST equal to twice the damage rolled. (Average
== Pronunciation ==
There is no pronunciation guide, so this creature may be "ac-id-RYE-add" or "a-SID-rye-add".
== References ==
* Creatures of the Night, Vol. 4, p.3-4
Category:Monsters