Gargouille

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The gargouille is a sea dragon resembling a prehistoric
mosasaur (such as the Tylosaurus of Cretaceous seas). It is one
of the most terrible of all aquatic monsters. Although it can
travel slowly on land, it is still a terror to coastal communities
==Combat==
The gargouille has one of two attack forms in melee
combat: a tail slap that causes 2-20 hp damage or a bite with its
huge jaws that inflicts 3-30 hp damage. It can also swallow
whole any creature of Size L or smaller on an attack roll of 19+.
Each round after being swallowed, a victim suffers 1-6 hp
digestive damage from the monster's stomach acid.
What makes the gargouille so famous is that it is a waterbreathing dragon. 
Specifically, the gargouille can magically
generate water inside its body and spout a cone-shaped water
attack 10 feet wide at the base and 50 feet wide at the end of the
100' stream. This water causes 5-50 hp damage (victims who
save vs. breath weapon suffer only half) and knocks creatures
of Size H and smaller off their feet unless they make another
successful save vs. breath weapon (with a -2 penalty). A single
round's application of this water weapon is enough to capsize
small craft such as rafts, canoes, and small sailing vessels and
galleys such as the cog. Two rounds of uninterrupted jetting,
and even a full-sized galleon sinks. Two rounds of this breath
weapon on land effectively floods an acre of ground into uselessness. Afterward, of course, the gargouille feasts the bodies
of all the people and animals that have been drowned. It is also
immune to all water-based attacks.
==Habitat/Society==
Gargouilles are solitary animals, much like
conventional dragons. In part, this is because not even those
areas most teeming with life can support the appetites of two
or more of these enormous beasts. After a brief mating
encounter, male and female separate, the female laying her
eggs inside an underwater cave or on some distant shore. She
leaves the eggs after burying them, but she buries them so well
that most PC parties have absolutely no chance of finding
them. (The mining proficiency is needed to find where the
excavation was made and then covered up.) 
These eggs take
four months to hatch, and the young are able to take care of
themselves immediately after birth. Although gargouilles do
not actually use the wealth they glean from flooded towns and
sunken ships, they like to keep it - and the ships themselves - 
as trophies to remind all living things (including each other) of
their hunting prowess.
==Ecology==
The gargouille is a voracious monster that will eat any
living thing, attacking dragon turtles, whales, and even giant
whales if no other prey is available. Even the huge kraken
know better than to challenge a gargouille in its own territory.
Gargouilles live only in those marine and coastal areas teeming
with fish and other prey. When they cannot find them, they
must migrate in search of food, abandoning their lairs. This
voracity is the key to their fearless nature.
On rare occasions, gargouilles band together to create largescale floods by combining their breath weapon attacks. It is still
uncertain whether they do so to improve their hunting or for
some other reason.
After a gargouille is slain, anyone who cuts it open discovers
a sac the size of an elephant's stomach, filled with magical
water. Filling a jug or bowl with this water can be an important
part of the process of creating magical items such as an alchemy
jug, a beaker of plentiful potions, a decanter of endless water, or a
bowl commanding water elementals, while using this water as an
ingredient enhances oneís chances of success when creating
any type of magical potion (base chance is increased to 80%).
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