Archer Bush

This creature looks like a small mound of brownish-green leaves. From its trunk sprout several thick branches, each covered sparsely with leaves, and each sporting rows of needle-like thorns. The leaves have small pale buds of gold and purple.

Archer Bush CR 2

XP 600
N Small plant
Init +0; Senses tremorsense 60 ft.; Perception +0

hp 21 (3d8+9)
Fort +6; Ref +1; Will +1
Immune plant traits

Ranged thorns +4 (1d8)

Base Atk +2; CMB +1; CMD 11 (can’t be tripped)
Feats Skill Focus (Stealth), Weapon Focus (thorns)
Skills Stealth +13

Environment underground
Organization solitary, patch (4–8), or colony (11-20)
Treasure none

The archer bush is a subterranean, semi-mobile plant that gains sustenance from the blood of living creatures. Hidden beneath its trunk is the archer bush’s mouth, which appears to be nothing more than a dark recess or cavity.

Archer Bush from the Tome of Horrors Complete, Copyright 2011, Necromancer Games, Inc., published and distributed by Frog God Games; Author Scott Greene, based on original material by Jean Wells.