Beetle, Giant Death Watch

This creature appears as a giant beetle with a dark green carapace and wing-covers. Its body is covered in leaves and sticks. Its mandibles are silver and its legs are black.

Giant Deathwatch Beetle CR 6

XP 2,400
N Medium vermin
Init +0; Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +0

hp 67 (9d8+27)
Fort +9; Ref +3; Will +3
Immune death effects, mind-affecting effects

Melee bite +11 (2d6+7)
Special Attacks death rattle

Base Atk +6; CMB +11; CMD 21 (29 vs. trip)
Skills Stealth +0 (+8 in forests); Racial Modifier +8 Stealth in forests

Environment temperate forests
Organization solitary
Treasure none

The death watch beetle makes its lair in forests and uses a mixture of saliva and earth to stick rubbish (leaves and twigs, for instance) to itself in order to attack by surprise.

The death watch beetle begins combat using its death rattle ability. Any creatures that survive are bitten by the beetle’s mandibles and devoured.

Giant Death Watch Beetle from the Tome of Horrors Complete, Copyright 2011, Necromancer Games, Inc., published and distributed by Frog God Games; Authors Scott Greene and Clark Peterson, based on original material by Gary Gygax.