Carnivorous Flora Patch

Senses: Senses pressure and warmth of creatures inside or adjacent to the patch

Looks Like Cover. The patch reads as ordinary vegetation and attractive cover. Identifying it before entry requires a Fieldcraft or Awareness check DC 13. Fire and blade damage make sections recoil and release restrained creatures on 10 or more damage in a round.

Rooted Patience. The patch cannot move or pursue; everything it will ever eat comes to it, which on this world is a sound strategy. It occupies a 20-foot zone of the battlefield.

Snare Vines. Melee Attack: +5 to hit, reach 10 ft., one creature entering or fighting inside the patch. Hit: 1d6 + 3 bludgeoning damage and the target makes a Strength Save DC 12 or is Grappled among the fronds (escape Strength check DC 12).

Constrict and Digest. Each creature Grappled by the patch takes 2d6 + 2 bludgeoning damage plus 1d6 toxic damage as digestive sap commits to the meal.

Pollen Haze. The patch releases soporific spores in a 15-foot cloud. Each creature in the cloud makes a Toughness Save DC 12 or is sluggish, taking Disadvantage on checks to escape the patch until the end of its next turn.

Morale: None; it is a plant. Sustained fire or blade damage makes sections recoil and release, which is the closest it comes to a decision.

Tactics: Place the patch where tactics want the party to be: the obvious cover, the flanking route, the shade by the water. It converts a firefight into a rescue problem the moment someone dives into the wrong greenery. Fire clears it decisively — with everything a fire in dense flora implies.

Loot / Evidence / Hooks: The digestive pods preserve the gear of prior meals remarkably well, and its sap distills into a paralytic that underhive chem-dealers pay for in ammunition.

A Carnivorous Flora Patch is a stand of vegetation that has opinions about visitors: adhesive fronds, constricting vines, and digestive pods dressed as scenery. It does not hunt; it waits where the path was always going to be.

Use this hazard to make a route, objective, or firefight position quietly treacherous — terrain that files a claim on whoever enters.

Hazard-class threat, stationary, grapple and restraint attacks, slow digestion damage, punishes the careless and the Pinned, vulnerable to fire and blades.

Looks Like Cover. The patch reads as ordinary vegetation and attractive cover; identifying it first requires a Fieldcraft or Awareness check.

Rooted Patience. It cannot move or pursue; everything it will ever eat comes to it, which on this world is a sound strategy.

Snare Vines. Grabs creatures entering or fighting inside the patch: Strength Save or restrained among the fronds.

Constrict and Digest. Restrained victims take crushing and acid damage each round as the patch commits to the meal.

Pollen Haze. Releases soporific spores in a small cloud: Toughness Save or sluggish, with Disadvantage on escape attempts.

Morale: None; it is a plant. Sustained fire or blade damage makes sections recoil and release, which is the closest it comes to a decision.

Tactics: Place the patch where tactics want the party to be: the obvious cover, the flanking route, the shade by the water. In combat it converts a firefight into a rescue problem the moment someone dives into the wrong greenery. Fire clears it decisively — with everything a fire in dense flora implies.

Full Stat Block Priority: Low