# Lucent Worm >[!rimg]+ > ![[Placeholder2.png]] > >[!debug]+ <div class="grid-container"><div class="MON">Lucent Worm</div> <div class="CR">CR 17 (102,400 XP)</div> <div class="SOU">Fiend Folio pg. 118</div> <div class="SYS">Dungeons & Dragons 3.5</div></div> N Gargantuan Magical Beast **Init** +3 **Senses** darkvision 60 ft., tremorsense 60 ft., low-light vision; **Perception** +13 #### defense **AC** 23, 5 touch, 24 flat-footed (-1 Dex, +18 natural, -4 size) **hp** 275 (22d10+154) **Fort** +20, **Refl** +12, **Will** +8 **Feint** 31, **Demoralize** 31 **DR** 15/magic and piercing or slashing #### offense **Speed** 40 ft., burrow 30 ft., swim 30 ft. **Melee** bite +31 (3d6+12/19-20 plus grab and paralysis) **Special Attacks** crush (DC 28, 6d6+18), swallow whole (3d6+12 plus 2d4 acid, AC 19, 27 hp) #### statistics **Str** 34, **Dex** 9, **Con** 24, **Int** 10, **Wis** 8, **Cha** 1 **BAB** +22, **CMB** +32, **CMD** 41, **TA** +30, **RTA** +17 **Feats** [[Blind-fight]], [[Cleave]], [[Combat Reflexes]], [[Great Cleave]], [[Improved Critical]] (bite), [[Improved Initiative]], [[Improved Vital Strike]], [[Iron Will]], [[Power Attack]], [[Vital Strike]], [[Weapon Focus]] (bite) **Skills** Perception +13, Stealth +15, Swim +45 **Racial Modifier** +8 Stealth **Languages** Aklo #### Special Abilities ### Paralysis (Ex) Any creature hit by a lucent worm’s bite or crush attack must succeed on a DC 28 Fortitude save or be paralyzed for 4 rounds. The save DC is Constitution-based. #### ecology **Terrain** Any aquatic, mountain, or underground **Organization** Solitary **Treasure** Standard **Advancement** 23–32 HD (Gargantuan); 33–55 HD (Colossal) Those who encounter a lucent worm often do so before they know the creature is near. Although massive in size, a lucent worm is adept at hiding itself. This, combined with its versa-tile means of locomotion, ensures that the lucent worm rarely goes hungry. An adult lucent worm measures 5 feet in diameter and almost 100 feet long, weighing in at 55,000 to 60,000 pounds. A worm’s skin is almost completely translucent—enabling observers to see its internal organs and whatever the creature had as a recent meal—and covered with millions of tiny hairlike cilia that provide the worm with a means of movement. Its mouth bristles with dozens of sharp teeth. A lucent worm requires a massive amount of food to maintain its weight, so it is always on the lookout for more sustenance. Its digestive system can assimilate only organic matter, however, so small objects often get trapped in its gizzard, while larger indigestible materials are left behind as waste. ### Combat When confronted with prey, which is any living creature, a lucent worm attacks with its bite using vital strike. If confronted with multiple foes, it typically attempts a crush attack before engaging remaining opponents with its bite.