Water Strider, Nymph
Description
A nymph water strider is an immature specimen of the giant water strider—more mature than a caterpillar but not yet an adult. Over the next several months it eats and molts, increasing in size with each molt until it becomes Large and is fully adult. These creatures are shy and more skittish than adults.
Lizardfolk hunt wild nymph water striders, and consider them a wonderful delicacy. Boggards and gripplis raise them as food animals, but something about the domestication process makes such nymphs unappealing to lizardfolk. In the wild they frantically flee other creatures that approach them, making them difficult to hunt or corral. Many boggard, lizardfolk, and grippli tribes consider capturing a live nymph a rite of passage to adulthood.
A nymph water strider isn't suitable as a mount for any Large or smaller creature.
Combat Stats
- Melee
- 2 claw –1 (1d3–2), bite –1 (1d2–2)
- Racial Modifiers
- +4 Perception, +4 Swim
Ability Scores
Special Qualities
water skating (see giant water strider)
Special Abilities
Special Abilities
Skills
Fly +0, Perception +4, Swim +2
- Type
- Vermin
- Alignment
- N
- Size
- Small
- Environment
- any water
- Organization
- solitary or colony (2–9)
- Treasure
- incidental
- Senses
- darkvision 60 ft., tremorsense 60 ft. (see giant water strider); Perception +4
- Source
- Bestiary 4