Hog Sloth (5e Creature)
Hog Sloth[edit]
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Medium beast, unaligned Armor Class 16 (natural armor)
Skills Perception +6 Bear Hug. The sloth has advantage on Strength (Athletics) checks made to initiate a grapple. Fossorial. The sloth has advantage on Strength (Athletics) checks made to dig. Keen Smell. The sloth has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell. Thick Skin. If a melee attack deals 15 damage or less to the sloth, it is reduced to 1. Ultraviolet Dampened. Creatures with Keen Sight roll Wisdom (Perception) checks made to see a sloth with disadvantage and the sloth has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide from them. ACTIONSMultiattack. The sloth makes three attacks: one with its bite and two with its claws. Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage. Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d4 + 2) slashing damage.
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Although Vulgarocnus got the name "common sloth," the Known World has many smaller mylodonts more deserving of that title given their greater population, such as the hog sloth (Susocnus cleptacellarium "cellar stealing pig sloth"). Like hukolgur, hog sloths are proficient burrowers with both sexes digging complex burrows and, although aardvarks can dig faster in loose soil, hog sloths can reliably dig in much stronger soil for hours without tiring. In addition to this, they also have the strongest noses of any sloth, or any xenarthran period. This combination of traits makes them exceptional at getting into cellars, pantries, and storehouses, at which point they gorge themselves before departing hopefully undetected. An entire breed of dog, the sloth hound, has been bred to keep them out of settlements, although with the thickest dermal armor of any sloth in Kaimere they can be dangerous when cornered and therefore the dogs are really trained to engage. Fortunately, hog sloths are skittish and looking for an easy meal rather than a fight. Despite this habit and the fact they can do similar damage to crops, often the very people who despise them owe to hog sloths the fact they have crop yielding soil at all, particularly those who live in titan gardens, as their digging tills the soil thus promoting floral biodiversity. Variant: Mountain Hog SlothAlthough hog sloths once had several genera, it seems most of these went extinct at the end of the Anchored Period, leaving the niche open for Susocnus to dominate. One exception however does exist: Feocnus philoros, the mountain hog sloth. These are found in the mountains of the Crescent, though they are more common in the eastern mountains. They are excellent climbers, able to traverse near vertical surfaces and often make much homes in much taller spaces than any sloth species. Though they are closer to Susocnus than they are to others, their flexibility and longer limbs make them stand apart from their more common cousins. They are a menace to mountain birds and dinosaurs due to to their fondness for eggs. A mountain hog sloth has a climbing speed of 25 ft. and the following trait:
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