Kasktaur (5e Creature)
Kasktaur[edit]
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Huge beast, unaligned Armor Class 12
Skills Perception +4 Pack Tactics. The kasktaur has advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the kasktaur's allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated. ACTIONSMultiattack. The kasktaur makes two melee attacks. Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (2d4 + 4) piercing damage. Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) slashing damage.
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Largest of the Ophititanidae thescelosaurs, the kasktaur (Hylophotitan gigas "Giant forest titan") a terrestrial serpent drake and although far less heavy than a qotaur of the same length, still quite an impressive size with bulls reaching lengths of ten to twelve meters. Of the serpent drakes, it was they who were most often compared by Assembly naturalists to plateosaurus, although studies of such things as their hip configuration and later genetic studies show now they are in fact thescelosaurs that are merely convergent with the ancient sauropod ancestors. Kasktaur live in larger herds than most thescelosaurs and bulls are much more tolerant of each other outside the mating season, primarily because circling up and baring beak and claw is the only reliable defense against a zentuar for a creature with so little armor and such an exposed head and neck. Though kasktaur prefer to be high browsers, they will happily forage whatever is within range of their long necks, from shoots and reeds to occasional small mammals and birds eggs. |
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