Venomous guardian · Physical
The ground is not always the safest thing to stand on. A patient shape below it can turn certainty into a very short-lived luxury.
Reference statistics
Basic difficulty · ordinary profile before temporary states and encounter adjustments
- HP
- 116
- Armor class
- 14
- Attack
- +5
- Damage
- d6+2
- Initiative
- 23
- Strikes
- 2
Weaknesses Frost, Wind
Resistances Earth
Polymorph immunity Yes
Traits and special behavior
Two strikes. The serpent scores a critical hit on natural 18–20. Its damaging hits have a 50% base chance to apply Poison for 1 damage per personal turn, with the shared difficulty increase and cap. It is immune to Polymorph.
See the condition reference for the shared effects, and enemy tuning for difficulty-wide chance adjustments.
Statistics by difficulty
| Difficulty | HP | AC | Attack | Damage | Strikes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | 116 | 14 | +5 | d6+2 | 2 |
| Advanced | 238 | 19 | +9 | d6+5 | 2 |
| Expert | 330 | 25 | +12 | d6+6 | 2 |
| Master | 360 | 27 | +14 | d6+8 | 2 |
| Master+ | 390 | 29 | +15 | d6+11 | 2 |
Includes explicit tier overrides and the final maximum-HP multiplier. Damage is the ordinary die and bonus, before final outgoing multipliers. Rage, growth, buffs, encounter adjustments and special action damage are not baked into this table.
Current appearances
| Adventure | Location | Encounter roster |
|---|---|---|
| The Lost Dungeons | The Buried Passage | Buried Serpent × 1 |
Detailed reference
These panels retain the exact authored configuration, including unscaled base values. For tier overrides, −1 Attack or damage bonus and zero HP or strikes mean “inherit”; tier indices run from 0 (Basic) to 4 (Master+). Field values and message templates are shown as reference data, not additional rules.
Creature configuration
- Stable identifier
- buriedSerpent
- Name
- Buried Serpent
- Plate Name
- Serpent
- Role
- Venomous guardian
- HP
- 108
- Armor class
- 14
- Attack
- 5
- Damage die
- 6
- Damage bonus
- 2
- Initiative
- 23
- Artwork registry index
- 32
- Visual Scale
- 1.48
- Preserve Aspect
- Yes
- Element
- Attack Text
- {actor} lashes out at {target}.
- Strikes per action
- 2
- Critical From
- 18
- Poison Chance
- 50
- Poison Damage
- 1
- Immune to Polymorph
- Yes
- Weaknesses
- Frost
- Wind
- Resistances
- Earth
- Visual Top Padding
- 0.0131
- Visual Bottom Padding
- 0.016012
- Tier Damage Multiplier
- 0.75
- Tier Adjustments
- Tier index (0–4)
- 2
- HP
- 100
- Damage bonus
- 0
- Tier index (0–4)
- 3
- HP
- 80
- Damage bonus
- 0
- Tier index (0–4)
- 4
- HP
- 65
- Damage bonus
- 0
- Tier index (0–4)
- 0
- Attack
- 5
- Damage bonus
- 2
- HP
- 116
- Attack Sound
- combat.serpentStrike
Encounter configurations (1)
Whole encounter rewards and modifiers are shown here; they are not rewards for defeating this creature alone. Legacy fields remain visible for configuration audits.
- Stable identifier
- buriedSerpent
- Enemies
- buriedSerpent
- Gold
- 44
- Xp
- 50
- Opening
- The guardian strikes twice. Healing cures venom; Frost and Wind pierce its scales.
Artwork and presentation
- Resource
- JournalArt/Adventures/LostDungeons/Creatures/BuriedSerpent
- Registrations
- Resource
- JournalArt/Adventures/LostDungeons/Creatures/BuriedSerpent
- Height Units
- 1.8
- Body Height
- 0.970888
- Ground Y
- 0.016012
- Center X
- 0.51179
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