Cat, Poison (Pussycat)
| Statistic | Value |
|---|---|
| Climate/Terrain | Any (usually near civilization) |
| Frequency | Rare |
| Organization | Small prides |
| Activity Cycle | Any |
| Diet | Omnivore |
| Intelligence | Semi (2-4) |
| Treasure | Nil |
| Alignment | Neutral |
| No. of Appearing | 2-8 |
| Armor Class | 5 |
| Move | 15 |
| Hit Dice | 1 |
| THAC0 | 19 |
| No. of Attacks | 3 |
| Damage/Attack | 1d3/1d3/1d2 |
| Special Attacks | Poison, jump |
| Special Defenses | None |
| Magic Resistance | Nil |
| Size | T to S |
| Morale | Average (8-10) |
| XP Value | 65 |
Description
These harmless looking creatures are sometimes kept as watch pets. They are very affectionate to their masters, and can be taught a few tricks. The main purpose of theses creatures are to surprise unsuspecting theives. Since they are cats, they have excellent night vision and love to wonder about during the evening hours. The nasty part to these animals is that both their bite and their claws attacks are poisonious. The posion is kind of slow acting so it will not be noticed until 4 rounds after the posion is in the system. There are three types of posion pussycats. The normal with the weakest poison does 1d6 points of damge, half if save is made. The next has a stronger poison tat does 1d10 points of damage or 1d4 if the opponent makes his save. Fortunately these cats are rarer than the first type. The rarest kind of posionous pussy cat with the strongest poison causes death unless save and even if the opponent does save he will receive 2d6 points of damage from the poison.
These cats can jump about 8 to 10 feet, thus getting a +3 on their surprise roll and allow them to enter into and leave a fight very quickly.
DM History
This certain creature was thought up to humble a very cocky thief, who called himself the 'cat buglar'. He claimed he could out think the DM (me) in any trick or trap that I could come up with to annoy his nightly visits to the houses of the wealthy. He broke into this one house and thought it was cute that the man was a cat lover. The cats got a few hits in on the thief (which he figured won't harm him because of his fairly high level), and was he surprised when the poison started to take effect.
I also used them on another party where the cat were wearing jewelled collars. The party figured this was an easy way to get a few gems. They were also a bit surprised at the slow acting posion. The weakest kind are my favorite to use, which have a nice affect of being dangerous, but not very deadly.