Nandibear
| Statistic | Value |
|---|---|
| Climate / Terrain | Temperate forest |
| Frequency | Very Rare |
| Organisation | Solitary |
| Activity Cycle | Afternoon / Early morning |
| Diet | Carnivore (brains) |
| Intelligence | Animal (1) |
| Treasure | R (in lair) |
| Alignment | Neutral |
| No. Appearing | 1-2 |
| Armour Class | 6 |
| Movement | 16 |
| Hit Dice | 9 |
| THAC0 | 13 |
| No. Of Attacks | 3 |
| Damage / Attack | 1-8 / 1-8 / 1-12 |
| Special Attacks | Surprise |
| Special Defences | None |
| Magic Resistance | Nil |
| Size | l (12’) |
| Morale | Elite (13-14) |
| XP Value | 5,000 |
Description
How the name cam to be applied to this terrible creature will never be known. A nandibear looks like a cross between a bear and a hunched humanoid. They have large claws and a set of razor sharp teeth, but thier most terrifying feature is their diet.
Combat
Nandibears never attack front on if possible. They prefer to wait in the shadows and surprise their opponents. They always surprise except on a natural 1 on the PC’s rolls.
In combat, the bear will attack with it’s claws and teeth, rending and biting the closest target to it. On a natural 18, the Nandibear can hug a target for an aditional 1d12 points of damage. The target is unable to move and the nandibear may make an automatic hit with it’s bite each round.
Habitat/Society
Nandibears are greatly feared in their habitats. Fortunately, they spend most of thier time sleeping in thier filty lairs. Their lairs are usually deep pits which they climb into or out of with their powerful limbs. They attack alone during the afternoon and morning while they are most hungriest, hiding in the folliage or dark shadows for a large creature to pass.
In the rare occassion when two are seen together, they are usually a mated pair. The male and female usually stay for life and have 1-4 offspring a year.
Ecology
The reason that this creature is hated so much is that their favourite food is fresh brain tissue from large creatures. Nandibears often feast on the brains of Elves, Humans and other woodland humanoids like centaurs, satyrs and dryads. They prefer to knock a victim unconscious and drag the still living body back to it’s layer where it cracks open the skull like an eggshell on a rock and feasts on the brain tissue, before devouring the rest of the body. A strange trait is that they never eat the dead, if they find a corpse, quite often they only sniff at it a bit, and bury it.
The fur of a Nandibear is quite valuable and can fetch up to 5000gp if in fairly good condition.