Shocker Lizards


Shocker lizards are magical beasts.

Magical beasts are similar to animals but can be more intelligent (in which case the magical beast knows at least one language, but can’t necessarily speak). Magical beasts usually have supernatural or extraordinary abilities, but are sometimes merely bizarre in appearance or habits.

Magical beasts have darkvision.

Magical beasts have low-light vision.

Magical beasts breathe, eat, and sleep.

A shocker lizard has a pale yellow underside, with bright green scales elsewhere on its 3-foot-long body, and weighs about 25 pounds. Shocker lizards tend toward group living, as their electrical abilities grow in power when they are close to another lizard.

Shocker lizards can deliver an electrical shock to a single opponent next to them. This attack deals nonlethal electricity damage to living opponents. Additionally, if two or more shocker lizards are close to each other, they can work together to create a lethal shock. This effect can be centered on any one contributing lizard. All creatures within range take lethal electricity damage dependent on how many lizards contribute to the shock.

A shocker lizard colony is usually located near a source of water. Once the colony has settled on a location, the lizards become very territorial and attack anything that intrudes on them. A solitary shocker lizard is a timid and hesitant creature – but when several of them gather they become formidable and fearsome opponents capable of killing creatures several times their own size.

They are immune to electricity.

A shocker lizard relies on its electricity abilities in combat, and a lizard tends to bite only after its shock has rendered an opponent unconscious, or when the shock seems to have no effect at all. A solitary lizard flees after it delivers its shocks, but if other shocker lizards are nearby, they all hone in on their comrade’s discharges and attempt to administer lethal shocks to their foe.

Shocker lizards automatically detect any electrical discharges near them.

Many have attempted to capture and tame shocker lizards, but this often proves a difficult and painful task. Alone and in captivity, shocker lizards tend to wither and die swiftly unless their keepers spend a lot of time grooming and playing with the lizards to keep them company. Kept in pairs or larger numbers, captive shocker lizards thrive, but their increasing electrical ability makes them more difficult to manage for keepers who aren’t themselves immune to electricity.

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