This might be because the original illustrations tended to be black and white, so the initial coloration didn't stick as clearly in a typical reader's memory. Many early D&D creatures suffered from wildly varying color schemes between editions. A flumph has a movement speed of 6” (human walking speed) and maneuverability class of “D” (not great, similar to a sphinx). Magic is required to stop the ongoing acid damage, as there is no alchemical counter.
Its spike attack does 1d8 damage plus 1d4 point of acid damage for 2d4 rounds. A flumph has an armor class of 0 (on the top) or 8 (for its underside), and 2 hit dice. They are of average intelligence, and of lawful good alignment, but they can communicate only with severely limited vocabulary in the lawful good alignment tongue. So strong is this smell that none of the target's companions will be able to tolerate his or her presence closer than a hundred feet for a few hours after the dousing.įrom the stat block, we can also glean that flumphs are social creatures, appearing in groups of 2-16. This preferred attack is a squirt of vile-smelling liquid sprayed on everyone up to twenty feet away, within a sixty degree arc. One reason it might have to do this is to execute its secondary attack, which is to drop sharp-side down on a target, pierce the target's skin with its spikes, and then squirt acid into the wounds from its tiny tentacles.Īn embattled flumph only resorts to this complicated spike and spray manoeuvre if its preferred attack fails. Using this form of locomotion, it typically flies along only a few inches above the ground, but it is capable of rising up to ten feet in the air if it needs to. There is also an aperture on the flumph's equator which can be used to expel liquid.Ī flumph flies by sucking in air through its mouth and expelling it from its underside. The softer, more vulnerable underside carries a mixture of small spikes and many short tentacles. The upper surface has a large "mouth" in the centre, and a four-inch eyestalk on each side. Flumphs are saucer-shaped, about two feet in diameter. The initial description of the flumph sets out the characteristic shape and organs that the flumph has maintained (mostly) throughout every edition so far.
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