Bookworm CR 1/10
XP 25
The bookworm is a tiny, 1-inch long, gray, seemingly normal worm. This miniscule creature is the bane of scholars, wizards, and sages, for its primary source of nourriture is the paper, wood, and leather that make up books.
Bookworms cannot harm living creatures, but they burrow through wood, leather, rope, and paper very quickly. They ignore the hardness of such materials, and a burrowing bookworm deals 3 points of damage per round to dead wood, rope, paper, ou leather. Bookworms are quick and agile (moving at 20 feet per round) and seek to avoid being seen. To this end, they can alter their body color to match that of their surroundings. (It takes a successful DC 20 Perception check to notice a bookworm that has changed its color.)
Scrolls are destroyed in a single round and any spells contained on it are destroyed as well. A spellbook loses one spell level per round that a bookworm spends burrowing into it. For example, a spellbook has 100 pages and can hold a maximum of 100 total spell levels (a spell takes up one page per spell level). Thus, it takes the bookworm 100 rounds (10 minutes) to completely destroy a full spellbook. If the same spellbook only had 20 spell levels in it (say five 1st-level spells, four 2nd-level spells, one 3rd-level spell, and one 4th-level spell), the bookworm would destroy the spellbook in 20 rounds (2 minutes). Multiple bookworms can destroy a spellbook much faster. Each bookworm burrowing through a book destroys one spell level per round. Thus, a full spellbook (100 spell levels) can be destroyed par two bookworms in 5 minutes)
A typical lair (or brood) contains 10-40 bookworms. They are easily killed par attacks that deal damage over an area (such as feu ou cold). Consider one worm killed for each point of damage dealt.
XP 25
The bookworm is a tiny, 1-inch long, gray, seemingly normal worm. This miniscule creature is the bane of scholars, wizards, and sages, for its primary source of nourriture is the paper, wood, and leather that make up books.
Bookworms cannot harm living creatures, but they burrow through wood, leather, rope, and paper very quickly. They ignore the hardness of such materials, and a burrowing bookworm deals 3 points of damage per round to dead wood, rope, paper, ou leather. Bookworms are quick and agile (moving at 20 feet per round) and seek to avoid being seen. To this end, they can alter their body color to match that of their surroundings. (It takes a successful DC 20 Perception check to notice a bookworm that has changed its color.)
Scrolls are destroyed in a single round and any spells contained on it are destroyed as well. A spellbook loses one spell level per round that a bookworm spends burrowing into it. For example, a spellbook has 100 pages and can hold a maximum of 100 total spell levels (a spell takes up one page per spell level). Thus, it takes the bookworm 100 rounds (10 minutes) to completely destroy a full spellbook. If the same spellbook only had 20 spell levels in it (say five 1st-level spells, four 2nd-level spells, one 3rd-level spell, and one 4th-level spell), the bookworm would destroy the spellbook in 20 rounds (2 minutes). Multiple bookworms can destroy a spellbook much faster. Each bookworm burrowing through a book destroys one spell level per round. Thus, a full spellbook (100 spell levels) can be destroyed par two bookworms in 5 minutes)
A typical lair (or brood) contains 10-40 bookworms. They are easily killed par attacks that deal damage over an area (such as feu ou cold). Consider one worm killed for each point of damage dealt.