Night Scorpion

Type: Vermin (List)

Race: Scorpion (List)

Sub-race: Night Scorpion (List)

Monster Manual classification: Scorpion

Alignment: True Neutral

Rare: No

Organization: Solitary or hive (4+)

CR:  ♦4Normal ♥6Hard ♠10Elite

Attack: Claw (Slashing), Sting (Piercing + natural poison: scorpion)

Special Qualities: Stealth, Burrow, Vermin Traits

Habitats: 

• Purge the Heretics
• Redwillow's Ruins
• Ruined Halls — In a Precious Crate
• Ruins of Threnal — CR:  ♦4Normal
• Sorrowdusk Isle — A hive of Large Monstrous Scorpions, Night Scorpions and possibly the rare Rhath in the scorpion swarm explorer area. — CR:  ♦4Normal
• Stormcleave Outpost
• Stromvauld's Mine
• The Depths of Discord — Behind a secret door after the first valve. Guards a chest.
• The Jungle of Khyber — CR:  ♦7Normal ♥9Hard ♠12Elite ●♦20Epic Normal ●♥24Epic Hard ●♠29Epic Elite
• Three-Barrel Cove (heroic) — West from the orc pirate camp. — CR:  ♦4Normal
• The Scoundrel's Run
• Doom of the Witch-doctor: The Way to Zulkash
• First Strike — Scorpion pit in eastern cell block
• The Deadly Package: The Stronghold Key
• The Hobgoblins' Captives
• The Last Move: The Way to Yarkuch
• Whisperdoom's Spawn
• Yarkuch's War-plans

Description: Pitch black scorpion that ambushes its prey by bursting out from under the ground. Their pincers and lashing tail allow them to inflict both slashing and piercing damage and their poison inflicts Constitution damage.