Box of beasts

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Type Miscellaneous item
Name box of beasts
Icon Box of beasts.png
A box filled with the bizarre leftovers of a depraved wizard's magical experimentations. Opening it might set loose a friendly mutant beast: bizarre creatures, each with their own combination of traits. Increased skill with Evocations will allow stronger beasts to be released.

A box of beasts is a miscellaneous magic item which can summon an irregular, albeit friendly, monster, classified generally as a mutant beast. Has a 1/3 chance of destruction after every use.

Mutant Beast

A mutant beast usually combines two random traits/facets:

  • Bat: flying, fast, batty.
  • Sting: reach/poison, rPois.
  • Fire: fire breath, rF.
  • Weird: constrict, sInv.
  • Shock: rElec, blinkbolt.
  • Ox: trample, rC, +5 AC.

Each beast also has one of five tiers, corresponding to HD and melee attack damage.

  • Larval (HD 3) (12 damage)
  • Juvenile (HD 9) (19 damage)
  • Mature (HD 15) (26 damage)
  • Elder (HD 21) (33 damage)
  • Primal (HD 27) (40 damage)
HD of mutant beasts from the box of beasts is roughly
(Evocations skill + 1d7 - 1d7), rounded up to the nearest tier & capped at 27.

History

Prior to 0.17, a Box of Beasts would instead summon a chimera.

In 0.16, Box of Beasts became considerably stronger than before.

Prior to 0.13 this item summoned individual (non-chimera) monsters

Prior to 0.9, it appeared as a small ebony casket while unidentified.