From the Slave-Pits

Sandling	Solitary, Large, Planar, Amorphous
Abrasive pseudopod (d10 damage 1 piercing)	19 HP	1 armor
Near

A sandling appears to be an amorphous mass of moving, sliding sand. An adult sandling is a solitary creature, and it dwells in lonely sandy areas such as uninhabited deserts, siliceous caverns and deserted beaches. Sandlings are savagely territorial, and will attack any creatures that trespass upon their areas. They fight by slashing and lacerating with a coarse, abrasive pseudopod. Sandlings’ flexible, shifting forms are difficult to damage by physical assault. If a sufficient quantity of water or other liquid (10 gallons or more) is cast upon the creature it will cause the sandling to strike for only one-half damage. Sandlings are apparently silicon-based creatures, and some sages believe that they originated on the Elemental Plane of Earth. A sandling grows until it reaches full size (10’ diameter), and then it begins to reproduce by budding. Tiny sandlings grow to about 2” in diameter before they split from the parent. An adult sandling’s territory often swarms with thousands of infant sandlings, none larger than ’h’ in diameter. When one grows above this size, the parent sandling perceives it as a threat, and kills it. When the parent sandling dies, the largest infant grows to take its place, killing all rivals (if it can). Sandlings sense heat, sound and moisture. They dislike wetness, and will burrow underground to avoid rain or water (unless al- ready defending their territories). There have been reports of huge sandlings three times as large as normal adults, but these have not been substantiated. Sandlings are always the same color as the sand of their territories. They are also the same temperature as their surroundings, and thus are invisible to infravision.

 Instinct: Defend Lair

• Inhabits Lair
• Elemental Creature
• Silicon Lifeform