Otyugh Race

From DDO Compendium

Overview[edit]

Otyughs are strange aberrations that dwell underground and delight in the eating of filth and offal.

Otyughs are strange-looking creatures, with bloated, oval-shaped bodies around 8 feet (2.4 meters) wide that stand on three shuffling elephantine legs and have a disgusting, rock-like hide. They have a pair of long tentacles that are bedecked in rough thorny growths and end in leaf-shaped pads bearing rows of more sharp spikes. A third tentacle sprouts from the top of the otyugh's body, forming a vine-like stalk standing some 2 feet (60 cm) high, and ends in a pair of eyes and an olfactory organ. The body of the creature contains a massive fang-filled mouth, shaped like a crude gash through its center. A typical otyugh is around 500 pounds (227 kg) in mass.

Otyughs are primarily omnivorous scavengers. They can consume almost all kinds of refuse and waste, such as carrion, offal, and many other things others would view as garbage. Nevertheless, they will take fresh meat when they have the chance.

Dwelling primarily underground, otyughs can be found skulking among piles of refuse and waste. They make such places their lairs, or else gather refuse to fill their lairs. An otyugh spends the majority of time in its lair, burying itself in trash with only the sensory stalk protruding above the heap. It sits for hours on end, shoveling "food" into its maw with its tentacles.

Otyughs are generally content to stay hidden in their lairs, usually only attacking living creatures if they feel threatened or hungry. They will slash prey with their thorny tentacles, or use them to grab and squeeze creatures and drag them into their maws.

Due to the nature of the otyughs' appetites, their mouths are filthy and often carried diseases like filth fever, inflicted with a bite.

Entries of this Race[edit]

Otyugh Race