Kraken MA

[JLV]

Originally Posted by Shadekeep

Yah, it won't need to move much in my setting, but I'm curious if it can move at all. Failing an official answer I'll probably give it a sluggish MA of 4. Just enough so that players don't feel like they are safely out of range at any point.

I personally kind of went with medieval literature on this one -- that is, that it probably moved like a squid and at roughly the same speeds (more resistance to a larger body, but able to exert more muscle/water jet power to more or less match the change in resistance), but that it was more an "ambush predator" and liked to lie in wait for it's prey (passing whales, passing ships, whatever) so that engagements were initiated only when a target came within "range" of its tentacles.

Having said that, I only used it once, so the mechanics didn't get much of a work-out -- so I could easily live with Chris' guesstimate above as well. Really, if it can sneak up on you, you're in trouble; and if it can't you should be able to evade it as long as you don't come within its "reach" by accident (and there's only one of them...)