Gargoyle

Size: 2½
Mass: 125 kg (275 lbs)
Length: 2.1 m (7 feet)
Reach:  1.0 m (40 inches)
Stride: 1.0 m (40 inches)

Strength: 2
Regeneration: 3
Stealth: 3

Primary Limbs: 1
Secondary Limbs: 1
Other Limbs: 4

Absorption: 0
Cover: 0

Reach: 1 m (40 inches)
Heft: 0
Sharpness: -3

Gargoyles are stealthy carnivores that can rapidly change their skin color and pattern to match their surroundings. They rarely use clothes or equipment that interferes with this camouflauge.

Gargoyle skin has a scaly texture but it is transparent so that the changing color of the living skin beneath shows through. They have many horns on their heads and a row of small horns running down their backs, but even the horns have color-changing tissue beneath the surface. Male Gargoyles have two extra horns that are longer than the others.

Gargoyles have slow metabolisms, exaggerated by their habit of being inactive most of the time, so they tend to live in warm climates. They can also be very social, living in larger colonies than hot-blooded predators can sustain. In warm weather they might sleep out in the open but in cold weather they must find shelter and hibernate.

Gargoyles apply extreme stealth tactics when hunting, typically wounding their target with a surprise attack then waiting for bleeding and infection to finish it off. Their slow metabolism keeps them from starving while they wait.

Gargoyles communicate primarily through sign language that involves most of their body: frills, color changes, general body language and hand gestures. Vocal sounds from them are considered extremely loud actions, and verbal words in their languages almost always have abrupt meanings.

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