ability_mods:
  cha_mod: -2
  con_mod: 5
  dex_mod: 2
  int_mod: -4
  str_mod: 8
  wis_mod: 3
ac: 27
ac_special: null
alignment: N
automatic_abilities: null
description: 'Prehistoric sharks of incredible size, strength, and ferocity, megalodons
  scour waters deep and shallow to sate their considerable hunger. The presence of
  a megalodon undeniably affects the local aquatic ecosystem.




  **__Recall Knowledge - Animal__ (__Nature__)**: DC 28'
hp: 180
hp_misc: null
immunities: null
items: null
languages: null
level: 9
melee:
- action_cost: One Action
  damage:
    formula: 2d12+10
    type: piercing
  name: jaws
  plus_damage:
  - formula: null
    type: Improved Grab
  to_hit: 22
  traits:
  - reach 10 feet
- action_cost: One Action
  damage:
    formula: 2d8+10
    type: piercing
  name: tail
  plus_damage:
  - formula: null
    type: Push 15 feet
  to_hit: 22
  traits:
  - agile
  - reach 15 feet
name: Megalodon
perception: 20
proactive_abilities:
- action_cost: One Action
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: The shark Swims up to its swim Speed, then Leaps vertically out of
    the water up to 25 feet high, making a Strike against a creature at any point
    during the jump (this lets it attack a creature within 35 feet of the water's
    surface or 40 feet with its tail). After the Strike, the shark splashes back down
    into the water.
  effect: null
  effects: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  name: Breach
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Breach**   (__attack__, __move__) The shark Swims up to its
    swim Speed, then Leaps vertically out of the water up to 25 feet high, making
    a Strike against a creature at any point during the jump (this lets it attack
    a creature within 35 feet of the water''s surface or 40 feet with its tail). After
    the Strike, the shark splashes back down into the water.'
  requirements: null
  success: null
  traits:
  - attack
  - move
  trigger: null
- action_cost: One Action
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: null
  effect: The shark hit with a jaws Strike on its most recent action this turn.
  effects: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  name: Savage
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Savage**   **Requirement** The shark hit with a jaws Strike
    on its most recent action this turn. **Effect** The creature the shark hit takes
    2d12 slashing damage.'
  requirements: null
  success: null
  traits: null
  trigger: null
- action_cost: One Action
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: Huge, 2d8+5 bludgeoning, Rupture 20
  effect: null
  effects: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  name: Swallow Whole
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Swallow Whole**   (__attack__) Huge, 2d8+5 bludgeoning, Rupture
    20'
  requirements: null
  success: null
  traits:
  - attack
  trigger: null
ranged: null
rarity: Uncommon
resistances:
- amount: null
  type: '>'
ritual_lists: null
saves:
  fort: 21
  fort_misc: null
  misc: null
  ref: 16
  ref_misc: null
  will: 17
  will_misc: null
sense_abilities:
- action_cost: None
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: The shark can smell blood in the water from up to 1 mile away.
  effect: null
  effects: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  name: Blood Scent
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Blood Scent** The shark can smell blood in the water from up
    to 1 mile away.'
  requirements: null
  success: null
  traits: null
  trigger: null
senses:
- Perception +20
- blood scent
- scent (imprecise) 100 feet
size: Gargantuan
skills:
- bonus: 21
  misc: null
  name: 'Athletics '
- bonus: 19
  misc: null
  name: 'Stealth '
- bonus: 16
  misc: null
  name: 'Survival '
source:
- abbr: Bestiary
  page_start: 291
  page_stop: null
speed:
- amount: 80
  type: swim
spell_lists: null
traits:
- Uncommon
- N
- Gargantuan
- Animal
- Aquatic
type: Creature
weaknesses: null
