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My PC's will be facing a violet fungus soon and I have a couple questions about the rot ability. It says it is a poison effect but it doesn't list a frequency. When a tentacle hits and a PC fails the save, does it just do the 1d4 str and con damage once? Also, what if multiple tentacles hit a PC? Does the PC take the str and con damage for each hit/failed save?
Thanks for any help in advance! My group just switched back to pathfinder from 4th and we are having a blast. It's been great to have adventuring be "dangerous" again. These poisons seem deadly and I think that is a great thing :)
We are running savage tide but I am using updated monsters from the beastiary and it has been very challenging for the group so far. Surprisingly, no one has died yet but this fungus might have other plans for the group *evil grin*
Yes the damage just happens once per hit.
ex. fighter gets hit by 2/4 tentacles. rolls first save fails, takes 1d4 str dmg and 1d4 con dmg. fails second save (with fort save lowered by previous con dmg)takes 1d4 str dmg and 1d4 con dmg again. pc cries bitter tears for your nourishment.
life is good.
JJ answered a similar question a few days ago on Enworld
violet fungus rot is called out as being a poison effect mostly just so things that are immune to poison know that they can wallow in the stuff all day long without rotting.
The effect itself is a one-time-only effect per hit—if it acted as normal poison and did damage over multiple rounds, the entry for it's Rot attack would look more like the poison entries (for an example, see the wasp's entry on the facing page of the Bestiary).