Flytrap - Swallow Whole

[Dan_Dare74]

Hi

Apologies if I've missed this, but is there a typo under the flytrap for its swallow whole ability. I can't see any attack roll modifier?

Or am I missing something, is it an automatic action that happens when it has a creature grabbed?

Thank you

[Baarogue]

I wish I could give you a more solid answer based on the RAW but I haven't received my physical 2E Bestiary yet so I haven't been able to read that book ctc, and I'm going by its entry on the Archives of Nethys right now. Is there an entry on Swallow attacks and/or the Rupture condition somewhere in the book? The entry for Tyrannosaurus says it cannot use Swallow Whole unless it uses its jaws to Grab the target first. Anyway, until someone can weigh in definitively, here's my best read on it. >_<

I suspect it to be a Grapple attack, under the Athletics skill, in which case it would be an Athletics check vs the victim's Fortitude DC. That's what it appears to be implying, as it has the "attack" trait next to its activity name, which I read to mean it doesn't use the melee modifier as the leaf attacks do.

[Franz Lunzer]

Here's the Ability entry

It's an Athletics check vs. Reflex DC

[Baarogue]

Franz Lunzer wrote:

Here's the Ability entry

It's an Athletics check vs. Reflex DC

AH, I was looking in Feats. Thanks! And I see the meaning of Rupture is in that entry too, so double-win.

[Franz Lunzer]

BTW (because I didn't much read your previous response as thoroughly as I should have): The attack trait means that a Swallow Whole action increases the monster's Multiple Attack Penalty.

So the Snapping Flytrap could start it's turn with a creature grabbed (from a previous round, or with the use of its Quick Capture [R]), use Swallow Whole [A] and then Hungry Flurry [AA] at +4/+4 (+11, -2 Flurry, -5 MAP).
If it was for some reason quickened it could use that strike for a leaf at +1 (+11, -10 MAP).

[Dan_Dare74]

Thank you :)