Help me find creatures that have poison gas ability?

[Baddiemcnoskill]

I'm looking to make an encounter that has creatures emitting some kind of poison gas that goes through the air but it's hard for me to find just scrolling through creature lists in Foundry or on Nethys. I know I could just make a creature, but I'd like to avoid the work if there's one that fits the bill already.

I don't know of a better way to search so I hoped that someone might be familiar with creatures they know have some kind of poison gas ability and just point them out for me.

Looking for anything remotely similar to a dragon's poison Breath Weapon that isn't a dragon.

[Finoan]

A Coven of Skull Fairies can cast Stinking Cloud, and when one of them dies they create a 5 foot emanation area effect that causes Sickened 2.

I think the biggest problem you are having with your search is that 'poison gas effect' is a bit too vague to do a text search for.

It may be easier to take an existing creature that fits your encounter for other reasons and then replace or add the poison breath weapon as a custom ability to it using the Building Creatures rules.

[Ectar]

Use the dragon's best weapon as a template.
Give it to a more preferred monster with adjusted numbers.

Approximately what level range were you thinking?

[Baddiemcnoskill]

Finoan wrote:

A Coven of Skull Fairies can cast Stinking Cloud, and when one of them dies they create a 5 foot emanation area effect that causes Sickened 2.

I think the biggest problem you are having with your search is that 'poison gas effect' is a bit too vague to do a text search for.

It may be easier to take an existing creature that fits your encounter for other reasons and then replace or add the poison breath weapon as a custom ability to it using the Building Creatures rules.

I originally tried looking for just "breath weapon" but it didn't lead me in any good search patterns. I am not aware of a tool that lets me see every creature that has one.

Ectar wrote:

Approximately what level range were you thinking?

In the 3-6 range. It's not supposed to be a huge combat challenge so much as a skill challenge to avoid the poison and weaken the creature before combat begins so they start with overwhelming advantage.

I'll resort to grafting it on to another statblock if I have to, but since I also use Foundry and have the Token Bestiaries pack, I'd prefer to use a creature with it built in and scale down the level if it's too high so I can use their accurate art and tokens.

[Finoan]

Baddiemcnoskill wrote:

I originally tried looking for just "breath weapon" but it didn't lead me in any good search patterns. I am not aware of a tool that lets me see every creature that has one.

Neither am I. I started by searching for Stinking Cloud since I knew that was a spell that vaguely matched what you are looking for and found the Skull Fairy that way.

[Trip.H]

There was a lizard-cat hybrid thing that attacked us in the Gatewalkers AP with a gas cloud.

Found it, called a Desa-Desa, Creature 2

Looks like it was actually fire damage, did not realize that, but could be still used as a point of reference for any homebrewing.

It's also not a lingering cloud, not sure if that's the main thing you are going for.

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F!!! AoN is such a well made resource.

Here's a great way to get more bang out of AoN, using the "types/categories: Creature" filter paired with and advanced search syntax

of: "line" || "cone"

So this returns anything that's labelled as a creature, and has either the exact word line or cone somewhere in there.

I found reference to AoN using "elasticsearch" query syntax, not used that myself, but that's in case you need to look it up. I don't think it's normal to need a double pipe || to get "or" in most advanced searches.

https://2e.aonprd.com/Search.aspx?q=%22line%22+%7C%7C+%22cone%22&type=e qs&include-types=creature&display=list

488 entries match, if you want to trim that down before you browse, this query will get you started.

GL and HF out there 👍, no need to make this harder than it needs to be.

[Baddiemcnoskill]

Trip.H wrote:

Here's a great way to get more bang out of AoN, using the "types/categories: Creature" filter paired with and advanced search syntax

of: "line" || "cone"

So this returns anything that's labelled as a creature, and has either the exact word line or cone somewhere in there.

Well! That is some amazing functionality that I'll have to remember for the future. Thanks a ton! This might have saved me unknown hours in the future haha.