Koponu [Labyrinth Lord]

Koponu
No. Enc.: 1d4 (2d4)
Alignment: Chaotic
Movement: 40' (120' swim)
Armor Class: 7
Hit Dice: 1
Attacks: 1+slime
Damage: 1d4+poison
Save: 0-level human
Morale: 4

Koponu are a species of small (roughly goblin-sized), hunched bipedal amphibians who glow softly in the dark. Their fish-belly pale skin is covered by a slime that forces anyone they strike to save versus poison or else have their own skin take on a softly luminous glow similar to a low-power Light spell for 4d4 hours. Troglodytes and other subterranean beings are known to hunt, trap and enslave the Koponu as living torches, or as meat.

Those Koponu that have escaped being enslaved live as subterranean scavengers who hop and flop about in the wet caverns, ancient cisterns, aqueducts and wells of ruined or forgotten estates. They are known to frequently drink to excess and are fond of newts, salamanders and frogs, often raising such creatures as beasts of burden, meat-cattle and pets. Some bands of Koponu have learned how to breed and raise warfrogs, salamander-soldiers and fighting-newts.