Cockroach
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Cockroach
(Creature)
Cockroach swarm
(Creature)
Flesh-eating cockroach swarm
(Creature)
Giant cockroach
(Creature)
Monstrous cockroach
(Creature)
Venomroach
(Creature)
Cockroaches are diminutive insects often found in houses and urban areas, which they are drawn to by the warmth and food present there. Although seen as pests, they are fairly innocuous beings and are notoriously skittish. They are sometimes taken as familiars.12
Cockroach swarms
Certain species of cockroach feed preferentially on meat. Although these are usually scavengers, they can become aggressive predators when they gather in numbers, forming predatory cockroach swarms, or flesh-eating cockroach swarms.3 While swarming cockroaches still feed primarily on carrion and rotting meat, they are known to attack larger creatures than themselves if they encounter them.4
Otherwise docile cockroaches might also attack as a swarm if a creature disturbs a large group of them.2
Giant cockroaches
While most cockroaches are much smaller than humanoid beings, certain varieties are known to grow much larger than common roaches. Numerous species of giant cockroach exist, and can range in size from ones smaller than a typical humanoid to others of considerable size.
Known species include:
- the monstrous cockroach5
- the giant hissing cockroach2
- the venomroach27
- the huge spitting cockroach2
- the sawback cockroach2
- the dragonroach24
On Golarion
Cockroaches of various kinds are commonly encountered wherever refuse and detritus can be found, such as the Filth district of Carrion Hill8 and the Boneyard of Riddleport.9
In religion
Cockroaches are the sacred animals of the daemonic harbinger Diceid.10
References
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- ↑ . “Chapter 5: Companions and Familiars” in Ultimate Wilderness, 193. Paizo Inc., 2017
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 . “Monsters A-Z” in Bestiary 2, 53. Paizo Inc., 2020
- ↑ . “Bestiary” in Shadow in the Sky, 84–85. Paizo Inc., 2008
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 . “Monsters A to Z” in Bestiary 2, 58. Paizo Inc., 2010
- ↑ . “Bestiary” in Shadow in the Sky, 84. Paizo Inc., 2008
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 . “Bestiary” in Shadow in the Sky, 85. Paizo Inc., 2008
- ↑ . “Bestiary” in Fangs of War, 85. Paizo Inc., 2017
- ↑ . Carrion Hill, 30. Paizo Inc., 2009
- ↑ . “Riddleport: City of Cyphers” in Shadow in the Sky, 55. Paizo Inc., 2008
- ↑ . “Daemonkind” in Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Book of the Damned Volume 3, 25. Paizo Inc., 2011
External links
- Cockroach (real-world animal) on Wikipedia