Giant Crab

An edible crab, kin in miniature to the giant kind (Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons)

Giant Crab

Harper Field Dossier
Combat reference
Type	Oversized armoured crustacean of cold coasts and glaciers
Vulnerabilities	Its shell cracks easily; it is no great thing to put one down
Resistances
Immunities
Condition Immunities
Strong Saves
Senses	Feels its way by the tremor of footsteps through ice and stone — darkness and blinding tricks do nothing to hide you from it
Movement	Equally at home in water and out; breathes beneath the waves and scuttles ashore
Notable Abilities	Pincers that grip and crush. Little danger one at a time, but they gather in great numbers on the ice
Provenance
Knowledge	Partial
First Encountered	Session 50, swarming a glacier in the Sea of Moving Ice
Filed by	Agent Wren, of the Tellstone circle

The Harpers' Read

Singly, a giant crab is barely worth the name of monster — a brittle shell over a slow, crushing claw, and a few good blows ends it. The danger is the swarm: they mass on the ice and glaciers by the dozen, and a dozen crushing pincers will undo even a strong company if it lets itself be surrounded. Do not count on darkness or a clever blinding to save you — the things feel your every footfall through the ground and will find you regardless. Against a press of them, sweeping fire and lightning do far more than picking them off one by one. And take the spoils: the meat is good and plentiful — a single giant crab will feed a whole crew — so a battlefield can double as a larder, and a hot meal does wonders for the spirits of frightened sailors.

Encounters of Record

• Session 50 — A glacier teeming with giant crabs in the Sea of Moving Ice; Deez Nuts lured and slaughtered them with fire and lightning, then held a crab boil that restored the longship crew's morale.

Harvest Profile

CR ⅛ — Common ceiling. Rules: Monster Harvesting. Search all components by effect: Find Components.

Component	Tool	Rarity	Effect	Primary for	Contributor to
Giant Crab Crusher Pincer (signature)	Smith's	Common	The great crushing claw — mace and grip stock ready-shaped Damage: Bludgeoning	Weapon	Armor
Giant Crab Tremor-Feelers	Navigator's	Common	The leg-sense that reads footfalls through ice Sense: Tremorsense	Wondrous	—
Giant Crab Shell Plates	Smith's / Mason's	Common	Structure only	—	Armor
Giant Crab Meat	Cook's	Common	Structure only'(feeds a crew — see the Session 50 crab boil)	—	Rations
Giant Crab Leg Chitin	Smith's / Woodcarver's	Common	Structure only	—	Weapon, Armor
Giant Crab Gut Grit	Scavenge	Common	Structure only'(sea-polished stones and the odd lost coin — scavenge)	—	—

See also

• Bestiary — the company's field bestiary
• Monster Harvesting · Harvested Materials · Find Components