---
title: "Giant Centipede"
obsidianUIMode: preview
noteType: pf2eMonster
cssClasses: pf2e
aliases: "Actor.5dNea1A4bchPIz9y" 
tags:
  - pf2e/creature/type/animal
  - pf2eMonster
  - pf2e/creature/level/-1
  - remaster
statblock: inline
name: "Giant Centipede"
level: -1
license: ORC
---

```statblock
columns: 2
forcecolumns: true
layout: Basic Pathfinder 2e Layout
source: "Pathfinder Monster Core"
name: "Giant Centipede"
level: "Creature -1"

alignment: ""
size: "Medium"
trait_01: [[animal]]
modifier: 6
perception:
  - name: "Perception"
    desc: "+6; Darkvision"
languages: ""
skills:
  - name: "Skills"
    desc: "Acrobatics: +6, Athletics: +2, Stealth: +6"
abilityMods: [-1, 3, 1, -5, 1, -4]
speed: 30 feet,  climb 30 feet
sourcebook: "_Pathfinder Monster Core_"
ac: 15
armorclass:
  - name: AC
    desc: "15; __Fort__ +7, __Ref__ +6, __Will__ +2"
hp: 8
health:
  - name: ""
  - name: HP
    desc: "8"
abilities_top:
  - name: ""

abilities_mid:
  - name: ""
attacks:
  - name: ""

  - name: "**Melee** `pf2:1` Mandibles"
    desc: "+6 (finesse)\n__Damage__  1d4 - 1 piercing plus giant-centipede-venom"

  - name: "Giant Centipede Venom"
    desc: " (poison) **Saving Throw** DC 14 Fortitude check\n* * *\n\n**Maximum Duration** 6 rounds\n\n**Stage 1** 1d4 poison damage (1 round)\n\n**Stage 2** 1d4 poison damage and [[Conditions/Off-Guard|Off-Guard]] (1 round)\n\n**Stage 3** 1d4 poison damage, [[Conditions/Clumsy|Clumsy 1]], and [[Conditions/Fatigued|Fatigued]] (1 round)"
 
```

```encounter-table
name: Giant Centipede
creatures:
  - 1: Giant Centipede
```



Most giant centipedes (known as sewer centipedes when found in cities) nest in small groups but hunt alone when they seek out food. Attempts to domesticate giant centipedes for use as guardians or pets generally end poorly, but some communities of goblins, kobolds, and mitflits have developed effective methods of utilizing these vermin as guardians. Other groups roast and eat centipedes, often with pungent peppers as a savory delicacy, although care must be taken in preparing the meal to avoid tainting the flesh with the creature's venom.

* * *

Hunters and scavengers that live amid dung and detritus, centipedes are a relatively common and often reviled threat faced by adventurers. Scurrying about with surprising speed on the scores of legs attached to their long, segmented bodies, centipedes strike with poisoned mandibles to slow and torment their prey with a vicious toxin before they settle down to feed in slow and disgusting leisure.
