---
title: "Cockroach Swarm"
obsidianUIMode: preview
noteType: pf2eMonster
cssClasses: pf2e
aliases: "Actor.VOEbqlhAUqv9o4wQ" 
tags:
  - pf2e/creature/type/animal
  - pf2e/creature/type/swarm
  - pf2eMonster
  - pf2e/creature/level/2
statblock: inline
name: "Cockroach Swarm"
level: 2
license: OGL
---

```statblock
columns: 2
forcecolumns: true
layout: Basic Pathfinder 2e Layout
source: "Pathfinder Bestiary 2"
name: "Cockroach Swarm"
level: "Creature 2"

alignment: ""
size: "Large"
trait_01: [[animal]]
trait_02: [[swarm]]
modifier: 6
perception:
  - name: "Perception"
    desc: "+6; Darkvision, Scent (Imprecise) 60 Feet"
languages: ""
skills:
  - name: "Skills"
    desc: "Acrobatics: +8, Stealth: +8"
abilityMods: [2, 4, 3, -5, 0, -4]
speed: 20 feet,  climb 20 feet,  fly 15 feet
sourcebook: "_Pathfinder Bestiary 2_"
ac: 18
armorclass:
  - name: AC
    desc: "18; __Fort__ +9, __Ref__ +10, __Will__ +6"
hp: 20
health:
  - name: ""
  - name: HP
    desc: "20; __Immunities__  precision,  swarm mind,  grabbed,  prone,  restrained; __Weaknesses__ area damage 5, splash damage 5; __Resistances__ bludgeoning 2, piercing 5, slashing 5"
abilities_top:
  - name: ""

abilities_mid:
  - name: ""
  - name: "Swarm Mind"
    desc: "  This monster doesn't have a single mind (typically because it's a swarm of smaller creatures), and is immune to mental effects that target only a specific number of creatures. It is still subject to mental effects that affect all creatures in an area."

attacks:
  - name: ""

  - name: "Swarming Bites"
    desc: "`pf2:1`  Each enemy in the swarm's space takes 1d8 piercing damage (DC 18 Reflex check save)."
 
```

```encounter-table
name: Cockroach Swarm
creatures:
  - 1: Cockroach Swarm
```



While cockroaches tend to gather in cramped spaces, a disturbed colony is sometimes prone to swarming, where hundreds or even thousands of the insects scurry out of their hiding places in a raft of shiny brown and black carapaces on thousands of skittering legs. Given how disgusting many find cockroaches to be, encountering such a swarm can be alarming to even the most seasoned adventurers. The creatures are relentless when disturbed; in contrast to the insects' normally skittish and harmless nature, as swarms they pursue the creature or creatures that provoked them and harry them with thousands of stinging bites.
