Great beasts of lava!

LAVA BEAST (#5/30, #310/365) [OOTP IV]

SKILL: 8
STAMINA: 8
ATTACKS: 1
WEAPON: Large Claw
ARMOUR: Light
DAMAGE MODIFIER: +1 to Damage Roll
HABITAT: Demonic Plane, Volcanic Areas, Deserts, Wilderness

NUMBER ENCOUNTERED: 1-6 

TYPE: Magical Creature 

REACTION: Hostile 

INTELLIGENCE: Low

Thought to be related to the Magma Beast, the LAVA BEAST is a magical creature usually found on the Elemental Plane of Fire or the Demonic Planes of Obsidian and Steel, but also sometimes on Titan in volcanic areas such as the Crucible archipelago, or hot arid regions such as the Scythera Desert. It is vaguely humanoid in shape, but with flesh like molten rock; a black crust covers it and smoke rises from fiery-red cracks as the Lava Beast lumbers about its domain. As one would expect, Lava Beasts are immune to any fire-based attacks and take no STAMINA damage from them. In addition, anyone who attacks a Lava Beast and successfully hits it with a normal weapon must roll one die; on an odd roll their weapon is destroyed by the creature’s lava core (though it will still cause a wound this Attack Round). On an even roll, or if the weapon is magical, there is no effect. Lastly, the Lava Beast breathes out great clouds of steam from its mouth; whoever faces it in combat must reduce their SKILL score by 1 for the duration of the battle.