# Pit viper

S pit viper 

Difficulty

9

Attacks

Bite 1d4 poison, Bite 1d4 poison

S pit viper 

Difficulty

9

Attacks

Bite 1d4 poison, Bite 1d4 poison

Base level

6

Base experience

93

Speed

15

Base AC

2

Base MR

0

Alignment

0 (neutral)

Frequency (by normal means)

1 (Very rare)

Genocidable

Yes

Weight

100

Nutritional value

60

Size

Medium

Resistances

poison

Resistances conveyed

poison (40%)

A pit viper:

 can swim.

 can hide under items.

 cannot pick up items.

 has no limbs.

 is an animal.
 has a serpent body.

 can lay eggs.

 is poisonous to eat.
 is carnivorous.

 is normally generated hostile.

 has infravision.

Reference

monst.c#line1776

Pit vipers are a dangerous type of snake. They are also swimmers, which means tridents have a +4 to-hit bonus while the pit viper is in the water.
There are 5 pit vipers on the Plane of Earth.
Pit viper corpses are also poisonous.
Seeing a pit viper falling into a pit will give a YAFM "How pitiful! Isn't that the pits?".

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