| Hit Dice: | 6d8+6 (33 hp) |
| Initiative: | +2 |
| Speed: | 40 ft. (8 squares), climb 40 ft. |
| Armor Class: | 18 (+2 Dex, +6 natural), touch 12, flat-footed 16 |
| Base Attack/Grapple: | +4/+5 |
| Attack: | Bite +5 melee (1d8+2 plus paralytic saliva) |
| Full Attack: | Bite +5 melee (1d8+2 plus paralytic saliva) |
| Space/Reach: | 5 ft./5 ft. |
| Special Attacks: | Paralytic saliva |
| Special Qualities: | Tremorsense 60 ft., vermin traits |
| Saves: | Fort +6, Ref +4, Will +2 |
| Abilities: | Str 13, Dex 15, Con 12, Int —, Wis 10, Cha 2 |
| Skills: | — |
| Feats: | — |
| Environment: | Underground |
| Organization: | Solitary or slaughter (2–5) |
| Challenge Rating: | 2 |
| Treasure: | None |
| Alignment: | Always neutral |
| Advancement: | 7–11 HD (Medium) ♊ |
| Level Adjustment: | — |
A four-foot-long dead-white segmented worm heaves into view. Eyeless, drooling stinking ichor from its clacking mandibles, the monstrosity resembles nothing so much as a maggot grown orders of magnitude too large.
A maggot is the worm-shaped larva of a fly, but a dire maggot is the larva of similarly monstrous flying vermin. While regular maggots are found in decaying matter, dire maggots are large, quick, and aggressive enough to seek out living prey for nourishment.
Dire maggots seek to paralyze their prey, though still-squirming prey is just as good to the mindless maggot.
Paralytic Saliva (Ex): A creature bitten by a dire maggot must make a DC 14 Fortitude save or be paralyzed for 1 round. The save DC is Constitution-based.
Source: Libris Mortis, page 95. This creature was completely messed up. It was originally designated as a Small-sized vermin, but had the grapple bonus and space/reach of a Huge creature—but not the Strength of one. They gave it the default vermin type’s 60-foot darkvision—to a creature described as having no eyes. They gave it skills for a creature type that typically doesn’t have any because it is mindless, far more than its attributes would suggest. In the end, it was rewritten as above as a Medium creature and its statistics block and description changed accordingly.