Fantasy Monster: Cheese Gremlin

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Gremlin, Cheese

This creature looks like pale, slender, hairless monkey with a tail that splits into horny hooks.

CR 2; XP 600
CE Tiny Fey
Init +6; Senses low-light vision, scent; Perception +10

Defense
AC 14, touch 14, flat-footed 12 (+2 Dex, +2 size)
hp 21 (6d6)
Fort +2, Ref +7, Will +6
DR 5/cold iron; Immune scent-based conditions; Resist fire 5

Offense
Speed 30 ft.
Melee hooked tail +7 (2d4+2, 19–20/×3))

Space 2-1/2 ft.; Reach 0 ft. (10 ft. with hooked tail)

Statistics
Str 10, Dex 14, Con 10, Int 7, Wis 13, Cha 13
Base Atk +3; CMB +3 (+7 dirty tricks and steal maneuvers); CMD 16
Feats Combat Reflexes, Defensive Combat Training, Improved Initiative
Skills Acrobatics +8, Climb +6, Perception +10, Sleight Of Hand +11, Stealth +19

Languages Sylvan

SQ hooked tail

Ecology
Environment urban, rural, or underground
Organization solitary, pair or commune (3–10)
Treasure standard

Hooked Tail (Ex) Cheese gremlins have a long, prehensile tail that splits into sharp hooks at the end. It can be used to perform dirty trick or steal maneuvers with +4 circumstance bonus without provoking attacks of opportunity, uses Dexterity instead of Strength when calculating attack rolls, damage rolls, and CMB, and Climb checks, and also acts as an equivalent of a masterwork grappling hook with 10 feet rope, granting +4 circumstance bonus to Climb checks.

Sometimes you come home with your groceries, ready to sink your teeth into tasty (if occasionally smelly) piece of ripe, pungent cheese that you just bought – only to discover it's missing with no trace of it ever being in your possession, not even slightest shred...

You might have fallen victim to the predation of the cruelest gremlins of them all which stalk kitchens, pantries, ladders, cellars, and warehouses, taking any piece of cheese they can find, unattended or not. They show peculiar cunning and boldness when stealing their bounty, sometimes even going so far as to snatch pieces of cheese from a chefs hands or pull it from a boiling pot before it melts into fondue.

They almost always devour whatever cheese they can get their dirty little hands on as soon as possible, occasionally rendering themselves too gorged to move away from the scene of their perfidy. They love scorching or melting cheese on an flame, and they are very careless while doing it, often spiling melted cheese all over the place, sometimes even starting accidental fires.

A kitchen visited by both cheese and kitchen gremlins can easily turn into a nightmare for any chef and kitchen staff.