Pelter

How it fights

The pelter is the Bell Crypts’ thrower, and the first monster that hurts you from a distance. It never closes in: nearer than 3.5 tiles it backs off, further than 5.5 it comes in, and in between it sidles round you. From up to 7 tiles away it lobs a clod of packed earth at the spot you stand on. A red ring of 0.8 tiles radius is drawn there at the throw, filling as the clod flies, and the clod lands 0.8 s later for 3 base damage (4 on floor 2) if any part of you is still inside: clearing the ring from its middle takes 0.27 s at the Warrior’s full speed, so one step is enough and standing still to trade blows is how it lands. It throws every 3 s plus up to 1 s. It walks a little quicker than a husk (1.6 tiles a second base against 1.45) but at well under half the Warrior’s 4.2, and it is frail: 21 HP on floor 2, 2 basic swings, a bite of only 2. Run at it and it cannot get away. It joins the waves and packs on floor 2, about 15% of them there, never on floor 1 or in the Bellwright’s room. At most 3 are alive at once, and a pack holds 3 at most.

Base HP

16

Base bite

2

Bites at most every

0.83 s

Base speed

1.6 tiles/s

Body radius

0.26 tiles

XP

3 (elite 15)

Coin chance

30%

Item drop chance

5% × the floor’s loot

Floor by floor

The same pelter gets tougher each floor: the floor multiplies its HP, bite and speed. An elite pelter has 3× the HP, gives 5× the XP and always drops at least a magic item plus 5 coins. “Share of waves” is the part of the floor’s wave monsters that roll as a pelter.

In the same band

• Husk — 24 HP on floor 1
• Skitter — 9 HP on floor 1
• Brute — 132 HP on floor 3
• The Bellwright, the band’s boss on floor 5 — how to beat him
• Every monster