The Bulette (pronounced boo-lay) is a terrifying predator that lives only to eat. Almost 10 feet tall and 15 feet long, it resembles something akin to a gigantic armadillo crossed with a snapping turtle. A bulette moves by quickly burrowing through the earth, leaping out to attack those on the surface.

A bulette attacks anything it regards as edible, biting for 3d8 points of damage and clawing for 2d6 points of damage with each fore claw. It can leap 10 feet through the air and attack prey with all four claws but cannot bite with such an attack. If somehow one gets on top of a bulette, the area behind its head plates is only AC 15. It is effectively immune to most types of attacks while burrowing.

Bulettes are sometimes called “land sharks” because of their habit of burrowing while the crests of their backs break the surface. Like sharks, they are huge, vicious, and always hungry. They seem to be someone’s experiment gone wrong: a turtle crossed with an armadillo with just a touch of demon thrown in. Their favourite food is horse but they will eat just about anything that moves. The only kind of meat they don’t seem to like is dwarf or elf. They have been know to dig halflings right out of their holes.

Being fearless, a bulette will attack anything that moves on sight. They have been known to attack a armed party to get at the horses. When they attack, they use their vicious bite and their two front claws. They are well armoured, but have two vulnerable spots: under their chests is a soft spot, only AC 6; and a bulette’s eyes are relatively unprotected, with an AC of 4. When cornered or seriously wounded, a bulette will attempt to leap 8-ft vertically and land directly on top of their victim, clawing with all four feet.

Because they are artificially-created animals no one is sure how bulettes reproduce. It seems that a pair will share a territory, but no lair has ever been found. Their plates are highly prized by armourers. They can be easily fashioned into +1 or +2 shields.