A fire beetle is a type of beetle found on MM 9.
The glands are worth d10 gp each, since these are valuable light sources that have no risk of starting a fire or igniting gasses in a mine or on an adventure.1) It takes 1 turn for a character to harvest all 3 glands from a single beetle.Ex2) The glands are bulbous, so they have 10 cn encumbrance each.
These things can really do quite a lot of damage for a DL 1 creature, and with HD 1+2 and AC 4 they are not one of the easier DL 1 enemies to take down. Fortunately, the light they give off makes them targetable even if the encounter distance falls out of the range of a party's light sources.
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