Star Spawn Tentacled Monstrosity CR: 12
Huge aberration, neutral evil
Armor Class: 14 (natural armour)
Hit Points: 120 10d12+20
Speed:
25 ft
, fly: 25 ft
, swim: 25 ft
, can hover
Saving Throws: Str +3, Dex +2
Skills: Perception +5
Damage Resistances: Necrotic
Damage Immunities: Poison
Senses: Darkvision 60 ft, passive Perception 15
Languages: Understands Deep Speech but cannot speak
Challenge Rating: 12
Amphibious. The monstrosity can breathe air or water.
Never Surprised. Because of it's otherworldly eyes on its body, the monstrosity can never be Surprised, suffer from Sleight of Hand, or be Sneaked past.
Actions
Multiattack. The monstrosity makes three attacks with it's tentacles, or two attacks with it's tentacles & one with it's bite.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack +4 to hit, range 5 ft, one target. Hit 11 2d8+3 piercing damage.
Tentacle. Melee Weapon Attack +4 to hit, range 10 ft, one target. Hit 10 2d6+3 bludgeoning damage. If it rolls a critical hit, the monstrosity grapples the target as well (escape DC 15 Str). If it still has a grappled target at the start of it's next turn, it does 7 2d6 bludgeoning damage. Also, the target is classed as prone until it breaks out (as it's main action in it's turn), is freed by an ally (again, as it's main action in it's turn), or the monstrosity decides to let it go as a bonus action.
Either way, it will look to let it go when it uses the tentacle to position the target at it's mouth. if this is done, it gets a +1 to it's attack roll for a bite attack.
Tentacled Monstrosities are massive creatures with a body appearing to be made up of blobs of some type of strange organic material. Exactly what this material is is another thing altogether. No-one has been able to work out exactly what is. These body ripples constantly, and both eyes & tentacles project out of it at all angles, with the latter outnumbering the former by two to one. At the bottom of the creature a mouth is present and filled with at least two layers of sharp pointed teeth. The creature floats in air, and can swim to great depths, of which it's body acts like an air sac. It seems to breathe through it's pallid blue skin, which sometimes gives of a dim blue light at random times, over a few feet at most. If killed the creature breaks down in seconds to a stinking goo, that smells of rancid milk mixed with heavily salted seaweed. Where a creature were to collect this goo, it can be sold to magic users, alchemists, and certain clerics for use in magical experiments & rituals. Exactly what these are aren't generally well-known, or liked. Other than that the tentacled monstrosities act as guards & livestock by the other Star Spawn.
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