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My Dad’s Monster Manual – Fire Snake

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August 27, 2020

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The work on My Dad’s Monster Manual continues. You can check out all the previews on this blog here. There are also a few on my Patreon!

Let’s see what my father thinks of the fire snake.

Turkgon (Fire Snake)

This is a class of chicken dragon.
Lucian J. Introcaso

Turkgons are red and orange dragons that grow to be more than thirty feet long. They have no limbs, but their serpentine bodies end in a plumed head with a massive, toothed beak. Despite their lack of wings, turkgons are able to fly.

Lesser Red Dragons. An adult turkgon can breathe fire hot enough to melt stone and enjoys areas of extreme heat, leading many to speculate that it is somehow related to the red dragon. It does not seem to share the red dragon’s innate greed or cruelty, nor does a turkgon live as long as a true dragon. Turkgons reach adulthood at about twenty years of age and die around one hundred.

Imprinted Loyalty. Turkgons imprint upon whatever creature they see first when they hatch from their golden eggs. The turkgon treats this creature as its unquestionable master, doing whatever is asked of it. As the turkgon grows older, it gains a distinct personality and learns to reason and think for itself, though some instinct has it remain loyal to its master. A turkgon’s master can appoint a secondary master for the dragon. In the event of the master’s death or disappearance, the turkgon turns to the secondary.

In very rare cases a turkgon has broken free of the sway of a particularly abusive master.

Controlled Eggs. Because they make powerful soldiers, turkgon eggs are extremely valuable, made even more so by their scarcity. The few eggs known to exist are protected and controlled by powerful nobles, tyrants, and rulers.

Turkgon

Gargantuan dragon, lawful neutral

Armor Class 14 (natural armor)

Hit Points 201 (13d20 + 65)

Speed 50 ft., fly 80 ft.

STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
28 (+8)	10 (+0)	20 (+5)	13 (+1)	10 (+0)	17 (+3)

Saving Throws Dex +4, Con +9, Wis +4

Skills Perception +4

Damage Immunities Fire

Senses blindsight 30 ft., darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 14

Languages Common, Draconic

Challenge 10 (5,900 XP)

Magic Weapons. The turkgon’s weapon attacks are magical.

Actions

Multiattack. The turkgon makes two attacks: one with its bite and one constrict attack.

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 24 (3d10 + 8) piercing damage, and 3 (1d6) fire damage.

Constrict. Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 18 (3d6 + 8) bludgeoning damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 18). Until the grapple ends, the target is restrained, and the turkgon can’t constrict another target.

Fire Breath (Recharge 5-6). The turkgon exhales fire in a 90-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw, taking 42 (12d6) fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Reactions

Guard. When a creature within 10 feet of the turkgon is hit with an attack, the turkgon is hit with the attack instead.

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My Dad’s Monster Manual – Roper

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August 20, 2020

Check out Burn Bryte, an original science fantasy TTRPG I helped create for Roll20!

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Let’s see what my father thinks of the roper.

Potentling (Roper)

It swaps knowledge for knowledge.
Lucian J. Introcaso

A potentling is a 15-foot-tall, stone-skinned creature that looks like a massive stalagmite. It has one great eye near the top of its body, a massive mouth, and six long tentacles. These aberrations have lived on the Material Plane for eons. They are rare, dangerous, and have a vast knowledge of history.

Protected in Mountain Fortress. Each potentling lives in a citadel atop tall mountains. From these high seats, they watch the world around them, taking in the rise and fall of surrounding civilizations and memorizing every detail. While the potentlings observe their surroundings, their creations, the ever-faithful scorpdillos, maintain and guard their fortresses.

Knowledge for Knowledge. For those brave enough to journey to their lairs, potentlings are willing to trade in information. Though they’re nearly immobile, they are intimately familiar with all that happens within hundreds of miles of their fortresses, and happy to share all they know with a creature that offers new stories or experiences to the aberration. However, if the creature offers things the potentling already knows or has experienced, the aberration tries to eat the offender. After all, tasting this being’s flesh is a new experience.

Potentling

Huge aberration, chaotic neutral

Armor Class 20 (natural armor)

Hit Points 230 (20d12 + 100)

Speed 5 ft.

STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
24 (+7)	8 (-1)	20 (+5)	22 (+6)	23 (+6)	18 (+4)

Saving Throws Dex +4, Int +11, Wis +11, Cha 11

Skills History +11, Perception +11

Senses truesight 120 ft., passive Perception 21

Languages all

Challenge 16 (15,000 XP)

Far Senses. The potentling can see and hear over a distance of 500 miles.

Lair Teleportation. While inside its lair, the potentling can teleport to an unoccupied space it can see within 50 feet of it as a bonus action.

Magic Resistance. The potentling has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Magic Weapons. The potentling’s weapon attacks are magical.

Actions

Multiattack. The potentling makes three attacks: one with its bite and two with its tentacles.

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 20 (2d12 + 7) piercing damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 17). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, and the potentling can’t bite another target.

Tentacle. Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 90 ft., one target. Hit: 20 (3d8 + 7) bludgeoning damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 17). Until the grapple ends, the target is restrained, and the potentling can’t use the same tentacle on another target. The potentling has six tentacles.

Swallow. The potentling makes one bite attack against a Large or smaller target it is grappling. If the attack hits, the target is also swallowed, and the grapple ends. A swallowed creature is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside the potentling, and it takes 21 (6d6) acid damage at the start of each of the potentling’s turns.

If the potentling takes 30 damage or more on a single turn from a creature inside it, the potentling must succeed on a DC 20 Constitution saving throw at the end of that turn or regurgitate all swallowed creatures, which fall prone in a space within 10 feet of the potentling. If the potentling dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained by it and can escape from the corpse by using 15 feet of movement, exiting prone.

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My Dad’s Monster Manual – Nothic

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August 13, 2020

Check out Burn Bryte, an original science fantasy TTRPG I helped create for Roll20!

The work on My Dad’s Monster Manual continues. You can check out all the previews on this blog here. There are also a few on my Patreon!

Let’s see what my father thinks of the nothic.

Vizor (Nothic)

They can self-divide, but there can’t be too many of them.
Lucian J. Introcaso

Clawed, bipedal carnivores about three feet tall with one massive green eye, vizors prowl the desert in packs searching for fresh flesh.

Delicious Fear. Vizors prefer the taste of meat saturated with fear. They use their stealthy movement to sneak up on caravans and camps in the desert night, tearing only a few victims limb from limb with their claws and feasting as they scatter the survivors.

After devouring their initial victims, the vizors pursue the fleeing survivors, sometimes over the course of several days. The monstrosities keep their prey basting in fear, picking victims off one-by-one.

Split Reproduction. Every vizor is identical because they reproduce through a grotesque process of splitting in half and quickly regenerating. Luckily, vizors can only do such a thing when there are fewer than a dozen nearby, though the purpose for this limit is unclear.

Vizor

Small monstrosity, chaotic evil

Armor Class 14 (natural armor)

Hit Points 44 (8d6 + 16)

Speed 30 ft.

STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
12 (+1)	16 (+3)	14 (+2)	4 (-3)	13 (+1)	8 (-1)

Skills Perception +3, Stealth +5, Survival +3

Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 13

Languages –

Challenge 2 (450 XP)

Keen Sight. The vizor has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.

Pack Tactics. The vizor has advantage on attack rolls against a creature if at least one of the vizor’s allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn’t incapacitated.

Actions

Multiattack. The vizor attacks twice: once with its bite and once with its claws.

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage.

Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (2d4 + 3) slashing damage.

Divide (1/Day). The vizor splits, becoming two vizors. The new vizor is unaffected by any conditions and has all of its hit points, but cannot use Divide until it completes a long rest.

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My Dad’s Monster Manual – Myconid

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July 23, 2020

Check out Burn Bryte, an original science fantasy TTRPG I helped create for Roll20!

The work on My Dad’s Monster Manual continues. You can check out all the previews on this blog here. There are also a few on my Patreon!

Let’s see what my father thinks of the myconid.

Schroom (Myconid)

They look a little drug-addled.
Lucian J. Introcaso

Schrooms are fungi people with a humanoid shape and bulbous mushroom heads. They are all combinations of colors and can be anywhere from four to seven feet tall.

Wanderers and Philosophers. Colonies of schrooms wander giant forests, eating all types of fungi and looking for the warmest spots to debate philosophy. They never stay in one place for long, always chasing the warmest weather within their woods.

Most schrooms enjoy debating philosophical questions like, “Do good and evil truly exist?” and, “What purpose do dragons serve?” These debates can last hours as each schroom calmly presents arguments, often for multiple sides of the debate. The schroooms call to passersby and ask them to weigh in, contemplating and curiously questioning outside viewpoints.

Despite the lengthy debates, the schrooms seem content to never come to a definitive answer. Instead when they feel they have examined the viewpoint from all angles, they switch topics or engage in one of their other favorite activities: dancing.

Dancing While the Woods Burn. While their legendary percussionists laydown a fast tempo, each schroom gets up and dances. There are no cultural schroom dances. It is schroom custom to “just feel the music” and allow it to move their bodies in the moment. It is high praise when a schroom asks another creature to dance, and rejection ends in the plant taking great offense.

Schrooms enjoy dancing most in warmth and nothing in their habitat is warmer than a forest fire. While only evil schrooms start such blazes, all schrooms enjoy dancing at the edge of a wildfire and become violent if another creature tries to snuff the flames.

Schroom

Medium plant, chaotic neutral

Armor Class 14 (natural armor)

Hit Points 18 (4d8 + 4)

Speed 30 ft.

STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
10 (+0)	14 (+2)	12 (+1)	14 (+2)	15 (+2)	13 (+1)

Skills Performance +3

Damage Immunities fire, poison

Condition Immunities poisoned

Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10

Languages Common, Sylvan

Challenge 1/2 (100 XP)

Fire Energized. Whenever the schroom is subjected to fire damage, it takes no damage and instead regains a number of hit points equal to the fire damage dealt and gains advantage on all attack rolls until the end of its next turn.

Actions

Multiattack. The schroom makes two fist attacks.

Fist. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2) bludgeoning damage.

Mosh Schroom (1/Day). The schroom dances wildly, limbs flailing. As it does this, the schroom can move its speed without provoking opportunity attacks. The schroom makes one fist attack against each enemy within its reach during this movement.

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Arms of Bahamut

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July 16, 2020

Publisher’s Choice Quality Stock Art © Rich Hershey / Fat Goblin Games

Check out Burn Bryte, an original science fantasy TTRPG I helped create for Roll20! I’m giving away a free copy every time 100 people sign up for my mailing list!

Want a free PDF with a five free 5e magic items in it? Here are the Arms of Bahamut! They appeared on my Patreon last year, and now you get em!

I’m playing around with the idea of family magic items (or magic item sets), so take a look and let me know what you think. These items are a little bit inspired by my first D&D in a Castle campaign.

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Preorder Burn Bryte

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June 18, 2020

Check out my ongoing Kickstarter for Fantastic Lairs, a book of twenty drop-in boss battles and climactic encounters for your D&D games!

I AM SO DANG EXCITED!!! YOU CAN PREORDER BURN BRYTE RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!

If you’ve been following this blog or me, then you know that Burn Bryte is an original science fantasy tabletop roleplaying game created exclusively for Roll20 by Jim McClure, Kat Kuhl, and Darcy Ross. If you want to learn more about the game, check out my post over on the Roll20 blog or any of my previous posts about it on this site.

This game has been over three years in the making and I have never worked harder on anything. I had a lot to say in a Twitter thread about it, and I’ll be shouting nonstop, but let me just say this. Burn Bryte, at its core, is a game about choosing to do what’s right even when the odds are stacked against you. You stare the end of existence in the face and dare to hope. You help those in need and stand against corruption because it’s the right thing to do.

If that sounds like a fun, heroic time to you, then check out the preorder page. You’ll be support not just my work, but the work of many, many people who moved heaven and earth to make this thing happen.

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Fantastic Lairs Launched with Two Free Dungeons!

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June 4, 2020

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Fantastic Lairs and Two Free Dungeons

On Monday, I launched a Kickstarter for a new book with Mike Shea and Scott Fitzgerald Gray called Fantastic Lairs. It’s a book of drop-in boss battles and climactic encounters for your D&D games. We’ve already funded and are starting to hit some stretch goals. Thank you so, so much for that! More information about the book is below, and you can check out the Kickstarter here, which includes two free dungeons with VTT-ready maps and advice on creating your own boss battles!

Help build an awesome book of twenty boss battles and climactic encounters for your D&D games.

The best 5e fantasy roleplaying games are often the most unpredictable. When the plans of the Gamemaster meet the actions of the characters, the incredible creative energy that results can spin encounters off in different directions, creating a largely spontaneous campaign story that keeps the GM and the players alike on the edge of their seats. But when it comes to the climactic boss battle encounters that cap off single adventures or entire campaigns, it’s often much harder for GMs to work things out on the fly.

That’s where this book comes in.

Check out the free sample, which includes two fantastic lairs you can use right now! We’re also releasing virtual tabletop-ready maps for these two lairs so you can run them easily online.

The initial campaign goal for this book includes lairs for 1st- through 10th-level characters, each of which includes instructions for scaling it for different levels of play. As this Kickstarter goes forward, we’ll add lairs for 11th- through 20th-level play. Our ultimate goal is to produce twenty lairs for all four tiers of play.

Fantastic Lairs is the joint brainchild of all three members of the design team, each of whom brings a wealth of creative skill and experience to the project. From over fifty initial concepts, the team narrowed down a selection of twenty ultimate boss lairs for development in this book.

Your support for this project will fund the design, development, editing, artwork, and cartography that will make this book a reality. The more support we receive, the better the book will be.
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My Dad’s Monster Manual – Purple Worm

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May 28, 2020

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The work on My Dad’s Monster Manual continues. You can check out all the previews on this blog here. There are also a few on my Patreon!

Today I wanted to show off my father’s version of the purple worm, which is far more than a monster. This giant creature is the doorway to another world!

Keylog (Purple Worm)

These artists do like spikey spiked teeth and stuff, don’t they?
Lucian J. Introcaso

Keylogs are enormous worms nearly fifty feet long with giant, gaping mouths and spiked hides that shift between all the colors of the rainbow.

Portal Gullets. Keylogs are native to the Astral Plane, though they sometimes pass through gateways into another world. Like their home plane, the inside of a keylog is filled with swirling, colorful portals. When the worm swallows another creature whole, that creature falls into one of the portals and is sent to another plane of existence. Daring adventurers seek out keylogs to travel the planes but must be aim carefully. Those who miss their desired portal are sure to fall into another.

Seeking Restless Souls. Restless souls in need of a change or a challenge draw keylogs like flames draw moths. Though they do not possess a vast intellect, the worms can innately sense such creatures and swallow them whole, shaking up their existence as the creatures travel to another plane.

Spine Missiles and Tail Slaps. The bite of a keylog does not hurt as much as one might think, but the creature can shoot the spines from its body and smack its tail with devastating effect.

Keylog

Gargantuan aberration, chaotic neutral

Armor Class 16 (natural armor)

Hit Points 217 (14d8 + 70)

Speed 50 ft., burrow 30 ft., fly 120 ft.

STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
26 (+8)	10 (+0)	20 (+5)	3 (-4)	12 (+1)	10 (+0)

Saving Throws Dex +4, Con +9, Wis +4, Cha +3

Senses darkvision 120 ft., tremorsense 60 ft., passive Perception 11

Languages –

Challenge 11 (7,200 XP)

Banish Immune. The keylog is not affected by spells of 8th-level or lower that send creatures to other planes of existence, unless it wishes to be.

Magic Resistance. The keylog has has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Actions

Multiattack. The keylog makes two attacks with its tail or uses Spike Hurl twice.

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: The target is sent to a plane of existence on the Astral Color Pools table in chapter 2 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide. The target must make a DC 14 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, roll randomly on the table to determine which plane the target goes to. On a success, allow the target to pick which plane it goes to.

Spike Hurl. Ranged Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, range 120/480 ft., one target. Hit: 22 (4d6 + 8) piercing damage.

Tail. Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 26 (4d8 + 8) bludgeoning damage.

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My Dad’s Monster Manual – Gelatinous Cube

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May 21, 2020

My latest DMs Guild product, The Iron Titan, is now available!

The work on My Dad’s Monster Manual continues. You can check out all the previews on this blog here. There are also a few on my Patreon!

Today I wanted to show off my father’s version of the gelantinous cube, which is more like a reverse gelantinous cube that puts dead creatures back together.

Entomblinizer (Gelatinous Cube)

They can regenerate you, but only if you die in a specific way.
Lucian J. Introcaso

An entomblinizer is a massive cube of ice, nearly ten feet on all sides, that propels itself slowly across the arctic tundra.

Cold Seekers. Colder than even their harsh surroundings, entomblinizers seek the coldest area they can, constantly moving and shifting with the climate and winds. The slow-moving ice blocks hate anything remotely warm, including the bodies of living creatures. When such a creature gets close, the entomblinizer hurls itself at the being, hoping to crush it to death and end the creature’s radiating heat.

Resurrection Machines. The elemental energy within an entomblinizer is powerful enough to bring a dead creature back to life. This magic can only works if the creature froze to death. Otherwise the entomblinizer has no interest in the creature’s remains. But if a creature freezes to death and its remains are presented to the entomblinizer, the elemental absorbs the remains and the magic within the cube brings the creature back to life. When the process is done, the entomblinizer expels the creature, leaving the warm body on the ground as it travels off in search of more cold to absorb.

The legendary dead-raising abilities of the entobmlinizer have led many adventurers to kill dying friends with ice magic then head to the tundra in hopes of bringing their loved one back to life.

Entomblinizer

Large elemental, unaligned

Armor Class 10 (natural armor)

Hit Points 95 (10d10 + 40)

Speed 20 ft.

STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
18 (+4)	5 (-3)	18 (+4)	1 (-5)	7 (-2)	1 (-5)

Damage Vulnerabilities fire

Condition Immunities blinded, deafened, exhaustion, poisoned, prone

Senses blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius), passive Perception 8

Languages –

Challenge 4 (1,100 XP)

Cold Absorption. Whenever the entomblinizier is subjected to cold damage, it takes no damage and instead regains a number of hit points equal to the cold damage dealt.

Corpse Attraction. If the entomblinizer can use its Resurrection action, it must.

Actions

Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 17 (3d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage, and 7 (2d6) cold damage.

Resurrection (1/Day). The entomblinizer absorbs the remains of a creature that died 100 or fewer years ago as a result of taking cold damage or freezing to death. While inside the entomblinizer, the remains have total cover against attacks and other effects outside the entomblinizer. If the remains stay inside the entomblinizer for 1 hour, the remains return to life as if the resurrection spell had been cast on them. The entomblinizer immediately expels the living creature from its body.

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My Dad’s Monster Manual – Otyugh

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May 14, 2020

My latest DMs Guild product, The Iron Titan, is now available!

The work on My Dad’s Monster Manual continues. You can check out all the previews on this blog here. There are also a few on my Patreon!

Today I wanted to show off my father’s version of the otyugh, which he calls the skunkline! Let’s meet the friendly fey.

Skunkline (Otyugh)

It has the ability to create aromas.
Lucian J. Introcaso

The forest-dwelling skunkline is a happy, bulbous creature with three legs. Its eyes and nose are set in a stalk that emerges from the top of its body, and it has two tentacles that end in spikes. Adult skunklines stand about three feet tall with tentacles twice as long.

Quest Lovers. Skunklines wander the forest, eating plants and looking for sapient creatures to converse with. They enjoy telling and learning stories of heroic deeds and saviors who defeat evil. The only thing a skunkline enjoys more than sharing an epic tale is becoming a character in one. When a skunkline meets adventurers, the fey creature begs to be a part of the next quest the heroes take on. After the quest is complete, the skunkline heads back to the forest to share the story with its friends.

Olfactory and Sound Illusionists. A skunkline has obvious formidable defenses in its teeth and tentacles, but less conspicuous are its innate magical talents. All skunklines can create illusionary sounds and smells, which they use to distract and overwhelm their foes.

Skunkline

Medium fey, neutral good

Armor Class 14 (natural armor)

Hit Points 55 (10d8 + 10)

Speed 30 ft.

STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
16 (+3)	14 (+2)	13 (+1)	11 (+0)	13 (+1)	16 (+3)

Skills History +2, Perception +3

Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13

Languages Common, Sylvan

Challenge 3 (700 XP)

Sickening Aura. Any creature the skunkline chooses that can smell the skunkline and starts its turn within 10 feet of the skunkline must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned until the start of the creature’s next turn. On a successful saving throw, the creature is immune to the skunkline’s Sickening Aura for 1 hour.

Actions

Multiattack. The skunkline makes three attacks: one with its bite and two with its tentacles.

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) piercing damage.

Tentacle. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage. If the target is Medium or smaller, it is grappled (escape DC 13) and restrained until the grapple ends. The skunkline has two tentacles, each of which can grapple one target.

Illusion of Sound and Smell. The skunkline picks a nonmagical object within 120 feet of it. The object emanates the illusion of a sound and of a smell that is experienced by creatures within 60 feet of it. The sound and smell seem real, though a creature that interacts with the object and succeeds on a DC 13 Intelligence (Investigation) check knows the smell and sound are illusory. The skunkline must concentrate on the illusion as if it were concentrating on a spell. If the skunkline moves more than 120 feet away from the object, the illusion immediately ends.

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