Monsters / Gibbering Mouther
Gibbering Mouther
CR 5 - 1,600 XP - N Medium Aberration
Stat block
AC19 (touch 13, flat-footed 16)HP46 (4d8+28)SavesFort +8, Ref +4, Will +5Melee6 bites +7 (1d4 plus grab)Speed10 ft., swim 20 ft.AbilitiesStr 10, Dex 17, Con 24, Int 4, Wis 13, Cha 12BAB / CMB / CMD+3 / +3 / 16Sensesall-around vision, darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +12Environmentany underground
DR 5/bludgeoningimmune critical hitsimmune precision damage
Combat brain - every behavior cites its line (4 rules)
Built only from this entry: stat-block special attacks, the printed Int score, the creature type, its feats and senses, and the behavioral prose of its own description. Nothing invented - an uncited behavior is a test failure.
grapple-grab (from melee)
melee: 6 bites +7 (1d4 plus grab) - grab rides the hit
melee: 6 bites +7 (1d4 plus grab) - grab rides the hit
ambush (from lore)
A foul beast that lurks in underground caves, sewers, and nightmares, mouthers have no societal, ecological or religious significance other than their ability to drive...
A foul beast that lurks in underground caves, sewers, and nightmares, mouthers have no societal, ecological or religious significance other than their ability to drive...
skirmisher (from abilities)
abilities: Dex 17 over Str 10 - strike and slip away, never trade full attacks
abilities: Dex 17 over Str 10 - strike and slip away, never trade full attacks
night-hunter (from senses)
senses: all-around vision, darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +12 - hunts where prey is blind
senses: all-around vision, darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +12 - hunts where prey is blind
On-hit riders and breath
blood drain6d4
engulf6d4
From the entry
A gibbering mouther sees in all directions at once. It cannot be flanked.
A gibbering mouther's body is malleable and shapeless. It is immune to precision damage (like sneak attacks) and critical hits, and can move through an area as small as one-quarter its space without squeezing or one-eighth its space when squeezing.
On a successful grapple check after grabbing, several of the creature's mouths attach to its target. Each round it maintains its grapple, its mouths automatically deal 1d4 points of bite damage and 1 point of Constitution damage as it drains its victim's blood.
This ability functions as swallow whole, except for the following changes. An engulfed creature is trapped in the gibbering mouther's body, where several of its mouths continue to feed and drain blood. A gibbering mouther can engulf only one foe of its size or smaller at a time. If an engulfed creature cuts its...