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Carrion Crawler

Carrion Crawler
Carrion Crawler
CR 2
Large Monstrosity, Unaligned
Reveal Stat Block
Armor Class
13
Hit Points
51 (6d10 + 18)
Speed
30 ft., climb 30 ft.
str
14
+2
dex
13
+1
con
16
+3
int
1
-5
wis
12
+1
cha
5
-3

Traits

Spider Climb.The carrion crawler can climb difficult surfaces, including along ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.

Actions

Multiattack.The carrion crawler uses Paralyzing Tentacles and makes one Bite attack.
Bite.m 4, reach 5 ft. ({@damage 2d4 + 2) Piercing damage plus 3 (1d6) Poison damage.
Paralyzing Tentacles.con 12, one creature the carrion crawler can see within 10 feet. The target has the {@condition Poisoned|XPHB condition and repeats the save at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. After 1 minute, it succeeds automatically. While Poisoned|XPHB, the target has the Paralyzed|XPHB condition.

Carrion Crawler

Carrion Crawler

Catacomb-Scouring Necrophage

Ravenous corpse eaters, carrion crawlers gravitate toward places of slaughter and decay. In such charnel environs, they feast on the dead with no qualms about their meals' origins or freshness.

Carrion crawlers have segmented bodies like gigantic cutworms. From beneath their multipart maws protrude eight thin, lashing tentacles. Creatures struck by these tentacles risk being paralyzed|XPHB and consumed.

Carrion crawlers scour sewers, battlefields, necropolises, and fetid wildernesses for corpses, clinging to ceilings to ambush smaller prey and to avoid competing hunters. They're drawn to light and the scent of blood, recognizing them as signs of food.

These scavengers avoid ingesting inorganic material. Crypts with funeral armors sucked clean of their corpses and eerily pristine catacombs are signs of infestation by carrion crawlers.