monster

Storm Crab

Storm Crab

Storm Crab

CR 11

Gargantuan Monstrosity, Unaligned

Reveal Stat Block

Armor Class

18 (natural armor)

Hit Points

155 (10d20 + 50)

Speed

40 ft., swim 60 ft.

str

23

+6

dex

10

+0

con

21

+5

int

5

-3

wis

14

+2

cha

9

-1

Traits

Amphibious.The crab can breathe air and water.

Actions

Multiattack.The crab makes two Claw attacks and one Stinger attack.

Claw.mw 10 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. ({@damage 3d8 + 6) bludgeoning damage. If the target is a Huge or smaller creature, it has the grappled condition (escape 16). The crab has four claws, each of which can grapple one target.

Stinger.mw 10 to hit, reach 10 ft., one creature. ({@damage 3d10 + 6) piercing damage, and the target must succeed on a 17 Constitution saving throw or have the poisoned and paralyzed conditions for 1 minute. The affected creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending both the poisoned and paralyzed conditions on itself on a success.

Water Jet 5.The crab exhales water in a 150-foot line that is 10 feet wide. Each creature in that area must make a 17 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 27 (6d8) bludgeoning damage, is pushed up to 30 feet from the crab, and has the prone condition. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage only.

Storm Crab

Storm crabs are colossal crustaceans with four monstrous claws and a poisonous stinger. Equally adept underwater or on shore, they can exhale a jet of pressurized water to crush foes.

Giants on some worlds claim Stronmaus or one of his children created storm crabs in the early years of an ancient empire. Just as behirs were created to fight dragons on land and rocs to challenge dragons' mastery of the sky, storm crabs were meant to battle dragon turtles, bronze dragons, and other aquatic foes. On many worlds, these creatures fiercely guard the underwater strongholds of storm giants, as well as the ruined keeps giants have abandoned.

Given all the weird things that swim in the deep ocean, who am I to complain about a colossal crab with a poison stinger that can knock you away with a high-speed jet of water?