# Climbing Vine

*Medium* *Plant* *unaligned*

- **Armor Class:** 11 (natural armor)
- **Hit Points:** 13 (2d8+4)
- **Speed:** walk 10 ft. climb 10 ft.
- **Challenge Rating:** 1/8 (25 XP)
- **Source:** Tome of Beasts 3, page 85

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 13 (+1) | 7 (-2) | 15 (+2) | 1 (-5) | 7 (-2) | 1 (-5) |

- **Skills:** perception +-2
- **Damage Immunities:** psychic
- **Condition Immunities:** blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, prone
- **Senses:** blindsight 20', passive Perception 8
- **Languages:** —

### Special Abilities

- **Digestive Dew:** A creature that starts its turned grappled by the climbing vine takes 2 (1d4) acid.
- **Flexible Form:** A climbing vine can move through a space as narrow as 6 inches wide with o squeezing.

### Actions

- **Dewvine:** Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, 5 ft., one creature,. The target is grappled (escape DC 11). The climbing vine has two attacking vines each of which can grapple only one creature.
- **Squeeze:** Squeezes creatures in its grasp. Each creature grappled by the climbing vine must make DC 11 Str save or take 5 (2d4) bludgeoning damage.

### Reactions

- **Grasping Retaliation:** When a creature hits the climbing vine with melee attack while within 5 ft. of the vine the vine can make one Dewvine attack vs. it.