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2.0 KiB

Living Soot

Large Elemental neutral

  • Armor Class: 15
  • Hit Points: 142 (15d10+60)
  • Speed: walk 0 ft. fly 50 ft.
  • Challenge Rating: 7 (2,900 XP)
  • Source: Tome of Beasts 3, page 263
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
15 (+2) 20 (+5) 19 (+4) 6 (-2) 10 (+0) 8 (-1)
  • Skills: perception +0
  • Damage Immunities: fire, poison
  • Damage Resistances: nonmagic B/P/S attacks
  • Condition Immunities: exhaustion, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained, unconscious
  • Senses: darkvision 60', passive Perception 10
  • Languages: Auran, Ignan, Terran

Special Abilities

  • Brittle: If it takes cold it partially freezes; its speed is reduced by 10 ft. and its AC is reduced by 2 until end of its next turn.
  • Choking Air Form: Can enter a hostile creature's space and stop there and it can move through a space as narrow as 1ft. wide with o squeezing. In addition when creature starts turn in same space as soot creature: 7 (2d6) poison and be unable to breathe until it starts its turn outside soot's space (DC 15 Con negates).
  • Elemental Nature: Doesn't require air food drink or sleep.
  • False Appearance: While motionless indistinguishable from tangled mass of blackened dusty webbing.

Actions

  • Multiattack: Two Slams or one Slam and one Constrict.
  • Slam: Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, 5 ft., one target, 14 (2d8+5) bludgeoning damage + 7 (2d6) poison.
  • Constrict: Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, 5 ft., one target, 14 (2d8+5) bludgeoning damage and target is grappled (escape DC 15). Until this grapple ends target is restrained and soot can't Constrict another target.
  • Engulfing Sootstorm (Recharge 4-6): Spins violently in place spreading out tendrils of thick poisonous ash. Each creature within 20' of it:21 (6d6) poison and speed is halved (DC 15 Dex half damage and speed isn't reduced). Speed reduction lasts until creature uses action cleaning off the ash.