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Blemmyes

Size
Large
Type
Monstrosity
Challenge Rating
8
Source
Tome of Beasts
Alignment
Chaotic-Evil
Armor Class
15
Speeds
40
Walking Speed
40
Strength Score
20
Dexterity Score
13
Constitution Score
20
Intelligence Score
7
Wisdom Score
12
Charisma Score
5
Skill Proficiencies
Intimidation
Vision
Darkvision (60ft)
Languages Ref
Giant
Hit Points
168
Languages
Giant

Large monstrosity, chaotic evil


Armor Class 15 (natural armor)

Hit Points 168 (16d10+80)

Speed 40 ft.


STR
20 (+5)
DEX
13 (+1)
CON
20 (+5)
INT
7 (−2)
WIS
12 (+1)
CHA
5 (−3)

Skills Intimidation +3

Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11

Languages Giant

Challenge 8 (3,900 XP)

Carnivorous Compulsion. If it can see an incapacitated creature, the blemmyes must succeed on a DC 11 Wisdom save or be compelled to move toward that creature and attack it.

Actions

Multiattack. The blemmyes makes two slam attacks and one bite attack.

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 19 (4d6 + 5) piercing damage. If the target is a Medium or smaller incapacitated creature, that creature is swallowed. While swallowed, the creature is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects from outside the blemmyes, and it takes 14 (4d6) acid damage at the start of each of the blemmyes' turns. If the blemmyes takes 20 damage or more during a single turn from a creature inside it, the blemmyes must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw at the end of that turn or regurgitate the swallowed creature, which falls prone in a space within 5 feet of the blemmyes. The blemmyes can have only one target swallowed at a time. If the blemmyes dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained by it and can escape from the corpse using 5 feet of movement, exiting prone.

Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5) bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 16 Wisdom saving throw or be stunned until the end of its next turn.

Rock. Ranged Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, range 30/120 ft., one target. Hit: 27 (4d10 + 5) bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 16 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened until the end of its next turn.

Description

This headless giant has a large mouth in its chest, with eyes bulging out on either side of it.
Always Hungry. Blemmyes are brutes that savor humanoid flesh, and they see all humanoids as potential meals. Some even have the patience to tend groups of humans, goblins, or halflings like unruly herds, farming them for food and fattening them up for maximum succulence.
Cannibals. So great is their hideous hunger that blemmyes are not above eating their own kind; they cull and consume the weakest specimens of their race when other food is scarce. The most terrible habit of these monsters is that they seldom wait for their food to die, or even for a battle to conclude, before launching into a grisly feast.

Stat block from Tome of Beasts (Kobold Press), Open Game Content used under the Open Game License 1.0a. Tome of Beasts. Copyright 2016, Open Design; Authors Chris Harris, Dan Dillon, Rodrigo Garcia Carmona, and Wolfgang Baur. It is not Geminaea material. See Legal.