Ooze, Shoal
- Size
- Gargantuan
- Type
- Ooze
- Challenge Rating
- 10
- Source
- Tome of Beasts 3
- Alignment
- Unaligned
- Armor Class
- 9
- Speeds
- 10, swim 40
- Walking Speed
- 10
- Swimming Speed
- 40
- Strength Score
- 20
- Dexterity Score
- 8
- Constitution Score
- 19
- Intelligence Score
- 1
- Wisdom Score
- 10
- Charisma Score
- 5
- Skill Proficiencies
- Perception
- Languages Ref
- —
- Hit Points
- 232
- Condition Immunities
- Blinded, Charmed, Deafened, Exhaustion 1, Frightened, Prone
- Resistances
- Resistant to Bludgeoning Damage, Resistant to Piercing Damage, Resistant to Slashing Damage, Immune to Acid Damage
Gargantuan ooze, unaligned
Armor Class 9
Hit Points 232 (16d20+64)
Speed 10 ft., swim 40 ft.
- STR
- 20 (+5)
- DEX
- 8 (−1)
- CON
- 19 (+4)
- INT
- 1 (−5)
- WIS
- 10 (+0)
- CHA
- 5 (−3)
Skills Perception +0
Damage Resistances bludgeoning, piercing, slashing
Damage Immunities acid
Condition Immunities blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, prone
Senses blindsight 60', passive Perception 10
Languages —
Challenge 10 (5,900 XP)
False. [+]Appearance[/+] Until it attacks indistinguishable from a large school of fish.
Ooze Nature. Doesn't require sleep.
Symbiotically Bound. The ooze and fish's life force have become entwined. Share stats as if one creature and can't be separated.
Water Breathing. Can breathe only underwater.
Actions
Multiattack. Mesmerizing Spiral then 3 Pseudopods and Engulf.
Pseudopod. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, 15 ft., one target, 16 (2d10+5) bludgeoning damage target is grappled (escape DC 16).
Engulf. Engulfs one Huge or smaller creature grappled by it. Engulfed target is restrained and unable to breathe unless it can breathe water and it must make DC 16 Con save at start of each of the ooze's turns or take 21 (6d6) acid. If ooze moves engulfed target moves with it. Ooze can have 2 Huge or up to 8 Large or smaller creatures engulfed at a time. Engulfed creature or creature within 5 ft. of ooze can take its action to remove engulfed creature from ooze via DC 16 Str check putting engulfed creature in an unoccupied space of its choice within 5 ft. of ooze.
Mesmerizing Spiral. The fish inside it swim rapidly in a hypnotic spiral. Each creature within 20' of it that can see the fish: incapacitated 1 min (DC 16 Wis negates). While incapacitated its speed is reduced to 0. Incapacitated creature can re-save at end of each of its turns success ends effect on itself. If a creature's save is successful or effect ends for it creature is immune to Mesmerizing Spiral of all shoal oozes for the next 24 hrs.
Stat block from Tome of Beasts 3 (Kobold Press), Open Game Content used under the Open Game License 1.0a. Tome of Beasts 3. ©2022 Open Design LLC. All rights reserved. It is not Geminaea material. See Legal.