Echidna (5e Creature)

Echidna

Gargantuan monstrosity, lawful evil Armor Class 19 (natural armor) Hit Points 840 (35d20 + 105) Speed 20 ft., swim 40 ft, lunge 60 ft STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 20 (+5) 10 (+0) 20 (+5) 20 (+5) 20 (+5) 20 (+5) Saving Throws wisdom Damage Vulnerabilities radiant Damage Resistances acid, cold, fire, force, lightning, necrotic, poison, thunder, nonmagical, spells Damage Immunities psychic Condition Immunities Charmed, Deafened, Frightened, Paralyzed, Petrified, Poisoned, Prone, Stunned, Unconcious Senses passive Perception 20 Languages echidna (this is a telepathic language) Challenge 26 (90,000 XP) Fire Breath. An echidna is very warm inside so as to keep her brood of eggs warm. She is able to breathe fire in a 120' cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 25 Dexterity saving throw, taking 20d6 fire damage on a failed save. (Recharge on 6). An echidna's body is not designed to breathe fire like an ancient red dragon's, so even though it breathes more fire, it does so with less intensity and less often. Gargantuan Weapon Master Feat. An echidna is a gargantuan weapon master and may chose to attack at +4 rather than +9 in order to attempt to do +40 damage. If an echdna knocks a creature down to 0 hit points of less, she may make an additional attack. Sweeping Attack Maneuver Upon a successful melee attack, an echidna may include two more targets standing to one side or the other of the target. If the die she rolled for the successful melee attack would hit them they also take 4d8 points of damage. Warlock Patron An echidna may be the patron of a warlock. An echidna's warlock within one mile of the echidna will have an extra +2 spell attack, +2 spell save DC, and +2 spell slots. An echidna's warlock can not do warlock spell damage to their patron. Aquatic. An echidna may live in either water and air without suffocation. An echidna's swimming speed is twice that of her land movement speed. None-the-less most of her eggs need to be kept above water. Summon Food This ability summons large sea creatures to the echina's lair for her and her babies to eat. This takes one hour. ACTIONS Bite. +9 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: X (12d6 + 20) slicing damage. Gargantuan Melee Weapon. An echidna will generally use a gargantuan great sword, halberd or a maul: Gargantuan Great Sword: +9 to hit, reach 10 ft. Hit: X (8d6 + 20) slashing damage. Gargantuan Halberd: +9 to hit, reach 20 ft. Hit: X (4d10 + 20) slashing damage. Gargantuan Maul: +9 to hit, reach 10 ft. Hit: X (8d6 + 20) bludgeoning damage. REACTIONS Riposte Maneuver LEGENDARY ACTIONS The Echidna can take 5 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The Echidna regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn. Hatch Monster. There are always 2d4 monsters in her lair ready to hatch. This legendary action causes one of them to break out of its egg and emerge fighting whatever is fighting the echidna. Great Lunge An echidna is so long that she may use the rest of her body as a counterweight to support moving her head, torso and the front 80 feet of her body in a lunge, lifting it above the fray and smashing down somewhere else in the fray, up to 60 ft distant and making a gargantuan weapon attack. She does not suffer opportunity attacks when she does this, and adds +6d6 to her gargantuan weapon attack. Any creature between the starting place and target place of her lunge must make a Dexterity save or take 2d6 damage be knocked prone. The rest of her body beyond the first 80 ft may be attacked with advantage until her next action. Any eggs in the lunge area are broken. (Recharge on 5 or 6). Lair Actions Each turn on initiative 20 (losing ties) an echidna may use one of the following lair actions, different from the one used the previous turn: Anti-Noise All sound in the echidna's lair is eliminated. This is not just silence, this is anti-sound. Even magically created noises will be muffled. It feels as if all sound has suddenly disappeared from the world forever. Even the echidna's voice is silenced. People who can read lips read at a disadvantage because the speakers are unable to hear their own voice and it affects how they speak. Players may not speak unless telling the dungeon master what their characters do. Note that the echidna language is a telepathic language and is not affected, so she and her babies can still communicate. Any spells that require a verbal component will fail. Anti-Gravity Small items begin to up and float away, arrows float up out of quivers, liquid flows lazily upward out of cups, hats float off of heads etc. This effect does not affect large items like small, medium or larger creatures, eggs, large rocks etc. Generally this affects things under 2 lbs. Spells with material components require a Dexterity save to work because the material components don't stay put while casting. All mundane ranged attacks are a disadvantage because the arrows and whatnot rise rather than fall in their trajectory. Magic bows or arrows negate this problem for example. Psychic Tremors Everyone's hands start to have tremors. Swords are harder to wield, bows are harder to fire. It is harder to dodge. This does not affect melee chances because all creatures in the lair are affected, and although the attacks become less assured, so are the defenses. The tremors do however prevent all creatures from making multiple attacks. Spells with a somatic component are impossible to cast properly, and any attempts to cast them will result in serious magical accidents with either a random target affected or simultaneous affects on both the caster and an opponent. All mundane ranged attacks are at disadvantage. Magic bows or arrows negate this problem for example. Only creatures immune to psychic damage (the echidna herself for example) are unaffected by the psychic tremors.

An echidna is a very very long naga-like creature. An echidna has the gargantuan head and upper torso and arms of a human female. Her body is that of a great serpent hundreds of feet long. An echidna is always female. Monster Babies Ever wonder why there are so many monstrosities and aberrations in the world, even though high level characters keep killing them off? Well, the credit can be laid at the feet of the echidna, mother of monsters. The echidna is a gargantuan naga-esque monster that lays giant eggs, birthing other monsters. An echidna can give birth to the monsters on the table below. Echidnas exclusively give birth to aberrations and monstrosities only. Gargantuan monsters will are birthed as a huge baby monster of that type. Her eggs will be of various sizes depending on the creature being incubated. Echidna babies can understand and speak the telepathic echidna language for 2d4 week after being born. Thereafter they forget it, and are driven from the lair. Echidna's Lair An echidna is generally to be found with her long serpentine body coiled in and out around dozens of eggs, to keep them warm. A full grown echidna spends 99% of the time in her lair which is generally a rocky cavern near the edge of an ocean, huge lake, or inland sea. Her lair always has some sort of access to the water and some sort of access to the under dark, some sort of access to the air, and some sort of access to the overland outdoors. Each of these accesses is large enough for a huge creature to traverse, although there may be numerous guardian allies to resist entry. Her babies round up food for her so that she almost never has to leave her lair. Echidnas will never leave their lair, even if they are on the losing side of a battle. They would prefer to die there and will not retreat.

When encountered, the echidna will be found in the presence of 3d6 of her monstrosity/aberration babies. Unless otherwise specified, her babies will be full grown monsters. For the dungeon master's convenience the table below contains simplified versions of each baby. You may certainly use the full articles found in the Monster Manual except for the baby gargantuans listed as '(huge baby)':

2d20	Monster	t	CR	AC	HP	Speed	Attack	Damage	Special Attack	DC	Save	Special
2	(huge baby) Echidna	M	16	16	300	30/40s	+5 1x	4d6+10	fire breath 12d6	20	dex
3	(huge baby) Kraken	M	14	15	280	20 ft.	+9 1x	2d6+5	Lightning Storm	18	dex	immune to lightning; non-magical attacks, frightened, paralyzed
4	(huge baby) Tarrasque	M	20	20	350	35 ft.	+10 5x	3d8	or Swallow 8d6			immune to fire, poison, non-magic, charm, fear, paralyzed, poisoned
5	(huge baby) Roc	M	8	14	180	20/120	+9 2x	4d6+9	and talon grapple	16		keen sight perception advantage
6	(huge baby) Purple worm	M	9	18	150	50/30t	+9 1x	2d8+9	and Stinger 17d6	19	con	tunneller speed 30 ft
7	Mimic	M	2	12	58	15 ft.	+5 1x	1d8+3	Adhesive	13	???	immunity to acid, prone
8	Doppelganger	M	3	14	52	30 ft.	+6 2x	1d6+4 slam	surprise attack 3d6			reads thoughts, ambusher, shapechanger, immunity to charmed
9	Otyugh	A	5	14	114	30 ft.	+6 4x	1d8+3 bite	Grapple Slam 2d6+3	14	con	limited telepathy (send only)
10	Bulette	M	5	17	94	40 ft.	+7 1x	4d12+4	15' Leap 3d6+4:prone	16	d/s	burrow 20 ft
11	Rust Monster	M	.5	14	27	40 ft.	+3 1x	1d8+1	corrode ferrous item	11	dex	iron Scent 30 ft, -1 dmg / hit cumulative
12	Hydra	M	8	15	172	30 ft.	+8 hdx	1d10+5	# head reactions			hold breath for one hour
13	Ettercap	M	2	13	44	30/30c	+4 2x	1d8+1	bite 2d4+2 +1d8 poison	11	con	climb 30 ft, web +4 30 ft restrain
14	Death Dog	M	1	12	39	40	+4 2x	1d6+2 bite	bite poison 1d10/day	12	con	resist blind, charm, deafen, fear, stun, unconscious
15	Grell	A	3					copyright	Wizards of the Coast			Monster Manual page 172
16	Displacer Beast	M	3					copyright	Wizards of the Coast			Monster Manual page 81
17	Carrion Crawler	M	2					copyright	Wizards of the Coast			Monster Manual page 37
18	Beholder	A	13					copyright	Wizards of the Coast			Monster Manual page 26
19	Umber Hulk	M	5					copyright	Wizards of the Coast			Monster Manual page 292
20	Yuan-Ti abomination	M	7					copyright	Wizards of the Coast			Monster Manual page 308
21	Manticore	M	3	14	68	30 ft.	+5 3x	1d8+3				tail spikes 100 ft, 1d8+3
22	Grick	M	2	14	27	30/30	+4 1x	2d6+2				if hits, beak attack 1d6+2
23	Owlbear	M	3	13	59	40 ft.	+7 2x	2d8+5	and Beak 1d10+5			advantage perception +3 on sight and smell
24	Behir	M	11	17	168	50 ft.	+10 1x	3d10+6	20 ft line, 12d10	16	dex	immune to lightning, and constrict 2d10+6, or swallow 6d6
25	Chuul	A	4	16	93	30 ft.	+6 2x	2d6+4	and poison tentacles	13	con	immune to poison, poisoned
26	Chimera	M	5	14	114	30 ft.	+7 3x	2d6+4	fire breath 15' 7d8	15	dex	none
27	Basilisk	M	3	15	52	20 ft.	+5 1x	2d6+3	stone gaze	12	dex	attack includes 2d6 poison
28	Darkmantle	M	1	11	22	10/30f	+5 1x	1d6+3	engulf med. head grapple	13	str	15 ft radius darkness 1/day, echolocation, disguise
29	Roper	M	5	20	93	10/10c	+7 1x	4d8+4	4x tendril 50' drag 25'	15	str	disguise as stalagmite etc.
30	Cloaker	A	8	14	78	10/40f	+6 2x	2d6+3 bite	and 1d8+3 tail, moan	13	wis	3 duplicates
31	Drider	M	6	19	123	30/30c	+6 3x	1d8+s sword	or bite 1d4+2d8 poison			or 3x long bow 1d8+3
32	Ankheg	M	2	14	39	30/10b	+5 1x	3d6+3 bite	then grapple	13		acid spray 30' line 3d6, DC13 dex save (recharge 6)
33	Remorhaz	M	11	17	195	30/20b	+11 1x	6d10+7 bite	&3d6 fire & grapple	17		swallow if grapple med/small 6d6 dmg per turn, immune to cold, fire
34	Cockatrice	M	.5	11	27	20/40f	+3 1x	1d4+1 bite	& magic petrified	11	con
35	Centaur	M	2	12	45	50 ft.	+6 2x	1d10+4,2d6+4	or long bow 1d8+2			charge 3d6 pike
36	Hippogriff	M	1	11	19	40/60f	+5 2x	1d10+3 beak	and 1d10+3 claws			keen sight
37	Griffon	M	2	12	59	30/80f	+6 2x	1d8+4 beak	and 2d6+4 claws			keen sight
38	Aboleth	A	10	17	135	10/14s	+9 3x	2d6+5	underwater disease	14	con	probing telepathy, tail 3d6+5, enslave 3/day, 3d6 psychic drain
39	Androsphinx	M	17	17	199	40/60s	+12 2x	2d10+6 claw	roar 1)fear,2)deaf,3)thunder	18	wis	immune to psychic, nonmagical, can cast spells etc.
40	Gynosphinx	M	11	17	136	40/60s	+8 2x	2d8+4 claws	spells	16	var	immune to psychic, resist nonmagical, teleport 120 ft

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