Echidna (5e Creature)

Echidna

Gargantuan monstrosity, lawful evil Armor Class 19 (natural armor) Hit Points 577 (35d20 + 210) Speed 40 ft., swim 40 ft. STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 24 (+7) 15 (+2) 22 (+6) 17 (+3) 23 (+6) 19 (+4) Saving Throws Wis +14 Skills Perception +14 Proficiency Bonus +8 Damage Vulnerabilities radiant Damage Resistances acid, cold, fire, force, lightning, necrotic, poison, thunder; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks Damage Immunities psychic Condition Immunities charmed, deafened, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, stunned, unconscious Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 24 Languages Common, Deep Speech, telepathy 120 ft. Challenge 26 (90,000 XP) Amphibious. The echidna can breathe air and water. Gargantuan Weapon Master. Before the echidna makes a melee weapon attack, she may choose to take a -5 penalty to her attack roll. If the attack hits, she adds +10 to the attack's damage and if this attack reduces a creature to 0 hit points, the echidna may make one additional attack with the same weapon as a bonus action. Limited Magic Immunity. The echidna can't be affected or detected by spells of 6th level or lower unless she wishes to be. She has advantage on saving throws against all other spells and magical effects. Sweeping Attack Maneuver. When the echidna hits a creature with a melee weapon attack, she may choose up to two additional creatures within 5 feet of the original target. If the result of her attack would hit an additional target, it takes 18 (4d8) damage of the same type of the weapon used. ACTIONS Multiattack. The echidna makes four attacks, only one of which may be with her snake hair. Snake Hair. Melee Weapon Attack: +15 to hit, reach 15 ft. one target. Hit: 28 (6d6 + 7) piercing damage. Greatsword. Melee Weapon Attack: +15 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 35 (8d6 + 7) slashing damage. Halberd. Melee Weapon Attack: +15 to hit, reach 20 ft., one target. Hit: 29 (4d10 + 7) slashing damage. Maul. Melee Weapon Attack: +15 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 35 (8d6 + 7) bludgeoning damage. Longbow. Ranged Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, range 150/600 ft., one target. Hit: 25 (4d8 + 2) piercing damage. Fire Breath (Recharge 6). The echidna releases a massive burst of flame in a 120-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 22 Dexterity saving throw, taking 70 (20d6) fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. REACTIONS Snake Hair Riposte. When a creature within 5 feet of the echidna hits her with a melee attack, she may make one snake hair attack against the target. LEGENDARY ACTIONS The echidna can take 3 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 her turn. Move. The echidna moves up to her speed without provoking opportunity attacks. Attack (Costs 2 Actions). The echidna makes one melee weapon attack.

Echidna, by Raven Mimura 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 from within the coils of the echidna, mother of monsters. The echidna is a gargantuan monster similar to a naga 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. The eggs must be kept in water. Gargantuan monsters are birthed as a Huge baby monster of that type. Her eggs will be of various sizes depending on the creature being incubated. An echidna's offspring will remain in her lair for 2d4 weeks after being born. Thereafter they are driven from the lair to make their own way in the world. An 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 the majority of her 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 Underdark, 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. Echidnas do not care about treasure. Most treasure to be found in an echidna's lair will be that left over from slaughtered adventuring parties, which she ignores. Lair Actions On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), the echidna takes a lair action to cause one of the following effects; the echidna can't use the same effect two rounds in a row: Five (2d4) eggs in the echidna's lair hatch (see the Monster Babies table below). The monsters birthed may enter combat on the round they hatch. Magical silence spreads from a point the echidna chooses within 60 feet of her, filling a 30-foot-radius sphere until the echidna dismisses it as an action, uses this lair action again, or dies. The area is completely silent, as if under the effects of a silence spell. A flash of psychic energy originates at a point the echidna can see within 120 feet of her. Each creature within a 20-foot radius centered on that point must make a DC 15 Intelligence saving throw or have disadvantage on each weapon attack roll it makes until the end of its next turn.

Monster Babies

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 Gargantuan creatures, which are 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 + 5	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; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks, frightened, paralyzed
4	(Huge baby) Tarrasque	M	20	20	350	35 ft.	+10 5x	3d8	or Swallow 8d6			immune to fire, poison; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks, charmed, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned
5	(Huge baby) Roc	M	8	14	180	20/120	+9 2x	4d6 + 9	and talon grapple	16		Keen Sight
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-foot Leap 3d6 + 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 and 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	Advantage against blinded, charmed, deafened, frightened, stunned, 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			Keen Sight and Smell
24	Behir	M	11	17	168	50 ft.	+10 1x	3d10 + 6	20-foot 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-foot cone 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 Medium head grapple	13	Str	15-foot radius darkness 1/day, echolocation, disguise
29	Roper	M	5	20	93	10/10c	+7 1x	4d8 + 4	4x tendril 50 ft. drag 25 ft.	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 + 3 sword	or bite 1d4 plus 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-foot line 3d6, DC 13 Dex save (Recharge 6)
33	Remorhaz	M	11	17	195	30/20b	+11 1x	6d10 + 7 bite	&3d6 fire & grapple	17		swallow if grapple Small or Medium 6d6 acid damage 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. frightened, 2. deafened, 3. thunder)	18	Wis	immune to psychic; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks, Spellcasting
40	Gynosphinx	M	11	17	136	40/60s	+8 2x	2d8 + 4 claws	spells	16	var	immune to psychic, resist bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks, teleport 120 feet

t: column 't' indicates whether the baby is a monster (M) or an aberration (A).

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