Sandling (5e Creature)

Sandling

Large elemental, unaligned Armor Class 8 (natural armor) Hit Points 8 (1d10 + 3) Speed 15 ft., burrow 15 ft. STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 15 (+2) 7 (-2) 17 (+3) 1 (-5) 5 (-3) 3 (-4) Proficiency Bonus +2 Damage Immunities bludgeoning, piercing, slashing Condition Immunities charmed, grappled, paralyzed, restrained, unconscious Senses tremorsense 30 ft. (blind beyond this radius) ft., passive Perception 7 Languages — Challenge 1/4 (50 XP) Granular Nature. The sandling can occupy another creature's space and vice versa, and the sandling can move through any opening large enough for a single grain of sand. The sandling gains 1 level of exhaustion for 1 hour each time a gallon of water is poured on it. Poor Tremorsense. Tiny creatures are invisible to the sandling. False Appearance. While the sandling remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from a normal pile of sand. ACTIONS Sand Wrap. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 0 ft., any targets. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) slashing damage. Instead of dealing damage, the sandling can grapple the target (escape DC 12). While grappled in this way, the target is restrained.

A wandering sandling, source. Sandlings hail from the Elemental Plane of Earth, where the terrain of some regions are entirely composed of their sandy bodies, though they can be found much more sparingly in deserts like Southeast Faerûn's Raurin, Kara-Tur's Quoya Desert, and Maztica's House of Tezca. Sandlings do not hunt, do not socialize, do not aggravate; a sandling simply is. Sandlings passively grow by grinding small parts of rocks into sand as they move. If a sandling is fully grown, its sand instead passively buds into offspring who must find their own territory before growing any larger than Tiny. While sandlings do not pick fights, treading upon a sandling is often seen as an attack, especially if the offender is an organic being. A defensive sandling prefers to drag attackers beneath the sands they inhabit, immobilizing the target's entire body, often save for their head. It is for this reason that some conniving desert dwellers use sandlings as unwitting door guards; not only are they nearly undetectable and easily avoidable with the right knowledge, but any intruders can be easily interrogated.

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