Death Embrace
Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep p. 197
- Size
- Huge
- Type
- aberration
- Alignment
- chaotic evil
- AC
- 13 (natural armor)
- Hit Points
- 147 (14d12+56)
- Speed
- walk 0 ft., swim 20 ft.
- Saving Throws
- Str +10, Wis +3
- Condition Immunities
- exhaustion, paralyzed, petrified, prone
- Senses
- blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius)
- Passive Perception
- 9
- Languages
- —
- Challenge
- 11
Traits
Proficiency Bonus
+4
Petrifying Tendrils
Any creature that starts its turn in the death embrace's space must make a DC 16 Constitution saving throw. On a failed saving throw, the creature is restrained. A creature restrained in this way must repeat the saving throw at the end of its next turn, becoming petrified on a failed saving throw or ending the effect on a successful one. The petrified condition lasts until the effect is ended by a greater restoration spell or similar magic.
Reel
At the start of each of its turns, the death embrace can pull each creature it is grappling up to 20 feet toward it (no action required).
Water Breathing
The death embrace can breathe only underwater.
Actions
Multiattack
The death embrace makes two Tentacle attacks.
Tentacle
Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 60 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d6 + 6) piercing damage plus 11 (2d10) psychic damage. If the target is Large or smaller, it is also grappled (escape DC 16). The death embrace has six tentacles, each of which can grapple one target.
Reactions
Body Shield
When the death embrace is hit by an attack, one creature the death embrace is grappling (chosen by the death embrace) takes the damage instead.
Other data
description
Drifting through the dark waters of the Netherdeep, the death embrace is an ominous sight. Beneath its bell hangs a lacy, tendrilous mass that thrums with magic, surrounded by six 60-foot-long, barbed tentacles. The death embrace uses these tentacles to grasp and petrify its prey. Despite its foreboding name, the death embrace is not an overly aggressive creature. It prefers to bide its time, using creatures it has caught in its tentacles as shields to absorb attacks.