Neogi Hatchling Swarm
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space - Boo's Astral Menagerie p. 40
- Size
- Medium
- Type
- aberration
- Alignment
- typically lawful evil
- AC
- 11
- Hit Points
- 52 (8d8+16)
- Speed
- walk 20 ft., climb 20 ft.
- Resistances
- bludgeoning, piercing, slashing
- Condition Immunities
- charmed, frightened, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, prone, restrained, stunned
- Senses
- darkvision 60 ft.
- Passive Perception
- 10
- Challenge
- 3
Traits
Proficiency Bonus
+2
Spider Climb
The swarm can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.
Swarm
The swarm can occupy another creature's space and vice versa, and the swarm can move through any opening large enough for a Tiny neogi hatchling. The swarm can't regain hit points or gain temporary hit points.
Actions
Swarm of Bites
Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 22 (6d6 + 1) poison damage, or 11 (3d6 + 1) poison damage if the swarm has half of its hit points or fewer, and the target must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 1 minute. A target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Other data
description
A neogi looks like an outsize spider with an eel's neck and head. It can poison the body and the mind of its targets and can subjugate even beings that are physically superior.
Neogi usually dwell in far-flung locations on the Material Plane, as well as on the Astral Plane and the Ethereal Plane. They left their home world long ago to conquer and devour creatures in other realms. During this era, they dominated umber hulks and used them to build sleek, spidery ships capable of traversing the multiverse.
A neogi lives about a century. When an individual is rendered weak by advanced age, the other neogi in the group overpower it and inject it with a special poison. The toxin transforms the old neogi into a bloated mass of flesh. Younger neogi lay their eggs atop it, and when the hatchlings emerge, they devour the old neogi and one another until only a few of the strongest newborns are left. Sometimes the newborns, united by a singular evil purpose, coalesce into a skittering swarm instead.