Storm Crab
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants p. 181
- Size
- Gargantuan
- Type
- monstrosity
- Alignment
- unaligned
- AC
- 18 (natural armor)
- Hit Points
- 155 (10d20+50)
- Speed
- walk 40 ft., swim 60 ft.
- Saving Throws
- Str +10, Con +9
- Skills
- Perception +6
- Resistances
- cold, fire, lightning
- Senses
- blindsight 60 ft.
- Passive Perception
- 16
- Languages
- understands Giant but can't speak
- Challenge
- 11
- Lineage
- Crab
Traits
Proficiency Bonus
+4
Amphibious
The crab can breathe air and water.
Actions
Multiattack
The crab makes two Claw attacks and one Stinger attack.
Claw
Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 19 (3d8 + 6) bludgeoning damage. If the target is a Huge or smaller creature, it has the grappled condition (escape DC 16). The crab has four claws, each of which can grapple one target.
Stinger
Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 10 ft., one creature. Hit: 22 (3d10 + 6) piercing damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw or have the poisoned and paralyzed conditions for 1 minute. The affected creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending both the poisoned and paralyzed conditions on itself on a success.
Water Jet (Recharge 5-6)
The crab exhales water in a 150-foot line that is 10 feet wide. Each creature in that area must make a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 27 (6d8) bludgeoning damage, is pushed up to 30 feet from the crab, and has the prone condition. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage only.
recharge
D5
Other data
description
Storm crabs are colossal crustaceans with four monstrous claws and a poisonous stinger. Equally adept underwater or on shore, they can exhale a jet of pressurized water to crush foes. Giants on some worlds claim Stronmaus or one of his children created storm crabs in the early years of an ancient empire. Just as behirs were created to fight dragons on land and rocs to challenge dragons' mastery of the sky, storm crabs were meant to battle dragon turtles, bronze dragons, and other aquatic foes. On many worlds, these creatures fiercely guard the underwater strongholds of storm giants, as well as the ruined keeps giants have abandoned.