Had these attack the party last night and realised an oddity about them. After having swallowed a target, they can't do anything other than move... 10ft. They have no attack even against the swallowed creature because the damage occurs on the target's turn. It seems to me like it could do with some errata.
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"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
I think that's what they were intended to do. Think of it as a venus fly trap that has closed up around a prey, it couldn't do anything. As part of the biology for the mantrap, it makes sense if it were an opportunity predator, grabbing a single target and then digest it. Most normal fauna it would target would simply flee, but humanoids would attack back. So I think it's fine the way it is.
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Had these attack the party last night and realised an oddity about them. After having swallowed a target, they can't do anything other than move... 10ft. They have no attack even against the swallowed creature because the damage occurs on the target's turn. It seems to me like it could do with some errata.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
― Oscar Wilde.
I think that's what they were intended to do. Think of it as a venus fly trap that has closed up around a prey, it couldn't do anything. As part of the biology for the mantrap, it makes sense if it were an opportunity predator, grabbing a single target and then digest it. Most normal fauna it would target would simply flee, but humanoids would attack back. So I think it's fine the way it is.
Subclass: Dwarven Defender - Dragonborn Paragon
Feats: Artificer Apprentice
Monsters: Sheep - Spellbreaker Warforged Titan
Magic Items: Whipier - Ring of Secret Storage - Collar of the Guardian
Monster template: Skeletal Creature