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While Scylla has not attacked for at least one minute, it is indistinguishable from a little girl wearing a white dress.
Quick Learner.
If Scylla spends at least one minute studying and observing a creature, she learns how many hitpoints they have, their armor class, their strength, constitution, dexterity, and wisdom scores. Scylla has advantage on attack rolls and charisma checks against a creature she has studied.
I’m a Monster!
As an Action, Scylla can revert from her smaller human disguise into her true form, which is that of a small human with six tentacles ending in dog heads where her legs should be. (In her disguised form the tentacles are retracted and hiding under her dress) In this form, she is gargantuan sized and has an extra +30 feet of movement in all of her speeds. In addition, she gains access to her frightful presence and tear apart attacks. When not in her monstrous form, any attacks that use her dog heads seemingly come from the ground, where her dog heads have burrowed around her to strike. Scylla has six dog heads, and can only ever use those many dog heads in attacks at a time. She regains the use of any dog heads that haven’t been used for a bite, Sic’Em, Sentinel or Tear apart or that currently aren’t being used at the start of her turn.
Actions
Multiattack.
Scylla makes two bite attacks. She can replace one bite attack with Deep Fire. She then uses either Sic’em or Sentinel.
Deep Fire.
Ranged Spell Attack: +10 to hit, range 30/90 ft., one target. Hit: 1d12+10 force damage.
Bite.
Melee Weapon Attack: +15 to hit, reach 50 ft., one target. Hit: 2d6+15 piercing damage and the target is grappled and pulled thirty feet towards Scylla.
Frightful Presence (monstrous form only).
Each creature of Scylla's choice that is within 120 feet of Scylla and aware of it must succeed on a DC 20 Wisdom saving throw or become frightened for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a creature's saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the creature is immune to Scylla's Frightful Presence for the next 24 hours.
Crushing Force.
Scylla flings an orb of concussive, exploding force that explodes in a 20 foot radius in a place within 60 feet of Scylla. Any creature caught in the explosion must make a DC 20 Dexterity saving throw or take 5d12 force damage, or half on a success.
Sic’Em.
Melee Weapon Attack: +15 to hit, reach 300 ft., one target. Hit: 1d6+8 bludgeoning damage and the target is restrained (escape DC 23) by two of Scylla’s dog heads. At the start of a restrained creature’s turn, they take 1d8+8 piercing damage as Scylla’s dog heads bite at the restrained creature. A restrained creature moves with Scylla.
Sentinel.
One of Scylla’s dog heads moves to a place within 300 feet of Scylla. Scylla does not need to see this location. Scylla can see and hear out of the dog head and make bite attacks centered on it, one attack per turn. As a bonus action on her turn, Scylla can use the dog head to pull herself to its location, instantly traveling there. The dog head cannot leave the area within 300 feet of Scylla and lasts for one minute. s
Scylla can have an amount of Sentinels equal to the amount of dog heads she has not already grappling a creature with Sic’Em or Tear apart.
Tear Apart (Monstrous form only) (recharge 6).
Scylla uses four of her six dog heads to grab and tear at a creature within 60 feet of her. That creature must make a dexterity saving throw or become restrained (escape DC 23) and take 14d10 bludgeoning and slashing damage (half each) or half on a success. If they fail the saving throw, on Scylla’s next turn they take the damage again. This happens for up to three rounds. If a creature is reduced to Zero hitpoints from this attack, it is torn into several pieces and dies instantly. A creature restrained by Sic’Em has disadvantage on this saving throw, and Scylla only needs to use two extra dog heads instead of four. A restrained creature moves with Scylla.
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My only comment is that she isn't very mechanically interesting. How is fighting her special compared to any other monster of her CR? What makes her more than a bag of HP that talks in deep speech and deals damage?
Hmm you’re right. Luckily I saw this before I had to go so I might have some ideas to make her slightly more interesting (though I would appreciate your input as well)
my first idea was to make her more fragile. She has quite a few hitpoints and I think it would be more interesting if she was sort of a glass cannon, maybe she needs to rely on stealth attacks and her movement to avoid getting hit.
my second idea is that possibly she could inflict some sort of condition like a disease or exhaustion that would make her tougher to fight, because she leeches your resources.
final idea is that I should lean more and expand on the “quick learner,” trait. This statblock is based off of a video game version of Scylla who has an ability called Quick learner. What if she could copy spells after seeing someone cast them or be able to mimic someone’s voices and speaking patterns? It could turn her into more of a surprise/mystery monster like a doppelgänger, especially since she already usually looks human.
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anyways Vitus how do you like the Scylla stat block? Anything that you think could be improved?
Very well, good sir. For thee I shalt tameth mine tongue and lash it closely. The bonds of fellowship betwixt mine tongue and thy hated slang shalt be sundered from the clenches of that wicked Generation Z. Thine ears shalt heareth such foul tongue no more. No more!
But thine eyes on the other hand...
One thing I am thinking is that the range of Scylla's attack could be scaled down a bit. Pretty much cover an entire map for all practical purposes, unless you're thinking of a designing encounters where's she's ensconced in a rock for cover and just sending her dog-heads throughout a dungeon.
CEASE THOU FOUL DEMON LANGUAGE, BACK TO THE UNDERWORLD FROM WHENCE YOU CAME
anyways Vitus how do you like the Scylla stat block? Anything that you think could be improved?
Very well, good sir. For thee I shalt tameth mine tongue and lash it closely. The bonds of fellowship betwixt mine tongue and thy hated slang shalt be sundered from the clenches of that wicked Generation Z. Thine ears shalt heareth such foul tongue no more. No more!
But thine eyes on the other hand...
One thing I am thinking is that the range of Scylla's attack could be scaled down a bit. Pretty much cover an entire map for all practical purposes, unless you're thinking of a designing encounters where's she's ensconced in a rock for cover and just sending her dog-heads throughout a dungeon.
I wanted the range of her attacks to be long because she supposedly sits on the edge of a cliff and attacks passing sailors from the top with her dog heads. But then again maybe her main attacks should have a shorter range and I keep the range of sentinel (might also reduce the range of Tear apart to 30 or something) so Sic’em would go from 300 to like 120 or less. And Baalz did mention that she isn’t very interesting mechanically, so have any ideas to fix that?
Mm, makes sense. Gonna try and wait for Baalz’s feedback before redoing her, and I kinda want to test her out somehow as is. Gonna try and see if anyone is on that could do that.
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Ah, you see, I usually do those when I’m entering a thread for the first time in a few hours. I’ve been fairly active on this thread so I do not need some sort of horrifying or sinister event to announce my presence or say hello.
*pours poisoned tea as you sit down at my table*
how was your day going?
and would you be possibly be interested in helping me test my monster out against a high level group?
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Ah, you see, I usually do those when I’m entering a thread for the first time in a few hours. I’ve been fairly active on this thread so I do not need some sort of horrifying or sinister event to announce my presence or say hello.
*pours poisoned tea as you sit down at my table*
That’s more like it!
how was your day going?
and would you be possibly be interested in helping me test my monster out against a high level group?
Good! Life is great lately, especially with spring finally showing its face. How about you?
And yes, totally — only issue is that I don’t have any high-leveled characters to use. No good ones, at least.
Alrighty! I will be redesigning it after I get Somme feedback (hopefully from Baalz and people who help me test it) to see what is a cool ability and what is either too weak, broken, or just not fun.
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I'm a disabled, neurodivergent, artsy dumpster fire, and somewhat of a clown. But, I'm also god's favorite princess and the most interesting girl in the world.
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Locations are dead, the Temple of Potassium has fallen but its ideals live on
A mysterious link of chain... (Extended signature). PRAISE JEFF THE EVIL ROOMBA! REALLY cool video.
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Titles: The Echoing Story Spewer from Drummer, the Endless Maws from Isis, the Mad Murderer from PJ
Hmm you’re right. Luckily I saw this before I had to go so I might have some ideas to make her slightly more interesting (though I would appreciate your input as well)
my first idea was to make her more fragile. She has quite a few hitpoints and I think it would be more interesting if she was sort of a glass cannon, maybe she needs to rely on stealth attacks and her movement to avoid getting hit.
my second idea is that possibly she could inflict some sort of condition like a disease or exhaustion that would make her tougher to fight, because she leeches your resources.
final idea is that I should lean more and expand on the “quick learner,” trait. This statblock is based off of a video game version of Scylla who has an ability called Quick learner. What if she could copy spells after seeing someone cast them or be able to mimic someone’s voices and speaking patterns? It could turn her into more of a surprise/mystery monster like a doppelgänger, especially since she already usually looks human.
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anyways Vitus how do you like the Scylla stat block? Anything that you think could be improved?
Very well, good sir. For thee I shalt tameth mine tongue and lash it closely. The bonds of fellowship betwixt mine tongue and thy hated slang shalt be sundered from the clenches of that wicked Generation Z. Thine ears shalt heareth such foul tongue no more. No more!
But thine eyes on the other hand...
One thing I am thinking is that the range of Scylla's attack could be scaled down a bit. Pretty much cover an entire map for all practical purposes, unless you're thinking of a designing encounters where's she's ensconced in a rock for cover and just sending her dog-heads throughout a dungeon.
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I wanted the range of her attacks to be long because she supposedly sits on the edge of a cliff and attacks passing sailors from the top with her dog heads. But then again maybe her main attacks should have a shorter range and I keep the range of sentinel (might also reduce the range of Tear apart to 30 or something) so Sic’em would go from 300 to like 120 or less. And Baalz did mention that she isn’t very interesting mechanically, so have any ideas to fix that?
I really haven't put any effort into homebrewing monsters myself. So that's probably not something I can answer.
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Mm, makes sense. Gonna try and wait for Baalz’s feedback before redoing her, and I kinda want to test her out somehow as is. Gonna try and see if anyone is on that could do that.
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Ah, you see, I usually do those when I’m entering a thread for the first time in a few hours. I’ve been fairly active on this thread so I do not need some sort of horrifying or sinister event to announce my presence or say hello.
*pours poisoned tea as you sit down at my table*
how was your day going?
and would you be possibly be interested in helping me test my monster out against a high level group?
Hello I wanna do that
My name’s Gradius, this is my second account :P I love Hollow Knight and I have been on ddb for a while. Come rp with me anytime! It is my purpose. My title that was given to me by Drummer is…SPIRIT OF THE WEST, GUARDIAN OF THE HOLLOWS.
No cost too great. No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering. Born of God and Void.
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That’s more like it!
Good! Life is great lately, especially with spring finally showing its face. How about you?
And yes, totally — only issue is that I don’t have any high-leveled characters to use. No good ones, at least.
Terra Lubridia archive:
The Bloody Barnacle | The Gut | The Athene Crusader | The Jewel of Atlantis
Alrighty! I will be redesigning it after I get Somme feedback (hopefully from Baalz and people who help me test it) to see what is a cool ability and what is either too weak, broken, or just not fun.