Magic Weapons. The chronal feeder’s attacks are treated as if magical.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 30 (8d6 + 2) piercing damage.
Dimensional Jaunt. As a bonus action, a chronal feeder can shift from the Material Plane to its home dimension or vice versa. If shifting to the Material Plane, it can use all of its movement to arrive up to 300 feet from its previous location (it often uses this ability to get around barriers or obstacles between itself and prey).
Snatch Prey (Recharge 6). The chronal feeder can attempt to grab an opponent and transfer itself and the opponent to its home dimension. The target can resist with a DC 12 Wisdom saving throw. The target comes back at the start of its next turn, but is displaced 50 feet upward into the closest open space, often resulting in a deadly fall.
Description
These segmented, six-foot-long creatures resemble larvae that have grown gargantuan and
vicious. They appear in places where time moves more slowly or more quickly than normal,
where balls and liquids move upslope, where a time traveler has visited, and where
space-time has fractured.
Dimensional Hunter. A chronal feeder can phase to and from its home dimension, and
it uses this ability to great effect when hunting prey. For instance, it can close on prey
otherwise protected by barriers or landscape features. It can also use the ability to draw
a victim’s attention and then launch a surprise attack from behind. It is unswerving in its
drive to find prey. Once a feeder marks its target, only killing it stops its relentless attacks.
Time Vermin. Chronal feeders seem drawn to time paradoxes and disruptions in spacetime.
They tend to eat those responsible (and those affected), potentially alleviating
the disturbance in the fabric of things, though that outcome might just be a side effect.
First and foremost, chronal feeders are parasites that phase into existence near a spatial
anomaly and feed to sate their own hunger. However, there are hints that the larvae may
represent the first life stage of a far more powerful and enigmatic entity.
***From Beasts of Flesh and Steel***
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