Spider Climb. The Bloated Gastromorph can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.
Regeneration. The Bloated Gastromorph regains 10 hit points at the start of its turn. If the Bloated Gastromorph takes acid or fire damage, this trait doesn't function at the start of the Bloated Gastromorph's next turn. The Bloated Gastromorph dies only if it starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesn't regenerate.
Multiattack. The Bloated Gastromorph makes three attacks, only one of which can be a tongue attack. It can only make bite attacks against creatures it has grappled.
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 16 (3d8 + 3) bludgeoning damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 15) and is moved up to 5 feet toward the Bloated Gastromorph.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 25 (1d10 + 3) piercing damage. If the target is a Large or smaller creature grappled by the Bloated Gastromorph, the target is swallowed, and the grapple ends. While swallowed, the creature is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside the Boated Gastromorph, and it takes 21 (6d6) acid damage at the start of each of the Bloated Gastromorph's turns.
If the Bloated Gastromorph takes 40 damage or more from a single source, then all swallowed creatures are ejected from the Gastromorph. They fall prone in a space within 10 feet of the Gastromorph. If the Bloated Gastromorph dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained by it and can escape from the corpse using 15 feet of movement, exiting prone.
Tongue (Recharge 5–6). Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 25 ft., one target. Hit: 15 (2d12 + 3) poison damage. A creature that is hit by this attack must succeed a DC 17 Constitution saving throw or become paralyzed. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success.
Description
Fate always finds a way to manifest, and those who try to cheat it are often punished harshly. One of the most horrific anathemas, the Bloated Gastromorph, appears as a symbol of gluttony and selfishness. This horrific creature is whispered in folk tales and legends, often as a warning to children of the gruesome consequences awaiting those who recklessly indulge. There is truth in the tales, and they should be heeded with great care. A Bloated Gastromorph is a humanoid who has been twisted and transformed by the final stages of a Curse of Ravenous Hunger.
Enormous and bulging, the humanoid becomes a large, slug-like monster sprouting multiple hulking fist like claws, a wicked tentacle-like tongue, and a giant, voracious maw of gnashing teeth.
Often dwelling in dank ruins of once-great castles, a Bloated Gastromorph cares about nothing but consuming everything, alive or not. They do not remember their goals or comrades, for ultimately they are not the person they once were, now just a twisted incarnation of pure gluttony.