Armor Class
12
(natural armor)
Hit Points
85
(10d10 + 30)
Speed
40 ft.
STR
21
(+5)
DEX
8
(-1)
CON
17
(+3)
INT
6
(-2)
WIS
10
(+0)
CHA
8
(-1)
Skills
Perception +4
Senses
Darkvision 60 ft., Passive Perception 14
Languages
Giant, Orc
Challenge
4 (1,100 XP)
Proficiency Bonus
+2
Two Heads. The ettin has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks and on saving throws against being blinded, charmed, deafened, frightened, stunned, and knocked unconscious.
Wakeful. When one of the ettin’s heads is asleep, its other head is awake.
Actions
Multiattack. The ettin makes two attacks: one with its battleaxe and one with its morningstar.
Battleaxe. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5) slashing damage.
Morningstar. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5) piercing damage.
Could a level 2 party win against one of these?
Advantage on perception checks gives +5 to passive perception, so this has a passive perception of 19 usually. It's a bit weird that it has expertise in perception on top of the advantage, it's kind of like it's getting the benefit of its trait twice. Not that I'm complaining, with its low wis.
2E monstrous compendium
Simple. Dominate one brain, Eat the other!
yeah
I'm going to make a variant on this monster where one of the ettin's heads is a wizard. The other head will probably just be a stupid thug. Possibly another spellcasting class. One cleric head, one wizard head. If both heads are awake at the same time, quarrels will get really hot. Literally!
old lore isn't canon anymore
Yay ettin
Wouldn't their passive perception be 19 since they have expertise in perception and advantage on perception checks, which gives a +5 to passive.
The perfect player character for two people.
That’s funny, I was just looking at this for a shadar-Kai / ettin character build. Please elaborate on the drow here!
Whatever you want it to be to make your game more fun, interesting, enjoyable or unique for your players. Does one head get controlled and therefore the right hand is beating the left head? Whatever you think makes for a fun and memorable encounter for your players should be the answer. imho.
I feel like this question is the whole reason the Ettin Ceremorph now exists.
"We're not brainless anymore."
Ceremorphosis causes one head, usually the left, to shrink and physically relocate to the chest, where it controls movement over the entire body as opposed to each head getting essentially one half (arm and leg)
the remaining head is centered a bit more, and now not needing to control any of the body, is free to EXCLUSIVELY focus on psionic attacks and communication
Cool! I don’t want to meet that in the middle of the night… or the day!!
Well, a new book has answered this question! Phandelver and Below: the Shattered Obelisk says it takes 2 tadpoles, one to control the body, and one to use illithid magic
This is covered in the new giant book that was released. One head sinks into the body and controls that aspect while the other controls all the psionic powers.
In Bigby's Glory of Giants they came out with an ettin ceromorph. One head controls the body and the other gets molded in and controls it's psionics.