Amphibious. The toad can breathe air and water.
Standing Leap. The toad's long jump is up to 20 feet and its high jump is up to 10 feet, with or without a running start.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d10 + 2) piercing damage plus 5 (1d10) poison damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 13). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, and the toad can't bite another target.
Swallow. The toad makes one bite attack against a Medium or smaller target it is grappling. If the attack hits, the target is swallowed, and the grapple ends. The swallowed target is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside the toad, and it takes 10 (3d6) acid damage at the start of each of the toad's turns. The toad can have only one target swallowed at a time. If the toad dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained by it and can escape from the corpse using 5 feet of movement, exiting prone.
That's a funny-looking giant toad image...
How does this work if a druid wildshapes into this, does swallow attack, then reverts to normal form?
In my experience, the enemy is expelled as if the toad had died, minus the 5 feet of movement.
up to your dm
Small ranger who has this as a beast companion
Or a wizard with a nstg dm. Casts enlarge and lets it swallow large creatures. #lovemydm
Unfortunately beast companions can only be up to 1/4 challenge rating and be medium or smaller
Why does the reading sound so passive aggressive?
That's just Matt Mercer trying to inject some gravitas.
whats the source of this stat block? Its says Basic Rules p.136...where is that? (only asking cause I got a prickly DM)
Would frog work.
The picture to me looks very much like a displacer beast.
Haha, yeah you can take a frog as your beast companion. Won't be much use in combat unless you're thinking of the giant frog XD
Couple of months late, so probably no longer useful, but you can also find the stat block in Appendix A of the Monster Manual.
Omg why does this have more hit points than a tiger... lmao this seems wrong 😂
Get in my belly!
Why is the bite piercing damage ? Toad don't have teeth. And why the poison damage ? Toad are poisonous, not venomous.
If you are in something’s stomach, it’s stomach acids are going to burn you.
you prompted me to look this up, turns out frogs have teeth but toads do not, so giant frog is fine, but giant toad should do bludgeoning damage, and i can't find any info on venomous toads, so i'd change it so touch/attacks with 5ft dealt poison damage.