Aberrant Ground. The ground in a 10-foot radius around the mouther is doughlike difficult terrain. Each creature that starts its turn in that area must succeed on a DC 10 Strength saving throw or have its speed reduced to 0 until the start of its next turn.
Gibbering. The mouther babbles incoherently while it can see any creature and isn’t incapacitated. Each creature that starts its turn within 20 feet of the mouther and can hear the gibbering must succeed on a DC 10 Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, the creature can’t take reactions until the start of its next turn and rolls a d8 to determine what it does during its turn. On a 1 to 4, the creature does nothing. On a 5 or 6, the creature takes no action or bonus action and uses all its movement to move in a randomly determined direction. On a 7 or 8, the creature makes a melee attack against a randomly determined creature within its reach or does nothing if it can’t make such an attack.
Multiattack. The gibbering mouther makes one bite attack and, if it can, uses its Blinding Spittle.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 17 (5d6) piercing damage. If the target is Medium or smaller, it must succeed on a DC 10 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone. If the target is killed by this damage, it is absorbed into the mouther.
Blinding Spittle (Recharge 5–6). The mouther spits a chemical glob at a point it can see within 15 feet of it. The glob explodes in a blinding flash of light on impact. Each creature within 5 feet of the flash must succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw or be blinded until the end of the mouther’s next turn.
Gibbering Mouther is the best. Love it.
The most horrifying monster i've ever used
I`ll take it
Boost this thing's stats and you have yourself a shoggoth.
Bonus points if you can get weird looks from your players while you imitate the gibbering.
Wow this thing is awesome want a pet Gibbering Mouther
i was already insane, with a 10 minus 1 intelligence as a dragonborn babarian. lol XD
don't get within 20 feet and your fine actually very weak.
Great advice for wizards, but a lot of martial characters have melee-dependent abilities. Even rogues need someone within 5’ of the target to trigger their Sneak Attack.
The description in the monster manual is really gross
Driven to devour any creature it can reach, a Giberring mouther flows over its victims, transfixed by its mad ranting, its multitudinous voices temporarily silenced as it gnaws and swallows living flesh. The monster liquefies stone with which it comes into contact hindering creatures that overcome its gibbering and attempt to flee.
The Gibbering mouther leaves nothing of its prey behind. However, even as the last victim's body is consumed, its eyes and mouth boil to the surface, ready to join the chorus of tormented gibbering that welcomes the monster's next meal.
Favourite creature
Got this miniature in a Monster Compendium III booster. I was so happy and my players will not be....
So, the paladin in my group went down from a Gibbering Mouther's bite attack, (which was an attack of opportunity caused by the paladin fleeing after failing a Gibbering save, and being forced to run away up to his full movement in a random direction). The bite damage brought him to zero hit points. The monster manual says that if a bite kills the target, that target is absorbed into the Mouther. So, is that it? Is the paladin perma-dead? No death saves? No chance for healing? He's just gone? OR, is the paladin just unconscious, and gets to make his death saves per usual, and can benefit from healing per usual? The bite damage wasn't enough to kill him outright. So in this case, he's only absorbed when he's actually dead, right? When he fails three death saves with no healing, correct?
Basic rules around dropping to zero says that he has to go through the death saves before he actually does. Right now he is unconscious. If the bite was enough to outright kill the other creature, it would be consumed right away.
You could have the creature consume the dead body if the Paladin fails his/her death saving throws though. Then describe how the gibbering stops as disgusting eating noises replace the noises. And how afterwards the Paladin's mouth is seen on the creature, joining the rest with gibbering.
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when we played we took it out in three turns
Hey i cant find the shoggoth, do you have a link to it?
Shoggoths are not official content, but you can homebrew them.
I made it mayor of a town
Hi michaeldescada,
The short answer is 'yes', the pally is a gonner.
The Gibbering Mouther is driven to consume creatures transfixed by it's gibbering, which I assume the pally has done since he's running away. So the pally runs, let's assume he made his DC10 for getting over the slimy floor, AND made a DC10 save from being knocked prone by the Bite attack itself. So, he runs but gets enough damage to put him unconscious, and thus rolling Death Saves. The Gibbering Mouther WILL roll over him and consume him completely*, but it's an action to do so (movement) it may not have that turn (maybe it already moved it's max?). So, someone could have grabbed him and tried to rescue him.
*the description of this states that the creature consumed has it's eyes and mouth join the others to, well, gibber it up. This might be important, because...
Now, I believe you're asking is there any way to bring him back? Well, his body is gone. But his spirit still exists and can be put into another body. However, Reincarnate or Resurrection require a body or body part of the person to work, though it could be anything. Heck, a strand of hair. He's a paladin, why not a holy symbol of his god or something. You're the DM, up to you. The Rules As Written are only a suggestion. :)