Innate Spellcasting. The lamia’s innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 13). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components.
At will: disguise self (any humanoid form), major image
3/day each: charm person, mirror image, scrying, suggestion
1/day: geas
Multiattack. The lamia makes two attacks: one with its claws and one with its dagger or Intoxicating Touch.
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d10 + 3) slashing damage.
Dagger. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d4 + 3) piercing damage.
Intoxicating Touch. Melee Spell Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: The target is magically cursed for 1 hour. Until the curse ends, the target has disadvantage on Wisdom saving throws and all ability checks.
What is a Lamia’s plane of existence if the original mortal was a Fey Eladrin elf and the Lamia lives in the material Plane? Is it the Abyss, Feywild, or Material plane? I suggest Abyss because the demon Lord Graz’zt creates them and they speak abyssal, but it seems like they live on the material plane.
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How old to Lamias live to be?
If they have lion characteristics is it not possible they can do leap attacks to knock an opponent prone for a raking attack?
Any thoughts about bird or snake versions?
Serpent version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamia
Mesopotamian version: Lamashtu is depicted as a mythological hybrid, with a hairy body, a lioness' head with donkey's teeth and ears, long fingers and fingernails, and the feet of a bird with sharp talons. She is often shown standing or kneeling on a donkey, nursing a pig and a dog, and holding snakes. She thus bears some functions and resemblance to the demon Lilith in Jewish mythology.
Medusa being cursed by Athena is actually a Roman myth, not a Greek one. Medusa in Greek myths was like other gorgons, though one of the oldest depictions we have of her actually show her has a centaur, which makes the fact that she is the mother of Pegasus suddenly make a lot more sense.
I also believe Lamia had varying descriptions, and being half snake was just the one of them. I think it was a poem from the renaissance that made everyone start to depict her as half snake.
So many monsters share this name and none of them that i know of have the lower half of a lion. This has pained me for 30 years
What's the point of giving lamias the ability to Disguise Self but only to a humanoid form? They're still Large creatures so they'll be noticeably bigger than any humanoid should be. The most they can do with their hindquarters is hide it as something other than their body or make it see-though and hope no one walks up behind them. They can't disguise themselves as a centaur because centaurs are considered fey.
Can anyone give me help? I’m trying to make a desert DnD campaign with a powerful arch lamia at the center of it, What abilities should I give her?