Heated Body. A creature that touches the remorhaz or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of it takes 10 (3d6) fire damage.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 40 (6d10 + 7) piercing damage plus 10 (3d6) fire damage. If the target is a creature, it is grappled (escape DC 17). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, and the remorhaz can't bite another target.
Swallow. The remorhaz makes one bite attack against a Medium or smaller creature it is grappling. If the attack hits, that creature takes the bite's damage and 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 remorhaz, and it takes 21 (6d6) acid damage at the start of each of the remorhaz's turns.
If the remorhaz takes 30 damage or more on a single turn from a creature inside it, the remorhaz must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw at the end of that turn or regurgitate all swallowed creatures, which fall prone in a space within 10 feet of the remorhaz. If the remorhaz dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained by it and can escape from the corpse using 15 feet of movement, exiting prone.







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Posted Mar 6, 2021Heated Body. A creature that touches the remorhaz or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of it takes 10 (3d6) fire damage.
I believe that with this wording, if you are swallowed you are definitely touching the creature, so the fire damage would apply.
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Posted Mar 29, 2021What do you think does this monster weight?
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Posted Apr 20, 2021I speak here as my table's resident rules lawyer. Heated Body is one of the most abysmally written game features I have ever seen. The trait activates whenever the remorhaz is hit with a melee attack by a creature within 5 feet. That much is fine. A melee attack is a discrete event that we can pin down for the purpose of implementing the trait in battle. But this wording gives no indication for what is meant by touching the remorhaz. It is possible (and rather frequent) for a creature to be touching the remorhaz for more than one instant, such as when grappled or swallowed by the monster. This trait gives no indication for how often the damage occurs in this event, whether it is at the start of a given creature's turn, or even whether it can happen multiple times in a turn. So I'm going to calculate this monster's challenge rating to see what makes the most sense for a party fighting a monster with this challenge rating.
The monster has 195 hit points and 17 AC, so its defensive challenge rating is 9.
The monster deals 40+10 damage with its bite, and can be assumed to deal 21 damage twice with its stomach. 40+10+(21*2/3)=64. Its attack bonus is +11. If we ignore its Heated Body, the monster's offensive challenge rating is 12.
Even without Heated Body, the monster's challenge rating is already 10.5 rounded up to 11. That's troubling. If we assume that there are even two melee characters hitting this thing from within 5 feet twice a turn, thus incurring the trait four times per round, then this monster's challenge rating skyrockets faster than GameStop's stock last January. Fortunately, the Dungeon Master's Guide has something to say about this trait. In Chapter 9, in the bit where they talk about calculating challenge ratings, they mention that an azer's Elemental Body effectively increases the monster's per-round damage by the amount noted in the trait. But if you look at the azer's stat block, you'll see that the trait is actually called Heated Body and has identical wording to the remorhaz's Heated Body.
The monster is challenge rating 2, and is expected to be used against low level adventurers without Extra Attack. Even if a party relies on two melee fighters, at least one of them probably has a reach weapon, nullifying the trait, so it makes sense for an azer to deal damage with this trait only once per round. A remorhaz's Heated Body, however, is not so easily circumvented, since its challenge rating is so high that a single applicable melee fighter will take the damage twice. It's possible that the remorhaz touching and swallowing adventurers counts as the adventurers touching the remorhaz and can thus activate Heated Body, but let's see if Heated Body is enough without factoring that in.
So Heated Body effectively adds 20 to the damage output (thanks to a melee fighter's Extra Attack), increasing it to 84. With its attack bonus of +11, the offensive challenge rating is now 14. The final challenge rating is 11.5 rounded down to 11. So it seems like the best way to rule this trait is to make sure that the remorhaz's touches and attacks (as opposed to the opponents' touches and attacks) do not trigger Heated Body.
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Posted Apr 20, 2021That actually happened to us last night. Our DM sicced a remorhaz on us, and the bear totem barbarian DMPC got swallowed. The poor remorhaz was killed from within while underground... with the barbarian still in its stomach...
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Posted Apr 21, 2021Yes.
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Posted May 11, 2021You could rule that the thing starts taking acid damage too if an attack hits hard enough
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Posted Jul 16, 2021No multi attack though... So that helps?
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Posted Sep 7, 2021my party are currently fighting one wish me luck!
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Posted Sep 10, 2021Lel my dm just gave me one of these as a pet
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Posted Sep 16, 2021This things insane even with a lv 15+ 6 man group
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Posted Sep 21, 2021It's cool that frost giants tame these things considering that they are way stronger than any individual frost giant.
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Posted Nov 7, 2021Ok so just curious, say a party is fighting this thing and in the party is a Druid who is at a lvl high enough to wild shape into large creatures(yes Druid has circle of the moon). Let’s say by chance said Druid ends up on the tail end of an ambush and gets swallowed. What happens to the Remorhaz if the Druid Wild Shapes into a large animal while swallowed? The creatures stat block says medium or smaller can be swallowed so would the Druid be spewed up because it’s to large? What would happen?
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Posted Nov 15, 2021YES IT WOULD
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Posted Nov 30, 2021We're a level 4 party and had to face this. Let's just say. Ouch
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Posted Jan 6, 2022Killed my druid
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Posted Jan 20, 2022whats the plural. rhemorazes, rhemorazs, rhemorazi? this is my most important question.
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Posted Jan 27, 2022These guys can be rough, especially in melee. Range, range, range is all I can say!
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Posted Feb 3, 2022Maybe remorhaz is the plural and remorhazi is singular like Djinn and Djinni
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Posted Feb 13, 20223d6 every hit
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Posted Mar 23, 2022I'm about to paint a pair of these tonight on YouTube live. I have the Nolzur's Marvelous Miniatures adult remorhaz and the Gale Force 9 D&D collector's series one that is so much bigger.
I just assembled the Gale Force 9 tonight, magnetized it to its gargantuan base and magnetized its head to its neck.
I run Eberron 3.5, so I was looking at its entry in the monster manual that puts it at CR7 back then; however it didn't cause the fire damage when you struck it with melee weapons only if you struck it with an unarmed attack or with natural weapons. However, however it still dealt the fire damage to you when it, hits you.
It also had 7d10+35 (average 73hp) instead of 5e's 17D12+84 (avg 195hp) for hit dice.
If you advanced its hit dice, it maxed out at 21d10+105 (315 maxed).