why does it have only one eye

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Can we please get an in-depth expansion of this super-weird creature, along the lines of the excellent entries in Volo's Guide to Monsters? Questions worth addressing: Since they can't understand the memories of their past lives, I would assume many of them can't remember their names from life. So, what sorts of names do they use? If they don't use names for themselves, what names do other intelligent creatures call them by? The fact that they have an ability dedicated to learning the secrets of other creatures, which suggests that they crave not only arcane knowledge, but intimate personal knowledge as well. And yet they are "content to watch" most of the time, which implies that they are quite solitary. There's an interesting tension here between desiring information gleaned (normally) from social interaction but also shunning such interaction. What is behind this tension? Why did Vecna leave this curse, if he himself is (or was) a lich, which means he too devoted his life to unearthing arcane secrets?

It feels like there's so much under the surface! I crave more! Give me all of your secrets!!!

He's the god of secrets, not the god of information known only to some.  It's like how a god of trees and a lumberjack both base their existence around trees, but the god isn't going to like the lumberjack that much.

Also craving to know the secrets of the nothics might just result in you learning those secrets the hard way.

Probably deep back story secrets

my party ate it

I just tamed one with the corpse of a random goblin and decided to call it norman

Holy shit this is cool. My players new favorite monster.

Ever heard of Chernobyl?

My character died to this

I wonder if I should stay as a nothic because right now I am cursed and am a nothic.

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I thought this was an Underdark monster, but I was making an encounter with one, and it didn't appear in the Underdark monsters section.

 RAW, the only language it can actually speak is Undercommon, which implies to me that they live in and/or around the Underdark as a rule of thumb. If they don't, then they would certainly know how to get there. 

 An example of a failing on the designers part.  It should speak whatever languages it knew before its transformation. Giving it Undercommon at random is nonsense.

yeet it out

Add the depth yourself. You're free to do so. Be a DM, not just a game runner.

oui

make sure not to give it 120 ft of truesight

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Why isn't this a race? I will make one. But i can't post it on here since i'm not paying for membership. It might just be a group thing. But either way, a good way of determining what the bonus stats are is to see the highest stat for the monster/beast/animal and use them. Be careful not to make them overpowered.

 good idea! just don't give it 120 ft of truesight 

Interesting powers, but wouldn't there ever be a battle situation where a Nothic used those huge talons it has? How much damage might they deal? Maybe 1-10? At two claw attacks per round, the damage could be formidable. (I just don't understand why there is no damage for that kind of attack, after seeing the image of the Nothic.)

Don't do meth kids

PSST! if you wanna make these weird guys worse, either raise the DC or the damage on Rotting Gaze if the Nothic got off a Weird insight on the PC it's attacking. Or give it the pounce ability from the panther: If the Nothic moves at least 15 feet straight toward a creature and then hits it with a claw attack on the same turn, that target must succeed on a DC 12 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone. If the target is prone, the Nothic can make one bite attack against it as a bonus action. I'd say +4 to hit, 1d4+3 piercing damage sounds fair

Like finding out one of the party members is plotting to vetray the others?