Water Breathing. The death minnow can breathe only underwater.
Swallow. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: The target is swallowed by the death minnow. A swallowed creature is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside the death minnow, and it takes 3 (1d6) acid damage at the start of each of the death minnow’s turns.
The death minnow's stomach is a magical prison that is treated as a separate creature. The stomach can be attacked by a swallowed creature (AC 15; +0 to all saving throws; 100 hit points; immunity to acid and psychic damage). Damaging the stomach deals no damage to the death minnow, and it regains all its hit points when the death minnow finishes a long rest. Reducing the stomach to 0 hit points causes it to rupture, instantly killing the death minnow. If the death minnow dies, a swallowed creature can escape from the corpse by using 20 feet of movement, exiting prone.
Gulp. When the death minnow is attacked by a creature within 5 feet of it, it can use its reaction to make a Swallow attack against that creature before the outcome of the creature's attack is determined.
Description
Created by aboleths and sea hags to guard their lairs or treasuries, death minnows resemble Tiny fish no longer than a human finger. Each death minnow patrols the waters assigned to it by its creator, fearlessly approaching any threat that encroaches on its territory. Its inconspicuous size leads many creatures to identify the death minnow as prey or to ignore it entirely. Both scenarios end in the same result when the death minnow's true nature is revealed.
A death minnow swallows its prey whole — regardless of the prey's size. The mechanics as to how a 3- to 4- inch fish can swallow prey hundreds of times larger than itself whole varies from creator to creator; but typically involve the death minnow's stomach being magically modified to act as a demiplane or extradimensional space.
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