Cosmic Resilience. The crawler does not need to breath and is immune to cold damage.
Insectoid Lifecycle. The crawler reproduces rapidly anywhere its food sources are plentiful, and goes through a portion of its life with massive wings that fold up on its back and give it a flying speed of 15 feet.
Spider Climb. The crawler can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.
Sense Life. The crawler senses the presence of all living creatures within 120 feet of it at will.
Multiattack. The crawler makes two attacks: one with its tentacles and one with its bite.
Tentacles. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 10 ft., one creature. Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2) psychic damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 13 Intelligence saving throw or be paralyzed for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the paralysis on itself on a success.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (2d4 + 2) piercing damage. On a hit, if the target is paralyzed by the crawler's tentacle attack, the target's Intelligence score is reduced by 1d4. The target dies if this reduces its Intelligence to 0. Otherwise, the reduction lasts until the target finishes a short or long rest.
Psychic Chitter (Recharge 5–6). The crawler emits a horrid buzz to stun its prey. Each creature within 30 feet of the crawler must succeed on a DC 13 Intelligence saving throw or become stunned until the end of the crawler's next turn. A creature that can’t hear the drone automatically succeeds on the save.
Description
Cosmic crawlers scour the astral plane for the scantest remnants of organic material and begin devouring it as soon they find it. They aggressively attack any living creature they come into contact with.
Psychic Feeders. A cosmic crawler can sense if their main food source-- life, is nearby. And because life is scarce in their environment, the crawlers have evolved to consume every bit of their prey, including their thoughts and memories, and then moving on to their flesh and bones, gorging until every last bit is devoured.
The life force they consume is converted into pure psychic energy they store up in sacs located within their hulking bodies. These resourceful monsters then hunker down on asteroids where they can enter a state of hibernation, feeding off that stored energy for several centuries, before they are stirred awake again by the presence of prey nearby.
A cosmic crawler reproduces by ejecting eggs from it's abdomen into the vastness of the astral sea, a small portion of which will attach to passing asteroids or other solid surfaces where the egg can incubate and eventually hatch.
Patient Predators. Wherever the cosmic crawler roams, life signals a potential meal. A cosmic crawler might follow a life sign from a distance for weeks, hoping to locate the source of psychic energy. Despite their great size, cosmic crawlers can also easily set up ambushes by waiting around blind corners for prey to come to them.
When facing potential prey or intruders, a cosmic crawler lets its psychic attacks do the work. Once a victim goes rigid with paralysis, the cosmic crawler wraps it with its tentacles and drags it away to a high ledge or isolated crater, where it can be killed and devoured safely. The monster then either resumes its hibernation or patrols the area for more food.
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