Tiny Celestial (Bard, Monk, Shapechanger), Chaotic Good
Armor Class 16 natural armour
Hit Points 11 (4d4 + 3)
Speed 20 ft., Burrow 5 ft.
STR
10 (+0)
DEX
16 (+3)
CON
12 (+1)
INT
15 (+2)
WIS
15 (+2)
CHA
18 (+4)
Skills Acrobatics +6, Performance +9
Condition Immunities Charmed
Senses Darkvision 30 ft., Passive Perception 12
Languages common
Challenge 1 (200 XP)
Proficiency Bonus +2
Traits

Keen Smell. The raccoon has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.

Shapechanger. bunbuku can use its action to polymorph into a humanoid or into a raccoon dog, stone objects, a teapot, teapot-badger hybrid, or back into its true form, which is a tanuki. Its statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.

False Appearance. While taking the appearance of a stone object, or teapot and it remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from a stone object or cast iron teapot.

Innate Spellcasting. The tanuki's innate spellcasting ability is wisdom (spell save DC 12). The tanuki can innately cast the following spells, requiring no components:

At will: prestidigitation, druidcraft, Thaumaturgy, create and control water

1/day each: confusion, dancing lights detect thoughts, dispel magic, entangle, polymorph, sleep

the best cup of tea. as a teapot Bubbuku is always warm to the touch. Liquids can be heated up inside the pot without any external heat source, and any liquid that stays inside the pot will always be the perfect temperature for drinking tea. It can hold up to 1 quart of liquid.  A creature that drinking a cup of tea made by Bubbuku is granted one of the following effects, based on the choice of Bubbuku.

  1. lucky tea: grants the drinker inspiration to their next roll they make.
  2. assassin's tea. the drinker must roll a dc18 contention saving throw or take 4D8 poison damage and become poisoned. this poison ignores resistances or immunities.
  3. divine tea. the drinker is healed by 4D12 hit points, this works for undead.
  4. tricksters tea. the drinker is put under the effects of the "true polymorph" spell by BUbbuku.
Actions

Bite (raccoon dog/ teapot-badger form). Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1 piercing damage.

Steam Blast (teapot/teapot-badger)(Recharge 5-6). As a teapot can release a blast of steam. Bubbuku chooses whether to affect a 5-foot radius around itself or a 20-foot cone originating from itself. Creatures in the affected area take 10 (2d10) fire damage, or half damage with a successful DC 17 Constitution saving throw.

Description

At a temple called Morin-ji [ja] in Kōzuke Province (now Gunma Prefecture), the master priest (abbot) owns a chagama (tea kettle). When the priest sets the kettle on a hearth, the kettle sprouts a head and a tail (or legs as well), and turns into a half-badger, half tea-kettle creature. What is loosely translated as a "badger" here is strictly speaking a tanuki or raccoon dog.

The priest and his novices subdue it, and since it reverts to the form of an ordinary kettle, they sell it to a traveling tinker or rag-peddler. The kettle reveals its half-tanuki form to the peddler, and the merchant acts on a friend's advice to command the beast to turn tricks, or, is persuaded by the tanuki itself, which bargains to perform acrobatics in exchange for being well-treated. The peddler agrees to neither put it over hot flame nor stow it away in a stuffy box, and share what food he has.

The man sets up a circus-like roadside attraction and charges admission for people to see the tea-kettle badger walking a tightrope to the tune of music. The man becomes wealthy, and returns the kettle to Morin-ji temple.

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Monster Tags: Misc CreatureShapechangerhumanoid

Habitat: ForestMountainUrban

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