| Mod | Save | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| STR | 16 | +3 | +3 |
| DEX | 12 | +1 | +1 |
| CON | 13 | +1 | +1 |
| Mod | Save | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| INT | 2 | -4 | -4 |
| WIS | 10 | +0 | +0 |
| CHA | 5 | -3 | -3 |
Crush. Melee Attack Roll: +5, reach 5 ft. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) Bludgeoning damage, and the darkmantle attaches to the target. If the target is a Medium or smaller creature and the darkmantle had Advantage on the attack roll, it covers the target, which has the Blinded condition and is suffocating while the darkmantle is attached in this way.
While attached to a target, the darkmantle can attack only the target but has Advantage on its attack rolls. Its Speed becomes 0, it can’t benefit from any bonus to its Speed, and it moves with the target.
A creature can take an action to try to detach the darkmantle from itself, doing so with a successful DC 13 Strength (Athletics) check. On its turn, the darkmantle can detach itself by using 5 feet of movement.
Darkness Aura (1/Day). Magical Darkness fills a 15-foot Emanation originating from the darkmantle. This effect lasts while the darkmantle maintains Concentration on it, up to 10 minutes. Darkvision can’t penetrate this area, and no light can illuminate it.
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Posted Feb 7, 2025Is it really intended that no light at all, not even magical light of a high level, can penetrate this darkness? This seems way too strong for a CR 1/2 monster that also has Blindvision as the only counter is Blindsight or Truesight and those are quite rare for PC's to have at lower levels. Also possible to use an AoE spell to make it break concentration, but that can have a lot of collateral damage as my PC's found out yesterday.
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Posted Feb 8, 2025You could also just attack it, even with the disadvantage it only has an AC of 11
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Posted Mar 6, 2025Why does a land squid have so much hit points?
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Posted Mar 10, 2025So the darkmantle attaches to a target whether or not the attack is made with Advantage, but only blinds and suffocates the target if it has Advantage. But while it's attached it has Advantage on attacks against the attached target, so would that mean that the second attack does cause the target to be "covered", blinded and suffocating?
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Posted Apr 22, 2025I love the complete artwork where u can see how it falls onto his victim.
For stats, lost false appearance so its just a DM thing now.
His Aura and attack didnt change if i read this right.
So...Overall nothing new here which isnt bad.
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Posted Apr 22, 2025If i read it correctly it is covered when you hit an attack with advantage, which it gets from his Aura. So it needs one action to cover it and then on his next action it attacks and if it hits the target is blinded and suffocating.