| Mod | Save | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| STR | 22 | +6 | +6 |
| DEX | 16 | +3 | +7 |
| CON | 20 | +5 | +9 |
| Mod | Save | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| INT | 10 | +0 | +0 |
| WIS | 14 | +2 | +6 |
| CHA | 12 | +1 | +1 |
Limbo-Born Physiology. At the start of each of the ravager’s turns, it chooses one benefit until the start of its next turn: Advantage on attack rolls, Advantage on saving throws, or Resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage
Elastic Frame. The ravager’s limbs stretch and contort unnaturally. Its melee attacks have a reach of 10 feet, and it can climb difficult surfaces without an ability check.
Predatory Instinct, Primal Mind. The ravager has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks relying on smell or movement. When reduced below half its hit points, it gains advantage on melee attack rolls.
Unstable Presence. Creatures that start their turn within 10 feet of the ravager must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or have disadvantage on their next attack roll as reality subtly warps around them.
Multiattack. The chaosstripe ravager makes three attacks: one bite and two claw attacks.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 21 (3d10 + 6) piercing damage.
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 17 (2d10 + 6) slashing damage.
Warping Pounce. If the ravager moves at least 20 feet straight toward a creature and then hits it with a claw attack on the same turn, the target must succeed on a DC 17 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone and grappled (escape DC 17). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained.
Chaos Howl (Recharge 5–6). The ravager releases a reality-warping roar. Each creature of its choice within 30 feet must make a DC 16 Constitution saving throw. On a failure, a creature takes 36 (8d8) psychic damage and is pushed up to 15 feet in a random direction. On a success, the creature takes half damage and isn’t pushed.
Reflexive Shift. When the ravager is hit by an attack, it can move up to 10 feet without provoking opportunity attacks, its body briefly blurring and distorting.
Description
Chaosstripe ravagers resemble massive, broad-shouldered predators with the striped fur and fanged jaws of a tiger combined with the long arms, gripping hands, and hunched posture of an orangutan. Their muscles ripple unnaturally, stretching and compressing as if their skeleton struggles to keep up.
Their fur patterns constantly shift, stripes sliding and rearranging as if painted on liquid skin.
Their eyes are intelligent — but never focused on the same thing for long.
Lore
Born from Limbo’s raw chaos, chaosstripe ravagers are not truly beasts, nor truly thinking creatures. They are living compromises between instinct and proto-thought, shaped by the plane’s instability.
They hunt not for hunger alone, but for stimulation.
Githzerai monks view them as tests of mental discipline — creatures that cannot be defeated through strength alone.
Temperament
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Highly territorial, but not malicious
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Easily distracted by movement, magic, or emotional outbursts
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Can be temporarily calmed by focused will or meditative magic
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Becomes wildly aggressive when reality stabilizes around it
Where Parties Might Encounter One
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Roaming unstable islands of Limbo
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As a failed gith experiment in imposed order
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Guarding a chaos node or proto-reality anchor
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Accidentally summoned by reckless planar magic
They are often first noticed by the ground rippling beneath their feet.
In-World Saying
“If it stares too long, it’s already changed.”
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