Hold Breath. While out of water, the octopus can hold its breath for 1 hour.
Underwater Camouflage. The octopus has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made while underwater.
Water Breathing. The octopus can breathe only underwater.
Tentacles. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it is grappled (escape DC 16). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, and the octopus can't use its tentacles on another target.
Ink Cloud (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). A 20-foot-radius cloud of ink extends all around the octopus if it is underwater. The area is heavily obscured for 1 minute, although a significant current can disperse the ink. After releasing the ink, the octopus can use the Dash action as a bonus action.
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Posted May 26, 2018OP baby. Get Grappled!
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Posted Jun 14, 2019Agreed, between it's health, stealth, and grapple it should be a cr 2. Spawning in 4 of them with a level 5 conjure animals would be insane underwater.
And I allow my players to choose which beasts to summon with it (as long as it's the appropriate habitat). So the cr for monsters can be pretty important.
Glad I can adjust the CR however I want.
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Posted Jul 27, 2019yolo sweg
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Posted Aug 1, 2019As written above though, it can only grapple exactly one character, and cannot attack anyone else while it does so. It's not grabbing or attacking, say, up to eight characters here.
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Posted Apr 8, 2020I am surprised that this creature is only challenge one. It is very good.
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Posted Apr 17, 2020Yeah.
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Posted Apr 19, 2020Did Marisha Ray voice this?
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Posted Jun 20, 2020sounds like it! lol
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Posted Jul 7, 2020why does the octopus only have an intelligence of 4?
They are one of the most intelligent animals! It should be 6-8 at least
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Posted Aug 1, 2020yes, Marisha Ray and Matt Mercer did the voice work on the monster names
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Posted Oct 24, 2020I agree. I would even go as far as a 10 or 11. These creatures are smart as heck.
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Posted Oct 24, 2020As a reference for the octopuses ability to color change:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vKCLJZbytU
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Posted Oct 24, 2020Also they should get psionics imo ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjS2-Ftj_K4
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Posted Nov 19, 2020They really did octopuses dirty. No venomous bite and average intelligence for a giant animal? Laaaaaaaaaame.
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Posted Dec 16, 2020This animal schould be threated like Giant Owls or Giant Eagles, with its own Language an int of 9-13 and some (small) spells like camourflage or psionics.
These animals are more intelligent than an avarage Child or even Teen. They are even in an real live Seting scary intelligent and proficient!
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Posted Jan 4, 2021Yeah. WotC really goofed up on this one. Wouldnt they be able to climb also? They (Octopuses) can climb in real life.
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Posted Feb 19, 2021Yes, and cats have pupils that automatically adjust allowing them to see better in low light. You also can not heal to full health by sleeping for 8 hrs and there are a ton of other things that are not 100% realistic in the game (most of them are done for balance purposes) but although I could go through listing all these things I can find I see no point really. If it is a problem that some creatures/things are not exactly as they are in real life talk to the DM to see if they will homebrew some things for you (depending on what you ask they may allow it and it never hurts to ask). However, it is the DM decision in the end and if you have a problem with things not being 100% realistic perhaps you should not be playing any board/video games at all since none are 100% realistic (especially games like D&D that have magic).
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Posted Mar 30, 2021It's likely the low AC that gives it the low CR number.
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Posted Apr 11, 2021Needs to be smarter!
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Posted Apr 12, 2021As a reference for the octopuses ability to color change:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vKCLJZbytU
Best response. I got dragged into a youtube hole after watching that video and now I'm not even sure I want my party to kill an octopus Lol. They're so cool!