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Returning 35 results for 'Grell'.
Monsters
Monster Manual
Abduct. The grell needn’t spend extra movement to move a creature it is grapple;grappling.Multiattack. The grell makes one Beak attack and one Paralyzing Tentacles attack.
Beak. Melee Attack
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Monsters
Monster Manual (2014)
Multiattack. The grell makes two attacks: one with its tentacles and one with its beak.
Tentacles. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Tentacles"} to
target is also grappled (escape DC 15). If the target is Medium or smaller, it is also restrained until this grapple ends. While grappling the target, the grell has advantage on attack rolls against it
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Multiattack. The grell psychic makes one Tentacle attack and one Beak attack.
Beak. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Beak"} to hit, reach 5 ft
grell can’t make Tentacle attacks against other targets. When the grell moves, any Medium or smaller target it is grappling moves with it.
Spellcasting (Psionics). The grell psychic casts one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Grell A grell resembles a bulbous floating brain with a wide, sharp beak. Its ten long tentacles are made of hundreds of ring-shaped muscles sheathed in tough fibrous hide. Sharp barbs line the tip
each tentacle and inject paralytic venom. The grell can partially retract its barbs into its tentacles to handle or manipulate objects it doesn’t want to pierce or tear. Grells have no eyes and floats
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Grell A grell resembles a bulbous floating brain with a wide, sharp beak. It prefers to ambush lone creatures or stragglers, hovering silently near the ceiling of a passage or cavern until a suitable
target passes below, whereupon it descends quickly and wraps its tentacles around its prey. It then floats away to its lair with the paralyzed creature in its clutches. Grell
Medium aberration
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Grell Bizarre Hunter That Travels between Worlds Habitat: Underdark; Treasure: None Domenico Cava With barbed tentacles sprouting from their brain-shaped bodies, grells hunt the lightless depths
pursue methods of traveling between worlds and planes of existence. They sometimes slip onto star-faring vessels or enter portals heedless of their destination. Roll on or choose a result from the Grell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
5. Grell Hideout At the end of a long hall is a 50-foot-square room with five pillars made of mortared humanoid bones, painted black. Two grells float in separate alcoves to the north and the east
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
Grell (p. 172) Beak: “one creature” is changed to “one target.”
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
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Two sapphire dragon wyrmling;sapphire dragon wyrmlings vie for the same territory. Their primary battle tactic involves luring grell;grells into each other’s lairs.
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A group of Lolth
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
the mine of the pesky dragonlings. When the characters investigate, they discover that all is not what it seems. The kobold leader has been possessed by a ghost, and a grell has infiltrated the mine
, setting the kobolds on edge. The characters can either try to parley with the kobolds and get them to leave the mine peacefully, or they can rid Ten-Towns of their presence permanently and try to deal with the grell on their own.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Nar’l Xibrindas Nar'l Xibrindas and Grell Bodyguard Xanathar’s advisor is a nervous and conniving male drow named Nar’l Xibrindas. Nar’l’s house was wiped out long ago, but he and his elder brother
. Xanathar is aware that something is off with Nar’l, and recently assigned him a grell bodyguard. The grell has instructions to dispose of Nar’l at the first sign of disloyalty. Game Statistics Nar’l
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Green hag
Grell
Hell hound
Hobgoblin captain
Hook horror
Killer whale
Knight
Kuo-toa monitor
Manticore
Minotaur
Mummy
Nightmare
Owlbear
Phase spider
Quaggoth thonot
Spectator
Veteran
Water weird
Werewolf
Wight
Winter wolf
Yeti
Yuan-ti malison
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Dragon Wyrmling
Green Hag
Grell
Hell Hound
Hobgoblin Captain
Hook Horror
Killer Whale
Knight
Kuo-toa Monitor
Manticore
Minotaur of Baphomet
Mummy
Nightmare
Owlbear
Phase
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
her quarters (area 11b), or vice versa. A light cantrip cast on the top of her staff lights her path. Skrianna’s shield guardian marches a few steps behind her. Floating nearby is a grell valet that
headmaster and the characters, she takes her spellbook and returns to her quarters as commanded, but not before ordering her grell valet to shadow the party, spy on their activities, and report back
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Githzerai Psion
Githzerai Zerth
Gray Slaad
Green Slaad
Grell
Grick
Grick Ancient
Grimlock
Intellect Devourer
Kuo-toa
Kuo-toa Archpriest
Kuo-toa Monitor
Kuo-toa Whip
Mind Flayer
Mind Flayer Arcanist
Nothic
Otyugh
Piercer
Red Slaad
Roper
Slaad Tadpole
Spectator
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
grell caves (areas J1 through area J4) is 2 miles. The distance from the grell caves to the behir lair (areas J5 to area J7) is 3 miles. The distance from the behir lair to the fleshy pit (areas J8 to
contact distant patrons. J3: Grell Lair This tall chamber contains stalactites and stalagmites. Many of them are broken, littering the floor with sharp stones.
Four grells lurk amid the stalactites
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. Cosmic Horror Monsters Challenge Creature Source
1/4 Kuo-toa MM
2 Intellect devourer MM
2 Pentadrone MM
3 Brain in a jar VGR
3 Githyanki warrior MM
3 Grell MM
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
to return. After the mine reopens, it isn’t long before workers start disappearing one by one—victims of the grell.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Feeder Trenches Locations Grells throughout the Far Realm come to the Feeder Trenches for the strange and delicious (to them) fluid prepared by a grell named Feedkeeper Naruv. Naruv’s newest offering
runs the length of this room. Two enormous creatures with dangling tentacles slurp the sludge from the trough.
When the characters arrive, two grells are feeding from the trough. One grell is the host
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
descends thousands of feet into the Underdark. This shaft predates the mine, and efforts to seal it off have been unsuccessful. It was by this route that the grell invaded the mine in search of food
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
the jars here; the resulting alchemical stew mutated three of the brains in this room. The now-floating brains (use the grell stat block) attack any creatures that enter the area. Two helmet-like
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
(starboard segment; area Z10) 4 Grell nest (starboard segment; area Z11) 5 Study (starboard segment; area Z13) 6 Bridge (prow segment; area Z17)
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
grell. This aberration was latest seen snatching up an old woman in the Dock Ward. Unless we intervene, she won’t be the last.” Locating the grell requires a successful DC 18 Intelligence
grell tries to flee if the other is killed. Reward: Each Emerald Enclave character gains 2 renown. Jeryth bestows a charm of heroism (see “Supernatural Gifts” in chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide) on each party member who helped slay the grells.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
don’t like what they hear, three of the wisps attack. The other two break away to warn Vertrand (area 17) and Berlain (area 18b), who, along with Berlain’s grell valets, converge on this area. If a battle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
duergar in a keelboat 4 1 green hag 5 1 grell 6–7 1d6 + 2 ixitxachitl (see appendix C) 8 1d4 kuo-toa in a keelboat 9 1d4 merrow 10 3d6 stirges 11 1 swarm of quippers 12 1 water weird Aquatic Troll An
at stake. If this encounter occurs again, it might be with Nanny or one of her sisters, Maven Delve or Dame Spiderwort. Grell A grell descends from the cavern ceiling, attempting to grab and paralyze
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
causes the breeze to fill this corridor, creating the effect of a gust of wind spell. Creature The webs on the ceiling conceal a mutated giant spider with the beak of a giant owl (use the grell stat
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
4. Decayed Quarters This suite of chambers has been destroyed by the creatures now in residence here, all traces of the rooms’ previous purposes obliterated. 4a. Grell Nest A hive-like nest with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
set of kobold footprints leads to the east. (The kobold who wandered in that direction never returned.) M8. Grell Lair A hole in the west side of this chamber opens into the central shaft, letting in
ridge. The walls above the ridge gleam with gem deposits.
Floating near the 15-foot-high ceiling is a grell. A character who has a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 16 or higher notices the grell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
cockatrice, a flumph, a giant fire beetle, a small grell, a myconid sprout, a pseudodragon, four severed hands in the same jar, and a slaad tadpole that’s still alive and attacks if its jar is opened. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
as experimental subjects. Berlain is an archmage, with these changes: Berlain is a chaotic evil aberration who speaks Common, Deep Speech, Grell, and Undercommon. She has the polymorph spell prepared
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
” sidebar for additional guidance on how to portray this villain. A grell and two cultists stand beside Lord Viallis but break off from the ritual to repel intruders, leaving him to finish it alone. At the
start of round 2, the characters see the bodies consumed by aquamarine fire and reduced to bone and ash, from which another grell emerges. Viallis and this second grell then join the fight in round 3
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
planning to interrogate him for information. The next cell is occupied by the maggot-laced corpse of a grell that starved to death while in captivity. The three westernmost cells are occupied by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
table) Far Realm Cysts* d4 Encounter 1 1 gibbering mouther 2 1 grell 3 1d4 gricks 4 1 otyugh Forests of Slaughter* d4 Encounter 1 1d2 hook horrors 2 1d4 cockatrices 3 1 displacer beast 4 1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
) arrives with six bugbears and a gazer (see appendix B). If Noska is dead or otherwise indisposed, the beholder replaces him with Nar’l Xibrindas (see appendix B) and his grell bodyguard. If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
pleasure in abusing and manipulating others with her magic. She is accompanied at all times by her shield guardian bodyguard (she wears its amulet), as well as a grell valet that carries her spellbook