Homebrew Carrion Crawler Species Details

A mad wizard created carrion crawlers and then he Awakened a few of them (I mean, what could possibly go wrong, right?)  You are a large intelligent sentient cold-blooded egg-laying scavenger.  You never, ever leave a dead comrade behind.  Whenever you see a corpse, you always ask the closest fellow party member, "Are you gonna eat that?"  The roleplaying possibilities are endless. Why should monsters have all the fun?

Carrion Crawler Traits

These are the abilities carrion crawlers have

Appearance

You look like a centipede, 10 - 12' long, 600 - 900 pounds, with 2 eyes, pale yellowish / greenish skin, a mouth full of short teeth perfectly designed for crushing bones and tearing flesh and 8 ten-foot-long tentacles coming out of your head.

Attribute Increases

Your Strength increases by 1 and your Constitution increases by 2.

Bite

Your bite does 1d6 + (your Strength modifier) points of piercing damage.

Brain Juice

Your cerebral fluid is a powerful paralytic agent.

Conditional Immunity and Stench

If you eat corpses, you develop immunity to all disease and infection.  However, you also emit a powerfully fetid stench that alerts others to your proximity and therefore gives you disadvantage on all Stealth checks.

Darkvision

You can see in dim light within 60' of you as if it were bright light and darkness as if it were dim light.  You can't see colors in darkness, only shades of gray.

Keen Smell

You have advantage on Perception checks that rely on smell.

Languages

You can speak both Carrion Crawler and Common.

Size

Your size is Large.

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