Homebrew Purple Worm (Awakened) Species Details

Appearance

As its name implied, the purple worm was deep purple in color, with a pale yellow underbelly. Separating its yellow part from its purple part were hard crests going down its sides. It was well-armored and segmented. One end of the purple worm terminated in a large, toothed mouth, with slit-like eyes set above the mouth and dragon's ear-like limbs at the sides of the "head". While many that encountered the purple worm worried about falling into the worm’s mouth, they commonly forgot about the creature’s tail, which was capped by a poisonous paralytic stinger. The purple worm was often depicted as bursting out of the ground and arching itself in a distinctive pose. Purple worms were not able to speak.

Combat

Purple worms spent their time burrowing through the underground and sought to consume any organic matter they found. Their favored and most feared method of attack was swallowing their prey whole. Many groups of adventures succumbed to such a fate, disappearing down a Purple Worm's gullet one after the other. Purple worms could also attack with their tail stinger, and by grabbing and grappling with prey.

Lair

Purple worms existed deep within the earth. They laired in vast underground caverns when they have consumed too much, allowing them to digest while they rested.

Nursery

Purple worms laid eggs in areas sometimes called nurseries. Sometimes these areas were the home of other creatures that formed a symbiotic relationship with the worms. The other creatures used the area to hunt for prey that were searching for the valuable eggs, thus protecting the eggs themselves. Giant spiders and other creatures which have no direct interest in the eggs often served this purpose. Fomorian giants sometimes developed a relationship with the purple worms as well and became caretakers of the clusters of eggs. Purple worm eggs were approximately three-foot diameter, silvery spheres with extremely hard shells. The eggs were often clustered together in groups of six and were suspended from their chamber walls by strands of sticky saliva. They were highly valued by wizards for various arcane rituals. After successfully hatching, these young creatures were known as purple wormlings. To be classed as wormlings, the creatures had to be less than 6 weeks old. At this point, the wormlings were about 9 ft (2.7 m) long and weighed 1,500 lb (680,000 g).

Society

Purple worms were regarded as neutral in alignment since their aggressive nature was the result of instinct rather than evil maliciousness.

Subraces

Varieties of purple worms were known to live in lakes or desert plains. These creatures possessed color variations that allowed them to blend in with their respective environments.

Purple Worm (Awakened) Traits

Purple Worm traits

Ability Score Increase

Your Strength increases by 4 to a maximum of 28, your Constitution increases by 4 to a maximum of 22 and your Wisdom score increases by 1. The minimum intelligence score you can have is 10.

Age

Purple worms reach maturity at 70 years and some have been documented to live up to 500 years.

Alignment

Purple worms were regarded as neutral in alignment since their aggressive nature was the result of instinct rather than evil maliciousness.

Size

Your size is gargantuan, you measure about 80 ft (20m) long and 10 ft wide. Your weight is between 40,000-60,000 pounds.

Speed

You having a walking speed of 50 ft and a burrow speed of 30 ft.

Awakened Mind

Through whatever magical means that gave you sentience, you were given the ability to telepathically communicate with any creature within 60 ft of you. You have tremorsense out to 60 ft and you have blindsight out to 30 ft.

Tough hide

Your natural armor class is 18 (your DEX modifier does not apply), but if you wish to wear armor for your massive figure you must have it specifically tailored to fit your dimensions. Your large and hulking form grants you 5 hit points for every class level you have.

Tunneler

You can burrow through solid rock at half your burrow speed and you leave a 10-foot-diameter tunnel in your wake.

Multiattack

As an action, you can take two attacks against a creature within range: one with your bite and another with your tail stinger.

 Your Bite is considered a Melee Weapon Attack and has a reach of 10 ft dealing (3d8 + STR) piercing damage. If the target is a Large or smaller creature, it must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw equal to 8 + your Strength modifier + your proficiency bonus modifier or be swallowed by you. A swallowed creature is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside of you, and it takes (6d6) acid damage at the start of each of your turns.

If you take 30 damage or more on a single turn from a creature that is inside of you, you must succeed on a DC 21 Constitution saving throw at the end of that turn or regurgitate all swallowed creatures, which fall prone in a space within 10 feet of you. If you die, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained by you and can escape from your corpse by using 20 feet of movement, exiting prone.

Your Tail Stinger is considered a  Melee Weapon Attack and has a of reach 10 ft dealing (3d6 + STR) piercing damage, and the target must make a Constitution saving throw equal to 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus modifier, taking (12d6) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Powerful Magical aura

Not having limbs or being capable of speech makes the casting of spells extremely difficult, but luckily (or unluckily) for you the powerful magical energy that radiates from you is infused to your very essence, Whenever you roll a natural 1 on an attack roll you roll on the wild magic table taking whatever effect you role on the table. The tremendous amount of magical energy you exude when in the presence of other creatures is palpable and leaves you vulnerable to detection from spells that and abilities that can sense magic such as the detect magic spell.

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