Grick
- Armor Class
- 4 [15]
- Hit Dice
- 2
- Attacks
- Bite or Tentacle (1d6-1)
- Special
- surprise
- Move
- 9
- HDE/XP
- 2/30
Description
An adult Grick is a large snake-like creature weighing around 200 pounds and stretching about 8 feet long from the tip of its tentacles to the end of its tail. A grick's body coloration is uniformly dark with a pale underbelly, and the tentacles attach just behind its head; the tentacles are segmented like the body of an earthworm.
A grick hunts by hiding near high-traffic areas, using its natural coloration to blend into the shadows; when doing this, the grick surprises on a 1-3 on 1d6. When prey ventures near, a grick lashes out with its tentacles. The jaws are small and weak compared to its body mass, so rather than consume its kill immediately, a grick normally drags victims back to the lair to be eaten at leisure.
Multiple gricks do not fight in concert; rather, each attacks the prey closest to it, and breaks off the fight as soon as it can drag a dead or unconscious victim away.
Source note: This creature is converted from The Basic Fantasy Field Guide of Creatures Malevolent and Benign – Omnibus Edition, 1st Edition Release 4, © 2010–2025 Chris Gonnerman, R. Kevin Smoot, James Lemon, Matt Sluis, and Contributors. The Basic Fantasy Field Guide textual material is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International; this page adapts that creature to White Box.