Tendriculos
- Armor Class
- 4 [15]
- Hit Dice
- 9
- Attacks
- Bite (1d6+2)
- Special
- paralysis, fear, hold/grab, swallow, acid (1d6+2/round)
- Move
- 6
- HDE/XP
- 10/1,400
Description
A Tendriculos is a voracious plant-like creature that can rear up to a height of 15 feet and weighs about 3,500 pounds. Prowling deep in forests or waiting in vegetated areas, a tendriculos attacks savagely, showing no fear.
A tendriculos can swallow whole any creature smaller than itself if it hits with a natural 20 on its bite attack. Once inside the plant’s mass, the opponent must make a saving throw each round or be paralyzed for 3d6 rounds by the tendriculos’s digestive juices, suffering 1d6+2 points of acid damage each round. A swallowed creature can cut its way out by using a light slashing or piercing weapon to inflict damage of at least half the monster's hit points to its interior (AC 6 [13]). If a victim escapes this way, the hole they made closes instantly; any other swallowed opponents must cut their own way out.
If a tendriculos loses part of its body mass it can be regrown in 1d6 minutes. Holding the severed portion against the wound enables it to reattach in just one round.
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.