Chuul

Large aberration, chaotic evil

Base Statistics

• Armor class: 16 (natural armor)
• Hit Points (HP): 93 (11d10 + 33)
• Speed: 30 ft., swim 30 ft.

Characteristics

• Skills: Perception +4
• Damage Immunities poison
• Condition Immunities poisoned
• Senses: darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 14
• Languages:understands Deep Speech but can’t speak
• Challenge rating: 4 (1,100 XP)

Abilities

• Amphibious. The chuul can breathe air and water.
• Sense Magic. The chuul senses magic within 120 feet of it at will. This trait otherwise works like the detect magic spell but isn’t itself magical.

Actions

• Multiattack. The chuul makes two pincer attacks. If the chuul is grappling a creature, the chuul can also use its tentacles once.
• Pincer. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage. The target is grappled (escape DC 14) if it is a Large or smaller creature and the chuul doesn’t have two other creatures grappled.
• Tentacles. One creature grappled by the chuul must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 minute. Until this poison ends, the target is paralyzed. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.