Peat-Borer
Large monstrosity, unaligned
Gallowpeat is cut in long trenches, and something has been following the cuts. A borer spends its life below the waterline and comes up through the floor of a trench where the peat is thinnest, which the cutters can hear coming and which does not help them, because it can also throw a spine forty feet.
Armor Class 16 (natural armor)
Hit Points 85 (10d10 + 30)
Speed 30 ft., burrow 20 ft.
- STR
- 17 (+3)
- DEX
- 13 (+1)
- CON
- 16 (+3)
- INT
- 3 (-4)
- WIS
- 11 (+0)
- CHA
- 5 (-3)
Skills Stealth +4
Damage Resistances piercing
Senses tremorsense 60 ft., darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
Languages —
Challenge 5
Traits
Under the Cut. While burrowed the borer cannot move, but it is detected only by a successful DC 14 Wisdom (Perception) check made by a creature standing on the ground above it. Its first attack after surfacing has advantage.
Spine Regrowth. The borer carries eight throwing spines and grows one back at the end of each of its turns.
Actions
Multiattack. The borer makes two claw attacks, or throws two spines.
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d8 + 3) slashing damage.
Spine. Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 40/120 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (2d6 + 1) piercing damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or have its speed reduced by 10 feet until the end of its next turn.
