Saltspray Ripper
Medium beast, unaligned
Salt-white river predators that hunt the strand at low tide. Their whip tails sense ripples and they drag spellcasters under first.
Armor Class 14 (natural armor)
Hit Points 75 (10d8 + 30)
Speed 30 ft., swim 40 ft.
- STR
- 16 (+3)
- DEX
- 16 (+3)
- CON
- 16 (+3)
- INT
- 3 (-4)
- WIS
- 14 (+2)
- CHA
- 8 (-1)
Skills Stealth +5, Perception +4
Senses passive Perception 14
Languages —
Challenge 4
Traits
Ripple Sense. While its tail is submerged, the ripper has tremorsense 30 feet, but it cannot sense anything outside water with it.
Dampen Weave. While submerged to its chest, the ripper has advantage on saving throws against spells, and melee spell attacks against it have disadvantage.
Actions
Multiattack. The ripper makes one Tail Lash attack and one Bite attack.
Tail Lash. Melee Attack Roll: +5, reach 10 ft. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) Bludgeoning damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 13). The ripper can grapple only one creature at a time with its tail.
Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +5, reach 5 ft. Hit: 8 (1d10 + 3) Piercing damage. The ripper has advantage on this attack roll against a creature grappled by it.
