Befouled Weird

Befouled Weird is a medium elemental (Challenge Rating 5).

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AC: 14

HP: 75

Speed: swim 60 ft., walk 30 ft.

STR: 17

DEX: 14

CON: 16

INT: 5

WIS: 12

CHA: 7

Water filled with algae, worms, and other detritus rises up in a serpentine form. It reeks of stagnation and rot._
Corrupted Water Elementals. When aquatic parasites invade a water elemental, they take control of it and seek to propagate. The host becomes a befouled weird, providing protection and an ideal environment for the parasites. It prefers warm, marshy environments where the parasites are more at home. While the weird can carry any parasite, it most commonly acts as a host for brain-eating amoebas.
Exiles to the Material Plane. Water elementals prevent befouled weirds from infesting the Plane of Water. Otherwise, the tainted creatures infuse pure water elementals with their parasites. Water elementals knowledgeable about such things equate a plague of befouled weirds to Open Game License

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Further reading

Jetpack7 Game Master Series
The Game Master's Book of Random Encounters
Jeff Ashworth · 2020
The Game Master's Book of Traps, Puzzles and Dungeons
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Last updated 7/27/2026·Tags: monster, elemental, medium