Carnivorous Sod

Carnivorous Sod is a medium plant (Challenge Rating 1).

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AC: 12

HP: 33

Speed: walk 20 ft., burrow 20 ft.

STR: 14

DEX: 6

CON: 12

INT: 2

WIS: 10

CHA: 3

What was a mere patch of green grass suddenly uproots itself and shows its true form: a flat, turtle-like creature with a wide maw filled with sharklike wooden teeth._
Grassland Ambushers. The carnivorous sod is a plant monster that disguises itself as a simple patch of grass until it is stepped on. It then uses its grass-like tendrils to trip a creature before biting with its vicious jaws. Carnivorous sods typically prey on small herbivores, such as deer and rabbits, that come to graze on their backs, but they have been known to attack just about anything that treads on them as long as the target is Medium or smaller. Sometimes dozens of carnivorous sods gather together to hunt, though this is due more to happenstance than planning on the part of the monsters.
Links to the Fey. Carnivorous sods begin their lives when a fey creature such as a pixie or Open Game License

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Further reading

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The Game Master's Book of Random Encounters
Jeff Ashworth · 2020
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Last updated 7/27/2026·Tags: monster, plant, medium