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emember the limb fights in video games like Crushing Tentacles
the SNES Final Fantasy games? Or the
Deathwing fight in World of Warcraft:
Cataclysm? This scenario is intended to be as STR DEX CON WIS INT CHA
frantic, fun, and rewarding as those fights. This +4 -2 +3 -- -- --
scenario can be run with the free 5e PDFs
provided by Wizards of the Coast. AC: 12
Health: 36
Initiative: Octopus Head -3
Overview Size: 1 square wide, 2 squares long (6' wide, 15' long)
This is meant to be a hard or deadly encounter for a party of A crushing tentacle is a stubby, orc-thick, barnackled,
between 3 and 5 level 2 to 4 characters. lumbering, hulking thing that may take action in the same
Your party of adventurers are on a boat (for example, this third of the boat as the head.
one uploaded byBurrowowl ) either at sea or traveling down a A Crushing Tentacle may make a smash attack against
deep river -- where ever it fits your game. The boat is attacked everyone touching it. This attack inflicts d8+1 bludgeoning
by a gigantic, hungry and angry octopus. damage or half as much on a successful DC11 dexterity
In this scenario the octopus cannot be convinced not to eat save.
the boat, it must be fought off, either by attacking the head Or
(70 points of damage), or killing enough tentacles (any 5) that It may inflict a flat 4 points of damage to whatever part of
it flees before it crushes the boat. the boat it is on, crushing the boat into its hungry maw.
Scenario One, Tier 1: A Hungry
Octopod Articulated Tentacles
This is for a party of between 3 and 5 level 2 to 4 characters, STR DEX CON WIS INT CHA
who are on a boat. Every boat is divided into front, middle,
and back. Each third of the boat has its own health. +2 0 +1 -- -- --
AC: 12
Boat Health Health: 26
Initiative: Octopus Head
Front(Fore): 60 Size: 1/2 a square wide, 2 squares long (3' thick, 10' long)
Middle(Center): 80
Back(Aft): 60 Are segmented, long, dwarf-thick, slimy, suctioning,
pulsating tentacles. They may take action within the same
If any of the parts reach zero health, the boat or adjacent thirds as the head.
breaks accordingly and sinks. If the boat takes 130 A Articulated Tentacle may make a whip attack against
total points of damage, it also sinks. If the boat one creature it is touching. These are snap, whip, or
takes 100 to 120 total points of damage, it is choking type attacks. These are +3 to hit and do d6
considered damaged and moves at half speed until bludgeoning damage.
repaired. Or
It may inflict d4 damage to its current third of the boat.
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Sinewy, thin, white, translucent, veiny, like a gigantic Give your players a round to look around -- investigation,
tapeworm with pincers. They may take action on any third insight, perception checks:
of the boat. 12 or higher: There's definitely something that hit the
They are under the water to begin. bottom of the boat in [a random section]
They hold their action to move to and attack anything that 15 or higher: You're under attack by a gigantic, aquatic
makes a melee attack against another tentacle. creature
A Stinger Tentacle may make a stinging attack against one 17 or higher: It's a gigantic octopus! You most to highest
creature it is touching. These are stinging, burrowing, initiative and are unsurprised when. . .
acidic attacks. These are +4 to hit and do d6+1 piercing
damage. Place the tentacles as tactically as you like, and start the
Octopus Head combat encounter!