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Roper

D&D 5e · 2014·Large Monstrosity·Neutral Evil

Armor class
20natural armor
Hit points
9311d10+33
Challenge
51,800 XP
Proficiency
+3

Speed 10 ft., climb 10 ft.

Ability scores, modifiers and saving throws
MeasureStrDexConIntWisCha
Score188177166
Mod+4-1+3-2+3-2
Save+4-1+3-2+3-2
Skills
Stealth +5, Perception +6
Senses
darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 16
Languages
—

Traits

False Appearance

While the roper remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from a normal cave formation, such as a stalagmite.

Grasping Tendrils

The roper can have up to six tendrils at a time. Each tendril can be attacked (AC 20; 10 hit points; immunity to poison and psychic damage). Destroying a tendril deals no damage to the roper, which can extrude a replacement tendril on its next turn. A tendril can also be broken if a creature takes an action and succeeds on a DC 15 Strength check against it.

Spider Climb

The roper can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.

Actions

Multiattack

The roper makes four attacks with its tendrils, uses Reel, and makes one attack with its bite.

Bite

Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 22 (4d8 + 4) piercing damage.

Tendril

Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 50 ft., one creature. Hit: The target is grappled (escape DC 15). Until the grapple ends, the target is restrained and has disadvantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws, and the roper can't use the same tendril on another target.

Reel

The roper pulls each creature grappled by it up to 25 feet straight toward it.

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Rules source: System Reference Document 5.1 ↗

This work includes material taken from the System Reference Document 5.1 ("SRD 5.1") by Wizards of the Coast LLC and available at https://dnd.wizards.com/resources/systems-reference-document. The SRD 5.1 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. Stat blocks were structured and tagged by JustRoll from the Open5e transcription, then checked against the official document; values that differed were corrected from it.

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