Large Outsider
Hit Dice: 20d8 +75 (165 hp)
Initiative: +4 (improved initiative)
Speed: 20 ft
AC: 19 (-1 size, +10 natural)
Attacks: slam +31/+29/+27/+25 melee
Damage: slam 2d8 +11
Face/Reach: 5 ft x 10ft/ 10 ft
Special Qualities: Darkvision, Immunities, Ooze qualities, shapechanging
Saves: Fort +14, Ref +12, Will +13
Abilities: Str 32, Dex 11, Con 16 Int -, Wis 15, Cha 8
Feats: Improved Initiative, Multiattack, Combat Reflexes, Multidexterity, Alertness
Climate/Terrain: Any land and underground
Organization: Solitary, Brood (2-5)
Challenge Rating: 7
Treasure: 1/2 Standard
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Advancement: Intelligence +1-15
Originally created by the Primordial Ones as servants, the Shoggoths eventually rebelled and destroyed the civilization of their masters. Shoggoths resemble huge, intelligent amoebae, able to form almost any shape out of their transparent bodies, including eyes, legs, mouths, huge weapons, or whatever is needed. The few remaining shoggoths lurk in distant, long deserted areas, sometimes aiding servants of the Old Ones.
A shoggoth's intelligence grows with time and it grows more and more rebellious. As it grows in intelligence, it gains skill points at the rate of (8+int modifier)x20 and can learn skills.
Combat
Shoggoths attack with pseudopods in whatever shape it needs or desires. Their favorite attack is to devour the opponent's head, leaving the carcass headless in a pool of its blood.
Immunities: Immune to poison, sleep, paralysis, and polymorphing. Also immune to all mind-influencing effects (charms, compulsions, phantasms, patterns, and morale effects) beyond the commands of its master.
Ooze qualities: No clear front or back, not subject to flanking or critical hits. Gains bonus hitpoints as an ooze.
Shapechanging (Sp): The Shoggoth are multi-cellular creatures, able to mold their tissues into all sorts of temporary organs under hypnotic suggestion by the Primodial Ones. This ability made the things the perfect workhorses for building the vast Primordial Ones' empire. Later, the Shoggoth acquired the ability to mimic the sounds of the Primordial Ones and developed the ability to think for itself.
Shoggoths appear in the HP Lovecraft story "At the Mountains of Madness". This is a conversion from the first printing of the first edition Deities and Demigods published by TSR. The Cthulhu mythos was removed from later printings.
