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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 6707164" data-attributes="member: 20323">Same as a regular carrion crawler, which I've pasted below for your convenient perusal:Tentacles. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 10ft., one creature. Hit: 4 (1 d4 + 2) poison damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 minute. Until this poison ends, the target is paralyzed. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the poison on itself on a success.First, the queen has no ranged attacks. The summoned minions are to reach characters staying back at range.Second, the multiattack has a built-in limit of 1 tentacle/character.Third, damage per round is consistent with a CR 3 monster, but likely to be even lower because some attacks will miss.Fourth, did you read the part about a paralyzed creature getting a saving throw each turn? In addition, the paladin's lay on hands can remove poison (and therefor paralysis), and the swanmay has lesser restoration 1/day.Fifth, this is intended to be a call back to the old school carrion crawler with its flurry of eight tentacle attacks. It's meant to be scary.The lair is fairly small. There were 6 carrion crawlers total, and the PCs have already killed 4 of them (like I stated in the OP). So the opposition I was planning consists entirely of what I listed in the OP: queen, 2 crawlers, 2+ swarms of insects.It's very possible the PCs will be going into this as fresh as they can. There's a bit of hex crawl exploration happening to find the lair in the first place, so there is the off chance the PCs will tangle with some other critters in a different cave and decide to keep pushing and tumble into the carrion crawler's lair, yes. I'd say it's a 50/50 toss-up depending on how gung-ho the players are feeling.</blockquote>

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