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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 7057060" data-attributes="member: 20323">Well...crack open your MM and read the ghoul description and read the hill giant description. What do they have in common? Hill giants are voracious eaters. Ghouls/ghasts are devourers of flesh. I assumed the OP selected this combination of monsters to kit-bash together because of this shared theme.So the bite attack is this overwhelming need to consume flesh that overrides even certain elements self-preservation. Think a shark's bloodlust. Basically it's a giant cannibal. In playing the monster at the table I'd often be replacing one of its claw attacks with a grapple and narrate that as eagerly grasping a character and attempting to bite off a leg or an arm.EDIT: There are other (arguably better) ways to present a bite attack, such as what is suggested above. So it bears repeating: I was being deliberately conservative in my stat block because (a) I have no idea whether the OP will use any of this, and (b) the OP seems to have a very different philosophy about monster design than I do. IF I was doing this for my own game, it would look quite different and far less conservative.</blockquote>