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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BOZ" data-source="post: 123732" data-attributes="member: 1241">EMBRACLarge AberrationHit Dice: 11d8+44 (93 hp)Initiative: +3 (Dex, Improved Initiative)Speed: 10 ftAC: 18 (-1 size, -1 Dex, +10 natural)Attacks:  8 tentacles +13 meleeDamage: Tentacle 2d4+6 and paralysisFace/Reach: 5 ft by 10 ft/5 ft (20 ft with tentacles)Special Attacks: Psionics, paralysis, improved grab, constrictionSpecial Qualities: SR 15, amphibious, slime, light vulnerabilitySaves: Fort +7, Ref +2, Will +7Abilities: Str 22, Dex 9, Con 19, Int 7, Wis 10, Cha 8Skills: Hide +5, Listen +10, Move Silently +7, Spot +10Feats: Improved Initative, Power AttackClimate/Terrain: Any undergroundOrganization: SolitaryChallenge Rating: 10Treasure: StandardAlignment: Always neutral evilAdvancement: 11-22 HD (Large); 23-33 HD (Huge)The embrac is a solitary predator that resembles carnivorous plantlife as much as animal life.  These beasts are large and slow-moving, with short, stocky, sack-like bodies about 10 feet in length.  Its stout limbs are tipped with heavy claws that allow it to anchor itself in place.  The large head has a saw-edged beak to the front, surrounded by the creature's eight feeding tentacles, which have spikes and hooks on their undersides.  These tentacles are about one foot diameter in thickness at the base, and taper off to three finger-like points.  There are bony armor plates just under the surface of the embrac's slimy skin, which is usually spotted or striped in shades of black, gray, white, or dull red.   Embracs are practical bargainers, and stockpile goods and manufactured items that can be used with their body forms.  Embracs live in dark places such as caves, and close off the entrances with boulders to ward off strong enemies.  Though they are haughty and arrogant towards all other life forms, they are often servants of the illithids.COMBATAn embrac likes to like in wait, concealing itself from prey to surprise its opponents.  It will use psionics to create an illusionary lure as prey approaches.  It attacks opponents within 20 feet with its tentacles, which it uses to paralyze and crush its victims.   Psionics (Sp):         *Embracs are also capable of creating psionic illusions which function excatly like the spectral force spell, except that they cause no damage.  This psionic power is as a 5th-level psion.   Paralysis (Ex): The spikes of an embrac's tentacles exude a paralyzing poison.  Any creature hit by a tentacle attack must succeed at a Fortitude save (DC 19) or be paralyzed for 2-12 minutes.   Improved Grab (Ex): To use this ability, the embrac must hit with a tentacle attack.  If it gets a hold, it constricts.   Constriction (Ex): Embracs wrap their hooked tentacles around their victims, dealing 2d4+6 points of damage per tentacle, per round.  Held victims lose all Dexterity bonuses to AC and saves, and have a -2 penatly to attack rolls.  Victims can break free from the constriction with a successful Strength check (DC 21).   Amphibious (Ex): Illithidae possess both lungs and gills, and can survive indefinitely on land and in water.   Slime (Ex): The slimy coating that covers the skin of illithidae is proof against adhesion.  Illithidae are completely protected against the nonmagical glues of creatures such as the mimic and the roper.  Additionally, their slimy skin imposes a -4 penalty on all grapple checks against them.   Light Vulnerability (Ex): The eyes and bodies of illithidae are vulnerable to normal sunlight and anything above a dim light source.  Illumination equal to the light spell or brighter imposes a -1 penalty to the illithidae's attack rolls.  Additionally, exposure to full sunlight causes 1 hit point of damage per minute to any unprotected illithidae.   Skills: Embracs receive a +4 racial bonus to Hide checks in underground settings.The embrac first appeared in Dragon Magazine #150 (Dragon's Bestiary, Stephen Inniss, 1989).</blockquote>

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