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Venrakes

CR 5 Monstrosity

Draconic wings beat the air as twin tails lash with venomous stingers, a cruel fusion of predator and poison. Venrakes circle high above before diving in for the kill, turning the skies themselves into a hunting ground.

💬 Your ally is suddenly snatched and carried skyward—what do you do first?

Collection: Purple Dragons

“Born from amaranthine, great form uncoiled, ivory claws extended to the smoke-storming sky, pale eyes blinded by immense hands, yet no less daunting than if they would pierce each mind.” - Excerpt from “Song of the Dragon”, a mythological account of an encounter with the Great Blind Serpent, Rilzriaduss (author unknown)

Scourge of the Underdark. Where some are lucky enough to see - and survive - an encounter with a red, blue or green dragon, those who have encountered their purple cousins are fewer and far between. Purple dragons are difficult to learn about, both because they are extremely solitary creatures, preferring the company of none in their caves and underground burrows, and because any unfortunate soul that meets one rarely escapes with their life. Purple dragons burrow out their lairs, digging it out of stone and earth, and are most often found in the Underdark, where they prey on unsuspecting passersby, which are most often drow or svirfneblin. On rare occasions, purple dragons have dealt with humanoid races through mutual agreements - purple dragons are, in fact, smart enough to manipulate, and wise enough to understand when they have been outnumbered or when escape is unlikely. They are powerful though disloyal allies, although their pure strength is often enough to make up for their rapidly-shifting alliances.

Mental masters. Purple dragons are, just moments after hatching, notoriously difficult to control, whether through mind magic or through deception. Their nature allows them a strong defense against magical effects, and influencing their minds is nearly impossible. They are well-spoken beings, capable of such mental gymnastics that they can change other creatures’ minds without revealing their intentions. However, as cousins to the chromatic dragons, purple dragons are also greatly manipulative, evil, and cruel.

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Under the Read More, you’ll find the purple dragon’s lair actions and regional effects.

Halloween Zero-to-Thirty Challenge Rating Challenge

October 6th Prompt: Ooze

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Snot Hag (Challenge 5)

Lore

Long ago, an enterprising hag whose name has been lost to time sought to experiment on the spawn of Juiblex in order to create farms of easily reproducible loyal subjects, so that she might be able to combine her power with her own creations rather than forming a more traditional coven dynamic with untrustworthy rival hags. This experiment was fruitful, but her celebration was short-lived as the awakened ooze quickly consumed her body and began its own new line of succession. In this manner was the first snot hag born.

Amorphous Abominations. A snot hag superficially resembles the approximate shape of an elderly humanoid woman, but one would be hard-pressed to confuse the two due to the former's oobleckian form. The hag's body jiggles and wavers, struggling to maintain a roughly bipedal appearance matching the creature's twisted self-image. The ooze will even wear some loose semblance of rags and pointed hats to attempt to convey the image.

Ooze Nature. A snot hag doesn't require sleep.

Unique Reproduction. Unlike more typical hag propagation, snot hags exclusively reproduce asexually through mitosis, without the need to consume an infant beforehand — though it wouldn't turn down such a treat for general sustenance.

Snot Hag Covens

In some senses, a snot hag has achieved an ideal state of growing in power, where it forms covens almost exclusively with its own spawn, achieving self-sufficiency and likemindedness, and avoiding the typical infighting seen in other covens. All snot hags desire only to learn, to grow, to consume, and to multiply. That said, a snot hag still has the innate "Rule of Three" burned into its psyche, and groups of snot hags will split into multiple covens and part ways to maintain this dynamic.

A snot hag that is part of a coven (see the "Hag Covens" sidebar in the Monster Manual) has a challenge rating of 7 (2,900 XP). The hag uses Constitution as its spellcasting ability when using the coven's Shared Spellcasting feature.

Snot hags will automatically form a coven with other snot hags formed from splitting. Covens with non-ooze hags are not impossible but tend to be short-lived; either the snot hag will consume its sister in an effort to absorb her powers, or the other hag will destroy the slime in a backstabbing effort to rid the world of an aberration that threatens the livelihood of other hags.

Snot Hag Lairs

Snot hags tend to be drawn to damp environments when forming their lairs. These can include swamps, sewers, or underground lakes within deep caverns, but any area with suitable humidity might be considered.

Lair Actions

In addition to the hag lair actions in Volo's Guide to Monsters, a powerful snot hag might have the following additional lair action:

The snot hag creates a spray of slime in a 30-foot radius sphere centered on the hag. The slime dissipates on initiative count 20 on the next round. The slime creates difficult terrain for all creatures except oozes, and the snot hag's speed is doubled on slimy terrain.

Regional Effects

In addition to the hag lair regional effects in Volo's Guide to Monsters, a powerful snot hag creates one or more of the following additional regional effects within 1 mile of its lair:

Showers of acid rain intermittently pour down. Creatures traveling during an acid rainstorm take 1d4 acid damage per hour of exposure. The rain also prevents gaining the benefits of a short or long rest unless creatures can cover themselves.

All bodies of water have a 25% chance of being unsafe to drink. Creatures attempting to drink this water must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 hour.

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