Wormhost Surgeon

Lvl 10 aberration

Crooked Moon Bestiary
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Crooked Weakness.

All monsters from the Crooked Moon have some kind of weakness that the heroes can learn about through experience, research, etc...

Veiled Ignorance.

Creatures are Invisible to the Wormhost Surgeon if it cannot read its mind.

Vengeful Parasite.

On Death, the brainworm spits acid. Line 4, DC 15 DEX save. 12 acid. Half on success.

Infested.

Take 7 psychic damage at end of turn. Magical healing or poison damage ends condition.

Choose one.
  • Infested Spray (1 use).

    Cone 4. DC 15 DEX save, 5d6 psychic and Infested. Half damage only on success.

  • Bonesaw (2x).

    1d6+8. On CRIT, Dazed 2.

Habitat: Any

Alien parasitic worms that infest the brains of Humanoid bodies mutate their hosts into wormhost surgeons. These aberrant husks are obsessed with anatomical study and with finding new Humanoids to infest with larval worm slurry to propagate their kind. They can pass for ordinary people in most cases but must take care to hide their exposed brains and the wriggling worms within their flesh.

Secret. Wormhost surgeons are drawn to seek out and infest sapient victims, so intelligent creatures with veiled minds slip beneath the surgeons’ notice.