Giant Tardigrade
Level 9Attacks
Abilities
A giant tardigrade can't see anything beyond 30 feet.
Trigger The tardigrade would be reduced to 0 Hit Points or would die due to starvation, suffocation, or similar environmental causes
Frequency once per week
Requirements The tardigrade isn't already in tun state
Effect The giant tardigrade doesn't die but instead remains at 1 Hit Point and curls into a dry ball, called a tun. While in this tun state, the giant tardigrade is Unconscious, doesn't need to eat, drink, or breathe, and doubles its resistance to 20. It remains in tun state i
Requirements The giant tardigrade doesn't have a target Grabbed
Effect The giant tardigrade draws in air with its mouth. All creatures in a 20-foot area must succeed at a DC 25 reflex save or be pulled adjacent to the giant tardigrade. The tardigrade chooses one creature that failed its save, Grabbing the target in its claws and making a stylet Strike.
Tardigrades grow no larger than the width of a hair, but when their riverside environments are exposed to heightened levels of magic, these eight-legged omnivores can grow to tremendous sizes.