Monster Dossier

Gibbering Mouther

Gibbering Mouther GIBBERING MOUTHER TREASURE While gibbering mouthers have little interest in treasure, they are known to consume their prey's valuables...

Level 5

Traits

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Rules & statistics

Monster Profile

Perception

15

Senses

  • Name
    darkvision

Languages

Languages
  • aklo

Skills

Acrobatics
12
Athletics
13

Ability Mods

Str
2
Dex
3
Con
4
Int
-3
Wis
3
Cha
0

Defenses

Ac
Std
21
Abilities
All-Around Vision
Saving Throws
Fort
15
Ref
12
Will
10
Hp
  • Hp
    120
Weaknesses
  • Amount
    5
    Name
    bludgeoning

Speed

Walk
10
Swim
20

Attacks

  • Range
    Melee
    Name
    jaws
    Attack
    14
    Traits
    • finesse
    Effects
    • Grab
    Damage
    2d8+5 piercing plus 1d4 persistent damage||persistent bleed damage and Grab
    Types
    • persistent
    • piercing
  • Range
    Ranged
    Name
    spittle
    Attack
    14
    Traits
    • range
    Effects
    • burn eyes
    Damage
    4d6 acid and burn eyes
    Types
    • acid

Abilities

Mid
  • Traits
    • auditory
    • aura
    • emotion
    • enchantment
    • incapacitation
    • mental
    • occult
    Entries
    • Each creature that begins its turn within 60 feet of a gibbering mouther must attempt a 19 Will save. On a failure, they are confused for 1 round. On a success, they are temporarily immune for 1 minute.
    Name
    Gibbering
  • Name
    All-Around Vision
  • Activity
    Number
    1
    Unit
    reaction
    Trigger
    An adjacent creature deals the gibbering mouther slashing damage.
    Entries
    • The gibbering mouther's wound opens into another maw. It makes a jaws Strike against the triggering creature.
    Name
    Reactive Gnaw
Bot
  • Entries
    • A creature that takes damage from a gibbering mouther's spittle must succeed at a 22 Fortitude save or be dazzled for 1 round (or blinded for 1 round on a critical failure).
    Name
    Burn Eyes
  • Activity
    Number
    1
    Unit
    action
    Entries
    • 22, 3d8 piercing, Escape 22, Rupture 8.
    Name
    Engulf
  • Activity
    Number
    2
    Unit
    action
    Traits
    • occult
    • transmutation
    Entries
    • The gibbering mouther causes stone and earth under its body to grow soft and muddy, remaining so for 1 minute after the mouther moves off the location. A gibbering mouther can move through these areas with ease, but other creatures treat them as difficult terrain||3|terrain.
    Name
    Ground Manipulation

Background

Lore

Gibbering Mouther

GIBBERING MOUTHER TREASURE

While gibbering mouthers have little interest in treasure, they are known to consume their prey's valuables along with the creatures' flesh. Those treasures which are not themselves digestible remain until the gibbering mouther disgorges them or is destroyed.

GIBBERING MOUTHER LOCATIONS

Gibbering mouthers tend to remain underground, favoring subterranean ruins and the lower layers of the Veimaikhik.

Amorphous blobs of yammering mouths and oozing, fleshy sludge, gibbering mouthers are among the strangest creatures found either aboveground or below. Perpetually ravenous, these aberrations are always seeking their next meals, ever eating but never sated. With a nominal intelligence, gibbering mouthers can understand and even speak Aklo, but they do so in an intelligible manner only rarely. Instead, their innumerable mouths constantly jabber and babble in a stream of sound that disrupts the thought patterns of other creatures in the area.

Where, how, and why gibbering mouthers originated are questions without answers. They share certain similarities with the much more powerful shoggoths, leading to theories that the two creatures share an origin; less charitable scholars have suggested that the gibbering mouther is instead a mortal's attempt to create something akin to a shoggoth—though the question of why remains unanswered. Still others believe gibbering mouthers were sent to the world by the gods as a punishment for some forgotten but surely terrible transgression. Gibbering mouthers themselves have little to say on the matter—at least, not in any sort of sense. Scholars have wasted countless hours in attempts to make sense of gibbering mouthers' noises—studies that put researchers into danger and give results that are contradictory and confusing at best.

Whatever their origin, gibbering mouthers range the entirety of Falavririak. Sightings have been recorded in dungeons below ancient cities and ruins as well as many regions of the deeper Veimaikhik layers of Magrias and Moriamon. They are somewhat less common in the upper region of Thaekhekia, perhaps due to the prevalence of settlements that don't tolerate gibbering mouthers' presence.