Actions/Abilities/Traits:   (D&D 5e)

 

Action

Bite

Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 18 (2d12 + 5) piercing damage.

 

Action

Claws

Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5) slashing damage. If the target is a creature, the target is grappled (escape DC 17). The grendel has two claws. While a claw grapples a target, the claw can attack only that target. When the grendel moves, any Medium or smaller target it is grappling moves with it.

 

Action

Multiattack

The grendel makes three attacks: one with its bite and two with its claws.

 

Action

Swallow

The grendel makes one bite attack against a Medium or smaller target it is grappling. If the attack hits, the target is swallowed, and the grapple ends. The swallowed target is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside the grendel, and it takes 10 (3d6) acid damage at the start of each of the grendel's turns. The grendel can have only one target swallowed at a time. If the grendel dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained by it and can escape from the corpse using 5 feet of movement, exiting prone.

 

Reaction

Bloody Rampage

When the grendel takes damage, it makes one attack with its claws against a random creature within its reach.

 

Special

Ambusher

In the first round of a combat, the grendel has advantage on attack rolls against any creature it surprised.

 

Special

Bloodthirsty Frenzy

The grendel has advantage on attack rolls against frightened creatures.

 

Special

Horrific Appearance

Any humanoid that starts its turn within 30 feet of the grendel and can see it form must make a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the creature is frightened for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, with disadvantage if the grendel is within line of sight, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a creature's saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the creature is immune to the grendel's Horrific Appearance for the next 24 hours. Unless the target is surprised, the target can avert its eyes and avoid making the initial saving throw. Until the start of its next turn, a creature that averts its eyes has disadvantage on attack rolls against the grendel.

 

Special

Shadow Stealth

While in dim light or darkness, the grendel can take the Hide action as a bonus action.

 

Actions/Abilities/Traits:   (d20)

 

Action

2 claws

32 (3d10+13/19-20 plus

 

Actions/Abilities/Traits:   (Pathfinder 1e)

 

Action

Feat 1

Bleeding Critical

 

Action

Feat 10

Tiring Critical

 

Action

Feat 2

Combat Reflexes

 

Action

Feat 3

Critical Focus

 

Action

Feat 4

Exhausting Critical

 

Action

Feat 5

Great FortitudeM

 

Action

Feat 6

Improved Critical (claw)

 

Action

Feat 7

Iron WillM

 

Action

Feat 8

Power AttackM

 

Action

Feat 9

Skill FocusM (Stealth)

 

Action

Melee 1

2 claws +32 (3d10+13/19-20 plus grab)

 

Action

Melee 2

bite +27 (4d8+6)

 

Special

Brutal Surge (Su)

When Grendel expends mythic power to add a surge die to an attack roll, he also adds a surge die to that attack's damage roll. This is not an action and does not require him to expend any additional uses of mythic power to use this ability.

 

Special

Gruesome Dismemberment (Ex)

When Grendel successfully holds a creature he has grappled, he may expend one use of mythic power to attempt to dismember that creature. He attempts a grapple check; if successful, his target takes double his normal claw damage and the attack pulls off one of the target's legs or arms. The target is sickened until it receives magical healing (or until it recovers to full hit points by natural means), and takes 2d6 points of bleed damage each round. A creature with only one an arm cannot perform actions requiring two arms or two hands. A bipedal creature with one leg missing cannot walk or run; it can crawl or hop, but is denied its Dexterity bonus against all opponents. A quadrupedal creature with one leg missing is reduced to half normal speed. At the GM's discretion, creatures with more than four legs affected by this attack may be able to move at normal speed.

 

Actions/Abilities/Traits:   (Pathfinder 2e)

 

Ability

Attack of Opportunity [Reaction]

Grendel gains an extra reaction at the start of each of his turns that he can use only to make an Attack of Opportunity with his claw. He can't use more than one Attack of Opportunity triggered by the same action.

 

Ability

Ferocity

 

Ability

Frightful Presence

(aura, emotion, fear, mental) 60 feet, DC 38.

 

Ability

Hands of the Murderer

Grendel's fist Strikes deal 18 bludgeoning damage on a failure (but no damage on a critical failure).

 

Ability

Keen Hearing

Grendel's hearing is a precise sense to a range of 120 feet.

 

Ability

Throw Rock

 

Ability

Tooth Grind

Circumstance: Grendel is grabbing a creature;

Grendel makes a bludgeoning jaws Strike against the creature he's grabbing. On a hit, the creature also takes 2d6 persistent bleed damage and becomes wounded 1, or increases its wounded value by 1 if already wounded. On a critical hit, the creature instead becomes wounded 2, or increases its wounded value by 2 if already wounded. If a creature dies from Tooth Grind, Grendel regains 40 HP; this is a healing effect.

 

Ability

Unstoppable [Reaction]

Circumstance: Trigger: Grendel would take persistent damage or gain one of the

The persistent damage or condition from the triggering effect doesn't affect Grendel.

 

Offense

Melee

Circumstance: combat round (melee)

fist +37 [+33/+29] (agile, magical, reach 10 feet), Damage 4d8+18 bludgeoning plus Improved Grab

 

Offense

Ranged

Circumstance: combat round (ranged)

rock +37 [+32/+27] (brutal, range increment 150 feet), Damage 2d12+18 bludgeoning

 

Trait

Humanoid

Humanoid creatures reason and act much like humans. They typically stand upright and have two arms and two legs.

 

Language

Common

 

Perception

darkvision

keen hearing 120 feet

 

Resistance

all 15 (except unarmed attacks)