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Actions/Abilities/Traits: Basic Fantasy
Actions/Abilities/Traits: Basic Fantasy
Muscular humanoid with gray skin that is blind but has exceptional senses of smell and hearing
A Grimlock is a muscular humanoid with gray skin. It is blind, but its exceptional senses of smell and hearing allow it to notice foes nearby. As a result, it usually shuns ranged weapons and rushes to attack, brandishing stone battleaxes.
Actions/Abilities/Traits: Basic Fantasy
Actions/Abilities/Traits: D&D 5e
Actions/Abilities/Traits: D&D 5e
A muscular humanoid stares with dark, eyeless sockets. It fingers a notched batleaxe and emits a low growl.
The degenerate subterranean grimlocks were once human, but their worship of the mind flayers over generations of prowling the Underdark transformed them into blind, monstrous cannibals long ago.
Debased Cultists
The empire of the mind flayers once spread across many worlds, enslaving countless races. Among those were human cultures whose high priests the mind flayers subverted using their insidious powers of thought control. Those leaders gradually turned the faiths of their followers toward the illithids, which they worshiped as blasphemous deities.
Over time, the rituals of these enslaved humans created fervent cannibal cults that regarded the brain eating of the mind flayers as a holy sacrament. The illithids commanded their worshipers to abduct other sentient creatures to be sacrificed. After the victims' brains had been consumed, the mind flayers gave the lifeless bodies to the cultists.
Blind Hunters
When the rule of the mind flayers crumbled, their cults faced constant warfare from their enemies, the same creatures that had once been their victims. The cults fled into the Underdark domains of their illithid gods. Over generations in that lightless realm, the cultists learned to rely on their other senses for survival. In time, their eyes withered away and eyelids sealed, leaving only covered eye sockets behind.
A grimlock's ears prick up at the faintest footfall or whisper echoing down stone passageways. It can speak in tones too low for most other humanoids to hear. The odors of sweat, flesh, and blood awaken its hunger, and it can track by such scents like a bloodhound. To enhance their senses, grimlocks leave trails of blood, piles of dung, or the viscera of slain prey in places far from their lairs. When intruders pass through those areas, they carry the foul scents with them, warning the grimlocks of their approach.
For most creatures, blindness is an enormous hindrance. For a grimlock with its other heightened senses, sightlessness is a boon. A grimlock isn't fooled by visual illusions or misperceptions. It is fearless as it stalks prey.
Endless War
Grimlocks still venerate the mind flayers, serving them whenever possible. Grimlocks also recall the war in which they were driven underground. To them, it has never ended. They continue to return to the surface world to abduct captives for their illithid masters.
Grimlock
Puppet of the Mind Flayer Menace
Grimlocks are victims of biological manipulation by mind flayers. To create grimlocks, illithids capture Humanoids, expose them to strange forms of Underdark radiation, and implant new directives into their brains. The process of creating a grimlock rends the creature's mind such that no semblance of the individual's former personality remains.
Grimlocks have shallow depressions rather than eyes. A sixth sense allows grimlocks to perceive their surroundings. Psychic energies from their transformations linger in grimlocks' bodies, and they channel these eerie forces into their attacks.
Roll on or choose a result from the Grimlock Tasks table to inspire how grimlocks serve illithids.
We thought we'd discovered a new people living deeper than we believed possible. The truth was something far worse.
Actions/Abilities/Traits: D&D 5e
Actions/Abilities/Traits: OSRIC
Actions/Abilities/Traits: OSRIC
Muscular humanoid with gray skin that is blind but has exceptional senses of smell and hearing
Grimlocks are a fierce race that dwell in the dark and hidden places of the earth, periodically issuing forth to the surface in search of prey, preferably human. Whilst somewhat resembling men in shape, they have a thick, almost scaly, hide that is a dusky grey in colour, a head of wild and matted black hair, a mouthful of vicious pointed teeth and two white featureless orbs for eyes. Though it is unknown whether grimlocks speak a language, it is certain that they are entirely blind as a race. They instead rely on their other senses, which are highly developed and allow them to perceive the environment around them within a 20-ft radius with astounding accuracy. Their blindness also protects them against the effects of bright light or other visual stimuli that might otherwise adversely affect them, including magical effects, such as invisibility, darkness and any visual illusions. However, grimlocks are also known to be particularly vulnerable to effects that obscure their other senses, such as overpowering scents or overloud noises that have a significant duration. When exposed to such hindrances, their perception is reduced to a 10-ft radius and they suffer a -2 penalty to hit.
Actions/Abilities/Traits: OSRIC
A muscular humanoid stares with dark, eyeless sockets. It fingers a notched batleaxe and emits a low growl.
The degenerate subterranean grimlocks were once human, but their worship of the mind flayers over generations of prowling the Underdark transformed them into blind, monstrous cannibals long ago.
!!Debased Cultists
The empire of the mind flayers once spread across many worlds, enslaving countless races. Among those were human cultures whose high priests the mind flayers subverted using their insidious powers of thought control. Those leaders gradually turned the faiths of their followers toward the illithids, which they worshiped as blasphemous deities.
Over time, the rituals of these enslaved humans created fervent cannibal cults that regarded the brain eating of the mind flayers as a holy sacrament. The illithids commanded their worshipers to abduct other sentient creatures to be sacrificed. After the victims' brains had been consumed, the mind flayers gave the lifeless bodies to the cultists.
!!Blind Hunters
When the rule of the mind flayers crumbled, their cults faced constant warfare from their enemies, the same creatures that had once been their victims. The cults fled into the Underdark domains of their illithid gods. Over generations in that lightless realm, the cultists learned to rely on their other senses for survival. In time, their eyes withered away and eyelids sealed, leaving only covered eye sockets behind.
A grimlock's ears prick up at the faintest footfall or whisper echoing down stone passageways. It can speak in tones too low for most other humanoids to hear. The odors of sweat, flesh, and blood awaken its hunger, and it can track by such scents like a bloodhound. To enhance their senses, grimlocks leave trails of blood, piles of dung, or the viscera of slain prey in places far from their lairs. When intruders pass through those areas, they carry the foul scents with them, warning the grimlocks of their approach.
For most creatures, blindness is an enormous hindrance. For a grimlock with its other heightened senses, sightlessness is a boon. A grimlock isn't fooled by visual illusions or misperceptions. It is fearless as it stalks prey.
!!Endless War
Grimlocks still venerate the mind flayers, serving them whenever possible. Grimlocks also recall the war in which they were driven underground. To them, it has never ended. They continue to return to the surface world to abduct captives for their illithid masters.
!!Grimlock
Puppet of the Mind Flayer Menace
Grimlocks are victims of biological manipulation by mind flayers. To create grimlocks, illithids capture Humanoids, expose them to strange forms of Underdark radiation, and implant new directives into their brains. The process of creating a grimlock rends the creature's mind such that no semblance of the individual's former personality remains.
Grimlocks have shallow depressions rather than eyes. A sixth sense allows grimlocks to perceive their surroundings. Psychic energies from their transformations linger in grimlocks' bodies, and they channel these eerie forces into their attacks.
Roll on or choose a result from the Grimlock Tasks table to inspire how grimlocks serve illithids.
We thought we'd discovered a new people living deeper than we believed possible. The truth was something far worse.
Muscular humanoid with gray skin that is blind but has exceptional senses of smell and hearing
A Grimlock is a muscular humanoid with gray skin. It is blind, but its exceptional senses of smell and hearing allow it to notice foes nearby. As a result, it usually shuns ranged weapons and rushes to attack, brandishing stone battleaxes.
Muscular humanoid with gray skin that is blind but has exceptional senses of smell and hearing
Grimlocks are a fierce race that dwell in the dark and hidden places of the earth, periodically issuing forth to the surface in search of prey, preferably human. Whilst somewhat resembling men in shape, they have a thick, almost scaly, hide that is a dusky grey in colour, a head of wild and matted black hair, a mouthful of vicious pointed teeth and two white featureless orbs for eyes. Though it is unknown whether grimlocks speak a language, it is certain that they are entirely blind as a race. They instead rely on their other senses, which are highly developed and allow them to perceive the environment around them within a 20-ft radius with astounding accuracy. Their blindness also protects them against the effects of bright light or other visual stimuli that might otherwise adversely affect them, including magical effects, such as invisibility, darkness and any visual illusions. However, grimlocks are also known to be particularly vulnerable to effects that obscure their other senses, such as overpowering scents or overloud noises that have a significant duration. When exposed to such hindrances, their perception is reduced to a 10-ft radius and they suffer a -2 penalty to hit.
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