Allip
Medium undead- Challenge
- STR
- −2
- DEX
- 3
- CON
- 0
- INT
- 3
- WIS
- 2
- CHA
- 3
- Fort
- +0
- Ref
- +1
- Will
- +5
Incorporeal Movement. The allip can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. It takes 5 (1d10) force damage if it ends its turn inside an object.
Spellcasting. The allip uses Occult (int) to cast spells (spell save Difficulty 14, +5 to hit with spell attacks). It has 9 mana, a mana limit of 2, regains all expended mana when it finishes a long rest, and regains half its total mana when it finishes a short rest. It knows the following spells:
1 mana: agonizing rebuke, confusion, haze senses, hideous laughter, mind over body, misdirection
2 mana: aphasia, bloodlust, personality parasite
Actions (2)
Maddening Touch (1/turn). Melee Spell Attack: +5 to hit. Hit: 14 (4d6) psychic damage.
Whispers of Madness (1/turn). The allip chooses up to three creatures that aren’t a construct or an undead it can see within 10 meters of it which must succeed on a Difficulty 14 Will saving throw, or it takes 7 (1d8 + 3) psychic damage and must use its reaction to make a melee weapon attack against one creature of the allip’s choice that the allip can see.
Howling Babble (Recharge 6). Each creature that isn’t a construct or an undead within 5 meters of the allip that can hear it must make a Difficulty 14 Will saving throw. On a failure, a target takes 31 (7d8) psychic damage, and it is stunned until the end of its next turn. On a success, it takes half as much damage and isn’t stunned.
Spells
As a reaction, which you use when you are hit by an attack or missed by 4 or less or take psychic damage, you absorb some of the incoming energy. You have resistance to psychic damage until the start of your next turn, including against the triggering damage. If the creature who damaged you is within 10 meters, it must make a Will saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 1d4 psychic damage and is staggered until the end of its next turn.
On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage.
On a success, it takes half as much damage.
On a critical success, it takes no damage.
Augment
You can increase the damage by 3d4 for each additional mana expended.
As an action, you assault and twist a creature’s mind, spawning delusions and provoking uncontrolled actions. Choose a creature that you can touch or see within 10 meters. The target must succeed on a Will saving throw or it is confused until the end of its next turn.
Augment
You can expend 1 additional mana so the duration changes to 1 minute/mana, concentration and the creature is confused for the duration. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
You can target one additional creature for each additional mana expended. The creatures must be within 5 meters of each other when you target them.
concentration, 1 minute/mana
As an action, you haze the senses of a creature that you can touch or see within 10 meters. The creature must make a Fortitude saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 2d8 psychic damage and can’t see anything beyond 2 meters for the duration.
On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage.
On a success, it takes half as much damage.
On a critical success, it takes no damage.
The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Augment
You can increase the damage by 3d8 for each additional mana expended.
You can target one additional creature for each additional mana expended. The creatures must be within 5 meters of each other when you target them.
concentration, 1 minute/mana
As an action, a creature that you can touch or see within 5 meters perceives everything as hilariously funny. The creature must make a Will saving throw. If the creature’s Intelligence is −3 or less, the spell has no effect on it.
On a failure, it falls prone into fits of laughter, becoming incapacitated and unable to stand up for the duration.
An affected creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns and each time it takes damage, ending the effect on a success. The target has advantage on the saving throw if it’s triggered by damage.
Augment
You can expend 1 additional mana to target one additional creature for each additional mana expended. The creatures must be within 5 meters of each other when you target them.
As a reaction, which you use when you make a skill check using Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution or you make a Fortitude or Reflex saving throw, you can focus your mind to overcome your body’s limitations. You make the roll with advantage. You can do so after the roll but before any effects of the roll occur.
If the roll already has advantage or disadvantage, you cannot apply another instance of advantage or disadvantage and you must use this before the roll to cancel out any advantage or disadvantage.
As a reaction, which you use when a creature that you can touch or see within 2 meters of you attacks you, you can try to redirect the attack, provided that another creature is within 1 meter of you and within the attack’s range. The attacker must succeed on a Reflex saving throw or it must target that creature. If multiple creatures are within 1 meter of you and within the attack’s range, the attacker chooses which one to target.
You must choose to use this feature before knowing whether the attack hits or misses.
concentration, 1 hour/mana
As two actions, you close off areas of a creature’s mind communication and social interaction of a creature that you can touch or see within 20 meters. The creature must make a Will saving throw.
On a failure, it loses knowledge of all languages (including telepathic and body language) and is treated as illiterate for the duration.
It may still “speak”, and to it they sound completely normal, but to anyone else they appear as complete gibberish. Verbal components, if used, are not limited by this spell.
A creature can repeat the saving throw each minute, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Augment
You can target one additional creature for each additional mana expended. The creatures must be within 5 meters of each other when you target them.
concentration, 1 minute/mana
As two actions, a creature that you can touch or see within 20 meters has a lust for blood. The creature must make a Will saving throw.
On a failure, it is charmed by you for the duration. While charmed, its skin turns a deep red, and a thirst for destruction glows in its eyes. It must use its actions to make melee attacks made against a creature other than itself that you mentally choose. The charmed creature can move up to half its speed before making the attacks.
The creature can act normally on its turn if you choose no creature or if none are within its reach.
On your subsequent turns, you must use two actions to maintain control over the creature, or the spell ends.
The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Augment
Incite Passion. You can expend 1 additional mana so the charmed creature has disadvantage on Intelligence checks and cannot cast spells. If it is concentrating on a spell, it must immediately make a saving throw with disadvantage to maintain it.
concentration, 1 minute/mana
As two actions, you attempt to briefly partition the mind of your foe. A creature within 20 meters must succeed on a Will saving throw or a minor personality is split off their mind that is antagonistic to the main personality. The parasitic personality functions with complete autonomy from the main personality. It does not control the body physically, but it can take two actions each round that are purely mental, such as casting a spell, in the same turn that the target takes its normal actions.
The parasitic personality casts spells as if it were the target, but can only expend 1 mana when it casts spells.
The parasitic personality actively attempts to cast spells that negatively impact the target, using the most deadly to the target. You do not have control over what the parasitic personality does, though it always works against the interest of the target.
A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
The parasitic personality does not have any effect if the main personality is hasted or subjected to a schism effect.