Well-Fed Potted Violet Etheroot
CREATURE 9The potted violet etheroot can sense the emotions of creatures within 120 feet as an imprecise sense. Emotion sense is a precise sense against creatures under an emotion effect. A creature under the effects of Calm or the serenity effect of the etheroot's Incite Emotion ability can't be noticed via emotion sense.
A constant spell affects the monster without the monster needing to cast it, and its duration is unlimited. If a constant spell gets counteracted, the monster can reactivate it by spending the normal spellcasting actions the spell requires.
The potted violet etheroot is rooted in a soulfired pot, which was glazed within a hellish kiln and which, like normal objects, has Hardness and grants the etheroot resistance to fire. This Hardness reduces any damage the etheroot takes by an amount equal to the Hardness. Once the potted violet etheroot is reduced to less than half its Hit Points, or immediately upon being damaged by a critical hit, its soulfired pot breaks, it loses its resistance to fire, and its AC is reduced to 23. Breaking the pot also increases the etheroot's speed to 25 feet.
The potted violet etheroot can trigger a false vision as the hallucination spell (DC 26 Will) in the mind of a target within 800 feet to hear and see an object, creature, or force of the etheroot's choice, which can draw upon the target's own understanding. For example, the etheroot would not have to be familiar with the target's father to create a hallucination of the target's father that looked and sounded like him. The false vision can be sustained up to 1 hour.
- Despair: Target must attempt a Will save as if subjected to the Wave of Despair spell.
- Fear: Target must attempt a Will save as if targeted by the Fear spell.
- Hope: Target is affected as if subjected to the Courageous Anthem cantrip and must attempt a Will save to determine duration.
Critical Success The target is affected for 4 rounds.
Success The target is affected for 3 rounds.
Failure The target is affected for 1 round.
Critical Failure The target is unaffected.
- Serenity: Target must attempt a Will save as if subjected to the Calm spell.
The potted violet etheroot makes two Strikes with two different tentacles, each limb targeting a different creature. This counts as two attacks toward the etheroot's multiple attack penalty for further actions, but the penalty doesn't increase until after both attacks are made.