Myconid Sovereign

{
  "ac": [
    {
      "ac": 13,
      "from": [
        "natural armor"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "cr": "2",
  "hp": {
    "average": 60,
    "formula": "8d10 + 16"
  },
  "cha": 10,
  "con": 14,
  "dex": 10,
  "int": 13,
  "str": 12,
  "wis": 15,
  "name": "Myconid Sovereign",
  "page": 232,
  "size": [
    "L"
  ],
  "type": "plant",
  "speed": {
    "walk": 30
  },
  "trait": [
    {
      "name": "Distress Spores",
      "entries": [
        "When the myconid takes damage, all other myconids within 240 feet of it can sense its pain."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Sun Sickness",
      "entries": [
        "While in sunlight, the myconid has disadvantage on ability checks, attack rolls, and saving throws. The myconid dies if it spends more than 1 hour in direct sunlight."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "__prop": "monster",
  "action": [
    {
      "name": "Multiattack",
      "entries": [
        "The myconid uses either its Hallucination Spores or its Pacifying Spores, then makes a fist attack."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Fist",
      "entries": [
        "{@atk mw} {@hit 3} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. {@h}8 ({@damage 3d4 + 1}) bludgeoning damage plus 7 ({@damage 3d4}) poison damage."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Animating Spores (3/Day)",
      "entries": [
        "The myconid targets one corpse of a humanoid or a Large or smaller beast within 5 feet of it and releases spores at the corpse. In 24 hours, the corpse rises as a spore servant. The corpse stays animated for {@dice 1d4 + 1} weeks or until destroyed, and it can't be animated again in this way."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Hallucination Spores",
      "entries": [
        "The myconid ejects spores at one creature it can see within 5 feet of it. The target must succeed on a {@dc 12} Constitution saving throw or be {@condition poisoned} for 1 minute. The {@condition poisoned} target is {@condition incapacitated} while it hallucinates. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Pacifying Spores",
      "entries": [
        "The myconid ejects spores at one creature it can see within 5 feet of it. The target must succeed on a {@dc 12} Constitution saving throw or be {@condition stunned} for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Rapport Spores",
      "entries": [
        "A 30-foot radius of spores extends from the myconid. These spores can go around corners and affect only creatures with an Intelligence of 2 or higher that aren't undead, constructs, or elementals. Affected creatures can communicate telepathically with one another while they are within 30 feet of each other. The effect lasts for 1 hour."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    "darkvision 120 ft."
  ],
  "source": "MM",
  "passive": 12,
  "variant": [
    {
      "name": "Zuggtomoy's Empowerment",
      "page": 228,
      "type": "variant",
      "source": "OotA",
      "entries": [
        "Myconids that embrace {@creature Zuggtmoy|MTF} can develop new, more destructive kinds of spores. Myconid sovereigns have all these spore effects.",
        {
          "name": "Caustic Spores (1/Day)",
          "type": "entries",
          "entries": [
            "The myconid releases spores in a 30-foot cone. Each creature inside the cone must succeed on a {@dc 12} Dexterity saving throw or take 3 ({@damage 1d6}) acid damage at the start of each of the myconid's turns. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of its turn, ending the effect on itself on a success. The save DC is 8 + the myconid's Constitution modifier + the myconid's proficiency bonus."
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "Infestation Spores (1/Day)",
          "type": "entries",
          "entries": [
            "The myconid releases spores that burst out in a cloud that fills a 10-foot-radius sphere centered on it, and the cloud lingers for 1 minute. Any flesh-and-blood creature in the cloud when it appears, or that enters it later, must make a {@dc 12} Constitution saving throw. The save DC is 8 + the myconid's Constitution modifier + the myconid's proficiency bonus. On a successful save, the creature can't be infected by these spores for 24 hours. On a failed save, the creature is infected with a disease called the spores of Zuggtmoy) and also gains a random form of indefinite madness (determined by rolling on the Madness of {@creature Zuggtmoy|MTF} table) that lasts until the creature is cured of the disease or dies. While infected in this way, the creature can't be reinfected, and it must repeat the saving throw at the end of every 24 hours, ending the infection on a success. On a failure, the infected creature's body is slowly taken over by fungal growth, and after three such failed saves, the creature dies and is reanimated as a spore servant if it's a humanoid or a Large or smaller beast."
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "Euphoria Spores (1/Day)",
          "type": "entries",
          "entries": [
            "The myconid releases a cloud of spores in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on itself. Other creatures in that area must each succeed on a {@dc 12} Constitution saving throw or become {@condition poisoned} for 1 minute. The save DC is 8 + the myconid's Constitution modifier + the myconid's proficiency bonus. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect early on itself on a success. When the effect ends on it, the creature gains one level of {@condition exhaustion}."
          ]
        }
      ],
      "_version": {
        "name": "Myconid Sovereign (Additional Spore Effects)",
        "addHeadersAs": "action"
      }
    }
  ],
  "hasFluff": true,
  "hasToken": true,
  "miscTags": [
    "AOE",
    "DIS",
    "MW"
  ],
  "alignment": [
    "L",
    "N"
  ],
  "senseTags": [
    "SD"
  ],
  "soundClip": {
    "path": "bestiary/myconid-sovere.opus",
    "type": "internal"
  },
  "actionTags": [
    "Multiattack"
  ],
  "damageTags": [
    "A",
    "B",
    "I"
  ],
  "environment": [
    "underdark"
  ],
  "reprintedAs": [
    "Myconid Sovereign|XMM"
  ],
  "hasFluffImages": true,
  "conditionInflict": [
    "exhaustion",
    "incapacitated",
    "poisoned",
    "stunned"
  ],
  "referenceSources": [
    "GoS",
    "IDRotF",
    "IMR",
    "KftGV",
    "OotA",
    "QftIS",
    "WDMM"
  ],
  "savingThrowForced": [
    "constitution",
    "dexterity"
  ]
}