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    Monster Trove: Old Fears and Hungry Things

    Taotie

    Huge - Impartial Vile (Schemer)
    HP
    205
    AC
    18
    DR
    4
    Attacks
    1
    Attack
    4d10+6
    Size
    Huge
    Alignment
    Impartial Vile (Schemer)
    Intelligence
    High (13-14)
    Magic Resistance
    +3 to saves against spells
    Saves
    Quick 4 / Tough 6 / Mind 5

    The taotie is hunger given a face and no body beyond what it has consumed. It enters storehouses, palaces and temples through carved images of itself, then devours food, treasure and finally memory.

    Special Attack

    Devour Possession: one carried object within 30 ft vanishes into its mouth unless the holder succeeds on a Quick save. If the object is magical, the taotie recovers 3d10 HP. Bottomless Bite: piercing, melee 10 ft, +6 to hit, 4d10+6.

    Special Defense

    The Face Without a Body: attacks from directly behind ignore DR because the taotie has no true rear body. An empty bowl freely placed before it forces a Mind save; on a failed save it must spend its next turn staring into the bowl and remembering that hunger cannot be filled.