Deep Python (creature)

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Deep Python
Gargantuan monstrosity, unaligned Armor Class 13 (natural armor) Heart Points 135 (10d20 + 30) Speed 20 ft., burrow 20 ft., swim 80 ft.
STR 21 (+5)	DEX 8 (-1)	CON 17 (+3)	INT 2 (-4)	WIS 12 (+1)	CHA 5 (-3)
Damage Vulnerabilities lightning
Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 11
Languages —
Challenge 5 (1,800 XP)			Proficiency Bonus +3
Challenge Alternatives 1, 5, 9
Ambusher. The python has advantage on attack rolls targeting any creature that has yet to have a turn in this combat. Siege Monster. The python deals double damage to objects and structures. Tunneler. The python can burrow through solid rock at half its burrow speed and leaves a 5-foot-diameter tunnel in its wake. Underwater Camouflage. The python has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made while underwater. Water Breathing. The python can only breathe underwater.
Actions Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 34 (4d12 + 8) piercing damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 16). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, and the python can't bite another target. Swallow. The python makes one bite attack against a Large or smaller target it is grappling. If the attack hits, the target is swallowed, and the grapple ends. The swallowed target is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside the python, and it takes 14 (4d6) acid damage at the start of each of the python's turns. The python can have only one target swallowed at a time. If the python dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained by it and can escape from the corpse using 10 feet of movement, exiting prone.

“	“Yes, b-but Aveil... The sea is strangely murky where we were attacked by the sea snakes...”
	— Anonymous gerudo pirate, Majora's Mask

A colossal omnivorous eel only found in ocean depths, a deep python (or "sea snake") can be dozens if not hundreds of feet long. Its dark coloration make it difficult to notice against the background of ocean depths, despite its immensity.
     Ambush Predator. A deep python often hides under mountains of sand or inside stone tunnels, only to dart out and crush prey in powerful bird-like beaks capable of tearing apart galleons with a single strike. Their beaks and entire faces are as hard as steel, but their gills are remarkably fragile. These monsters are known to hunt in open waters where their gills are more exposed, but only do so when food is otherwise scarce.
     Environment: Sea

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Related pages

• Deep python has three different stat blocks, each of a different Challenge Rating: 1, 5, and 9
• Morpheel (creature), another Gargautuan aquatic serpent
• Colossocto (creature), a deep sea monster that might compete with deep pythons for prey and territory

The material on this page is based primarily on content found in Majora's Mask, which is copyright Nintendo Co., Ltd.