SRD 5.2 SRD 5.2.1 (current printing)

SRD 5.1 SRD 5.1

Purple Worm

Gargantuan Monstrosity, Unaligned

AC 18 (natural armor)

Initiative +3

HP 247 (15d20 + 90)

Speed 50 ft., swim 25 ft., climb 25 ft., burrow 50 ft., crawl 25 ft.

STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
Score
Save
Senses
passive Perception 9, blindsight 30 ft., tremorsense 60 ft.
CR
15 (13,000 XP)

Traits

Tunneler. The worm can burrow through solid rock at half its Burrow Speed and leaves a 10-foot-diameter tunnel in its wake.

Actions

Melee Attack Roll: , reach 10 ft. . If the target is a Large or smaller creature, it has the Grappled condition (escape DC 19), and it has the Restrained condition until the grapple ends.
The worm makes one Bite attack and one Tail Stinger attack.
Melee Attack Roll: , reach 10 ft. .

Bonus Actions

Swallow. Strength Saving Throw: DC 19, one Large or smaller creature Grappled by the worm (it can have up to three creatures swallowed at a time). Failure: The target is swallowed by the worm, and the Grappled condition ends. A swallowed creature has the Blinded and Restrained conditions, has Cover|XPHB|Total Cover against attacks and other effects outside the worm, and takes at the start of each of the worm's turns. If the worm takes 30 damage or more on a single turn from a creature inside it, the worm must succeed on a DC 21 Constitution saving throw at the end of that turn or regurgitate all swallowed creatures, each of which falls in a space within 5 feet of the worm and has the Prone condition. If the worm dies, any swallowed creature no longer has the Restrained condition and can escape from the corpse using 20 feet of movement, exiting Prone.

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Official miniatures

Pre-painted minis of this creature, catalogued from minisgallery.com.

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