Gibbering mouther
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| Dungeons & Dragons creature | |
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| Gibbering mouther | |
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| Type | Aberration |
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| Image | Wizards.com image |
| Stats | OGL stats |
In the Dungeons and Dragons fantasy role-playing game, a gibbering mouther is a horrible aberration seemingly drawn from a lunatic's nightmares. It resembles a writhing mass of grey flesh covered with dozens of randomly placed eyes and mouths, of different sizes and shapes.
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[edit] Characteristics and habits
The gibbering mouther is not regarded as an evil creature, but in order to sustain its mad self, it must feast upon the bodily fluids and sanity of mortal creatures, preferably intelligent ones. It attacks by spitting strings of protoplasmic flesh which end in a mouth and one or more eyes at opponents, which then bite them, causing both acid and blinding damage. When it has defeated an opponent, it swallows them whole, and then proceeds to suck the bodily fluids and sanity. It is possible for the victim to cut their way out.
Having so many eyes, gibbering mouthers are difficult to sneak up on.
Gibbering mouthers can speak Common, but seldom speak anything other than mad babble and gibberish.
They are regarded as neutral in alignment, but have distinctly evil habits.
[edit] Powers and abilities
Gibbering mouthers can produce a constant gibbering that confuses all creatures within 60 feet. They can also change nearby ground (whether earth or stone) to the consistency of quicksand. The mouther can move unimpaired through the quicksand.
A gibbering mouther can loose a stream of spittle that ignites on contact with the air, temporarily blinding creatures within 60 feet.
[edit] Society
Gibbering mouthers are solitary creatures and do not have sufficient intelligence to form any kind of society.
[edit] Trivia
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The gibbering mouther first appeared in the Dungeons and Dragons module C1: The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan.
The gibbering mouther bears a passing resemblance to the shoggoth of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
[edit] Footnotes
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[edit] References
- Findley, Nigel D. "The Ecology of the Gibbering Mouther" Dragon #160 (TSR, 1990).
- Williams, Skip, Jonathan Tweet, and Monte Cook. Monster Manual (Wizards of the Coast, 2000).
