For those who don't know, you have to use an Action to escape a Grapple. Also not being able to take any actions or reactions mean you can't even escape from it once it hits. Absolutely wild.
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Kill Every Monster
There are parts of the new Monster Manual that were clearly never play tested.
Get trapped in a Mind Flayer's tentacles? You better hope there is another player to get you out, because there is nothing your PC can do to escape from its auto-grapple on a hit.
Get trapped in a Mind Flayer's tentacles? You better hope there is another player to get you out, because there is nothing your PC can do to escape from its auto-grapple on a hit.
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I really think its always been intended to be deadly dangerous if you don't have help.
New one also says has the grappled condition from all the tentacles, a weird thing to point out. Wonder if this is poor playtesting, intended deadliness if you don't have fighter to come shove you apart, or more like carrion crawler that's just clearly missing rules