Brughadatch
Level 10Attacks
Abilities
The brughadatch conjures a decadent, enticing feast void of nutritional substance. This conjuration takes 1 minute and lasts for 24 hours. For each item of illusory food a creature eats, it must attempt a DC 29 will save.
Critical Success The creature sees through the illusion and becomes immune to the effects of Deceitful Feast for 24 hours.
Success The creature doesn't see through the illusion but is unaffected by the food.
Failure The creature takes a -1 circumstance penalty to Wil
Requirements Targets must have critically failed a save against a brughadatch's Deceitful Feast or charm innate spell
Frequency once per round
Effect The brughadatch feasts on the souls of the creatures they've tricked. They target up to five creatures within 30 feet and feast on their ambient brainpower, dealing 4d10 mental damage (DC 26 will save) to each creature. Unless a target succeeds at the Will save, this damage does not end the Charm effect or the effect of Deceitful Feast as
The biggest difference between a gahlepod and a grown brughadatch isn't their humanoid appearance, but the powerful magic they gain as they mature.
Brughadatches are malevolent fey tricksters with distinct stages of life: they spawn from the First World's primal energies as esurient tadpoles, grow into humanoids capable of creating enticing illusions, then finally evolve into huge, slothful toads that warp their environs with mere thoughts.