Grick

Infobox D&D creature
name=Grick
alignment=Neutral
type=Aberration
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In the Dungeons and Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the grick is an aberration. It resembles a large (roughly 8 feet long and 2 feet wide and tall), darkly colored worm or snake-like creature. Its beak is ringed by four barbed tentacles, which are its main weapons.

Combat

Gricks are subterranean predators which make their hunting grounds where prey is abundant, using their dark coloration to blend into shadowed areas. When prey comes near, it lashes out with its tentacles. Due to the weakness of its jaws compared to the rest of its body, it prefers to drag ensnared prey back to its lair to be consumed at its own leisure rather than to immediately eat it. The grick's rubbery hide can absorb most blows from an attacker, but the beak, however, is a weak spot, as are the tips of the tentacles.

Gricks are pack hunters which gang up on a single enemy and kill it before turning to other targets.

References

*Williams, Skip, Jonathan Tweet, and Monte Cook. "Monster Manual" (Wizards of the Coast, 2000).