Mi-Go

Family: Mi-Go

Medium plant, neutral evil

Armor Class 17 (natural armor)
Hit Points 95 (10d8 + 50)
Speed 30 ft., fly 60 ft.

STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
16 (+3) 19 (+4) 21 (+5) 25 (+7) 15 (+2) 13 (+1)

Saving Throws Str +6, Con +8, Cha +4
Skills Arcana +10, Deception +7, Medicine +5, Perception +5, Stealth +7
Damage Resistances cold, radiant
Senses blindsight 30 ft., darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 15
Languages Common, Void Speech
Challenge 5 (1,800 XP)
Proficiency Bonus +3

SPECIAL TRAITS

  • Deathly Spores. When a mi-go dies, its body crumbles into millions of spores. Each creature within 10 feet of the mi-go must succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or take 14 (4d6) poison damage and be poisoned until the end of its next turn.
  • Void Traveler. The mi-go doesn’t require air, food, drink, sleep, or ambient pressure. It requires only minimal exposure to starlight a few times each year to sustain itself.

ACTIONS

  • Multiattack. The mi-go makes two Claw or Psychic Bolt attacks.
  • Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 17 (3d8 + 4) slashing damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 15) if it is a Large or smaller creature.
  • Psychic Bolt. Ranged Spell Attack: +10 to hit, range 120 ft., one target. Hit: 17 (3d6 + 7) psychic damage.
  • Spore Burst (Recharge 5–6). The mi-go releases hallucinogenic spores in a 30-foot cone. Each creature in the area must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw. On a failure, a creature takes 21 (6d6) poison damage and is incapacitated until the end of its next turn. On a success, a creature takes half the damage and isn’t incapacitated.

ABOUT

This fungal, insectoid creature has stubby wings, multiple limbs, and a nightmarish head.

The mi-go are a space-faring people of great skill and vast malevolence. They travel in large numbers between worlds, somehow covering astronomical distances in months rather than decades.

Strange Technology. Their technology includes powerful techniques to implant mi-go elements and minds in others’ bodies (or to extract them). They also have unparalleled mastery of living tissue in both plant and animal form. Mi-go merchants exchange psychic tools, surgical instruments, and engineered materials. They work these materials into fantastic objects such as void-crossing solar wings, glowing lampfruit, and purple starvines, which induce sleep.

World Colonizers. While they have their own secrets and goals, the mi-go also serve ancient powers from between the stars. They are devoted followers of Shub-Niggurath, goddess of fecundity and growth, and take their evangelical mission seriously. They colonize entire worlds in Shub-Niggurath’s name, planting and harvesting entire species according to her will.

Brain Cylinders. The brain cylinder, a device that permits the extraction and maintenance of a living brain outside the body, is the apex of mi-go technology. Safely isolated in a mi-go cylinder, a humanoid brain can travel safely between the stars. They deploy, fill, and retrieve these cylinders according to mysterious schedules and for purposes. Indeed, most of their technology appears either revolting or simply bizarre to humanoids (plant folk are less disquieted by their functioning).

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