Snowflake Ooze

Actions

Constrict. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 1d20+6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 9 2d6+2 bludgeoning damage plus 5 2d4 cold damage. In addition, the target must make a DC15 saving throw or be grappled. If the target is Medium or smaller, it is also restrained until this grapple ends. While grappling the target, the ooze has advantage on attack rolls against it and can 't use this attack against other targets. When the ooze moves, any Medium or smaller target it is grappling moves with it.   Cold Aura. The snowflake ooze exudes cold. Any creature within 5 feet of one must suceed a DC18 Constitution Save or take 4 1d6 cold damage, or half as must on a successful one.

Reactions

Split. When an ooze that is Medium or larger is subjected to slashing damage, it splits into two new oozes if it has at least 10 hit points. Each new ooze has hit points equal to half the original ooze's, rounded down. New oozes are one size smaller than the original ooze.

What at first appeared to be just a bank of snow is in fact a lacy, delicate-looking creature resembling an enormous snowflake with a complex structure.   One of the most attractive of oozes, the snowflake ooze inhabits cold climates and the depths of caves or tunnels where natural ice can be found. It slowly moves around the area, seeking warm-blooded creatures to freeze. A snowflake ooze can grow to a diameter of about 10 feet and a thickness of about 4 inches, but it can compress its body to fit through cracks as small as 1 inch wide. A typical specimen weighs about 250 pounds.

In Eberron:

• mountains and vales of the Mror Holds
• northern Karrnath
• northern mainland of the Lhazaar Principalities
• Farlnen
• Tashana Tundra (on Sarlona)
• Frostfell

• Icewind Dale
• Narfell
• caverns of white dragon lairs

Snowflake ooze by D. Bircham