Hi, newbie DM question. The mouther has under special attacks:
Special Attacks: blood drain, engulf (6d4 damage plus 2 Con damage, AC 13, hp 4), gibbering, ground manipulation, spittle (+6 ranged touch)
If all six mouths are engaged doing the 6d4 damage to an engulfed creature, can the mouther still use its spittle attack? I would say no, but others have argued that the creature can forgo one bite on the engulfed prey (thus only 5d4 and con damage) and use a freed mouth to spittle attack. It is a fairly amorphous blob after all.
Thoughts?
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I'd rule that it doesn't even need to give up a bite attack - I suspect that it has far more than six mouths, and that the "six bites" thing is just a measure of how many it can bring to bear at once. So it can lean forward to bite with a bunch of mouths, while another (less usefully placed) mouth spits at someone. ^_^
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And yet another one can gibber if it wants. Pretty deadly for CR 5.
It can make the spittle attack as a free action. Nothing says it has to forsake anything at all. Do PCs forgo the use of one hand worth of actions when they use a free action to drop an item? No.
And I don't agree with thecarrotman. With Int 4, its well above an animal. Animals can use tactics (ever heard about wolfs or lions?), know when they're beaten and when to spend extra effort to secure the food they need. A gibbering mouther looses next to nothing with the spittle attack, there's no reason for it not to use it every single round if it has anything to gain by doing so.
