# Dharculus >[!rimg]+ > ![[Placeholder2.png]] > >[!debug]+ > >tentacles: 1d4 (×2) > >Melee/Ranged: +7/+8 > >Secondary: +2/+3 > >Multiattack: +5/+6 > >M/R_PA: +7/+8 > >2nd/PA: +2/+3 > >MA_PA: +5/+6 > >Itterative: 2 > > xDmg:: Str: +1; Str2: +1; StrOH: +0; StrPA: +1; StrPA2H: +1; StrPAOH: +0 > > xDCs:: Str: 15; Dex: 16; Con: 19; Int: 14; Wis: 17; Cha: 17 > > xFeat:: 3/4 (1) > > > > > > xLang:: 0/0 (0) <div class="grid-container"><div class="MON">Dharculus</div> <div class="CR">CR 9 (6,400 XP)</div> <div class="SOU">Planar Handbook</div> <div class="SYS">Dungeons & Dragons 3.5</div></div> N Medium Aberration **Init** +6 **Perception** +14 #### defense **AC** 22, 12 touch, 20 flat-footed (+2 Dex, +10 natural) **hp** 72 (8d8+40) **Fort** +7, **Refl** +4, **Will** +11 **Feint** 19, **Demoralize** 21 **SR** 20 #### offense **Speed** 30 ft. **Melee** 6 tentacles +8 (1d4+1 plus grab) **Space** 5 ft., **Reach** 5 ft. **Special Attacks** dualplanar, ethereal bite, tenatcle wrap #### statistics **Str** 12, **Dex** 14, **Con** 20, **Int** 11, **Wis** 17, **Cha** 17 **BAB** +6, **CMB** +7, **CMD** 19, **TA** +7, **RTA** +8 **Feats** [[Improved Initiative]], [[Iron Will]], [[Weapon Finesse]] **Skills** Climb +12, Escape Artist +13, Intimidate +14, Perception +14 **Languages** #### special abilities ### Dualplanar (Ex) The bulk of a dharculus's body resides on the Ethereal Plane, but the monster possesses the capacity to insert or remove its mawed tentacle ends into or out of the Material Plane as a standard action. Creatures on the Material Plane find it difficult to target the dharculus. A dharculus has cover from attacks originating on the Material Plane, and is not subject to critical hits. A dharculus can take a standard action to remove its tentacles from the Material Plane, allowing it to effectively retreat completely into the Ethereal Plane. Force effects ignore the dharculus's dualplanar nature. ### Ethereal Bite (Ex) A dharculus that begins a turn with all six tentacles attached and that makes a successful grapple check automatically makes an ethereal bite (biting with its enormous, body-sized maw, which is normally relegated to the Ethereal Plane), dealing 6d6+4 points of damage. The maw and main body of the creature remain only a threatening thickness in the air even when the bite is delivered, so the sudden jerking and wounding of a victim become all the more unsettling to the victim's compatriots. ### Tenatcle Wrap (Ex) When a darculus successfully pins an opponent, it can wrap its remaining tentacles around its victim, granting it a cumulative +2 bonus (+10 total) to maintain the pin.