b'Invertebrate, Monstrous Seastar \n'b'  Large   beast ,  unaligned  \n'b'  Armor Class  15 (natural armor)  Hit Points  104 (11d10 + 44)  Speed  10 ft., climb 10 ft.\n'b' STATS STR: 17 (+3) DEX:  15 (+2)  CON:  18 (+4)  INT:  8 (-1)  WIS:  13 (+1)  CHA:  8 (-1)  \n'b'\n'b'\n'b'\n'b'\n'b'\n'b'\n'b'  Saving Throws   Dex  +5,  Wis  +4,  Cha  +2  Condition Immunities   prone   Damage Resistances  bludgeoning  Senses  blindsight 30 ft., passive  Perception  11  Languages  \xe2\x80\x93  Challenge  6 (2,300 XP) \n'b' SPECIAL TRAITS \n'b'\n'b'  Tube Feet . Monstrous seastars move and grapple using thousands of shorter appendages filled with fluid and ending in tiny suctions cups. They treat any solid surface as clear terrain. \n'b'  Regeneration . The seastar regains 5  hit points  at the start of its turn. If the seastar takes acid or fire damage, this trait doesn\xe2\x80\x99t function at the start of the seastar\xe2\x80\x99s next turn. The seastar dies only if it starts its turn with  0 hit points  and doesn\xe2\x80\x99t  regenerate . \n'b'  Water Breathing . The seastar can breathe only underwater. \n'b'\n'b' ACTIONS \n'b'\n'b'  Multiattack . The seastar makes two slam attacks. \n'b'  Slam .  Melee Weapon Attack : +6 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target.  Hit : 14 (2d10 + 3) bludgeoning damage, and if the target is a Medium or smaller creature and the seastar isn\xe2\x80\x99t already grappling a creature, it is  grappled  (escape DC 12). \n'b'  External Stomach . A seastar ejects its stomach in order to begin digestion of a captured meal. If the target is a Medium or smaller creature  grappled  by the seastar, that creature is digested, and the grapple ends. While being digested, the creature is  blinded  and  restrained , it has total  cover  against attacks and other effects outside the seastar\xe2\x80\x99s external stomach, and it takes 14 (4d6) acid damage at the start of each of the seastar\xe2\x80\x99s turns. If the seastar\xe2\x80\x99s external stomach takes 20 damage or more on a single turn from a creature inside it, the seastar must succeed on a DC 14  Constitution  saving throw at the end of that turn or regurgitate all swallowed creatures, which fall  prone  in a space within 5 feet of the seastar. Damage done to a seastar\xe2\x80\x99s stomach does not  harm  the seastar. If the seastar dies, a swallowed creature is no longer  restrained  by it and can escape from the corpse using 5 feet of movement, exiting  prone . \n'b'\n'b' REACTIONS \n'b'\n'b'  Split . When a seastar is subjected to a critical hit from a slashing  attack , it splits into two new seastars if it has at least 10  hit points . Each new seastar has  hit points  equal to half the original seastar\xe2\x80\x99s, rounded down. New seastars are one  size  smaller than the original seastar. \n'b'\n'b' ABOUT \n'b' When a monstrous seastar emerges from repose, muscular tentacles explode from the sand and fold inward toward its toothless central maw. These aggressive starfish average 7 to 10 feet in diameter and weigh 600 to 1000 pounds. \n'b'  Creeping Doom . Starfish on some alien ocean worlds contend with a greater number of more dangerous marine threats than on other worlds. Their resulting evolution produced faster, stronger specimens that recover from injury very quickly. Most unique among the species is that some giant seastars have no agenda or reproductive mechanism other than to split and  regenerate  after being attacked by predators. Ironically, the number of natural enemies that find them delicious ensures their survival. \n'b'  One Too Many Mouths . Monstrous seastars have mouths on both sides of their bodies, allowing them to crawl towards stationary food, or to lie half-buried in sand to ambush prey crawling across the seabed above them.'