Well, even if they get more actions in a round than one PC, there's also a lot more PCs than monsters.  Aside from say, running into the nest or something suicidal like that, you'll always be fighting only a handful of large monsters (you might find a few small ones with low HP as well, but those are easy enough to slaughter).  They also need more actions since they're not going straight to PC's HP, instead needing several rounds of "preparation" before they can actually do anything; if they were able to do regular attacks against HP and got that many actions in a round, it would clearly be overpowered.  (Later monsters will be able to do normal HP attacks, but it'll take more "actions"; if the big one were to do a regular attack, it would only get one, even with a full-round action.)<br/><br/>Considering that no one's even had to make a Will save yet, much less suffer ahegao, I'm actually thinking they may be a little weak (although I intended this to be an easy warm-up fight).<br/><br/>I do agree that losing out on turns because you're grappled may not be very fun, though.  You are still able to attack while grappled (although with only a one-handed weapon, which I highly recommend picking up next time you're in town...)  On a related note, I just double-checked the rules for Pinned, and it says you're limited in what you can do, but doesn't say either way whether you can attack or not, so I'm going to assume you can (with the same restrictions as being grappled).<br/><br/>As for the armor, I may change that to letting you repair it when not in a fight.<br/><br/>For AoE spells, remember that I am nerfing them to keep them from being too strong against the monsters; you have to split the damage between tentacles and the monster, it doesn't do full damage to each tentacle (you can have it do all its damage to the main monster, or do just enough damage to each tentacle to kill it and the remainder on the monster, or however else you want to split it up).<br/><br/>Let me know if there's any other concerns or if you think I should change something, though.