Yochlol

Medium fiend (demon), chaotic evil

The yochlols are the Handmaidens of Lolth-extensions of the Spider Queen's will dedicated to acting as her spies, taskmasters, and agents of villainy. They attend their goddess in the Demonweb Pits, but Lolth sometimes dispatches yochlols to the Material Plane to guard her temples and to aid her most devout priestesses. Yochlols don't form outside Lolth's realm of the Demonweb, and they serve no demon lords except their queen.

Outside the Abyss, a yochlol can assume the guise of a female drow or monstrous spider to conceal its demonic form. In its true form, the fiend appears as a pillar of yellow slime with a single malevolent eye. In its drow and true form, a yochlol's touch carries the same venomous touch as its spider form's bite.

For basic lore see Demons


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Basic Character Attributes

Attribute STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
Value 15 14 18 13 15 15
Modifier +2 +2 +4 +1 +2 +2

Armor Class: 15 (natural armor)

Hit Points: 136 (16d8 + 64)

Speed: 30 ft., climb 30 ft.

Saving Throws: Dex +6, Int +5, Wis +6, Cha +6

Skills: Deception +10, Insight +6

Damage Resistances: cold, fire, lightning; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical weapons

Damage Immunities: poison

Condition Immunities: poisoned

Senses: darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 12

Languages: Abyssal, Elvish, Undercommon

Challenge: 10 (5,900 XP)

Shapechanger: The yochlol can use its action to polymorph into a form that resembles a female drow or giant spider, or back into its true form. Its statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.

Magic Resistance: The yochlol has advantage on saving throws again st spells and other magical effects.

Spider Climb: The yochlol can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.

Actions

Multiattack: The yochlol makes two melee attacks.

Slam (Bite in Spider Form): Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft. (10ft. in demon form), one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) bludgeoning (piercing in spider form) damage plus 21 (6d6) poison damage.

Mist form: The yochlol transforms into toxic mist or reverts to its true form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying is also transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.

While in mist form, the yochlol is incapacitated and can't speak. It has a flying speed of 30 feet, can hover, and can pass through any space that isn't airtight. It has advantage on Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution saving throws, and it is immune to nonmagical damage.

While in mist form, the yochlol can enter a creature's space and stop there. Each time that creature starts its turn with the yochlol in its space, the creature must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned until the start of its next turn. While poisoned in this way, the target is incapacitated.