ability_mods: cha_mod: 3 con_mod: 5 dex_mod: 3 int_mod: 4 str_mod: 6 wis_mod: 4 ac: 26 ac_special: null alignment: CE automatic_abilities: - action_cost: None critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: A brain collector has seven brain blisters on its back that it uses to house stolen brains. A brain collector without all seven blisters full is stupefied with a value equal to the number of empty blisters. effect: null effects: null failure: null frequency: null full_description: null generic_description: null name: Brain Blisters range: null raw_description: '**Brain Blisters** A brain collector has seven brain blisters on its back that it uses to house stolen brains. A brain collector without all seven blisters full is stupefied with a value equal to the number of empty blisters.' requirements: null success: null traits: null trigger: null - action_cost: None critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: If a brain collector takes 30 damage from a critical hit or takes 25 mental damage, it must succeed at a DC 26 save (Fortitude for critical damage or Will for mental damage) or one of its brain blisters is destroyed. effect: null effects: null failure: null frequency: null full_description: null generic_description: null name: Brain Loss range: null raw_description: '**Brain Loss** If a brain collector takes 30 damage from a critical hit or takes 25 mental damage, it must succeed at a DC 26 save (Fortitude for critical damage or Will for mental damage) or one of its brain blisters is destroyed.' requirements: null success: null traits: null trigger: null description: 'The grotesque brain collectors (or neh-thalggus, as they call themselves) originate from worlds far beyond the known solar system, and are part of a conglomeration of hostile aliens known collectively as the Dominion of the Black. Whether driven by their own schemes or directives from sinister overlords, brain collectors arrive in living starships to harvest the brains of intelligent creatures. These aberrations draw no nutrition from brains, instead storing them for analysis and as vessels for occult magical energies. A brain collector''s form evokes that of a tailless scorpion, but the pulsing brain-filled blisters that glisten along its back make them impossible to mistake for merely oversized arachnids. Baleful eyes glare from the joints on their legs, and the unsettling, intrusive whisper-thoughts they telepathically broadcast into the minds of those they seek to feed on can be interpreted as threats or promises alike. Brain collectors have very little empathy for the denizens of any world they visit, despite the fact that certain cults venerate them, or the Dominion they hail from, as if they were gods. To brain collectors, terrestrial creatures are simply resources for their magical needs and occult powers. They have little interest in worshipping gods or being worshipped themselves, yet they do practice strange forms of religion of their own, in which they consider the primordial forces of deep space as worthy of faith and fear. **__Recall Knowledge - Aberration__ (__Occultism__)**: DC 26' hp: 140 hp_misc: null immunities: - confused items: null languages: - Abyssal - Aklo - Common - Draconic - Protean - Undercommon - telepathy 100 feet level: 8 melee: - action_cost: One Action damage: formula: 2d12+6 type: piercing name: Jaws plus_damage: - formula: null type: brain collector venom to_hit: 20 traits: null - action_cost: One Action damage: formula: 2d8+6 type: slashing name: Claw plus_damage: null to_hit: 20 traits: - agile name: Brain Collector perception: 18 proactive_abilities: - action_cost: None critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: __**Saving Throw**__ DC 26 Fortitude; **Maximum Duration** 6 rounds; **Stage 1** 1d6 poison damage and __enfeebled 1__ (1 round); **Stage 2** 1d6 poison damage, __enfeebled 1__, and __slowed 1__ (1 round); **Stage 3** 2d6 poison damage, __enfeebled 2__, and __slowed 1__ (1 round) effect: null effects: null failure: null frequency: null full_description: null generic_description: null name: Brain Collector Venom range: null raw_description: '**Brain Collector Venom** (__poison__) __**Saving Throw**__ DC 26 Fortitude; **Maximum Duration** 6 rounds; **Stage 1** 1d6 poison damage and __enfeebled 1__ (1 round); **Stage 2** 1d6 poison damage, __enfeebled 1__, and __slowed 1__ (1 round); **Stage 3** 2d6 poison damage, __enfeebled 2__, and __slowed 1__ (1 round)' requirements: null success: null traits: - poison trigger: null - action_cost: One Action critical_failure: null critical_success: null description: The brain collector collects a brain of a creature that has been dead for no more than 1 minute. It can then use an Interact action to secure the brain in one of its empty brain blisters effect: null effects: null failure: null frequency: null full_description: null generic_description: null name: Collect Brain range: null raw_description: '**Collect Brain** (__manipulate__) The brain collector collects a brain of a creature that has been dead for no more than 1 minute. It can then use an Interact action to secure the brain in one of its empty brain blisters' requirements: null success: null traits: - manipulate trigger: null ranged: null rarity: Uncommon resistances: - amount: null type: brain loss ritual_lists: null saves: fort: 15 fort_misc: null misc: +1 status to all saves vs. magic ref: 13 ref_misc: null will: 18 will_misc: null sense_abilities: null senses: - Perception +18 - darkvision size: Large skills: - bonus: 17 misc: null name: 'Acrobatics ' - bonus: 18 misc: null name: 'Arcana ' - bonus: 16 misc: null name: 'Athletics ' - bonus: 18 misc: all subcategories name: 'Lore ' - bonus: 21 misc: null name: 'Occultism ' - bonus: 17 misc: null name: 'Stealth ' source: - abbr: Bestiary page_start: 46 page_stop: null speed: - amount: 25 type: Land - amount: 30 type: fly spell_lists: - dc: 26 misc: '' name: Occult Spontaneous Spells spell_groups: - heightened_level: null level: 4 spells: - frequency: null name: confusion requirement: null - frequency: 2 slots name: phantasmal killer requirement: null - heightened_level: null level: 3 spells: - frequency: null name: dispel magic requirement: null - frequency: null name: haste requirement: null - frequency: 3 slots name: paralyze requirement: null - heightened_level: null level: 2 spells: - frequency: null name: humanoid form requirement: null - frequency: null name: invisibility requirement: null - frequency: null name: mirror image requirement: null - frequency: 4 slots name: paranoia requirement: null - heightened_level: null level: 1 spells: - frequency: null name: mindlink requirement: null - frequency: null name: ray of enfeeblement requirement: null - frequency: null name: true strike requirement: null - frequency: 4 slots name: unseen servant requirement: null - heightened_level: 4 level: 0 spells: - frequency: null name: dancing lights requirement: null - frequency: null name: detect magic requirement: null - frequency: null name: mage hand requirement: null - frequency: null name: prestidigitation requirement: null to_hit: 18 traits: - Uncommon - CE - Large - Aberration type: Creature weaknesses: null