# Shambling Mound

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> [!infobox]
> ![shambling mound](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/shambling-mound.webp)
> **Type:** Large plant
> **Alignment:** unaligned
> **Challenge:** 5 (1800 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 15
> **Hit Points:** 110 (13d10+39)
> **Speed:** 30 ft, swim 20 ft

## Stat block

Lashes with three electrified tendrils at reach and swallows one victim whole to shock it every turn.

| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 110 (13d10+39) | 30 ft, swim 20 ft | 5 | 1800 |

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 (+4) | 8 (-1) | 16 (+3) | 5 (-3) | 10 (+0) | 5 (-3) |

- **Skills:** Stealth +3
- **Resistant:** cold, fire
- **Immune:** lightning
- **Condition immunities:** deafened, exhaustion
- **Senses:** blindsight 60 ft; passive Perception 10

### Traits

- **Lightning Absorption.** Each time the shambling mound is subjected to Lightning damage, it regains Hit Points equal to the Lightning damage dealt.

### Actions

- **Multiattack.** The shambling mound makes three Charged Tendril attacks. It can use Engulf in place of one of them.
- **Charged Tendril.** Hit: 7 (1d6 + 4) Bludgeoning damage plus 5 (2d4) Lightning damage. If the target is Medium or smaller, the shambling mound pulls it 5 feet straight toward itself.
- **Engulf.** Strength Saving Throw: DC 15, one Medium or smaller creature within 5 feet. Failure: the target is pulled into the shambling mound's space and has the Grappled condition (escape DC 14). While grappled this way, the target also has the Blinded and Restrained conditions and takes 10 (3d6) Lightning damage at the start of each of its turns. The grappled target moves with the shambling mound when it moves, at no extra movement cost. The mound can hold only one creature with this action at a time.

## Where you meet it

- [Death House, Dungeon (Lower Level)](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/death-house-dungeon-lower-level.md): *Lorghoth the Decayer wakes.*
- [Death House, Dungeon (Lower Level)](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/death-house-dungeon-lower-level.md): *Lorghoth the Decayer wakes, slowly. You saw it coming.*
- [Village of Barovia](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/village-of-barovia.md): [Cut After Noon](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/cut-after-noon.md) · *The woodpile stands up. It is taller than Grigore's house, logs for ribs and roots for fingers, and the…*
- [The Press House](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-press-house.md): *The vat bursts its hoops. What rises out of it is the winery's last harvest: skins, stems and rot, heaped…*
- [The Winery](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-winery.md): *Druids look up from the vats, where they have been feeding something green and pulpy into the wine. Around…*