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
active_abilities:
- action_cost: None
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: __ style="text-decoration:underline" href="Rules.aspx?ID=364">
  effect: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  maximum_duration: 6 rounds
  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
  saving_throw: DC 26 Fortitude
  stages:
  - effect: 1d6 poison damage and __enfeebled 1__ (1 round)
  - effect: 1d6 poison damage, __enfeebled 1__, and __slowed 1__ (1 round)
  - effect: 2d6 poison damage, __enfeebled 2__, and __slowed 1__ (1 round)
  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
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  maximum_duration: null
  name: Collect Brain
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Collect Brain** [One Action]  (__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
  saving_throw: null
  stages: null
  success: null
  traits:
  - manipulate
  trigger: 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
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  maximum_duration: 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
  saving_throw: null
  stages: 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
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  maximum_duration: 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
  saving_throw: null
  stages: 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
languages:
- Abyssal
- Aklo
- Common
- Draconic
- Protean
- Undercommon
- telepathy 100 feet
level: 8
melee_attacks:
- action_cost: One Action
  damage:
  - formula: 2d12+6
    type: piercing
  - formula: null
    type: brain collector venom
  name: Jaws
  to_hit: 20
  traits: null
- action_cost: One Action
  damage:
  - formula: 2d8+6
    type: slashing
  name: Claw
  to_hit: 20
  traits:
  - agile
name: Brain Collector
perception: 18
ranged_attacks: null
rarity: Uncommon
saves:
  fort: 15
  fort_misc: null
  misc: +1 status to all saves vs. magic
  ref: 13
  ref_misc: null
  will: 18
  will_misc: null
senses:
- 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
sources:
- abbr: Bestiary
  page_start: '46'
  page_stop: null
speed:
- amount: 25
  misc: null
  type: Land
- amount: 30
  misc: null
  type: fly
spell_lists:
- attack_bonus: 18
  cantrips:
  - level: 4
    spells:
    - misc: null
      name: dancing lights
    - misc: null
      name: detect magic
    - misc: null
      name: mage hand
    - misc: null
      name: prestidigitation
  constants: null
  dc: 26
  focus_points: null
  misc: null
  spell_lists:
  - level: 4
    spells:
    - misc: null
      name: confusion
    - misc: 2 slots
      name: phantasmal killer
  - level: 3
    spells:
    - misc: null
      name: dispel magic
    - misc: null
      name: haste
    - misc: 3 slots
      name: paralyze
  - level: 2
    spells:
    - misc: null
      name: humanoid form
    - misc: null
      name: invisibility
    - misc: null
      name: mirror image
    - misc: 4 slots
      name: paranoia
  - level: 1
    spells:
    - misc: null
      name: mindlink
    - misc: null
      name: ray of enfeeblement
    - misc: null
      name: true strike
    - misc: 4 slots
      name: unseen servant
  spells_source: Occult Spontaneous Spells
traits:
- Aberration
weaknesses:
- amount: null
  misc: null
  type: brain loss