Displacer beast

This page is about the displacer beast creature. You may be looking for Displacer Beast Shape, the ability.

Displacer beasts are a non-playable race and beast creature, found in the Gauntlet of Shar and the Circus of the Last Days. Displacer Beast Shape allows a creature to polymorph into a displacer beast.

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A displacer beast's coat is slick with illusory magic that can bend light, letting it project images of itself and turn invisible. Adventurers say you can never know a displacer beast's true location - until its claws sink into your belly, that is.

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— In-game racial description

About

Displacer beasts are feline, tentacled creatures resembling panthers. They often live in small groups, preferring sheltered habitats such as caves or tree hollows.

Displacer beasts can be spoken to using  Speak with Animals, and can be transformed into by partial-illithids with  Displacer Beast Shape.

Combat

Attacks and abilities

 Tentacle Whip ()

2d6 + 4 (6~16) Bludgeoning

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2d6 (2~12) Piercing

Lash out with a sleek, spinous tentacle.

 Range: 3 m /  ft

 Displace ()

2d8 (2~16) Psychic

Teleport yourself and a target to a nearby location, shredding the target's mind, and leaving behind an Illusory Copy of yourself.

 Range: 3 m / 10 ft

 Illusory Copy ()

Create an illusory displacer beast to attack nearby enemies.

 Range: 18 m /  ft

Tactics

Displacer beasts are significant combat threats. 18 strength makes them formidable attackers. while  Displace gives them free roam of the arena while leaving behind a double that can still dish out damage. This brute strength can be countered by targeting their low mental abilities, which make them more susceptible to manipulating or controlling effects like  Fear or  Banishment.

Displacer beast characters

• Nessa
• Shadow-Whiskers

Gallery

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  Concept art by Tan Bur-Ci

Notes

• Displacer Beasts are typed as Large Monstrosities in 5e, but are typed as Medium Beasts in Baldur's Gate 3.

External links

• Displacer beast on the Forgotten Realms Wiki