Monster List
list: API endpoint for returning a list of monsters.
retrieve: API endpoint for returning a particular monster.
GET /monsters/?format=api&ordering=-type&page=5
{ "count": 3207, "next": "https://api.open5e.com/monsters/?format=api&ordering=-type&page=6", "previous": "https://api.open5e.com/monsters/?format=api&ordering=-type&page=4", "results": [ { "slug": "mummy-peat", "desc": "", "name": "Mummy, Peat", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 12, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 93, "hit_dice": "11d8+44", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 19, "dexterity": 9, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 6, "wisdom": 10, "charisma": 10, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 0, "skills": { "perception": 0 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "lightning; bludgeoning & piercing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60', passive Perception 10", "languages": "those it knew in life", "challenge_rating": "5", "cr": 5.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "Two Rabid Bites. If it hits one creature with both target must make DC 15 Con save or be cursed with bog melt." }, { "name": "Rabid Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, 5 ft., one target, 11 (2d6+4) piercing damage + 7 (2d6) necrotic." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Bog Melt", "desc": "A creature afflicted with bog melt curse can't regain hp and its hp max is reduced by 7 (2d6) for every 24 hrs that elapse. Also when cursed creature starts its turn within 30' of a creature it can see it has a 50% chance of going into a rage until end of its turn. While raged cursed creature must attack nearest creature. If no creature is near enough to move to and attack cursed creature stalks off in a random direction seeking a target for its rage. Curse lasts until lifted by remove curse spell or similar. If curse reduces creature's hp max to 0 creature dies and body dissolves into viscous puddle of goo. Carnivorous creatures with an Int of 3 or lower that can see or smell the goo must make DC 15 Wis save or drink the goo. After 1 min creature's Bite Claw or Slam attack becomes infused with the curse and any creature hit by that attack: DC 15 Con save or be cursed with bog melt." }, { "name": "Noxious Slurry", "desc": "A creature that hits the peat mummy with melee weapon attack that deals slashing damage while within 5 ft. of it: poisoned until the end of its next turn as noxious fumes and liquefied flesh spray from the wound (DC 15 Con negates)." }, { "name": "Undead Nature", "desc": "Doesn't require air food drink or sleep." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 280, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob3", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 3", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-3-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob3_mummy-peat/" }, { "slug": "necrotech-bonecage-constrictor", "desc": "", "name": "Necrotech Bonecage Constrictor", "size": "Huge", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 16, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 175, "hit_dice": "14d12+84", "speed": { "walk": 50 }, "strength": 19, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 22, "intelligence": 6, "wisdom": 8, "charisma": 5, "strength_save": 8, "dexterity_save": 7, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": -1, "skills": { "perception": -1 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "bludgeoning, thunder", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "poisoned, prone", "senses": "darkvision 60', tremorsense 30', passive Perception 9", "languages": "understands Common and Darakhul but can't speak", "challenge_rating": "9", "cr": 9.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "Two Bite attacks and one Encage attack." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, 10 ft., one target, 13 (2d8+4) piercing damage + 7 (2d6) necrotic." }, { "name": "Encage", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, 5 ft., one target, 11 (2d6+4) piercing damage. If target is a Med or smaller creature DC 16 Dex save or be caged within body of bonecage constrictor. Caged creature is restrained has cover vs. attacks and other effects outside constrictor and it takes 10 (3d6) necrotic at start of each of constrictor's turns. While caged creature can see outside constrictor but can't target those outside constrictor with attacks or spells nor can it cast spells or use features that allow it to leave constrictor's body. In addition creatures caged within constrictor can't make attack rolls vs. creatures outside constrictor. Constrictor can have up to 6 Med or smaller creatures restrained at a time. If constrictor takes 20+ damage on a single turn from any source it must make DC 16 Con save at end of that turn or all caged creatures fall prone in a space within 10 ft. of constrictor. If any of the damage is thunder constrictor has disadvantage on the save. If constrictor dies caged creature is no longer restrained by it and can escape from corpse via 10 ft. of move exiting prone." }, { "name": "Crush", "desc": "Each creature caged by constrictor must make DC 16 Str save or take 11 (2d6+4) bludgeoning damage." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Necrotic Prison", "desc": "Creatures restrained by its Encage automatically stabilize at 0 hp and take no further damage from Encage. If creature damaged from another source while restrained suffers death save failure as normal but immediately stabilizes if not its final death save." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 287, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob3", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 3", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-3-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob3_necrotech-bonecage-constrictor/" }, { "slug": "necrotech-reaver", "desc": "", "name": "Necrotech Reaver", "size": "Huge", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 126, "hit_dice": "12d12+48", "speed": { "walk": 40 }, "strength": 21, "dexterity": 7, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 3, "wisdom": 8, "charisma": 7, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": -1, "skills": { "perception": -1 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60', passive Perception 9", "languages": "understands Common and Darakhul but can't speak", "challenge_rating": "6", "cr": 6.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "Two Chain Lash attacks." }, { "name": "Chain Lash", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, 15 ft., one target, 18 (4d6+4) slashing damage and the target is grappled (escape DC 15). The reaver has four chains each of which can grapple only one target." }, { "name": "Bladed Sweep (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "Swings its chains in a wide arc. Each creature within 15 ft. of the reaver must make a DC 15 Dex save. On a failure a creature takes 21 (6d6) slashing damage and is knocked prone. On a success a creature takes half the damage and isn't knocked prone. A creature that fails the save by 5 or more is pushed up to 15 ft. away from the reaver and knocked prone." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Siege Monster", "desc": "Double damage to objects/structures." }, { "name": "Undead Nature", "desc": "Doesn't require air food drink or sleep." }, { "name": "Unstable Footing", "desc": "Has disadvantage on saves vs. being knocked prone." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 287, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob3", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 3", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-3-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob3_necrotech-reaver/" }, { "slug": "necrotech-thunderer", "desc": "", "name": "Necrotech Thunderer", "size": "Huge", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 126, "hit_dice": "11d12+55", "speed": { "walk": 20 }, "strength": 20, "dexterity": 5, "constitution": 21, "intelligence": 5, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 9, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 0, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 5, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 2, "skills": { "perception": 2 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "nonmagic B/P/S attacks", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "blinded, poisoned", "senses": "blindsight 120', passive Perception 15", "languages": "understands Common and Darakhul but can't speak", "challenge_rating": "8", "cr": 8.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "Two Trample attacks." }, { "name": "Trample", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, 5 ft., one target, 21 (3d10+5) bludgeoning damage." }, { "name": "Ballista Shot", "desc": "Chooses up to two points it can see within 120' of it. The thunderer can't choose a point within 10 ft. of it. Each creature within 5 ft. of a point must make a DC 15 Con save taking 14 (4d6) necrotic on a failed save and half damage if made. If a creature is within 5 ft. of both points it has disadvantage on the save but it takes damage from only one effect not both." }, { "name": "Concentrated Shot (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "Picks a point it can see within 120' of it. Each creature within 20' of that point must make a DC 15 Con save. On a failure a creature takes 35 (10d6) necrotic and suffers one level of exhaustion. On a success a creature takes half the damage and doesn't suffer a level of exhaustion." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Siege Monster", "desc": "Double damage to objects/structures." }, { "name": "Turn Resistance", "desc": "Advantage: saves vs. turn undead effects." }, { "name": "Undead Nature", "desc": "Doesn't require air food drink or sleep." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 287, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob3", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 3", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-3-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob3_necrotech-thunderer/" }, { "slug": "offal-walker", "desc": "", "name": "Offal Walker", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 12, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 37, "hit_dice": "5d8+15", "speed": { "walk": 25 }, "strength": 13, "dexterity": 11, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 5, "wisdom": 6, "charisma": 7, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 0, "charisma_save": null, "perception": -2, "skills": { "perception": -2 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "poisoned", "senses": "blindsight 60' (blind beyond), passive Perception 10", "languages": "understands the languages of its creator but can't speak", "challenge_rating": "1", "cr": 1.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "One Lasso attack for each gut lasso it has then uses Reel." }, { "name": "Lasso", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, 30 ft., one target, 3 (1d4+1) bludgeoning damage and the target is grappled (escape DC 13). Until this grapple ends the target is restrained and the offal walker can't use the same gut lasso on another target." }, { "name": "Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +3 reach 5 ft. one target 8 (2d6+1) bludgeoning damage." }, { "name": "Reel", "desc": "Pulls one creature grappled by it up to 25 ft. straight toward it." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Gut Lassos", "desc": "Can have up to three gut lassos at a time. Each gut lasso can be attacked (AC 13; 5 hp; immunity to poison). Destroying a lasso deals no damage to the offal walker which can extrude a replacement gut lasso on its next turn. A gut lasso can also be broken if a creature takes an action and succeeds on a DC 13 Str check vs. it." }, { "name": "Undead Nature", "desc": "Doesn't require air food drink or sleep." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 296, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob3", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 3", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-3-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob3_offal-walker/" }, { "slug": "old-salt", "desc": "", "name": "Old Salt", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 117, "hit_dice": "18d8+36", "speed": { "walk": 30, "swim": 30 }, "strength": 13, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 15, "intelligence": 10, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 10, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 3, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 2, "skills": { "perception": 2 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "necrotic", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60', passive Perception 12", "languages": "the languages it knew in life", "challenge_rating": "5", "cr": 5.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "Two Desiccating Slam attacks." }, { "name": "Desiccating Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, 5 ft., one creature,. 12 (2d8+3) bludgeoning damage + 7 (2d6) necrotic. Target's hp max reduced by amount equal to necrotic taken (DC 15 Con negates hp max). Reduction lasts until target finishes long rest. Target dies if effect reduces its hp max to 0." }, { "name": "Wave of Seawater (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "Throws its hand forward sending wave of seawater in a 30' cone. Each creature in that area: 21 (6d6) bludgeoning damage and begins choking as its lungs fill with seawater (DC 15 Dex half damage and isn't choking). A creature that can breathe water doesn't choke from failing this save. A choking creature can make a DC 15 Con save at the end of each of its turns coughing up seawater and success ends effect on itself." } ], "bonus_actions": [ { "name": "Cunning Action", "desc": "Take Dash Disengage or Hide." } ], "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Experienced Sailor", "desc": "Advantage on Str (Athletics) checks made to climb while on a sailing ship and on Dex (Acrobatics) checks to maintain its footing while on a sailing ship." }, { "name": "Seaside Rejuvenation", "desc": "If at least one of its accusers is still alive or if its name hasn't been cleared destroyed old salt gains new body in 13 days regaining all hp and becoming active again. New body appears on beach or dock nearest one of its living accusers." }, { "name": "Undead Nature", "desc": "Doesn't require air food drink or sleep." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 304, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob3", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 3", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-3-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob3_old-salt/" }, { "slug": "relentless-hound", "desc": "", "name": "Relentless Hound", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic neutral", "armor_class": 12, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 52, "hit_dice": "8d8+16", "speed": { "walk": 40, "fly": 20 }, "strength": 17, "dexterity": 14, "constitution": 15, "intelligence": 4, "wisdom": 11, "charisma": 6, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 2, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 0, "skills": { "perception": 0 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "acid, fire, lightning, thunder; nonmagic B/P/S attacks", "damage_immunities": "cold, necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "exhaustion, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained, unconscious", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft, passive Perception 14", "languages": "—", "challenge_rating": "4", "cr": 4.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "Two Spectral Bites. If both hit same target it takes 10 (3d6) necrotic and hp max is reduced by that amount (DC 13 Con negates damage and hp max). Reduction lasts until target finishes a long rest. Target dies if this reduces its hp max to 0." }, { "name": "Spectral Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, 5 ft., one creature,. 10 (2d6+3) necrotic." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": [ { "name": "Multiply (3/Day)", "desc": "When it takes damage while below half its hp max it creates a spectral hound. Spectral hound uses the stats of a shadow except it doesn't have Sunlight Weakness trait and can't make new shadows when it kills Humanoids. It appears in an unoccupied space within 5 ft. of the relentless hound and acts on same initiative as that hound. After spectral hound finishes a long rest it becomes a relentless hound." } ], "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Good Dog", "desc": "If a Humanoid that hasn't harmed hound in last 24 hrs and takes action to offer it bit of food or speak kind words to it hound must make DC 12 Wis save or be charmed by that Humanoid for 1 hr or until Humanoid or its companions do anything harmful to hound. Also hound has disadvantage on saves vs. command spell." }, { "name": "Incorporeal Movement", "desc": "Move through others/objects as difficult terrain. Takes 5 (1d10) force if it ends turn in object." }, { "name": "Pack Tactics", "desc": "Advantage on attacks vs. creature if 1+ unincapacitated attacker ally is within 5 ft. of target." }, { "name": "Undead Nature", "desc": "Doesn't require air food drink or sleep." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 331, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob3", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 3", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-3-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob3_relentless-hound/" }, { "slug": "scarab-ruin", "desc": "", "name": "Scarab, Ruin", "size": "Large", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 136, "hit_dice": "16d10+48", "speed": { "walk": 30, "bur.": 15, "climb": 15, "fly": 15 }, "strength": 17, "dexterity": 14, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 3, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 4, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 2, "skills": { "perception": 2 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "charmed, frightened, poisoned, restrained", "senses": "blindsight 90' (blind beyond), passive Perception 12", "languages": "—", "challenge_rating": "6", "cr": 6.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "Two Bites. Can replace one attack with Gut Rip." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, 5 ft., one creature,. 14 (2d10+3) slashing damage + 5 (2d4) necrotic and knocked prone or pushed 5 ft. away the scarab's choice (DC 14 Str negates prone/push)." }, { "name": "Gut Rip", "desc": "The ruin scarab tears into one prone creature within 5 ft. of it. The target takes 11 (2d10) slashing damage and 5 (2d4) necrotic and is incapacitated for 1 min (DC 15 Con half damage and isn't incapacitated). An incapacitated creature can re-save at end of each of its turns success ends effect on itself." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": [ { "name": "Relentless Pursuit", "desc": "When a creature within 10 ft. of the scarab moves away from it scarab can move up to half its speed toward that creature." } ], "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Flesh-Eating Aura", "desc": "When creature that doesn't have all of its hp starts its turn within 10 ft. of scarab creature takes 2 (1d4) necrotic. Also magical healing within 10 ft. of it is halved." }, { "name": "Silent Steps", "desc": "No sound emanates from it whether moving attacking or ripping into a corpse. Has advantage on Dex (Stealth) checks and each creature within 5 ft. of it is deafened." }, { "name": "Undead Nature", "desc": "Doesn't require air food drink or sleep." }, { "name": "Unstoppable", "desc": "Moving through difficult terrain doesn't cost it extra movement and its speed can't be reduced." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 337, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob3", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 3", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-3-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob3_scarab-ruin/" }, { "slug": "starving-specter", "desc": "", "name": "Starving Specter", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 90, "hit_dice": "12d8+36", "speed": { "walk": 0, "fly": 40 }, "strength": 10, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 17, "intelligence": 11, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 13, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": 6, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 5, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 2, "skills": { "perception": 2 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "psychic", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60', passive Perception 15", "languages": "the languages it knew in life", "challenge_rating": "5", "cr": 5.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "One Bite attack and one Bladed Arm attack." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, 5 ft., one target, 8 (2d4+3) piercing damage + 3 (1d6) necrotic." }, { "name": "Bladed Arm", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, 10 ft., one target, 10 (2d6+3) slashing damage. This attack can target a creature on the Ethereal or Material Plane." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Aura of the Forgotten", "desc": "Beasts and Humanoids within 10 ft. of the starving specter have disadvantage on saves." }, { "name": "Ethereal Sight", "desc": "Can see 60' into the Ethereal Plane." }, { "name": "Life Hunger", "desc": "When a creature specter can see regains hp specter's next Bite deals extra 7 (2d6) necrotic on a hit." }, { "name": "Incorporeal Movement", "desc": "Move through others/objects as difficult terrain. Takes 5 (1d10) force if it ends turn in object." }, { "name": "Undead Nature", "desc": "Doesn't require air food drink or sleep." }, { "name": "Unnerving Visage", "desc": "When a creature that can see specter's faces starts its turn within 30' of it at least one of specter's faces shifts to look like one of the creature's departed loved ones or bitter enemies if specter isn't incapacitated and can see the creature. Creature takes 7 (2d6) psychic and is frightened of specter until start of its next turn (DC 14 Wis negates both). Unless surprised a creature can avert its eyes to avoid the save at start of its turn. If creature does so it can't see the specter until the start of its next turn when it can avert again. If creature looks at specter in the meantime it must immediately save." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 356, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob3", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 3", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-3-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob3_starving-specter/" }, { "slug": "swampgas-shade", "desc": "", "name": "Swampgas Shade", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 39, "hit_dice": "6d8+12", "speed": { "walk": 0, "fly": 40 }, "strength": 6, "dexterity": 17, "constitution": 15, "intelligence": 8, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 8, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 3, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 1, "skills": { "perception": 1 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "radiant", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "exhaustion, frightened, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained", "senses": "darkvision 60', passive Perception 10", "languages": "understands all languages it knew in life but can't speak", "challenge_rating": "2", "cr": 2.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Soul Drain", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, 5 ft., one creature,. 12 (2d8+3) psychic and target's Cha score is reduced by 1d4. Target dies if this reduces its Cha to 0. Otherwise reduction lasts until target finishes a short or long rest. If a Humanoid dies from this it can't be restored to life until shade is put to rest (see Rejuvenation)." }, { "name": "Haunting Murmurs", "desc": "Ranged Spell Attack: +3 to hit, 60 ft., one creature,. 8 (1d8+3) psychic." } ], "bonus_actions": [ { "name": "Swampland Stealth", "desc": "Takes the Hide action. It must be in swampy terrain to use this bonus action." } ], "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Amorphous", "desc": "Move through space 1ft.+ wide with o squeezing." }, { "name": "Rejuvenation", "desc": "If it dies within its bound region shade returns to life in 1d4 days and regains all hp. This doesn't function if shade is put to rest which occurs after its corpse has been reburied outside swamp." }, { "name": "Swampbound", "desc": "Is bound to a region of swamp within 1 mile of its body. If shade leaves region loses its Soul Drain action until it returns to the region. If it remains outside region automatically teleports back to its corpse after 24 hrs regardless of distance." }, { "name": "Swamp Camouflage", "desc": "Advantage: Dex (Stealth) to hide in swamp. " }, { "name": "Undead Nature", "desc": "Doesn't require air food drink or sleep." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 359, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob3", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 3", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-3-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob3_swampgas-shade/" }, { "slug": "truant-devourer", "desc": "", "name": "Truant Devourer", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "any alignment (as its creator deity)", "armor_class": 16, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 156, "hit_dice": "24d8+48", "speed": { "walk": 40 }, "strength": 12, "dexterity": 17, "constitution": 14, "intelligence": 16, "wisdom": 18, "charisma": 13, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 4, "skills": { "perception": 4 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "nonmagic B/P/S attacks", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 90', passive Perception 18", "languages": "Common + up to three other languages", "challenge_rating": "9", "cr": 9.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "Three Devourer's Cleaver or Necrotic Bolt attacks. It can replace one attack with Life Drain attack." }, { "name": "Devourer's Cleaver", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, 5 ft., one target, 10 (2d6+3) slashing damage + 9 (2d8) necrotic." }, { "name": "Life Drain", "desc": "Melee Spell Attack: +8 to hit, 5 ft., one creature,. 17 (3d8+4) necrotic. Target's hp max is reduced by amount equal to damage taken (DC 16 Con negates hp max). Reduction lasts until target finishes a long rest. Target dies if this reduces its hp max to 0." }, { "name": "Necrotic Bolt", "desc": "Ranged Spell Attack: +8 to hit, 120 ft., one target, 17 (3d8+4) necrotic." }, { "name": "Invisibility", "desc": "Magically turns invisible (with items worn/carried) until it attacks uses Grasping Claws or concentration ends (as a spell)." }, { "name": "Grasping Claws (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "Calls dozens of ghostly skeletal claws to erupt from a point on the ground it can see within 60' of it. All within 15 ft. of that point: 31 (7d8) necrotic and restrained 1 min (DC 16 Dex half damage not restrained). Restrained creature can re-save at end of each of its turns success ends effect on itself." } ], "bonus_actions": [ { "name": "Dusty Step", "desc": "Teleports with items worn/carried up to 60' to unoccupied space it can see. Dust cloud appears at origin and destination." } ], "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Heretic Sense", "desc": "Can pinpoint location of heretics of its faith within 60' of it and can sense their general direction within 1 mile of it." }, { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "Advantage: spell/magic effect saves." }, { "name": "Turn Resistance", "desc": "Advantage: saves vs. turn undead effects." }, { "name": "Undead Nature", "desc": "Doesn't require air food drink or sleep." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 378, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob3", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 3", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-3-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob3_truant-devourer/" }, { "slug": "underworld-sentinel", "desc": "", "name": "Underworld Sentinel", "size": "Huge", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral", "armor_class": 17, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 126, "hit_dice": "12d12+48", "speed": { "walk": 40 }, "strength": 23, "dexterity": 15, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 10, "wisdom": 16, "charisma": 14, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 6, "constitution_save": 8, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 7, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 3, "skills": { "perception": 3 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "necrotic; nonmagic B/P/S attacks", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, poisoned", "senses": "blindsight 60', darkvision 120', passive Perception 17", "languages": "Darakhul, Giant, Undercommon", "challenge_rating": "10", "cr": 10.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "Two Scythe or Death Knell attacks." }, { "name": "Scythe", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, 15 ft., one target, 17 (2d10+6) slashing damage + 10 (3d6) necrotic." }, { "name": "Death Knell", "desc": "Ranged Spell Attack: +7 to hit, 60 ft., one target, 16 (3d8+3) necrotic or 22 (3d12+3) necrotic if the target is missing any of its hp." }, { "name": "Grim Reaping (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "Spins with its scythe extended and makes one Scythe attack vs. each creature within its reach. A creature that takes necrotic from this attack can't regain hp until the end of its next turn." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Passage Guardian", "desc": "Can make an opportunity attack when a hostile creature moves within its reach as well as when a hostile creature moves out of its reach. It gets one extra reaction that be used only for opportunity attacks." }, { "name": "Turn Immunity", "desc": "Is immune to effects that turn undead." }, { "name": "Undead Nature", "desc": "Doesn't require air food drink or sleep." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 381, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob3", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 3", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-3-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob3_underworld-sentinel/" }, { "slug": "vampiric-vanguard", "desc": "", "name": "Vampiric Vanguard", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 127, "hit_dice": "15d8+60", "speed": { "walk": 40, "climb": 20 }, "strength": 19, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 11, "wisdom": 10, "charisma": 8, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 6, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 3, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 0, "skills": { "perception": 0 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "necrotic; nonmagic B/P/S attacks", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60', passive Perception 13", "languages": "the languages it knew in life", "challenge_rating": "7", "cr": 7.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "One Bite and two Claws. If vanguard hits one target with both Claws target must make DC 15 Con save or take 7 (2d6) slashing damage and vampire regains hp equal to that amount." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, 5 ft., one creature,. 13 (2d8+4) piercing damage + 7 (2d6) necrotic. Target's hp max is reduced by an amount equal to necrotic taken and vampire regains hp equally. Reduction lasts until target finishes a long rest. Target dies if this reduces its hp max to 0." }, { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, 5 ft., one target, 11 (2d6+4) slashing damage." } ], "bonus_actions": [ { "name": "Fleet of Foot", "desc": "Takes the Dash action." } ], "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Bloodthirsty", "desc": "When the vampiric vanguard is below half its hp max it has advantage on all melee attack rolls vs. creatures that aren't Constructs or Undead." }, { "name": "Spider Climb", "desc": "Difficult surfaces even ceilings no ability check." }, { "name": "Vampire Weaknesses", "desc": "Has the following flaws: Forbiddance: Can't enter a residence with o an invitation from one of the occupants.Harmed by Running Water: Takes 20 acid when it ends its turn in running water.Stake to the Heart: Destroyed if a wood piercing weapon is driven into its heart while it is incapacitated in its resting place.Sunlight Hypersensitivity: Takes 20 radiant when it starts its turn in sunlight. If in sunlight disadvantage on attacks/ability checks." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 383, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob3", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 3", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-3-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob3_vampiric-vanguard/" }, { "slug": "wrackwraith", "desc": "", "name": "Wrackwraith", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 45, "hit_dice": "6d8+18", "speed": { "walk": 30, "fly": 30 }, "strength": 14, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 10, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 11, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 1, "skills": { "perception": 1 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "acid, cold, fire, lightning, thunder; nonmagic B/P/S attacks", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained", "senses": "passive Perception 13", "languages": "any languages it knew in life", "challenge_rating": "3", "cr": 3.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Ghostly Touch", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, 5 ft., one target, 7 (1d8+3) necrotic." }, { "name": "Slam (Wrack Form Only)", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, 5 ft., one target, 10 (2d6+3) bludgeoning damage + 4 (1d8) necrotic. If target is Large or smaller grappled (escape DC 13). Until grapple ends target restrained and wrackwraith can't use its Slam or attack another. Target can't breathe or speak until grapple ends." }, { "name": "Animate Wrack", "desc": "Animates wrack within 5 ft. of it pulling the debris into a protective covering over its ghostly body." }, { "name": "Deluge (Wrack Form Only)", "desc": "Fills lungs of one creature it is grappling with seawater algae and tiny ocean debris harming creatures that breathe air or water: 14 (4d6) necrotic and chokes as lungs fill with water and debris (DC 13 Con half damage not choking). Choking creature can re-save at end of each of its turns success ends effect on itself." } ], "bonus_actions": [ { "name": "Wrack Jump (Recharge 4-6)", "desc": "Leaves current pile magically teleports to another within 60' of it and uses Animate Wrack." } ], "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Incorporeal Movement", "desc": "Move through others/objects as difficult terrain. Takes 5 (1d10) force if it ends turn in object." }, { "name": "Wrack Form", "desc": "While animating a pile of wrack has AC 18 and can use Slam and Deluge actions. Also loses its immunity to grappled and restrained conditions and can't fly. If it moves through a creature or object with Incorporeal Movement while animating wrack wrack falls off its ghostly body ending this. Otherwise can end this as bonus action. If it takes 15+ damage in single turn while animating wrack must make DC 13 Con save or be ejected from wrack ending this." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 395, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob3", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 3", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-3-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob3_wrackwraith/" }, { "slug": "wraith-oathrot", "desc": "", "name": "Wraith, Oathrot", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 52, "hit_dice": "8d8 +16", "speed": { "walk": 0, "fly": 60 }, "strength": 6, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 15, "intelligence": 12, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 15, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 2, "skills": { "perception": 2 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "acid, cold, fire, lightning, thunder; nonmagic B/P/S attacks not made w/silvered weapons", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained", "senses": "darkvision 60', passive Perception 12", "languages": "the languages it knew in life", "challenge_rating": "4", "cr": 4.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Life Drain", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, 5 ft., one creature,. 20 (4d8+2) necrotic. The target must make DC 13 Con save or its hp max is reduced by amount equal to damage taken. Reduction lasts until target finishes long rest. Target dies if this reduces its hp max to 0." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Aura of Oathbreaking", "desc": "Any creature that begins its turn within 30' of wraith: DC 13 Cha save or become cursed losing its resolve in important oaths it has taken. While cursed creature has disadvantage on Con saves to maintain concentration and can't add its proficiency bonus to ability checks and saves in which it is proficient. On success creature is immune to wraith's Aura of Oathbreaking for 24 hrs." }, { "name": "Incorporeal Movement", "desc": "Move through others/objects as difficult terrain. Takes 5 (1d10) force if it ends turn in object." }, { "name": "Oathseeker", "desc": "Can pinpoint the location of any cleric paladin celestial or other divine connected creature within 60' of it." }, { "name": "Sunlight Sensitivity", "desc": "In sunlight disadvantage on attacks and Wis (Perception) checks that use sight." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 396, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob3", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 3", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-3-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob3_wraith-oathrot/" }, { "slug": "zombie-smokeplume", "desc": "", "name": "Zombie, Smokeplume", "size": "Large", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 68, "hit_dice": "8d10+24", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 18, "dexterity": 8, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 3, "wisdom": 6, "charisma": 5, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": -2, "skills": { "perception": -2 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "fire, poison", "condition_immunities": "poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60', passive Perception 8", "languages": "[em/]", "challenge_rating": "3", "cr": 3.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, 5 ft., one target, 11 (2d6+4) bludgeoning damage + 9 (2d8) fire." }, { "name": "Smoke Breath (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "The zombie breathes a cloud of smoke in a 15 ft. cone. Each creature in the area: 9 (2d8) fire and 7 (2d6) poison (DC 15 Con half). Smoke remains until the start of the zombie's next turn and its area is heavily obscured." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Firesight", "desc": "Can see through areas obscured by fire smoke and fog with o penalty." }, { "name": "Smoldering Death", "desc": "When it dies its body crumbles into smoldering coals releasing a great plume of smoke that fills 15 ft. radius sphere centered on zombie's corpse and spreads around corners. Area is heavily obscured and difficult terrain. When creature enters area for first time on a turn or starts its turn there: 7 (2d6) poison (DC 14 Con half). Smoke lasts for 1 min or until a wind of moderate or greater speed (at least 10 miles per hr) disperses it." }, { "name": "Undead Fortitude", "desc": "If damage reduces the zombie to 0 hp it must make a Con save with DC of 5+the damage taken unless the damage is radiant or from a critical hit. On a success the zombie drops to 1 hp instead." }, { "name": "Undead Nature", "desc": "Doesn't require air food drink or sleep." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 400, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob3", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 3", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-3-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob3_zombie-smokeplume/" }, { "slug": "zombie-voidclaw", "desc": "", "name": "Zombie, Voidclaw", "size": "Small", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 143, "hit_dice": "26d6+52", "speed": { "walk": 40, "climb": 20 }, "strength": 11, "dexterity": 18, "constitution": 15, "intelligence": 14, "wisdom": 6, "charisma": 5, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": -2, "skills": { "perception": -2 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60', passive Perception 8", "languages": "Common, Void Speech", "challenge_rating": "7", "cr": 7.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "Three Void Claw or Void Bolt attacks." }, { "name": "Void Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, 5 ft., one target, 8 (1d8+4) slashing damage + 7 (2d6) necrotic. If target is creature other than Construct or Undead must make DC 15 Con save or take 3 (1d6) necrotic at start of each of its turns as wound burns with Void energy. Any creature can use action to purge energy from wound via DC 12 Int (Arcana) check. Energy also leaves the wound if target receives magical healing ending the effect." }, { "name": "Void Bolt", "desc": "Ranged Spell Attack: +5 to hit, 120 ft., one target, 16 (4d6+2) necrotic." } ], "bonus_actions": [ { "name": "Nimble Fighter", "desc": "Takes Dash or Disengage action." } ], "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Erratic Movement", "desc": "Opportunity attacks vs. the voidclaw zombie are made with disadvantage." }, { "name": "Turn Resistance", "desc": "Advantage: saves vs. turn undead effects." }, { "name": "Undead Fortitude", "desc": "If damage reduces the zombie to 0 hp it must make a Con save with DC of 5+the damage taken unless the damage is radiant or from a critical hit. On a success the zombie drops to 1 hp instead." }, { "name": "Undead Nature", "desc": "Doesn't require air food drink or sleep." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 401, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob3", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 3", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-3-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob3_zombie-voidclaw/" }, { "slug": "aboleth-nihilith", "desc": "", "name": "Aboleth, Nihilith", "size": "Large", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 17, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 135, "hit_dice": "18d10+36", "speed": { "hover": true, "walk": 10, "swim": 40, "fly": 50 }, "strength": 21, "dexterity": 9, "constitution": 15, "intelligence": 18, "wisdom": 15, "charisma": 18, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": 6, "intelligence_save": 8, "wisdom_save": 6, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 10, "skills": { "history": 12, "perception": 10 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "acid, fire, lightning, thunder (only when in ethereal form); bludgeoning, piercing and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "cold, necrotic, poison; bludgeoning, piercing and slashing from nonmagical attacks (only when in ethereal form)", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained", "senses": "darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 20", "languages": "Void Speech, telepathy 120 ft.", "challenge_rating": "12", "cr": 12.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The nihileth makes three tentacle attacks or three withering touches, depending on what form it is in." }, { "name": "Tentacle (Material Form Only)", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d6 + 5) bludgeoning damage. If the target creature is hit, it must make a successful DC 14 Constitution saving throw or become diseased. The disease has no effect for 1 minute; during that time, it can be removed by lesser restoration or comparable magic. After 1 minute, the diseased creature's skin becomes translucent and slimy. The creature cannot regain hit points unless it is entirely underwater, and the disease can only be removed by heal or comparable magic. Unless the creature is fully submerged or frequently doused with water, it takes 6 (1d12) acid damage every 10 minutes. If a creature dies while diseased, it rises in 1d6 rounds as a nihilethic zombie. This zombie is permanently dominated by the nihileth.", "attack_bonus": 9, "damage_dice": "2d6+5" }, { "name": "Withering Touch (Ethereal Form Only)", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 10 ft., one creature. Hit: 14 (3d6 + 4) necrotic damage.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "3d6+4" }, { "name": "Form Swap", "desc": "As a bonus action, the nihileth can alter between its material and ethereal forms at will." }, { "name": "Tail (Material Form Only)", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 15 (3d6 + 5) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 9, "damage_dice": "3d6+5" }, { "name": "Enslave (3/day)", "desc": "The nihileth targets one creature it can see within 30 ft. of it. The target must succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw or be magically charmed by the nihileth until the nihileth dies or until it is on a different plane of existence from the target. The charmed target is under the nihileth's control and can't take reactions, and the nihileth and the target can communicate telepathically with each other over any distance. Whenever the charmed target takes damage, the target can repeat the saving throw. On a success, the effect ends. No more than once every 24 hours, the target can also repeat the saving throw when it is at least 1 mile away from the nihileth." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": [ { "name": "Void Body", "desc": "The nihileth can reduce the damage it takes from a single source to 0. Radiant damage can only be reduced by half." } ], "legendary_desc": "A nihileth can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The nihileth regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.", "legendary_actions": [ { "name": "Detect", "desc": "The aboleth makes a Wisdom (Perception) check." }, { "name": "Tail Swipe", "desc": "The aboleth makes one tail attack." }, { "name": "Psychic Drain (Costs 2 Actions)", "desc": "One creature charmed by the aboleth takes 10 (3d6) psychic damage, and the aboleth regains hit points equal to the damage the creature takes." } ], "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Undead Fortitude", "desc": "If damage reduces the nihileth to 0 hit points, it must make a Constitution saving throw with a DC of 5 + the damage taken, unless the damage is radiant or from a critical hit. On a success, the nihileth drops to 1 hit point instead." }, { "name": "Dual State", "desc": "A nihileth exists upon the Material Plane in one of two forms and can switch between them at will. In its material form, it has resistance to damage from nonmagical attacks. In its ethereal form, it is immune to damage from nonmagical attacks. The creature's ethereal form appears as a dark purple outline of its material form, with a blackish-purple haze within. A nihileth in ethereal form can move through air as though it were water, with a fly speed of 40 feet." }, { "name": "Void Aura", "desc": "The undead nihileth is surrounded by a chilling cloud. A living creature that starts its turn within 5 feet of a nihileth must make a successful DC 14 Constitution saving throw or be slowed until the start of its next turn. In addition, any creature that has been diseased by a nihileth or a nihilethic zombie takes 7 (2d6) cold damage every time it starts its turn within the aura." }, { "name": "Infecting Telepathy", "desc": "If a creature communicates telepathically with the nihileth, or uses a psychic attack against it, the nihileth can spread its disease to the creature. The creature must succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom save or become infected with the same disease caused by the nihileth's tentacle attack." }, { "name": "Nihileth's Lair", "desc": "on initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), the nihileth can take a lair action to create one of the magical effects as per an aboleth, or the void absorbance action listed below. The nihileth cannot use the same effect two rounds in a row.\n\n- Void Absorbance: A nihileth can pull the life force from those it has converted to nihilethic zombies to replenish its own life. This takes 18 (6d6) hit points from zombies within 30 feet of the nihileth, spread evenly between the zombies, and healing the nihileth. If a zombie reaches 0 hit points from this action, it perishes with no Undead Fortitude saving throw." }, { "name": "Regional Effects", "desc": "the regional effects of a nihileth's lair are the same as that of an aboleth, except as following.\n\n- Water sources within 1 mile of a nihileth's lair are not only supernaturally fouled but can spread the disease of the nihileth. A creature who drinks from such water must make a successful DC 14 Constitution check or become infected." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 8, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_aboleth-nihilith/" }, { "slug": "accursed-defiler", "desc": "_A gaunt figure in a tattered black mantle shrouded in a cloud of whirling sand. Thin cracks run across its papyrus-dry skin and around its hollow, black eyes._ \n**Cursed to Wander and Thirst.** Accursed defilers are the remnants of an ancient tribe that desecrated a sacred oasis. For their crime, the wrathful spirits cursed the tribe to forever wander the wastes attempting to quench an insatiable thirst. Each defiler carries a parched sandstorm within its lungs and in the flowing sand in its veins. Wherever they roam, they leave only the desiccated husks of their victims littering the sand. \n**Unceasing Hatred.** The desperate or foolish sometimes try to speak with these ill-fated creatures in their archaic native tongue, to learn their secrets or to bargain for their services, but a defiler’s heart is blackened with hate and despair, leaving room for naught but woe. \n**Servants to Great Evil.** On very rare occasions, accursed defilers serve evil high priests, fext, or soulsworn warlocks as bodyguards and zealous destroyers, eager to spread the withering desert’s hand to new lands. \n**Undead Nature.** An accursed defiler doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Accursed Defiler", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 12, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 75, "hit_dice": "10d8+30", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 19, "dexterity": 14, "constitution": 17, "intelligence": 6, "wisdom": 15, "charisma": 14, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 4, "skills": { "perception": 4, "stealth": 4 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "necrotic; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 14", "languages": "understands an ancient language, but can't speak", "challenge_rating": "4", "cr": 4.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The accursed defiler makes two slam attacks." }, { "name": "Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage. If a creature is hit by this attack twice in the same round (from the same or different accursed defilers), the target must make a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or gain one level of exhaustion.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "2d6" }, { "name": "Sandslash (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "As an action, the accursed defiler intensifies the vortex of sand that surrounds it. All creatures within 10 feet of the accursed defiler take 21 (6d6) slashing damage, or half damage with a successful DC 14 Dexterity saving throw." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Cursed Existence", "desc": "When it drops to 0 hit points in desert terrain, the accursed defiler's body disintegrates into sand and a sudden parched breeze. However, unless it was killed in a hallowed location, with radiant damage, or by a blessed creature, the accursed defiler reforms at the next sundown 1d100 miles away in a random direction." }, { "name": "Sand Shroud", "desc": "A miniature sandstorm constantly whirls around the accursed defiler in a 10-foot radius. This area is lightly obscured to creatures other than an accursed defiler. Wisdom (Survival) checks made to follow tracks left by an accursed defiler or other creatures that were traveling in its sand shroud are made with disadvantage." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 12, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_accursed-defiler/" }, { "slug": "angatra", "desc": "_This withered creature wrapped in gore-stained rags. They can pull back a tattered hood to reveal glowing eyes hungry with bloodlust._ \nIn certain tribes, the breaking of local taboos invites terrible retribution from ancestral spirits, especially if the transgressor was a tribal leader or elder. The transgressor is cursed and cast out from the tribe, and then hunted and executed. \n**Bound Remains Entombed.** The body is wrapped head to toe in lamba cloth to soothe the spirit and to bind it within the mortal husk, then sealed in a tomb far from traditional burial grounds so none may disturb it and its unclean spirit does not taint the blessed dead. \n**Slow Ritual Cleansing.** Each such body is visited every ten years as the tribe performs the famadihana ritual, replacing the lamba bindings and soothing the suffering of the ancestors. Over generations, this ritual expiates their guilt, until at last the once‑accursed ancestor is admitted through the gates of the afterlife. If a spirit’s descendants abandon their task, or if the sealed tomb is violated, the accursed soul becomes an angatra. \n**Angry Spirit.** The creature’s form becomes animated by a powerful and malicious ancestor spirit and undergoes a horrible metamorphosis within its decaying cocoon. Its fingernails grow into scabrous claws, its skin becomes hard and leathery, and its withered form is imbued with unnatural speed and agility. Within days, the angatra gathers strength and tears its bindings into rags. It seeks out its descendants to to share the torment and wrath it endured while its spirit lingered.", "name": "Angatra", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 17, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 85, "hit_dice": "10d8+40", "speed": { "walk": 50 }, "strength": 14, "dexterity": 20, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 8, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 15, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 4, "skills": { "perception": 4, "stealth": 8 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "necrotic; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 14", "languages": "all languages it knew in life", "challenge_rating": "6", "cr": 6.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The angatra makes two attacks with its claws." }, { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 10 (2d4 + 5) piercing damage, and the creature must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be paralyzed by pain until the end of its next turn.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "2d4" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Agonizing Gaze", "desc": "When a creature that can see the angatra's eyes starts its turn within 30 feet of the angatra, it must make a DC 13 Charisma saving throw if the angatra isn't incapacitated and can see the creature. On a failed saving throw, the creature has its pain threshold lowered, so that it becomes vulnerable to all damage types until the end of its next turn. Unless it's surprised, a creature can avoid the saving throw by averting its eyes at the start of its turn. A creature that averts its eyes can't see the angatra for one full round, when it chooses anew whether to avert its eyes again. If the creature looks at the angatra in the meantime, it must immediately make the save." }, { "name": "Ancestral Wrath", "desc": "The angatra immediately recognizes any individual that is descended from its tribe. It has advantage on attack rolls against such creatures, and those creatures have disadvantage on saving throws against the angatra's traits and attacks." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 19, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_angatra/" }, { "slug": "beggar-ghoul", "desc": "", "name": "Beggar Ghoul", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 12, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 13, "hit_dice": "3d8", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 10, "dexterity": 15, "constitution": 10, "intelligence": 12, "wisdom": 11, "charisma": 14, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10", "languages": "Undercommon", "challenge_rating": "1/2", "cr": 0.5, "actions": [ { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (2d6 + 2) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "2d6" }, { "name": "Claws", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (2d4 + 2) slashing damage. If the target is a creature other than an elf or undead, it must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or be paralyzed for 1 minute. A paralyzed target repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "2d4" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Pack Tactics", "desc": "The beggar ghoul has advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the beggar ghoul's allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated." }, { "name": "Savage Hunger", "desc": "A beggar ghoul that hits with its bite attack against a creature that hasn't acted yet in this combat scores a critical hit." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 221, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_beggar-ghoul/" }, { "slug": "bone-collective", "desc": "_A bone collective is almost a fluid; its thousands of tiny bones coalesce into a humanoid form only to disperse in a clattering swarm the next moment. Their tiny bones rustle when they move, a quiet sound similar to sand sliding down a dune._ \n**Spies and Sneaks.** Bone collectives are not primarily fighters, although they swarm well enough. They prefer to spy and skulk. When cornered, however, they fight without fear or hesitation, seeking to strip the flesh from their foes. \n**Zombie Mounts.** Bone collectives’ long finger bones and hooked claws help them climb onto zombie mounts and control them. Bone collectives almost always wear robes or cloaks, the better to pretend to be humanoid. They understand that most creatures find their nature disturbing. \n**Feed on Society.** Bone collectives join the societies around them, whether human, goblin, or ghoul. They prey on the living and the dead, using them to replenish lost bones. Occasionally, they choose to serve necromancers, darakhul, some vampires, and liches, all of whom offers magical attunements and vile joys to the collective. They dislike extreme heat, as it makes their bones brittle.", "name": "Bone Collective", "size": "Small", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 17, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 120, "hit_dice": "16d6+64", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 10, "dexterity": 20, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 14, "wisdom": 10, "charisma": 16, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 8, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 3, "skills": { "arcana": 5, "deception": 6, "perception": 3, "stealth": 11 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks not made with silvered weapons", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "exhaustion, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 13", "languages": "Common, Darakhul", "challenge_rating": "8", "cr": 8.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The bone collective makes two claw attacks, or one claw and one bite attack, or one swarm attack." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 31 (4d12 + 5) piercing damage, and the target must make a DC 16 Constitution save or suffer the effects of Wyrmblood Venom.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "4d12" }, { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 25 (3d12 + 5) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "3d12" }, { "name": "Swarm", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 0 ft., one creature in the swarm's space. Hit: 57 (8d12 + 5) piercing damage, or 31 (4d12 + 5) piercing damage if the bone collective has half its hit points or fewer. If the attack hits, the target must make a successful DC 15 Constitution save or suffer the effects of Wyrmblood Venom.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "8d12" }, { "name": "Wyrmblood Venom (Injury)", "desc": "Bone collectives create a reddish liquid, which they smear on their fangs. The freakish red mouths on the tiny skeletons are disturbing, and the toxin is deadly. A bitten creature must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned and take 1d6 Charisma damage. A poisoned creature repeats the saving throw every four hours, taking another 1d6 Charisma damage for each failure, until it has made two consecutive successful saves or survived for 24 hours. If the creature survives, the effect ends and the creature can heal normally. Lost Charisma can be regained with a lesser restoration spell or comparable magic." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Hive Mind", "desc": "All elements of a bone collective within 50 miles of their main body constantly communicate with each other. If one is aware of a particular danger, they all are. Any bone collective with at least 30 hit points forms a hive mind, giving it an Intelligence of 14. Below this hp threshold, it becomes mindless (Intelligence 0) and loses its innate spellcasting ability. At 0 hp, a few surviving sets of bones scatter, and must spend months to create a new collective." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the bone collective's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 14, +6 to hit with spell attacks). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nat will: chill touch\n\n3/day: animate dead (up to 5 skeletons or zombies)" }, { "name": "Swarm", "desc": "A bone collective can act as a swarm (composed of smaller elements), or it can grant a single member (called an exarch) control, acting as a singular creature. Changing between forms takes one action. In its singular form, the collective can't occupy the same space as another creature, but it can perform sneak attacks and cast spells. In swarm form, the bone collective can occupy another creature's space and vice versa, and it can move through openings at least 1 foot square. It can't change to singular form while it occupies the same space as another creature. It uses its skills normally in either form." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 39, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_bone-collective/" }, { "slug": "bone-swarm", "desc": "_Dank winds sweep up skeletons, both humanoid and animal. They blow forward, reaching out for living creatures like a clawed hand of bone. A scattering of bones rolls across the ground, then rises into the air, billowing like a sheet._ \n**Swarms of Fallen.** On rare occasions, the pugnacious spirits of fallen undead join together, bonded by a common craving: to feel alive again. They gather up their bones from life, as well as any other bones they come across, and form bone swarms. \n**Nomadic Undead.** These swarms then ravage the countryside wresting life from living creatures, grabbing livestock, humanoids, and even dragons, digging in their claws in an attempt to cling to life. Bone swarms with one or more sets of jaws wail constantly in their sorrow, interrupting their cries with snippets of rational but scattered speech declaiming their woes and despair. \n**Cliff and Pit Dwellers.** Bone swarms gather near cliffs, crevasses, and pits in the hope of forcing a victim or an entire herd of animals to fall to its death, creating more shattered bones to add to their mass. \n**Undead Nature.** A mask wight doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Bone Swarm", "size": "Large", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "Swarm", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 17, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 198, "hit_dice": "36d10", "speed": { "walk": 20, "fly": 60 }, "strength": 22, "dexterity": 18, "constitution": 10, "intelligence": 9, "wisdom": 15, "charisma": 20, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 8, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 6, "charisma_save": 9, "perception": 6, "skills": { "acrobatics": 8, "perception": 6, "stealth": 8 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "bludgeoning", "damage_resistances": "piercing and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned, prone, restrained, stunned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 16", "languages": "Common, Void Speech", "challenge_rating": "10", "cr": 10.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The bone swarm can attack every hostile creature in its space with swirling bones." }, { "name": "Swirling Bones", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 0 ft., one creature in the swarm's space. Hit: 31 (5d8 + 9) bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage (includes Strength of Bone special ability).", "attack_bonus": 10, "damage_dice": "5d8" }, { "name": "Death's Embrace (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 0 ft., one creature in the swarm's space. Hit: the target is grappled (escape DC 16) and enveloped within the swarm's bones. The swarm can force the creature to move at its normal speed wherever the bone swarm wishes. Any non-area attack against the bone swarm has a 50 percent chance of hitting a creature grappled in Death's Embrace instead." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Strength of Bone", "desc": "A bone swarm can choose to deal bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage, and adds 1.5x its Strength bonus on swarm damage rolls as bits and pieces of broken skeletons claw, bite, stab, and slam at the victim." }, { "name": "Swarm", "desc": "The swarm can occupy another creature's space and vice versa, and the swarm can move through any opening large enough for a human skull. The swarm can't regain hit points or gain temporary hit points." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 41, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_bone-swarm/" }, { "slug": "bonepowder-ghoul", "desc": "_Distilled to nothing but dry, whispering sand and a full set of teeth, a bonepowder ghoul still hungers for flesh and blood. Its dusty mass is perfected corruption, entirely animated by foul energy._ \n**Starved Into Dust.** The bonepowder ghoul is small and unassuming, a pile of dust and bone fragments that resemble a pile of mummy dust or the remnants of a vampire burned by sunlight. Ghouls can achieve this powdery form through long starvation. The process invariably takes decades, which is why so few bonepowder ghouls exist—few ghouls can show such self-restraint. Even among imperial ghouls, using hunger as a form of torture is considered offensive and is quite rare. A bonepowder ghoul may rise from the remnants of a starved prisoner or a ghoul trapped in a sealed-off cavern, leaving behind its remnant flesh and becoming animated almost purely by hunger, hatred, and the bitter wisdom of long centuries. \n**Mocking and Hateful.** Bonepowder ghouls are creatures of pure evil, seeking to devour, corrupt, and destroy all living things. The only creatures they treat with some affinity are ghouls. Even in that case, their attitude is often mocking, hateful, or condescending. They have some mild respect for darakhul nobles. \n**Whispering Voices.** Most bonepowder ghouls speak at least 4 languages, but their voices are very faint. Just to hear one speaking normally requires a DC 15 Perception check. Undead gain a +8 competence bonus to this check.", "name": "Bonepowder Ghoul", "size": "Small", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 18, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 195, "hit_dice": "26d6+104", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 10, "dexterity": 20, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 19, "wisdom": 15, "charisma": 18, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 9, "constitution_save": 8, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 6, "charisma_save": 8, "perception": 6, "skills": { "perception": 6, "stealth": 9 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "cold, lightning; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 16", "languages": "Common, Darakhul, Draconic, Dwarvish", "challenge_rating": "12", "cr": 12.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 18 (3d8 + 5) plus 1d4 Strength damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw or be paralyzed for 1d4 + 1 rounds. If the target creature is humanoid, it must succeed on a second DC 19 Constitution saving throw or contract darakhul fever.", "attack_bonus": 9, "damage_dice": "3d8" }, { "name": "Gravedust", "desc": "A bonepowder ghoul can project a 40-ft. cone of grave dust. All targets within the area must make a DC 19 Dexterity saving throw to avoid taking 4d8 necrotic damage, and must make a second DC 17 Constitution saving throw to avoid being infected with darakhul fever." }, { "name": "Whirlwind (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "A bonepowder ghoul can generate a whirlwind of bones and teeth. All creatures within a 20-foot cube take 66 (12d10) slashing damage and are drained of 1d6 Strength; a successful DC 17 Dexterity saving throw reduces damage to half and negates the Strength loss. The whirlwind dissipates after one round." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Amorphous", "desc": "The bonepowder ghoul can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing." }, { "name": "Coalesce", "desc": "Whenever a bonepowder ghoul drains life force from victims with Gravedust, it can use that energy transform its shape into a more solid form and maintain it. The new form is Small and semi-transparent but roughly the shape of a normal ghoul. In this form, the ghoul isn't amorphous and can't form a whirlwind, but it can speak normally and manipulate objects. The altered form lasts for 1 minute for every point of necrotic damage it delivered against living foes." }, { "name": "Turning Defiance", "desc": "The bonepowder ghoul and any other ghouls within 30 feet of it have advantage on saving throws against effects that turn undead." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the bonepowder ghoul's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 18, +10 to hit with spell attacks). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nat will: chill touch, darkness, dispel magic, ray of enfeeblement\n\n3/day: blindness/deafness, circle of death (7th level; 10d6)\n\n1/day: finger of death" } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 221, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_bonepowder-ghoul/" }, { "slug": "corpse-mound", "desc": "_The reeking pile of bodies and bones as large as a giant lurches forward. Corpses that tumble off it rise moments later as undead and follow the determined hill of corruption._ \n**Rise from Mass Graves.** In times of plague and war, hundreds of bodies are dumped into mass graves. Without sanctifying rites, necromantic magic can seep into the mound of bodies and animate them as a massive horror hungering for others to join its form. \n**Absorb Bodies.** A corpse mound is driven to kill by the anger and loneliness of the dead within, and to absorb the bodies of its victims. It attacks any living creature larger than a dog, but it is drawn to humans and humanoids. It never tires no matter how many victims it accumulates. Entire towns have been wiped out by advancing corpse mounds. \n**Undead Nature.** A corpse mound doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Corpse Mound", "size": "Huge", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 16, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 207, "hit_dice": "18d12+90", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 24, "dexterity": 11, "constitution": 21, "intelligence": 8, "wisdom": 10, "charisma": 8, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": 9, "intelligence_save": 3, "wisdom_save": 4, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "necrotic", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10", "languages": "Understands Common but can't speak", "challenge_rating": "11", "cr": 11.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The corpse mound makes two weapon attacks or uses envelop once." }, { "name": "Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 18 (2d10 + 7) bludgeoning damage plus 10 (3d6) necrotic damage and the target is grappled (escape DC 17). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained.", "attack_bonus": 11, "damage_dice": "2d10" }, { "name": "Bone Shard", "desc": "Ranged Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, range 30/120 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d6 + 7) piercing damage and 10 (3d6) necrotic damage. When hit, the target must make a successful DC 17 Strength check or be knocked prone, pinned to the ground by the shard, and restrained. To end this restraint, the target or a creature adjacent to it must use an action to make a successful DC 17 Strength (Athletics) check to remove the shard.", "attack_bonus": 11, "damage_dice": "2d6" }, { "name": "Envelop", "desc": "The corpse mound makes a slam attack against a restrained creature. If the attack hits, the target takes damage as normal, is pulled 5 feet into the corpse mound's space, and is enveloped, which ends any grappled or prone condition. While enveloped, the creature is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside the corpse mound, and it takes 21 (6d6) necrotic damage at the start of each of the corpse mound's turns. An enveloped creature can escape by using its action to make a successful DC 17 Strength saving throw. If the corpse mound takes 30 or more damage on a single turn from the enveloped creature, it must succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw at the end of that turn or expel the creature, which falls prone in a space within 10 feet of the corpse mound. If the corpse mound dies, an enveloped creature is no longer restrained by it and can escape by using 10 feet of movement, exiting prone. A corpse mound can envelop up to 4 creatures at once." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Absorb the Dead", "desc": "Whenever a Small or larger non-undead creature dies within 20 feet of the corpse mound, that creature's remains join its form and the corpse mound regains 10 hit points." }, { "name": "Noxious Aura", "desc": "Creatures that are within 20 feet of the corpse mound at the end of its turn must succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned until the end of their next turn. On a successful saving throw, the creature is immune to the Noxious Aura for 24 hours." }, { "name": "Zombie Drop", "desc": "At the start of the corpse mound's turn during combat, one corpse falls from the mound onto the ground and immediately rises as a zombie under its control. Up to 10 such zombies can be active at one time. Zombies take their turns immediately after the corpse mound's turn." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 69, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_corpse-mound/" }, { "slug": "deathwisp", "desc": "_A shadowy figure flickers in and out of view. Its indistinct shape betrays a sylvan ancestry, and its eyes are malevolent blue points of light._ \n**Unnatural Aura.** Animals do not willingly approach within 30 feet of a deathwisp, unless a master makes a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Animal Handling) check. \n**Fey Undead.** A deathwisp is a wraith-like spirit created in the Shadow Realm from the violent death of a shadow fey or evil fey. \n**Rift Walkers.** Many deathwisps remain among the shadows, but a few enter the natural world through planar rifts and gates, or by walking along shadow roads between the worlds. Retaining only a trace of their former personality and knowledge, their lost kindness has been replaced with malice. \n**Devour Breath.** A deathwisp feasts on the breath of living things, and invariably seeks to devour animals and solitary intelligent prey. It is quite intelligent and avoids fights against greater numbers. \n**Undead Nature.** A deathwisp doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep", "name": "Deathwisp", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 82, "hit_dice": "11d8+33", "speed": { "hover": true, "walk": 0, "fly": 60 }, "strength": 6, "dexterity": 20, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 18, "wisdom": 16, "charisma": 20, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 8, "constitution_save": 6, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 6, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 6, "skills": { "perception": 6, "stealth": 8 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "acid, cold, fire, lightning, thunder; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks not made with silvered weapons", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 16", "languages": "the languages it knew in life", "challenge_rating": "7", "cr": 7.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Life Drain", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 36 (7d8 + 5) necrotic damage. The target must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw, or its hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the damage taken. This reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest. The target dies if this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "7d8" }, { "name": "Create Deathwisp", "desc": "The deathwisp targets a humanoid within 10 feet of it that died violently less than 1 minute ago. The target's spirit rises as a wraith in the space of its corpse or in the nearest unoccupied space. This wraith is under the deathwisp's control. The deathwisp can keep no more than five wraiths under its control at one time." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Flicker", "desc": "The deathwisp flickers in and out of sight, and ranged weapon attacks against it are made with disadvantage." }, { "name": "Incorporeal Movement", "desc": "The deathwisp can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. It takes 5 (1d10) force damage if it ends its turn inside a solid object." }, { "name": "Shadow Jump", "desc": "A deathwisp can travel between shadows as if by means of dimension door. This magical transport must begin and end in an area with at least some shadow. A shadow fey can jump up to a total of 40 feet per day; this may be a single jump of 40 feet, four jumps of 10 feet each, etc. This ability must be used in 10-foot increments." }, { "name": "Sunlight Sensitivity", "desc": "While in sunlight, the deathwisp has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight." }, { "name": "Unnatural Aura", "desc": "Animals do not willingly approach within 30 feet of a deathwisp, unless a master makes a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Animal Handling) check." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 72, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_deathwisp/" }, { "slug": "dissimortuum", "desc": "_This twisted humanoid has gray flesh and black claws that drip blood. A bone mask is bound to its head by strips of putrid flesh and a third arm hangs from the right side of the creature’s body, its hand clutching a large sack stained with blood._ \n**Plague Bringers.** Dissimortuum are undead monstrosities constructed by necromancers to spread the undead plague, slowly but surely. These creatures are rare but tenacious. A dissimortuum obeys orders from the necromancer whose magic created it. \nWhen a dissimortuum kills, it collects body parts from its victims and keeps them in a sack that it carries with its third arm at all times. The monster sets down its sack of trophies only when pressed in combat, to make the most of its extra limb. \n**Constructing Dissimortuum.** Even when not following instructions, a dissimortuum seeks to create more of its own kind. The creature wanders graveyards, battlefields, and slums, searching for the gruesome components it needs to construct a mask and body for its undead offspring. The process is slow, taking up to a month to make a single mask, but a dissimortuum has nothing but time. The new creation is independent and not under the control of its maker. \n**Donning the Mask.** The mask of a dissimortuum is nigh indestructible. When the creature is destroyed, its mask usually survives and breaks free. On its own, the object detects as magical with mixed enchantment and necromantic auras. It is a tempting souvenir, but anyone foolish enough to don the mask is immediately wracked by pain and takes 7 (2d6) necrotic damage. The character must make a successful DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or become dominated by the mask. The domination arrives slowly. The character acts normally for a day or two, but then the character notices periods of time that cannot be accounted for. During these times, the character gathers the grisly components needed to build a new body for the dissimortuum. This process takes a week, after which the character is freed from domination as the undead creature is reborn.", "name": "Dissimortuum", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 112, "hit_dice": "15d8+45", "speed": { "walk": 30, "climb": 30 }, "strength": 14, "dexterity": 10, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 8, "wisdom": 11, "charisma": 18, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": 6, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10", "languages": "Common", "challenge_rating": "7", "cr": 7.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The dissimortuum makes three claw attacks." }, { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 15 (3d8 + 2) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "3d8" }, { "name": "Terrifying Mask", "desc": "Each non-undead creature within 60 feet of the dissimortuum that can see it must make a successful DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened for 1d8 rounds. If a target's saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the target becomes immune to all dissimortuum's terrifying masks for the next 24 hours." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Spider Climb", "desc": "The dissimortuum can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 119, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_dissimortuum/" }, { "slug": "drowned-maiden", "desc": "_The drowned maiden is usually found as the corpse of a women floating in the water, her long hair drifting with the current. Occasionally, these are drowned lads rather than maidens, though this is rare._ \n**Raging Romantics.** Drowned maidens are piteous but terrifying undead, created when a woman dies in water due to a doomed romance, whether from unrequited love or whether drowned by a philandering partner. Either way, the drowned maiden awakens from death seeking vengeance. Even as she dishes out retribution, a drowned maiden often anguishes over her doomed existence and tragic fate. \n**Beckoning for Help.** The maiden lurks in the silent depths where she died—usually deserted docks, bridges, or coastal cliffs. She waits to pull the living to the same watery grave in which she is now condemned. A drowned maiden uses her disguise self ability to appear as in life. She silently beckons victims from afar, as if in danger of drowning. When within range, the maiden uses her hair to pull her victim close enough to kiss it. Victims soon weaken and drown. The victim’s final vision is the drowned maiden’s tearful lament over the loss of life. \n**Death to Betrayers.** Desperate individuals may bargain with drowned maidens, and they will release pleading victims who promise to return to their lair with the person who caused the maiden’s death. Embracing and drowning her betrayer releases the maiden from undeath.", "name": "Drowned Maiden", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 90, "hit_dice": "20d8", "speed": { "walk": 30, "swim": 40 }, "strength": 15, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 10, "intelligence": 10, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 18, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": 6, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": 7, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks not made with silvered weapons", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11", "languages": "Common", "challenge_rating": "5", "cr": 5.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The drowned maiden makes two claw attacks and one hair attack, each of which it can replace with one kiss attack." }, { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d8 + 3) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "1d8" }, { "name": "Hair", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 20 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d10 + 3) slashing damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 16). Three creatures can be grappled at a time.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "2d10" }, { "name": "Kiss", "desc": "The drowned maiden can kiss one target that is grappled and adjacent to her. The target must succeed on a DC 15 Charisma saving throw or take 1d6 Strength damage." }, { "name": "Reel", "desc": "The drowned maiden pulls a grappled creature of Large size or smaller up to 15 feet straight toward herself." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Grasping Hair", "desc": "The drowned maiden's hair attacks as though it were three separate limbs, each of which can be attacked (AC 19; 15 hit points; immunity to necrotic, poison, and psychic damage; resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical attacks not made with silvered weapons). A lock of hair can be broken if a creature takes an action and succeeds on a DC 15 Strength check against it." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the drowned maiden's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 15). She can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nat will: disguise self, silence" } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 159, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_drowned-maiden/" }, { "slug": "edimmu", "desc": "_An evil wind swirls out of the desert, parching those it touches, whispering evil plans. These winds are the edimmus._ \n**Bitter Exiles.** Desert and plains tribes often exile their criminals to wander as outcasts. A banished criminal who dies of thirst sometimes rises as an edimmu, a hateful undead that blames all sentient living beings for its fate. \n**Rise Again.** Unless its body is found and given a proper burial, an edimmu is nearly impossible to destroy. While edimmus linger near their corpses, they often follow prey they have cursed to seal the creature’s fate. Once that creature is slain, they return to the site of their demise. \n**Undead Nature.** An edimmu doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Edimmu", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 75, "hit_dice": "10d8+30", "speed": { "hover": true, "walk": 0, "fly": 60 }, "strength": 1, "dexterity": 19, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 12, "wisdom": 13, "charisma": 13, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "acid, cold, fire, lightning, thunder; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, grappled, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained, unconscious", "senses": "blindsight 60 ft., passive Perception 11", "languages": "Common but can't speak", "challenge_rating": "4", "cr": 4.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Water Siphon", "desc": "Melee Spell Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 21 (6d6) necrotic damage. The target must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or its hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the damage taken and it is stunned for 1 minute and gains one level of exhaustion. A stunned creature repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the stun on itself on a success. The hit point reduction lasts until the creature finishes a long rest and drinks abundant water or until it is affected by greater restoration or comparable magic. The target dies if this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "6d6" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Rejuvenation", "desc": "If destroyed, an edimmu rises again in 2d4 days. Permanently destroying one requires properly burying its mortal remains in consecrated or hallowed ground. Edimmus rarely venture more than a mile from the place of their death." }, { "name": "Incorporeal Movement", "desc": "The edimmu can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. It takes 5 (1d10) force damage if it ends its turn inside an object." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 165, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_edimmu/" }, { "slug": "fext", "desc": "_Taut dead skin, adorned entirely with tattooed fish scales, covers this woman’s face and hands. She wears scaled armor, sea green like verdigris on copper, and wields a strange sword. Her pale eyes stare, unblinking._ \n**Undead Warlock Slaves.** Ancient and powerful beings across the multiverse grant magical knowledge to mortals through dangerous pacts. Those bound to these pacts become warlocks, but the will and force of their patron is borne by more than just those who strike bargains for sorcerous power. A fext is a former warlock who has become wholly dedicated to their patron—mind, body, and soul—and functions as enforcer, bodyguard, and assassin. They are powerful undead slaves to the will of their otherworldly patron. \n**Linked to a Master.** Each fext is a unique servant of their patron and exhibits the physical traits of its master. The eyes of every fext are tied directly to their patron’s mind, who can see what the fext sees at any time. The fext also possesses a telepathic link to its patron. \nThe process a warlock undergoes to become a fext is horrendous. The warlock is emptied of whatever morality and humanity he or she had as wine from a jug, and the patron imbues the empty vessel with its corruption and unearthly will. Whatever life the fext led before is completely gone. They exist only to serve. \n**Outdoing Rivals.** Scholars have debated about how many fext a patron can command. The more powerful and well-established have at least 100, while others have only a handful. Where there is more than one fext, however, they maneuverings amongst themselves to curry favor with their powerful lord. Each fext is bound to obey commands, but they attempt to carry them out to the detriment of their competitors. Scheming is common and rampant among them and they try to work without the aid of other fext as much as possible. \n**Undead Nature.** A fext doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Fext", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "any alignment", "armor_class": 17, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 60, "hit_dice": "11d8+11", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 14, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 1, "intelligence": 14, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 18, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 6, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 4, "charisma_save": 7, "perception": 4, "skills": { "perception": 4 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage with nonmagical weapons", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 14", "languages": "the languages spoken by its patron", "challenge_rating": "6", "cr": 6.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The fext makes two melee or ranged attacks." }, { "name": "Eldritch Blade", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (2d6 + 2) slashing damage plus 16 (3d10) force damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "2d6+2" }, { "name": "Eldritch Fury", "desc": "Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, range 60/200 ft., one creature. Hit: 25 (4d10 + 3) force damage.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "4d10" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the fext's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 15). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:at will: hex3/day each: counterspell, fear, gaseous form1/day each: hold monster, true seeing" }, { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The fext has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." }, { "name": "Magic Weapons", "desc": "The fext's weapon attacks are magical." }, { "name": "Patron Blessing", "desc": "A fext is infused with a portion of their patron's power. They have an Armor Class equal to 10 + their Charisma modifier + their Dexterity modifier." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 183, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_fext/" }, { "slug": "flutterflesh", "desc": "_This mass of fused corpses resembles a butterfly with wings of skin, limbs of bone, and a head formed of several different skulls. The dark magic that formed this abomination swirls around it hungrily._ \n**Bound by Necromancy.** Flutterflesh result from a terrible necromantic ritual. Cultists gather in the name of a dark god, powerful lich, or crazed madman, and forever bind themselves body and soul into a single evil being. Flutterflesh take recently severed limbs and fuse these new pieces to themselves in accordance with some unknowable aesthetic. \n**Dilemma of Flesh.** The most horrifying thing about a flutterflesh, however, is its devious nature. A flutterflesh offers its prey the choice to either die or lose a limb. One can always tell where a flutterflesh resides because so many of the locals are missing appendages. \n**Undead Nature.** A flutterflesh doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Flutterflesh", "size": "Large", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 16, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 187, "hit_dice": "22d10+66", "speed": { "walk": 10, "fly": 60 }, "strength": 11, "dexterity": 18, "constitution": 17, "intelligence": 12, "wisdom": 13, "charisma": 10, "strength_save": 4, "dexterity_save": 8, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 5, "skills": { "deception": 4, "perception": 5, "stealth": 8 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "radiant", "damage_resistances": "cold, lightning; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, paralyzed, exhaustion, poison, stunned, unconscious", "senses": "darkvision 240 ft., passive Perception 15", "languages": "Common, Darakhul", "challenge_rating": "12", "cr": 12.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The flutterflesh makes two bone spur attacks or two tormenting gaze attacks." }, { "name": "Bone Spur", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 17 (2d12 + 4) slashing damage plus 11 (2d10) necrotic damage. If both attacks hit a single creature in the same turn, it is grappled (escape DC 10). As a bonus action, the flutterflesh can choose whether this attack does bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "2d12" }, { "name": "Tormenting Gaze", "desc": "A target creature within 120 feet and able to see the flutterflesh takes 18 (4d8) psychic damage and is paralyzed for 1d4 rounds, or takes half damage and isn't paralyzed with a successful DC 15 Wisdom saving throw. Tormenting gaze can't be used against the same target twice in a single turn." }, { "name": "Slash", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) slashing damage. On a critical hit, the target takes an additional 27 (5d10) slashing damage and must make a DC 12 Constitution saving throw. On a failure, the flutterflesh lops off and absorbs one of the target's limbs (chosen randomly) and heals hit points equal to the additional slashing damage it inflicted.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "2d6" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Magic Weapons", "desc": "The flutterflesh's attacks are magical." }, { "name": "Turn Resistance", "desc": "The flutterflesh has advantage on saving throws against any effect that turns undead." }, { "name": "Creeping Death", "desc": "A creature that starts its turn within 30 feet of the flutterflesh must make a successful DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 14 (4d6) necrotic damage." }, { "name": "Regeneration", "desc": "The flutterflesh regains 10 hit points at the start of its turn. If the flutterflesh takes radiant or fire damage, this trait doesn't function at the start of its next turn. The flutterflesh dies only if it starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesn't regenerate." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 203, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_flutterflesh/" }, { "slug": "ghost-knight", "desc": "", "name": "Ghost Knight", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "lawful evil", "armor_class": 17, "armor_desc": "half plate", "hit_points": 97, "hit_dice": "15d8+30", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 17, "dexterity": 15, "constitution": 14, "intelligence": 8, "wisdom": 10, "charisma": 7, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 3, "skills": { "athletics": 6, "perception": 3, "stealth": 5 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "necrotic", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13", "languages": "Common", "challenge_rating": "6", "cr": 6.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The ghost knight makes three melee attacks." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "2d6" }, { "name": "Claws", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (2d4 + 3) slashing damage. If the target is a creature other than an elf or undead, it must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be paralyzed for 1 minute. A paralyzed target repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "2d4" }, { "name": "Battleaxe", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) slashing damage or 8 (1d10 + 3) slashing damage if used with two hands, plus 10 (3d6) necrotic damage.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "1d8" }, { "name": "Lance", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (1d12 + 3) piercing damage plus 10 (3d6) necrotic damage.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "1d12" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Charge", "desc": "If the ghost knight is mounted and moves at least 30 feet in a straight line toward a target and hits it with a melee attack on the same turn, the target takes an extra 7 (2d6) damage." }, { "name": "Mounted Warrior", "desc": "When mounted, the ghost knight has advantage on attacks against unmounted creatures smaller than its mount. If the ghost knight's mount is subjected to an effect that allows it to take half damage with a successful Dexterity saving throw, the mount instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw and half damage if it fails." }, { "name": "Turning Defiance", "desc": "The ghost knight and all darakhul or ghouls within 30 feet of it have advantage on saving throws against effects that turn undead." }, { "name": "Undead Nature", "desc": "A ghost knight doesn't require air, food, drink, or sleep" } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 423, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_ghost-knight/" }, { "slug": "ghoul-darakhul", "desc": "", "name": "Ghoul, Darakhul", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 16, "armor_desc": "scale mail; 18 with shield", "hit_points": 78, "hit_dice": "12d8+24", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 16, "dexterity": 17, "constitution": 14, "intelligence": 14, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 12, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "deception": 3, "stealth": 5 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "necrotic", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11", "languages": "Common, Darakhul", "challenge_rating": "3", "cr": 3.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The darakhul bites once, claws once, and makes one war pick attack. Using a shield limits the darakhul to making either its claw or war pick attack, but not both." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d8 + 3) piercing damage, and if the target creature is humanoid it must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw or contract darakhul fever.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "2d8" }, { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) slashing damage. If the target is a creature other than an undead, it must make a successful DC 12 Constitution saving throw or be paralyzed for 1 minute. A paralyzed target repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a humanoid creature is paralyzed for 2 or more rounds (the victim fails at least 2 saving throws), consecutive or nonconsecutive, the creature contracts darakhul fever.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "2d6" }, { "name": "War Pick", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1d8" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Master of Disguise", "desc": "A darakhul in a prepared disguise has advantage on Charisma (Deception) checks made to pass as a living creature. While using this ability, the darakhul loses its stench." }, { "name": "Stench", "desc": "Any creature that starts its turn within 5 feet of the darakhul must make a successful DC 12 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned until the start of its next turn. A successful saving throw makes the creature immune to the darakhul's stench for 24 hours. A darakhul using this ability can't also benefit from Master of Disguise." }, { "name": "Sunlight Sensitivity", "desc": "The darakhul has disadvantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight and on attack rolls while it, the object it is trying to see or attack in direct sunlight." }, { "name": "Turning Defiance", "desc": "The darakhul and any ghouls within 30 feet of it have advantage on saving throws against effects that turn undead." }, { "name": "Darakhul Fever", "desc": "spread mainly through bite wounds, this rare disease makes itself known within 24 hours by swiftly debilitating the infected. A creature so afflicted must make a DC 17 Constitution saving throw after every long rest. On a failed save the victim takes 14 (4d6) necrotic damage, and its hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the damage taken. This reduction can't be removed until the victim recovers from darakhul fever, and even then only by greater restoration or similar magic. The victim recovers from the disease by making successful saving throws on two consecutive days. Greater restoration cures the disease; lesser restoration allows the victim to make the daily Constitution check with advantage. Primarily spread among humanoids, the disease can affect ogres, and therefore other giants may be susceptible. If the infected creature dies while infected with darakhul fever, roll 1d20, add the character's current Constitution modifier, and find the result on the Adjustment Table to determine what undead form the victim's body rises in. Adjustment Table Roll Result:\n\n1-9 None; victim is simply dead\n\n10-16 Ghoul\n\n17-20 Ghast\n\n21+ Darakhul" } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 216, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_ghoul-darakhul/" }, { "slug": "ghoul-imperial", "desc": "", "name": "Ghoul, Imperial", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "lawful evil", "armor_class": 16, "armor_desc": "breastplate", "hit_points": 93, "hit_dice": "17d8+17", "speed": { "walk": 30, "burrow": 15 }, "strength": 16, "dexterity": 14, "constitution": 12, "intelligence": 13, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 14, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12", "languages": "Common, Darakhul, Undercommon", "challenge_rating": "4", "cr": 4.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The imperial ghoul makes one bite attack and one claws attack." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d8 + 3) piercing damage, and if the target creature is humanoid it must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw or contract darakhul fever.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "2d8+3" }, { "name": "Claws", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach, one target. Hit: 17 (4d6 + 3) slashing damage. If the target is a creature other than an elf or undead, it must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw or be paralyzed for 1 minute. The target repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "4d6" }, { "name": "Light Crossbow", "desc": "Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 80/320, one target. Hit: 8 (1d8 + 2) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "1d8" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Turning Defiance", "desc": "The imperial ghoul and any ghouls within 30 feet of it have advantage on saving throws against effects that turn undead." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 220, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_ghoul-imperial/" }, { "slug": "ghoul-iron", "desc": "", "name": "Ghoul, Iron", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "lawful evil", "armor_class": 16, "armor_desc": "breastplate", "hit_points": 143, "hit_dice": "22d8+44", "speed": { "walk": 30, "burrow": 20 }, "strength": 18, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 14, "intelligence": 14, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 14, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12", "languages": "Common, Darakhul, Undercommon", "challenge_rating": "5", "cr": 5.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The iron ghoul makes one bite attack and one claw attack, or three glaive attacks." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 17 (3d8 + 4) piercing damage. If the target is a creature other than an elf or undead, it must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be paralyzed for 1 minute. The target repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If the target is humanoid, it must succeed on a separate DC 13 Constitution saving throw or contract darakhul fever.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "3d8" }, { "name": "Claws", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 18 (4d6 + 4) slashing damage. If the target is a creature other than an elf or undead, it must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be paralyzed for 1 minute. The target repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If the target is humanoid, it must succeed on a separate DC 13 Constitution saving throw or contract darakhul fever.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "4d6" }, { "name": "Glaive", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (1d10 + 4) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "1d10" }, { "name": "Heavy Bone Crossbow", "desc": "Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, range 100/400, one target. Hit: 8 (1d10 + 3) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "1d10" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Turning Defiance", "desc": "The iron ghoul and any ghouls within 30 feet of it have advantage on saving throws against effects that turn undead." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 220, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_ghoul-iron/" }, { "slug": "gray-thirster", "desc": "_This dried-out body of a long dead traveler is still clad in the tattered remains of his clothes. Skin as dry as parchment clings to the bones that are clearly distinguishable underneath. A hoarse moaning emanates from the dry, cracked lips._ \n**Thirsting Undead.** The greatest danger to people traversing badlands and deserts is thirst, and even the best prepared can find themselves without water. The lucky ones die quickly, while those less fortunate linger in sun-addled torment for days. These souls sometimes rise from the sand as gray thirsters, driven to inflict the torment they suffered upon other travelers. \n**Destroy Wells and Oases.** Gray thirsters destroy or foul sources of water and often lurk nearby to ambush those seeking clean water. \n**Thirsting Caravan.** Though they hunt alone, in at least one case an entire caravan died of thirst and rose again as gray thirsters. Called the dust caravan, it prowls the deep desert accompanied by skinchanging gnolls, shrieking ghouls, and a mummy lord, building a strange nomadic army. \n**Undead Nature.** A gray thirster doesn’t require air, food, or sleep.", "name": "Gray Thirster", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 39, "hit_dice": "6d8+12", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 12, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 15, "intelligence": 6, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 14, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "stealth": 5 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, necrotic", "damage_immunities": "fire, poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11", "languages": "understands all languages it knew in life but can't speak", "challenge_rating": "2", "cr": 2.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The gray thirster makes two claw attacks and one Withering Turban attack" }, { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1d6" }, { "name": "Withering Turban", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 10 ft., one creature. Hit: 5 (1d4 + 3) necrotic damage. If the target failed a saving throw against the Thirst trait at any point in this encounter, its hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the damage it took from this attack. This reduction lasts until the target has no exhaustion levels.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1d4" }, { "name": "Drought (1/Day)", "desc": "The gray thirster draws the moisture from a 20-foot radius area centered on itself. Nonmagical water and other liquids in this area turn to dust. Each creature that is neither undead nor a construct in the area takes 9 (2d8) necrotic damage, or half damage with a successful DC 13 Constitution saving throw. Plants, oozes, and creatures with the Amphibious, Water Breathing, or Water Form traits have disadvantage on this saving throw. Liquids carried by a creature that makes a successful saving throw are not destroyed." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Thirst", "desc": "The gray thirster projects a 30-foot aura of desiccating thirst. The first time a creature enters the aura on its turn, or when it starts its turn in the aura, it must make a successful DC 12 Constitution saving throw or gain one level of exhaustion. If the saving throw is successful, the creature is immune to the gray thirster's Thirst for the next 24 hours." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 238, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_gray-thirster/" }, { "slug": "grim-jester", "desc": "_A skeletal cadaver bedecked in the motley attire of a fool capers about while making jokes that mock mortality._ \n**Amusing Death.** When a jester on his deathbed moves an evil death god to laughter, the fool sometimes gains a reprieve. becoming a grim jester, whose pranks serve to entertain the god of death. Their purpose is to bring an end to mortal lives in a gruesome, comic, and absurd manner. As long as such jesters keep the death god amused, their continued unlife is assured. \n**Grisly Humor.** A grim jester’s jokes are not funny to their victims, but they offer a grim finality in combat. A killing joke might be absurd, such as “Here is your final pineapple soul, a parting gift, goodbye.” or sheer braggadocio such as “Your footwork is atrocious, and your spell’s lost its focus, your party’s no match for my hocus-pocus.” Others might be high-flown, such as “Mortal, your time has come, the bell within your skull does ring, ding, dong, dead.” Grim jesters are famous for grim, bitter mockery such as “Your blood on fire, your heart pumps its last, show me now a hero’s last gasp!” or “Odin’s raven has come for you; the Valkyries were busy. You lose, mortal.” \nA grim jester’s mockery rarely entertain the living—but gods of death, chained angels, and demons find them quite amusing. \n**Randomness.** Grim jesters often get their hands on wands of wonder and scrolls of chaos magic. Beware the grim jester with a deck of many things—they are quite talented in pulling cards whose magic then applies to foes and spectators. \n**Undead Nature.** A grim jester doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Grim Jester", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 18, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 136, "hit_dice": "16d8+64", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 14, "dexterity": 22, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 16, "wisdom": 16, "charisma": 20, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 10, "constitution_save": 8, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": 9, "perception": 7, "skills": { "acrobatics": 10, "deception": 9, "perception": 7, "performance": 9, "stealth": 10 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "cold", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 17", "languages": "Abyssal, Celestial, Common, Gnomish, telepathy 60 ft.", "challenge_rating": "11", "cr": 11.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Joker's Shuffle (recharge 6)", "desc": "The jester forces one Medium or Small humanoid within 60 feet to make a DC 17 Charisma saving throw. If the saving throw fails, the jester and the target exchange locations via teleportation and an illusion causes them to swap appearance: the jester looks and sounds like the target, and the target looks and sounds like the jester. The illusion lasts for 1 hour unless it is dismissed earlier by the jester as a bonus action, or dispelled (DC 17)." }, { "name": "Killing Joke (recharge 6)", "desc": "The jester performs an ancient, nihilistic joke of necromantic power. This joke has no effect on undead or constructs. All other creatures within 60 feet of the jester must make a DC 17 Wisdom saving throw. Those that fail fall prone in a fit of deadly laughter. The laughter lasts 1d4 rounds, during which time the victim is incapacitated and unable to stand up from prone. At the end of its turn each round, an incapacitated victim must make a successful DC 17 Constitution saving throw or be reduced to 0 hit points. The laughter can be ended early by rendering the victim unconscious or with greater restoration or comparable magic." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": [ { "name": "Ridicule Hope (recharge 4-6)", "desc": "When a spell that restores hit points is cast within 60 feet of the jester, the jester can cause that spell to inflict damage instead of curing it. The damage equals the hit points the spell would have cured." } ], "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the jester's spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 17, +9 to hit with spell attacks). It can innately cast the following spells requiring no components:\n\nat will: disguise self, grease, inflict wounds, magic mouth, misty step\n\n3/day each: contagion, mirror image\n\n1/day each: delayed blast fireball, finger of death, mislead, seeming" }, { "name": "Last Laugh", "desc": "Unless it is destroyed in a manner amusing to the god of death that created it, the grim jester is brought back after 1d20 days in a place of the god's choosing." }, { "name": "Mock the Dying", "desc": "Death saving throws made within 60 feet of the jester have disadvantage." }, { "name": "Turn Resistance", "desc": "The jester has advantage on saving throws against any effect that turns undead." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 240, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_grim-jester/" }, { "slug": "haugbui", "desc": "_A thick swirl of dust rises, settles, and forms the vague outline of a man—two points of yellow light shine where its eyes should be, staring malevolently._ \n**Mound Haunter.** A haugbui is an undead spirit tied to its burial mound or barrow. It serves as a familiar, protective spirit to nearby farmsteads or villages, so long as tribute is regularly paid to the haugbui. Traditional offerings may include pouring the first beer from a barrel, leaving portions of meals out overnight, sacrificing blood or livestock, or burying a portion of any income in the mound. A freshly-woken haugbui devours the remains of creatures it was buried with, such as a hawk, hound, or horse. \n**Milder Spirits.** Haugbuis are related to vaettir, but much older. They are more humble and less prone to taking umbrage, and indeed, a great many haugbui have long since forgotten their own names. They are not quick to spill blood when irritated, and thus are viewed with greater tolerance by the living. \n**Scrye and Watch.** They prefer to watch over their people from within their mound, and only come forth over the most grievous insults or injuries. They can do a great deal from within their mounds thanks to their scrying ability. \n**Undead Nature.** A haugbui doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Haugbui", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "lawful neutral", "armor_class": 18, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 136, "hit_dice": "16d8+64", "speed": { "hover": true, "walk": 0, "fly": 40 }, "strength": 18, "dexterity": 17, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 15, "wisdom": 20, "charisma": 16, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 8, "constitution_save": 9, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 10, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 10, "skills": { "arcana": 7, "history": 7, "intimidation": 8, "perception": 10, "religion": 12 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "cold, lightning, necrotic", "damage_immunities": "poison; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned", "senses": "truesight 60 ft., passive Perception 20", "languages": "the languages it spoke in life; telepathy 120 ft.", "challenge_rating": "13", "cr": 13.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The haugbui makes two psychic claw attacks." }, { "name": "Psychic Claw", "desc": "Ranged Magical Attack: +10 to hit, range 40 ft., one target. Hit: 32 (6d8 + 5) psychic damage.", "attack_bonus": 10, "damage_dice": "6d8" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Incorporeal Movement", "desc": "The haugbui can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. It takes 5 (1d10) force damage if it ends its turn inside an object." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the haugbui's innate spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 18). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nconstant: detect thoughts, invisibility, mage hand, scrying\n\nat will: dancing lights, druidcraft, mending, spare the dying\n\n7/day each: bane, create or destroy water, fog cloud, purify food and drink\n\n5/day each: blindness/deafness, gust of wind, locate object, moonbeam, shatter\n\n3/day each: bestow curse, dispel magic, plant growth, remove curse, telekinesis\n\n1/day each: blight, contagion, dream\n\n1/week each: geas, hallow" }, { "name": "Legendary Resistance (3/Day)", "desc": "If the haugbui fails a saving throw it can choose to succeed instead." }, { "name": "Sepulchral Scrying (1/Day)", "desc": "An invisible magical eye is created under the haugbui's control, allowing it to watch its territory without leaving the burial mound. The eye travels at the speed of thought and can be up to 5 miles from the haugbui's location. The haugbui can see and hear as if it were standing at the eye's location, and it can use its innate spellcasting abilities as if it were at the eye's location. The eye can be noticed with a successful DC 18 Wisdom (Perception) check and can be dispelled as if it were 3rd-level spell. Spells that block other scrying spells work against Sepulchral Scrying as well. Unless dismissed by its creator or dispelled, lasts for up to 12 hours after its creation; only one can be created per 24-hour period." }, { "name": "Sunlight Sensitivity", "desc": "While in sunlight, the haugbui has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight." }, { "name": "Turn Resistance", "desc": "The haugbui has advantage on saving throws against any effect that turns undead." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 247, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_haugbui/" }, { "slug": "lich-hound", "desc": "_Their howls echoing from another plane, lich hounds always arrive wreathed in mist. Half bone, half purple fire, they are creatures of hunger and the hunt. Nothing makes them happier than taking down creatures larger than themselves—or racing through the air to catch a surprised bat in mid-flight. All cruelty and fang, lich hounds are most satisfied when praised by their great undead lords._ \n**Fiery Bones.** Bright white skulls with a heavy jaw and thick, robust skeletal bodies define the ferocious lich hounds. Their eyes burn green or blue, and their tongues resemble black fire. Fueled by necromantic power, these creatures are loyal servants of either ghoul high priests or liches. \n**Echoing Howls.** Even on their own, lich hounds are relentless hunters, pursuing their prey with powerful senses and a keen ability to find the living wherever they may hide. Lich hound howls fade into and out of normal hearing, with strangely shifted pitch and echoes. \n**Murdered Celestials.** The dark process of creating a lich hound involves a perverse ritual of first summoning a celestial canine and binding it to the Material Plane. The hound’s future master then murders the trapped beast. Only then can the creature be animated in all its unholy glory. Hound archons have long been outraged by the creation of lich hounds, and they occasionally band together to rid the world of those who practice this particular dark magic. \n**Undead Nature.** A lich hound doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Lich Hound", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 119, "hit_dice": "14d8+56", "speed": { "walk": 30, "fly": 50 }, "strength": 10, "dexterity": 18, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 6, "wisdom": 10, "charisma": 16, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 4, "constitution_save": 4, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": 3, "perception": 4, "skills": { "acrobatics": 6, "perception": 4 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "piercing and bludgeoning from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "exhaustion, poisoned", "senses": "blindsight 100 ft., passive Perception 14", "languages": "understands Darakhul", "challenge_rating": "4", "cr": 4.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (1d12 + 4) piercing damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 14 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "1d12" }, { "name": "Ethereal Jaunt", "desc": "As a bonus action, the lich hound can magically shift from the Material Plane to the Ethereal Plane, or vice versa." }, { "name": "Gut Rip", "desc": "As a bonus action, the lich hound tears into any adjacent prone creature, inflicting 19 (3d12) slashing damage. The target must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or be incapacitated for 1d4 rounds. An incapacitated creature repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns; a successful save ends the condition early." }, { "name": "Howl", "desc": "The eerie howl of lich hounds as they close in on their prey plays havoc on the morale of living creatures that hear it. Howling requires and action, and creatures that hear the howl of a lich hound within 100 feet must succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw or become frightened for 5 rounds. Creatures that successfully save against this effect cannot be affected by a lich hound's howl for 24 hours." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Keen Hearing and Smell", "desc": "The lich hound has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing or smell." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 274, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_lich-hound/" }, { "slug": "mallqui", "desc": "_With skin stretched like vellum over wizened limbs, a desiccated humanoid form clad in splendid regalia emerges from a funerary tower. Suddenly, the air becomes so dry as to make the eyes sting and lips crack. The imposing figure has yellow points of light for eyes._ \n**Cold Plateau Mummies.** The people of the cold, rainless, mountain plateaus take advantage of their dry climes to mummify their honored dead, but without the embalming and curing of the corpse practiced in hotter lands. To preserve the knowledge and the place of their ancestors in the afterlife, their dead remain among them as counsellors and honorees on holy days. \n**Undead Judges.** The mallqui are not seen as malevolent, though at times they are severe judges against transgressors of their culture’s ideals. \n**Icons of Growth.** Through their ability to draw the very moisture from the air, they are seen as conduits to the fertility of the earth. “Mallqui” also means “sapling” in the language of the people who create them. \n**Undead Nature.** A mallqui doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Mallqui", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "lawful neutral", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 120, "hit_dice": "16d8+48", "speed": { "walk": 20 }, "strength": 16, "dexterity": 9, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 11, "wisdom": 16, "charisma": 14, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": 3, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": 5, "perception": null, "skills": { "history": 3, "insight": 6, "religion": 3 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "cold, lightning; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13", "languages": "the languages it knew in life", "challenge_rating": "8", "cr": 8.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The mallqui can use its xeric aura and makes two attacks with its desiccating touch." }, { "name": "Desiccating Touch", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 20 (5d6 + 3) necrotic damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "5d6" }, { "name": "Xeric Aura", "desc": "All creatures within 20 feet of the mallqui must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 11 (2d10) necrotic damage and gain a level of exhaustion. A creature becomes immune to the mallqui's xeric aura for the next 24 hours after making a successful save against it." }, { "name": "Xeric Blast", "desc": "Ranged Spell Attack: +7 to hit, range 30/90 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (3d6 + 3) necrotic damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "3d6" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Regeneration", "desc": "The mallqui regains 10 hit points at the start of its turn. If the mallqui takes damage from its Water Sensitivity trait, its regeneration doesn't function at the start of the mallqui's next turn. The mallqui dies only if it starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesn't regenerate." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the mallqui's innate spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 15, +7 to hit with spell attacks). It can cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nat will: druidcraft, produce flame\n\n4/day each: create or destroy water, entangle\n\n2/day: locate animals or plants\n\n1/day each: dispel magic, plant growth, wind wall" }, { "name": "Water Sensitivity", "desc": "the flesh of a mallqui putrefies and dissolves rapidly when soaked with water in the following ways:\n\n- Splashed with a waterskin or equivalent: 1d10 damage\n\n- Attacked by creature made of water: Normal damage plus an extra 1d10 damage\n\n- Caught in rain: 2d10 damage per round (DC 11 Dexterity saving throw for half)\n\n- Immersed in water: 4d10 damage per round (DC 13 Dexterity saving throw for half)\n\nalternatively, the saving throw and DC of the spell used to conjure or control the water damaging the mallqui can be used in place of the saving throws above" } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 282, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_mallqui/" }, { "slug": "mask-wight", "desc": "_The frame of this withered demon’s corpse barely fills the ash-colored plate armor that encases it. It carries a serrated khopesh sword in spiked gauntlets that hiss with violet smoke, and a horned ivory mask devoid of features is nailed to its face._ \n**Children of Fiends.** Long ago, a demon lord of shadow and deceit fell in love with a demon goddess of destruction. At the base of a crater left by a meteor that destroyed a civilization, the two devised a plan to not merely slay their peers, but wholly expunge them from time itself, leaving only each other. Shortly thereafter, the mask wights were conceived. \n**Rites of Annihilation.** To create these undead, the lord of shadows stole the bodies of death knights from beneath the necropolis of an arch-lich. Then, the goddess of the underworld sacrificed a million condemned souls and drained their essence into ivory masks—one for each fiend the couple sought to annihilate. Finally, the masks were hammered onto the knights with cold iron nails, and their armored husks were left at the bottom of the memory-draining River Styx for 600 years. \nWhen they rose, the mask wights marched out into the planes to bury knowledge, conjure secrets, and erase their quarry from memory and history. \n**Ready for Betrayal.** Kept secret from one another, though, the two each created an additional mask wight, a safeguard for in case betrayal should cross their lover’s mind. \n**Undead Nature.** A mask wight doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Mask Wight", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 19, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 207, "hit_dice": "18d8+126", "speed": { "walk": 40 }, "strength": 22, "dexterity": 18, "constitution": 24, "intelligence": 15, "wisdom": 16, "charisma": 18, "strength_save": 11, "dexterity_save": 9, "constitution_save": 12, "intelligence_save": 7, "wisdom_save": 8, "charisma_save": 9, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "radiant", "damage_resistances": "acid, fire, lightning, cold; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, stunned, unconscious", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., truesight 30 ft., passive Perception 13", "languages": "Common, Giant, Infernal", "challenge_rating": "13", "cr": 13.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The mask wight makes one Khopesh of Oblivion attack and one Enervating Spiked Gauntlet attack." }, { "name": "Khopesh of Oblivion", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 19 (3d8 + 6) slashing damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 17 Wisdom saving throw or some cherished material thing disappears from the universe, and only the target retains any memory of it. This item can be as large as a building, but it can't be a living entity and it can't be on the target's person or within the target's sight.", "attack_bonus": 11, "damage_dice": "3d8" }, { "name": "Enervating Spiked Gauntlet", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 19 (2d12 + 6) bludgeoning damage plus 11 (2d10) necrotic damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 17 Wisdom saving throw or gain 1 level of exhaustion. The target recovers from all exhaustion caused by the enervating spiked gauntlet at the end of its next long rest.", "attack_bonus": 11, "damage_dice": "2d12" }, { "name": "Wail of the Forgotten (Recharge 6)", "desc": "The mask wight emits an ear-piercing wail. All creatures within 30 feet of the wight take 65 (10d12) thunder damage and are permanently deafened; a successful DC 17 Charisma saving throw reduces damage to half and limits the deafness to 1d4 hours. Targets slain by this attack are erased from the memories of every creature in the planes, all written or pictorial references to the target fade away, and its body is obliterated-the only exception is those who personally witnessed the death. Restoring such a slain creature requires a wish or divine intervention; no mortal remembers the creature's life or death." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the wight's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 17). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nat will: alter self\n\n1/day each: counterspell, dispel magic, enlarge/reduce, spider climb, tongues\n\n1/week: gate" }, { "name": "Single-minded Purpose", "desc": "The wight has advantage on attack rolls against followers of the fiend it is tasked to destroy and those in its target's employ (whether or not they are aware of their employer), as well as the fiend itself." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 285, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_mask-wight/" }, { "slug": "mavka", "desc": "_These twisted dryads have been turned into vampiric monstrosities by undead warlocks and vampiric experiments._ \n**Charred Dryads.** With burnt and blackened skin, burnt twigs for hair, and clawed hands and feet that resemble burnt and twisted roots, mavkas seem scorched and even frail. Pupil-less red eyes gleam in their eye sockets with a hellish green flame. \n**Death Riders.** All mavkas ride Open Game License", "name": "Mavka", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 17, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 170, "hit_dice": "20d8+80", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 20, "dexterity": 15, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 13, "wisdom": 13, "charisma": 18, "strength_save": 9, "dexterity_save": 6, "constitution_save": 8, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": 8, "perception": 5, "skills": { "athletics": 9, "nature": 5, "perception": 5 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "acid, fire, necrotic; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "cold, lightning", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 90 ft., passive Perception 15", "languages": "Common, Infernal, Sylvan", "challenge_rating": "12", "cr": 12.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The mavka makes two slam attacks." }, { "name": "Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 23 (4d8 + 5) bludgeoning damage plus 11 (2d10) necrotic damage.", "attack_bonus": 9, "damage_dice": "4d8" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the mavka's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 16, +8 to hit with spell attacks). She can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nconstant: protection from evil and good\n\nat will: create or destroy water, dancing lights, ray of frost, resistance, witch bolt\n\n3/day each: darkness, hold person, inflict wounds, invisibility, silence\n\n1/day each: animate dead, bestow curse, blindness/deafness, contagion, dispel magic, vampiric touch" }, { "name": "Nightmare Mount", "desc": "A mavka is bonded to a nightmare when it is created. Mavkas are encountered with their mounts 95% of the time." }, { "name": "Sunlight Hypersensitivity", "desc": "The mavka takes 20 radiant damage when she starts her turn in sunlight. While in sunlight, she has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 286, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_mavka/" }, { "slug": "myling", "desc": "_Mylings are the souls of the unburied, those who died in the forest from abandonment or exposure and can find no peace until their bodies are properly interred. Given the circumstances around their deaths, mylings tend to be solitary. They haunt the places where they died. When some tragedy resulted in multiple deaths, the resulting mylings stay together and hunt as a pack._ \n**Attack in a Rage.** Mylings prefer to attack lone wanderers, but they target a group when desperate or when there’s more than one myling in the pack. They shadow a target until after dark, then jump onto the target’s back and demand to be carried to their chosen burial ground. They cling tightly to a victim with arms and legs locked around the victim’s shoulders and midsection, begging, threatening, and biting until the victim gives in to their demands. Mylings will bite victims to death if they are unable or unwilling to carry them, or if a victim moves too slowly. \n**Ungrateful Rest.** While all mylings seek a creature to carry them to their final resting place, even when a chosen “mount” is willing to carry the myling, the creature’s body grows immensely heavier as it nears its burial place. Once there, it sinks into the earth, taking its bearers with it. Being buried alive is their reward for helping the myling. \n**Urchin Rhymes and Songs.** Some mylings maintain traces of the personalities they had while alive— charming, sullen, or sadistic—and they can speak touchingly and piteously. Dressed in ragged clothing, their skin blue with cold, they sometimes reach victims who believe they are helping an injured child or young adult. They hide their faces and sing innocent rhymes when they aren’t screeching in fury, for they know that their dead eyes and cold blue skin cause fright and alarm. \n**Undead Nature.** A myling doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Myling", "size": "Small", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 45, "hit_dice": "10d6+10", "speed": { "walk": 30, "burrow": 10 }, "strength": 15, "dexterity": 10, "constitution": 12, "intelligence": 10, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 10, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "stealth": 4 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks not made with silvered weapons", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, frightened, poisoned, stunned, unconscious", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11", "languages": "Common", "challenge_rating": "2", "cr": 2.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The myling makes one bite and two claw attacks." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (2d4 + 2) piercing damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 12). If the target was grappled by the myling at the start of the myling's turn, the bite attack hits automatically.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "2d4" }, { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (2d6 + 1) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "2d6" }, { "name": "Buried Alive", "desc": "If the myling starts its turn on its chosen burial ground, it sinks into the earth. If it has a creature grappled, that creature sinks with the myling. A Medium or larger creature sinks up to its waist; a Small creature sinks up to its neck. If the myling still has the victim grappled at the start of the myling's next turn, both of them disappear into the earth. While buried this way, a creature is considered stunned. It can free itself with a successful DC 20 Strength (Athletics) check, but only one check is allowed; if it fails, the creature is powerless to aid itself except with magic. The creature must also make a DC 10 Constitution saving throw; if it succeeds, the creature has a lungful of air and can hold its breath for (Constitution modifier + 1) minutes before suffocation begins. Otherwise, it begins suffocating immediately. Allies equipped with digging tools can reach it in four minutes divided by the number of diggers; someone using an improvised tool (a sword, a plate, bare hands) counts as only one-half of a digger." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": null, "spell_list": [], "page_no": 301, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_myling/" }, { "slug": "nihilethic-zombie", "desc": "", "name": "Nihilethic Zombie", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 9, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 22, "hit_dice": "3d8+9", "speed": { "walk": 20, "swim": 30 }, "strength": 13, "dexterity": 6, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 3, "wisdom": 6, "charisma": 5, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 0, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "cold, necrotic, poison; bludgeoning, piercing and slashing from nonmagical attacks (only when in ethereal form)", "condition_immunities": "poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 8", "languages": "understand Void Speech and the languages it knew in life but can't speak", "challenge_rating": "1", "cr": 1.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Slam (Material Form Only)", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d6 + 1) bludgeoning damage and the target must make a successful DC 13 Constitution saving throw or become diseased. The disease has little effect for 1 minute; during that time, it can be removed by bless, lesser restoration, or comparable magic. After 1 minute, the diseased creature's skin becomes translucent and slimy. The creature cannot regain hit points unless it is at least partially underwater, and the disease can only be removed by heal or comparable magic. Unless the creature is either fully submerged or frequently doused with water, it takes 6 (1d12) acid damage every 10 minutes. If a creature dies while diseased, it rises in 2d6 rounds as a nihilethic zombie. This zombie is permanently dominated by the nihileth that commands the attacking zombie.", "attack_bonus": 3, "damage_dice": "4d6+1" }, { "name": "Withering Touch (Ethereal Form)", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d6 + 1) necrotic damage.", "attack_bonus": 3, "damage_dice": "1d6+1" }, { "name": "Form Swap", "desc": "As a bonus action, the nihilethic zombie can alter between its material and ethereal forms at will." }, { "name": "Sacrifice Life", "desc": "A nihilethic zombie can sacrifice itself to heal a nihileth within 30 feet of it. All of its remaining hit points transfer to the nihileth in the form of healing. The nihilethic zombie is reduced to 0 hit points and it doesn't make an Undead Fortitude saving throw. A nihileth cannot be healed above its maximum hit points in this manner." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": [ { "name": "Void Body", "desc": "The nihilethic zombie can reduce the damage it takes from a single source by 1d12 points. This reduction cannot be applied to radiant damage." } ], "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Undead Fortitude", "desc": "If damage reduces the nihileth to 0 hit points, it must make a Constitution saving throw with a DC of 5 + the damage taken, unless the damage is radiant or from a critical hit. On a success, the nihileth drops to 1 hit point instead." }, { "name": "Dual State", "desc": "Like its nihileth creator, a nihilethic zombie can assume either a material or ethereal form. When in its material form, it has resistance to nonmagical weapons. In its ethereal form, it is immune to nonmagical weapons. Its ethereal form appears as a dark purple outline of its material form, with a blackish-purple haze within." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 9, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_nihilethic-zombie/" }, { "slug": "putrid-haunt", "desc": "_These shambling corpses have twigs, branches, and other debris intertwined with their bodies, and their gaping maws often crawl with scrabbling vermin._ \n**Swamp Undead.** Putrid haunts are walking corpses infused with moss, mud, and the detritus of the deep swamp. They are the shambling remains of individuals who, either through mishap or misdeed, died while lost in a vast swampland. Their desperate need to escape the marshland in life transforms into a hatred of all living beings in death. They often gather in places tainted by evil deeds. \n**Mossy Islands.** When no potential victims are nearby, putrid haunts sink into the water and muck, where moss and water plants grow over them and vermin inhabit their rotting flesh. When living creatures draw near, the dormant putrid haunt bursts from its watery hiding spot and attacks its prey, slamming wildly with its arms and stomping on prone foes to push them deeper into the muck. There’s no planning and little cunning in their assault, but they move through the marshes more freely than most intruders and they attack with a single-mindedness that’s easily mistaken for purpose. \n**Leech Harbors.** Putrid haunts create especially favorable conditions for leeches. They are often hosts or hiding places for large gatherings of leeches. \n**Undead Nature.** A putrid haunt doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Putrid Haunt", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 44, "hit_dice": "8d8+8", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 17, "dexterity": 8, "constitution": 13, "intelligence": 6, "wisdom": 11, "charisma": 6, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning and piercing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10", "languages": "-", "challenge_rating": "2", "cr": 2.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d8 + 3) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "2d8" }, { "name": "Vomit Leeches (Recharge 6)", "desc": "A putrid haunt can vomit forth the contents of its stomach onto a target within 5 feet. Along with the bile and mud from its stomach, this includes 2d6 undead leeches that attach to the target. A creature takes 1 necrotic damage per leech on it at the start of the creature's turn, and the putrid haunt gains the same number of temporary hit points. As an action, a creature can remove or destroy 1d3 leeches from itself or an adjacent ally." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Dead Still", "desc": "Treat a putrid haunt as invisible while it's buried in swamp muck." }, { "name": "Swamp Shamble", "desc": "Putrid haunts suffer no movement penalties in marshy terrain." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 315, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_putrid-haunt/" }, { "slug": "risen-reaver", "desc": "_A body that might once have been human now has four legs and nightmarishly long, thick arms. What’s worse, its skin has been flayed off, revealing the dead muscle and sinew beneath._ \n**Spirt of War.** The risen reaver is an undead born from a warrior fallen on the battlefield. Its body becomes an avatar of combat, with four legs and a pair of long, heavy arms. In the process, it sheds its skin, becoming entirely undead muscle, bone, and sinew. \n**Absorb Weapons.** When risen reavers take form, they absorb all weapons around them. Some of these weapons pierce their bodies, and others become part of the risen reaver’s armament. Their four legs are tipped with blades on which they walk like metallic spiders. Their arms are covered in weaponry infused into their flesh, which they use to crush and flay any living creatures they encounter. \n**Battle Mad.** Risen reavers are battle‑maddened spirits of vengeance and slaughter, obsessed with the chaos of combat that led to their own death. They hunt the living with the sole purpose of killing, and they thrive on violence and murder. As they died, so should others die. \n**Undead Nature.** A risen reaver doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Risen Reaver", "size": "Large", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "studded leather", "hit_points": 168, "hit_dice": "16d10+80", "speed": { "walk": 40 }, "strength": 19, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 20, "intelligence": 9, "wisdom": 7, "charisma": 6, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 6, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 1, "skills": { "perception": 1 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 11", "languages": "any languages it knew in life", "challenge_rating": "7", "cr": 7.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The risen reaver makes three blade attacks." }, { "name": "Blade", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 15 (2d10 + 4) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "2d10" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Life Sense", "desc": "The risen reaver automatically detects all living creatures within 120 feet. This sense is blocked by 3 feet of wood, 1 foot of earth or stone, an inch of metal, or a thin sheet of lead." }, { "name": "Pounce", "desc": "When the risen reaver hits an enemy with its blade attack after moving at least 20 feet, the target creature must make a DC 15 Strength saving throw. On a failure, the creature falls prone and the risen reaver can use a bonus action to make a single blade attack." }, { "name": "Infused Arsenal", "desc": "As a bonus action, the risen reaver can absorb one unattended weapon into its body. For every weapon it absorbs, it deals +1 damage with its blade attacks ( maximum of +3)." }, { "name": "Skitter", "desc": "The risen reaver can take the Dash action as a bonus action." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 328, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_risen-reaver/" }, { "slug": "rotting-wind", "desc": "_A rotting wind brings a chilling gust to the air, turning nearby foliage to rot and raising a sense of dread in all creatures in its path._ \n**Air of Tombs.** A rotting wind is an undead creature made up of the foul air and grave dust sloughed off by innumerable undead creatures within lost tombs and grand necropoli. \n**Scouts for Undead Armies.** A rotting wind carries the foul stench of death upon it, sometimes flying before undead armies and tomb legions or circling around long-extinct cities and civilizations. \n**Withering Crops.** Rotting winds sometimes drift mindlessly across a moor or desert, blighting all life they find and leaving only famine and death in their wake. This is especially dangerous when they drift across fields full of crops; they can destroy an entire harvest in minutes. \n**Undead Nature.** A rotting wind doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Rotting Wind", "size": "Large", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 82, "hit_dice": "11d10+22", "speed": { "hover": true, "walk": 0, "fly": 60 }, "strength": 14, "dexterity": 20, "constitution": 15, "intelligence": 7, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 10, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, grappled, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained, unconscious", "senses": "blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this), passive Perception 10", "languages": "-", "challenge_rating": "6", "cr": 6.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Wind of Decay", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 0 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d6 + 5) bludgeoning damage plus 14 (4d6) necrotic damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be cursed with tomb rot. The cursed target can't regain hit points, and its hit point maximum decreases by 10 (3d6) for every 24 hours that elapse. If the curse reduces the target's hit point maximum to 0, the target dies and its body turns to dust. The curse lasts until removed by the remove curse spell or comparable magic.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "2d6" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Air Form", "desc": "The rotting wind can enter a hostile creature's space and stop there. It can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing." }, { "name": "Befouling Presence", "desc": "All normal plant life and liquid in the same space as a rotting wind at the end of the wind's turn is blighted and cursed. Normal vegetation dies in 1d4 days, while plant creatures take double damage from the wind of decay action. Unattended liquids become noxious and undrinkable." }, { "name": "Invisibility", "desc": "The rotting wind is invisible as per a greater invisibility spell." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 330, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_rotting-wind/" }, { "slug": "rusalka", "desc": "_A barefoot woman with long hair and almost transparent skin sits upon a willow branch. Her hair and clothing are wet, as if she has just returned from a swim. Her smile seems friendly enough._ \nWhen a woman drowns, her dripping body may rise again as a rusalka. Some claim the drowning must be a suicide. Others say that the water itself must be tainted with murder or some great evil spirit. \n**Near Water.** Rusalkas dwell in the water where they died, emerging only at night. Some climb a nearby tree, dangle their feet in the water, and sing alluring songs. Others sit on the bank, combing their wet tresses and awaiting prey. They must, however, remain in or near the water where they died, as part of their curse. However, during a full moon, the rusalki can leave the water to dance along the shore or the riverbank, singing all night long and inviting young men to join them. \n**Songs and Poetry.** Rusalkas mesmerize and seduce passersby with song and dance and poetry. Young men are their usual victims, but they also prey on curious children, lonely older men, and other heartbroken women. When a potential victim comes near enough, the rusalki entangles the person with her hair and drags him or her beneath the water to drown. \n**Lover’s Walks.** A rusalka cannot pass for human on any but the darkest night, but she might claim to be a lonely tree spirit or a benevolent nymph willing to grant a wish in exchange for a kiss. She may part the water of a lake and coax her victim toward the center with the promise of a kiss—delivered as her hair entraps the victim and the water rushes around him. Alternatively, she may use water walk so she and the victim can stroll across the surface of the water, reward him with a long kiss (to prevent him from catching a deep breath), then end the spell over deep water and drag him to the bottom. \n**Undead Nature.** A rusalka doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Rusalka", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 88, "hit_dice": "16d8+16", "speed": { "walk": 30, "swim": 40 }, "strength": 17, "dexterity": 13, "constitution": 12, "intelligence": 11, "wisdom": 15, "charisma": 18, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison; piercing and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "condition_immunities": "charmed, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12", "languages": "Common", "challenge_rating": "6", "cr": 6.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Breathless Kiss", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: the target is grappled (escape DC 13) and the rusalka draws all the air from the target's lungs with a kiss. If the rusalka has movement remaining, she drags the grappled creature into deep water, where it begins suffocating.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "0" }, { "name": "Drowning Hair (1/Day)", "desc": "The rusalka's long hair tangles around a creature the rusalka has grappled. The creature takes 33 (6d10) necrotic damage, or half damage with a successful DC 15 Constitution saving throw. In addition, until it escapes the rusalka's grapple, it is restrained and has disadvantage on Strength checks to break free of the grapple." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Withered Tresses", "desc": "If a rusalka is kept out of water for 24 consecutive hours, its hair and body dry into desiccated swamp weeds and the creature is utterly destroyed." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the rusalka's innate casting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 15). She can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nat will: control water, suggestion, tongues, water walk (can be ended freely at will)\n\n1/day: dominate person" }, { "name": "Watery Camouflage", "desc": "In dim light or darkness, a rusalka that's underwater is invisible." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 331, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_rusalka/" }, { "slug": "sand-silhouette", "desc": "_Sand silhouettes are spirits of those who died in desperation in sandy ground, buried during sandstorms, thrown into dry wells, or the victims of a dune collapse. Looking like a shadow stretched out along the ground, a sand silhouette’s erratic movements are difficult to discern._ \n**Sand Bodies.** If disturbed or agitated, these restless souls cause the sand around them to swirl and form into a loose vortex that vaguely resembles their physical body in life. They can control these shapes as they controlled their physical bodies. \n**Traceless Movement.** Sand silhouettes glide through the sand without leaving a trace or creating any telltale sign of their approach, which makes it easy for them to surprise even cautious travelers with their sudden attacks from below. \n**Undead Nature.** A sand silhouette doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Sand Silhouette", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 105, "hit_dice": "14d8+42", "speed": { "walk": 30, "burrow": 30 }, "strength": 18, "dexterity": 12, "constitution": 17, "intelligence": 7, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 10, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, grappled, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained, unconscious", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., tremorsense 60 ft., passive Perception 11", "languages": "all languages it knew in life", "challenge_rating": "6", "cr": 6.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The sand silhouette makes two slam attacks." }, { "name": "Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (3d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage. If both attacks hit a Medium or smaller target, the target is grappled (escape DC 14), and the sand silhouette engulfs it.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "3d6" }, { "name": "Engulf", "desc": "The sand silhouette engulfs a Medium or smaller creature grappled by it. The engulfed target is blinded and restrained, but no longer grappled. It must make a successful DC 15 Constitution saving throw at the start of each of the sand silhouette's turns or take 14 (3d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage. If the sand silhouette moves, the engulfed target moves with it. The sand silhouette can only engulf one creature at a time." }, { "name": "Haunted Haboob (Recharge 4-6)", "desc": "The sand silhouette turns into a 60-foot radius roiling cloud of dust and sand filled with frightening shapes. A creature that starts its turn inside the cloud must choose whether to close its eyes and be blinded until the start of its next turn, or keep its eyes open and make a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw. If the saving throw fails, the creature is frightened for 1 minute. A frightened creature repeats the Wisdom saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Camouflage", "desc": "While in desert environments, the sand silhouette can use the Hide action even while under direct observation." }, { "name": "Sand Form", "desc": "The sand silhouette can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing." }, { "name": "Sand Glide", "desc": "The sand silhouette can burrow through nonmagical, loose sand without disturbing the material it is moving through. It is invisible while burrowing this way." }, { "name": "Vulnerability to Water", "desc": "For every 5 feet the sand silhouette moves while touching water, or for every gallon of water splashed on it, it takes 2 (1d4) cold damage. If the sand silhouette is completely immersed in water, it takes 10 (4d4) cold damage." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 332, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_sand-silhouette/" }, { "slug": "sarcophagus-slime", "desc": "_The sarcophagus opens to reveal an eerie, scintillating light. Wisps of gelid amber ectoplasm undulate outward from a quivering mass with a blackened skull at its center._ \n**Vigilant Slime.** Sarcophagus slimes are amorphous undead guardians placed in the tombs of the powerful to guard them and to wreak terrible vengeance on would-be defilers of the ancient crypts. They seethe with baleful energy, and their blackened skulls retain a simple watchfulness. \n**Muddled Origins.** Many sages speculate that the first sarcophagus slime was spawned accidentally, in a mummy creation ritual that gave life to the congealed contents of canopic jars rather than the intended, mummified body. Others maintain sarcophagus slime was created by a powerful necromancer-pharaoh bent on formulating the perfect alchemical sentry to guard his crypt. \n**Death to Tomb Robbers.** These ectoplasmic slimes are the bane of burglars and a constant danger for excavators and antiquarians exploring ruins or tombs. The rituals for their creation have not been entirely lost; modern necromancers still create these undead abominations for their own fell purposes, and tomb robbers are turned into slimes if they lack proper caution. \n**Undead Nature.** A sarcophagus slime doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Sarcophagus Slime", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 11, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 105, "hit_dice": "14d8+42", "speed": { "walk": 20 }, "strength": 14, "dexterity": 12, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 3, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 12, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 4, "charisma_save": 4, "perception": null, "skills": { "stealth": 4 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "acid, necrotic", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, poisoned, prone", "senses": "blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius), passive Perception 11", "languages": "understands the languages of its creator but can't speak", "challenge_rating": "5", "cr": 5.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The sarcophagus slime uses its Frightful Presence, uses its Corrupting Gaze, and makes two slam attacks." }, { "name": "Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (2d6 + 2) bludgeoning damage plus 14 (4d6) acid damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "2d6" }, { "name": "Frightful Presence", "desc": "Each creature of the sarcophagus slime's choice that is within 60 feet of the sarcophagus slime and aware of it must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or become frightened for 1 minute. A frightened creature repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a creature's saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the creature is immune to the sarcophagus slime's Frightful Presence for the next 24 hours." }, { "name": "Corrupting Gaze", "desc": "The sarcophagus slime targets one creature it can see within 30 feet of it. If the target can see the sarcophagus slime, the target must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 14 (4d6) necrotic damage and its hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the necrotic damage taken. If this effect reduces a creature's hit point maximum to 0, the creature dies and its corpse becomes a sarcophagus slime within 24 hours. This reduction lasts until the creature finishes a long rest or until it is affected by greater restoration or comparable magic." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Amorphous", "desc": "The sarcophagus slime can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 336, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_sarcophagus-slime/" } ] }