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Then 3 Divine Bursts or 1 Blinding Rod and 2 Divine Bursts. It can replace one attack with Spellcasting."},{"name":"Blinding Rod","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, 5 ft., one target, 8 (2d6+1) bludgeoning damage + 13 (3d8) necrotic or radiant (the first servant's choice) and target must make DC 17 Con save or be blinded and deafened until end of its next turn."},{"name":"Divine Burst","desc":"Melee or Ranged Spell Attack: +9 to hit 5 ft. or range 120' one target 23 (4d8+5) necrotic or radiant (the first servant's choice)."},{"name":"Awe-Inspiring Presence","desc":"Each creature of servant's choice within 30' of it and aware of it: DC 17 Wis save or unable to use bonus actions or reactions until start of servant's next turn."},{"name":"Spellcasting","desc":"Wis (DC 17): At will: bane protection from evil and good spare the dying thaumaturgy3/day ea: cure wounds (level 5) dispel evil and good divination speak with dead1/day ea: commune (as an action) holy aura resurrection"}],"bonus_actions":[{"name":"Healing Hands (Recharge 5-6)","desc":"Touches a creature within 5 ft. of it: creature regains 14 (4d6) hp."}],"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Armor of Foresight","desc":"While it is wearing no armor and wielding no shield its AC includes its Dex and Wis modifiers (included above)."},{"name":"Divine Weapons","desc":"Its weapon attacks are magical. When it hits with any weapon deals extra 3d8 necrotic or radiant (included below) servant's choice."}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":407,"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_npc-first-servant/"},{"slug":"uraeus","desc":"_A sleek serpent wends through the air, held aloft on bronze-feathered wings. The flying cobra flares its hood and hisses, hurling a spray of orange sparks from its fanged mouth._  \nA uraeus resembles a vibrantly colored cobra. The serpent’s scales are the rich gold-flecked blue of lapis lazuli and its eyes gleam white, but its most distinguishing feature is a pair of feathery bronze wings. It glides gracefully through the air with a deliberate vigilance that reveals its intelligence. A uraeus grows up to three feet long, and weighs around 5 pounds.  \n**Divine Protectors.** Uraeuses are celestial creatures that carry a spark of divine fire within them, and they thirst for purpose when they arrive on the Material Plane. Whether the creature was deliberately summoned or found its way to the Material Plane through other means, a uraeus is created to protect. Once it finds a worthy charge, it devotes its fiery breath and searing venom to protecting that ward.  \nA uraeus is fanatically loyal to the creature it protects. Only gross mistreatment or vicious evil can drive a uraeus to break its bond and leave.","name":"Uraeus","size":"Tiny","type":"Celestial","subtype":"","group":null,"alignment":"lawful neutral","armor_class":14,"armor_desc":"natural armor","hit_points":40,"hit_dice":"9d4+18","speed":{"walk":30,"fly":60},"strength":6,"dexterity":15,"constitution":14,"intelligence":10,"wisdom":14,"charisma":9,"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":"fire; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks","damage_immunities":"poison","condition_immunities":"poisoned","senses":"blindsight 10 ft., passive Perception 14","languages":"understands Celestial and Common but can't speak","challenge_rating":"2","cr":2.0,"actions":[{"name":"Bite","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage plus 9 (2d8) poison damage, and the target must make a successful DC 12 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 minute. While poisoned in this way, the target takes 9 (2d8) fire damage at the start of its turn. A poisoned creature repeats the saving throw at the end of its turn, ending the effect on a success.","attack_bonus":4,"damage_dice":"1d6"},{"name":"Searing Breath (Recharge 5-6)","desc":"The uraeus exhales a 15-foot cone of fire. Creatures in the area take 10 (3d6) fire damage, or half damage with a successful DC 12 Dexterity saving throw."}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":[{"name":"Bonded Savior","desc":"When the uraeus' bonded ward takes damage, the uraeus can transfer the damage to itself instead. The uraeus' damage resistance and immunity don't apply to transferred damage."}],"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Flyby","desc":"The uraeus doesn't provoke opportunity attacks when it flies out of an enemy's reach."},{"name":"Ward Bond","desc":"As a bonus action, the uraeus forms a magical bond with a willing creature within 5 feet. Afterward, no matter how great the distance between them, the uraeus knows the distance and direction to its bonded ward and is aware of the creature's general state of health. The bond lasts until the uraeus or the ward dies, or the uraeus ends the bond as an action."}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":392,"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_uraeus/"},{"slug":"weeping-treant","desc":"_This twisted tree’s face is made of cracked, black bark knotted into vaguely humanoid features, and thick tears of sap run down its face._  \nWeeping treants clearly are related to other treants, but they are smaller than the normal variety, little more than 30 feet tall with a trunk 3 feet in diameter, and weighing no more than 4,500 lb. Their gnarled trunks are often twisted, and their wood often groans when they move.  \n**Forest Wardens.** Weeping treants are protectors of dark, shadowy forests, and they are as long-lived as the trees themselves. They act as guardians for an entire forest or for something specific within the forest—they have no pity for those carrying axes or fire.  \n**Skeptical Mein.** Weeping treants are terrifying and relentless when fighting in defense of their charge. They are inherently distrustful, particularly of anything not of the natural or shadow world, and they’re notoriously difficult to fool or deceive.  \n**Enchanted Bitter Tears.** Sages and scholars debate why these creatures weep, but no one has come forward with a compelling reason beyond “it’s what trees do.” The weeping treants themselves refuse to speak on the matter. Their tears are occasionally components in druidic spells or items.","name":"Weeping Treant","size":"Huge","type":"Plant","subtype":"","group":null,"alignment":"neutral","armor_class":17,"armor_desc":"natural armor","hit_points":105,"hit_dice":"10d12+40","speed":{"walk":30},"strength":21,"dexterity":8,"constitution":20,"intelligence":12,"wisdom":16,"charisma":11,"strength_save":null,"dexterity_save":null,"constitution_save":null,"intelligence_save":null,"wisdom_save":null,"charisma_save":null,"perception":null,"skills":{},"damage_vulnerabilities":"fire","damage_resistances":"bludgeoning and piercing","damage_immunities":"","condition_immunities":"","senses":"darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13","languages":"Common, Druidic, Elvish, Sylvan","challenge_rating":"6","cr":6.0,"actions":[{"name":"Multiattack","desc":"The treant makes three slam attacks."},{"name":"Slam","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 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This acidic matter continues doing 6 (1d12) acid damage at the start of each of the creature's turns until it or an adjacent ally uses an action to wipe off the tears or three rounds elapse."}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":388,"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_weeping-treant/"},{"slug":"tosculi-hive-queen","desc":"The tosculi are a race of wasp-folk that share the Golden Song of the hive, which unites them under the command and iron rule of their queen. Each hive has its own song, and most tosculi hives are predatory, dangerous places—quick to turn to banditry, cattle theft, and raiding against small villages.  \nThose few tosculi who do not hear their queen’s Golden Song are the Hiveless, driven out of the embrace of the hive to attempt survive on their own.  \n_This humanoid wasp’s gossamer wings beat out a soft, droning buzz. Flashing blades sing in each of her four clawed hands, and the air around her crackles with arcane energy._  \n**Center of the Hive.** The hive-queen is the nerve center of a tosculi hive-city, simultaneously one of a hive’s greatest strengths and weaknesses. The hive-queen serves as a unifying force. She binds her swarm with an ironclad sense of purpose through the hive mind, the psychic web that links all tosculi within a hive.  \n**Deadly Inheritance.** A hive-queen typically has several immature daughters as her potential heirs at any given time. When she nears the end of her life, the hive-queen selects the most promising of her heirs and feeds her a special concoction. This speeds the heir’s maturation and makes her ready to become a full-fledged hive-queen. The daughter’s first action upon assuming power and control over the hive-city is to devour her mother and all her sisters.  \n**Hive Chaos.** If a hive-queen dies with no heir to anchor the hive mind, the city plunges into chaos. Tosculi bereft of the hivemind go berserk. A few fortunate ones might escape and become lone renegades, but their existence without the comforting presence of the hive is miserable and short. Unless one of the hive-queen’s daughters is mature enough and ruthless enough to step in and assert control, the hive is doomed.  \n\n## A Tosculi Hive-Queen’s Lair\n\n  \nHive-queens make their lairs in the most protected part of the hive. Huge corridors lead to this point, so all tosculi can reach their queen as quickly as possible. This is also the place where tosculi eggs hatch, making it a critical location for the survival of the hive. A tosculi hive-queen encountered in her lair has a challenge rating of 13 (10,000 XP), but nothing else in her stat block changes.  \n\n### Lair Actions\n\n  \nOn initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), the hive-queen takes a lair action to cause one of the following effects:\n* The tosculi hive-queen releases a cloud of pheromones that drives the tosculi to fight harder. All tosculi within 60 feet of the hive-queen (including the hive-queen herself) regain 7 (2d6) hit points.\n* A swarm of tiny tosculi offspring crawls from its nest and attacks a creature within 120 feet of the hive-queen, automatically doing 10 (4d4) piercing damage. Then the swarm dies.\n* The ceiling above one creature that the hive-queen can see within 120 feet of her drips sticky resin. The creature must make a successful DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or be encased in rapidly-hardening resin. A creature encased this way is restrained. It can free itself, or another creature within 5 feet can free it, by using an action to make a successful DC 15 Strength check. If the creature is still encased the next time the initiative count reaches 20, the resin hardens, trapping it. The trapped creature can’t move or speak; attack rolls against it have disadvantage because it is encased in resin armor; it automatically fails Strength and Dexterity saving throws; and it has resistance to all damage. The trapped creature is released when the resin is destroyed (AC 10, 20 HP, immune to cold, fire, necrotic, poison, psychic, radiant, and piercing damage).\n  \nThe tosculi hive-queen can’t repeat an effect until they have all been used, and she can’t use the same effect two rounds in a row.  \n\n## Regional Effects\n\n  \nThe region containing a tosculi hive-queen’s lair is warped by the creature’s presence, which creates one or more of the following effects:  \n\\# Intelligent creatures within 6 miles suffer frequent headaches. It’s as if they had a constant buzzing inside their heads.  \n\\# Beasts within 6 miles are more irritable and violent than usual and have the Blood Frenzy trait:  \n**Blood Frenzy.** The beast has advantage on melee attack rolls against a creature that doesn’t have all its hit points. If the tosculi hive-queen dies, the buzzing disappears immediately, and the beasts go back to normal within 1d10 days.","name":"Tosculi Hive-Queen","size":"Large","type":"Monstrosity","subtype":"","group":null,"alignment":"lawful evil","armor_class":17,"armor_desc":"","hit_points":157,"hit_dice":"15d10+75","speed":{"walk":40,"fly":60},"strength":17,"dexterity":24,"constitution":20,"intelligence":16,"wisdom":16,"charisma":18,"strength_save":null,"dexterity_save":12,"constitution_save":10,"intelligence_save":null,"wisdom_save":8,"charisma_save":9,"perception":8,"skills":{"perception":8},"damage_vulnerabilities":"","damage_resistances":"","damage_immunities":"poison","condition_immunities":"charmed, poisoned","senses":"darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 18","languages":"Common, Deep Speech, Gnoll, Infernal, Tosculi","challenge_rating":"12","cr":12.0,"actions":[{"name":"Multiattack","desc":"The hive-queen makes four scimitar attacks."},{"name":"Scimitar","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d6 + 7) slashing damage.","attack_bonus":12,"damage_dice":"2d6"},{"name":"Stinger","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 10 (1d6 + 7) piercing damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 18 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":12,"damage_dice":"1d6"},{"name":"Glitter Dust","desc":"The hive-queen produces a cloud of glittering golden particles in a 30-foot radius. Each creature that is not a tosculi in the area must succeed on a DC 18 Constitution saving throw or be blinded for 1 minute. A blinded creature repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success."},{"name":"Implant Egg","desc":"The hive-queen implants an egg into an incapacitated creature within 5 feet of her that is neither undead nor a construct. Until the egg hatches or is removed, the creature is poisoned, paralyzed, and does not need to eat or drink. The egg hatches in 1d6 weeks, and the larval tosculi kills the host creature. The implanted egg can be removed with a successful DC 20 Wisdom (Medicine) check or by a spell or magical effect that cures disease."}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"The hive-queen can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The hive-queen regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.","legendary_actions":[{"name":"Flight","desc":"The hive-queen flies up to half its flying speed."},{"name":"Stinger Attack","desc":"The hive-queen makes one stinger attack."},{"name":"Glitter Dust (Costs 2 Actions)","desc":"The hive-queen uses Glitter Dust."}],"special_abilities":[{"name":"Legendary Resistance (3/Day)","desc":"If the hive-queen fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead."},{"name":"Hive Mind","desc":"The hive-queen is the psychic nexus for every tosculi in her hive. She is aware of the direction and distance to all members of the hive, can telepathically communicate with them when they are within 20 miles, and can sense what they sense when they are within 1 mile of her. Tosculi from her hive that travel more than 20 miles away instinctively know the direction and distance to the hive and try to return. Hive-queens sometimes dispatch rescue missions to recover separated members of the hive."},{"name":"Hive Queen Lair","desc":"on initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), the hive-queen takes a lair action to cause one of the following effects:\n\n- The tosculi hive-queen releases a cloud of pheromones that drives the tosculi to fight harder. All tosculi within 60 feet of the hive-queen (including the hive-queen herself) regain 7 (2d6) hit points.\n\n- A swarm of tiny tosculi offspring crawls from its nest and attacks a creature within 120 feet of the hive-queen, automatically doing 10 (4d4) piercing damage. Then the swarm dies. \n\n- The ceiling above one creature that the hive-queen can see within 120 feet of her drips sticky resin. The creature must make a successful DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or be encased in rapidly-hardening resin. A creature encased this way is restrained. It can free itself, or another creature within 5 feet can free it, by using an action to make a successful DC 15 Strength check. If the creature is still encased the next time the initiative count reaches 20, the resin hardens, trapping it. The trapped creature can't move or speak; attack rolls against it have disadvantage because it is encased in resin armor; it automatically fails Strength and Dexterity saving throws; and it has resistance to all damage. The trapped creature is released when the resin is destroyed (AC 10, 20 HP, immune to cold, fire, necrotic, poison, psychic, radiant, and piercing damage). \n\nthe tosculi hive-queen can't repeat an effect until they have all been used, and she can't use the same effect two rounds in a row."},{"name":"Regional Effects","desc":"the region containing a tosculi hive-queen's lair is warped by the creature's presence, which creates one or more of the following effects:\n\n- Intelligent creatures within 6 miles suffer frequent headaches. 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A tophet has a large opening in the front where the flames can be seen; sometimes this is an enormous mouth, and at other times it is a large hole in the tophet’s belly. Horns and expressions of anger or wide‑mouthed laughter are common.  \n**Eager for Sacrifices.** Among fire cultists, it’s widely known that when a tophet’s hands are raised above its mouth, it is demanding a sacrifice to roll down its palms and into its fiery maw.  \n**Heed Musical Commands.** Flutes and drums can (sometimes) be used to control the actions of a tophet during sacrifices. They have the fortunate side effect of drowning out the cries and screams of living sacrifices.  \n**Magical Fires.** The fires within a tophet’s bronze body are largely magical and fueled by sacrifices. They don’t require more than a symbolic amount of wood or coal to keep burning, but they do require sacrifices of food, cloth, and (eventually) living creatures to keep them under control. A tophet that is not granted a sacrifice when it demands one might go on a fiery rampage, burning down buildings, granaries, or barns until its hunger is satisfied.  \n**Constructed Nature.** A tophet doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.","name":"Tophet","size":"Huge","type":"Construct","subtype":"","group":null,"alignment":"neutral evil","armor_class":16,"armor_desc":"natural armor","hit_points":184,"hit_dice":"16d12+80","speed":{"walk":30},"strength":24,"dexterity":10,"constitution":20,"intelligence":6,"wisdom":10,"charisma":10,"strength_save":10,"dexterity_save":3,"constitution_save":8,"intelligence_save":null,"wisdom_save":null,"charisma_save":null,"perception":3,"skills":{"perception":3},"damage_vulnerabilities":"","damage_resistances":"necrotic","damage_immunities":"cold, fire, poison","condition_immunities":"exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned","senses":"darkvision 200 ft., passive Perception 13","languages":"Common","challenge_rating":"8","cr":8.0,"actions":[{"name":"Multiattack","desc":"A tophet makes two attacks, no more than one of which can be a gout of flame."},{"name":"Slam","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack. +10 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (1d10+7) bludgeoning damage. The target is also knocked inside the tophet's burning belly if the attack scores a critical hit."},{"name":"Gout of Flame","desc":"The tophet targets a point within 100 feet of itself that it can see. All targets within 10 feet of that point take 22 (4d10) fire damage, or half damage with a successful DC 16 Dexterity saving throw."}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Fiery Heart","desc":"A tophet's inner fire can be ignited or doused at will. Its heat is such that all creatures have resistance to cold damage while within 30 feet of the tophet."},{"name":"Burning Belly","desc":"Creatures inside a tophet's burning core take 21 (6d6) fire damage at the start of each of the tophet's turns. Escaping from a tophet's belly takes 10 feet of movement and a successful DC 16 Dexterity (Acrobatics) check."}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":383,"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_tophet/"},{"slug":"temple-dog","desc":"_Looking like a mix between a large dog and a lion, the creature glares at everyone who passes the threshold of the temple it guards._  \nA temple dog is an imposing guardian used by various deities to protect their temples. They are fiercely loyal and territorial. Often depicted in temple statuary, the creature has a largely canine body, soft but short hair, a thick hairy tail, and a mane like a lion’s around a dog’s face with a short snout.  \n**Divine Colors.** Coloration and other features of the temple dog vary to match the deity who created it; sometimes a temple dog’s coloration is quite fanciful. Greenish bronze temple dogs are known, as are those the color of cinnabar or lapis. Even coats resembling fired ceramic of an orange hue have been seen guarding some temples. These unusual casts make it easy for a temple dog to be mistaken for statuary.  \n**Travel with Priests.** As a temple protector, it rarely leaves the grounds of the temple to which it has been attached, but temple dogs do accompany priests or allies of the temple during travel. The temple dog cannot speak but understands most of what’s said around it, and it can follow moderately complex commands (up to two sentences long) without supervision.  \nTemple dogs are notorious for biting their prey, then shaking the victim senseless in their massive jaws.","name":"Temple Dog","size":"Medium","type":"Celestial","subtype":"","group":null,"alignment":"good","armor_class":15,"armor_desc":"natural armor","hit_points":97,"hit_dice":"15d8+30","speed":{"walk":30},"strength":18,"dexterity":14,"constitution":15,"intelligence":8,"wisdom":14,"charisma":10,"strength_save":7,"dexterity_save":null,"constitution_save":5,"intelligence_save":2,"wisdom_save":5,"charisma_save":null,"perception":5,"skills":{"perception":5},"damage_vulnerabilities":"","damage_resistances":"bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks","damage_immunities":"","condition_immunities":"","senses":"darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 15","languages":"understands Celestial and Common but can't speak","challenge_rating":"5","cr":5.0,"actions":[{"name":"Bite","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 17 (3d8 + 4) piercing damage plus 9 (2d4 + 4) bludgeoning damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 14). The target must also make a successful DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the end of its next turn.","attack_bonus":7,"damage_dice":"3d8"},{"name":"Slam","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (3d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 15 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone and pushed 5 feet. The temple dog can immediately enter the position the target was pushed out of, if it chooses to.","attack_bonus":7,"damage_dice":"3d6+4"}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Magic Resistance","desc":"The temple dog has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects."},{"name":"Protector's Initiative","desc":"If the temple dog is entering combat against a clear threat to its temple, it has advantage on its initiative roll."},{"name":"Rushing Slam","desc":"If the temple dog moves at least 10 feet straight toward a target and then makes a slam attack against that target, it can make an additional slam attack against a second creature within 5 feet of the first target as a bonus action."}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":378,"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_temple-dog/"},{"slug":"trollkin-fire-shaman","desc":"","name":"Trollkin Fire Shaman","size":"Medium","type":"Humanoid","subtype":"","group":null,"alignment":"neutral","armor_class":14,"armor_desc":"leather armor","hit_points":45,"hit_dice":"7d8+14","speed":{"walk":30},"strength":10,"dexterity":14,"constitution":14,"intelligence":9,"wisdom":16,"charisma":8,"strength_save":null,"dexterity_save":null,"constitution_save":null,"intelligence_save":null,"wisdom_save":null,"charisma_save":null,"perception":3,"skills":{"perception":3},"damage_vulnerabilities":"","damage_resistances":"","damage_immunities":"","condition_immunities":"","senses":"darkvision 60', passive Perception 15","languages":"Common, Trollkin","challenge_rating":"2","cr":2.0,"actions":[{"name":"Multiattack","desc":"Uses Mark Foe. Then two Hurl Flame attacks or three Staff attacks."},{"name":"Staff","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, 5 ft., one target, 3 (1d6) bludgeoning damage or 4 (1d8) bludgeoning damage if used with 2 hands."},{"name":"Hurl Flame","desc":"Ranged Spell Attack: +5 to hit, 120 ft., one target, 8 (2d4+3) fire."},{"name":"Mark Foe","desc":"One creature shaman can see within 60' must make DC 13 Wis save or be wreathed in magical fire for 1 min. While wreathed it can't take the Hide action or become invisible. The next time creature takes damage it takes an extra 7 (2d6) fire and the magical fire ends."}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":[{"name":"Fiery Escape (2/Day)","desc":"When shaman takes damage each creature within 5 ft. of it: DC 13 Dex save or take 7 (2d6) fire. Shaman is then wreathed in flames and teleports up to 30' to unoccupied space it can see."}],"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Regeneration","desc":"Gains 3 hp at the start of its turn. If the trollkin takes acid or fire this ability doesn't function at the start of its next turn. 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They may be castoffs from larger, fiery elemental beings. A single, solitary fire dancer is no more than a semi-sentient spark with a fragment of life and lofty but unrealistic ambitions. In large numbers, they’re a menace.  \n_**Unite and Grow Strong.**_ Larger fire elementals are usually sessile creatures, content merely to exist on their plane of origin. Fire dancers possess (and some argue are infected with) mortal qualities—they seek to reach a greater potential, which smacks of envy, ambition, and resentment. They realize that there is power in numbers and that, when united, they are a force to be reckoned with. A single fire dancer is no more threatening than a tiny candle flame, burning hot and blue. When thousands join together, though, the result is an inferno. The likeness of a skull in its flame is an illusion created by the creature, based on how the fire dancers perceive mortal creatures after they’re done with them.  \n_**Surly Servants.**_ Lone fire dancers have individuality, but in groups, they develop a hive mentality. While this allows them to function as a swarm, it also makes them vulnerable as a group to mind-affecting magic. Savvy bards, conjurers, and enchanters who summon swarms of fire dancers know they must maintain a tight control on the swarm, for these creatures are surly servants at the best of times.  \n_**Elemental Nature.**_ A swarm of fire dancers doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.","name":"Fire Dancer Swarm","size":"Medium","type":"Elemental","subtype":"Swarm","group":null,"alignment":"neutral evil","armor_class":15,"armor_desc":"","hit_points":90,"hit_dice":"12d8+36","speed":{"hover":true,"walk":30,"fly":30},"strength":10,"dexterity":20,"constitution":16,"intelligence":6,"wisdom":10,"charisma":7,"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","damage_immunities":"fire, poison","condition_immunities":"exhaustion, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained, stunned, unconscious","senses":"darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10","languages":"Ignan","challenge_rating":"7","cr":7.0,"actions":[{"name":"Swarm","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 0 ft., one target in the swarm's space. Hit: 21 (6d6) fire damage, or 10 (3d6) fire damage if the swarm has half or fewer hit points.","attack_bonus":8,"damage_dice":"6d6"}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Fire Form","desc":"A creature that touches the swarm or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of it takes 5 (1d10) fire damage. In addition, the first time the swarm enters a creature's space on a turn, that creature takes 5 (1d10) fire damage and catches fire; until someone uses an action to douse the fire, the creature takes 5 (1d10) fire damage at the start of each of its turns."},{"name":"Illumination","desc":"The swarm sheds bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light to an additional 30 feet."},{"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 Tiny creature. The swarm can't regain hit points or gain temporary hit points."},{"name":"Water Susceptibility","desc":"For every 5 feet the swarm moves in water, or for every gallon of water splashed on it, it takes 1 cold damage."}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":373,"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_fire-dancer-swarm/"},{"slug":"wintergrim","desc":"This squat creature is covered in furs, making it almost as wide as it is tall. A large nose pokes through the furs, and its gentle eyes shine._  \n**Spirit of Hospitality.** Wintergrims are solitary fey who build their homes in remote locations. When they are alone, they spend much of their time traversing the territory surrounding their homes, watchful for creatures in dire straits or in need of shelter. Wintergrims offer assistance and lodging to travelers they encounter and jump to the rescue for those in immediate peril. They readily share the furs in which they bundle themselves and are often laden with warm soups and beverages they share with visitors suffering from the elements.  \n**Inscrutable Rules.** A wintergrim’s hospitality has limits, as each wintergrim has a unique set of behaviors it holds taboo within the confines of its home. Breaking its rules is so abhorrent to a wintergrim, it dares not even discuss the things it forbids. The rules range from the seemingly innocuous—such as leaving one’s boots on when entering a wintergrim’s home—to common societal norms—such as not attacking or killing another guest. Discovering a wintergrim’s proscribed behavior is difficult, since the wintergrim ignores transgressions outside its home, perhaps giving a cryptic warning that it wouldn’t tolerate the same in its domicile. Mere discussion about its rules may also provoke the fey.  \nWhatever the case, wintergrims demand rulebreakers leave their premises at once, resorting to pummeling those who fail to comply.  \n**Competent Woodsfolk.** As loners with occasional guests, wintergrims are necessarily self-sustaining. They are omnivorous, and they grow gardens, set traps, and hunt for their food. Though they are inured to cold temperatures, they enjoy having a house in which they can reside and share their hospitality. They are adept with the axes they wield to chop down trees for their homes and fires, but they are careful not to overharvest wood. Other than when they hunt, they rarely use their axes as weapons. They prefer to punch their opponents in the hope they can drive their foes away, resorting to their axes only in desperate situations.","name":"Wintergrim","size":"Small","type":"Fey","subtype":"","group":null,"alignment":"chaotic good","armor_class":13,"armor_desc":"hide armor","hit_points":26,"hit_dice":"4d6+12","speed":{"walk":30},"strength":19,"dexterity":12,"constitution":17,"intelligence":12,"wisdom":16,"charisma":11,"strength_save":null,"dexterity_save":null,"constitution_save":null,"intelligence_save":null,"wisdom_save":null,"charisma_save":null,"perception":null,"skills":{"insight":5,"nature":3,"persuasion":2,"survival":5},"damage_vulnerabilities":"","damage_resistances":"cold","damage_immunities":"","condition_immunities":"charmed","senses":"darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13","languages":"Common, Sylvan","challenge_rating":"1/2","cr":0.5,"actions":[{"name":"Fist","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d4 + 4) bludgeoning damage.","attack_bonus":6,"damage_dice":"1d4+4"},{"name":"Handaxe","desc":"Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d6 + 4) slashing damage, or 8 (1d8 + 4) slashing damage if used with two hands to make a melee attack.","attack_bonus":6,"damage_dice":"1d6+4"}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Unique Rules","desc":"If a creature breaks one of the wintergrim's rules of conduct, it becomes enraged. The wintergrim has advantage on Charisma (Intimidation) checks and attack rolls against the offending creature. An offending creature that succeeds on a DC 14 Charisma (Persuasion) check can calm the enraged wintergrim. If the offending creature has damaged the wintergrim in the last hour, it has disadvantage on this check. A creature that succeeds on a DC 12 Intelligence (Investigation) or Wisdom (Insight) check can determine the wintergrim's rules before enraging it."},{"name":"Innate Spellcasting","desc":"The wintergrim's innate spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 13). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components.\n3/day each: goodberry, speak with animals\n1/day each: lesser restoration, protection from poison"}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":372,"environments":[],"img_main":null,"document__slug":"tob2","document__title":"Tome of Beasts 2","document__license_url":"http://open5e.com/legal","document__url":"https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/","v2_converted_path":"/v2/creatures/tob2_wintergrim/"},{"slug":"spire-walker","desc":"_This miniscule creature kicks up a ghostly, sparkling fire when it jostles and jigs. Lightning sparks fly between it and its perch._  \n**Storm Dancers.** When storm clouds gather over cities, harbors, and twisted badlands, electrical energy fills the air. During these times, miniscule fey dance on church steeples, desolate peaks, and ships’ masts.  \nAlso called corposanti by scholars, spire walkers are nature spirits that delight in grandiose displays of thunderbolts. They can be found frolicking in a thunderstorm or keeping company with blue dragons or storm giants—though these larger creatures often chase them off for being a nuisance.  \n**Small and Metallic.** These spire walkers stand no more than a foot tall, with dusky blue-gray skin and shocks of silvery, slate, or pale blue hair. Spire walkers prefer clothing in metallic hues with many buttons, and they always carry a handful of tiny copper darts that they hurl at each other during their incomprehensible games. When excited, they emit a sparking glow from the tips of their noses, eyebrows, ears, and pointy shoes.  \nThey play rough-and-tumble games among themselves and enjoy pranking bystanders with frightening but mostly harmless electric shocks. If a spire walker perishes during the fun, the others pause just long enough to say “awww, we’ll miss you” and go through their comrade’s pockets before continuing with the game.  \n**Love Copper and Amber.** Spire walkers like gold but they love copper. They prefer it over all other metals, and they keep the copper pieces in their pockets brilliantly polished. They also value amber gems. Among a group of spire walkers, the leader is not the cleverest or most ruthless, but the one displaying the most ostentatious amber jewel.","name":"Spire Walker","size":"Tiny","type":"Fey","subtype":"","group":null,"alignment":"chaotic neutral","armor_class":16,"armor_desc":"natural armor","hit_points":38,"hit_dice":"11d4+22","speed":{"walk":20},"strength":3,"dexterity":18,"constitution":14,"intelligence":11,"wisdom":10,"charisma":14,"strength_save":null,"dexterity_save":7,"constitution_save":null,"intelligence_save":null,"wisdom_save":null,"charisma_save":null,"perception":null,"skills":{},"damage_vulnerabilities":"","damage_resistances":"piercing from nonmagical attacks","damage_immunities":"lightning, thunder","condition_immunities":"","senses":"passive Perception 10","languages":"Common, Sylvan","challenge_rating":"3","cr":3.0,"actions":[{"name":"Lightning Dart","desc":"Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 1 piercing damage plus 9 (2d8) lightning damage. If the attack misses, the target still takes 4 (1d8) lightning damage. Whether the attack hits or misses its intended target, every other creature within 10 feet of the target takes 9 (2d8) lightning damage, or half damage with a successful DC 14 Dexterity saving throw.","attack_bonus":6,"damage_dice":"2d8"}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Energized Body","desc":"A creature that hits the spire walker with a melee attack using a metal weapon takes 5 (1d10) lightning damage."},{"name":"Innate Spellcasting","desc":"the spire walker's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 12, +4 to hit with spell attacks). The spire walker can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nat will: produce spark (as the cantrip produce flame, but it does lightning damage)\n\n3/day each: dancing lights, feather fall, invisibility\n\n1/day each: faerie fire, thunderwave"},{"name":"Steeple Step","desc":"The spire walker can use 10 feet of its movement to step magically from its position to the point of a steeple, mast, or other spire-like feature that is in view within 30 feet. The spire walker has advantage on Dexterity (Acrobatics) checks and Dexterity saving throws while it is standing on a steeple or any similar narrow, steep structure or feature."}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":367,"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_spire-walker/"},{"slug":"warmth-thief","desc":"A diminutive blue humanoid with sharp black claws and exaggeratedly pointed ears floats in the air, emanating a palpable sensation of cold._  \n**Cursed Fairy.** Warmth thieves were fey in the court of the Queen who had the peculiar ability to rob living creatures of their body heat. They attempted to use this power to overthrow the Queen… and failed. The Queen, amused, allowed them to live, but with a nasty curse: warmth thieves must steal body heat to live, perishing if they don’t regularly take heat from living creatures. Warmth thieves can’t tolerate temperatures much above freezing, preventing them from subverting the curse by moving to warmer climates. Their desire for warmth is so powerful they sometimes throw themselves at creatures that can magically create fire to enjoy a brief, though painful, respite from their suffering.  \n**Unintended Side Effects.** Unknown to the Queen, her curse transfers in an odd way to mortal beings who die at the warmth thieves’ bone-chilling touch. 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Hit: 7 (1d6 + 4) slashing damage plus 14 (4d6) cold damage. The warmth thief regains hp equal to half the cold damage dealt. The target must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or be chilled for 1 minute. A chilled creature takes 7 (2d6) cold damage at the start of each of its turns. A chilled creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. A humanoid slain while chilled rises 24 hours later as a chill haunt, unless the humanoid is restored to life or its body is destroyed.","attack_bonus":8,"damage_dice":"1d6+4"}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Aura of Warmth Stealing","desc":"At the start of each of the warmth thief's turns, each creature within 5 feet of the warmth thief must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or take 7 (2d6) cold damage. The warmth thief regains hp equal to the single highest amount of cold damage dealt."},{"name":"Cold Physiology","desc":"A warmth thief can't abide constant warmth. Each hour it spends in an area with a temperature above 40 degrees Fahrenheit, the warmth thief must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or suffer one level of exhaustion that can't be removed until it finishes a long rest in an area with a temperature below 40 degrees."}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":366,"environments":[],"img_main":null,"document__slug":"tob2","document__title":"Tome of Beasts 2","document__license_url":"http://open5e.com/legal","document__url":"https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/","v2_converted_path":"/v2/creatures/tob2_warmth-thief/"},{"slug":"wanyudo","desc":"Hurtling down the street is a giant wheel, its spokes tipped with reddish flames that sputter and spark as it bounces along. Affixed to either side of the wheel by long strands of greasy black hair are the faces of devilish-looking humanoids, their eyes ablaze like embers. The two faces chortle and cry as the wheel approaches, fire leaping from their mouths._  \n**Born of Heresy.** Wanyudos are the souls of powerful lords condemned to an afterlife of burning torment after they refuted the teachings of the gods and were killed in battle or committed suicide. Prideful and violent monsters, wanyudos are lesser fiends in the grander schemes of Hell, a fact they vehemently resent.  \n**Divine Hunters.** While wanyudos hate all living creatures, the reserve their greatest hatred for creatures marked by a divine entity—such as clerics and paladins, or creatures wearing holy symbols—whom they blame for their cursed existence. When wandering by a monastery or temple, a wanyudo expends every effort to burn the structure to the ground and murder everyone within. Given this, temples and holy sites in areas known to be plagued by wanyudos often fireproof their buildings—and have a reliable source of water nearby, in case the worst should happen.  \n**To Hell and Back.** Wanyudos never stop moving, endlessly rolling along the roads and pathways between the Hells and the mortal world. Because of this, wanyudos know many secret ways into the planes.","name":"Wanyudo","size":"Large","type":"Fiend","subtype":"","group":null,"alignment":"lawful evil","armor_class":16,"armor_desc":"natural armor","hit_points":115,"hit_dice":"11d10+55","speed":{"walk":50},"strength":20,"dexterity":15,"constitution":20,"intelligence":8,"wisdom":13,"charisma":14,"strength_save":null,"dexterity_save":5,"constitution_save":null,"intelligence_save":null,"wisdom_save":4,"charisma_save":null,"perception":7,"skills":{"intimidation":5,"perception":7,"religion":5},"damage_vulnerabilities":"","damage_resistances":"cold, lightning, poison; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks","damage_immunities":"fire","condition_immunities":"","senses":"darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 17","languages":"Common, Infernal","challenge_rating":"8","cr":8.0,"actions":[{"name":"Multiattack","desc":"The wanyudo makes two bite attacks."},{"name":"Bite","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (1d10 + 5) piercing damage plus 7 (2d6) fire damage.","attack_bonus":8,"damage_dice":"1d10+5"},{"name":"Flaming Breath (Recharge 5-6)","desc":"The wanyudo exhales fire in a 20-foot cone from one of its heads. Each creature in the area must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 24 (7d6) fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one."}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Burn the Righteous","desc":"The wanyudo has advantage on attack rolls against a creature if the creature is wearing a holy symbol or calls on the power of a divine entity to cast spells."},{"name":"Fiery Charge","desc":"If the wanyudo moves at least 20 feet straight toward a target and then hits it with a bite attack on the same turn, the target takes an extra 7 (2d6) fire damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 15 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone."},{"name":"Magic Resistance","desc":"The wanyudo has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects."},{"name":"Two Heads","desc":"The wanyudo has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks and on saving throws against being blinded, charmed, deafened, frightened, stunned, and knocked unconscious."}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":364,"environments":[],"img_main":null,"document__slug":"tob2","document__title":"Tome of Beasts 2","document__license_url":"http://open5e.com/legal","document__url":"https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/","v2_converted_path":"/v2/creatures/tob2_wanyudo/"},{"slug":"valkruung","desc":"Standing only a few feet tall, this odd simian creature has charcoal-colored skin and glowing eyes. Thin, blue-gray tendrils cover almost every inch of its body, and it smells faintly of burnt honey._  \n**Incorrigible Kleptomaniacs.** Few creatures cause as much annoyance to shopkeepers, merchants, and farmers as the valkruung, a tiny monkey-like creature covered in grasping tendrils that lurks atop roofs and clambers through trees, looking for food and objects to steal. Attracted to anything that glitters, jangles, or just plain smells nice, the valkruung steals anything regardless of its actual worth. Valkruungs snatch purses from unsuspecting passersby and fruit and bread from vendors to take back to their lairs. They steal objects they don’t need and refuse to return them, running off while snickering wildly.  \n**Shrines of Riches.** Anything a valkruung steals and doesn’t eat is placed in a central location in its nest, often around an existing statue, altar, or other large object. Eventually, this object becomes covered in a variety of clutter, some of which may be valuable. A valkruung treats all of its objects equally and attacks anyone who tries to take something from the pile.  \n**Den of Thieves.** Valkruungs are social creatures and live in groups of ten to twenty. The job of child-rearing is shared by all members of the group equally, and young valkruungs spend the first parts of their lives carried around on various adults’ backs, where the adults’ tendrils keep them safe. Valkruungs are more intelligent than they appear and have a rudimentary grasp of language, typically insults that have been hurled their way.","name":"Valkruung","size":"Tiny","type":"Monstrosity","subtype":"","group":null,"alignment":"chaotic neutral","armor_class":13,"armor_desc":null,"hit_points":22,"hit_dice":"4d6+8","speed":{"climb":20,"walk":25},"strength":8,"dexterity":16,"constitution":14,"intelligence":5,"wisdom":12,"charisma":9,"strength_save":null,"dexterity_save":null,"constitution_save":null,"intelligence_save":null,"wisdom_save":null,"charisma_save":null,"perception":null,"skills":{"acrobatics":5,"stealth":5},"damage_vulnerabilities":"","damage_resistances":"","damage_immunities":"","condition_immunities":"","senses":"darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11","languages":"Common, Goblin","challenge_rating":"1/2","cr":0.5,"actions":[{"name":"Claws","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) slashing damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 minute. While poisoned in this way, the target suffers an itchy rash, and, at the start of each of its turns, it must succeed on a DC 13 Wisdom saving or spend its action furiously scratching the rash. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.","attack_bonus":5,"damage_dice":"1d6+3"}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":[{"name":"Disarming Tendrils","desc":"When a creature the valkruung can see targets it with a melee weapon attack, the attacker must succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw or its weapon is knocked out of its grasp into a random unoccupied space within 5 feet of the attacker. The valkruung can't use this reaction against attackers wielding a heavy or two-handed weapon."}],"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Prehensile Tendrils","desc":"The valkruung has 10 shiny blue-gray tendrils that constantly grab at things in the environment. Each tendril can pick up or hold a Tiny object, such as a coin or piece of jewelry, that isn't being worn or carried. If it uses all 10 of its tendrils, the valkruung can carry a single Small object, such as a backpack. The valkruung can use its tendrils to interact with objects, but it can't use them to wield a weapon. It has advantage on Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) checks when using its tendrils and can use its tendrils to disarm opponents (see the Disarming Tendrils reaction)."}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":355,"environments":[],"img_main":null,"document__slug":"tob2","document__title":"Tome of Beasts 2","document__license_url":"http://open5e.com/legal","document__url":"https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/","v2_converted_path":"/v2/creatures/tob2_valkruung/"},{"slug":"swarmoffiredancers-tob1-2023","desc":"False","name":"Swarm of Fire Dancers","size":"Medium","type":"Swarm","subtype":"","group":"null","alignment":"Neutral Evil","armor_class":15,"armor_desc":"","hit_points":90,"hit_dice":"12d8 + 36","speed":{"walk":30,"fly":30},"strength":10,"dexterity":20,"constitution":16,"intelligence":6,"wisdom":10,"charisma":7,"strength_save":null,"dexterity_save":null,"constitution_save":null,"intelligence_save":null,"wisdom_save":null,"charisma_save":null,"perception":10,"skills":{},"damage_vulnerabilities":"False","damage_resistances":"bludgeoning, piercing, slashing","damage_immunities":"fire, poison","condition_immunities":"charmed, exhaustion, frightened, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained, stunned, unconscious","senses":"darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10","languages":"Ignan","challenge_rating":"7","cr":7.0,"actions":[{"name":"Multiattack","desc":"The swarm of fire dancers can use its Frightening Visage, if available. It then makes two Singe attacks."},{"name":"Singe","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 0 ft., one target in the swarm's space. Hit: 22 (4d10) fire damage, or 11 (2d10) fire damage if the swarm has half its hp or fewer."},{"name":"Frightening Visage (Recharge 5-6)","desc":"The swarm rearranges itself into the shape of a giant, blue, flaming Humanoid skull. Each Humanoid within 30 feet of the swarm that can see it must succeed on a DC 16 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened for 1 minute. A frightened creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success."}],"bonus_actions":[],"reactions":[],"legendary_desc":null,"legendary_actions":[],"special_abilities":[{"name":"Elemental Nature","desc":"The swarm of fire dancers doesn't require air, food, drink, or sleep."},{"name":"Fire Form","desc":"A creature that touches the swarm or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of it takes 5 (1d10) fire damage. In addition, the first time the swarm enters a creature's space on a turn, that creature takes 5 (1d10) fire damage and catches fire. Until a creature, which can include the target, uses an action to douse the fire, the creature takes 5 (1d10) fire damage at the start of each of its turns."},{"name":"Illumination","desc":"The swarm sheds bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light to an additional 30 feet."},{"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 Tiny Elemental. The swarm can't regain hp or gain temporary hp."},{"name":"Water Susceptibility","desc":"For every 5 feet the swarm moves in water, or for every gallon of water splashed on it, it takes 1 cold damage."}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":354,"environments":[],"img_main":"http://api.open5e.com/","document__slug":"tob-2023","document__title":"Tome of Beasts 2023","document__license_url":"http://open5e.com/legal","document__url":"https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-1-2023-edition/","v2_converted_path":"/v2/creatures/tob-2023_swarm-of-fire-dancers/"},{"slug":"trollkin-raider","desc":"Screams echo in the night as spears meet wood and flesh. One trollkin pulls its spear from its latest victim while its companion raids the victim’s larder._  \nTrollkin raiders are greedy and efficient, moving together under the command of a trollkin leader to take apart a village, a caravan, or a small fortress. Their goal is generally food and portable wealth. Their training as a unit is not extensive but raiders know, trust, and fight for one another.  \n**Night Attacks.** Trollkin raiders attack in a fast-moving, nocturnal group, often using a group of panicked animals or a fire as a distraction in one place while they attack elsewhere. Their assaults are never daylight attacks over open ground; they much prefer surprise and the confusion of night attacks.  \n**Mounted or River Routes.** While trollkin raiders can lope for miles across taiga or through forests, they far prefer to ride horses or row up a river. It gives them both speed and the ability to carry more plunder.  \nNote that in The Raven's Call, the Raider had 78 (12d8 + 24) HP and spoke only Northern Tongue.","name":"Trollkin Raider","size":"Medium","type":"Humanoid","subtype":"trollkin","group":null,"alignment":"neutral","armor_class":14,"armor_desc":"hide armor","hit_points":32,"hit_dice":"5d8+10","speed":{"walk":30},"strength":12,"dexterity":12,"constitution":14,"intelligence":9,"wisdom":12,"charisma":10,"strength_save":null,"dexterity_save":null,"constitution_save":null,"intelligence_save":null,"wisdom_save":null,"charisma_save":null,"perception":3,"skills":{"insight":3,"nature":1,"perception":3,"survival":3},"damage_vulnerabilities":"","damage_resistances":"","damage_immunities":"","condition_immunities":"","senses":"darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13","languages":"Common, Trollkin","challenge_rating":"1","cr":1.0,"actions":[{"name":"Multiattack","desc":"The trollkin makes two spear attacks or one bite attack and two claw attacks."},{"name":"Bite","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d4 + 1) piercing damage.","attack_bonus":3,"damage_dice":"1d4+1"},{"name":"Claw","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d4 + 1) slashing damage.","attack_bonus":3,"damage_dice":"1d4+1"},{"name":"Spear","desc":"Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d6 + 1) piercing damage, or 5 (1d8 + 1) piercing damage if used with two hands to make a melee attack.","attack_bonus":3,"damage_dice":"1d6+1"}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Regeneration","desc":"The trollkin regains 1 hp at the start of its turn. If the trollkin takes acid or fire damage, this trait doesn't function at the start of the trollkin's next turn. The trollkin dies only if it starts its turn with 0 hp and doesn't regenerate."},{"name":"Thick Hide","desc":"The trollkin's skin is thick and tough, granting it a +1 bonus to Armor Class. This bonus is included in the trollkin's AC."}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":353,"environments":[],"img_main":null,"document__slug":"tob2","document__title":"Tome of Beasts 2","document__license_url":"http://open5e.com/legal","document__url":"https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/","v2_converted_path":"/v2/creatures/tob2_trollkin-raider/"},{"slug":"vine-troll-skeleton","desc":"_These troll skeletons are completely covered in mold and wrapped in flowering vines, and lurk in the shadows of dead tree and profaned groves._  \n**Black Earth Magic.** Vine troll skeletons guard duskthorn dryad glades and the sacred circles of druids; others serve the vila or even moss lurker colonies as guardians. In each case, they were created by dark earth magic for a purpose, and that energy empowers great strength and endurance—but little in the way of wits.  \n**Constant Regrowth.** Their vines regenerate quickly, even after they die. Their powerful regeneration allows vine troll skeletons to reattach severed limbs. Only fire or acid can destroy them and render the living vines harmless.  \n**Bound to a Tree’s Heart.** Vine troll skeletons are direct offshoots of the main vine wrapped around a duskthorn dryad’s tree, a treant, or a weeping treant. Vine troll skeletons are mindless aside from a desire to defend their parent tree, and enchanted troll hearts inside the tree provide their power. Destroying the heart at the center of the tree kills the skeleton bound to that heart instantly.","name":"Vine Troll Skeleton","size":"Large","type":"Plant","subtype":"","group":null,"alignment":"unaligned","armor_class":16,"armor_desc":"natural armor","hit_points":119,"hit_dice":"14d10+42","speed":{"walk":30},"strength":20,"dexterity":12,"constitution":16,"intelligence":6,"wisdom":8,"charisma":5,"strength_save":null,"dexterity_save":null,"constitution_save":12,"intelligence_save":null,"wisdom_save":null,"charisma_save":null,"perception":null,"skills":{},"damage_vulnerabilities":"","damage_resistances":"bludgeoning,","damage_immunities":"poison","condition_immunities":"deafened, exhaustion, poisoned","senses":"darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12","languages":"-","challenge_rating":"9","cr":9.0,"actions":[{"name":"Multiattack","desc":"The skeleton makes one bite attack and two claw attacks."},{"name":"Bite","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 21 (3d10 + 5) piercing damage.","attack_bonus":8,"damage_dice":"3d10"},{"name":"Claw","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 18 (3d8 + 5) slashing damage.","attack_bonus":8,"damage_dice":"3d8"}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Regeneration","desc":"The vine troll skeleton regains 5 hit points at the start of its turn if it is within 10 feet of the duskthorn dryad's vines and it hasn't taken acid or fire damage since its previous turn. The skeleton dies only if it starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesn't regenerate, or if the duskthorn dryad who created it dies, or if the troll's heart inside the dryad's or treant's tree is destroyed."}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":351,"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_vine-troll-skeleton/"},{"slug":"transcendent-lunarchida","desc":"A four-armed, four-legged creature in the vague shape of a human—but seemingly made of fine spider silk—moves down a tree, slowly chanting the incantation of a spell in the pale light of the full moon._  \n**Made in Corrupt Forests.** Lunarchidnas are beings of moonlight and spider silk created in forests permeated by residual dark magic. When this magic coalesces on a spider web touched by the light of a full moon, the web animates. The web gains life and flies through the forest, gathering other webs until it collects enough silk to form a faceless, humanoid body, with four legs and four arms.  \n**Hatred of Elves.** Lunarchidnas hate elves and love to make the creatures suffer. They poison water sources, set fire to villages, and bait monsters into stampeding through elf communities. These aberrations especially enjoy stealing away elf children to use as bait to trap the adults that come to the rescue.  \n**Cyclical Power.** The lunarchidna’s power is tied to the moon. When the skies are dark during a new moon, the lunarchidna becomes more shadow than living web. Its mental ability dulls, and it becomes barely more than a savage animal. When a full moon brightens the night, however, the lunarchidna becomes a conduit of lunar light and can channel that power through its body. Using its heightened intellect, it makes plans, writes notes, and plots from the safety of the trees where it makes its home. In the intermittent phases of the moon, the lunarchidna is a more than capable hunter, trapping and devouring prey it encounters while retaining enough knowledge of its plans and magic to further its goals in minor ways. The lunarchidna’s statistics change cyclically as shown on the Lunarchidna Moon Phase table.  \n\n#### Lunarchidna Moon Phase\n\nMoon Phase\n\nStatistics\n\nDaytime, new, or crescent moon\n\nOpen Game License","name":"Transcendent Lunarchida","size":"Medium","type":"Aberration","subtype":"","group":null,"alignment":"neutral evil","armor_class":16,"armor_desc":"natural armor","hit_points":91,"hit_dice":"14d8+28","speed":{"climb":30,"walk":30},"strength":10,"dexterity":17,"constitution":14,"intelligence":18,"wisdom":12,"charisma":17,"strength_save":null,"dexterity_save":null,"constitution_save":5,"intelligence_save":null,"wisdom_save":4,"charisma_save":null,"perception":4,"skills":{"perception":4,"stealth":9},"damage_vulnerabilities":"","damage_resistances":"","damage_immunities":"poison","condition_immunities":"poisoned, restrained","senses":"blindsight 10 ft., darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 14","languages":"Deep Speech, Elvish","challenge_rating":"6","cr":6.0,"actions":[{"name":"Multiattack","desc":"The lunarchidna makes three attacks: one with its bite and two with its claws."},{"name":"Bite","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) necrotic damage. The target must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or its hp 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 hp maximum to 0.","attack_bonus":6,"damage_dice":"2d6+3"},{"name":"Claw","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (2d4 + 3) slashing damage.","attack_bonus":6,"damage_dice":"2d4+3"},{"name":"Web (Recharge 5-6)","desc":"Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, range 30/60 ft., one creature. Hit: The target is restrained by webbing. As an action the restrained target can make a DC 13 Strength check, bursting the webbing on a success. The webbing can also be attacked and destroyed (AC 10; hp 5; vulnerability to fire damage; immunity to bludgeoning, poison, and psychic damage)."},{"name":"Lunar Beam (Recharge 5-6)","desc":"The lunarchidna flashes a beam of moonlight in a 30-foot line that is 5 feet wide. Each creature in that line must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 28 (8d6) radiant damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one."}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Light Invisibility","desc":"The lunarchidna is invisible while in bright or dim light."},{"name":"Spider Climb","desc":"The lunarchidna can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check."},{"name":"Sunlight Sensitivity","desc":"While in sunlight, the lunarchidna has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight."},{"name":"Web Walker","desc":"The lunarchidna ignores movement restrictions caused by webbing."},{"name":"Spellcasting","desc":"The lunarchidna is a 8th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 15, +7 to hit with spell attacks). The lunarchidna has the following wizard spells prepared:\nCantrips (at will): minor illusion, mage hand, poison spray, ray of frost\n1st level (4 slots): color spray, detect magic, magic missile, shield\n2nd level (3 slots): alter self, suggestion, web\n3rd level (3 slots): counterspell, fireball, major image\n4th level (2 slots): black tentacles, confusion"}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":346,"environments":[],"img_main":null,"document__slug":"tob2","document__title":"Tome of Beasts 2","document__license_url":"http://open5e.com/legal","document__url":"https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/","v2_converted_path":"/v2/creatures/tob2_transcendent-lunarchida/"},{"slug":"shadow-beast","desc":"_A mass of shadows and cloudstuff, never touching the ground, a shadow beast may at first look harmless—except for its clawed hands and the glint of its jagged teeth._  \n**Called from the Void.** Shadow beasts are thought to be the result of shadow fey dabbling in the magic of the void. Almost shapeless and largely incorporeal, through an act of will they can form rough semblances of their old bodies when needed.  \n**Hate the Past.** The motivations of these creatures are inscrutable. They despise light and anything that reminds them of light or of their former existence. Beyond that, little is understood about them.  \n**Cryptic Messages.** Shadow beasts are seldom found in groups, but when they are, they seem to have no difficulty or reluctance about operating and fighting together. They have been known to deliver cryptic and threatening messages, but speaking is difficult for them. At times, they perform arcane rituals with the aid of evil humanoids and the use of dark materials. In these rituals they sacrifice magical energies and life blood as well as the tears of innocents and the souls of the damned.","name":"Shadow Beast","size":"Medium","type":"Fey","subtype":"","group":null,"alignment":"chaotic evil","armor_class":14,"armor_desc":"","hit_points":135,"hit_dice":"18d8+54","speed":{"hover":true,"walk":0,"fly":40},"strength":20,"dexterity":18,"constitution":17,"intelligence":14,"wisdom":14,"charisma":19,"strength_save":null,"dexterity_save":7,"constitution_save":6,"intelligence_save":null,"wisdom_save":null,"charisma_save":null,"perception":null,"skills":{"stealth":7},"damage_vulnerabilities":"","damage_resistances":"","damage_immunities":"","condition_immunities":"","senses":"darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12","languages":"Common, Elvish, Umbral, Void Speech","challenge_rating":"7","cr":7.0,"actions":[{"name":"Multiattack","desc":"The shadow beast makes one bite attack and two claw attacks."},{"name":"Bite","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5) piercing damage.","attack_bonus":8,"damage_dice":"2d8"},{"name":"Claw","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 16 (2d10 + 5) slashing damage.","attack_bonus":8,"damage_dice":"2d10"},{"name":"Shadow Push (Recharge 5-6)","desc":"The shadow beast buffets opponents with a gale of animated shadows in a 15-foot cone. Any creatures in the area of effect must succeed on a DC 15 Strength saving throw or be pushed back 10 feet and knocked prone."}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Amorphous","desc":"The shadow beast can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing."},{"name":"Incorporeal Movement","desc":"The shadow beast 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 shadow beast's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 15). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\n3/day each: fear, telekinesis"},{"name":"Magic Resistance","desc":"The beast has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects."},{"name":"Sunlight Sensitivity","desc":"While in sunlight, the shadow beast has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight."}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":345,"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_shadow-beast/"},{"slug":"shadhavar","desc":"_Often a shadhavar is first noticed for the haunting melody it makes, and some mistake them for unicorns or fey steeds. On closer inspection, they look like desiccated unicorns, their skeletons clearly visible beneath their taut flesh._  \n**Shadow Horses.** Shadhavar are natives of the plane of Shadow. Although they resemble undead unicorns, they are living creatures imbued with shadow essences.  \n**Fey and Undead Riders.** While the shadhavar are intelligent creatures, they sometimes serve as mounts for the shadow fey, noctiny, hobgoblins, wights, or other creatures. They expect to be treated well during such an arrangement; more than one unkind rider has ridden off on a shadhavar and never returned.  \n**Deceptive Hunters.** Shadhavar use their hollow horn to play captivating sounds for defense or to draw in prey. They hunt when they must and are not discriminating about their quarry, but shadhavar primarily eat carrion. Despite their horrific appearance, they are not naturally evil.","name":"Shadhavar","size":"Large","type":"Monstrosity","subtype":"","group":null,"alignment":"neutral","armor_class":14,"armor_desc":"natural","hit_points":97,"hit_dice":"13d10+26","speed":{"walk":50},"strength":14,"dexterity":15,"constitution":14,"intelligence":8,"wisdom":10,"charisma":16,"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":"","damage_immunities":"","condition_immunities":"","senses":"darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12","languages":"understands Elvish and Umbral but can't speak","challenge_rating":"2","cr":2.0,"actions":[{"name":"Multiattack","desc":"A shadhavar makes one gore attack and one hooves attack."},{"name":"Gore","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d8 + 2) piercing damage.","attack_bonus":4,"damage_dice":"1d8"},{"name":"Hooves","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (3d6 + 2) bludgeoning damage.","attack_bonus":4,"damage_dice":"3d6"}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Innate Spellcasting","desc":"a shadhavar's innate spellcasting ability score is Charisma (spell save DC 13). It can cast the following spells, requiring no components:\n\nat will: disguise self (as horse or unicorn only)\n\n2/day: darkness (centered on itself, moves with the shadhavar)"},{"name":"Magic Weapons","desc":"A shadhavar's gore attacks are magical."},{"name":"Plaintive Melody (3/day)","desc":"As a bonus action, a shadhavar can play a captivating melody through its hollow horn. Creatures within 60 feet that can hear the shadhavar must make a successful DC 13 Wisdom saving throw or be charmed until the start of the shadhavar's next turn. A creature charmed in this way is incapacitated, its speed is reduced to 0, and a shadhavar has advantage on attack rolls against it."},{"name":"Shadesight","desc":"A shadhavar's darkvision functions in magical darkness."}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":344,"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_shadhavar/"},{"slug":"swampgas-bubble","desc":"A semi-permeable bubble surrounds a blue-tinged gas. The bubble jauntily bobs in the air._  \n**Consumers of Exhaled Gases.** Swampgas bubbles feed on concentrated exhalations from living creatures. They surround their victims’ heads and extract these gases, usually in copious quantities as their victims panic and breathe harder. This leads many to believe the bubbles are sadistic. However, encounters with swampgas bubbles are rarely fatal, since the bubbles typically sate themselves by the time their prey falls unconscious, losing interest as the creature’s breathing slows.  \n**Attracted to Fire.** A swampgas bubble is instinctively drawn to fire, even though they are highly flammable. Its susceptibility to fire makes it relatively easy to dispatch, but its explosive ending makes the use of fire risky for its foes. In fact, this form of death, accompanied by a beautiful burst of blue light, is just part of the bubble’s overall lifecycle. Its outer layer hardens and shatters, and the remaining bits fall into the swamp where they grow and encase swamp gasses, developing into new swampgas bubbles.  \n**Ooze Nature.** A swampgas bubble doesn’t require sleep.","name":"Swampgas Bubble","size":"Medium","type":"Ooze","subtype":"","group":null,"alignment":"unaligned","armor_class":8,"armor_desc":null,"hit_points":59,"hit_dice":"7d8+28","speed":{"fly":30,"hover":true,"walk":20},"strength":16,"dexterity":7,"constitution":18,"intelligence":1,"wisdom":10,"charisma":3,"strength_save":null,"dexterity_save":null,"constitution_save":null,"intelligence_save":null,"wisdom_save":null,"charisma_save":null,"perception":null,"skills":{},"damage_vulnerabilities":"fire","damage_resistances":"","damage_immunities":"bludgeoning, poison","condition_immunities":"blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, poisoned, prone","senses":"blindsight 60 ft. 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It does so if its target falls unconscious or dies. A creature, including the target, can take its action to detach the bubble by succeeding on a DC 13 Strength check.","attack_bonus":5,"damage_dice":"1d6+3"}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Bludgeoning Bounce","desc":"Whenever the swampgas bubble is subjected to bludgeoning damage, it takes no damage and instead is pushed up to 10 feet away from the source of the bludgeoning damage. If the bubble is subjected to bludgeoning damage while attached to a creature, the bubble must succeed on a DC 13 Strength saving throw or detach from the creature and be pushed up to 5 feet away."},{"name":"Fiery Death","desc":"If the swampgas bubble has half its hp or fewer and takes any fire damage, it dies explosively. Each creature within 20 feet of the bubble must make a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw, taking 7 (2d6) fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one."}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":343,"environments":[],"img_main":null,"document__slug":"tob2","document__title":"Tome of Beasts 2","document__license_url":"http://open5e.com/legal","document__url":"https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/","v2_converted_path":"/v2/creatures/tob2_swampgas-bubble/"},{"slug":"spellhound","desc":"A shimmering coat and a ridged snout distinguish the hound from other monstrous canines._  \n**Vindictive Origins.** The first spellhounds began as nothing more than ordinary scent hounds. When the master of the hounds was tormented by a hag, he struck a deal with a powerful fey lord, requesting that his stock be blessed with the ability to hunt the witch. The hounds were returned to him, empowered and mutated, but capable of making short work of the hag nonetheless. After the houndmaster was ostracized for keeping monstrous pets, he grew resentful and concluded that the fey lord had wronged him. He arrogantly set out with his spellhounds after the fey lord that had created them, but he never returned. Ever since, spellhounds have been kept as prized pets by warring fey or set loose in fey-inhabited forests to prey on lonely spellcasters.  \n**Magical Predators.** Spellhounds have olfactory capabilities that allow them to sense the “odor” of spellcasters. This, combined with their spell-repelling coats and their magic-disrupting howls, makes them a menace for anyone with even a minor arcane faculty.","name":"Spellhound","size":"Large","type":"Monstrosity","subtype":"","group":null,"alignment":"lawful neutral","armor_class":14,"armor_desc":"natural armor","hit_points":102,"hit_dice":"12d10+36","speed":{"walk":40},"strength":18,"dexterity":15,"constitution":16,"intelligence":3,"wisdom":13,"charisma":8,"strength_save":null,"dexterity_save":null,"constitution_save":null,"intelligence_save":null,"wisdom_save":null,"charisma_save":null,"perception":3,"skills":{"perception":3,"stealth":4},"damage_vulnerabilities":"","damage_resistances":"","damage_immunities":"","condition_immunities":"charmed","senses":"darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13","languages":"—","challenge_rating":"4","cr":4.0,"actions":[{"name":"Multiattack","desc":"The spellhound makes two bite attacks."},{"name":"Bite","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 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":"2d6+4"},{"name":"Nullifying Howl (1/Day)","desc":"The spellhound lets out a high-pitched, multiphonic howl to disrupt magical effects within 60 feet of it. Any spell of 3rd level or lower within the area ends. For each spell of 4th-level or higher in the area, the spellhound makes an ability check, adding its Constitution modifier to the roll. The DC equals 10 + the spell's level. On a success, the spell ends.\n\nIn addition, each spellcaster within 30 feet of the spellhound that can hear the howl must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the end of its next turn."}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Arcane Sense","desc":"The spellhound can pinpoint, by scent, the location of spellcasters within 60 feet of it."},{"name":"Channel Breaker","desc":"The spellhound has advantage on attack rolls against a creature, if the creature is concentrating on a spell."},{"name":"Keen Hearing and Smell","desc":"The spellhound has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing or smell."},{"name":"Magic Resistance","desc":"The spellhound has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects."}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":336,"environments":[],"img_main":null,"document__slug":"tob2","document__title":"Tome of Beasts 2","document__license_url":"http://open5e.com/legal","document__url":"https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/","v2_converted_path":"/v2/creatures/tob2_spellhound/"},{"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/"},{"slug":"snow-terror","desc":"A sizeable snowperson with sticks for arms, a carrot nose, and a smile etched across its face slowly turns its head. Closer inspection reveals the smile is disturbingly jagged._  \n**Demonic Snow People.** Snow terrors hail from an icy layer of the Abyss. There, they torment lesser fiends or watch as wind-whipped snow destroys visitors wholly unprepared for it. Such visitors are few and far between, leading snow terrors to travel to the Material Plane for greater chances at entertainment.  \n**Innocuous Disguise.** Snow terrors temper their desire for bloodshed and mayhem with patience. They find heavily trafficked areas and lurk nearby, observing potential prey. When choosing victims, they remain motionless in their guise as ordinary snowpersons, even allowing children to pluck the accoutrements off them.  \n**Sadistic Hunter.** A snow terror picks off lone people first, reveling in communities consequently thrown into chaos. Just before it attacks, it reveals its true form: a leering, shark-toothed snowperson with unholy light glowing in its eye sockets. It chases, catches, and devours its victims, relishing the screams as the acid churning in its guts slowly dissolves its prey. It can take on the appearance of its victims, drawing in concerned family members and neighbors before dissolving the facade to attack.","name":"Snow Terror","size":"Large","type":"Fiend","subtype":"shapechanger","group":null,"alignment":"chaotic evil","armor_class":16,"armor_desc":null,"hit_points":127,"hit_dice":"15d10+45","speed":{"walk":30},"strength":19,"dexterity":22,"constitution":17,"intelligence":12,"wisdom":9,"charisma":16,"strength_save":null,"dexterity_save":null,"constitution_save":6,"intelligence_save":null,"wisdom_save":null,"charisma_save":null,"perception":null,"skills":{"deception":6,"stealth":9},"damage_vulnerabilities":"fire","damage_resistances":"bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks","damage_immunities":"acid, cold, poison","condition_immunities":"frightened, poisoned","senses":"darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 9","languages":"Abyssal, Common","challenge_rating":"8","cr":8.0,"actions":[{"name":"Bite","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 14 (3d6 + 4) piercing damage plus 14 (4d6) acid damage. If the target is a Medium or smaller creature, it must succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or be swallowed by the snow terror. A swallowed creature is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside the snow terror, and it takes 14 (4d6) acid damage at the start of each of the snow terror's turns. The snow terror can have only one creature swallowed at a time.\n\nIf the snow terror takes 15 or more damage on a single turn from the swallowed creature, it must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw at the end of that turn or regurgitate the swallowed creature, which falls prone in a space within 10 feet of the snow terror. If the snow terror dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained by it and can escape from the corpse by using 10 feet of movement, exiting prone.","attack_bonus":7,"damage_dice":"3d6+4"},{"name":"Horrifying Visage","desc":"Each non-undead creature within 60 feet of the snow terror that can see it must succeed on a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened for 1 minute. A creature can repeat 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 this snow terror's Horrifying Visage for the next 24 hours."}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"False Appearance (Snow Person Form Only)","desc":"While the snow terror remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from an ordinary snow person."},{"name":"Shapechanger","desc":"The snow terror can use its action to polymorph into a Large snow person, a snowy likeness of the creature it most recently killed, or back into its true form. Its statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.\n\nWhile in the form of the creature it most recently killed, creatures that knew the mimicked creature have disadvantage on their Wisdom saving throws against its Horrifying Visage."}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":334,"environments":[],"img_main":null,"document__slug":"tob2","document__title":"Tome of Beasts 2","document__license_url":"http://open5e.com/legal","document__url":"https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/","v2_converted_path":"/v2/creatures/tob2_snow-terror/"},{"slug":"shurale","desc":"At first glance this creature resembles a satyr, its lower body covered in brown fur with goat-like hooves, yet the twisted horn sprouting from its forehead and the wide, manic grin on its comical face proves it is something far more dangerous._  \n**Devilish Fey.** While many fey are evil and twisted creatures, few are worse than the dreaded shurale, a deadly satyr-like monster that causes horrible hilarity with its ticklish touch. It inflicts a victim with a deadly bout of laughter that causes its internal organs to rupture and fail. After the victim dies, the shurale cuts it into pieces, leaving the remains for the scavengers.  \n**Feeds on Laughter.** A shurale feeds on the sobbing laughs of its victims as they expire, its own health mysteriously revitalized in the process. Because of this, shurale lairs are typically located within a few miles of a humanoid settlement, where it can easily lure lone inhabitants into the woods. While most of their prey are humanoids living in alpine or heavily forested regions, shurales are not picky and have been known to attack orcs, ogres, trolls, and even hill giants.  \n**Woodcutter’s Curse.** Many believe that a shurale is the spirit of a woodcutter who died a lonely and embittered death after being ridiculed by family. While such an occurrence would be exceedingly rare and most sages scoff at such suggestions, the shurale’s skill with the woodcutter’s axe and its strange behavior cannot be denied.","name":"Shurale","size":"Medium","type":"Fey","subtype":"","group":null,"alignment":"neutral evil","armor_class":14,"armor_desc":null,"hit_points":105,"hit_dice":"14d8+42","speed":{"walk":40},"strength":18,"dexterity":19,"constitution":16,"intelligence":12,"wisdom":15,"charisma":18,"strength_save":null,"dexterity_save":7,"constitution_save":null,"intelligence_save":null,"wisdom_save":5,"charisma_save":7,"perception":5,"skills":{"acrobatics":10,"deception":7,"perception":5,"persuasion":7},"damage_vulnerabilities":"","damage_resistances":"bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks","damage_immunities":"","condition_immunities":"charmed","senses":"darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 15","languages":"Common, Sylvan","challenge_rating":"7","cr":7.0,"actions":[{"name":"Multiattack","desc":"The shurale can use Tickle. It then makes three attacks: one with its gore and two with its battleaxe."},{"name":"Battleaxe","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d8 + 4) slashing damage, or 9 (1d10 + 4) slashing damage if used with two hands.","attack_bonus":7,"damage_dice":"1d8+4"},{"name":"Gore","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) piercing damage.","attack_bonus":7,"damage_dice":"2d8+4"},{"name":"Tickle","desc":"The shurale touches a creature within 5 feet of it. The target must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving or begin to laugh uncontrollably for 1 minute. While laughing, the target falls prone, is incapacitated, and unable to move. The target can repeat 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 shurale's Tickle for the next 24 hours. If the target fails the saving throw three times, it must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be reduced to 0 hp and begin dying. On a success, the laughter ends on the target, as normal."}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Magic Weapons","desc":"The shurale's weapon attacks are magical."},{"name":"Magic Resistance","desc":"The shurale has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects."},{"name":"Mirthful Regeneration","desc":"The shurale regains 5 hp at the start of its turn for each creature within 30 feet of it that is incapacitated with laughter from its Tickle action. If a creature dies while suffering from the laughter, the shurale gains 15 temporary hp."},{"name":"Innate Spellcasting","desc":"The shurale's spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 15). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components.\nAt will: dancing lights, invisibility (self only), minor illusion\n3/day each: detect thoughts, major image, misty step\n1/day: confusion"}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":327,"environments":[],"img_main":null,"document__slug":"tob2","document__title":"Tome of Beasts 2","document__license_url":"http://open5e.com/legal","document__url":"https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/","v2_converted_path":"/v2/creatures/tob2_shurale/"},{"slug":"rift-swine","desc":"_This enormous pig is as large as an ox, and its mouth bristles with mismatched tusks. Its body is a lopsided mass of tumorous flesh that gives way to eyes and vestigial mouths, and long tentacles trail from its sides._  \nFrom time to time, a breach forms in the fabric of the multiverse, and the Material Plane is bathed in the energy of alien dimensions. Living creatures exposed to this incursion can undergo horrible mutations, turning into monstrous mockeries of their former shapes. One example of this phenomenon is the rift swine: once-ordinary pigs transformed into slavering horrors after being bathed in eldritch light.  \n**Destructive Herds.** Rift swine travel in herds of 5-8 (and larger herds are possible). Their effect on an area can be catastrophic—they eat nearly anything, possess a fiendish cunning, and delight in the destruction they cause. A rift swine has difficulty perceiving anything smaller than itself as a threat, leading it to attack most other creatures on sight and fighting until it is destroyed.  \n**Abyssal Meat.** The rumors of vast herds of hundreds of rift swine on strongly chaos-aligned planes, cultivated by the lords of those places, are thankfully unconfirmed.","name":"Rift Swine","size":"Large","type":"Aberration","subtype":"","group":null,"alignment":"chaotic neutral","armor_class":15,"armor_desc":"natural armor","hit_points":110,"hit_dice":"13d10+39","speed":{"walk":40},"strength":18,"dexterity":10,"constitution":17,"intelligence":4,"wisdom":12,"charisma":5,"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":"force, poison","damage_immunities":"","condition_immunities":"","senses":"darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11","languages":"-","challenge_rating":"5","cr":5.0,"actions":[{"name":"Multiattack","desc":"The rift swine makes one tusks attack and two tentacle attacks."},{"name":"Tusks","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) slashing damage.","attack_bonus":7,"damage_dice":"2d8"},{"name":"Tentacle","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it is grappled (escape DC 14). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, and the rift swine can't use this tentacle against another target.","attack_bonus":7,"damage_dice":"2d6"}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"360-Degree Vision","desc":"The rift swine's extra eyes give it advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight."},{"name":"Chaos mutations","desc":"50% of rift swine have additional mutant features. Choose or roll on the table below.\n\n1 - Acid Boils: A creature that hits the rift swine with a melee attack must make a successful DC 12 Dexterity saving throw or take 3 (1d6) acid damage.\n\n2 - Tentacular Tongue: Instead of using its tusks, the rift swine can attack with its tongue: Melee weapon attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (2d4 + 4) bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it is grappled and restrained as with a tentacle attack (escape DC 14).\n\n3 - Covered in Slime:Increase the rift swine's AC by 1.\n\n4 - Acid Saliva: The rift swine's tusk or tongue attack does an additional 3 (1d6) acid damage.\n\n5 - Poison Spit: Ranged Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, range 15 ft., one target. 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The caps from which they take their name define their existence, and they must constantly be revived with fresh blood.  \n**Compelled to Kill.** Redcaps aren’t cruel and murderous by choice, but by necessity. A redcap must frequently bathe its cap in fresh, humanoid blood to sustain itself. If it fails to do so every three days, the creature withers and dies quickly. A redcap whose hat is nearly dry is a desperate, violent force of nature that prefers to die in battle rather than waste away to nothing.  \n**Bandits and Mercenaries.** Most long-lived redcaps are drawn to serve in marauding armies or make a living through constant banditry.","name":"Redcap","size":"Medium","type":"Fey","subtype":"","group":null,"alignment":"neutral evil","armor_class":15,"armor_desc":"natural armor","hit_points":105,"hit_dice":"14d8+42","speed":{"walk":40},"strength":20,"dexterity":10,"constitution":17,"intelligence":11,"wisdom":13,"charisma":8,"strength_save":null,"dexterity_save":null,"constitution_save":6,"intelligence_save":null,"wisdom_save":null,"charisma_save":null,"perception":null,"skills":{"athletics":8,"intimidation":5},"damage_vulnerabilities":"","damage_resistances":"bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks","damage_immunities":"","condition_immunities":"charmed, frightened","senses":"darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11","languages":"Common, Sylvan, Undercommon","challenge_rating":"6","cr":6.0,"actions":[{"name":"Multiattack","desc":"The redcap makes two pike attacks and one bite attack."},{"name":"Bite","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5) piercing damage and the creature is bleeding profusely. A bleeding creature must make a successful DC 15 Constitution saving throw at the start of its turn or take 10 (3d6) necrotic damage and continue bleeding. On a successful save the creature takes no necrotic damage and the effect ends. A creature takes only 10 necrotic damage per turn from this effect no matter how many times it's been bitten, and a single successful saving throw ends all bleeding. Spending an action to make a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Medicine) check or any amount of magical healing also stops the bleeding. Constructs and undead are immune to the bleeding effect.","attack_bonus":8,"damage_dice":"2d8"},{"name":"Pike","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (1d10 + 5) piercing damage.","attack_bonus":8,"damage_dice":"1d10"}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Clomping Boots","desc":"The redcap has disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks."},{"name":"Red Cap","desc":"The redcap must soak its cap in the blood of a humanoid killed no more than an hour ago at least once every three days. If it goes more than 72 hours without doing so, the blood on its cap dries and the redcap gains one level of exhaustion every 24 hours. While the cap is dry, the redcap can't remove exhaustion by any means. All levels of exhaustion are removed immediately when the redcap soaks its cap in fresh blood. A redcap that dies as a result of this exhaustion crumbles to dust."},{"name":"Solid Kick","desc":"The redcap can kick a creature within 5 feet as a bonus action. 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In addition to consuming flora, they are known to drink liquid magma and graze on obsidian, pumice, or other volcanic rock.  \n**Peaceful Horror.** Though of great size and strength, sarsaoks are peaceful herbivores similar in demeanor to wild oxen. 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Hit: 18 (3d8 + 5) piercing damage plus 3 (1d6) fire damage.","attack_bonus":8,"damage_dice":"3d8+5"},{"name":"Hooves","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d6 + 5) bludgeoning damage plus 3 (1d6) fire damage.","attack_bonus":8,"damage_dice":"2d6+5"},{"name":"Immolating Purge (Recharge 5-6)","desc":"The sarsaok spews burning blood in a 30-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 21 (6d6) fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one."}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Charge","desc":"If the sarsaok moves at least 20 feet straight toward a creature and then hits it with a gore attack on the same turn, the target takes an extra 13 (3d8) piercing damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 15 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone."},{"name":"Divine Horns","desc":"The sarsaok's gore attack is magical. In addition, its gore attack ignores the target's resistances to piercing or fire damage."},{"name":"Heated Body","desc":"Any creature that touches the sarsaok or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of it takes 3 (1d6) fire damage."}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":313,"environments":[],"img_main":null,"document__slug":"tob2","document__title":"Tome of Beasts 2","document__license_url":"http://open5e.com/legal","document__url":"https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/","v2_converted_path":"/v2/creatures/tob2_sarsaok/"},{"slug":"fire-giant","desc":"","name":"Fire Giant","size":"Huge","type":"Giant","subtype":"","group":"Giants","alignment":"lawful evil","armor_class":18,"armor_desc":"plate","hit_points":162,"hit_dice":"13d12+78","speed":{"walk":30},"strength":25,"dexterity":9,"constitution":23,"intelligence":10,"wisdom":14,"charisma":13,"strength_save":null,"dexterity_save":3,"constitution_save":10,"intelligence_save":null,"wisdom_save":null,"charisma_save":5,"perception":6,"skills":{"athletics":11,"perception":6},"damage_vulnerabilities":"","damage_resistances":"","damage_immunities":"fire","condition_immunities":"","senses":"passive Perception 16","languages":"Giant","challenge_rating":"9","cr":9.0,"actions":[{"name":"Multiattack","desc":"The giant makes two greatsword attacks."},{"name":"Greatsword","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. 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Hit: 12 (2d6 + 5) bludgeoning damage plus 7 (2d6) fire damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 18). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, the salamander monarch can automatically hit the target with its tail, and the salamander monarch can't make tail attacks against other targets.","attack_bonus":9,"damage_dice":"2d6+5"},{"name":"Trident","desc":"Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5) piercing damage or 16 (2d10 + 5) piercing damage if used with two hands to make a melee attack, plus 7 (2d6) fire damage.","attack_bonus":9,"damage_dice":"2d8+5"},{"name":"Immolating Crest (Recharge 6)","desc":"The salamander monarch causes its crest to flare with brilliant radiance, illuminating everything within 30 feet of it with a blue or green light. Each creature in that area must make a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw. On a failure, a creature takes 28 (8d6) fire damage and catches on fire. On a success, a creature takes half the damage and doesn't catch on fire. Until a creature on fire takes an action to douse the fire, the creature takes 7 (2d6) fire damage at the start of each of its turns."}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Heated Body","desc":"A creature that touches the salamander monarch or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of it takes 14 (4d6) fire damage."},{"name":"Heated Weapons","desc":"Any metal melee weapon the salamander monarch wields deals an extra 7 (2d6) fire damage on a hit (included in the attack)."},{"name":"Inspiring Sovereign","desc":"Each salamander within 30 feet of the salamander monarch and that can see the monarch has advantage on its melee attack rolls and saving throws."},{"name":"Innate Spellcasting","desc":"The salamander monarch's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 17). 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Even still, a group of rock roaches can make quick work of a rocky wall, opening up routes between caverns. The roaches aren’t concerned for structural integrity and their eating habits, if left unimpeded, often lead to cave-ins.  \n**Naturally Hostile.** Rock roaches are instinctually hostile to anything that wanders near them, including each other. The roaches mate annually, and the parents abandon the eggs shortly after laying them. Young rock roaches band together for the first few months of life, protecting each other as they devour the rock where they hatched, then dispersing once they are large enough to defend themselves.  \n**Valuable Carapace.** The carapace of a rock roach is sought after by some groups of underground humanoids. Naturally resilient and hard, craftsman harvest the carapace and slowly sculpt it into a suit of armor in a month-long process that requires regular boiling of the tough carapace.","name":"Rock Roach","size":"Medium","type":"Beast","subtype":"","group":null,"alignment":"unaligned","armor_class":16,"armor_desc":"natural armor","hit_points":67,"hit_dice":"9d8+27","speed":{"walk":30,"burrow":20},"strength":15,"dexterity":14,"constitution":17,"intelligence":1,"wisdom":6,"charisma":1,"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","damage_immunities":"","condition_immunities":"","senses":"blindsight 60 ft., passive Perception 8","languages":"—","challenge_rating":"2","cr":2.0,"actions":[{"name":"Multiattack","desc":"The rock roach makes two bite attacks. Alternatively, it can use Acid Spit twice."},{"name":"Acid Spit","desc":"Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) acid damage, and the target takes 3 (1d6) acid damage at the start of its next turn unless the target immediately uses its reaction to wipe off the spit.","attack_bonus":4,"damage_dice":"1d6+2"},{"name":"Bite","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 9 (2d6 + 2) piercing damage.","attack_bonus":4,"damage_dice":"2d6+2"}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Dual Brain","desc":"The rock roach has two brains: one in its head and one in its abdomen. It can continue functioning normally, even if its head is removed or destroyed. While both its brains are intact, the rock roach uses its Constitution modifier instead of its Intelligence modifier when making Intelligence saving throws."}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":308,"environments":[],"img_main":null,"document__slug":"tob2","document__title":"Tome of Beasts 2","document__license_url":"http://open5e.com/legal","document__url":"https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/","v2_converted_path":"/v2/creatures/tob2_rock-roach/"},{"slug":"repository","desc":"A mechanical whir issues from this pyramid-shaped mechanism as it begins to unfold hundreds of jointed limbs. When the noise grows shrillest, alien runes alight across its golden surfaces._  \n**Secret Keepers.** The people of Leng are renowned traders, and it once occurred to a Leng inventor that knowledge is the most valuable trade good. That inventor’s identity is one of the many secrets the first repository faithfully keeps. These constructs are built for the reception, transmission, and safeguarding of information, and even those that don’t hold particularly coveted information still defend their charges with lethal force. Repositories sometimes hold secrets within their consciousness, a task made easier by the fact that these creatures can understand all languages. Others hold physical recordings of information within their chest cavities.  \n**Master of Language.** A repository exists to protect and trade information, and as such, it knows and can translate all languages. Its programming allows it to wield this mastery of language as a physical weapon. A repository can also use the power of language as a psychic assault, uttering words of power to attack the very minds of its enemies.  \n**Right Tool for the Job.** The chest cavity of a repository contains an extradimensional space that functions like a bag of holding, granting the repository the ability to pull out any tool that may be required. Most repositories keep sets of common tools stashed inside their chests, including thieves’ tools and smith’s tools. Some repositories, however, are equipped with specialized tools or magic items, depending on the creatures’ purpose at creation. Similarly, a repository can store anything it needs to protect in this extra-dimensional space. The repository is the only creature capable of retrieving items from this space while it is alive. When a repository is destroyed, its chest cavity becomes accessible to anyone that reaches inside its pyramidal form; however, the power holding this extra-dimensional space together fades after 1 hour. An object in the extra-dimensional space when it fades is destroyed. A creature in the extra-dimensional space when it fades is deposited in a random location on the Astral Plane.  \n**Construct Nature.** A repository doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.","name":"Repository","size":"Medium","type":"Construct","subtype":"","group":null,"alignment":"unaligned","armor_class":15,"armor_desc":"natural armor","hit_points":110,"hit_dice":"13d8+52","speed":{"walk":30},"strength":19,"dexterity":10,"constitution":18,"intelligence":16,"wisdom":12,"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, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks not made with adamantine weapons","damage_immunities":"poison, psychic","condition_immunities":"charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned","senses":"darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 11","languages":"all","challenge_rating":"7","cr":7.0,"actions":[{"name":"Multiattack","desc":"The repository makes two slash attacks."},{"name":"Slash","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage.","attack_bonus":7,"damage_dice":"2d8+4"},{"name":"Language Lash (Recharge 5-6)","desc":"The repository utters words of power, unleashing psychic energy in a 30-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 15 Intelligence saving throw. On a failure, a creature takes 14 (4d6) psychic damage and is incapacitated for 1 minute. On a success, a creature takes half the damage and isn't stunned. A creature can repeat the 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":"Immutable Form","desc":"The repository is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form."},{"name":"Magic Resistance","desc":"The repository has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects."},{"name":"Magic Weapons","desc":"The repository's weapon attacks are magical."},{"name":"Self-Destruct","desc":"If a repository is reduced to 0 hp, it explodes, leaving behind its small, pyramidal chest cavity. Each creature within 20 feet of the repository when it explodes must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 14 (4d6) bludgeoning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one."}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":306,"environments":[],"img_main":null,"document__slug":"tob2","document__title":"Tome of Beasts 2","document__license_url":"http://open5e.com/legal","document__url":"https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/","v2_converted_path":"/v2/creatures/tob2_repository/"},{"slug":"fire-elemental","desc":"","name":"Fire Elemental","size":"Large","type":"Elemental","subtype":"","group":"Elementals","alignment":"neutral","armor_class":13,"armor_desc":null,"hit_points":102,"hit_dice":"12d10+36","speed":{"walk":50},"strength":10,"dexterity":17,"constitution":16,"intelligence":6,"wisdom":10,"charisma":7,"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":"fire, poison","condition_immunities":"exhaustion, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained, unconscious","senses":"darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10","languages":"Ignan","challenge_rating":"5","cr":5.0,"actions":[{"name":"Multiattack","desc":"The elemental makes two touch attacks."},{"name":"Touch","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) fire damage. If the target is a creature or a flammable object, it ignites. Until a creature takes an action to douse the fire, the target takes 5 (1d10) fire damage at the start of each of its turns.","attack_bonus":6,"damage_dice":"2d6","damage_bonus":3}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Fire Form","desc":"The elemental can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing. A creature that touches the elemental or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 ft. of it takes 5 (1d10) fire damage. In addition, the elemental can enter a hostile creature's space and stop there. The first time it enters a creature's space on a turn, that creature takes 5 (1d10) fire damage and catches fire; until someone takes an action to douse the fire, the creature takes 5 (1d10) fire damage at the start of each of its turns.","attack_bonus":0,"damage_dice":"5d10"},{"name":"Illumination","desc":"The elemental sheds bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light in an additional 30 ft.."},{"name":"Water Susceptibility","desc":"For every 5 ft. the elemental moves in water, or for every gallon of water splashed on it, it takes 1 cold damage."}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":306,"environments":["Plane Of Fire","Laboratory"],"img_main":null,"document__slug":"wotc-srd","document__title":"5e Core Rules","document__license_url":"http://open5e.com/legal","document__url":"http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/systems-reference-document-srd","v2_converted_path":"/v2/creatures/srd_fire-elemental/"},{"slug":"radiant-spark-swarm","desc":"A large cloud composed of tiny glowing sparks of fire floats silently through the air._  \n**Origin of Planar Instability.** Radiant spark swarms form when the border lands between the Plane of Fire and the Upper Planes experience some sort of instability. This instability might be caused by a regional anomaly, war between the gods themselves, magical upheaval, or some other calamity. Thousands of radiant sparks are created at once in massive conflagrations of radiant energy. They are then left to wander the planes alone. These creatures are most often found in the border lands between planes, but they have been known to appear in the Material Plane after accessing it through magical portals. They seldom wander back to their planes of origin and are almost always destroyed at some point during their eternal wanderings.  \n**Hunger for Magic.** Radiant spark swarms are drawn to magic for reasons that aren’t fully understood, for they can neither use it, nor do they truly devour it. Instead, when they sense powerful magic nearby, they instinctually move toward it, as though its very presence is comforting to them. As creatures that are neither particularly intelligent nor evil, their interest in the living usually has to do with the magic spellcasters carry, which draws the sparks close. Unfortunately, the owner of the magic that drew them is often caught in the midst of the swarm, which is inherently harmful.  \n**Elemental Nature.** A radiant spark swarm doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.","name":"Radiant Spark Swarm","size":"Medium","type":"Elemental","subtype":"Swarm","group":null,"alignment":"neutral","armor_class":16,"armor_desc":"natural armor","hit_points":38,"hit_dice":"7d8+7","speed":{"hover":true,"walk":0,"fly":60},"strength":8,"dexterity":17,"constitution":12,"intelligence":2,"wisdom":13,"charisma":15,"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, slashing","damage_immunities":"fire, poison, radiant","condition_immunities":"charmed, exhaustion, frightened, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained, stunned, unconscious","senses":"darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11","languages":"—","challenge_rating":"3","cr":3.0,"actions":[{"name":"Radiant Sparks","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 0 ft., one target in the swarm's space. Hit: 9 (2d8) radiant damage plus 9 (2d8) fire damage, or 4 (1d8) radiant damage plus 4 (1d8) fire damage if the swarm has half of its hp or fewer.","attack_bonus":5,"damage_dice":"2d8"}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Drawn to Magic","desc":"The radiant spark swarm can pinpoint the location of magical items within 60 feet of it. If the swarm starts its turn within 60 feet of a magic item, it moves to that magic item and hovers around it. If the item is being worn or carried by a creature, the swarm attacks that creature. If multiple magic items are within 60 feet of the swarm, it moves to the item that is most rare. 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The restless spirits steer the mammoth’s movements, but the jumble of trapped souls leaves the mammoth without a true pilot or goal. Thus, the plant matter shambles onward, absorbing creatures and plants in its path, driven by the energy of spirits seeking release yet unable to find it.  \n**Swamp Gas Hazard.** The rotting plant and animal material contained within the peat mammoth’s mass give off flammable swamp gases. The mammoth’s saturated body gives it a measure of protection from fire, but the gases escaping from it easily catch fire. 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Hit: 20 (3d8 + 7) bludgeoning damage. If the peat mammoth is on fire, the target also takes 7 (2d6) fire damage.","attack_bonus":11,"damage_dice":"3d8+7"},{"name":"Engulf","desc":"The peat mammoth moves up to its speed. While doing so, it can enter Large or smaller creatures' spaces. Whenever the mammoth enters a creature's space, the creature must make a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw.\n\nOn a successful save, the creature can choose to be pushed 5 feet back or to the side of the mammoth. A creature that chooses not to be pushed suffers the consequences of a failed saving throw.\n\nOn a failed save, the mammoth enters the creature's space, and the creature takes 22 (5d8) necrotic damage and is engulfed. The engulfed creature can't breathe, is restrained, and takes 22 (5d8) necrotic damage at the start of each of the mammoth's turns. When the mammoth moves, engulfed creatures move with it.\n\nAn engulfed creature can try to escape by taking an action to make a DC 17 Strength check. On a success, the creature escapes and enters a space of its choice within 5 feet of the mammoth. The mammoth can engulf up to two Large or smaller creatures at a time."}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Slow Burn","desc":"When the peat mammoth takes fire damage, it catches fire. If the peat mammoth starts its turn on fire, it takes 5 (1d10) fire damage. The mammoth's saturated body douses the fire at the end of the peat mammoth's turn. Creatures engulfed by the mammoth don't take fire damage from this effect.\n\nIf the peat mammoth dies while it is on fire, it explodes in a burst of fire and flaming peat. Each creature within 15 feet of the peat mammoth must make a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw, taking 14 (4d6) fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. 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Dark blue eyespots cover its upper body, and long, frilled, translucent tentacles trail from its frame-like tassels._  \n**Wailing in the Depths.** Adventurers traveling deep beneath the earth or in the ocean depths sometimes hear an unholy sound echoing toward them out of the blackness, followed by the sight of a creature that is neither human nor jellyfish. This is generally their first and last encounter with the pale screamer, a creature that haunts caves and waterways searching for victims to consume or transport back to the lairs of their terrible alien masters. The pale screamer pursues its mission with malicious relish and enjoys eating its prey alive, often in front of its victims’ paralyzed companions.  \n**Evil Blooms.** Though pale screamers are artificial creatures and do not breed naturally, their masters sometimes form them into blooms of two or more for mutual cooperation and protection. 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As the fungus grows, it dissolves the host’s body and slowly replaces the creature’s flesh with its own.  \nThe fungus’s first target is the motor function of the brain. It takes control of the creature’s movement while the victim is still alive and fully conscious—but no longer controls his or her own body! Indeed, sensory awareness may be the last function that the fungus attacks. Eventually, even the victim’s skin and muscle are replaced with fungal fibers. At that point, the affected creature no longer looks like its former self. Such a newly-born mindrot thrall conceals its alarming appearance under heavy robes or cloaks so it can travel without causing alarm.  \n**Spore Blisters.** A thrall’s skin is taut and waxy. Blisters form just beneath the surface, and when they grow as large as a child’s fist they burst, releasing a spray of spores. It seeks to infect as many new victims as possible during the few weeks that it survives in humanoid form. At the end of that time, the thrall shrivels to a dried, vaguely humanoid husk. Even a dead mindrot thrall, however, is still dangerous because its half-formed spore blisters can remain infectious for months. Disturbing the husk can burst these blisters and trigger a Mindrot Spores attack.  \n**Dimensional Horrors.** Wizards hypothesize the fungus was brought to the mortal world by a shambling horror crossing through a dimensional portal. The remoteness of that wasteland is likely whythe mindrot fungus hasn’t destroyed whole cities, though someday it may find a more fertile breeding ground.","name":"Mindrot Thrall","size":"Medium","type":"Plant","subtype":"","group":null,"alignment":"neutral","armor_class":15,"armor_desc":"natural armor","hit_points":82,"hit_dice":"11d8+33","speed":{"walk":30},"strength":15,"dexterity":14,"constitution":17,"intelligence":11,"wisdom":14,"charisma":6,"strength_save":null,"dexterity_save":null,"constitution_save":5,"intelligence_save":null,"wisdom_save":null,"charisma_save":null,"perception":null,"skills":{},"damage_vulnerabilities":"","damage_resistances":"bludgeoning and piercing from nonmagical attacks","damage_immunities":"acid, poison","condition_immunities":"charmed, frightened, poisoned","senses":"tremorsense 30 ft., passive Perception 12","languages":"understands Common but cannot speak","challenge_rating":"3","cr":3.0,"actions":[{"name":"Multiattack","desc":"The mindrot thrall makes two claw attacks."},{"name":"Claw","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (2d6 + 2) slashing damage.","attack_bonus":4,"damage_dice":"2d6"},{"name":"Acid Breath (Recharge 4-6)","desc":"The thrall exhales a blast of acidic spores from its rotten lungs in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in that area takes 36 (8d8) acid damage, or half damage with a successful DC 13 Dexterity saving throw. If the saving throw fails, the creature is also infected with mindrot spores."},{"name":"Mindrot Spores","desc":"Infection occurs when mindrot spores are inhaled or swallowed. Infected creatures must make a DC 13 Constitution saving throw at the end of every long rest; nothing happens if the saving throw succeeds, but if it fails, the creature takes 9 (2d8) acid damage and its hit point maximum is reduced by the same amount. The infection ends when the character makes successful saving throws after two consecutive long rests, or receives the benefits of a lesser restoration spell or comparable magic. A creature slain by this disease becomes a mindrot thrall after 24 hours unless the corpse is destroyed."}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Fungal Aura","desc":"A creature that starts its turn within 5 feet of a mindrot thrall must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or become infected with mindrot spores."}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":290,"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_mindrot-thrall/"},{"slug":"foxfire-ooze","desc":"","name":"Foxfire Ooze","size":"Large","type":"Ooze","subtype":"","group":null,"alignment":"unaligned","armor_class":9,"armor_desc":null,"hit_points":126,"hit_dice":"12d10+60","speed":{"climb":20,"fly":10,"hover":true,"swim":20,"walk":20},"strength":19,"dexterity":8,"constitution":20,"intelligence":2,"wisdom":6,"charisma":1,"strength_save":null,"dexterity_save":null,"constitution_save":null,"intelligence_save":null,"wisdom_save":null,"charisma_save":null,"perception":null,"skills":{},"damage_vulnerabilities":"cold","damage_resistances":"bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks","damage_immunities":"acid, fire, lightning","condition_immunities":"blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, prone","senses":"blindsight 60 ft. 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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. 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They delight in torturing other creatures, and nothing makes a nyctli giggle more than seeing its victim flounder about under the effects of its venom.  \n**Hag-Born Horrors.** The first nyctli were born from the boils of Open Game License","name":"Nyctli","size":"Tiny","type":"Fey","subtype":"","group":null,"alignment":"chaotic evil","armor_class":14,"armor_desc":null,"hit_points":7,"hit_dice":"3d4","speed":{"fly":40,"hover":true,"walk":10},"strength":2,"dexterity":18,"constitution":10,"intelligence":6,"wisdom":14,"charisma":12,"strength_save":null,"dexterity_save":null,"constitution_save":null,"intelligence_save":null,"wisdom_save":null,"charisma_save":null,"perception":4,"skills":{"perception":4,"stealth":6},"damage_vulnerabilities":"","damage_resistances":"","damage_immunities":"","condition_immunities":"","senses":"darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 14","languages":"Sylvan","challenge_rating":"1/4","cr":0.25,"actions":[{"name":"Stingers","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 1 piercing damage plus 3 (1d6) necrotic damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw or be blinded until the end of its next turn."},{"name":"Douse Light","desc":"The nyctli magically dispels or douses a single magical or nonmagical light source within 30 feet of it. 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More gentle fey rightfully find the creatures to be a menace. A kot bayun measures six feet long and weighs over 200 lb. They are long-lived, and some stories record the same kot bayun in a region for over 400 years.  \n**Sing to Sleep.** In addition to their stealthy natures and physical prowess, kot bayun have the ability to put prey to sleep with song. They carefully choose victims and stalk them for a time, learning their strengths and weaknesses before making their attack. They lay in wait until their prey is vulnerable and then begin their slumbering song. Those resisting the call to slumber are always the kot bayun’s first victims as they launch from cover and attempt to disembowel their prey. In forests with a thick canopy, a kot bayun stealthily creeps among tree limbs, tracking the movement of its prey below.  \n**Healing Poetry.** If discovered by intelligent prey, a kot bayun opens with a parley instead of claws. In rare cases, a kot bayun finds something in its prey it likes and cold predation turns to a lukewarm association.  \nBefriending a kot bayun has benefits as the creature’s poems, tales, and sagas have the magical ability to heal negative conditions. A kot bayun tells its stories in the form of strange epics and poetry, ranging from simple rhyming folk poems to complex sonnets. This ability is not widely known (a secret the creatures intend to keep), but, as folktales spread, more and more adventurers and sages seek out these elusive beasts.","name":"Kot Bayun","size":"Medium","type":"Monstrosity","subtype":"","group":null,"alignment":"neutral","armor_class":15,"armor_desc":"","hit_points":44,"hit_dice":"8d8+8","speed":{"walk":40,"climb":20},"strength":16,"dexterity":16,"constitution":13,"intelligence":12,"wisdom":16,"charisma":17,"strength_save":null,"dexterity_save":5,"constitution_save":null,"intelligence_save":null,"wisdom_save":null,"charisma_save":null,"perception":null,"skills":{},"damage_vulnerabilities":"","damage_resistances":"","damage_immunities":"","condition_immunities":"","senses":"darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13","languages":"Common, Sylvan","challenge_rating":"2","cr":2.0,"actions":[{"name":"Multiattack","desc":"The kot bayun makes one bite attack and one claws attack."},{"name":"Bite","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) piercing damage.","attack_bonus":5,"damage_dice":"1d8"},{"name":"Claws","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d10 + 3) slashing damage.","attack_bonus":5,"damage_dice":"2d10"},{"name":"Slumbering Song","desc":"The kot bayun puts creatures to sleep with its haunting melody. While a kot bayun sings, it can target one hearing creature within a 100-foot radius. This target must succeed on a DC 13 Charisma saving throw or fall asleep. The target repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. Each round the kot bayun maintains its song, it can select a new target. A creature that successfully saves is immune to the effect of that kot bayun's song for 24 hours. 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Being of fiendish blood, kalkes do not age and require neither food nor drink. Though lacking any formal spellcasting ability, all kalkes can produce magical effects through the dramatic mumming of largely spontaneous and unstudied rituals.  \n**Hoard Magical Paraphernalia.** The drive to produce ever more fanciful rituals gives a kalke the compulsion to accumulate spell components, magical foci, and other occult paraphernalia. Although these objects serve no purpose, the kalkes seek out spellcasters in their vicinity and steal any paraphernalia they can find. Because they have no ability to distinguish what’s magically useful from what isn’t, they grab any jewelry, pouches, sticks, or ornate objects they uncover. Sometimes children, animals, or other small humanoids are taken to be used as sacrifices, if they can be easily carried away.  \n**Perform Rituals.** Troops of kalkes inhabit trees, caverns, and ruins around sites of significant magical activity. Twice a month, or more during major astrological and seasonal events, the kalkes gather to perform—by way of dance, chant, and sacrifice—an imagined rite of great magic. The effort has an equal chance of achieving nothing whatsoever, causing dangerous but short-lived misfortunes (snakes raining on the countryside, creatures summoned from the lower planes), or triggering calamities (great fires or floods).  \nAn additional side effect of these rituals is that the troop may gain or lose members magically. If the troop numbers less than 13, a new kalke appears as if from nowhere; if it contains 13 or more members, then 3d4 of them find themselves mysteriously gated to the nearest location of magical activity—often hundreds of miles away. Those teleported arrive in a state of hysteria, with individuals extinguishing flames, grabbing frippery, and running in all directions. Because kalkes have no control over their displacement, it’s not surprising to find them in abandoned dungeons or keeps, clutching the property of some long-lost wizard.  \n**Hagglers.** The kalkes will return the goods they've taken, in exchange for a ransom or fee. These exchanges need to have the outward appearance of being impressively in the kalke’s favor. A particularly generous (or devious) spellcaster may be able to reach an accommodation with a persistent local troop of kalkes.","name":"Kalke","size":"Small","type":"Fiend","subtype":"","group":null,"alignment":"neutral evil","armor_class":14,"armor_desc":"natural armor","hit_points":9,"hit_dice":"2d6+2","speed":{"walk":30,"climb":30},"strength":8,"dexterity":17,"constitution":12,"intelligence":13,"wisdom":7,"charisma":13,"strength_save":null,"dexterity_save":null,"constitution_save":null,"intelligence_save":null,"wisdom_save":null,"charisma_save":null,"perception":0,"skills":{"perception":0,"stealth":5},"damage_vulnerabilities":"","damage_resistances":"","damage_immunities":"","condition_immunities":"","senses":"darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 10","languages":"Abyssal, Common, Infernal","challenge_rating":"1/4","cr":0.25,"actions":[{"name":"Dagger","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d4 + 3) piercing damage.","attack_bonus":5,"damage_dice":"1d4"}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Extinguish Flames","desc":"Kalkes can extinguish candles, lamps, lanterns and low-burning campfires within 120 feet as a bonus action."},{"name":"Detect Spellcasting","desc":"Kalkes can sense spellcasting in a 5-mile radius, as long as the effect is not innate."},{"name":"Magic Resistance","desc":"Kalkes have advantage on saving throws against spells and magical effects."}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":259,"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_kalke/"},{"slug":"magma-octopus","desc":"Eight tentacles reach out from the scorched body of this unusual octopus-like creature. Glowing yellow, orange, and red patches smolder on its skin, like embers flaring to life._  \n**Elemental Bodies.** Magma octopuses are creatures that physically resemble the marine animals for which they are named, but they make their homes in lava, swimming through it as easily as aquatic octopuses swim through water. Born in the fiery seas of the Plane of Fire long ago, many magma octopuses wandered to the Material Plane through various portals and thinned barriers between the planes. They exist throughout the world, particularly in underground caverns with open lava flows, within the craters of some volcanoes, and swimming through underground networks of magma.  \n**Intelligent.** Magma octopuses live simple lives with a quiet intelligence that slightly surpasses that of aquatic octopuses. They have no language and cannot communicate verbally. They are known to recognize individuals from other species and remember individuals that might have caused them pain or helped them out of a bad situation. Magma octopuses only fight others if they are attacked first, but they can become extremely territorial if intruders tread too close to home. They have a fondness for fire-based magic and sometimes can be recruited to serve as guardians for wizards, efreeti, and other powerful, fiery creatures.  \n**Elemental Nature.** A magma octopus doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.","name":"Magma Octopus","size":"Large","type":"Elemental","subtype":"","group":null,"alignment":"neutral","armor_class":16,"armor_desc":"natural armor","hit_points":147,"hit_dice":"14d10+70","speed":{"walk":40},"strength":21,"dexterity":17,"constitution":21,"intelligence":5,"wisdom":8,"charisma":7,"strength_save":null,"dexterity_save":null,"constitution_save":null,"intelligence_save":null,"wisdom_save":null,"charisma_save":null,"perception":null,"skills":{"athletics":8,"stealth":6},"damage_vulnerabilities":"","damage_resistances":"","damage_immunities":"fire","condition_immunities":"","senses":"darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 9","languages":"—","challenge_rating":"8","cr":8.0,"actions":[{"name":"Multiattack","desc":"The magma octopus makes four attacks with its tentacles."},{"name":"Tentacle","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d6 + 5) bludgeoning damage plus 2 (1d4) fire damage. If the target is a creature, it is grappled (escape DC 16). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, and it takes 2 (1d4) fire damage at the start of each of its turns. The magma octopus can grapple up to two targets at a time.","attack_bonus":8,"damage_dice":"1d6+5"},{"name":"Magma Blast (Recharge 6)","desc":"The magma octopus sprays magma in a 30-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 16 Dexterity saving throw, taking 28 (8d6) fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. If a creature fails the saving throw by 5 or more, it catches fire. Until someone takes an action to douse the fire, the creature takes 5 (1d10) fire damage at the start of each of its turns."}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Lava Bound","desc":"The magma octopus can exist outside of lava for up to 1 hour each day. If it remains outside of lava for 1 minute or longer, its skin begins to dry and harden like rapidly-cooled magma. While its skin is hardened, it has a walking speed of 20 feet, an Armor Class of 18, and vulnerability to cold damage. If it remains outside of lava for 1 hour or longer, it becomes petrified, transforming into basalt. Its body returns to normal if it is submerged in lava for 1 round."},{"name":"Lava Swimmer","desc":"While in lava, the magma octopus has a swimming speed of 60 feet and can move through the lava as if it were water."}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":251,"environments":[],"img_main":null,"document__slug":"tob2","document__title":"Tome of Beasts 2","document__license_url":"http://open5e.com/legal","document__url":"https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/","v2_converted_path":"/v2/creatures/tob2_magma-octopus/"},{"slug":"mad-piper","desc":"A grey mound of flesh scuttles forward on mismatched limbs, its five heads trilling along on bone flutes. All the while, a harrowing tune plays from the column of pipes rising from its core._  \nMad pipers are the heralds of the Great Old Ones, a sign that a cult is getting close to achieving their goals. Cultists receive visions from their masters, filling their dreams with the esoteric rituals needed to create a mad piper. In short order, the cult gathers the components and creates these creatures, typically one for each cell of the cult. When the time comes for the cult to do battle, the mad pipers follow, inspiring the faithful with the alien songs of the Great Old Ones.  \n**The Ritual.** During the ritual, five humanoids, one of which must be a musician of some kind, are tied to a set of bagpipes made from an ogre’s bones and stomach. The ritual liquefies the humanoids, who fall into each other as all but their limbs and heads dissolve into a mass of grey flesh. Their minds, souls, and bodies forcefully merged, they start to play.  \n**Pets and Mascots.** Mad pipers aren’t naturally evil. Most are made from commoners, resulting in relatively docile and loyal creatures that imprint quickly onto cult members, who in turn often come to treat these abominations as pets. More violent and powerful mad pipers can be made from powerful, evil humanoids, though they are harder to control and often hostile to their creators.  \n**True Pipers.** Scholars speculate that the mad pipers are modelled after the heralds of the Crawling Chaos, and that it was he who gifted the first ritual to mortals on behalf of all Great Old Ones.  \n**Construct Nature.** The mad piper doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.","name":"Mad Piper","size":"Large","type":"Construct","subtype":"","group":null,"alignment":"neutral","armor_class":12,"armor_desc":"padded armor","hit_points":19,"hit_dice":"3d8+6","speed":{"walk":30},"strength":16,"dexterity":8,"constitution":14,"intelligence":5,"wisdom":7,"charisma":16,"strength_save":null,"dexterity_save":null,"constitution_save":null,"intelligence_save":null,"wisdom_save":null,"charisma_save":null,"perception":null,"skills":{"performance":5},"damage_vulnerabilities":"","damage_resistances":"","damage_immunities":"poison","condition_immunities":"charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned, prone","senses":"darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 8","languages":"understands Common and Void Speech, but can’t speak","challenge_rating":"2","cr":2.0,"actions":[{"name":"Screaming Flail","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage plus 2 (1d4) thunder damage.","attack_bonus":5,"damage_dice":"2d6+3"},{"name":"Terrible Dirge","desc":"The mad piper plays a haunting dirge. Each creature of the mad piper's choice that is within 30 feet of the piper and can hear the dirge must succeed o a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw or become frightened for 1 minute. A creature can repeat 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 mad piper's Terrible Dirge for the next 24 hours."}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Inspire","desc":"As a bonus action, the mad piper can play a tune that inspires a friendly creature it can see within 30 feet of it. If the target can hear the mad piper, it has advantage on its next ability check, attack roll, or saving throw."}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":250,"environments":[],"img_main":null,"document__slug":"tob2","document__title":"Tome of Beasts 2","document__license_url":"http://open5e.com/legal","document__url":"https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/","v2_converted_path":"/v2/creatures/tob2_mad-piper/"},{"slug":"herald-of-darkness","desc":"_Stunningly tall and beautiful fiends, the heralds of darkness resemble dark-haired fey wearing cloaks and armor glittering with dark light and often surrounded by a nimbus of pale green fire._  \nHeralds of darkness speak in fluid tones and sing with the voices of angels, but their hearts are foul and treacherous.  \n**Vision of Evil.** Indeed, the heralds of darkness can take on another appearance entirely, disappearing into insubstantial shadows and unveiling an evil majestic form that leaves those who see it shaken and weak—and often blind. Speaking of this form is difficult, but poets and bards trying to describe it have said it resembles an apocalyptic horror built of chained souls and the slow death of children carried along in a glacial river, rushing to an inevitable doom.  \n**Sword and Cloak.** The black sword and star-scattered cloak of a herald of darkness are part of its magical substance and cannot be parted from it. Some believe the cloak and blade are true visions of its body; the smiling face and pleasing form are entirely illusory.  \n**Corruptors of the Fey.** The heralds of darkness are companions and sometimes masters to the shadow fey. They seek to draw many others into their orbit with wild promises of great power, debauchery, and other delights. They are rivals to the heralds of blood and bitter foes to all angels of light.","name":"Herald Of Darkness","size":"Large","type":"Fiend","subtype":"","group":null,"alignment":"neutral evil","armor_class":15,"armor_desc":"chain shirt","hit_points":105,"hit_dice":"10d10+50","speed":{"walk":30,"swim":30,"fly":50},"strength":20,"dexterity":14,"constitution":20,"intelligence":12,"wisdom":15,"charisma":20,"strength_save":8,"dexterity_save":null,"constitution_save":8,"intelligence_save":null,"wisdom_save":null,"charisma_save":8,"perception":5,"skills":{"athletics":8,"deception":8,"perception":5},"damage_vulnerabilities":"","damage_resistances":"bludgeoning, thunder","damage_immunities":"cold, lightning, necrotic, poison","condition_immunities":"exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned","senses":"darkvision 200 ft., passive Perception 15","languages":"Common, Elvish, Goblin, Infernal, Sylvan","challenge_rating":"7","cr":7.0,"actions":[{"name":"Multiattack","desc":"The herald of darkness uses Majesty of the Abyss, if it is available, and makes one melee attack."},{"name":"Embrace Darkness","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack. +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., all creatures in reach. Hit: 6 (1d12) necrotic damage and targets are paralyzed until the start of the herald's next turn. Making a DC 17 Constitution saving throw negates the paralysis."},{"name":"Majesty of the Abyss (Recharge 4-6)","desc":"The herald of darkness emits a sinister burst of infernal power. All creatures within 30 feet and in direct line of sight of the herald take 19 (3d12) necrotic damage and must make a DC 17 Constitution saving throw. Those who fail the saving throw are blinded for 2 rounds; those who succeed are frightened for 2 rounds."},{"name":"Shadow Sword","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 18 (2d12 + 5) slashing damage.","attack_bonus":8,"damage_dice":"2d12"}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Corrupting Touch","desc":"A herald of darkness can destroy any wooden, leather, copper, iron, or paper object by touching it as a bonus action. A mundane item is destroyed automatically; a magical item survives if its owner makes a successful DC 16 Dexterity saving throw."},{"name":"Gift of Darkness","desc":"A herald of darkness can transform any fey, human, or goblin into one of the shadow fey, if the target willingly accepts this transformation."},{"name":"Shadow Form","desc":"A herald of darkness can become incorporeal as a shadow as a bonus action. In this form, it has a fly speed of 10 feet; it can enter and occupy spaces occupied by other creatures; it gains resistance to all nonmagical damage; it has advantage on physical saving throws; it can pass through any gap or opening; it can't attack, interact with physical objects, or speak. It can return to its corporeal form also as a bonus action."}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":249,"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_herald-of-darkness/"},{"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":"greater-lunarchidna","desc":"A four-armed, four-legged creature in the vague shape of a human—but seemingly made of fine spider silk—moves down a tree, slowly chanting the incantation of a spell in the pale light of the full moon._  \n**Made in Corrupt Forests.** Lunarchidnas are beings of moonlight and spider silk created in forests permeated by residual dark magic. When this magic coalesces on a spider web touched by the light of a full moon, the web animates. The web gains life and flies through the forest, gathering other webs until it collects enough silk to form a faceless, humanoid body, with four legs and four arms.  \n**Hatred of Elves.** Lunarchidnas hate elves and love to make the creatures suffer. They poison water sources, set fire to villages, and bait monsters into stampeding through elf communities. These aberrations especially enjoy stealing away elf children to use as bait to trap the adults that come to the rescue.  \n**Cyclical Power.** The lunarchidna’s power is tied to the moon. When the skies are dark during a new moon, the lunarchidna becomes more shadow than living web. Its mental ability dulls, and it becomes barely more than a savage animal. When a full moon brightens the night, however, the lunarchidna becomes a conduit of lunar light and can channel that power through its body. Using its heightened intellect, it makes plans, writes notes, and plots from the safety of the trees where it makes its home. In the intermittent phases of the moon, the lunarchidna is a more than capable hunter, trapping and devouring prey it encounters while retaining enough knowledge of its plans and magic to further its goals in minor ways. The lunarchidna’s statistics change cyclically as shown on the Lunarchidna Moon Phase table.  \n\n#### Lunarchidna Moon Phase\n\nMoon Phase\n\nStatistics\n\nDaytime, new, or crescent moon\n\nOpen Game License","name":"Greater Lunarchidna","size":"Medium","type":"Aberration","subtype":"","group":null,"alignment":"neutral evil","armor_class":16,"armor_desc":"natural armor","hit_points":58,"hit_dice":"9d8+18","speed":{"climb":30,"walk":30},"strength":10,"dexterity":16,"constitution":14,"intelligence":12,"wisdom":12,"charisma":15,"strength_save":null,"dexterity_save":null,"constitution_save":4,"intelligence_save":null,"wisdom_save":3,"charisma_save":null,"perception":3,"skills":{"perception":3,"stealth":7},"damage_vulnerabilities":"","damage_resistances":"","damage_immunities":"poison","condition_immunities":"poisoned, restrained","senses":"blindsight 10 ft., darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13","languages":"Deep Speech, Elvish","challenge_rating":"4","cr":4.0,"actions":[{"name":"Multiattack","desc":"The lunarchidna makes two attacks: one with its bite and one with its claws. If the lunarchidna hits a Medium or smaller target with both attacks on the same turn, the target is restrained by webbing and the lunarchidna uses Wrap Up."},{"name":"Bite","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) necrotic damage. The target must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or its hp 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 hp maximum to 0.","attack_bonus":5,"damage_dice":"2d6+3"},{"name":"Claw","desc":"Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (2d4 + 3) slashing damage.","attack_bonus":5,"damage_dice":"2d4+3"},{"name":"Web (Recharge 5-6)","desc":"Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, ranged 30/60 ft., one creature. Hit: The target is restrained by webbing. As an action the restrained target can make a DC 13 Strength check, bursting the webbing on a success. The webbing can also be attacked and destroyed (AC 10; hp 5; vulnerability to fire damage; immunity to bludgeoning, poison, and psychic damage)."},{"name":"Wrap Up","desc":"The lunarchidna wraps up a Medium or smaller creature restrained by webbing. The wrapped target is blinded, restrained, and unable to breathe, and it must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw at the start of each of the lunarchidna's turns or take 5 (1d4 + 3) bludgeoning damage. The webbing can be attacked and destroyed (AC 10; hp 15; vulnerability to fire damage; immunity to bludgeoning, poison, and psychic damage). The lunarchidna can have only one creature wrapped at a time."}],"bonus_actions":null,"reactions":null,"legendary_desc":"","legendary_actions":null,"special_abilities":[{"name":"Spider Climb","desc":"The lunarchidna can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check."},{"name":"Sunlight Sensitivity","desc":"While in sunlight, the lunarchidna has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight."},{"name":"Web Walker","desc":"The lunarchidna ignores movement restrictions caused by webbing."},{"name":"Spellcasting","desc":"The lunarchidna is a 4th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 11, +3 to hit with spell attacks). The lunarchidna has the following wizard spells prepared:\nCantrips (at will): minor illusion, mage hand, poison spray, ray of frost\n1st level (4 slots): detect magic, magic missile, shield\n2nd level (3 slots): alter self, suggestion"}],"spell_list":[],"page_no":242,"environments":[],"img_main":null,"document__slug":"tob2","document__title":"Tome of Beasts 2","document__license_url":"http://open5e.com/legal","document__url":"https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/","v2_converted_path":"/v2/creatures/tob2_greater-lunarchidna/"},{"slug":"lesser-lunarchidna","desc":"A four-armed, four-legged creature in the vague shape of a human—but seemingly made of fine spider silk—moves down a tree, slowly chanting the incantation of a spell in the pale light of the full moon._  \n**Made in Corrupt Forests.** Lunarchidnas are beings of moonlight and spider silk created in forests permeated by residual dark magic. When this magic coalesces on a spider web touched by the light of a full moon, the web animates. The web gains life and flies through the forest, gathering other webs until it collects enough silk to form a faceless, humanoid body, with four legs and four arms.  \n**Hatred of Elves.** Lunarchidnas hate elves and love to make the creatures suffer. They poison water sources, set fire to villages, and bait monsters into stampeding through elf communities. These aberrations especially enjoy stealing away elf children to use as bait to trap the adults that come to the rescue.  \n**Cyclical Power.** The lunarchidna’s power is tied to the moon. When the skies are dark during a new moon, the lunarchidna becomes more shadow than living web. Its mental ability dulls, and it becomes barely more than a savage animal. When a full moon brightens the night, however, the lunarchidna becomes a conduit of lunar light and can channel that power through its body. Using its heightened intellect, it makes plans, writes notes, and plots from the safety of the trees where it makes its home. In the intermittent phases of the moon, the lunarchidna is a more than capable hunter, trapping and devouring prey it encounters while retaining enough knowledge of its plans and magic to further its goals in minor ways. 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