Shadow

Medium Undead

• Armor Class: 12
• Hit Points: 18 (4d8)
• Speed: walk 40 ft.
• Challenge Rating: 1 (200 XP)
• Source: A5e Monstrous Menagerie, page 388

• Skills: stealth +4
• Damage Vulnerabilities: radiant
• Damage Immunities: necrotic, poison
• Damage Resistances: acid, cold, fire, lightning, thunder; damage from nonmagical weapons
• Condition Immunities: charmed, fatigue, frightened, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained
• Senses: darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 10
• Languages:

Special Abilities

• Amorphous: The shadow can pass through an opening as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.
• Sunlight Weakness: While in sunlight, the shadow has disadvantage on attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws.
• Undead Nature: A shadow doesnt require air, sustenance, or sleep.

Actions

• Claw: Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 9 (2d6 + 2) necrotic damage and the target makes a DC 12 Constitution saving throw. On a failure the target is cursed until it finishes a short or long rest or is the subject of remove curse or a similar spell. While cursed the target makes attack rolls Strength checks and Strength saving throws with disadvantage. If the target dies while cursed a new undead shadow rises from the corpse in 1d4 hours the corpse no longer casts a natural shadow and the target can't be raised from the dead until the new shadow is destroyed.

Bonus Actions

• Shadow Sneak: The shadow takes the Hide action even if obscured only by dim light or darkness.

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