Shadow

medium Undead

• Armor Class: 12
• Hit Points: 17
• Speed: walk 40 ft. climb 20 ft.- Perception: 10
• Stealth: 14
• Challenge Rating: 1/2 (100 XP)
• Source: Black Flag,

• Damage Vulnerabilities: radiant
• Damage Immunities: necrotic,frightened,grappled,paralyzed,petrified,prone,restrained,Undead Resilience
• Damage Resistances: acid,cold,fire,lightning,thunder; bludgeoning,piercing,and slashing damage from nonmagical attacks
• Senses: darkvision 60 ft.
• Languages: understands the languages it knew in life but can't speak

Special Abilities

• Amorphous: The shadow can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.
• Spider Climb: The shadow can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.
• Sunlight Weakness: While in sunlight, the shadow has disadvantage on attack rolls, ability checks, and saves.
• Undead Nature: The shadow doesn't require air, food, drink, or sleep.
• Undead Resilience: The shadow is immune to poison damage, to exhaustion, and to the poisoned condition.

Actions

• Strength Drain: Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 9 (2d6+2) necrotic damage, and the target's STR score is reduced by 1d4. The target dies if this reduces its STR to 0. Otherwise, the reduction lasts until the target finishes a short or long rest. If a Humanoid dies from this attack, a new shadow rises from the corpse 1d4 hours later.

Bonus Actions

• Shadow Bond: One creature the shadow can see within 5 feet of it must succeed on a DC 12 WIS save or the shadow bonds with the target's shadow for 1 minute. While bonded with the target's shadow, the shadow can use this bonus action to teleport to an unoccupied space within 5 feet of that creature, provided the creature is within 120 feet of the shadow.
• Shadow Stealth: The shadow takes the Hide action. It can use this bonus action only while in dim light or darkness.

License

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