narzugon 5e stat block

Some of these cousins of this hardy avian species keep to remote locales, while others share their forebears’ predilection for the easy grub to be found in city streets.The Oath of Deliverance is an attestation that there are laws greater than the laws of governors and judges, kings and emperors—laws of freedom, justice, benevolence, and dignity.

This would allow it to evade all melee based PCs and, on the combined narzugon / nightmare turn, it can dive down, attack with its reach weapon and fly back up. I've modified the 5th edition D&D stat blocks so that a DM doesn't have to have so many hard-cover books open at once. Small monstrosity, unaligned.

It also makes three hellfire lance attacks. Hellfire Lance.

Senses blindsight 60 ft., passive Perception 10.

Now running a 5E campaign for my wife and her coworkers and loving it.Just as eruptions of magical energies and careless experimentation by incautious wizards have resulted in the creation of monstrosities such as the owlbear, the shambling mound, and the banderhobb, they’ve also produced fearsome mutations in the common pigeon. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. But their effectiveness is increased dramatically when they fight in the presence of another fiend of challenge rating 6 or greater—for instance, a bone devil, erinys, pit fiend or amnizu.

Those might be very bad (“Big thing strong! Some are stingier with magic items than others. Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)

No AoO to worry about or pesky barbarians with magic greataxes swinging at its head.It’ll be very awkward for the PCs to counter but, like all flying creatures with reach attacks, it doesn’t make sense for them to do anything else.You’ve talked alot about the value of intelligence in allowing monsters to “read” their enemy’s stats. So much more elegant this way, and I’m glad So, in the event the commander falls, merregons just stab until they die I take it? Armo r Class 11. It’s mid 2015, and the fifth edition of Dungeons and Dragons is still relatively young; 5e will officially turn one year old in about a month in July.

Since you wrote that they let their commanding officers chose targets for them, will they attack at random or just cease hostilities if their commanding officer is killed?They’re devils, so I don’t think they’d just cease hostilities. They have 60 feet of darkvision, which isn’t overwhelmed by the With their double Halberd Multiattack, merregons make effective, straightforward footsoldiers.

What’s the makeup of its troops, what weakness(es) do they have, and who among the opposition is likely to be capable of targeting those weaknesses? Factions represent the players in these conflicts. that it can bring along when its nightmare mount uses Ethereal Stride? Hit Points 22 (5d6 + 5) Speed 10 ft., fly 30 ft. STR.

Infernal Command is situational but short-term; Terrifying Command is all-purpose but, like a dragon’s Frightful Presence, good only the first time it’s used against any given foe.Ideally, the narzugon uses its Terrifying Command at the earliest opportunity in which it can affect all its foes or a dozen of them, whichever is less, and won’t need to re-up it later.

They’re immune to fire and poison; resistant to cold, to magic and to physical damage from nonmagical, non-silvered weapons; and mute.

Given the high CR I find it extremely unlikely that PCs would not have magical weapons or at the least silver weapons.It really depends on the campaign. Allow it to make use of as much intelligence as it may reasonably have gathered.The narzugon’s first priority is to eliminate the greatest threat(s) to its own side, and its second priority is to strike the most painful blow at the other.

?Note: Devils laugh off fireballs.

Learn how to write compelling adventures focusing on the clashes between factions without making it obvious who the “good guys” and “bad guys” are.Enter your e-mail address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by e-mail.Is there a monster you’d like me to analyze that I haven’t looked at yet? Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target.

Please feel free to skip ahead of my insane ramblings and dumb pictures if you just need the fifth edition stat blocks for an ancient brown dragon.

Can it gain advantage from any feature of the terrain? Probably following the last command they received to the letter.According to Mordenkainen, merregons only have one-to-one telepathy, and are confused if you kill their commanding officer.