AC 15 (mirrored robes)  |  HP 82 (11d8+33)  |  Speed 30 ft.

Saves: Dex +7, Int +6 · Resist: radiant, fire · Spell attack +7, DC 14

Role. Long-range controller / glass-sniper. Stays on balconies; punishes clusters.

Geometry of Noon. Ignores half cover from bright-lit pillars. Disadvantage on attacks while in darkness.

Linked Lock. While Actis lives, the East Solar Lock has advantage on saves vs. being forced open without the Dial.

Multiattack. Two sun-javelins, or one sun-javelin and Refract.

Sun-Javelin. +7 to hit, range 80/240. Hit: 9 (1d8+4) piercing + 7 (2d6) radiant.

Refract (Recharge 5–6). Choose a reflective surface within 60 ft.; line 30 ft. from that point Dex DC 14; 18 (4d8) radiant.

Blinding Lattice (1/day). 20-ft cube within 60 ft.; Con DC 14 or blinded 1 minute (repeat end of turns).

Step of Light. Teleport 15 ft. to a space in bright light you can see.

AC 15 (bronze quills) | HP 127 (17d8 + 51) | Speed 20 ft., fly 60 ft.

Saves Dex +6, Wis +5 · Skills Perception +5, Athletics +7 · Darkvision 60 ft.

Brooding. She will not willingly move more than 20 ft from the nest cup. If a creature touches the cup or a chick, this trait ends for the rest of the encounter and she attacks that creature in preference to all others.

Rustling Quills. Any creature that starts its turn within 10 ft of her has disadvantage on ranged attack rolls until the start of its next turn.

Multiattack. One Bronze Beak attack and two Talon attacks.

Bronze Beak. Melee, +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., 2d8 + 4 piercing damage.

Talon. Melee, +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., 1d8 + 4 slashing damage. If both Talon attacks hit one Medium or smaller creature, it is grappled (escape DC 14).

Thrown Bone. Ranged, +7 to hit, range 30/90 ft., 2d6 + 4 bludgeoning damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 14 Strength save or be knocked prone.

Carry Off. With a creature grappled, she flies up to 30 ft without provoking opportunity attacks, carrying it. She may release it at any point in that movement.

Mother's Answer. When a creature she can see touches the nest cup, she moves up to her speed toward it and makes one Bronze Beak attack.

AC 16  |  HP 105 (10d10+50)  |  Speed 60 ft., fly 120 ft.

Saves: Wis +4 · Immune fire · Resist radiant · Senses darkvision 60 ft.

Panicked or Calmed. Every horse starts panicked: it attacks, it feeds the Scorch Track, and it drags its yoke arm. A calmed horse stops attacking, stops feeding the track, and pulls where it is asked.

Damage Never Helps. No amount of harm improves a calming check. At 0 HP the horse dies: Scorch +1 immediately and +3 to every remaining calming DC. Say this out loud the first time someone rolls damage.

Held Still. While the horse is grappled or restrained (Athletics contest vs. +7), calming checks against it have advantage.

Speared. A broken spar of sky-road stone is lodged in his shoulder. While the spar is in, calming checks against Aethon have disadvantage.

Calm him. Draw the spar first: Medicine DC 14, or Athletics DC 16 if you would rather pull than treat (and he screams). Then Animal Handling DC 12. His answer: any healing spell of 2nd level or higher, or 25+ HP of healing, removes the spar and calms him automatically.

Pain Bleed. While the spar is in, Aethon takes 5 damage at the start of each of his turns. He is visibly failing. Describe it — players who notice usually act.

Lame Kick. +9 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 14 (2d8+5) bludgeoning. Aethon has disadvantage on this attack against any creature that has healed him this encounter.

Thrash (Recharge 5–6). Every creature within 10 ft: Dex DC 14 or 13 (3d8) bludgeoning and pushed 5 ft. He is not attacking — he is trying to get the stone out.

Greek mythology's equivalent of an orc — 8 orc miniatures can represent Agrioi. Use as optional minions in Enc 3 Branch A/B.

AC 13 (hide armor)  |  HP 15 (2d8+6)  |  Speed 30 ft.

Skills: Intimidation +2

Senses: Darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 8

Aggressive. As a bonus action, may move up to its speed toward a hostile creature.

Greataxe. +5 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 9 (1d12+3) slashing.

Javelin. +5 to hit, range 30/120 ft. Hit: 6 (1d6+3) piercing.

AC 15  |  HP 78 (12d8+24)  |  Speed 30 ft., fly 50 ft.

Saves: Dex +7 · Skills: Acrobatics +7, Deception +6 · Immune fire · Vulnerable cold · Senses darkvision 60 ft.

Reskin note. A barbed devil on wings. She was a spring-nymph until Typhon's fire found her stream, and she has been laughing about water ever since.

Ember Body. A creature that hits Aithousa with a melee attack takes 3 (1d6) fire.

Doused. Any cold damage ends her current Goad immediately, and she cannot Goad again until the end of her next turn. Cold is worth an action here.

Multiattack. Two Spark-Lash attacks.

Spark-Lash. +7 to hit, reach 10 ft or range 40 ft. Hit: 11 (2d6+4) fire.

Goad the Yoke. Instead of attacking, she shrieks at one sun-horse within 30 ft: calming checks against that horse have their DC increased by 2 until the end of her next turn. Multiple Aithousai stack. Three of them shrieking at Phlegon is a DC 23 problem — kill the chorus or lose the horse.

Cinder Step. Fly up to 25 ft without provoking opportunity attacks.

AC 18 (bronze scale, aegis-band)  |  HP 150 (20d8+60)  |  Speed 30 ft.

Saves: Con +7, Wis +9, Cha +8 · Skills: Insight +9, Persuasion +8, Religion +6 · Senses: passive Perception 15

Hera’s Regard. Advantage on saves against being charmed or frightened. Magic that would compel her to break a sworn oath fails automatically.

Yoke-Cord (3 charges; 4 if Enc. 2 runs second). Bonus action, spend a charge: one creature she can see within 60 ft. must succeed on a DC 17 Strength save or be restrained by a coil of scarlet wool until the end of its next turn. She regains one charge when the Rite Track reaches step 3 and none otherwise.

Rite-Bound. She will not leave the terrace while the rite is unfinished. She has disadvantage on attack rolls against a creature wearing the Sacrificial Garlands and cannot willingly harm Alcyoneus.

Not a Monster (DM). She is wrong, not evil. Her reading is that Hera unmade a household and will be quieted by a household restored — a son given back for a family taken. She surrenders at 0 HP, and immediately if shown the true Delphic verse. Tell her the queen is alive in a cave with her own daughter (Clue 5) and the rite loses its premise in front of her; she will stop without a check.

Spellcasting. Wisdom, save DC 17, +9 to hit. At will: sacred flame, guidance, thaumaturgy. 3/day each: hold person, spirit guardians (hundred-eyed peacock wings), guiding bolt (3rd level). 1/day each: flame strike (a column of eyed light), banishment, mass cure wounds.

Multiattack. Two Yoke-Rod attacks, or one Yoke-Rod and one cantrip.

Yoke-Rod. +6 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 9 (2d6+2) bludgeoning + 10 (3d6) radiant.

Call the Wardens (1/day). Both Peacock-Eyed Wardens step out of the colonnade and act on her initiative.

The Vow Answers (3/day). When an ally within 30 ft. drops to 0 hit points, she casts healing word (3rd level) on it.

AC 15 (leather)  |  HP 39 (6d8+12)  |  Speed 35 ft.

Skills: Acrobatics +5, Athletics +3, Perception +3, Stealth +5

Skirmish Step. After making a ranged attack, may move 10 ft. without provoking (once/turn).

Multiattack. Two shortbow attacks.

Shortbow. +5 to hit, range 80/320 ft. Hit: 6 (1d6+3) piercing.

Handaxe. +3 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft. Hit: 4 (1d6+1) slashing.

AC 14  |  HP 52 (8d8+16)  |  Speed 40 ft.

Skills: Animal Handling +3, Athletics +4, Perception +3

Mounted Preferred. If mounted on a war-deer/horse (AC 12, HP 19), attacks have advantage against Medium unmounted foes once/turn.

Multiattack. Two spear attacks.

Spear. +4 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft. Hit: 5 (1d6+2) piercing.

Trample Rush (1/turn while mounted). Move 20 ft. through enemy space; DC 13 Dexterity save or 7 (2d6) bludgeoning and prone.

AC 17  |  HP 54  |  Cracked at 30 HP remaining (24 damage taken)

Immune: poison, psychic, necrotic; blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, unconscious

Not immune to nonmagical B/P/S. Magical weapons are not required.

Embedded. Occupies its listed location on Savano (head, back, a shoulder, or a thigh). Moves with her. Destroying a gem does not deal damage to her.

Called Shot. An attack must name this gem. Use this AC, not Savano's. A miss does not hit her body. Head is ~15 ft. up; back needs a rear angle or flight.

Cracked / Destroyed. At 30 HP the gem cracks (option weakened). At 0 it is destroyed (option gone). Effects: Armor-Gems.

White-Hot Repair. When the hidden name is spoken, all six reset to 54 HP and Intact.

AC 13 (studded)  |  HP 38 (7d8+7)  |  Speed 30 ft.

Skills: Deception +4, Sleight of Hand +4, Stealth +4

Fixer’s Muscle. Advantage on saves vs. being frightened while it can see Khalkotaurus, Damon, or the prize vault. These humans brand for Ares; the god does not claim them.

Scimitar. +4 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 5 (1d6+2) slashing.

Hand Crossbow. +4 to hit, range 30/120 ft. Hit: 5 (1d6+2) piercing.

Blood Signal (1/day). Summons 1d2 additional saboteurs at the end of the next round (Enc. 2 only; max +2 total).

AC 15  |  HP 102  |  Speed 30 ft.

Note. A Chimera-spawned omen; can be driven away with water, thunder, or superior high ground.

Attack. Bite +7 to hit, 15 piercing; pounce knocks prone on DC 15 Strength.

AC 16  |  HP 88 (11d10+33)  |  Speed 20 ft., fly 60 ft.

Skills: Perception +5 · Resist fire · Advantage on attacks against creatures in shadow

Driven off, not killed. Two creatures signalling in coordination with bright light (DC 14) or one flash of the Rein's glow (free action) makes it retreat for 3 rounds.

Cull the Stragglers. It always goes for the most isolated flyer, and it prefers a rider to a mount.

Multiattack. One Snatch and one Beak attack.

Snatch. +8 to hit, reach 10 ft. Hit: 14 (2d8+5) slashing, and the target is grappled (escape DC 15). A grappled creature cannot make pursuit checks.

Beak. +8 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 9 (1d10+4) piercing.

Drop. The vulture releases a grappled creature over open sky. It falls unless it can fly, is caught, or is roped.

AC 17 (ash-scale) | HP 136 (16d8 + 64) | Speed 30 ft., fly 60 ft.

Saves Dex +7, Wis +6, Cha +7 · Skills Insight +6, Intimidation +7, Perception +6 · Resistant to fire, poison · Immune to poisoned · Truesight 60 ft.

The Guilty First. When it enters a fight it names the Adjudged: the creature present whose worst unatoned deed is the greatest. The DM picks one, out loud, from a player character's history or from something the party did in this maze. While the Adjudged is conscious and within 60 ft, the fury attacks only that creature, makes no attacks of opportunity against anyone else, and does not respond to damage from anyone else.

Honours a Confession. If the Adjudged uses its action to say the deed plainly and name the wronged party, the fury has disadvantage on attacks against it until the end of the fury's next turn. If the Adjudged deals it no damage before then, the fury names the next-guiltiest creature present and turns on them instead. It cannot be lied to — it has truesight and it knows the deed already.

Will Not Strike the Innocent. It does not attack a creature it judges guiltless. A creature that attacks it, or that heals, shields, or bodily blocks the Adjudged, is complicit and becomes a lawful target for the rest of the encounter.

Grave-Ash and Salt. It cannot willingly cross a poured line of salt or of ash from a funeral fire. This means a line laid deliberately as a boundary, not the loose ash these halls are usually floored with, which it crosses freely. It waits at the line for as long as the vigil lasts, which is longer than the party's rations.

Multiattack. Three attacks with the ash scourge, or two attacks and one use of Brand.

Ash Scourge. Melee, +7 to hit, reach 10 ft, one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) slashing damage, and an extra 7 (2d6) fire damage if the target is the Adjudged.

Brand (recharge 5–6). It burns the charge into flesh. One creature within 10 ft makes a DC 15 Charisma saving throw, taking 14 (4d6) fire damage on a failure, or half as much on a success. On a failure it is branded for 1 hour: it sheds dim ash-light in a 5-ft radius, cannot benefit from invisibility, and every Erinyes & Ash creature within 120 ft knows where it is through stone.

Judgment Falls. When the Adjudged deals damage to another creature, the fury makes one ash scourge attack against it.

AC 14  |  HP 32 (5d8+10)  |  Speed 30 ft., swim 40 ft.

Blood Frenzy: adv on melee vs. creatures that don’t have all HP

Limited minis. Only 4 figures — use waves off-board if needed, or elite the four.

Multiattack. Bite and spear — or two spears.

Bite. +5 to hit. Hit: 5 (1d4+3) piercing.

Spear. +5 to hit. Hit: 7 (1d8+3) piercing.

AC 16  |  HP 44  |  Speed 30 ft.

Note. Carries traces back to the cursed millstone.

Attack. Gold needle +6 to hit, 8 piercing plus DC 14 Constitution save or slowed by stiffening gold.

AC 17  |  HP 110  |  Speed 30 ft.

Note. The mortal inside survives if reduced to 0 by nonlethal damage.

Attack. Horned mask +8 to hit, 2d10+5 bludgeoning; DC 15 Wis save or frightened.

AC 13 (bare bone, quiver-harness) | HP 39 (6d8 + 12) | Speed 30 ft.

Skills Perception +2 · Vulnerable to bludgeoning · Immune to poison damage, exhaustion, poisoned · Darkvision 60 ft.

Holds Its Peg. It will not voluntarily move more than 5 ft from the nearest Bronze-Tooth Hoplite. If no hoplite stands within 15 ft of it at the start of its turn, it spends that whole turn walking to the nearest one instead of shooting.

No Good at Arm's Length. It has disadvantage on attack rolls against any creature within 5 ft of it, and it carries no blade. Close the distance and it is a bundle of sticks.

Counts Its Arrows. It rises with ten bronze-headed shafts, which is five rounds of shooting. After that it walks the field gathering them, one turn for every two arrows recovered, and it does not shoot while it stoops — a long fight has a round in it where the archer is harmless.

Multiattack. Two shots with the horn bow.

Horn Bow. Ranged, +5 to hit, range 80/320 ft, one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage, and 2 more if the target is within 5 ft of a Bronze-Tooth Hoplite.

Pitch Arrow (3/Day). Ranged, +5 to hit, range 80/320 ft, one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage, and the target is smeared with burning pitch: it sheds bright light in a 10-ft radius and cannot benefit from being invisible or lightly obscured until it or an adjacent creature uses an action to smother the pitch.

Loose Over the Wall. When a Bronze-Tooth Hoplite it can see shoves a creature or knocks one prone, the archer makes one Horn Bow attack against that creature.

AC 15 (bone barding)  |  HP 110 (13d10+39)  |  Speed 50 ft.

Skills: Athletics +7, Perception +4, Survival +4  |  Vulnerabilities: bludgeoning
Immunities: poison; exhaustion, poisoned  |  Senses: darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 14  |  Languages: understands Ancient Greek

Chiron's Kin. Raised from the bones of the centaurs of Chiron's line — the teacher who taught Asclepius medicine. Asclepius knows them on sight. He (or a PC he is coaching, with a DC 15 Medicine check) can use an action to call one by its old name: it makes a DC 14 Wisdom save. On a failure it lowers its bow and takes no actions for 1 minute unless attacked; a second failure lays it down for good.

Hunting Charge. If it moves at least 30 ft. straight toward a target and then hits it with a Pike attack on the same turn, the target takes an extra 9 (2d8) piercing damage and makes a DC 15 Strength save or is knocked prone.

The Queen's Bridle. Its skull is bridled in black leather stamped with the Queen's seal — a clue (see Enc. 2).

Multiattack. Two Pike attacks, one Pike and one Hooves attack, or two Longbow attacks.

Pike. +7 to hit, reach 10 ft. Hit: 9 (1d10+4) piercing.

Hooves. +7 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 11 (2d6+4) bludgeoning.

Longbow. +6 to hit, range 150/600 ft. Hit: 7 (1d8+3) piercing plus 7 (2d6) necrotic.

AC 15  |  HP 52  |  Speed 30 ft.

Marshal Undead: skeletons within 30 ft. +1 to attacks

Multiattack. Two longsword attacks.

Longsword. +4. Hit: 6 (1d8+2).

Rattle Order (Recharge 5–6). Up to 3 skeletons move 10 ft. and attack.

AC 13  |  HP 13  |  Speed 30 ft.

Vuln bludgeoning; Immune poison

Oar Gang. While on a ship, +1 AC if adjacent to another Bone Rower.

Shortsword. +4. Hit: 5 (1d6+2).

Shortbow. +4. Hit: 5 (1d6+2).

AC 16  |  HP 118  |  Speed 30 ft.

Note. Stops pursuit if shown a properly cut golden leaf.

Attack. Root lash +7 to hit, 15 bludgeoning and target is grappled (escape DC 14).

AC 11  |  HP 115 (11d10+55)  |  Speed 25 ft.

Saves: Wis +1  |  Resistances: necrotic  |  Immunities: poison; exhaustion, poisoned
Senses: darkvision 60 ft.

Stolen Breath. A bloated corpse from the Asphodel fields, swollen with breath the Queen stole from the living. Its chest heaves; every exhale smells of pomegranate and grave-soil.

Undead Fortitude. If damage reduces it to 0 HP, it makes a Constitution save (DC 5 + the damage taken) unless the damage is radiant or from a critical hit. On a success, it drops to 1 HP instead.

Death Sigh. When it dies, it exhales every breath it stole: each creature within 10 ft. makes a DC 14 Constitution save or takes 13 (3d8) necrotic damage and is poisoned until the end of its next turn.

Multiattack. Two Grave Slam attacks.

Grave Slam. +8 to hit, reach 10 ft. Hit: 14 (2d8+5) bludgeoning plus 7 (2d6) necrotic. The target makes a DC 14 Constitution save or its HP max is reduced by the necrotic damage until it finishes a long rest.

Breath Thief (Recharge 5–6). It presses its mouth to a grappled, prone, or dying creature within 5 ft. and inhales: 21 (6d6) necrotic, DC 15 Constitution save for half, and the zombie regains HP equal to the damage dealt. A shade reduced to 0 HP this way is gone for good.

AC 14  |  HP 36 (6d8+9)  |  Speed 30 ft., swim 30 ft.

Sticky shield; Otherworldly Perception (force/invisible awareness 30 ft)

Spear. +3 to hit. Hit: 4 (1d6+1).

Net. As merman net.

Slime Slap. +3 to hit. Hit: poisoned until end of next turn (DC 11 Con).

AC 17  |  HP 85  |  Speed 40 ft.

Immune poison, psychic · Filter: reacts to open steel and running

Heated Hide. Melee hits against it deal 3 (1d6) fire to the attacker.

Ram’s Bell. If rung softly (Enc. 1 use), calf Wis DC 13 or stands idle 1 round.

Gore. +8 to hit. Hit: 14 (2d6+5) piercing + 4 (1d8) fire.

Stomp (Recharge 5–6). 10-ft radius Dex DC 15; 14 (4d6) bludgeoning and prone on fail.

AC 17  |  HP 60 (8d8+24)  |  Speed 30 ft.

Resist: bludgeoning, piercing, slashing (nonmagical)  |  Immune: poison, psychic, exhaustion, most conditions

Multiattack. Two Xiphos Strikes.

Xiphos Strike. +5 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 9 (1d10+3) slashing.

Shield Bash (Bonus Action, 1/turn if it hit this turn). Target: DC 13 Str save or pushed 10 ft and knocked prone.

AC 17  |  HP 82  |  Speed 30 ft.

Note. Cannot cross running water cut into the cave floor.

Attack. Commanding gaze DC 15 Wis or forced 20 ft toward a false door.

AC 18  |  HP 105  |  Speed 30 ft.

Note. Can be reprogrammed with the heart-key or blinded by sacred smoke.

Attack. Razor wing +8 to hit, 2d10+5 slashing; marks target with ringing bronze.

AC 17 (riveted bronze plate) | HP 76 (8d10 + 32) | Speed 40 ft. (rail only)

Skills Perception +1 · Immune to poison damage, psychic damage · Immune to charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned · Darkvision 60 ft.

On Rails. Its speed exists only along the bronze rail sunk into the floor. It cannot leave the rail, climb, open a door, or attack a creature standing more than 5 ft from the rail's line. Two feet to one side and it is an ornament with a boiler.

Predictable. It runs a fixed circuit at a fixed cadence, roughly three rounds to the lap. A creature that watches one full lap has advantage on Dexterity saving throws against the ox and knows the round on which Trample comes back.

Will Not Crush Bronze. It halts rather than run over bronze. A shield, a helm, a bell, a handful of coin laid across the rail stops it dead where it stands until a creature adjacent to the obstruction uses an action to clear it. The ox cannot clear the rail itself.

Pitch-Belly. Its boiler seam gapes at the flank. A creature within 5 ft can wedge it with a spike, a blade, or a wooden peg: DC 14 Dexterity check using thieves' tools, or DC 14 Strength (Athletics). While wedged the ox cannot use Trample and its speed is halved; it works the wedge free with one action.

Ram. Melee, +6 to hit, reach 5 ft, one target. Hit: 15 (2d10 + 4) bludgeoning damage, and a Medium or smaller target is pushed 10 ft along the line of the rail.

Trample (recharge 5–6). It moves up to its speed along the rail without provoking opportunity attacks. Each creature whose space it enters makes a DC 14 Dexterity saving throw, taking 18 (4d8) bludgeoning damage and falling prone on a failure, or half damage and no fall on a success.

Low. It lows through the stone, audible 300 ft. Every Daedalan automaton that hears it turns toward the sound and comes at its own unhurried pace; the DM should decide now what is one room away.

AC 16  |  HP 45 (6d8+18)  |  Speed 30 ft.

Resist: bludgeoning, piercing, slashing (nonmagical)  |  Immune: poison, psychic, exhaustion, most conditions  |  Darkvision 60 ft

Multiattack. Two Bronze Fist attacks.

Bronze Fist. +5 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 8 (1d10+3) bludgeoning.

Standby. Can be set dormant via the valve puzzle (DC 14 Investigation/Arcana, 2 of 3 valves).

AC 19 (atelier plate) | HP 207 (18d10 + 108) | Speed 30 ft.

Saves Con +10, Int +7, Wis +7 · Skills Insight +7, Perception +7 · Immune to poison damage, psychic damage · Immune to charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned · Darkvision 120 ft. · Speaks Greek and the workshop's cant

Legendary Resistance (2/Day). If it fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.

Legendary Actions (3/Round). It spends 3 legendary actions each round, one at a time at the end of another creature's turn, and regains them at the start of its own.

Speaks the Rule Before It Strikes. On its first turn, and again whenever a creature it has not yet addressed comes into sight, it states aloud the rule that creature is breaking. It does not attack a creature that is not, at that moment, breaking a rule it has spoken. It warns, it repeats itself, and it waits — which is a whole round the party can spend on something else.

Bound by Its Own Words. If a creature argues that two rules the Warden has spoken contradict each other, and the argument is honest — a DC 17 Intelligence or Charisma check, plus the DM's judgement of what was actually said — the Warden recalculates: it takes no actions, bonus actions, or legendary actions until the end of its next turn. Each rule can be turned against it only once.

Wax Seal of Commission. A palm-sized seal of wax and red thread on its chest holds the commission that animates it. The first time it takes 20 or more fire damage in a single turn the wax slumps and it loses Legendary Resistance and all remaining uses of it. An adjacent creature can pry the seal away instead with a DC 18 Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check, to the same effect.

Multiattack. Two attacks with the rule-arm.

Bronze Rule-Arm. Melee, +9 to hit, reach 10 ft, one target. Hit: 18 (3d8 + 5) bludgeoning damage.

Measure and Cut (recharge 5–6). It snaps a plumb-line taut along a 60-ft line 5 ft wide. Each creature in the line makes a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw, taking 36 (8d8) force damage and being pushed to the nearest edge of the line on a failure, or half damage and no push on a success. It will not draw the line through a fixture of the workshop, which is a shape the party can stand behind.

Cite the Violator. It names one creature it can see as being in violation. Until the start of its next turn it attacks no other creature, and it has advantage on attack rolls against the named one.

Objection. When a creature it can see damages, moves, or unmakes any part of the workshop within 60 ft, the Warden moves up to its speed toward that creature. It will cross the whole room to protect the work and abandon a kill to do it.

Step of the Compass (costs 1). It moves up to half its speed without provoking opportunity attacks.

Amend the Rule (costs 1). It speaks a new clause aloud. One creature it can see becomes a violator, or ceases to be one; say the clause at the table so the players hear the loophole open or close.

Strike the Line (costs 2). It makes one rule-arm attack.

Shutter the Way (costs 2). A bronze shutter drops across one doorway within 60 ft. Raising it is a DC 18 Strength (Athletics) check. It will not shutter a doorway a creature is standing in.

AC 17 (natural bronze)  |  HP 126 (12d10+60)  |  Speed 40 ft.

Immune: poison, psychic · Condition Immunities: charmed, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned · Senses: blindsight 60 ft. (it has no eyes)

Bound to the Rite. While the Sacrificial Garlands are worn by a living creature, the Heifer has advantage on all attack rolls. The moment the Garlands leave a living wearer it is stunned for 1 round as the rite’s claim lapses.

Trample Charge. If it moves at least 20 ft. straight toward a target and hits with Gore, the target must succeed on a DC 16 Strength save or be knocked prone; if the target is prone, the Heifer can make a Hooves attack as a bonus action.

Multiattack. Two Gore attacks.

Gore. +8 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 16 (2d10+5) piercing.

Hooves. +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., prone targets only. Hit: 18 (3d8+5) bludgeoning.

Brazen Lowing (Recharge 6). 60-ft radius. Wis DC 15 or frightened until the end of its next turn. The sound is a cow calling a calf that is not there.

AC 16 (natural armour, bronze barbs) | HP 144 (17d10 + 51) | Speed 30 ft., fly 50 ft.

Saves Dex +7, Con +6 · Skills Perception +4 · Darkvision 60 ft.

Twenty-Four Spikes. Its tail carries twenty-four bronze barbs and no more. Every spike attack and every spike loosed by Barb Volley or a reaction spends one, and the volley spends four. Count them out loud where the party can hear the tail rattle. Spent, it must land and fight with claw and bite, and it hates that.

Will Not Land. While it can fly it will not fight from the ground, and it will not end a turn within reach of a creature holding a spear or a polearm. Grounded by a net, a web, or a low ceiling, it spends its whole action getting airborne again and shoots nothing that round. Ceiling height is the single most important number in any room it is in.

Old Grudge. While it can see a Chimera of the Yard, at least one of its attacks each turn must be spent on the chimera, and it takes the shot even through allies. A party that persuades one to strike the other, or that stands so a stray barb lands on the chimera, has started a fight it does not have to finish.

Multiattack. Three tail spikes, or two claws and one bite.

Tail Spike. Ranged, +7 to hit, range 100/200 ft, one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) piercing damage, and the barb stays in. Drawing it out costs an action and 3 (1d6) piercing damage; left in, it deals 3 (1d6) piercing damage the first time that creature Dashes each round.

Claw. Melee, +7 to hit, reach 5 ft, one target. Hit: 9 (2d4 + 4) slashing damage.

Bite. Melee, +7 to hit, reach 5 ft, one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) piercing damage.

Barb Volley (recharge 5–6). It fans its tail and looses four spikes in a 30-ft cone. Each creature in the cone makes a DC 15 Dexterity save, taking 22 (4d10) piercing damage on a failure, or half as much on a success. Spends four spikes.

Barbed Rebuke. When a creature it can see hits it with a ranged attack or a spell from more than 30 ft away, it makes one tail spike attack against that creature. Spends one spike.

AC 15 (bronze plumage) | HP 82 (11d8 + 33) | Speed 20 ft., fly 60 ft.

Skills Athletics +6, Perception +4, Performance +6 · Darkvision 60 ft. · Speaks Greek, badly

Will Not Fight Grounded. Netted, webbed, or otherwise brought to the floor, she spends her turns getting airborne again — Disengage and Dash — rather than attacking, and takes the openings that costs. On the ground her talons do not grapple.

Drops the Prize. When she takes 15 or more damage in a single turn while carrying a creature, she loses her grip and it falls at once, taking 1d6 bludgeoning damage per 10 ft fallen. Concentrated fire is the answer to a snatch, and it costs the snatched character something.

Answers the Nest. If a Storm-Crow or a nest within 120 ft cries out, she breaks off whatever she is doing on her next turn and flies toward the sound. Threaten the eggs and you choose where she stands.

Multiattack. Two attacks with the talons, or one talon and one beak.

Talons. Melee, +6 to hit, reach 5 ft, one target. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) slashing damage. A Medium or smaller target is grappled (escape DC 14); she carries only one creature at a time and her fly speed is halved while she does.

Bronze Beak. Melee, +6 to hit, reach 5 ft, one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) piercing damage.

Carry Off. With a creature grappled, she flies up to 30 ft and lets go. The creature falls, taking 1d6 bludgeoning damage per 10 ft, and lands prone. She will not lift more than 250 lbs, and she will not carry a victim out of the room: she wants it broken on the floor she is circling, where the others can see.

Song of the Ledge. Each humanoid and giant within 60 ft that can hear her makes a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw or is charmed until the song ends. A charmed creature must spend its movement each turn walking the shortest route toward her, ignoring difficult terrain, opportunity attacks, and edges — it will step off a ledge and take the fall. It repeats the save at the end of each of its turns and whenever it takes damage from another source; on a success it is immune to her song for 24 hours. She must use a bonus action on each of her turns to keep singing, and she cannot sing while carrying a creature.

Rise on the Draught. When a creature she can see moves within 10 ft of her, she flies up to 20 ft without provoking opportunity attacks.

AC 15  |  HP 45  |  Speed 10 ft., fly 60 ft.

Skills: Perception +3 · Senses: passive Perception 13

Flyby. Does not provoke opportunity attacks when it flies out of reach.

Bronze Plumage. Resistance to nonmagical slashing. Thunder or loud noise: disadvantage on attacks until end of its next turn.

Flock Tactics. Advantage on attacks if another Stymphalian is within 10 ft. of the target. Same bird threat as Stymphalian Storm — staged here as an arena wave.

Attack. Bronze Beak +6 to hit, 10 (2d6 + 3) piercing, or Razor Feather +6 to hit, range 60/120 ft., 8 (1d10 + 3) slashing.

Dive Bomb (Recharge 5–6). Fly up to Speed and make one Bronze Beak with advantage. On a hit, target DC 13 Str save or prone.

AC 15  |  HP 45  |  Speed 30 ft.

Note. Use in pairs or as minion flights during dives.

Attack. Bronze beak +6 to hit, 10 piercing; flyby avoids opportunity attacks.

AC 16 (linothorax, hoplon) | HP 45 (6d8 + 18) | Speed 30 ft.

Skills Perception +1 · Vulnerable to bludgeoning · Immune to poison damage, exhaustion, poisoned · Darkvision 60 ft.

Shield Wall. While within 5 ft of another Bronze-Tooth Hoplite it gains +2 AC and has advantage on saves against being shoved or knocked prone. Break the line and this vanishes.

Steps Into the Gap. When an adjacent hoplite is destroyed, it may move 5 ft, without using its reaction, to take that space.

Sown Again. When destroyed, its teeth scatter into the nearest groove or seam of earth. Where a sowing mechanism is still turning, they count toward its spawn clock.

Bronze Spear. Melee or thrown, +5 to hit, reach 10 ft or range 20/60 ft, one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 2) piercing damage, and 2 more if another hoplite is within 5 ft of the target.

Shield Press. Shove a creature within 5 ft: Athletics contest, on a success push 5 ft or knock prone.

AC 15  |  HP 68 (8d10+24)  |  Speed 40 ft., swim 40 ft., climb 40 ft.

Skills: Perception +4, Stealth +5

Brood Minion. Optional Enc. 3 add for Deadly padding — fights beside the Green Coil until it sheds.

Coiled Lunge. Can move 20 ft. as part of a bite attack without provoking.

Bite. +7 to hit, reach 10 ft. Hit: 13 (2d8+4) piercing + 7 (2d6) poison.

Constrict. +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one Medium or smaller creature. Hit: 11 (2d6+4) bludgeoning; target grappled (escape DC 15). Until grapple ends, target restrained.

AC 14  |  HP 52 (8d8+16)  |  Speed 40 ft., fly 40 ft.

STR 16 (+3) · DEX 14 (+2) · CON 14 (+2)

Multiattack. Two claws +6 (8 / 1d8+3 slashing).

AC 11  |  HP 38  |  Speed 20 ft., fly 40 ft.

Nest scouts of the outer chimney

Claws. +3 to hit. Hit: 6 (2d4+1) slashing.

Luring Song. 300 ft.; Wis DC 11 or charmed + incapacitated, move toward harpy. Ends if damaged / deafened.

AC 15  |  HP 102  |  Speed 40 ft., fly 60 ft.

Spell DC 14 — minor illusion, detect magic; Roar once

Multiattack. Two claws; may replace one with Roar if available.

Claw. +7. Hit: 11 (2d6+4) slashing.

Roar (1/day). Each creature of its choice within 60 ft. Wis DC 14 or frightened 1 minute.

AC 14 (hide)  |  HP 42 (5d8+20)  |  Speed 30 ft.

Skills: Athletics +5, Stealth +6, Survival +2  |  Senses: darkvision 60 ft.

Long-Limbed. +5 ft. reach with melee attacks.

Surprise Attack. If it hits a creature that hasn't acted yet in combat, deal +7 (2d6) damage.

Team Cap. Iron Tusks field up to 3 Bugbears.

Morningstar. +5 to hit, reach 10 ft. Hit: 12 (2d8+3) piercing.

Javelin. +5 to hit, range 30/120 ft. Hit: 10 (2d6+3) piercing.

AC 14 (boiled hide, bull mask) | HP 39 (6d8 + 12) | Speed 30 ft.

Skills Animal Handling +5, Intimidation +4, Perception +3 · Speaks Greek · Passive Perception 13

Brave in a Crowd. It has advantage on saving throws against being frightened while it can see two or more allies within 30 ft. The moment it is the last Bull-Kin standing within 30 ft it breaks: it spends its turns running for the nearest way out and will surrender if cornered.

Will Not Strike the Herd. It never willingly damages a bull, a minotaur, or any Bull-Kin creature, even a maddened or charmed one; it steps out of the lane and lets the beast pass. Against a creature wearing a bull's mask it hesitates: the first attack it would make against that creature each fight is spent shouting instead.

Multiattack. Two attacks with the bronze goad.

Bronze Goad. Melee, +4 to hit, reach 10 ft, one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage.

Drive the Herd (recharge 5–6). It cracks the goad on stone. One Bull-Kin creature within 30 ft that can hear it uses its reaction to move up to its speed in a straight line; if that movement ends within 5 ft of a hostile creature, the driven creature may make one shove attempt as part of the same reaction.

Mark the Beast's Eye. It daubs a target with ochre or simply screams a name: one creature it can see within 30 ft is marked until the start of the cultist's next turn, and Bull-Kin creatures that can see the mark have advantage on shove attempts against it.

Behind the Horns. When it is targeted by an attack while within 5 ft of a Large or larger Bull-Kin ally, it ducks behind the beast and gains half cover (+2 AC) against that attack.

AC 14 (natural armour) | HP 85 (10d10 + 30) | Speed 40 ft.

Saves Con +6 · Skills Perception +3 · Darkvision 60 ft.

Mismatched Parts. Roll 1d4 when it is first seen: 1 fire, 2 cold, 3 lightning, 4 acid. It is resistant to that damage type and its second head deals it. No two of these things are stitched from the same donors, so roll separately for each one on the field.

Nearest Thing. At the start of each of its turns it moves toward and attacks whichever creature is closest to it, ally or enemy, with no preference at all. Break a tie in favour of whatever damaged it last. Party positioning is the whole fight: leave it a manticore to reach and it will take the manticore.

Two Minds, One Spine. It has advantage on saves against being charmed or frightened. Each time it succeeds on such a save the heads tear at each other and it takes 5 (2d4) piercing damage from itself.

Fear of the Gate. It will not pass through a barred opening, a portcullis, or any doorway narrower than 10 ft, even to pursue. It stops at the threshold and rages there. A shut pen gate is a full defence against it, and it knows how to wait.

Multiattack. One bite and one attack with the second head.

Bite. Melee, +7 to hit, reach 5 ft, one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) piercing damage.

Second Head. Melee, +7 to hit, reach 5 ft, one target. Hit: 9 (2d4 + 4) piercing damage plus 5 (2d4) damage of its mismatched type.

Snap at the Nearer Hand. When a creature within 5 ft of it makes an attack against anyone other than the hybrid, it makes one bite attack against that creature.

AC 15 (laced bronze plates) | HP 76 (9d10 + 27) | Speed 40 ft.

Saves Str +6, Con +5 · Skills Perception +2 · Resistant to nonmagical piercing · Darkvision 60 ft.

Strapped Plates. Bronze scales laced over its hide give it its AC and its resistance to nonmagical piercing damage. A creature within 5 ft can use an action and a bladed weapon to cut a lace: DC 14 Dexterity check, with disadvantage unless the boar is prone, restrained, or stunned. Two cuts drop it to AC 12 and end the resistance. Arrows are wasted on it; knives are not.

Charge. If it moves at least 20 ft in a straight line toward a target and hits it with a gore attack that turn, the target takes an extra 9 (2d8) piercing damage and makes a DC 14 Strength saving throw or is knocked prone.

No Brakes. If a charge attack misses, it keeps running in the same straight line until its movement is spent. If a wall, pillar, or statue is in that line it takes 7 (2d6) bludgeoning damage and is stunned until the end of its next turn. Fight it in the open and it never pays this.

Forward Only. It never takes the Dodge or Disengage action and never makes attacks of opportunity. Anything not in front of it is beneath its notice; a creature that steps aside is simply no longer part of the charge.

Relentless (recharges after a long rest). If it takes damage that would reduce it to 0 hit points, it drops to 1 hit point instead and gores once more.

Multiattack. One gore and one hoof stamp.

Gore. Melee, +6 to hit, reach 5 ft, one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) piercing damage.

Hoof Stamp. Melee, +6 to hit, reach 5 ft, one prone or Medium-or-smaller target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage.

AC 14  |  HP 90 (12d8+36)  |  Speed 30 ft.

Saves: Con +6, Int +6 · Immune: poisoned · Resist: fire

Role. Area denial / DoT. Turns the floor into a kiln; softens targets for Triopas.

Heat-Sickness Aura. Creatures that start their turn within 10 ft. Con DC 14 or poisoned until start of their next turn (fever shakes: disadvantage on Concentration).

Linked Lock. While Candalus lives, the West Lock is red-hot — touching it without the Dial deals 7 (2d6) fire.

Multiattack. Two fever-rods, or one rod and Kiln Bloom.

Fever-Rod. +5 to hit, reach 10 ft. Hit: 6 (1d6+2) bludgeoning + 7 (2d6) fire; Con DC 14 or poisoned until end of next turn.

Kiln Bloom (Recharge 5–6). 20-ft radius centered on a point within 60 ft.; Dex DC 14; 14 (4d6) fire; area becomes difficult terrain (hot brass) for 1 minute.

Copper Vapor (1/day). 30-ft cone Con DC 14; 18 (4d8) poison; failure also blinded until end of next turn.

AC 17  |  HP 168  |  Speed 40 ft.

False Lock. One of Nike’s visible locks is a decoy he controls. Until Orthos is bloodied or persuaded (DC 18), checks against that lock automatically fail.

Last Order. At 0 HP, he can use a reaction to slam a console — advancing Typhon’s Wake Clock by 1 (see Enc. 1).

Attack. Multiattack: two forge-hammers +10 to hit, 18 (3d8 + 5) bludgeoning plus 7 (2d6) fire. Or hurl slag +10 to hit, range 60 ft., 16 (2d10 + 5) bludgeoning.

AC 15 (bronze-studded leather barding) | HP 110 (13d10 + 39) | Speed 50 ft.

Saves Dex +6, Wis +5 · Skills Athletics +7, Perception +5, Survival +5 · Darkvision 60 ft.

Open Ground. It will not willingly end its turn in a space from which it cannot move 20 ft in a straight line. It breaks formation, abandons an ally, and gives up a flank to keep a running lane open. Corridors, rubble, and caltrops are worth more against it than armour.

A Fair Word. Any creature may spend an action to offer wine, a true name, or safe passage and make a DC 13 Persuasion check. On a success the centaur withdraws 30 ft, lowers the bow, and hears one round of terms, and it holds to any bargain struck exactly and literally, including the parts the party did not think through. On a failure its next volley is aimed at the speaker with advantage, and no centaur of the herd will hear that speaker again this session.

Split Herd. It counts the party's numbers before it commits: if the revel is outnumbered on the field at the start of its turn, it uses Wheel Away and shoots rather than closing, every turn, until the numbers change.

Multiattack. Two attacks with the horn bow, or one pike attack and one hoof attack.

Horn Bow. Ranged, +6 to hit, range 150/600 ft, one target. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) piercing damage.

Pike. Melee, +7 to hit, reach 10 ft, one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) piercing damage.

Hoof. Melee, +7 to hit, reach 5 ft, one target. Hit: 9 (2d4 + 4) bludgeoning damage.

Trample (recharge 5–6). It moves up to its speed in a straight line through the spaces of other creatures. Each creature whose space it enters makes a DC 14 Dexterity save, taking 17 (5d6) bludgeoning damage and falling prone on a failure, or half as much and staying up on a success. It provokes opportunity attacks as normal, and it knows it.

Wheel Away. It takes the Disengage action and moves up to half its speed. This is the first thing it does whenever a melee combatant closes to 5 ft.

AC 17  |  HP 178  |  Speed 30 ft.

Note. A victim of the cult; can be freed from frenzy by breaking its pain brand.

Attack. Iron sweep +9 to hit, 25 bludgeoning and knocks prone.

AC 17  |  HP 85 (10d10+30)  |  Speed 40 ft.

Resist: bludgeoning, piercing, slashing (nonmagical)  |  Immune: poison, psychic, exhaustion, most conditions  |  Darkvision 60 ft

Siege Monster. Deals double damage to objects and structures.

Multiattack. Two Gore attacks.

Gore. +8 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 18 (2d10+7) piercing; Medium or smaller target must succeed a DC 16 Str save or be knocked prone.

Trampling Charge (Recharge 5–6). Moves up to its speed; adjacent creatures in its path take a bonus Gore attack.

Shutdown. Adjacent creature may spend an action for a DC 15 Arcana/Investigation check to disable it (provokes an opportunity attack).

AC 16 (unarmoured, oil and sand) | HP 90 (12d8 + 36) | Speed 40 ft.

Saves Str +7, Dex +6 · Skills Athletics +10, Acrobatics +6 · Immune to poison damage, exhaustion, poisoned · Darkvision 60 ft.

The Rule of the Sand. It will not attack a creature standing outside the bronze channel, and it will not pursue past the channel. Straton the Pankratiast ignores this trait from round 3 onward.

Fell Fair. The first time it drops to 0 hit points it stands with 15 hit points at the start of its next turn, unless it was prone, grappled, or restrained when the blow landed.

Multiattack. Two bronze-bound fist attacks, or one fist and one grapple.

Bronze-Bound Fist. Melee, +7 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage.

Cast the Implement. Ranged, +7 to hit, range 60/180 ft. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage, and a Medium or smaller target makes a DC 15 Strength save or is knocked prone.

Set the Feet. It jumps up to 20 ft in any direction without provoking opportunity attacks and without needing a running start.

Trip the Runner. When a creature within 5 ft moves more than half its speed, the champion makes a DC 15 Dexterity save contest against it; on a win the creature is prone and its movement ends.

AC 14  |  HP 114  |  Speed 30 ft., fly 60 ft.

Lion / goat / dragon heads

Multiattack. Bite, horns, and claws.

Bite. +7. Hit: 11 (2d6+4) piercing.

Horns. +7. Hit: 10 (1d12+4) bludgeoning.

Claws. +7. Hit: 11 (2d6+4) slashing.

Fire Breath (Recharge 5–6). 15-ft cone Dex DC 15; 31 (7d8) fire.

AC 16 (natural armour) | HP 199 (21d10 + 84) | Speed 30 ft., fly 50 ft.

Saves Con +8, Wis +6 · Skills Perception +10 · Darkvision 60 ft.

Three Heads, One Throat. It has advantage on saves against being blinded, charmed, deafened, frightened, or stunned, and it cannot be surprised. Two of the three are always awake.

The Heads Do Not Agree. As an action, a creature within 30 ft may set the heads against each other with a DC 16 Animal Handling or Deception check: a tossed scrap of meat, a mimicked hiss, the smell of another predator. On a success the chimera makes one fewer attack on its next turn, and if any creature that is not a party member is within 30 ft it must spend its Multiattack on that creature instead. This is the intended way out of any room it is in, and it works as often as the party can keep it up.

The Ash Sac. In the round before Fire Breath is available the goat's throat swells and glows bronze under the hide, visible with a DC 13 Perception check and explicable with a DC 15 Nature check. The first time it takes cold damage while the sac is lit, it makes a DC 16 Constitution save; on a failure the breath is lost, the recharge starts over, and the chimera takes 14 (4d6) fire damage from its own ruptured throat. This is the vulnerability the party is meant to find.

Will Not Be Herded. It refuses to fly out of a room while there is meat on the floor in it, living or dead, and it will not pursue a fleeing party past the last body. Leaving something behind buys the retreat.

Multiattack. One lion bite, one goat gore, and one serpent bite. It may replace the gore with Fire Breath when that is available.

Lion Bite. Melee, +9 to hit, reach 5 ft, one target. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5) piercing damage.

Goat Gore. Melee, +9 to hit, reach 5 ft, one target. Hit: 11 (1d12 + 5) bludgeoning damage, and a Large or smaller target must succeed on a DC 16 Strength save or be pushed 10 ft and knocked prone.

Serpent Bite. Melee, +9 to hit, reach 10 ft, one target. Hit: 9 (1d8 + 5) piercing damage plus 7 (2d6) poison damage.

Fire Breath (recharge 5–6). The goat head vomits a 30-ft cone of burning ash. Each creature in it makes a DC 16 Dexterity save, taking 33 (6d10) fire damage on a failure, or half as much on a success.

Snap. It makes one serpent bite attack. It has 2 legendary actions, spent one at a time at the end of another creature's turn, and regains them at the start of its turn.

Beat of the Wings (costs 2 actions). Each creature within 10 ft makes a DC 16 Dexterity save or takes 9 (2d8) bludgeoning damage and is pushed 10 ft; the chimera then flies up to half its speed without provoking opportunity attacks.

AC 18 (marble, bronze fillet) | HP 136 (16d10 + 48) | Speed 20 ft.

Saves Wis +6, Cha +7 · Skills Performance +7, Insight +6, Perception +6 · Vulnerable to thunder · Immune to poison damage, psychic damage, charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned · Darkvision 120 ft.

Conductor's Beat. While the Choirmaster stands on its plinth and can be heard, every Clay & Marble creature within 60 ft that can see or hear it adds +2 to attack rolls and acts on the Choirmaster's initiative count. The round the beat stops — plinth broken, Choirmaster silenced, dismounted, or destroyed — those creatures halve their speed until the end of their next turn and lose the bonus.

The Plinth. Its wheeled plinth is a Large object: AC 15, 40 hit points, immune to poison and psychic damage, vulnerable to bludgeoning. A creature within 5 ft can attempt to topple it instead of attacking: DC 16 Strength (Athletics). Broken or toppled, the Choirmaster falls prone in an adjacent space and must spend one action to remount before Conductor's Beat and Cue work again.

Broken Time. Each time it takes 15 or more thunder damage from one source, it loses the beat: it cannot use Cue or Conductor's Beat until the end of its next turn, and Crescendo does not recharge that round. This is the vulnerability the party is meant to find — bells, shattered marble, a shatter spell, or a hammer on the plinth.

Will Not Descend. It never voluntarily leaves the plinth and never pursues beyond 60 ft of it. Run past it and it conducts at your back rather than following.

Multiattack. Three attacks with the ivory baton, or two attacks and one Cue.

Ivory Baton. Melee, +7 to hit, reach 10 ft, one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage, and the target cannot take reactions until the end of its next turn.

Cue. One Clay & Marble creature within 60 ft that can see or hear the Choirmaster uses its reaction to make one weapon attack.

Crescendo (recharge 5–6). Every statue in the room strikes the same chord. Each creature within 20 ft makes a DC 15 Constitution saving throw, taking 22 (5d8) thunder damage on a failure, or half as much on a success. On a failure the creature is also deafened until the end of its next turn.

Downbeat. When a creature it can see moves within 60 ft, one Clay & Marble creature within 30 ft of that creature moves up to half its speed without provoking attacks of opportunity.

AC 16  |  HP 95  |  Speed 30 ft.

Note. Break concentration by lifting their clay bowl off the ground.

Attack. Mud brand +7 to hit, 3d6 necrotic; target's speed reduced by 10 ft.

AC 18 (bronze carapace) | HP 85 (10d8 + 40) | Speed 30 ft.

Skills Perception +3 · Resistant to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks · Immune to poison damage, psychic damage · Immune to charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned · Darkvision 120 ft.

Fixed Patrol. It walks a set circuit and returns to it. It pursues no further than 60 ft from that route, then turns back by the shortest path and leaves whatever it was chasing behind. Outrun the circuit and the fight simply stops.

Logged as Staff. It reads tread and burden, not faces. A creature carrying an atelier tally-token, or one that matches the sentinel's pace and stride for a full round (DC 15 Dexterity (Stealth) or DC 15 Charisma (Performance)), is logged as staff and ignored until it attacks, runs, or opens something sealed.

The Winding at the Nape. A key-drum turns behind a grille at the back of its neck. A creature that can reach it may foul the drum with a DC 15 Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check as an action, or with one melee attack made at disadvantage that hits. While fouled it loses Multiattack and its speed is 15 ft; it spends one action to rewind itself.

Will Not Break the Work. It never damages Daedalan fittings, inlay, or machinery, and will not strike across them. A creature standing inside a floor inlay or up on a workbench is attacked at reach only, never stepped over, never shoved into the mechanism.

Multiattack. Two attacks with the glaive-arm.

Bronze Glaive-Arm. Melee, +6 to hit, reach 10 ft, one target. Hit: 12 (2d8 + 3) slashing damage.

Lantern Eye. It turns the lamp set in its faceplate: a 30-ft cone of bright light and 30 ft more of dim. A creature hiding within the cone is revealed, no check.

Halt. When a creature moves out of its reach it makes one glaive-arm attack. On a hit, that creature's speed becomes 0 until the end of its turn.

AC 18 (natural armour) | HP 231 (22d12 + 88) | Speed 40 ft., climb 30 ft., swim 40 ft.

Saves Dex +5, Con +9, Wis +8 · Skills Perception +13, Stealth +5 · Immune to poison damage, poisoned · Blindsight 30 ft. · Darkvision 120 ft.

Slow to Wake. She sleeps coiled and warm, and she does not come up fast. For the first round after she is woken she has disadvantage on attack rolls, takes no legendary actions, and cannot use Poison Breath. A party that spends that round leaving has left. A party that spends it stabbing her has chosen the fight.

Will Not Leave the Clutch. She will not move more than 60 ft from her eggs, and she will let quarry walk out of sight rather than lose the nest from her senses. Threaten the clutch and she abandons every other target on the board to come back; take one egg out of the room and she stops at the sixty-foot line and screams.

Cold Blood. Her blindsight is heat, and a creature that has taken cold damage since the end of its last turn is invisible to it. While she is below half her hit points she is also vulnerable to cold damage, as the slow blood stops moving in the coil. Both halves of this are learnable in one round of watching her hunt.

Multiattack. One bite and two coil attacks, or one bite and one use of Swallow.

Bite. Melee, +11 to hit, reach 15 ft, one target. Hit: 22 (3d10 + 6) piercing damage plus 9 (2d8) poison damage.

Coil. Melee, +11 to hit, reach 10 ft, one Large or smaller creature. Hit: 17 (2d10 + 6) bludgeoning damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 19) and restrained. She can hold two creatures at once. A creature that deals 20 or more damage to her in a single turn while grappled forces a DC 17 Constitution save; on a failure she lets that creature go.

Swallow. She makes one bite attack against a Medium or smaller creature she is grappling. On a hit the creature is swallowed, blinded and restrained, has total cover against attacks from outside, and takes 17 (5d6) acid damage at the start of each of her turns. If she takes 30 damage or more in a single turn from a creature inside her, she must succeed on a DC 17 Constitution save or vomit that creature prone into a space within 10 ft.

Poison Breath (recharge 5–6). A 60-ft cone of green fume. Each creature in it makes a DC 17 Constitution save, taking 56 (16d6) poison damage on a failure, or half as much on a success. A creature that fails is also poisoned for 1 minute, repeating the save at the end of each of its turns.

Tongue. She tastes the air and learns the exact position of every creature within 60 ft that has not taken cold damage since the end of its last turn. She has 3 legendary actions, spent one at a time at the end of another creature's turn, and regains them at the start of her turn.

Tighten (costs 2 actions). Each creature she is grappling takes 13 (2d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage.

Tail Sweep (costs 2 actions). Each creature within 15 ft makes a DC 17 Strength save or is pushed 10 ft and knocked prone. She will use this to clear the floor around the clutch and nothing else.

AC 15  |  HP 98  |  Speed 30 ft.

Note. Climb over the sides when forged fares are exposed.

Attack. Cold hands +7 to hit, 13 necrotic; stolen obol forces DC 15 Wisdom or frightened.

AC 16  |  HP 68  |  Speed 30 ft.

Skills: Perception +2 · Spears and horns for alarm

Alarm Horn. If a guard uses an action to blow the horn, Alarm +1 (Enc. 1 track).

Multiattack. Two spear attacks.

Spear. +6 to hit, reach 5 ft. or thrown 20/60. Hit: 8 (1d8+3) piercing.

AC 15  |  HP 112  |  Speed 30 ft., fly 40 ft.

Note. Her song can be answered with Performance or thunder to break the lure.

Attack. Bloodsong DC 16 Wis or move toward the nearest cliff edge.

AC 15 (woody stems) | HP 67 (9d8 + 27) | Speed 20 ft., climb 30 ft.

Skills Perception +3, Stealth +5 · Immune to petrified, blinded, deafened · Tremorsense 60 ft.

Blind to Stone. A vine grown fat in the gorgons' soil, threading the statues. It senses warmth and motion and nothing else: it does not perceive petrified creatures at all, nor any creature that has not moved since the end of its own last turn. A party that stops dead among the statues is not attacked, and the creeper will glide between them feeling for something that twitches.

Laced Through the Statues. While wound around a statue, pillar, or plinth it strikes from behind the stone: attack rolls against it have disadvantage. Topple the stone and the protection goes with it.

Sap of the Garden. Its cut stems weep the pale sap that softens fresh stone. A creature can harvest one dose from a dead creeper with a DC 13 Wisdom (Medicine) check; one dose frees a creature restrained by any brood venom, or a creature petrified within the last minute.

Multiattack. Two lashes. Only the first lash each turn carries a thorn.

Stiffening Thorn. Melee, +5 to hit, reach 10 ft, one target. Hit: 8 (1d10 + 3) piercing damage, and the target makes a DC 13 Constitution saving throw. On a failure it is restrained as the flesh greys and stiffens; it repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success and becoming petrified on a second failure.

Withdraw. It disengages and moves up to half its speed, back to stone if there is stone to reach.

AC 14 (hide)  |  HP 52 (7d8+21)  |  Speed 30 ft.

Skills: Athletics +6, Intimidation +2, Perception +3 (adv on sight-based checks beyond 30 ft.: disadvantage)

Single Eye. Disadvantage on Perception checks relying on sight beyond 30 ft.; immune to gaze attacks that require meeting both eyes.

Forge-Kin Cunning. Intelligent — speaks Common and Giant; can contest riddles and craft checks.

Reskin Note. Orc-sized intelligent cyclopes (not Huge mythic Cyclopes).

Multiattack. Two greataxe attacks.

Greataxe. +6 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 10 (1d12+4) slashing.

Rock. +6 to hit, range 30/60 ft. Hit: 11 (2d6+4) bludgeoning.

AC 16 (chain shirt, shield)  |  HP 45 (7d8+14)  |  Speed 30 ft.

Skills: Athletics +5

Senses: Darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 9

Poor Depth Perception. Disadvantage on ranged attack rolls.

Iron-Blooded. Advantage on saving throws against the frightened condition.

Spear. +6 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft. Hit: 8 (1d8+3) piercing. Ranged attacks at disadvantage.

Shield Bash. +5 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 5 (1d4+3) bludgeoning; DC 13 Strength save or pushed 5 ft. and knocked prone.

AC 14 (natural armor)  |  HP 114 (12d10+48)  |  Speed 30 ft.

Senses: passive Perception 9

Poor Depth Perception. Disadvantage on any attack roll against a target more than 30 ft. away.

Unstoppable (1/combat). When reduced to 0 HP by B/P/S damage, may make DC 15 Constitution save; on success drops to 1 HP instead.

Multiattack. Two Greatclub attacks.

Greatclub. +9 to hit, reach 10 ft. Hit: 19 (3d8+6) bludgeoning.

Rock. +9 to hit, range 30/120 ft. Hit: 28 (4d10+6) bludgeoning. Disadvantage if target >30 ft. away.

Rock Catch. If hit by a thrown/ranged attack, DC 10 Dexterity save; on success, catches it and takes no damage.

AC 12  |  HP 39  |  Speed 40 ft.

Two heads: adv on Perception · Sleep / charm: save once for both heads

Not Cerberus. Two-headed only — never stage as Cerberus.

Multiattack. Two bites.

Bite. +4 to hit. Hit: 5 (1d6+2) piercing + Con DC 12 or poisoned; fail by 5+ also diseased (HP max −3 until cured).

AC 15  |  HP 82  |  Speed 30 ft.

Note. Cannot regain morale if publicly thrown out of the ring.

Attack. Earthlock +7 to hit, 2d8+4 bludgeoning; target grappled, escape DC 15.

AC 12  |  HP 90  |  Speed 30 ft.

Note. Should be persuaded, restrained, or redirected; do not frame them as kill fodder.

Attack. Surge, DC 15 Strength or Charisma save or 16 bludgeoning and the Balance clock worsens.

AC 14  |  HP 60 (8d12+8)  |  Speed 30 ft., climb 30 ft., swim 30 ft.

Skills: Stealth +4 · Senses: blindsight 10 ft.

Glitter Lure. Diamonds on the valley floor are difficult terrain. A creature that Dashes across them makes a Dex DC 12 save or falls prone (noise attracts a serpent if any remain hidden).

Bite. +6 to hit, reach 10 ft. Hit: 11 (2d6+4) piercing + 7 (2d6) poison (Con DC 12 or poisoned 1 min).

Constrict. +6 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 13 (2d8+4) bludgeoning + grapple (escape DC 14).

AC 14  |  HP 68  |  Speed 30 ft.

Woman-serpent hybrids; speak broken Common

RECRUITMENT (optional). If reduced without a killing blow and offered mercy (Persuasion DC 15), one may hiss a warning about Phase 2’s Orthrus — then flees. Not a combat ally.

Multiattack. Spear and constrict.

Spear. +5 to hit. Hit: 8 (1d8+3) piercing.

Constrict. +5 to hit. Hit: 10 (2d6+3) bludgeoning + grapple (escape DC 13).

AC 17 (bronze cuirass, hoplon) | HP 78 (12d8 + 24) | Speed 30 ft.

Saves Str +6, Con +5 · Skills Athletics +6, Perception +3 · Immune to poison damage, exhaustion, poisoned · Darkvision 60 ft.

Planted Standard. While the Serjeant is standing, hoplites within 30 ft add +1 to attack rolls and cannot be frightened.

Formation Fighter. The Serjeant has advantage on attack rolls against any creature that is not adjacent to an ally.

Multiattack. Two attacks with the bronze kopis, or one kopis and one thrown spear.

Bronze Kopis. Melee, +6 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 10 (1d10 + 3) slashing damage.

Sowing Horn (recharge 5–6). Every groove or seam of sown earth within 30 ft sprouts at once: two Bronze-Tooth Hoplites rise and act at the start of the next round. Deafening — every creature in the room must make a DC 13 Constitution save or be unable to hear until the end of its next turn.

Sow the Teeth (3/day). Scatter a fistful of teeth into bare earth within 10 ft. One Bronze-Tooth Hoplite rises there at the start of the Serjeant's next turn.

Hold the Line. When a creature within 5 ft tries to move past it, the Serjeant makes one kopis attack; on a hit the creature's movement ends.

AC 16 (natural armour) | HP 75 (10d8 + 30) | Speed 30 ft., climb 30 ft.

Saves Dex +4, Con +5 · Skills Perception +2, Stealth +4 · Immune to poison damage, poisoned · Darkvision 60 ft.

No Discipline. It breathes the moment the breath is available, and it places the cone to catch the greatest number of bodies without caring whose. Allies in the cone save and suffer normally. Put the whelps behind their own serpent-hounds and let the party watch what happens.

Nest-Bound. It will not move more than 30 ft from the clutch it hatched beside, and it will break off any pursuit at that line. Everything outside that circle is somebody else's business.

Wet Scales. It is three weeks out of the shell and its belly plates have not hardened. While it is prone its AC is 13, and the first attack that hits it while prone each round deals an extra 5 (2d4) damage.

Multiattack. One bite and one tail attack.

Bite. Melee, +5 to hit, reach 5 ft, one target. Hit: 8 (1d10 + 3) piercing damage plus 3 (1d6) poison damage.

Tail. Melee, +5 to hit, reach 10 ft, one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) bludgeoning damage.

Venom Breath (recharge 5–6). It coughs a 15-ft cone of green vapour. Each creature in it makes a DC 13 Constitution save, taking 18 (4d8) poison damage on a failure, or half as much on a success. The vapour hangs for one round as lightly obscured air that smells of hot brass.

Coil and Hiss. It wraps a pillar, a stair rail, or a clutch of eggs and rears. Until the start of its next turn it has half cover and cannot be knocked prone.

AC 14  |  HP 118  |  Speed 30 ft.

Note. Fire drives it off but risks waking Ladon.

Attack. Dust cloud DC 16 Wis, 24 psychic and slowed by drowsiness.

AC 14 (brine-hardened linothorax, hoplon) | HP 52 (7d8 + 21) | Speed 20 ft., swim 40 ft.

Saves Str +5 · Skills Athletics +5 · Immune to poison damage, exhaustion, poisoned · Does not need to breathe · Darkvision 60 ft.

Slow Ashore. On dry ground it moves 20 ft and cannot Dash; every step sluices water out of its armour. In water it moves 40 ft and has advantage on attack rolls against creatures without a swimming speed.

Undertow. It has advantage on Athletics checks made to grapple or shove a creature standing in water, or within 5 ft of water at least 3 ft deep.

Dead Weight. A creature it is grappling moves when the hoplite moves, downward included. While the hoplite is submerged and grappling, the grappled creature is submerged too: it can hold its breath for 1 + its Constitution modifier minutes, minimum 30 seconds, and when that runs out it drops to 0 HP at the start of its next turn and begins making death saves. Healing does not help a creature that is still under. Air does.

Will Not Leave the Water. It will not pursue more than 30 ft from water it can submerge in. It wades back, sets its spear at the waterline, and waits where the footing is bad for you.

Multiattack. Two Corroded Spear attacks, or one Corroded Spear and one Drag Under.

Corroded Spear. Melee or thrown, +5 to hit, reach 10 ft or range 20/60 ft, one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) piercing damage.

Drag Under. Melee, +5 to hit, reach 5 ft, one Medium or smaller creature. Hit: the target is grappled (escape DC 13), and the hoplite immediately moves up to half its speed toward the nearest water at least 3 ft deep, taking the target with it.

Sink. While grappling, it drops straight down through water up to 40 ft, carrying the grappled creature with it. It does not let go on the way down; killing it or beating the escape DC is the only release.

AC 14 (leather armor)  |  HP 28 (5d6+10)  |  Speed 30 ft.

Skills: Perception +3, Stealth +4

Senses: Darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13

Magic Resistance. Advantage on saving throws against spells and magical effects.

Bracing Ram. If the Dwarf-Satyr doesn't move on its turn, its Ram attack deals an extra 1d4 bludgeoning damage.

Ram. +2 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 5 (1d10) bludgeoning.

Short Sword. +4 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 5 (1d6+2) piercing.

Panpipe Wail (Recharge 6). Each creature within 20 ft. that can hear: DC 12 Wisdom save or frightened until end of next turn.

AC 16  |  HP 88  |  Speed 30 ft.

Note. Fights harder near exposed drops but may flee if the eagle omen fails.

Attack. Hooked spear +7 to hit, 14 piercing and pulls 10 ft.

AC 15  |  HP 130  |  Speed 30 ft.

Note. Can be turned by proving the cult will never release its debts.

Attack. Stone maul +8 to hit, 3d10+5 bludgeoning; pushes target prone in dirt.

AC 17 (bronze corselet) | HP 204 (24d8 + 96) | Speed 30 ft.

Saves Dex +9, Wis +7, Cha +9 · Skills Deception +9, Insight +7, Perception +7, Stealth +9 · Darkvision 60 ft. · Speaks Greek

Legendary Resistance (2/Day). If she fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.

Legendary Actions (3/Round). She spends 3 legendary actions each round, one at a time at the end of another creature's turn, and regains them at the start of her own.

Petrifying Gaze. If a creature starts its turn within 30 ft and can see her eyes, she can force a DC 16 Constitution saving throw if she is not incapacitated. On a failure the creature is restrained as it turns to stone; it repeats the save at the end of its next turn, ending the effect on a success and becoming petrified on a second failure. A creature can avert its eyes at the start of its turn: it cannot see her until its next turn and has disadvantage on attacks against her, but if it looks in the meantime it saves at once.

She Has Not Seen Her Own Face. If she sees her own reflection within 30 ft in bright light she makes the same DC 16 saving throw against her own gaze, and she may not avert her eyes from it. While she is restrained by her own gaze she cannot use Legendary Resistance. Every mirror in the room is a weapon, and she knows it — she fights with her back to polished stone.

Sleeps Coiled, Her Hair Does Not. She sleeps most of a day at a stretch, and the serpents keep watch while she does: passive Perception 17, and they wake her if a creature comes within 15 ft, strikes a light within 60 ft, or makes a noise louder than a footfall. Waking costs her one turn, in which she can still take legendary actions.

Will Not Break Her Statues. She will not damage a petrified creature in her keeping and will not permit another to. A creature that raises a hammer over one has her whole attention and one round of her talking, which is one round in which nobody has to save.

Multiattack. Three attacks: one with the snake hair and two with the kopis. She uses the horn bow for all three instead if every enemy is beyond her reach.

Snake Hair. Melee, +9 to hit, reach 5 ft, one target. Hit: 8 (1d6 + 5) piercing damage plus 14 (4d6) poison damage.

Bronze Kopis. Melee, +9 to hit, reach 5 ft, one target. Hit: 9 (1d8 + 5) slashing damage plus 7 (2d6) poison damage.

Horn Bow. Ranged, +9 to hit, range 150/600 ft, one target. Hit: 9 (1d8 + 5) piercing damage plus 7 (2d6) poison damage.

Coronal Strike (recharge 5–6). Every serpent of her hair strikes at once. Each creature within 10 ft makes a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw, taking 22 (4d10) poison damage and being poisoned until the end of its next turn on a failure, or half damage and no poisoning on a success.

Slither (costs 1). She moves up to half her speed without provoking opportunity attacks.

Turn of the Head (costs 1). One creature she can see within 30 ft that is not averting its eyes immediately makes a saving throw against Petrifying Gaze.

Coil and Strike (costs 2). She makes one snake hair attack.

AC 16  |  HP 124  |  Speed 30 ft.

Note. Wants the page intact, so she bargains if the burn clock is low.

Attack. Scroll lash +8 to hit, 18 slashing plus 9 fire.

AC 15 (bronze leg, unnatural grace) | HP 84 (13d8 + 26) | Speed 30 ft.

Saves Dex +6, Cha +6 · Skills Deception +6, Insight +5, Perception +5, Persuasion +6 · Resistant to fire · Immune to charmed · Darkvision 60 ft.

Guest-Right. A creature that has accepted food, drink, or a seat from the court is a guest. While a guest has not drawn a weapon in the hall, stolen, lied to a direct question, or refused a cup, the attendant cannot attack it, cannot use Sweet Word on it, and must answer one direct question a round truthfully, though never completely. This binding is not a choice she is making and it does not end because the fight is going badly. It ends for one guest, and only that guest, the instant that guest breaks a term.

And What She Will Do For You. A guest in good standing may ask her to fetch, pour, carry, guide, or open a door, and she will. She will not leave the court's rooms, will not give up her own name or her mistress's, and will not let anyone through to the bath-hall unbathed. Ask her for the fourth of those and she says no and keeps smiling.

Cannot Enter Uninvited. She cannot cross a threshold she has not been asked across. A closed door and a party who keep their mouths shut is a complete defence, and any invitation from anyone inside is invitation enough, including one made in jest.

Fire Hair. A creature that grapples her, or hits her with a melee attack while within 5 ft, takes 3 (1d6) fire damage from the burning coil of her hair. Her hair is the only warm thing about her and it smells of scorched myrrh.

Multiattack. One hot bite and one bronze heel.

Hot Bite. Melee, +6 to hit, reach 5 ft, one target. Hit: 8 (2d4 + 3) piercing damage plus 7 (2d6) fire damage. Against a creature that is charmed by her, or that has eaten at the court's table within the last day, the fire damage is 14 (4d6): the meal was the preparation.

Bronze Heel. Melee, +6 to hit, reach 5 ft, one target. Hit: 8 (1d10 + 3) bludgeoning damage.

Sweet Word. One creature within 30 ft that can see and hear her must succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom save or be charmed for 1 minute, treating her as a beloved host and refusing to attack the court. It repeats the save at the end of each of its turns and whenever it takes damage from a court creature. On a success it is immune to Sweet Word for 24 hours and she knows it, and she will be perfectly polite to it thereafter.

Hide the Hoof. She smooths her chiton over the bronze leg and the ass's leg and passes for human. A creature within 30 ft that is listening rather than looking notices the bronze foot ring on stone with a DC 12 Perception check; a creature relying on sight needs DC 17.

AC 17 (bronze scale beneath the robe) | HP 218 (23d8 + 115) | Speed 30 ft., swim 30 ft.

Saves Dex +9, Con +9, Wis +8, Cha +9 · Skills Deception +13, Insight +8, Perception +8, Persuasion +9 · Resistant to cold, fire · Immune to charmed, poisoned · Darkvision 120 ft.

The Contract of the Bath. Any creature washed, fed, and given a cup by the court is a guest until dawn. The five terms are: no weapon drawn in the hall, no theft, no lie to a direct question, no cup refused, no false name given. While a guest keeps all five, the Bath-Mistress cannot harm it, cannot order it harmed, and cannot permit it to be harmed under her roof — and that last clause has teeth. She will spend her own action, her own legendary actions, and her own hit points putting down a court creature that breaks it, in front of the party, and she will not thank them for noticing.

What the Bath Is Owed. In exchange she may put one question to each guest each night, and the guest must answer it truthfully or forfeit guest-right. She knows automatically when a creature within 30 ft speaks a deliberate falsehood; no check, no save, no exception. Her questions are the real danger in her hall, and they are about the party's way out.

Breaking the Terms. When a guest breaks a term, guest-right ends for that guest at once and the Bath-Mistress attacks it on her next turn. Every other guest must drink again — one action, one cup — before the end of their next turn, or lose guest-right too. A party that keeps drinking while one of them fights alone is doing the correct and cowardly thing.

Regeneration. She regains 10 hit points at the start of her turn while any part of her is in contact with the hot water of the bath. She does not regenerate on dry stone, and she will not be moved onto it willingly.

The Cold Sluice. Her strength is in the heat. Draining or cooling the pool — a DC 15 Strength check at the sluice gate, a fouling of the channel with salt, or 20 or more cold damage dealt to the water — ends her regeneration, denies her Steam and Perfume, and gives her disadvantage on attack rolls while she stands on dry stone. The gate is visible from anywhere in a bath-hall and she never looks at it. That is the tell.

Multiattack. Two talon attacks and one scalding bite.

Talon. Melee, +9 to hit, reach 5 ft, one target. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5) slashing damage plus 7 (2d6) fire damage.

Scalding Bite. Melee, +9 to hit, reach 5 ft, one target. Hit: 12 (2d6 + 5) piercing damage plus 10 (3d6) fire damage.

Steam and Perfume (recharge 5–6). The bath boils and the myrrh burns off it in a cloud. Each creature within 20 ft makes a DC 17 Constitution save, taking 27 (6d8) fire damage and being blinded until the end of its next turn on a failure, or half as much damage and no blindness on a success. She has never once used this on a guest in good standing.

The Long Cup (recharge 6). One creature within 30 ft that can see and hear her must succeed on a DC 17 Wisdom save or be charmed for 1 hour, treating her as its host and spending its action each round attending her rather than fighting. It repeats the save whenever it takes damage from a court creature.

Pour. She fills a cup and holds it out. One creature within 30 ft must succeed on a DC 17 Wisdom save or use its reaction to take the cup and drink, taking 5 (1d10) fire damage and becoming a guest bound by the five terms. She has 3 legendary actions, spent one at a time at the end of another creature's turn, and regains them at the start of her turn.

Slip the Steam. She teleports up to 30 ft to an unoccupied space she can see that is touching water or standing steam.

Talon (costs 2 actions). She makes one talon attack.

AC 15 (natural)  |  HP 104 (16d8+32)  |  Speed 30 ft.

Skills: Deception +7, Stealth +7 · Resist: fire; nonmagical B/P/S · Senses: darkvision 60 ft.

Shapechanger. Bonus action: take the form of a beautiful young woman, or revert. In false form her bronze leg and ass’s hoof are hidden. Insight DC 18, or any light cast low across the floor, reveals them.

Flame-Hair. A creature that ends its turn grappling her, or grappled by her, takes 7 (2d6) fire damage.

Bound to the Queen. While Queen Lamia is within 60 ft. and conscious, the Empusa has advantage on saving throws.

Not Her Children (DM). These are the first women Lamia drank, in the first month, before she learned to finish the job. They did not die properly. Lamia has exactly three children and none of them is in this stat block — do not let a player conflate the two, and do not let an Empusa speak for her.

Multiattack. Two Claw attacks, or one Claw and one Draining Kiss.

Claw. +7 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 13 (2d8+4) slashing.

Draining Kiss. One charmed, grappled, or incapacitated creature within 5 ft. takes 17 (5d6) necrotic damage, its hit point maximum is reduced by half that amount until it finishes a long rest, and the Empusa regains hit points equal to the necrotic damage.

Beguiling Word (Recharge 5–6). One creature within 30 ft. that can hear her makes a DC 15 Wisdom save or is charmed until the end of its next turn and must use its movement to approach her.

AC 14  |  HP 68 (8d10+16)  |  Speed 50 ft.

Skills: Perception +3, Stealth +4  |  Senses: passive Perception 13

Keen Smell. Advantage on Perception checks using smell. Detects the Vial of Moly at up to 60 ft.

Pounce. If the lion moves 20+ ft. toward a creature and hits with Claw, DC 13 STR save or knocked prone. If prone, Bite as a Bonus Action.

Echo of Humanity. DC 12 Insight reveals human sorrow; DC 14 Animal Handling to calm. Showing the Vial of Moly grants advantage.

Multiattack. One Claw and one Bite.

Claw. +5 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 7 (1d8+3) slashing.

Bite. +5 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 8 (2d4+3) piercing.

AC 14 (natural armor)  |  HP 45 (7d8+14)  |  Speed 40 ft.

Skills: Perception +3, Stealth +4  |  Senses: Darkvision 30 ft., passive Perception 13  |  Languages: Understands Common (cannot speak)

Pack Tactics. Advantage on attacks against a creature if at least one non-incapacitated ally is within 5 ft. of that creature.

Echo of Humanity. DC 12 Insight reveals human sorrow in the beast's eyes; grants advantage on DC 13 Animal Handling to calm it. Showing the Vial of Moly also grants advantage.

Bite. +5 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 9 (2d6+3) piercing damage. DC 12 STR save or knocked prone.

AC 16  |  HP 105 (10d10+50)  |  Speed 60 ft., fly 120 ft.

Saves: Wis +4 · Immune fire · Resist radiant · Senses darkvision 60 ft.

Panicked or Calmed. Every horse starts panicked: it attacks, it feeds the Scorch Track, and it drags its yoke arm. A calmed horse stops attacking, stops feeding the track, and pulls where it is asked.

Damage Never Helps. No amount of harm improves a calming check. At 0 HP the horse dies: Scorch +1 immediately and +3 to every remaining calming DC. Say this out loud the first time someone rolls damage.

Held Still. While the horse is grappled or restrained (Athletics contest vs. +7), calming checks against it have advantage.

Calm him. Animal Handling DC 15. His answer: Performance DC 13 — the dawn-hymn he was bred to (automatic if the party banked the Dawn-Hymn in the chase); or a Light / Daylight effect held steady in front of him for one full round (automatic).

Dawnward Bolt. While panicked, on his turn he lunges east toward the horizon he was made for. The chariot veers: every creature on the deck Dex DC 14 or slide 10 ft toward the east rim. A creature already on the rim saves again or goes over.

Sunward Blind. Attacks made against Eous from the east — into the sun — have disadvantage.

Rearing Hoof. +9 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 14 (2d8+5) bludgeoning plus 4 (1d8) radiant.

Sunburst Snort (Recharge 6). Every creature within 10 ft: Con DC 15 or blinded until the end of its next turn.

AC 18 (ash and bronze) | HP 210 (20d10 + 100) | Speed 40 ft., fly 60 ft.

Saves Dex +8, Con +9, Wis +9, Cha +9 · Skills Insight +9, Intimidation +9, Perception +9 · Resistant to cold, fire, poison · Immune to poison damage, charmed, frightened, poisoned · Truesight 120 ft.

Declares the Charge. Before initiative she states the charge aloud: one creature, one deed, in the voice of the person it was done to. That creature is the Adjudged. The DM names a real deed from a player character's history or from this run. She strikes the Adjudged first and does not use Sentence of Ash where it would drop a creature she has not charged.

Honours a Confession. If the Adjudged uses an action to confess the deed truthfully and names a penance she accepts — carry his ashes to running water, give the name back, go out and tell the widow — she stops attacking it for 1 minute and speaks the penance as a rule. If it breaks the penance, ever, she has advantage on every attack against it for the rest of the encounter and pursues it past everything below.

The Unspoken Name. She keeps vigil for one dead person and does not say the name. A creature that learns it — DC 17 Intelligence (History) on the tombs, a Sign-tier clue, or a shade who remembers — can speak it aloud as a bonus action. Until the end of her next turn she loses Magic Resistance, all her damage resistances, and her legendary actions. This is the vulnerability the party is meant to find. She grieves for one round each time she hears it, once per round.

Vigil-Bound. She does not leave the ground she keeps. Withdraw past her threshold and she returns to her post, folds her wings, and waits, and she will be waiting on the way back.

Grave-Ash and Salt. She cannot willingly cross a poured line of salt or of ash from a funeral fire. This means a line laid deliberately as a boundary, not the loose ash her halls are usually floored with, which she crosses freely. She waits at the line for as long as the vigil lasts, which is longer than the party's rations.

Magic Resistance. She has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Legendary Actions. She has three legendary actions, spent one at a time at the end of another creature's turn, and regains them at the start of her turn.

Multiattack. Three attacks with the brazen scourge.

Brazen Scourge. Melee, +9 to hit, reach 15 ft, one target. Hit: 16 (2d10 + 5) slashing damage plus 7 (2d6) fire damage.

Sentence of Ash (recharge 5–6). She reads the sentence and the air burns grey. Each creature in a 30-ft cone makes a DC 17 Constitution saving throw, taking 35 (10d6) fire damage on a failure, or half as much on a success. The Adjudged has disadvantage on this save; a creature that has completed a penance she set is not affected at all.

Ash Step. She dissolves and re-forms in an unoccupied space she can see within 30 ft, leaving a 5-ft cube of hanging ash that is lightly obscured until the end of her next turn.

Complicity. When a creature heals, shields, or takes damage for the Adjudged, she makes one brazen scourge attack against that creature.

Name the Deed. Costs 1 action. One creature within 60 ft hears its own worst act in her voice and makes a DC 17 Wisdom saving throw or is frightened of her until the end of its next turn.

Wings of Ash. Costs 1 action. She flies up to half her speed without provoking attacks of opportunity.

Scourge. Costs 2 actions. She makes one brazen scourge attack.

AC 17  |  HP 168  |  Speed 40 ft.

Skills: Athletics +9 · Senses: passive Perception 11

Charge. If it moves ≥20 ft. straight then hits with gore, +13 (3d8) piercing and DC 16 Str save or pushed 15 ft. and prone.

Relentless (1/day). If reduced to 0 HP by an attack dealing ≤30 damage, drops to 1 HP instead.

Capture Labor. Mythic labor was capture alive. Preferred win: restrain / net / pen while bloodied (3 Athletics or Animal Handling DC 16) then drop the North portcullis. Same big-boar energy as Calydon — different labor stamp.

Arena Echo. Heracles absent. Slayable if the crowd demands blood.

Attack. Multiattack: one gore and one slam. Gore +9 to hit, 16 (2d10 + 5) piercing. Slam +9 to hit, 14 (2d8 + 5) bludgeoning.

Tusk Sweep (Recharge 5–6). Each creature within 10 ft. DC 16 Dex save or 18 (4d8) slashing and prone.

AC 14  |  HP 91  |  Speed 30 ft.

Note. Tracks names spoken aloud in the temple.

Attack. Biting skein +6 to hit, 18 poison and disadvantage on next save vs curse.

AC 14 (natural armor)  |  HP 22 (4d6+6)  |  Speed 40 ft.

Skills: Performance +4, Stealth +4  |  Senses: Darkvision 60 ft., PP 10

Languages: Sylvan, Common

Magic Resistance. Advantage on saving throws against spells and magical effects.

Fruit Fling. Ranged Attack: +4 to hit, range 30/60 ft. Hit: 4 (1d4+2) bludgeoning.

Trip Kick. Melee Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 4 (1d4+2) bludgeoning. Target DC 10 STR save or knocked prone.

Audience Harassment (Enc 3 only). Action while in audience seating: 1d4 audience members flee (no attack roll).

AC 13  |  HP 32  |  Speed 30 ft.

Copper masks; scent of hot metal

Spear. +3 to hit. Hit: 5 (1d6+1) piercing + 3 (1d6) fire.

Fever Brand (1/day). Melee +3; Hit: target Con DC 12 or poisoned 1 minute (repeat end of turns).

AC 13  |  HP 22 (4d8+4)  |  Speed 30 ft.

Skills: Perception +3, Stealth +5 (advantage in forest terrain)

Forest Camouflage. Advantage on Stealth in forested terrain.

Thorn Lash. +5 to hit, reach 10 ft. Hit: 7 (1d8+3) piercing. Target pulled 10 ft. toward the nymph.

Glamour Gaze (Recharge 5–6). One creature within 30 ft. DC 12 WIS save or disadvantage on next attack or saving throw.

AC 16 (bronze scale) | HP 105 (14d10 + 28) | Speed 30 ft.

Saves Str +7, Con +5 · Skills Athletics +7, Perception +4 · Immune to fire · Vulnerable to cold · Darkvision 60 ft.

Forge Heat. A creature that touches it, hits it with a melee attack from within 5 ft, or ends its turn within 10 ft takes 7 (2d6) fire damage. Standing water within 10 ft boils off; that square is heavily obscured by steam until the salamander moves.

Quench. While it is wet — submerged, drenched by a bucket or a burst waterskin, standing under a leak — Forge Heat is suppressed and its weapons deal no fire damage. Cold damage suppresses Forge Heat until the end of its next turn. Fully submerged it takes 11 (2d10) damage at the start of each of its turns and spends that turn getting out.

Will Not Leave the Anvil. While a forge, brazier, or heated anvil within 30 ft is still lit, it will not move more than 30 ft from it. Bait it away and it disengages and walks back rather than pursue. Put the fire out and that limit is gone, and so is any reason for it to stay polite.

Multiattack. One Molten Mace attack and one Tail attack.

Molten Mace. Melee, +7 to hit, reach 10 ft, one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage plus 7 (2d6) fire damage.

Tail. Melee, +7 to hit, reach 10 ft, one Large or smaller creature. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage plus 7 (2d6) fire damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 15). Until the grapple ends the target takes 7 (2d6) fire damage at the start of each of its turns, and the salamander cannot use its Tail against anyone else.

Slag Spit (recharge 5–6). It spits the crucible's skim in a 15-ft cone. Each creature in the area makes a DC 15 Dexterity save, taking 21 (6d6) fire damage on a failure or half as much on a success. Unattended flammable objects in the area ignite.

AC 15 (scorched hide, leather apron) | HP 157 (15d12 + 60) | Speed 40 ft.

Saves Str +9, Con +7 · Skills Athletics +9, Perception +3 · Resistant to fire · Darkvision 60 ft.

Poor Depth Perception. It has disadvantage on attack rolls against targets more than 30 ft away, and it knows it: it closes rather than reaches.

The Eye. One eye, unlidded, no bone above it. A creature may aim for it; that attack is made with disadvantage, and on a hit the cyclops must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution save or be blinded until the end of its next turn. Blinded, it does not grope for whoever hit it — it squeezes whatever is already in its fist.

Will Not Drop the Work. While it is grappling a creature it will not release to grab another, and it ignores every other enemy until the one in its hand is unconscious or it takes 30 or more damage in a single round.

Bound to the Coals. It answers a smith's voice over any threat. An order shouted in Giant by a creature it believes to be forge-staff costs it its action while it obeys, once per encounter per speaker.

Multiattack. Two Forge Hammer attacks, or one Forge Hammer and one Grab.

Forge Hammer. Melee, +9 to hit, reach 10 ft, one target. Hit: 19 (3d8 + 6) bludgeoning damage plus 4 (1d8) fire damage while the head is still glowing.

Grab. Melee, +9 to hit, reach 10 ft, one Large or smaller creature. Hit: 13 (2d6 + 6) bludgeoning damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 17) and restrained.

Hurl the Held (recharge 5–6). It throws a creature it is grappling up to 30 ft. That creature takes 16 (3d10) bludgeoning damage and lands prone. Any creature in the landing space makes a DC 17 Dexterity save, taking 11 (2d10) bludgeoning damage and falling prone on a failure, or half as much and staying up on a success.

Crush. One creature it is grappling takes 13 (2d6 + 6) bludgeoning damage.

AC 14 (hide, forge apron) | HP 76 (9d10 + 27) | Speed 40 ft.

Saves Str +6, Con +5 · Skills Athletics +6, Perception +2 · Darkvision 60 ft.

Wants the Range. It has disadvantage on attack rolls against creatures within 10 ft. On its turn it moves to at least 30 ft from the nearest enemy before it throws, and it will eat an opportunity attack to do it.

Gang Law. It will not throw at a target within 5 ft of another Cyclopean Gang creature; the gang beats a slinger who marks its own. With no clear lane it spends the turn walking for an angle and shouting for the big ones to shift.

Sack of Twelve. It carries twelve stones and spends one on each Hurled Stone. Empty, it has only the sack itself, and a slinger that has run dry will leave a fight to find gravel.

Multiattack. Two Hurled Stones, or one Sack Swing.

Hurled Stone. Ranged, +6 to hit, range 60/240 ft, one target. Hit: 9 (1d10 + 4) bludgeoning damage. The first creature it hits on its turn must succeed on a DC 14 Strength save or be knocked prone.

Sack Swing. Melee, +6 to hit, reach 10 ft, one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage and the target is pushed 10 ft away.

Scoop Rubble. Where loose stone lies within 5 ft, it refills the sack to twelve.

Shy Back. When a creature ends its move within 10 ft of the slinger, the slinger moves 10 ft away without provoking opportunity attacks.

AC 15 (stone-crusted hide) | HP 82 (11d8 + 33) | Speed 20 ft.

Skills Perception +2 · Immune to petrified · Darkvision 60 ft.

Petrifying Gaze. If a creature starts its turn within 10 ft of the basilisk and the two can see each other, the basilisk can force a DC 14 Constitution saving throw if it is not incapacitated. On a failure the creature is restrained as it begins to petrify; it repeats the save at the end of its next turn, ending the effect on a success and becoming petrified on a second failure. A creature can avert its eyes at the start of its turn: it cannot see the basilisk until its next turn and has disadvantage on attacks against it, but if it looks in the meantime it saves at once. Ten feet is the whole creature — beyond that it is a slow lizard.

Its Own Reflection. If it sees itself within 30 ft in bright light — a mirror, polished bronze, still black water — it makes the same DC 14 saving throw against its own gaze, and it cannot avert its eyes, because it does not know what it is looking at.

Slow and Certain. Its speed is 20 ft and it cannot Dash. Once it has chosen a target it walks toward that target every round until the target is stone, gone from the room, or the basilisk is dead. It does not flank, feint, or flee.

Leftovers. It eats the stone it makes. If a creature was petrified within the last hour and lies within 30 ft, the basilisk breaks off to gnaw at it instead of attacking on roughly one turn in three. That statue is buying the party a round, and the DM should say so with the sound of teeth on marble.

Bite. Melee, +6 to hit, reach 5 ft, one target. Hit: 12 (2d8 + 3) piercing damage plus 7 (2d6) poison damage.

Turn and Fix. When a creature it can see moves within 10 ft of it, the basilisk turns its head and that creature immediately makes a saving throw against Petrifying Gaze. Once per round.

AC 15  |  HP 136 (16d8+64)  |  Speed 0 ft., Fly 40 ft. (hover)

Saves: Con +8, Wis +7  |  Skills: Perception +7
Immunities: Necrotic, Poison; bludgeoning, piercing and slashing from attacks not anointed or magical; Charmed, Exhaustion, Frightened, Grappled, Paralyzed, Petrified, Poisoned, Prone, Restrained
Senses: Darkvision 120 ft., Passive Perception 17  |  Languages: understands all, speaks in the voice of whoever the listener lost

First Out of the Jar. One of the evils Pandora let out, the shape of every old age that ever came too soon — a stooped grey figure whose face is always a little familiar.

Returns to the Jar. While the Jar is open, Geras re-forms beside it at the start of Pandora's next turn with half its HP after being destroyed — unless the Circle of Despair is sealed.

Weight of Years. Creatures within 15 ft. of Geras regain only half as many HP from any healing.

Incorporeal Movement. Moves through creatures and objects as difficult terrain; takes 5 (1d10) force damage if it ends its turn inside an object.

Multiattack. Two Withering Touch attacks.

Withering Touch. +7 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 18 (4d8) necrotic. The target makes a DC 16 CON save or gains 1 level of Exhaustion as its hair greys and its hands spot.

Years upon Years (Recharge 5–6). 30-ft cone. Each creature makes a DC 16 CON save, taking 36 (8d8) necrotic damage on a failure (half on a success). On a failure its speed is halved and it has disadvantage on Strength and Dexterity checks and saves until the end of its next turn.

AC 13  |  HP 45 (7d8+14)  |  Speed 30 ft.

Shapechanger (hyena or jackal form — travel only) · Resist necrotic

Grave Hunger. Advantage on attacks vs. creatures at half HP or lower.

Optional. Use 0–2 on a Hard Gorge crossing (Enc. 2 Branch B); skip on Easy.

Claw. +4 to hit. Hit: 9 (2d6+2) slashing.

Grave Howl (1/day). Each creature of its choice within 20 ft. Wis DC 12 or frightened until end of its next turn.

Large Beast, Unaligned · Pyrakmon's Pets

AC 11  |  HP 52 (8d10+8)  |  Speed 10 ft., swim 60 ft.

Skills: Stealth +5 · Hold Breath 1 hour on land

Oar Grapple. While grappling the hull/oars, the ship’s row Speed is 0 until freed (Athletics DC 14 as action, or deal 15 damage to tentacles treated as object AC 10).

Tentacles. +5 to hit, reach 15 ft. Hit: 10 (2d6+3) bludgeoning + grapple (escape DC 16).

Ink Cloud (Recharge 4–6). 20-ft radius underwater heavily obscured 1 minute.

AC 15 (natural armor)  |  HP 52 (7d10+14)  |  Speed 40 ft., burrow 10 ft.

Senses: blindsight 60 ft. · Tremorsense through the diamond drifts

Gem-Shell Ambush. Buried under a diamond drift it is indistinguishable from the glitter (Perception DC 15 to spot). It erupts when a creature crosses within 10 ft. — that creature makes the first-round Dex saves at disadvantage.

No Parley. Cannot be recruited, bribed, or befriended — the gorge route offers speed, not friends.

Multiattack. Two claws and one sting.

Claw. +4 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 6 (1d8+2) bludgeoning, and the target is grappled (escape DC 12; two claws = restrained).

Sting. +4 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 7 (1d10+2) piercing + 22 (4d10) poison (Con DC 12 half).

AC 10  |  HP 40 (6d10+7)  |  Speed 10 ft., fly 60 ft.

Skills: Perception +3 · Keen Sight and Smell · Pack Tactics

Carrion Court. They have shadowed the Roc for weeks waiting for scraps. When she takes flight in Phase 2, 1–3 of them drop onto the nest ledge and defend the egg as if it were their own prize.

Egg Wardens. A vulture within 5 ft. of the egg imposes disadvantage on checks made to move, study, or strike the egg (it harries the attempt).

Multiattack. One beak and one talons.

Beak. +4 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 7 (2d4+2) piercing.

Talons. +4 to hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 9 (2d6+2) slashing.

AC 12  |  HP 88  |  Speed 30 ft.

Note. Can be calmed; reducing to 0 means dispersal, not massacre.

Attack. Crush and grab, DC 15 Strength or Dexterity save or 18 bludgeoning and restrained.

AC 13 | HP 44 (8d10) | Speed 30 ft., climb 30 ft.

Skills Perception +2 · Vulnerable to fire · Immune to charmed, frightened, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, prone, restrained, stunned · Darkvision 30 ft., keen smell 60 ft.

Swarm. It can occupy another creature's space and can move through any opening large enough for a Tiny beast. It cannot regain hit points or gain temporary hit points.

Nothing to Cut. A weapon attack deals a maximum of 5 damage to the swarm, however much is rolled. Area effects, fire, and thunder deal their damage in full. A soldier with a sword takes nine rounds; a torch and a jar of oil take one.

Smoke Scatters It. While any part of the swarm is in heavy smoke, burning oil, or thick incense, it cannot take the Bites action and must use all its movement to leave that area by the shortest path.

Follows Meat. On its turn it always moves toward the largest quantity of food within 30 ft — carrion, spilled blood, rations, honey, anything sweet — preferring a downed creature or a thrown meal to a standing target. It attacks whatever is nearest to that, not whatever hurt it last.

Carrier. While a Plague-Thing is within 60 ft, its bites also expose the target to that spirit's sickness — the target makes the same saving throw the Plague-Thing's Contagion calls for.

Bites. Melee, +5 to hit, reach 0 ft, one creature in the swarm's space. Hit: 14 (4d6) piercing damage, or 7 (2d6) if the swarm has half its hit points or fewer.

AC 14  |  HP 49  |  Speed 30 ft.

Note. Wants a hero to boast so the Chimera's legend grows.

Attack. Fire javelin +6 to hit, 9 piercing plus 7 fire.

AC 17  |  HP 95  |  Speed 30 ft.

Note. Will stand down if shown the queen's signet or proof of the true source.

Attack. Two spear attacks +7 to hit, 10 piercing each; net toss restrains on DC 15 Dexterity.

AC 9 (a slow surface) | HP 126 (11d10 + 66) | Speed 20 ft., climb 20 ft.

Saves Con +9, Wis +5 · Resistant to necrotic, poison · Immune to poisoned, exhaustion, blinded, prone · Vulnerable to fire · Blindsight 60 ft., blood scent 300 ft.

Grave-Sweet. A century of votive burial honey soured into one slow body, engorged with its keeping. While engorged its speed is 10 ft, it makes one attack instead of Multiattack, and it has disadvantage on Dexterity saves. It stops being engorged after a minute undisturbed, or on taking 25+ damage in a round — it sheds a sheet of itself (difficult terrain) and then it is fast.

Will Not Leave Its Dead. It keeps bodies the way a grave does, never moving more than 30 ft from the largest body it holds. Move the body a hundred pounds' worth elsewhere and it follows the body, not the party.

Sweet Tooth. It knows the location of every creature within 60 ft that is below half its hit points, and of any corpse or open wound within 300 ft, and it has advantage on attack rolls against a creature below half its hit points.

Cloying Air. A creature that starts its turn within 10 ft makes a DC 15 Constitution save or is poisoned until the start of its next turn. On a success it is immune to the reek for 1 hour.

Multiattack. One wave attack and two grasping-strand attacks.

Wave. Melee, +7 to hit, reach 10 ft, one target. Hit: 15 (2d10 + 4) bludgeoning damage plus 7 (2d6) poison damage.

Grasping Strand. Melee, +7 to hit, reach 5 ft, one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage.