Armor Class 13 (natural armor)

Hit Points 27 (5d8 + 5)

Speed 30 ft., climb 30 ft.

Saving Throws Dex +3, Con +3

Skills Stealth +5

Damage Vulnerabilities radiant

Damage Immunities necrotic, poison

Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened, poisoned

Senses blindsight 60 ft., darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10

Languages Infernal Sign

Challenge 1 (200 XP)

Dark Connection. The creeper draws power from the dreadfallen, gaining additional abilities as it gets closer. These abilities are cumulative.

• Shrouded Presence (41-50 feet away). The creeper gains resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical attacks.
• Cloaked Grasp (31-40 feet away). The creeper gains advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks and its grapple escape DC increases to 14.
• Jaws of Death (30 feet or less). The creeper’s attacks deal an additional 2 (1d4) necrotic damage.

Actions

Multiattack. The creeper makes two attacks, one with its Grasping Claws and one with its Toxic Bite.

Grasping Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 7 (2d4 + 2) slashing damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 12). Until this grapple ends, the creature is restrained, and the creeper can’t grapple another target.

Toxic Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage + 2 (1d4) necrotic damage.

Armor Class 13 (natural armor)

Hit Points 115 (11d12 + 44)

Speed 0 ft.

Saving Throws Str +8, Con +8

Skills Perception +11, Stealth +0

Damage Vulnerabilities radiant

Damage Immunities necrotic, poison; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks

Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned

Senses blindsight 60 ft., darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 21

Languages Infernal Sign

Challenge 9 (5,000 XP)

Turn Resistance. The dreadfallen has advantage on saving throws against any effect that turns undead.

Actions

Multiattack. The dreadfallen makes two attacks with its Grasping Arms or Howling Skull, and makes one attack with its Biting Jaws per grappled target.

Biting Jaws. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (4d4 + 4) piercing damage.

Grasping Arms. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage. If the target is a Medium or smaller creature, it is restrained (escape DC 16). The dreadfallen can keep up to four targets restrained.

Howling Skull. Ranged Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, range 30 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) thunder damage. The dreadfallen uses an arm to hurl a skull at a target which explodes with a deep howl on impact.

Legendary Actions

The dreadfallen can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. The dreadfallen regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.

Nightmarish Scream. The dreadfallen emits a cacophonous scream of many tortured voices. Each creature within 30 feet of the dreadfallen who can hear must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or become frightened for 1 minute. A frightened creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Leg Extension. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage. The dreadfallen uses an arm to grasp a leg and uses it as a club.

Spawn Creeper (Costs 2 Actions). The dreadfallen creates a creeper in an unoccupied space within 10 feet of it. The creeper acts on its own initiative count. Creepers cannot move more than 60 feet from the dreadfallen. Additionally, if a creeper takes radiant damage in the same round it is destroyed, the dreadfallen takes radiant damage equal to the amount of radiant damage dealt to the creeper in that round. Destroying the dreadfallen also destroys all remaining creepers.

A Ready-to-Roll: Feyweather Friends Add-on Encounter

This is a work in progress.

Trigger Warnings

This encounter includes violence, danger to people and animals, and eyeballs.

All eyes are on you!

Can you free a helpless forest creature from aberrant corruption?

This encounter is for 1–2 characters of any level.

Synopsis

While traveling through the Far Realm-infused forest, the hero finds a bush with eyeball berries ensnaring a distressed woodchuck. The bush, a gazeberry bush, is transforming the woodchuck into a floating eye minion, an oculing. The hero must navigate the bush’s magical eye beams while freeing the woodchuck before it’s too late. At higher levels, already transformed oculings join the fray.

Adventure Hooks

While designed as an add-on encounter for Ready to Roll: Feyweather Friends, this standalone encounter works in any fantasy forest, especially in adventures with aberrations and other Far Realm-inspired encounters.

Where are we?

This encounter takes place in the woods on the way to the shrine.

A Treat for the Eyes

As the hero traverses the woods, the chittering of a distressed woodchuck fills the air. On investigation, the hero finds a woodchuck wrapped in the roots of a bush that resembles a blueberry bush, except the berries are eyeballs. The roots glow magenta and begin to surround it like a cocoon, and the woodchuck struggles as streaks of red light beneath its fur gradually shift to magenta.

The bush, a gazeberry bush, is transforming the woodchuck into an oculing, drawing sustenance from its life force, turning it into a minion that will protect it and lure more creatures to it.

The Apple of My Eye

At higher levels, add existing oculings equal to half the total character levels, rounding up. They hang by their eyelids in an adjacent tree and look like magenta apples until the hero moves within thirty feet of the gazeberry bush, which causes them to attack.

Dramatis Personae

Oculing

Tiny aberration, unaligned

Armor Class 12

Hit Points 5 (2d4)

Speed 0 ft., fly 30 ft. (hover)

Skills Perception +3

Condition Immunities charmed, frightened

Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13

Languages —

Challenge 1/4 (50 XP)

Immutable Form. The oculing is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form. It can be restored to its original form with a Remove Curse spell.

Actions

Eye Beam. The oculing can use its action to shoot a magic eye beam. Roll a d4 to determine the effect:

1.        Ray of Expulsion. The target must succeed on a DC 12 Dexterity saving throw or take 7 (2d6) force damage and be pushed ten feet away from the Oculing.

2.        Ray of Enervation. The target must succeed on a DC 12 Strength saving throw or have disadvantage on Strength-based attack rolls and Strength checks for 1 minute.

3.        Ray of Brilliance. The target must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or be blinded for 1 minute.

4.        Ray of Terror. The target must succeed on a DC 12 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened for 1 minute.

Armor Class 11 (natural armor)

Hit Points 58 (9d8 + 18)

Speed 20 ft.

Saving Throws Wis +1

Damage Vulnerabilities fire

Damage Immunities necrotic, bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks

Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned

Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 9

Languages Abyssal, Common, Infernal

Challenge 3 (700 XP)

Actions

Multiattack. The Count can use its Dreadful Glare and makes one attack with its rotting fist.

Dreadful Glare. The Count targets one creature it can see within 60 ft. of it. If the target can see the Count, it must succeed on a DC 11 Wisdom saving throw against this magic or become frightened until the end of the Count’s next turn. If the target fails the saving throw by 5 or more, it is also paralyzed for the same duration. A target that succeeds on the saving throw is immune to the Dreadful Glare of all mummies (but not mummy lords) for the next 24 hours.

Rotting Fist. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage plus 10 (3d6) necrotic damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or be cursed with mummy rot. The cursed target can’t regain hit points, and its hit point maximum decreases by 10 (3d6) for every 24 hours that elapse. If the curse reduces the target’s hit point maximum to 0, the target dies, and its body turns to dust. The curse lasts until removed by the Remove Curse spell or other magic.

Armor Class 12

Hit Points 60 (8d8 + 24)

Speed 0 ft., fly 40 ft. (hover)

Saving Throws Wis +3

Skills Survival +3

Damage Resistances acid, cold, fire, lightning; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks not made with silvered weapons

Damage Immunities necrotic, poison

Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained

Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11

Languages understands Common and Orc

Challenge 4 (1,100 XP)

Incorporeal Movement. The wraith can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. It takes 5 (1d10) force damage if it ends its turn inside an object.

Chilling Presence. Any creature that starts its turn within 10 feet of the wraith must succeed on a DC 11 Wisdom saving throw or take 5 (2d4) cold damage and have its speed reduced by 10 feet until the start of its next turn. On a successful save, the creature takes half damage and isn't slowed.

Ethereal Sight. The wraith can see 60 ft. into the Ethereal Plane when it is on the Material Plane, and vice versa.

Turn Immunity. The wraith is immune to effects that turn undead.

Actions

Freezing Grasp (Recharge 5-6). The wraith targets one creature it can see within 10 feet of it. The target must succeed on a DC 12 Wisdom saving throw or be restrained for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success.

Icy Touch. Melee Spell Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 16 (4d6 + 2) necrotic damage.

Snowstorm. The wraith can summon a small snowstorm in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 12 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 14 (4d6) cold damage and is unable to take reactions until the start of its next turn. On a successful save, the creature takes half damage and can still take reactions.

Bonus Actions

Invisibility. The wraith magically turns invisible until it attacks, or until its concentration ends (as if concentrating on a spell). Any equipment the wraith wears or carries is invisible with it.
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Armor Class 14 (leather armor)

Hit Points 27 (6d6 + 6)

Speed 30 ft., fly 50 ft. (hover)

Skills Perception +3, Stealth +5

Senses passive Perception 13

Languages Elvish, Sylvan

Challenge 1 (200 XP)

Innate Spellcasting. The Thornwing Flutterkin's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 12, +4 to hit with spell attacks). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:

At will: Mage Hand
1/day each: Mirror Image, Invisibility

Butterfly Dance. The Thornwing Flutterkin moves up to its speed without provoking opportunity attacks. During this movement, it can pass through other creatures' spaces.

Butterfly Thorns. When a creature makes a melee attack against the Thornwing Flutterkin, it must make a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 5 (2d4) piercing damage as the thorns on its wings lash out in defense.

Actions

Multiattack. The Thornwing Flutterkin makes two attacks with its Thorned Stab.

Ensnaring Flutter (Recharge 5–6). The Thornwing Flutterkin flutters its thorned wings and releases a cloud of tiny, enchanted thorns in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 9 (2d8) piercing damage and becomes restrained for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success.

Thorned Stab. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage.

Armor Class 10

Hit Points 39 (6d10 + 6)

Speed 0 ft.

Condition Immunities blinded, deafened, frightened

Senses blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius), passive Perception 10

Languages —

Challenge 1 (200 XP)

Burr Burst. When a creature makes a melee attack against the Grapplebramble, it must succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw or become stuck with 1d4 enchanted burrs. While a creature has these burrs attached, it experiences one of the following random effects until all burrs are removed. (Roll 1d4) Once removed, if the creature becomes stuck with more, roll again for a new effect.
1. Disorienting Whispers. The burrs emit faint, disorienting whispers that cause the target to become distracted. It has disadvantage on Wisdom saving throws.
2. Stinging Pain. The burrs cause intense pain, imposing disadvantage on the target's attack rolls.
3. Burning Burr. The burrs ignite, causing 2 (1d4) fire damage each. The effect is instantaneous, after which the burrs turn to ash and need no removal.
4. Frigid Shivers. The burr imparts an icy chill, causing the creature to have its speed halved until the end of its next turn unless resistant to cold damage.

Removing Burrs

Each burr requires an action to remove. When a burr is removed, the creature removing it experiences one of the following effects. (Roll 1d4)
1. Dizzying Daze. The removal of the burr leaves the creature momentarily dizzy, causing it to have disadvantage on attack rolls until the end of its next turn.
2. Thorny Retaliation. The burr's removal causes it to explode. The creature takes 2 (1d4) piercing damage.
3. Sticky Residue Removing the burr causes it to explode into a sticky mess, causing the creature to have disadvantage on Dexterity-based skill checks for 1 minute.
4. Pollen Sneeze. A release of pollen from the burr triggers an allergic reaction. The creature must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be blinded until the end of its next turn.

Actions

Vine Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw or become restrained by twisting vines for 1 minute. A target restrained in this way can use an action to make a DC 13 Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check, ending the effect on itself on a success.