- Name: Shadow
- Size: Medium
- Type: undead
- Alignment: Shadow
Shadow 5e stats
- Armor class: 12
- Hit Points: 16
- Hit Dice: 3d8
- Hit Points Roll: 3d8+3
- Speed: Walk 40 ft.
- Strength: 6
- Dexterity: 14
- Constitution: 13
- Intelligence: 6
- Wisdom: 10
- Charisma: 8
Traits
- Skills Stealth +4
- Senses Passive Perception 10 Darkvision 60 ft.
- Challenge 0.5 (100 XP)
Special Abilities
Amorphous: The shadow can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.
Shadow Stealth: While in dim light or darkness, the shadow can take the Hide action as a bonus action. Its stealth bonus is also improved to +6.
Sunlight Weakness: While in sunlight, the shadow has disadvantage on attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws.
Actions
Strength Drain: Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 9 (2d6 + 2) necrotic damage, and the target’s Strength score is reduced by 1d4. The target dies if this reduces its Strength to 0. Otherwise, the reduction lasts until the target finishes a short or long rest.
If a non-evil humanoid dies from this attack, a new shadow rises from the corpse 1d4 hours later.
- Attack Bonus: 4
- Damage: Necrotic
- Damage Dice: 2d6+2
Before starting GameCows with his wife Kendra, he used to teach English Language Arts in the US. He combined his love of gaming with education to create fun game-based learning lessons until he eventually decided to run GameCows with Kendra full-time. He’s known for pouring over rulebooks in his spare time, being the rule master during game night, and as the perma DM in his DnD group. Bryan loves board games, writing, traveling, and above all his wife and partner in crime, Kendra.