European Badger

Meles meles · Mammal

Badgers dig great burrows, called setts, in well-drained soil at the edge of woods and fields, and a clan of a few to twenty animals may share one. They come out at dusk, forage through the night and sleep through the worst of the winter. People made brushes from the hair and rugs from the skin, and farmers blame them for ruined crops and sick cattle.

Danger: Dangerous if cornered
How it is met: In families, by night
Size: Small
In winter: Sleeps through winter

Where it lives

Temperate Forest, Temperate Conifer Forest, Grassland, River

Feeds on

European Beech

Gives

European Badger Hair, European Badger Skin

Stat blocks (D&D 5e)

Badger

Tiny Beast, Unaligned

AC 11 · Initiative +0 (10)

HP 5 (1d4 + 3)

Speed 20 ft., Burrow 5 ft.

Str	Dex	Con	Int	Wis	Cha
10 (+0), save +0	11 (+0), save +0	16 (+3), save +3	2 (−4), save −4	12 (+1), save +1	5 (−3), save −3

Skills Perception +3

Resistances Poison

Senses Darkvision 30 ft.; Passive Perception 13

Languages None

CR 0 (XP 10; PB +2)

Actions

Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +2, reach 5 ft. Hit: 1 Piercing damage.

This work includes material from the System Reference Document 5.2.1 ("SRD 5.2.1") by Wizards of the Coast LLC, available at https://www.dndbeyond.com/srd. The SRD 5.2.1 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.

Sources

Annie Wang, Meles meles (Eurasian badger). Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, 2011.

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