Ghast

Undead · Medium

Ghast
Eurynome, the demon said to feed on corpses, engraving after Louis Le Breton, Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire infernal, 1863 · Louis Le Breton, Eurynome, Dictionnaire infernal, 1863, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons

A ghast leads a pack of ghouls through old crypts and battlefields, and the stench of rot announces it before anything else. Gravediggers say a ghast was once someone who ate the dead by choice, and that it still remembers its name.

Danger
A fight to fear
How it is met
In packs, by night
Challenge
2
SRD 5.2.1 stat blocks
Ghast

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Where it is met

Haunted Temperate Forest, Haunted Temperate Conifer Forest, Haunted Bog, Haunted Marsh, Haunted Grassland, Haunted Tundra, Haunted Hot Desert, Haunted Rocky Shore, Haunted Cave, Haunted Mine

Also: Graveyard, Crypt, Dungeon

Gives

Ghoul Tongue

Stat blocks (D&D 5e)

Ghast

Medium Undead, Chaotic Evil

AC 13 · Initiative +3 (13)

HP 36 (8d8)

Speed 30 ft.

StrDexConIntWisCha
16 (+3), save +317 (+3), save +310 (+0), save +011 (+0), save +010 (+0), save +28 (−1), save −1

Resistances Necrotic

Immunities Poison; Charmed, Exhaustion, Poisoned

Senses Darkvision 60 ft.; Passive Perception 10

Languages Common

CR 2 (XP 450; PB +2)

Traits

Stench. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 10, any creature that starts its turn in a 5-foot Emanation originating from the ghast. Failure: The target has the Poisoned condition until the start of its next turn. Success: The target is immune to this ghast’s Stench for 24 hours.

Actions

Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +5, reach 5 ft. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) Piercing damage plus 9 (2d8) Necrotic damage.

Claw. Melee Attack Roll: +5, reach 5 ft. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) Slashing damage. If the target is a non-Undead creature, it is subjected to the following effect. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 10. Failure: The target has the Paralyzed condition until the end of its next turn.

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