Will-o'-Wisp

Undead · Tiny

Will-o'-wisps are pale lights that drift over marshes and lonely ruins at night, luring travellers off safe paths into quicksand, sinkholes or the arms of worse things. They feed on fear and on the last moments of the dying. Bog folk tell children never to follow a light that moves away when you approach.

Danger

A fight to fear

How it is met

Alone, by night

Challenge

2

SRD 5.2.1 stat blocks

Will-o’-Wisp

Pathfinder Second Edition

Will-O'-Wisp (level 6, Monster Core)

Hear it

• Dancing Lights (On Patreon, Guardian tier)

Where it is met

Swamp, Marsh, Bog, Haunted Bog

Also: Ruin, Graveyard, Subterranean

Gives

Will-o'-Wisp Spark, Will-o'-Wisp Trail

Stat blocks (D&D 5e)

Will-o’-Wisp

Tiny Undead, Chaotic Evil

AC 19 · Initiative +9 (19)

HP 27 (11d4)

Speed 5 ft., Fly 50 ft. (hover)

Resistances Acid, Bludgeoning, Cold, Fire, Necrotic, Piercing, Slashing

Immunities Lightning, Poison; Exhaustion, Grappled, Paralyzed, Petrified, Poisoned, Prone, Restrained, Unconscious

Senses Darkvision 120 ft.; Passive Perception 12

Languages Common plus one other language

CR 2 (XP 450; PB +2)

Traits

Ephemeral. The wisp can’t wear or carry anything.

Illumination. The wisp sheds Bright Light in a 20-foot radius and Dim Light for an additional 20 feet.

Incorporeal Movement. The wisp 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.

Actions

Shock. Melee Attack Roll: +4, reach 5 ft. Hit: 11 (2d8 + 2) Lightning damage.

Bonus Actions

Consume Life. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 10, one living creature the wisp can see within 5 feet that has 0 Hit Points. Failure: The target dies, and the wisp regains 10 (3d6) Hit Points.

Vanish. The wisp and its light have the Invisible condition until the wisp’s Concentration ends on this effect, which ends early immediately after the wisp makes an attack roll or uses Consume Life.

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