#carrionette

Carrionette

Art for Creature Catalog IV: Campaign Classics

From: Ravenloft: The Horrors Within

Tiny Construct, Chaotic Evil

AC 15

HP 17 (5d4 + 5)

Speed 25 ft.

Str 8 (-1) Dex 15 (+2) Con 12 (+1) Int 8 (-1) Wis 14 (+2) Cha 14 (+2)

Skills Stealth +6

Resistances Poison, Psychic

Immunities Charmed, Exhaustion, Frightened, Poisoned

Senses Darkvision 60 ft.

Languages Common plus one other language

CR 1

Actions

Silver Needle. Melee Attack Roll: +4, reach 5 ft. Hit: 1 Piercing damage plus 3 (1d6) Necrotic damage. If the target is a Humanoid not cursed by a Carrionette, it is subjected to the following effect. Charisma Saving Throw: DC 11. Failure: The target is cursed for 1 minute. Until the curse ends, the target is Poisoned, and its Speed is reduced by 10 feet.

Soul Swap (Recharge 5–6). Charisma Saving Throw: DC 11, one Humanoid the Carrionette can see within 15 feet that is cursed by its Silver Needle. Failure: The Carrionette possesses the target's body, and the target possesses the Carrionette's body and is Unconscious for 1 hour. While possessing another body, the Carrionette and target retain their alignments; personalities; Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores; and languages known. They otherwise adopt the other creature's game statistics, though the target can't use this Soul Swap action.

The possession is undone if the target (while in the Carrionette's body) deals damage to the carrionette (in the target's original body) with its Silver Needle. If either body is destroyed, both the Carrionette and the target die.

Info: When evil energies infest a children's toy box, once-beloved playthings can become cursed monsters. Such is the case of the Carrionette, an animated doll or puppet that uses its sinister magic to swap bodies with a living person.

Carrionettes can hide in plain sight amid a jumbled toy chest or crate of disused trinkets. A Carrionette might wait patiently for years to be picked up by an unsuspecting victim (preferably an adventurer, a trader, or someone else with autonomy and a sturdy body) only to crawl out of the looter's backpack in the middle of the night for a harrowing sneak attack.

Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft Preview - Creepy CARRIONETTES - D&D Beyond

Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft comes out in a few days. Watch to learn about the Carrionettes, which are dolls.