Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

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STONE CURSED

The stone cursed

are spawned through a foul alchem-

ical ritual performed

on a humanoid that has been

turned to s tone. The ritual, which

requires a mixture of

basilisk blood and the ashes from

the burned feathers

of a cockatrice, awakens a dim

echo of the petrified

victim's spirit, animating the

s tatue and turning it into a

useful

guardian.

Lingering

Spirits. The stone cursed possess

a malev-

olent

drive to slay the living, yet they are utterly

loyal to

whoever performed the

ritual to animate them, and they

obey that being's orders

to the best of their ability.

In combat, stony claws that drip with

thick, gray

sludge emerge from a stone cursed's fingers.

This al-

chemical sludge transforms those slashed

by the claws

into statues.

A Strange

Harvest. As part of the ritual used to

create a stone cursed, a fist-sized

obsidian skull forms

within the creature's torso. The

skull isn't visible while

the stone cursed is active, but

when it is slain, the statue

shatters and the skull clatters

to the ground. Because

it is the

nexus for the alchemy used to create these

hor-

rors,

a dim echo of the original victim's memories

res-

onates within the skull. A

skilled magic-wielder can at-

tempt to extract memories

from it to gain insight into the

victim's past or find lore

that otherwise would be lost.

Constructed Nature.

A stone cursed doesn't require

ai r, food, drink, or sleep.

CRYPT IC WHISPERS

Even though creatures transformed into stone

cursed are

long dead, a vague

whisper of their memories lives on in

the obsidian

skull embedded within the stone cursed's

body. At

the end of a short rest, a character can make a

DC 20

Intelligence (Arcana) check to attempt to extract

a

memory

from the skull- a memory that is a response

to a

verbal question posed by the character to the

skull. Once

this check is made,

whether it succeeds or fails, the skull

can't be used

in this manner again.

CHAPTER 6 I BESTI A RY

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STONE CURSED

Medium construct,

lawful evil

Armor Class

17 (natural armor)

Hit Points 19 (3d8 + 4)

Speed 10 ft.

STR

16 (+3)

DEX

5 (-3)

CON

14 (+2)

INT

5 (-3)

Damage Vulnerabilities

bludgeoning

Damage Immunities

poison

WIS

8 (-1)

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CHA

7 (-2)

Condition

Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened,

petrified,

poisoned

Senses passive Perception 9

La nguages the languages it knew in life

Challenge 1 (200 XP)

Cunning Opportunist. The stone cursed

has advantage on the

attack rolls of opportunity attacks

.

False Appearance. While the stone cursed

remains motionless,

it is indistinguishable

from a normal statue.

ACTIONS

Petrifying Claws.

Me/ee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft.,

one target.

Hit: 8 (ldl O + 3) slashing damage, or 14 (2d10

+ 3)

slashing damage if the attack roll

had advantage. If the target

is a creature

, it must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution

saving

throw, or it begins to turn

to stone and is restrained until the

end of its next turn, when it must repeat the saving

throw. The

effect ends ifthe second save is successful;

otherwise the tar-

get is petrified for

24 hours.