Apteros (5e Creature)

Apteros

Medium monstrosity, unaligned Armor Class 14 (natural armor) Hit Points 60 (8d8 + 24) Speed 60 ft., climb 20 ft., swim 20 ft. STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 15 (+2) 22 (+6) 17 (+3) 12 (+1) 19 (+4) 7 (-2) Skills Acrobatics +8, Perception +8 Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 18 Languages Arthropoid Challenge 4 (1,100 XP) Grappler. The apteros has advantage on attack rolls against any creature grappled by it. Keen Sight and Smell. The apteros has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight or smell. Rampage. When the apteros reduces a creature to 0 hit points with a melee attack on its turn, the apteros can take a bonus action to move up to half its speed and make a claw attack. Run Down. If the apteros moves at least 20 feet towards a target and then hits it with a claw attack on the same turn, the apteros can make one bite attack against it without using an action. ACTIONS Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 15 (3d8 + 2) piercing damage. Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (2d6 + 1) slashing damage. The target is grappled (escape DC 13) if it is a Small or smaller creature and the apteros doesn't have two other creatures grappled.

Art by Jonathan Wojcik These creatures are the result of the unnatural fusion between a humanoid and a dragonfly. A voracious predator with keen senses, the apteros is constantly in search of its next meal as it darts from place to place, its massive, highly sensitive eyes easily detecting the slightest twitch of a camouflaged toad even as it dashes through a fog-shrouded marsh; it has lost its capacity for flight, but boasts one of the fastest running speeds of any land animal. It typically skewers and devours smaller prey on the run, while pouncing larger beasts from behind and attempting to gnaw through their neck. An apteros is adept not only as hunting and killing, but at searching, watching and gathering information, its large brain capable of processing detailed visual input even as it dashes through its territory at top speed. Apteros mate tail-to-tail for hours at a time, and will continue running and hunting while so attached. Young are miniature versions of adults, and born immediately capable of fending for themselves. Despite their inability to fly, apteros are fascinated by the sky and naturally drawn to points of higher elevation, stalking meals from cliff faces, tree branches and rooftops wherever applicable. Similarly, apteros do not require an aquatic environment like their dragonfly base, but are attracted to the smell of water and fascinated by reflective surfaces. Apteros are signature hunting partners to the denizens of a certain bog, though their territorial nature limits the creatures to one per household.

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