Builder Drake (5e Creature)

Builder Drake

Medium beast, unaligned Armor Class 14 (natural armor) Hit Points 16 (3d8 + 3) Speed 40 ft., burrow 10 ft. STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 10 (+0) 14 (+2) 12 (+1) 3 (-4) 9 (-1) 7 (-2) Skills Athletics +4, Perception +1 Senses passive Perception 11 Languages — Challenge 1 (200 XP) Fossorial. The drake has advantage on Strength (Athletics) checks made to dig. Quills and Plates. If the drake is hit with a melee attack by a creature within 5 ft. of it, the attacker takes 1 slashing damage if the attack is from behind or 2 (1d4) piercing damage if it is from any other side. A creature can choose to maneuver their melee attacks around the quills/plates at the start of their turn, but must make such attacks at disadvantage. ACTIONS Multiattack. The drake makes 2 claw attacks. It can trade two claw attacks for a tail attack, but cannot make the tail and claw attacks against the same target. Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d6) slashing damage. Tail. Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d4) bludgeoning damage plus 1 slashing damage. If the target is a Medium or smaller creature, it must succeed a DC 13 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.

Despite being most heavily thought of as such, not all Archetiposaurs are large and bulky bruisers. Ironically, the nominative genus of the family, Archetiposaurus ("Archetype lizard"), is not one, but instead is more analogous in body plan and size to their ancestors at around 2 meters long. Not just the Cretaceous thescelosaurs, but basal archetiposaurs themselves all likely looked something like this. Also called builder drakes, these thescelosaurs will clear nest areas and construct a sort of pen in which to raise their young and live for protection. All archetiposaur species do this to a degree, but builder drakes take this habit to an extreme, using debris to construct fences or lodges for their nests and these constructions can be so complex that they can be confused for humanoid settlements, though it must be said these are built on instinct rather than innovation. Like their relatives, builder drakes have sharp plates on their tails and quills along their bodies, though these are notably reduced and their main defense is running, which they are much better at than their larger relatives.

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