Deathmask Trooper (5e Creature)
Deathmask Trooper[edit]
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Large construct, unaligned Armor Class 17 (natural armor)
Skills History +2, Perception +3, Survival +3 Anima Carver. When the construct deals necrotic damage to a creature, it regains an equal amount of hit points. The creature’s maximum hit points are also reduced by the same amount until it completes a long rest. This feature does not affect constructs or undead. Anima Fuel. When a creature within 60 feet of the construct is reduced to 0 hit points, it is immediately killed and can be restored to life only by means of a true resurrection or wish spell. The construct also regains 20 (8d4) hit points and gains advantage on its next attack roll. This feature does not affect constructs or undead. Open Wound. Attacks against the construct score a critical hit on a roll of 19-20. When the construct suffers a critical hit, all creatures within 10 feet of it take 7 (2d6) necrotic damage. Tainted Metal. The construct’s weapon attacks are magical. When the construct hits with any weapon, the weapon deals an extra 7 (2d6) necrotic damage (included in the attack). When a creature makes a melee weapon attack against the construct, the attacker takes 7 (7d6) necrotic damage if the attack hits, or half as much if it misses. This feature does not affect constructs or undead. Unusual Nature. The construct doesn't require air, food, drink, or sleep. ACTIONSMultiattack. The construct makes two funerary blade attacks. Funerary Blade. Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, range 5 ft., one target. Hit: 16 (3d6 + 6) slashing damage plus 7 (2d6) necrotic damage. The target has disadvantage on its next attack roll against the construct within 1 minute. Full Execution. Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, range 5 ft., one target. Hit: 20 (4d6 + 6) slashing damage plus 28 (8d6) necrotic damage. This attack automatically misses unless the target is missing more than 75% of its hit points. If this attack reduces a creature to 0 hit points, the construct gains 20 (8d4) temporary hit points. BONUS ACTIONSDeterioration Drive. The construct reduces it maximum hit points by 14 (4d6) for 1 hour. Its weapon attacks deal 7 (2d6) additional necrotic damage until the start of its next turn. It can also make a funerary blade attack as part of this bonus action. Grave Grip. The construct deals 7 (2d6) necrotic damage to a creature it can see within 30 feet. The creature must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or be knocked prone.
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Created long ago by a kingdom whose name has been lost to history, the deathmask troopers were created during its final days as a desperate bid to stave off some encroaching threat. In the end, they may have only hastened the fall. Forged using a mix of metal, alchemy, and soul harvesting, the inanimate constructs were transported to a battlefield to consume the anima of mortals as fuel to animate, then kept killing to stay up. In the millennia since those forgotten battles, most deathmask troopers have fallen to ruin, but some still wander the wastes of their former homeland, looking for blood to lubricate their workings until their masters return, though how they would recognize them is another question. Some grim rumors even speak of a vast force of deathmask troopers built but never deployed waiting in some decrepit ruin, waiting for a powerful sacrifice to activate. |
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