Monster Monday: Intraplanar Hunter

RPG monsters

Devotees of a death cult to chaos and destruction, intraplanar hunters are sent to the material world alone or in small parties to assassinate threats to their masters. use their ability to shift between planes to disappear and reappear in surprising moments.

Intraplanar hunters wear black, dark brown, or dark red leather and cloth outfits, always arranged in a way that minimizes sound while they move. They never style their signature jet black hair, which often sticks out from their heads at wild angles. Such things are unimportant to the hunters.

Dark Sun wallpaper

This was a rather difficult monster to build. I'm not sure if it sits perfectly within Challenge Rating 4, but it should be close enough.

I started with the CR 4 banshee, then pulled out most of its immunities and resistances. I then took the stat block for the abyssal marauder from the 4th Edition Monster Manual 2, which I admit was my main inspiration for this creature.

I added the abyssal marauder's attacks and variations on its movement abilities. Instead of shifting, it can now teleport around the battlefield, even forcing one attack to miss. That should make it roughly as powerful as the banshee, and a very weird opponent to face in combat.

Stat block

Homebrewery stat block:

Intraplanar Hunter

Medium humanoid, chaotic evil

  • Armor Class 12
  • Hit Points 60 (13d8 + 2)
  • Speed 30 ft.
    STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
    12 (+1) 14 (+2) 10 (+0) 12 (+1) 14 (+2) 8 (-1)
  • Damage Resistances necrotic; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from non-magical attacks
  • Condition Immunities necrotic
  • Senses passive Perception 12
  • Languages Common
  • Challenge 4 (1,100 XP)

Incorporeal Movement. The hunter can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. It takes 5 (1d10) force damage if it ends its turn inside an object.

Void Shift. When the hunter is hit by an attack, it can choose to teleport up to 15 feet. If the teleport moves it out of range of the attack, the attack misses. The hunter cannot use this ability again until completing a short or long rest.

Bloodied Fury. If a hunter has below half its Hit Points (30 average), the hunter can make two weapon attacks at +2 to hit on each attack instead of one attack at +4.

Actions

Void Longspear. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit 8 (1d8 + 4) slashing damage plus 4 (1d8) necrotic damage, and the hunter teleports up to 5 feet.

Void Throwing Axe. Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit 8 (1d8 + 4) slashing damage plus 4 (1d8) necrotic damage, and the hunter teleports up to 5 feet.

Art found online with no original attribution, sadly.

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