Keresta Delvingstone

{
  "ac": [
    {
      "ac": 16,
      "from": [
        "natural armor"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "cr": "13",
  "hp": {
    "average": 144,
    "formula": "17d8 + 68"
  },
  "cha": 18,
  "con": 18,
  "dex": 18,
  "int": 17,
  "str": 18,
  "wis": 15,
  "name": "Keresta Delvingstone",
  "page": 232,
  "save": {
    "cha": "+9",
    "dex": "+9",
    "wis": "+7"
  },
  "size": [
    "M"
  ],
  "type": {
    "tags": [
      "shapechanger"
    ],
    "type": "undead"
  },
  "isNpc": true,
  "skill": {
    "stealth": "+9",
    "perception": "+7"
  },
  "speed": {
    "walk": 30
  },
  "trait": [
    {
      "name": "Shapechanger",
      "entries": [
        "If Keresta isn't in sunlight or running water, it can use its action to polymorph into a Tiny bat or a Medium cloud of mist, or back into its true form.",
        "While in bat form, Keresta can't speak, its walking speed is 5 feet, and it has a flying speed of 30 feet. Its statistics, other than its size and speed, are unchanged. Anything it is wearing transforms with it, but nothing it is carrying does. It reverts to its true form if it dies.",
        "While in mist form, Keresta can't take any actions, speak, or manipulate objects. It is weightless, has a flying speed of 20 feet, can hover, and can enter a hostile creature's space and stop there. In addition, if air can pass through a space, the mist can do so without squeezing, and it can't pass through water. It has advantage on Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution saving throws, and it is immune to all nonmagical damage, except the damage it takes from sunlight."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Legendary Resistance (3/Day)",
      "entries": [
        "If Keresta fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Misty Escape",
      "entries": [
        "When it drops to 0 hit points outside its resting place, Keresta transforms into a cloud of mist (as in the Shapechanger trait) instead of falling {@condition unconscious}, provided that it isn't in sunlight or running water. If it can't transform, it is destroyed.",
        "While it has 0 hit points in mist form, it can't revert to its vampire form, and it must reach its resting place within 2 hours or be destroyed. Once in its resting place, it reverts to its vampire form. It is then {@condition paralyzed} until it regains at least 1 hit point. After spending 1 hour in its resting place with 0 hit points, it regains 1 hit point."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Regeneration",
      "entries": [
        "Keresta regains 20 hit points at the start of its turn if it has at least 1 hit point and isn't in sunlight or running water. If Keresta takes radiant damage or damage from {@item Holy Water (Flask)|PHB|holy water}, this trait doesn't function at the start of Keresta's next turn."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Spider Climb",
      "entries": [
        "Keresta can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Vampire Weaknesses",
      "entries": [
        "Keresta has the following flaws:",
        {
          "type": "list",
          "items": [
            {
              "name": "Forbiddance",
              "type": "itemSub",
              "entry": "Keresta can't enter a residence without an invitation from one of the occupants."
            },
            {
              "name": "Harmed by Running Water",
              "type": "itemSub",
              "entry": "Keresta takes 20 acid damage if it ends its turn in running water."
            },
            {
              "name": "Stake to the Heart",
              "type": "itemSub",
              "entry": "If a piercing weapon made of wood is driven into Keresta's heart while Keresta is {@condition incapacitated} in its resting place, Keresta is {@condition paralyzed} until the stake is removed."
            },
            {
              "name": "Sunlight Hypersensitivity",
              "type": "itemSub",
              "entry": "Keresta takes 20 radiant damage when it starts its turn in sunlight. While in sunlight, it has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks."
            }
          ],
          "style": "list-hang-subtrait"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "__prop": "monster",
  "action": [
    {
      "name": "Multiattack (Vampire Form Only)",
      "entries": [
        "Keresta makes two attacks, only one of which can be a bite attack."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Unarmed Strike (Vampire Form Only)",
      "entries": [
        "{@atk mw} {@hit 9} to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. {@h}8 ({@damage 1d8 + 4}) bludgeoning damage. Instead of dealing damage, Keresta can grapple the target (escape {@dc 18})."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Bite (Bat or Vampire Form Only)",
      "entries": [
        "{@atk mw} {@hit 9} to hit, reach 5 ft., one willing creature, or a creature that is {@condition grappled} by Keresta, {@condition incapacitated}, or {@condition restrained}. {@h}7 ({@damage 1d6 + 4}) piercing damage plus 10 ({@damage 3d6}) necrotic damage. The target's hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the necrotic damage taken, and Keresta regains hit points equal to that amount. The reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest. The target dies if this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0. A humanoid slain in this way and then buried in the ground rises the following night as a {@creature vampire spawn} under Keresta's control."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Charm",
      "entries": [
        "Keresta targets one humanoid it can see within 30 feet of it. If the target can see Keresta, the target must succeed on a {@dc 17} Wisdom saving throw against this magic or be {@condition charmed} by Keresta. The {@condition charmed} target regards Keresta as a trusted friend to be heeded and protected. Although the target isn't under Keresta's control, it takes Keresta's requests or actions in the most favorable way it can, and it is a willing target for Keresta's bite attack.",
        "Each time Keresta or Keresta's companions do anything harmful to the target, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success. Otherwise, the effect lasts 24 hours or until Keresta is destroyed, is on a different plane of existence than the target, or takes a bonus action to end the effect."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Children of the Night (1/Day)",
      "entries": [
        "Keresta magically calls {@dice 2d4} swarms of {@creature swarm of bats||bats} or {@creature swarm of rats||rats}, provided that the sun isn't up. While outdoors, Keresta can call {@dice 3d6} {@creature giant centipede||giant centipedes} instead. The called creatures arrive in {@dice 1d4} rounds, acting as allies of Keresta and obeying its spoken commands. The beasts remain for 1 hour, until Keresta dies, or until Keresta dismisses them as a bonus action."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "resist": [
    "necrotic",
    {
      "cond": true,
      "note": "from nonmagical attacks",
      "resist": [
        "bludgeoning",
        "piercing",
        "slashing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    "darkvision 120 ft."
  ],
  "source": "WDMM",
  "_isCopy": true,
  "passive": 17,
  "hasFluff": true,
  "hasToken": true,
  "miscTags": [
    "HPR",
    "MW"
  ],
  "alignment": [
    "L",
    "E"
  ],
  "languages": [
    "the languages it knew in life"
  ],
  "legendary": [
    {
      "name": "Move",
      "entries": [
        "Keresta moves up to its speed without provoking opportunity attacks."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Unarmed Strike",
      "entries": [
        "Keresta makes one unarmed strike."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Bite (Costs 2 Actions)",
      "entries": [
        "Keresta makes one bite attack."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "senseTags": [
    "SD"
  ],
  "traitTags": [
    "Legendary Resistances",
    "Regeneration",
    "Shapechanger",
    "Spider Climb",
    "Sunlight Sensitivity"
  ],
  "actionTags": [
    "Multiattack"
  ],
  "damageTags": [
    "B",
    "N",
    "P"
  ],
  "tokenCustom": true,
  "languageTags": [
    "LF"
  ],
  "spellcasting": [
    {
      "name": "Spellcasting",
      "type": "spellcasting",
      "spells": {
        "0": {
          "spells": [
            "{@spell guidance}",
            "{@spell mending}",
            "{@spell resistance}",
            "{@spell thaumaturgy}"
          ]
        },
        "1": {
          "slots": 4,
          "spells": [
            "{@spell bane}",
            "{@spell command}",
            "{@spell inflict wounds}",
            "{@spell ray of sickness}"
          ]
        },
        "2": {
          "slots": 3,
          "spells": [
            "{@spell blindness/deafness}",
            "{@spell ray of enfeeblement}",
            "{@spell spiritual weapon}"
          ]
        },
        "3": {
          "slots": 3,
          "spells": [
            "{@spell animate dead}",
            "{@spell bestow curse}",
            "{@spell dispel magic}",
            "{@spell spirit guardians}"
          ]
        },
        "4": {
          "slots": 3,
          "spells": [
            "{@spell blight}",
            "{@spell death ward}",
            "{@spell divination}"
          ]
        },
        "5": {
          "slots": 1,
          "spells": [
            "{@spell antilife shell}",
            "{@spell destructive wave}"
          ]
        }
      },
      "ability": "int",
      "headerEntries": [
        "Keresta is a 9th-level spellcaster. Her spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save {@dc 15}, {@hit 7} to hit with spell attacks). She has the following cleric spells prepared:"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "legendaryGroup": {
    "name": "Keresta Delvingstone",
    "source": "WDMM"
  },
  "damageTagsSpell": [
    "I",
    "N",
    "O",
    "R",
    "T"
  ],
  "isNamedCreature": true,
  "conditionInflict": [
    "charmed"
  ],
  "spellcastingTags": [
    "CC"
  ],
  "savingThrowForced": [
    "wisdom"
  ],
  "savingThrowForcedSpell": [
    "charisma",
    "constitution",
    "wisdom"
  ]
}