Relentless Impaler

{
  "ac": [
    {
      "ac": 16,
      "from": [
        "natural armor"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "cr": "15",
  "hp": {
    "average": 184,
    "formula": "16d10 + 96"
  },
  "cha": 18,
  "con": 22,
  "dex": 16,
  "int": 12,
  "str": 23,
  "wis": 15,
  "name": "Relentless Impaler",
  "page": 231,
  "save": {
    "cha": "+9",
    "dex": "+8",
    "str": "+11"
  },
  "size": [
    "L"
  ],
  "type": "fiend",
  "skill": {
    "survival": "+7",
    "athletics": "+11",
    "perception": "+7"
  },
  "speed": {
    "walk": 30
  },
  "trait": [
    {
      "name": "Bloodheart Stake",
      "entries": [
        "The impaler is magically bound to the ceremonial stake and the sacrificed corpse the ritual caster used to create it. If the impaler is reduced to 0 hit points, it disappears, then re-forms {@dice 1d8} hours later in the nearest unoccupied space to the stake and regains all its hit points. The impaler dies only if it is reduced to 0 hit points while either the ceremonial stake is removed from the sacrifice's corpse or the impaler is on a different plane of existence from that corpse."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Legendary Resistance (3/Day)",
      "entries": [
        "If the impaler fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "__prop": "monster",
  "action": [
    {
      "name": "Multiattack",
      "entries": [
        "The impaler makes one Spike attack and two Wicked Spear attacks."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Spike",
      "entries": [
        "{@atk mw} {@hit 11} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. {@h}15 ({@damage 2d8 + 6}) piercing damage, and the target's speed is halved until the start of the impaler's next turn."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Wicked Spear",
      "entries": [
        "{@atk mw,rw} {@hit 11} to hit, reach 10 ft. or range 20/40 ft., one target. {@h}13 ({@damage 2d6 + 6}) piercing damage plus 13 ({@damage 3d8}) necrotic damage."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Spike Burst {@recharge 5}",
      "entries": [
        "Twisted, spectral spikes shoot out from the impaler's body. Each creature within 30 feet of the impaler must make a {@dc 19} Dexterity saving throw, taking 40 ({@damage 9d8}) force damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    "darkvision 120 ft."
  ],
  "source": "VEoR",
  "passive": 17,
  "hasFluff": true,
  "hasToken": true,
  "miscTags": [
    "AOE",
    "MLW",
    "MW",
    "RCH",
    "RW",
    "THW"
  ],
  "alignment": [
    "N",
    "E"
  ],
  "languages": [
    "understands all languages but can't speak"
  ],
  "legendary": [
    {
      "name": "Speed Spike",
      "entries": [
        "The impaler teleports up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space it can see. It can then make a Spike attack."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Deepen Wounds (Costs 2 Actions)",
      "entries": [
        "Each creature whose speed is currently reduced by the impaler's Spike attack takes 18 ({@damage 4d8}) necrotic damage."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "senseTags": [
    "SD"
  ],
  "traitTags": [
    "Legendary Resistances"
  ],
  "actionTags": [
    "Multiattack"
  ],
  "damageTags": [
    "N",
    "O",
    "P"
  ],
  "languageTags": [
    "CS",
    "XX"
  ],
  "hasFluffImages": true,
  "alignmentPrefix": "typically ",
  "conditionImmune": [
    "charmed",
    "exhaustion",
    "frightened"
  ],
  "savingThrowForced": [
    "dexterity"
  ]
}