Yuan-ti Nightmare Speaker (Shed Skin)

{
  "ac": [
    {
      "ac": 14,
      "from": [
        "natural armor"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "cr": "4",
  "hp": {
    "average": 71,
    "formula": "13d8 + 13"
  },
  "cha": 16,
  "con": 13,
  "dex": 14,
  "int": 14,
  "str": 16,
  "wis": 12,
  "name": "Yuan-ti Nightmare Speaker (Shed Skin)",
  "page": 205,
  "save": {
    "cha": "+5",
    "wis": "+3"
  },
  "size": [
    "M"
  ],
  "type": {
    "tags": [
      "shapechanger",
      "yuan-ti"
    ],
    "type": "monstrosity"
  },
  "bonus": [
    {
      "name": "Shed Skin (1/Day)",
      "entries": [
        "The yuan-ti can shed its skin as a bonus action to free itself from a grapple, shackles, or other restraints. If the yuan-ti spends 1 minute eating its shed skin, it regains hit points equal to half its hit point maximum."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "skill": {
    "stealth": "+4",
    "deception": "+5"
  },
  "speed": {
    "walk": 30
  },
  "trait": [
    {
      "name": "Shapechanger",
      "entries": [
        "The yuan-ti can use its action to polymorph into a Medium snake or back into its true form. Its statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. If it dies, it stays in its current form."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Death Fangs (2/Day)",
      "entries": [
        "The first time the yuan-ti hits with a melee attack on its turn, it can deal an extra 16 ({@damage 3d10}) necrotic damage to the target."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Magic Resistance",
      "entries": [
        "The yuan-ti has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "__prop": "monster",
  "action": [
    {
      "name": "Multiattack (Yuan-ti Form Only)",
      "entries": [
        "The yuan-ti makes one constrict attack and one scimitar attack."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Constrict",
      "entries": [
        "{@atk mw} {@hit 5} to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. {@h}10 ({@damage 2d6 + 3}) bludgeoning damage, and the target is {@condition grappled} (escape {@dc 14}) if it is a Large or smaller creature. Until this grapple ends, the target is {@condition restrained}, and the yuan-ti can't constrict another target."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Scimitar (Yuan-ti Form Only)",
      "entries": [
        "{@atk mw} {@hit 5} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. {@h}6 ({@damage 1d6 + 3}) slashing damage."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Invoke Nightmare (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest)",
      "entries": [
        "The yuan-ti taps into the nightmares of a creature it can see within 60 feet of it and creates an illusory, immobile manifestation of the creature's deepest fears, visible only to that creature. The target must make a {@dc 13} Intelligence saving throw. On a failed save, the target takes 11 ({@damage 2d10}) psychic damage and is {@condition frightened} of the manifestation, believing it to be real. The yuan-ti must concentrate to maintain the illusion (as if {@status concentration||concentrating} on a spell), which lasts for up to 1 minute and can't be harmed. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the illusion on a success, or taking 11 ({@damage 2d10}) psychic damage on a failure."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "immune": [
    "poison"
  ],
  "senses": [
    "darkvision 120 ft. (penetrates magical darkness)"
  ],
  "source": "VGM",
  "_isCopy": true,
  "passive": 11,
  "miscTags": [
    "MLW",
    "MW",
    "RCH"
  ],
  "alignment": [
    "N",
    "E"
  ],
  "languages": [
    "Abyssal",
    "Common",
    "Draconic"
  ],
  "senseTags": [
    "SD"
  ],
  "soundClip": {
    "path": "bestiary/yuan-ti-nightmare-speaker.opus",
    "type": "internal"
  },
  "traitTags": [
    "Magic Resistance",
    "Shapechanger"
  ],
  "actionTags": [
    "Multiattack"
  ],
  "damageTags": [
    "B",
    "N",
    "S",
    "Y"
  ],
  "environment": [
    "underdark",
    "forest",
    "desert"
  ],
  "reprintedAs": [
    "Yuan-ti Nightmare Speaker|MPMM"
  ],
  "languageTags": [
    "AB",
    "C",
    "DR"
  ],
  "spellcasting": [
    {
      "name": "Innate Spellcasting (Yuan-ti Form Only)",
      "type": "spellcasting",
      "will": [
        "{@spell animal friendship} (snakes only)"
      ],
      "daily": {
        "3": [
          "{@spell suggestion}"
        ]
      },
      "ability": "cha",
      "headerEntries": [
        "The yuan-ti's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save {@dc 13}). The yuan-ti can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Spellcasting (Yuan-ti Form Only)",
      "type": "spellcasting",
      "spells": {
        "0": {
          "spells": [
            "{@spell chill touch}",
            "{@spell eldritch blast} (range 300 ft., +3 bonus to each damage roll)",
            "{@spell mage hand}",
            "{@spell message}",
            "{@spell poison spray}",
            "{@spell prestidigitation}"
          ]
        },
        "3": {
          "lower": 1,
          "slots": 2,
          "spells": [
            "{@spell arms of Hadar}",
            "{@spell darkness}",
            "{@spell fear}",
            "{@spell hex}",
            "{@spell hold person}",
            "{@spell hunger of Hadar}",
            "{@spell witch bolt}"
          ]
        }
      },
      "ability": "cha",
      "headerEntries": [
        "The yuan-ti is a 6th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save {@dc 13}, {@hit 5} to hit with spell attacks). It regains its expended spell slots when it finishes a short or long rest. It knows the following warlock spells:"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "attachedItems": [
    "scimitar|phb"
  ],
  "conditionImmune": [
    "poisoned"
  ],
  "damageTagsSpell": [
    "A",
    "C",
    "I",
    "L",
    "N",
    "O"
  ],
  "conditionInflict": [
    "frightened",
    "grappled",
    "restrained"
  ],
  "referenceSources": [
    "ToA"
  ],
  "spellcastingTags": [
    "CL",
    "F",
    "I"
  ],
  "_versionBase_hash": "yuan-ti%20nightmare%20speaker_vgm",
  "_versionBase_name": "Yuan-ti Nightmare Speaker",
  "savingThrowForced": [
    "intelligence"
  ],
  "_versionBase_source": "VGM",
  "_versionBase_hasFluff": true,
  "_versionBase_hasToken": true,
  "conditionInflictSpell": [
    "blinded",
    "charmed",
    "frightened",
    "paralyzed"
  ],
  "_versionBase_isVersion": true,
  "savingThrowForcedSpell": [
    "constitution",
    "dexterity",
    "strength",
    "wisdom"
  ],
  "_versionBase_hasFluffImages": true
}