Banshee (Monstrous Menagerie)
- Size
- Medium
- Type
- Undead
- Challenge Rating
- 4
- Source
- Level Up Advanced 5e Monstrous Menagerie
- Armor Class
- 13
- Speeds
- 30, fly 40
- Walking Speed
- 30
- Flying Speed
- 40
- Strength Score
- 8
- Dexterity Score
- 16
- Constitution Score
- 10
- Intelligence Score
- 12
- Wisdom Score
- 10
- Charisma Score
- 18
- Saving Throws
- Wisdom
- Vision
- Darkvision (60ft)
- Languages Ref
- the languages it spoke in life
- Hit Points
- 58
- Condition Immunities
- Charmed, Exhaustion 1, Frightened, Grappled, Paralyzed, Petrified, Poisoned, Prone, Restrained
- Resistances
- Resistant to Acid Damage, Resistant to Fire Damage, Resistant to Lightning Damage, Resistant to Thunder Damage, Resistant to Non-Magical Damage, Immune to Cold Damage, Immune to Necrotic Damage, Immune to Poison Damage
Medium undead
Armor Class 13
Hit Points 58 (13d8)
Speed 30 ft., fly 40 ft.
- STR
- 8 (−1)
- DEX
- 16 (+3)
- CON
- 10 (+0)
- INT
- 12 (+1)
- WIS
- 10 (+0)
- CHA
- 18 (+4)
Saving Throws Wis +2
Damage Resistances acid, fire, lightning, thunder; damage from nonmagical weapons
Damage Immunities cold, necrotic, poison
Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained
Senses darkvision 60 ft., Passive Perception 10
Languages the languages it spoke in life
Challenge 4 (1,100 XP)
Death Howl. When reduced to 0 hit points, the banshee uses Baleful Wail.
Detect Life. The banshee magically senses the general direction of living creatures up to 5 miles away.
Incorporeal Movement. The banshee can move through creatures and objects. It takes 5 (1d10) force damage if it ends its turn inside an object.
Undead Nature. A banshee doesnt require air, sustenance, or sleep.
Unquiet Spirit. If defeated in combat, the banshee returns on the anniversary of its death. It can be permanently put to rest only by finding and casting remove curse on its grave or by righting whatever wrong was done to it.
Actions
Presage Death. The banshee targets a creature within 60 feet that can hear it predicting its doom. The target makes a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw. On a failure the target takes 11 (2d6 + 4) psychic damage and is magically cursed for 1 hour. While cursed in this way the target has disadvantage on saving throws against the banshees Baleful Wail.
Baleful Wail. The banshee shrieks. All living creatures within 30 feet of it that can hear it make a DC 14 Constitution saving throw. On a failure a creature takes 11 (2d6 + 4) psychic damage. If the creature is cursed by the banshee it drops to 0 hit points instead.
Reactions
Wounded Warning. When the banshee takes damage from a creature within 60 feet, it uses Presage Death on the attacker.
Stat block from Level Up Advanced 5e Monstrous Menagerie (EN Publishing), Open Game Content used under the Open Game License 1.0a. Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition Monstrous Menagerie. Copyright 2021, EN Publishing. It is not Geminaea material. See Legal.