Briar Wretch

Innate Spellcasting. The briar wretch’s innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell attack +4, spell save DC 14). She can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:

At will: thorn whip

2/day each: entangle, hail of thorns

1/day each: spike growth, grasping vine

Magic Resistance. The briar wretch has advantage on Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws to avoid magical charms or influence.

Speak with Beasts and Plants. The briar wretch can communicate with beasts and plants as if they shared a language.

Bramble Stride. Once on her turn, the briar wretch can use 10 feet of her movement to step magically into one living bramble within her reach and emerge from a second living bramble within 60 feet of the first, appearing in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the second. Both brambles must be Medium or bigger.

Prickly Disposition. All plant-based spells that the briar wretch casts grow thorns, which do an extra 2 (1d4) poison damage.

Multiattack. The briar wretch makes two melee Thorny Claw attacks.

Thorny Claws. Melee Natural Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage, and 6 (1d6 + 3) poison damage.

Poisonous Charm. The briar wretch targets one humanoid or beast that she can see within 30 feet of her. If the target has previously taken poison damage from the thorns of the briar wretch's spell, it must succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw or be magically charmed. The charmed creature regards the briar wretch as a trusted friend to be heeded and protected. Although the target isn’t under the wretch’s control, it takes the wretch’s requests or actions in the most favorable way it can.

The target can repeat the saving throw whenever it takes damage or at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success. Otherwise, the effect lasts 24 hours or until the briar wretch dies, is on a different plane of existence from the target, or ends the effect as a bonus action. If a target’s saving throw is successful, the target is immune to the briar wretch’s Poisonous Charm for the next 24 hours.

The briar wretch can have no more than one humanoid and up to three beasts charmed at a time.