Over sized weapons. The arrow demon can used any ranged weapon even if it counts as to large for it without penalty.
Close combat shot. The arrow demon instead of being at disadvantage when they are within 5ft of a target and make a ranged attack.
Symmetrical archery. When the arrow demon uses its multi attack it can instead choose to make only one shot but gives them an extra 10 damage to the attack.
Magic Resistance. The arrow demon has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Innate Spellcasting. The Arrow demon’s innate spellcasting ability is Wisdom. The retriever can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components.
- 3/day each: Dimensional door
Multi attack. The arrow demon makes either two long bow attacks or four slam attacks.
Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., 1 target. Hit: 8 (1d6 + 5) Bludgeoning damage.
Long bow. RangedWeapon Attack: +8 to hit, range 360/600 ft., 1 target. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 4) piercing damage.
Variant: Summon Demon (1/Day). The demon chooses what to summon and attempts a magical summoning.
An Arrow demon has a 75 percent chance of summoning 1d6 dretch.
An Arrow demon has a 35 percent chance of summoning one arrow demon.
A summoned demon appears in an unoccupied space within 60 feet of its summoner, acts as an ally of its summoner, and can’t summon other demons. It remains for 1 minute, until it or its summoner dies, or until its summoner dismisses it as an action.
Description
Lean and wiry, this four-armed creature holds two powerful longbows in its left arms and draws the strings back in parallel with its right arms. The massive arrows notched in the bows draw the eye, and the emaciated limbs with which it holds its twin bows obviously conceal an abyssal strength. The creature’s gray skin is oily and moist, and it is entirely hairless. The creature’s long legs end in four-jointed toes, and it grips the ground as it walks. Arrow demons were created to serve in massive battalions on the endless abyssal battlefields. Although they still play a devastating role in such battles, arrow demons have now begun to appear elsewhere. Powerful demons and mortal summoners alike have learned that even one arrow demon is capable of dominating a battlefield. Although arrow demons are dangerous by themselves, they are at their most deadly when they can stand still and shoot every round. On battlefields, this means that companies of arrow demons are shielded by ranks of lesser troops—pitiful, abyssal creatures too weak to stop a serious assault yet numerous enough to slow an onrushing enemy long enough for the ranks of arrow demons to deliver massive arrow fire on the enemy. In the skirmishes and battles of mortal summoners, this means that the arrow demon is most effective when acting in concert with other summoned creatures or perhaps the mortal’s lesser minions. The very effectiveness of these obvious tactics have given arrow demons an importance in the ranks of the demons higher than their sheer physical power would otherwise earn them. Although an arrow demon must still give way to any greater demon, large groups of the abyssal archers know they are too valuable to their demonic lord’s battle plans to be gainsaid by any but the most powerful individual demons. Like other demons, arrow demons are cruel beyond mortal measure, knowing nothing of compassion or altruism. They scorn virtue and despise hope, yet they understand more clearly than perhaps any other demon that their continued existence depends on their value to their masters. An arrow demon is an emaciated, four limbed demon, standing some 6 feet 6 inches in height. It is completely hairless, and its moist, gray skin is sickening and leathery to the touch. The creature’s limbs conceal a wiry strength, but it weighs only 150 pounds.
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