Incorporeal Movement. The crypt chanter can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. It takes ([roll]1d10[/roll]) force damage if it ends its turn inside an object.
Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the crypt chanter has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.
Undead Nature. A crypt chanter doesn't require air, food, drink or sleep.
Draining Melody. A crypt chanter uses its song or other melody to create a magical allure. Any creature within 60 feet of a crypt chanter must make a DC 15 Will save or become incapacitated while the melody continues. Beginning on the round after becoming incapacitated, a creature that failed the first saving throw makes a second saving throw against the same DC. If it fails the second save, its takes [roll]1d4[/roll] Constitution damage per round while the melody continues and it remains within range. If its Constitution is reduced to 0 the creature dies. This reduction lasts until the creature finishes a short or long rest.
When a crypt chanter bestows life drain on a victim, it gains 2 temporary hit points for each point of Constitution damage bestowed. These temporary hit points last for up to 1 hour.
Creatures that successfully save against one of the effects of a crypt chanter’s melody cannot be affected by that effect again unless the crypt chanter ceases the melody for 1 full round (ending all effects on all incapacitated creatures) and starts a new melody.
Multiattack. The crypt chanter can make two withering touch attacks.
Withering Touch. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 18 (Attack: [roll]1d20+6[/roll] Damage: [roll](if([roll:-1:critical], =0, 3d8, 2{3d8}.expand()))+5[/roll]) [necrotic] damage.
Create Spawn. A humanoid creature killed by a crypt chanter’s draining melody becomes a crypt chanter after [roll]1d4[/roll] round. Spawn are under the command of the crypt chanter that created them. They remain enslaved until the destruction of the original crypt chanter. They lose all the abilities they had while they were alive.
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Description
The horror of a crypt chanter is its melody, simultaneously alluring and terrifying. In addition to singing, a crypt chanter can appear playing spectral stringed instruments, flutes, or other instrument it chooses. Rather than speaking directly, a crypt chanter may communicate through the lyrics of its melody (most often in Common, but possibly in Abyssal).
Lair and Lair Actions
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Lair Actions
On initiative count # (losing initiative ties), the [monster name] takes a lair action to cause one of the following effects; the [monster name] can’t use the same effect two rounds in a row:
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Regional Effects
The region containing a legendary [monster name]’s lair is [enter the effect description], which creates one or more of the following effects:
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If the [monster name] dies, these effects fade over the course of #d# days.