AC
15
Initiative
-1 (9)
HP
52
(8d8 + 16)
Speed
20 ft.
| Mod | Save | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| STR | 16 | +3 | +3 |
| DEX | 8 | -1 | -1 |
| CON | 15 | +2 | +2 |
| Mod | Save | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| INT | 2 | -4 | -4 |
| WIS | 8 | -1 | -1 |
| CHA | 7 | -2 | -2 |
Actions
Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +5, reach 5 ft. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) Piercing damage plus 7 (2d6) Poison damage.
Bonus Actions
Petrifying Gaze (Recharge 4–6). Constitution Saving Throw: DC 12, each creature in a 30-foot Cone. If the basilisk sees its reflection within the Cone, the basilisk must make this save. First Failure: The target has the Restrained condition and repeats the save at the end of its next turn if it is still Restrained, ending the effect on itself on a success. Second Failure: The target has the Petrified condition instead of the Restrained condition.
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Posted Feb 5, 2025In the section of the Basilisk is the following diplayed: "Rule 4: No one carves statues of frightened warriors. If you see one, keep your eyes closed and your ears open."
Yet it doesn't matter whether you are Blinded or not in regards to its Petrifying Gaze smh.
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Posted Feb 10, 2025Exactly. In 2014 we had a rule description for averting the gaze. Not satisfied here.
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Posted Feb 14, 2025If I were to hazard a guess, this will be changed in the coming months (either the ability or the quote).
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Posted Feb 22, 2025Wow the 2024 version is way scarier, no averting your eyes!
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Posted Apr 11, 2025I like the artwork but he looks more...cute than the old one.
His gaze is now a bonus action instead of a trait And you have to stand in a cone to get multiple hits. Not bring able to cover against it was weird at first but now that its a cone players can position himself in a way they dont get turned to stone all at once.
Overall its more "logical" i guess, that he cant see 360 degree jut something just feels odd.
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Posted May 5, 2025There's no mention of how to un-paralyze people, anyone know a way a lvl 2 party could save one of them who got paralysed?
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Posted May 15, 2025I came here thinking of a giant snake with a paralysis gaze, not a multi-legged lizard with a petrification gaze. Oh well.
The only change that this lizard got was the transfer of the petrifying gaze from a trait to a bonus action with a recharge, which is honestly a little terrifying. The fact that the recharge is 4-6 means that it has a 50% chance of recharging it when it rolls. I like how it states that if the basilisk can see its reflection, it must make the save. The snake in Harry Potter must have succeeded then with the cat.
No fusion. This one is better. Use it.
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Posted May 27, 2025Generally the answer is "pay a spellcaster" - so, check the PHB rules under "Equipment" for the price of spellcasting services, check the spell you need (I believe it's Greater Restoration), and decide where you think they should be able to go to find a powerful enough healer.
Or, if you prefer, you tell them where to find the antidote. Or you let them haul the petrified PC away, wait until they're a higher level (while the player plays a different PC in the meantime), and eventually they'll be able to heal them.
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Posted Jul 6, 2025Greater Restoration is lvl 5, so that's town or city only, and 2,000 gp for the spell PLUS 100 gp of diamond dust as the material component - rather beyond a lvl 2 party. I think I'll just give them a Greater Restoration spell scroll, even though it's technically Rare. Thanks!
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Posted Jul 20, 2025Could a basilisk use petrifying gaze against another?
Goofy thought is to use minor illusion or prestidigitation to trick one of them into gazing at another...