Medium Monstrosity, Unaligned
AC 15 Natural Armour.    Initiative +4 (14)
HP 27 (6d8)
Speed 100 ft.
Mod Save
STR 8 −1 −1
DEX 19 +4 +6
CON 11 +0 +0
Mod Save
INT 4 −3 −3
WIS 14 +2 +2
CHA 5 −3 −3
Vulnerabilities Fire
Senses Darkvision 100 ft; Passive Perception 17
Languages None
CR 2 (XP 450; PB +2)
Traits

Agility. The Corpse Fawn doesn't provoke opportunity attacks when it moves out of an enemies reach.

Short lives. From birth, the Corpse Fawn will instantly decompose in 2d8 hours.

Not meant to live. The Corpse Fawn cannot eat, drink, feel pain, or rest.

Determination. If the Corpse Fawn has seen a corpse, it gains immunity to the frightened condition, and it will not stop attempting to infect the corpse until the corpse is either infected or destroyed.

Actions

Ram. melee attack roll: +2 to hit, reach 5ft. Hit: 4 (1d8) bludgeoning damage +4 (1d8) Bludgeoning if the deer moved at least 20ft before making the attack

Infect. The deer bites into a non-decomposed humanoid corpse within 5ft and plants a tiny deer fetus in the flesh. The fetus will start eating the flesh and rapidly growing. In 3d4 rounds, the Fetus will have grown into a full Corpse Fawn. If there are less than 5 corpses in the vicinity when it takes this action, this will birth a Corpse Fawn Runner instead (see that stat-block).

Description

Corpse Fawns are shambling deer-like creatures with abnormal speed. They prey the battlefield, infecting every corpse in sight, and growing their herds into massive flocks, simply for it all to rot away leaving only a few individuals to run towards the next battle until their bodies fail them. They live incredibly short lives, turning into rotten flesh only a few hours after birth, as they are not made to live but only to infect as many corpses as possible. Their true origins are unknown, but they are believed to be deer who ate the corpse of a soldier and gained a hunger for the taste. They are incredibly skittish, and will run from any danger, but as soon as a corpse is involved they would run through all the armies of hell to infect it.

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Monster Tags: monstrosity

Habitat: Any

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