Multiattack. BroodMother makes two Necrotic Bite attacks
Necrotic Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (3d4 + 2) necrotic damage.
Dark Bolt. Ranged Spell Attack: +5 to hit, reach 50 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (3d4 + 4) necrotic damage.
Rampage. After BroodMother reduces a creature to 0 hit points with a melee attack on its turn, the gnoll moves up to half its speed and makes one Necrotic Bite attack.
Vengeful Strike. In response to a gnoll being reduced to 0 hit points within 30 feet of the BroodMother, BroodMotherr makes one Necrotic Bite attack.
Legendary Action Uses: 3. Immediately after another creature’s turn, BroodMother can expend a use to take one of the following actions. BroodMother regains all expended uses at the start of each of its turns.
Charging Crunch: Broodmother moves up to half its speed and makes one Necrotic Bite attack
Arousing howl(2 actions): Up to 2 dead gnolls within 50 feet of BroodMother are revived as Gnoll Witherlings.
Description
Sometimes the gnolls of Yeenoghu turn against each other, perhaps to determine who rules a war band or because of extreme starvation. Even under ordinary circumstances, gnolls that are deprived of victims for too long struggle to control their hunger and violent urges. Eventually, they fight among themselves.
The survivors devour the flesh of their slain comrades but preserve the bones. Then, by invoking rituals to Yeenoghu they bring the remains back to a semblance of life in the form of a gnoll witherling.
Witherlings travel with their comrades and try to kill anything in their path. They don’t eat and aren’t motivated by hunger, leaving more flesh for the rest of the war band.
Gnolls
The first gnolls were hyenas transformed by magic. Many of them were then corrupted by the demon lord Yeenoghu. Whether in service to Yeenoghu or dedicated to the survival of their kin, gnoll war bands seek to soften up foes with surprise attacks and to leave no survivors alive.
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