Bestiary · Humanoid

Bugbear Forest Warden

A forest warden is a bugbear that guards a wood from loggers and poachers. The wood was cut to the stumps twice in living memory and has regrown once, and the warden patrols the boundary of the regrowth. It takes tools where it can, and it has taken hands.

Bugbear Forest Warden, drawn at Medium scale
Physiology
Humanoid
Size
Medium
Speed
30 ft.
Armor class
16
Hit points
104 (16d8 + 32)
Proficiency
+3
  • STR 17 +3 save +6
  • DEX 16 +3 save +3
  • CON 15 +2 save +2
  • INT 11 +0 save +0
  • WIS 16 +3 save +6
  • CHA 11 +0 save +0
Skills
Athletics +6 , Nature +3 , Perception +6 , Stealth +6 , Survival +6
Passive Perception
16
Senses
darkvision 60 ft.
Languages
Goblin, Common, Sylvan
Found in
Woodland , Terran (Verdant)

Equipment

Traits

  • Surprise Attack

    Deals an extra 2d6 damage to a creature it hits that has not yet acted in combat.

  • Boundary Sense

    Cannot be surprised within the wood it holds, and knows where every creature crossed the line.

  • Tool Seizure

    Takes a crew's saws, axes and fuel before it takes anyone, and gives a warning it expects to be ignored.

Actions

  • Multiattack

    Makes two maul attacks.

  • Great Maul

    +6 to hit · reach 10 ft.

    2d8 + 3 bludgeoning damage

  • Long Bow

    +6 to hit · long range

    1d10 + 3 piercing damage

  • Undergrowth Snare

    A 30-foot radius of undergrowth closes. The area becomes difficult terrain and each creature in it makes a DC 14 Strength save or is Restrained until it breaks free.