Dybbuk

Medium

Fiend

Chaotic Evil

14

37 (5d8 + 15)

0m, fly 8m (hover)

6 (-2)

19 (+4)

16 (+3)

15 ( +2)

16 (+3)

14 (+2)

Deception +6, Intimidation +4, Perception +4

Acid, cold, fire, lightning, thunder; and bludgeoning, piercing and slashing from nonmagical attacks

Poison

Charmed, exhaustion, frightened, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained

Darkvision 24m, Passive Perception 14

Abyssal, Common, telepathy 24m

4 (1,100 XP)

The dybbuk can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. It takes 5 (1d10) force damage if it ends its turn inside an object.

The dybbuk has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

The dybbuk can use a bonus action while it is possessing a corpse to make it do something unnatural, such as vomit blood, twist its head all the way around, or cause a quadruped to move as a biped. Any Beast or Humanoid that sees this behavior must succeed on a DC12 Wisdom saving throw or become frightened for 1 minute. The frightened creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. A creature that succeeds on a saving throw against this ability is immune to Violate Corpse for 24 hours.

Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 1m, one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) necrotic damage. If the target is a creature, its hit point maximum is also reduced by 3 (1d6). This reduction lasts until the target finishes a short or long rest. The target dies if this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0.

The dybbuk disappears into an intact corpse it can see within 1m of it. The corpse must be Large or smaller and be that of a Beast or a Humanoid. The dybbuk is now effectively the possessed creature. Its type becomes undead, though it now looks alive, and it gains a number of temporary hit points equal to the corpse's hit point maximum in life.