Bandit Captain

Stat block

Leads from the front, mixing pistol shots and scimitar cuts, parrying blows; bandits flee if it falls.

• Saving throws: STR +4, DEX +5, WIS +2
• Skills: Athletics +4, Deception +4
• Languages: Common, Thieves' Cant

Actions

• Multiattack. Makes two attacks with Scimitar and Pistol in any combination.
• Scimitar. Slashes with a scimitar.
• Pistol. Fires a pistol.

Reactions

• Parry. Trigger: the bandit is hit by a melee attack roll while it holds a weapon. Response: the bandit gains a +2 bonus to its AC against that one attack, which can make the attack miss.

Where you meet it

• Lake Zarovich: the Fishers' Landing: The Hunters at the Inn · Old Greytooth comes down off the hill trail with his pack fanned out behind him, and the howl goes up from…
• Tser Pool Encampment: The fiddle stops mid-note. Every knife in the camp comes out at once.
• Tser Pool Encampment: The camp is waiting for you outside the tent: no music, no fire-talk, only knives and drawn bows.
• Vallaki: Lady Wachter's Book Club · Knives come out of sleeves all over the square. Lady Wachter's people were never here to watch the sun.
• Vallaki: Lady Wachter's Book Club · Izek vaults off the dais with his strange arm already smoking. The Baron's watch closes ranks behind him.
• Vallaki: Izek's arm bursts into flame to the elbow. Most of the watch backs away from the priest; the ones who don't…
• Vallaki: The rider wheels his black horse in the gateway and comes back in, drawing a sabre, while Dobre's lads come…
• The Reed Isle: The Baron's Island · The Baron's boatmen come up the shingle with clubs and a lantern, looking for the smoke, and the reeds behind…