# Bandit Captain

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> [!infobox]
> ![bandit captain](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/bandit-captain.webp)
> **Type:** Medium humanoid
> **Alignment:** neutral
> **Challenge:** 2 (450 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 15
> **Hit Points:** 52 (8d8+16)
> **Speed:** 30 ft

## Stat block

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

| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 52 (8d8+16) | 30 ft | 2 | 450 |

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 (+2) | 16 (+3) | 14 (+2) | 14 (+2) | 11 (+0) | 14 (+2) |

- **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](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/lake-zarovich-the-fishers-landing.md): [The Hunters at the Inn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-hunters-at-the-inn.md) · *Old Greytooth comes down off the hill trail with his pack fanned out behind him, and the howl goes up from…*
- [Tser Pool Encampment](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/tser-pool-encampment.md): *The fiddle stops mid-note. Every knife in the camp comes out at once.*
- [Tser Pool Encampment](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/tser-pool-encampment.md): *The camp is waiting for you outside the tent: no music, no fire-talk, only knives and drawn bows.*
- [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md): [Lady Wachter's Book Club](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/lady-wachters-book-club.md) · *Knives come out of sleeves all over the square. Lady Wachter's people were never here to watch the sun.*
- [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md): [Lady Wachter's Book Club](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/lady-wachters-book-club.md) · *Izek vaults off the dais with his strange arm already smoking. The Baron's watch closes ranks behind him.*
- [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md): *Izek's arm bursts into flame to the elbow. Most of the watch backs away from the priest; the ones who don't…*
- [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md): *The rider wheels his black horse in the gateway and comes back in, drawing a sabre, while Dobre's lads come…*
- [The Reed Isle](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-reed-isle.md): [The Baron's Island](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-barons-island.md) · *The Baron's boatmen come up the shingle with clubs and a lantern, looking for the smoke, and the reeds behind…*