# Bandit

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> [!infobox]
> ![bandit](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/bandit.webp)
> **Type:** Medium humanoid
> **Alignment:** neutral
> **Challenge:** 1/8 (25 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 12
> **Hit Points:** 11 (2d8+2)
> **Speed:** 30 ft

## Stat block

Snipes with a crossbow from cover, closes with a scimitar on weak targets, and runs when losing.

| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 11 (2d8+2) | 30 ft | 1/8 | 25 |

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 (+0) | 12 (+1) | 12 (+1) | 10 (+0) | 10 (+0) | 10 (+0) |

- **Languages:** Common, Thieves' Cant

### Actions

- **Scimitar.** Slashes with a scimitar.
- **Light Crossbow.** Fires a light crossbow bolt.

## Where you meet it

- [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) · *Her sons are gone, but Lady Wachter's money is not: hired swords shove through the crowd toward the dais.*