# Dire Wolf

> From the Curse of Strahd game wiki (it covers the whole game, spoilers included): https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/dire-wolf.html. Unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy, not approved or endorsed by Wizards of the Coast.

> [!infobox]
> ![dire wolf](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/dire-wolf.webp)
> **Type:** Large beast
> **Alignment:** unaligned
> **Challenge:** 1 (200 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 14
> **Hit Points:** 22 (3d10+6)
> **Speed:** 50 ft

## Stat block

A huge, fast wolf that hunts with its pack, dragging prey Prone so its packmates strike easily.

| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 22 (3d10+6) | 50 ft | 1 | 200 |

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 (+3) | 15 (+2) | 15 (+2) | 3 (-4) | 12 (+1) | 7 (-2) |

- **Skills:** Perception +5, Stealth +4
- **Senses:** darkvision 60 ft; passive Perception 15

### Traits

- **Pack Tactics.** The wolf has Advantage on an attack roll against a creature when at least one of the wolf's allies is within 5 feet of that creature and that ally doesn't have the Incapacitated condition.

### Actions

- **Bite.** Hit: 8 (1d10 + 3) Piercing damage. If the target is Large or smaller, it has the Prone condition.

## Where you meet it

- [The High Pasture](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-high-pasture.md): [The Goatherd's Count](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-goatherds-count.md) · *Out of the mists at the top of the pasture come wolves, white and wet with fog, low and fast, for the old…*
- [Burgomaster's Mansion](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/burgomasters-mansion.md): *Past midnight the boards over the windows begin to creak, then to split. Wolves throw themselves at the front…*
- [Castle Ravenloft, the Old Tombs](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-old-tombs.md): *Strahd stands at the foot of his brother's tomb with one hand on the stone. He finishes what he was saying to…*
- [Castle Ravenloft, the Court of the Count](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-court-of-the-count.md): *He is on the throne, one leg over the arm of it, as if he has been waiting a long time and enjoyed every…*
- [The Old Svalich Road](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-old-svalich-road.md): *The fog behind you opens like a mouth, and the count's wolves come out of it low and quick, for the man who…*
- [Krezk](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/krezk.md): *Shapes come up the road out of the dark on both sides, low and patient. Behind you the gate stays shut. On…*
- [Krezk](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/krezk.md): *The Grandsire comes over Krezk's wall in the moonlight with the old wolves of the pack at his heels.*
- [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…*
- [The Miller's Lane](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-millers-lane.md): [The Fourth Sister](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-fourth-sister.md) · *Granny Ash comes across the lane with her dogs at her heels, and in the hag garden behind her the blights…*
- [The River Ivlis Crossroads](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-river-ivlis-crossroads.md): [The Count's Huntsman](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-counts-huntsman.md) · *The Huntsman sets the pack on you with one note of the horn, and the hounds come up the road in silence.*
- [Tser Falls](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/tser-falls.md): *Something has been sitting at the edge of the trees, listening to the water with you. It stands up on two…*
- [Village of Barovia](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/village-of-barovia.md): [The Polite Caller](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-polite-caller.md) · *The carriage lamp stops at the end of the lane. Its door opens on nothing, and a tall shape in a coachman's…*
- [The Werewolf Den](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-werewolf-den.md): *Shapes uncurl from the straw along the walls, and the cave is suddenly full of yellow eyes. Nobody told them…*
- [The Werewolf Den](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-werewolf-den.md): *Kiril throws back his head and laughs, and the laugh turns into a howl halfway through, and his loyal wolves…*
- [The Werewolf Den](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-werewolf-den.md): *For one moment Kiril and Emil look at each other across the cave, and agree on something for the first time…*

On the road: [Argynvostholt Road](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/world/random-encounters.md), [Baratok Slopes](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/world/random-encounters.md), [Bonegrinder Lane](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/world/random-encounters.md), [Krezk Road](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/world/random-encounters.md), [Svalich Road](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/world/random-encounters.md), [Svalich Woods](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/world/random-encounters.md), [Vineyard Road](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/world/random-encounters.md), [Zarovich Hills](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/world/random-encounters.md), [Zarovich Shore](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/world/random-encounters.md)