Flameskull

Stat block

A flying, burning skull: twin fire rays, Magic Missile and a Fireball, and it re-forms unless its remains are blessed.

• Skills: Arcana +5, Perception +2
• Immune: fire, necrotic, poison
• Condition immunities: charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned, prone
• Senses: darkvision 60 ft; passive Perception 12
• Languages: Common

Traits

• Illumination. Sheds Bright Light 15 ft and Dim Light 15 ft more.
• Magic Resistance. Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
• Undead Restoration. Destroyed, it re-forms in an hour unless Holy Water or Dispel Evil and Good is used on its remains.

Actions

• Multiattack. Two Fire Rays.
• Fire Ray. A jet of green fire, close up or up to 60 ft.
• Spellcasting. Intelligence, DC 13: Mage Hand at will; Magic Missile (2nd level) twice a day; Fireball once.

Where you meet it

• The Amber Temple: the Library: Four skulls rise from the top shelves, each wearing a crown of green fire. They were wardens once, and they…
• The Amber Temple: the Library: The sparks in Exethanter's eyes go from candle to forge. Somewhere in the shelves, two skulls catch fire.
• The Amber Temple: the Vaults: The Amber Temple · The scholar takes off his spectacles, and his face goes with them: a jackal's head, black-lipped and smiling.…
• Castle Ravenloft, the Dungeon: Two burning skulls rise from the coal heaps, and the fire in the furnace stands up on legs of its own.
• Under Mount Ghakis: The cracks in the floor flare white. Something climbs out of the biggest of them, shaped like a man made of a…