# Ghast

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> [!infobox]
> ![ghast](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/ghast.webp)
> **Type:** Medium undead
> **Alignment:** chaotic evil
> **Challenge:** 2 (450 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 13
> **Hit Points:** 36 (8d8)
> **Speed:** 30 ft

## Stat block

Wades into melee so its stench sickens foes, paralyzing one with claws then biting the helpless.

| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 36 (8d8) | 30 ft | 2 | 450 |

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 (+3) | 17 (+3) | 10 (+0) | 11 (+0) | 10 (+0) | 8 (-1) |

- **Saving throws:** WIS +2
- **Resistant:** necrotic
- **Immune:** poison
- **Condition immunities:** charmed, exhaustion, poisoned
- **Senses:** darkvision 60 ft; passive Perception 10
- **Languages:** Common

### Traits

- **Stench.** Any creature that starts its turn in the 5-foot Emanation around the ghast makes a DC 10 Constitution saving throw. On a failure it has the Poisoned condition until the start of its next turn. On a success it is immune to this ghast's Stench for 24 hours.

### Actions

- **Bite.** Bites for piercing plus necrotic damage.
- **Claw.** Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) Slashing damage. If the target is a creature that isn't Undead, it makes a DC 10 Constitution saving throw. On a failure it has the Paralyzed condition until the end of its next turn.

## Where you meet it

- [Burgomaster's Mansion](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/burgomasters-mansion.md): *The Tenant comes up the little stair on all fours, and the servants who starved with him come up behind.*
- [Death House, Dungeon (Upper Level)](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/death-house-dungeon-upper-level.md): *Supper is served.*
- [Death House, Dungeon (Upper Level)](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/death-house-dungeon-upper-level.md): *For one moment they are only parents, and grieving.*
- [Death House, Dungeon (Upper Level)](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/death-house-dungeon-upper-level.md): [The Nursemaid's Grave](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-nursemaids-grave.md) · *The lids along the row slide back, one after another, and what the house kept down here climbs out to take…*
- [Lake Zarovich: the Fishers' Landing](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/lake-zarovich-the-fishers-landing.md): [The Bell Under the Lake](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-bell-under-the-lake.md) · *The water along the shore stands up in the shape of people: the drowned of Pescari, grey and swollen, in…*
- [The Tsolenka Pass](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-tsolenka-pass.md): *The Penitent stands up out of the gorge wall, nine pilgrims fused in grey ice, and turns all its heads toward…*

On the road: [Argynvostholt 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)