# Ghoul

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> [!infobox]
> ![ghoul](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/ghoul.webp)
> **Type:** Medium undead
> **Alignment:** chaotic evil
> **Challenge:** 1 (200 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 12
> **Hit Points:** 22 (5d8)
> **Speed:** 30 ft

## Stat block

Hunts in groups: claws to paralyze a victim, then the pack bites the helpless target twice a turn.

| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 22 (5d8) | 30 ft | 1 | 200 |

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 (+1) | 15 (+2) | 10 (+0) | 7 (-2) | 10 (+0) | 6 (-2) |

- **Immune:** poison
- **Condition immunities:** charmed, exhaustion, poisoned
- **Senses:** darkvision 60 ft; passive Perception 10
- **Languages:** Common

### Actions

- **Multiattack.** Makes two Bite attacks.
- **Bite.** Bites for piercing plus necrotic damage.
- **Claw.** Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2) Slashing damage. If the target is a creature that is neither Undead nor an elf, 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): *The bones in the passage stand up, and some of them still have meat on.*
- [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 Grey Goose](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-grey-goose.md): [The Lantern in the Roadhouse](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-lantern-in-the-roadhouse.md) · *The nails squeal out of the trapdoor on their own, and what's been living in the cellar for twenty winters…*
- [Yester Hill](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/yester-hill.md): [The Barrow on Yester Hill](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-barrow-on-yester-hill.md) · *The cairn comes apart, and up out of it and out of the mounds round it come the dead the druids bound to…*

On the road: [Krezk Road](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/world/random-encounters.md), [Zarovich Hills](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/world/random-encounters.md)