# Rug of Smothering

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> [!infobox]
> ![rug of smothering](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/rug-of-smothering.webp)
> **Type:** Large construct
> **Alignment:** unaligned
> **Challenge:** 2 (450 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 12
> **Hit Points:** 27 (5d10)
> **Speed:** 10 ft

## Stat block

A fine carpet that lies still until someone steps on it, then rolls them up and squeezes.

| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 27 (5d10) | 10 ft | 2 | 450 |

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 (+3) | 14 (+2) | 10 (+0) | 1 (-5) | 3 (-4) | 1 (-5) |

- **Immune:** poison, psychic
- **Condition immunities:** charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned
- **Senses:** blindsight 60 ft; passive Perception 6

### Traits

- **Damage Transfer.** While the rug is grappling a creature, it takes only half the damage dealt to it (rounded down), and the creature it holds takes the other half.

### Actions

- **Smother.** Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) Bludgeoning damage. A Medium or smaller target is Grappled (escape DC 13); until it gets free it is also Blinded and Restrained, can't breathe, and takes 10 (2d6 + 3) Bludgeoning damage at the start of each of its turns. The rug can hold only one creature at a time.

## Where you meet it

- [Castle Ravenloft, the Court of the Count](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-court-of-the-count.md): *The rug lifts off the floor like a sheet in the wind and comes for you, and from the ledger shelves something…*