# Scarecrow

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

> [!infobox]
> ![scarecrow](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/scarecrow.webp)
> **Type:** Medium construct
> **Alignment:** chaotic evil
> **Challenge:** 1 (200 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 11
> **Hit Points:** 27 (6d8)
> **Speed:** 30 ft

## Stat block

A straw figure brought to malevolent life: frightening claws and a stare that roots victims in place. Burns easily.

| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 27 (6d8) | 30 ft | 1 | 200 |

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 (+0) | 13 (+1) | 11 (+0) | 10 (+0) | 10 (+0) | 13 (+1) |

- **Vulnerable:** fire
- **Immune:** poison
- **Condition immunities:** charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, unconscious
- **Senses:** darkvision 60 ft; passive Perception 10
- **Languages:** understands its creator's languages but can't speak

### Actions

- **Fearsome Claw.** A raking claw that leaves the target Frightened until the end of the scarecrow's next turn.
- **Terrifying Glare.** DC 11 Wis save by a creature within 30 ft or Frightened and Paralyzed until the end of the scarecrow's next turn.

## Where you meet it

- [The Abbey Garden](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-abbey-garden.md): *The scarecrows turn their sacking heads all together, with a noise like dry leaves, and climb down off their…*
- [The Ruins of Berez](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-ruins-of-berez.md): *The scarecrows in the reeds turn their sacking heads all at once, and climb down off their poles.*
- [The Ruins of Berez](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-ruins-of-berez.md): *A bowl of yellow bone comes skimming over the reeds, low and fast, with a tiny furious woman standing in it.…*
- [The Ruins of Berez](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-ruins-of-berez.md): [The One-Horned Billy](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-one-horned-billy.md) · *The Rag Queen steps down off her post, twice the height of a man, all rotten silk and lace and faces in the…*

On the road: [Berez Marsh](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/world/random-encounters.md)