# Scout

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

> [!infobox]
> ![scout](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/scout.webp)
> **Type:** Medium humanoid
> **Alignment:** neutral
> **Challenge:** 1/2 (100 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 13
> **Hit Points:** 16 (3d8+3)
> **Speed:** 30 ft

## Stat block

Keeps its distance and fires two arrows a turn from cover, drawing a shortsword only if cornered.

| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 16 (3d8+3) | 30 ft | 1/2 | 100 |

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 (+0) | 14 (+2) | 12 (+1) | 11 (+0) | 13 (+1) | 11 (+0) |

- **Skills:** Nature +4, Perception +5, Stealth +6, Survival +5
- **Languages:** Common, one other language

### Actions

- **Multiattack.** Makes two attacks with Shortsword and Longbow in any combination.
- **Shortsword.** Stabs with a shortsword.
- **Longbow.** Shoots a longbow.

## Where you meet it

- [The Svalich Woods](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-svalich-woods.md): *Grigor spits, nocks, and shouts a name. Arrows answer from three sides.*
- [Tser Pool Encampment](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/tser-pool-encampment.md): *The fiddle stops mid-note. Every knife in the camp comes out at once.*
- [Tser Pool Encampment](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/tser-pool-encampment.md): *The camp is waiting for you outside the tent: no music, no fire-talk, only knives and drawn bows.*
- [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md): *The rider wheels his black horse in the gateway and comes back in, drawing a sabre, while Dobre's lads come…*