Shadow

Stat block

Hides in darkness, slips through cracks and drains Strength; weak to radiant damage and sunlight.

• Skills: Stealth +6
• Vulnerable: radiant
• Resistant: acid, cold, fire, lightning, thunder
• Immune: necrotic, poison
• Condition immunities: exhaustion, frightened, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained, unconscious
• Senses: darkvision 60 ft; passive Perception 10

Traits

• Amorphous. The shadow can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch, and doing so costs it no extra movement.
• Sunlight Weakness. While the shadow is in sunlight, it has Disadvantage on D20 Tests.

Actions

• Draining Swipe. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) Necrotic damage, and the target's Strength score is reduced by 1d4. If this brings the score to 0, the target dies. A Humanoid killed by this attack rises as a new Shadow 1d4 hours later.

Bonus actions

• Shadow Stealth. If the shadow is in Dim Light or Darkness, it can take the Hide action as a Bonus Action.

Where you meet it

• The Goat Path Camp: The Guide to the Temple · The guide gets up. His shadows stand up off the snow without him, and out of the drifts below the shelf come…
• Death House, Dungeon (Upper Level): Five shadows peel off the walls, and none of them is yours.
• Death House, Dungeon (Lower Level): The shades will not let you leave so easily.
• Wachterhaus: Lady Wachter's Book Club · Seven heads turn from the shrine at once. 'You're early,' says Nikolai Wachter, drawing, 'and you weren't…
• Wachterhaus: The Cat in the Window · Stella's shadow peels off the wall and stands up, and the shadows under the bed and behind the door stand up…
• Village of Barovia: The water in the well climbs the shaft on its own. She comes up out of it in her wedding veil, screaming, and…