# Skeleton

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> [!infobox]
> ![skeleton](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/skeleton.webp)
> **Type:** Medium undead
> **Alignment:** lawful evil
> **Challenge:** 1/4 (50 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 14
> **Hit Points:** 13 (2d8+4)
> **Speed:** 30 ft

## Stat block

Old bones that still follow orders: arrows from afar, a blade up close; blunt weapons shatter them.

| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 13 (2d8+4) | 30 ft | 1/4 | 50 |

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 (+0) | 16 (+3) | 15 (+2) | 6 (-2) | 8 (-1) | 5 (-3) |

- **Vulnerable:** bludgeoning
- **Immune:** poison
- **Condition immunities:** exhaustion, poisoned
- **Senses:** darkvision 60 ft; passive Perception 9
- **Languages:** understands Common and one other language but can't speak

### Actions

- **Shortsword.** Stabs with a rusty shortsword.
- **Shortbow.** Shoots an arrow up to 320 ft.

## Where you meet it

- [Castle Ravenloft, the Dungeon](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-dungeon.md): *At the head of the table of bones, your host rises. Along both sides, the chairs stand up with him.*
- [The Old Svalich Road](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-old-svalich-road.md): [The Last Muster](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-last-muster.md) · *The whole column lowers its lances at once, and the gate is full of bones riding at you.*