# Specter

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> [!infobox]
> ![specter](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/specter.webp)
> **Type:** Medium undead
> **Alignment:** chaotic evil
> **Challenge:** 1 (200 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 12
> **Hit Points:** 22 (5d8)
> **Speed:** 30 ft, fly 50 ft

## Stat block

Drifts through walls to strike from unexpected angles, draining Hit Point maximums; shrugs off weapons.

| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 22 (5d8) | 30 ft, fly 50 ft | 1 | 200 |

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (-5) | 14 (+2) | 11 (+0) | 10 (+0) | 10 (+0) | 11 (+0) |

- **Resistant:** acid, bludgeoning, cold, fire, lightning, piercing, slashing, thunder
- **Immune:** necrotic, poison
- **Condition immunities:** charmed, exhaustion, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained, unconscious
- **Senses:** darkvision 60 ft; passive Perception 10
- **Languages:** Common (understands but can't speak), one other language (understands but can't speak)

### Traits

- **Incorporeal Movement.** The specter can move through other creatures and through objects, treating them as Difficult Terrain. If it ends its turn inside an object, it takes 5 (1d10) Force damage.
- **Sunlight Sensitivity.** While the specter is in sunlight, it has Disadvantage on ability checks and attack rolls.

### Actions

- **Life Drain.** Hit: 7 (2d6) Necrotic damage. If the target is a creature, its Hit Point maximum is reduced by the amount of damage it took.

## Where you meet it

- [The Amber Temple: Hall of the Faceless God](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-amber-temple-hall-of-the-faceless-god.md): [The Wailing Hall](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-wailing-hall.md) · *Patrina screams, and the frozen students at their desks lift their heads to scream with her.*
- [The Beacon Tower](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-beacon-tower.md): *The ash in the cradle stirs with no wind to stir it. The dark that settled into the dead lamp gathers itself…*
- [Castle Ravenloft, the Old Tombs](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-old-tombs.md): *He is sitting on the edge of the dais between his mother and his father, and the shadows of the vault stand…*
- [Death House, Third Floor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/death-house-third-floor.md): *She wants her baby back.*
- [Under Van Richten's Tower](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/under-van-richtens-tower.md): *The books on every shelf open at once with a sound like birds, and the people written in them come out of the…*
- [Under Van Richten's Tower](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/under-van-richtens-tower.md): [The Name Over the Door](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-name-over-the-door.md) · *Khazan stands up out of his chair, and every candle in the study leans toward him, and the books in the hall…*
- [Under Van Richten's Tower](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/under-van-richtens-tower.md): [The Name Over the Door](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-name-over-the-door.md) · *For one moment more Khazan is himself, and he doesn't lift a hand. Then the lights in his eyes go out, and…*
- [The River Ivlis Crossroads](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-river-ivlis-crossroads.md): [The Grey Mare](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-grey-mare.md) · *The black horse in the traces stamps once, and the empty harness beside it swings. Pale shapes slide out of…*
- [Village of Barovia](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/village-of-barovia.md): *The water in the well climbs the shaft on its own. She comes up out of it in her wedding veil, screaming, and…*