# Tough

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> [!infobox]
> ![tough](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/tough.webp)
> **Type:** Medium humanoid
> **Alignment:** neutral
> **Challenge:** 1/2 (100 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 12
> **Hit Points:** 32 (5d8+10)
> **Speed:** 30 ft

## Stat block

A hired bruiser who gangs up with allies for Advantage and beats one target down with a mace.

| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 32 (5d8+10) | 30 ft | 1/2 | 100 |

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 (+2) | 12 (+1) | 14 (+2) | 10 (+0) | 10 (+0) | 11 (+0) |

- **Languages:** Common

### Traits

- **Pack Tactics.** The tough has Advantage on an attack roll against a creature when at least one of the tough's allies is within 5 feet of that creature and that ally doesn't have the Incapacitated condition.

### Actions

- **Mace.** Clubs a target with a mace.
- **Heavy Crossbow.** Fires a heavy crossbow bolt.

## Where you meet it

- [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md): [Lady Wachter's Book Club](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/lady-wachters-book-club.md) · *Knives come out of sleeves all over the square. Lady Wachter's people were never here to watch the sun.*
- [Wachterhaus](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/wachterhaus.md): [Lady Wachter's Book Club](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/lady-wachters-book-club.md) · *Seven heads turn from the shrine at once. 'You're early,' says Nikolai Wachter, drawing, 'and you weren't…*
- [The Reed Isle](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-reed-isle.md): [The Baron's Island](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-barons-island.md) · *The Baron's boatmen come up the shingle with clubs and a lantern, looking for the smoke, and the reeds behind…*