# Twig Blight

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> [!infobox]
> ![twig blight](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/twig-blight.webp)
> **Type:** Small plant
> **Alignment:** neutral evil
> **Challenge:** 1/8 (25 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 14
> **Hit Points:** 7 (2d6)
> **Speed:** 20 ft

## Stat block

A knee-high bundle of dead twigs that passes for brush until it scuttles out to claw; fire burns it badly.

| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 7 (2d6) | 20 ft | 1/8 | 25 |

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 (-2) | 14 (+2) | 11 (+0) | 4 (-3) | 8 (-1) | 3 (-4) |

- **Skills:** Stealth +4
- **Vulnerable:** fire
- **Condition immunities:** deafened
- **Senses:** blindsight 60 ft; passive Perception 9
- **Languages:** Common (understands but can't speak)

### Traits

- **Pack Tactics.** Advantage on attack rolls against a target that has a non-Incapacitated ally of this creature within 5 ft.

### Actions

- **Claw.** Twiggy claws.

## Where you meet it

- [The Old Den](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-old-den.md): [The Dancing Bear](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-dancing-bear.md) · *Out of the trees all round the clearing come things that aren't trees, toward the sound of the cub crying.*
- [Village of Barovia](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/village-of-barovia.md): [Cut After Noon](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/cut-after-noon.md) · *The woodpile stands up. It is taller than Grigore's house, logs for ribs and roots for fingers, and the…*
- [Village of Barovia](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/village-of-barovia.md): [Cut After Noon](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/cut-after-noon.md) · *The logs split in the fire, and things crawl out of the splits: pale, thorned, too many legs, and very angry…*
- [The Wizard of Wines](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-wizard-of-wines.md): *The vines on both sides of the lane shiver, though there's no wind. Then, row by row, they stand up.*
- [The Winery](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-winery.md): *Druids look up from the vats, where they have been feeding something green and pulpy into the wine. Around…*
- [Yester Hill](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/yester-hill.md): *The men round the fire are big, bearded and painted green to the eyebrows. They see you, grin, and reach for…*
- [The Crown of Yester Hill](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-crown-of-yester-hill.md): *The humming breaks into a shout. The effigy's chest splits like a log in frost, and out of it, unfolding,…*
- [The Crown of Yester Hill](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-crown-of-yester-hill.md): [The Druid Who Came Back](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-druid-who-came-back.md) · *The ash of the whole crown stands up round the thing in the turned earth, grey and smoking, twice a man's…*

On the road: [Krezk Road](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/world/random-encounters.md), [Vineyard Road](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/world/random-encounters.md)