# Vampire Spawn

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> [!infobox]
> ![vampire spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/vampire-spawn.webp)
> **Type:** Medium undead
> **Alignment:** neutral evil
> **Challenge:** 5 (1800 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 16
> **Hit Points:** 90 (12d8+36)
> **Speed:** 30 ft

## Stat block

Grabs a victim with its claws, bites to heal itself, and disengages freely; shuns sunlight.

| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 90 (12d8+36) | 30 ft | 5 | 1800 |

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 (+3) | 16 (+3) | 16 (+3) | 11 (+0) | 10 (+0) | 12 (+1) |

- **Saving throws:** DEX +6, WIS +3
- **Skills:** Perception +3, Stealth +6
- **Resistant:** necrotic
- **Senses:** darkvision 60 ft; passive Perception 13
- **Languages:** Common, one other language

### Traits

- **Spider Climb.** The vampire can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down along ceilings, without making an ability check.
- **Vampire Weakness.** The vampire has these weaknesses. Forbiddance: it can't enter a residence unless an occupant invites it in. Running Water: it takes 20 Acid damage if it ends its turn in running water. Stake to the Heart: it is destroyed if a weapon that deals Piercing damage is driven into its heart while it has the Incapacitated condition. Sunlight: it takes 20 Radiant damage if it starts its turn in sunlight, and while in sunlight it has Disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks.

### Actions

- **Multiattack.** Makes two Claw attacks and uses Bite.
- **Claw.** Hit: 8 (2d4 + 3) Slashing damage. If the target is Medium or smaller, it has the Grappled condition (escape DC 13), held by one of the vampire's two claws.
- **Bite.** Constitution Saving Throw: DC 14, one creature within 5 feet that is willing or has the Grappled, Incapacitated or Restrained condition. Failure: 5 (1d4 + 3) Piercing damage plus 10 (3d6) Necrotic damage. The target's Hit Point maximum is reduced by the Necrotic damage it took, and the vampire regains that many Hit Points.

### Bonus actions

- **Deathless Agility.** The vampire takes the Dash action or the Disengage action.

## Where you meet it

- [Castle Ravenloft, the Catacombs](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-catacombs.md): *The coffins are empty because their sleepers are already standing, and they have been waiting for you.*
- [Castle Ravenloft, Strahd's Tomb](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-strahds-tomb.md): *He is standing beside his own coffin with his hands behind his back, like a man waiting for a late carriage.*
- [Castle Ravenloft, Strahd's Tomb](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-strahds-tomb.md): *Two pale shapes rise from behind the dais, and the ceiling comes loose and becomes bats.*
- [Castle Ravenloft, the Chapel](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-chapel.md): *Someone is kneeling at the altar. He finishes whatever he was saying, rises, and turns. In the front pews,…*
- [Castle Ravenloft, the Rooms of Weeping](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-rooms-of-weeping.md): *Ludmilla closes her book. Volenta claps her hands. Anastrasya turns her face to the wall and does not move.*
- [Castle Ravenloft, the Dungeon](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-dungeon.md): *His hand closes on the nearest throat, and two more shapes drop from the vault above the passage.*
- [Castle Ravenloft, the Dungeon](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-dungeon.md): *He laughs, and two more shapes unfold from the vault above the passage.*
- [Castle Ravenloft, the Dungeon](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-dungeon.md): *The chain falls. For a breath he is only grateful. Then the hunger reaches you first.*
- [Castle Ravenloft, the Main Floor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-main-floor.md): [Count Off](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/count-off.md) · *Up the servants' stair comes Corporal Vell, two of the company at his back. 'Sergeant,' he says. 'You're…*
- [Castle Ravenloft, the Main Floor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-main-floor.md): [Count Off](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/count-off.md) · *Every panel in the hall stands open. Four of Kestrel Company come out of the walls in step, and their captain…*
- [Castle Ravenloft, the High Tower](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-high-tower.md): *Two shapes unfold from the underside of the stair above and drop onto the steps, and the well fills with bats.*
- [Castle Ravenloft, the Tower Rooms](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-tower-rooms.md): *Escher's smile goes long in the teeth. The bats in the canopy of his bed come down like a dropped curtain.*
- [The Hill Trail above Lake Zarovich](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-hill-trail-above-lake-zarovich.md): *The count's fowlers drop out of the dead pine, and the bats come down after them like a black sheet shaken…*
- [The River Ivlis Crossroads](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-river-ivlis-crossroads.md): [Count Off](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/count-off.md)
- [The Tsolenka Pass](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-tsolenka-pass.md): [The Last Egg](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-last-egg.md) · *The stone birds come down on the shelf with a sound like a quarry falling, and the falconer lands among them,…*
- [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md): [Black Roses](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/black-roses.md) · *Two more girls come over the rooftops at Catalina's call, barefoot, in nightgowns, their arms full of black…*
- [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md): [Black Roses](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/black-roses.md) · *The lids come up slowly. The three of them climb out into the grey daylight blinking and slow, like children…*
- [The Coffin Maker's Shop](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-coffin-makers-shop.md): [The Bones of St. Andral](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-bones-of-st-andral.md) · *Crate lids lift on their own, slowly, the nails squealing out one by one. What climbs out has been waiting in…*
- [St. Andral's Church](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/st-andrals-church.md): [The Bones of St. Andral](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-bones-of-st-andral.md) · *Glass bursts inward along both walls of the nave. Pale shapes come through the windows head first, like…*
- [Van Richten's Tower](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/van-richtens-tower.md): *Something is waiting where the causeway meets the shore: two pale figures standing very still, and above them…*
- [Village Church](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/village-church.md): *Doru drops from the ceiling without a sound. Whatever was left of the priest's son is gone behind his eyes.*
- [Village of Barovia](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/village-of-barovia.md): [The Polite Caller](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-polite-caller.md) · *The carriage lamp stops at the end of the lane. Its door opens on nothing, and a tall shape in a coachman's…*