Vine Blight

Stat block

A slow heap of creepers that crushes a victim from 10 ft away and makes the ground itself grab at feet.

• Skills: Stealth +1
• Condition immunities: deafened
• Senses: blindsight 60 ft; passive Perception 10
• Languages: Common

Actions

• Constricting Vine. Lashes out 10 ft and grips a Large or smaller target (escape DC 12), crushing it 1d8 at the start of each of its turns.
• Entangling Plants. Recharge 5-6. Casts Entangle (Con, DC 12).

Where you meet it

• The Miller's Lane: The Fourth Sister · Granny Ash comes across the lane with her dogs at her heels, and in the hag garden behind her the blights…
• The Old Den: The Dancing Bear · Out of the trees all round the clearing come things that aren't trees, toward the sound of the cub crying.
• Village of Barovia: Cut After Noon · The woodpile stands up. It is taller than Grigore's house, logs for ribs and roots for fingers, and the…
• Village of Barovia: Cut After Noon · 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: The vines on both sides of the lane shiver, though there's no wind. Then, row by row, they stand up.
• The Wizard of Wines: The Black Row · The Seventh Row stands up out of the ground, and the vines in the rows on either side pull their roots up…
• The Winery Cellars: Needle blights are scraping at the earth floor with their claws, and druids with lanterns are telling them…
• The Press House: The vat bursts its hoops. What rises out of it is the winery's last harvest: skins, stems and rot, heaped…
• The Winery: Druids look up from the vats, where they have been feeding something green and pulpy into the wine. Around…
• The Crown of Yester Hill: The humming breaks into a shout. The effigy's chest splits like a log in frost, and out of it, unfolding,…

On the road: Vineyard Road