Vrock

Stat block

A vulture-headed demon turned to stone on the Tsolenka gate wall, who wakes when the gate is forced.

• Saving throws: DEX +5, WIS +4, CHA +2
• Resistant: cold, fire, lightning
• Immune: poison
• Condition immunities: poisoned
• Senses: darkvision 120 ft; passive Perception 11
• Languages: abyssal

Traits

• Demonic Restoration. If it dies outside the Abyss, its body dissolves into ichor and it revives with all its Hit Points somewhere in the Abyss (not built: here it stays dead).
• Magic Resistance. Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Actions

• Multiattack. Two Shred attacks.
• Shred. Beak and talons together: 2d6+3 Piercing plus 3d6 Poison.
• Spores. Recharge 6. A cloud of spores: each creature within 20 ft, DC 15 Con save or Poisoned, repeating the save at the end of each of its turns (Holy Water on it ends the effect early; the 1d10 Poison at the start of its turns isn't tracked).
• Stunning Screech. 1/Day. Each creature within 20 ft: DC 15 Con save or 3d6 Thunder and Stunned until the end of the vrock's next turn.

Where you meet it

• The Tsolenka Pass: Grey stone cracks like old ice along the two carved beasts beside the gate, flaking off wet flesh. They…