Warrior Veteran

Stat block

A seasoned soldier: shoots while foes close, then cleaves twice a turn and parries melee hits.

• Skills: Athletics +5, Perception +2
• Languages: Common, one other language

Actions

• Multiattack. Makes two Greatsword attacks or two Heavy Crossbow attacks.
• Greatsword. Cleaves with a greatsword.
• Heavy Crossbow. Fires a heavy crossbow bolt.

Reactions

• Parry. Trigger: the warrior is hit by a melee attack roll while it holds a weapon. Response: the warrior gains a +2 bonus to its AC against that one attack, which can make the attack miss.

Where you meet it

• The Svalich Woods: Grigor spits, nocks, and shouts a name. Arrows answer from three sides.
• Vallaki: Lady Wachter's Book Club · Knives come out of sleeves all over the square. Lady Wachter's people were never here to watch the sun.
• Vallaki: Lady Wachter's Book Club · Izek vaults off the dais with his strange arm already smoking. The Baron's watch closes ranks behind him.
• Vallaki: Izek's arm bursts into flame to the elbow. Most of the watch backs away from the priest; the ones who don't…
• Vallaki: The Doll Collector · Izek steps down off the dais, flexing the arm that isn't his. A few of the watch step down with him.
• Vallaki: Two of Dobre's lads come round the corner at a run, and two more out of the guardhouse, and none of them are…
• Vallaki: The rider wheels his black horse in the gateway and comes back in, drawing a sabre, while Dobre's lads come…
• The Burgomaster's Mansion: The Doll Collector · Izek comes off the cot in one movement, and the arm that isn't his starts to glow like a coal someone has…
• Wachterhaus: Lady Wachter's Book Club · Seven heads turn from the shrine at once. 'You're early,' says Nikolai Wachter, drawing, 'and you weren't…
• The Reed Isle: The Baron's Island · The Baron's boatmen come up the shingle with clubs and a lantern, looking for the smoke, and the reeds behind…