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Strixwolf Alpha

Adversaries Designed by Matias Montes

Adversary overview

A large creature with the body of a wolf and the head of an owl.

This is meant to be a scarier (and hopefully more interesting) version of the Strixwolf Mother for the Sablewood Messengers Quickstart adventure.

It is meant to be a small challenge for a small level 1 party (I ran it against a party of 2).

I recommend adding some supporting elements in the environment or some supporting adversaries.

In my campaign I had the PCs rescue a villager who was being hunted by this creature, so the intentions of the Strixwold was to run away with its prey, rather than killing the PCs, so I added an event mechanism to give the Strixwolf opportunities to succeed and some actions to allow the PC to distract the Strixwolf

Stat block

Tier
1
Type
Solo
Difficulty
13
HP
4
Stress
3
Attack mod
0
Damage thresholds
Minor Damage — Mark 1 HP Minor
Mark 1 HP
7
Major Damage — Mark 2 HP Major
Mark 2 HP
12
Severe Damage — Mark 3 HP Severe
Mark 3 HP

Standard attack

Bite
Range: Melee
Damage: 1d8+3
Attack Mod: 0
Damage Type: Physical

Features

Passives

  • Swoop

    If the Strixwolf makes a successful standard attack after moving at least very close distance, it deals +2 damage on that attack.

Actions

  • Screech
    fear 1

    Spend a Fear to let out a piercing cry. PCs within Far range must make a Presence Reaction Roll. Targets who fail, become Dazed. A Dazed PC cannot take an action until they spend a Hope to remove this condition.

Reactions

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Motives & tactics

Hunt Isolate Survive

Experiences

  • Keen Senses +0

Strixwolf Alpha

Tier 1 solo

A large creature with the body of a wolf and the head of an owl.

Motives & Tactics: Hunt, Isolate, Survive

Difficulty: 13 | Thresholds: 7/12 | HP: 4 | Stress: 3

ATK: 0 | Bite: Melee | 1d8+3 Physical

Experience: Keen Senses +0

HP:

STRESS:

Features

Screech - Action: Spend a Fear to let out a piercing cry. PCs within Far range must make a Presence Reaction Roll. Targets who fail, become Dazed. A Dazed PC cannot take an action until they spend a Hope to remove this condition.
Swoop - Passive: If the Strixwolf makes a successful standard attack after moving at least very close distance, it deals +2 damage on that attack.

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