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Penanggalan 5e

Small Undead, Any Evil Alignment

The Penanggalan is a small undead in D&D 5e with a challenge rating of 8 (3,900 XP). It has 16 AC and 104 hit points. A disembodied head trails bloody entrails like grotesque ribbons as it floats through the air, its beautiful face twisted into a predatory smile that reveals needle-sharp teeth.

Armor Class

16

Hit Points

104

Challenge

8

3,900 XP

A disembodied head trails bloody entrails like grotesque ribbons as it floats through the air, its beautiful face twisted into a predatory smile that reveals needle-sharp teeth.

Speed Walk fly 40
STR +0 (10)
DEX +3 (16)
CON +3 (16)
INT +0 (11)
WIS +1 (13)
CHA +4 (18)
Saving Throws DEX +6, WIS +4, CHA +7
Skills Deception +7, Insight +4, Stealth +6
Damage Immun. Immune: Necrotic, Poison; Resistant: Nonmagical Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing
Condition Immun. Charmed, Exhaustion, Poisoned, Prone
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11
Languages Alive

Horrifying Visage

Penanggalan Weaknesses

Reattach

Sunlight Paralysis

Dense Vegetation

Shapechanger

Walk as the Living

Innate Spellcasting

Undead

Use Penanggalan in your campaign

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