# Nightmare

*large* *Fiend*

- **Armor Class:** 13 (natural armor)
- **Hit Points:** 76 
- **Speed:** walk 60 ft. fly 90 ft.- **Perception**: 11
- **Stealth**: 12
- **Challenge Rating:** 3 (700 XP)
- **Source:** [Black Flag](https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tovrpg-pg-mv/)

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| +4 | +2 | +3 | +0 | +1 | +2 |

- **Damage Immunities:** fire
- **Senses:** -
- **Languages:** understands Abyssal,Common,and Infernal but can't speak

### Special Abilities

- **Illumination:** The nightmare sheds bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet.
- **Riding Flames:** Any creature riding a willing nightmare is resistant to fire damage. A creature riding the nightmare without the nightmare's permission takes 3 (1d6) fire damage at the start of each of the nightmare's turns.

### Actions

- **Multiattack:** The nightmare makes two Flaming Hoof attacks.
- **Flaming Hoof:** _Melee Weapon Attack:_ +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. _Hit:_ 7 (1d6+4) bludgeoning damage plus 7 (2d6) fire damage.
- **Ethereal Stride:** The nightmare and up to three willing creatures within 5 feet of it magically enter the Ethereal Plane from the Material Plane, or vice versa.

### Bonus Actions

- **Burning Hoofprints:** The nightmare increases the intensity of the heat on its hooves. Until the start of its next turn, it leaves burning hoofprints in any surface through which it walks, creating a trail of fire in its wake. A creature that enters a space with burning hoofprints for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there must succeed on a DC 13 DEX save or take 3 (1d6) fire damage. The hoofprints stop burning at the start of the nightmare's next turn.


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