Crawling Hand

Level -1

Creature· undeadTinyRemaster

Speed

30 ft.

Perception

Fort

Ref

Will

undead unholy

Immunities death-effects, disease, paralyzed, poison, unconscious, visual, bleed

Languages common

Senses lifesense 30 ft., tremorsense 30 ft. (imprecise)

Skills stealth +6, athletics +5, survival +2

Other Speeds climb 30 ft.

Recall Knowledge DC 13 (religion)

Attacks

Melee Claw +7 (agile, finesse, reach 0 ft., unarmed), Damage 1d4+1 slashing

Abilities

Tremorsense (Imprecise) 30 feetinteraction

Lifesense 30 feetinteraction

Void Healing

Mark Quarry

A crawling hand can be assigned a quarry by anointing the hand with a drop of the intended quarry's blood. If the hand ever has no quarry, it automatically gains the next creature it damages as its quarry. The hand gains a +1 circumstance bonus to Perception checks when it Seeks its quarry, to Survival checks when it Tracks its quarry, and damage rolls when it Strikes its quarry.

Throat Grab◆

This ability functions as Grab, but the crawling hand grips the throat of a Medium or smaller creature. A creature Grabbed or Restrained this way has difficulty speaking and must spend an extra action to perform any action that requires speaking, including casting spells.

A crawling hand formed from the appendage of a Medium creature is quick and agile, skittering in the shadows until it can strike its prey.

Typically, crawling hands form when severed appendages are endowed with a crude sentience by necromantic energies that turn them into tireless killers. Yet, crawling hands can also arise spontaneously, usually when a creature loses an appendage in a place rife with necromantic energy or with a connection to the Void.