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    Monster Trove: Things Others Swore They Saw

    Bogey

    Medium - Impartial Vile (Schemer)
    HP
    22
    AC
    12
    DR
    0
    Attacks
    1
    Attack
    1d6+1
    Size
    Medium
    Alignment
    Impartial Vile (Schemer)
    Intelligence
    Low (2-4)
    Magic Resistance
    Light does not banish it, only relocates it. A daylight or continual flame effect drives it to the nearest deep shadow, where it waits without any sign of impatience.
    Saves
    Quick 2 / Tough 0 / Mind 1

    A bogey is whatever the dark was going to be anyway. It has no settled shape and borrows the one its victim already fears: the thing under the bed, the shape at the top of the stairs, the figure in the doorway that turns out to be a coat. It thrives on the uncertain glance and the half-look. Being seen plainly, described aloud and named correctly costs it something it cannot easily get back.

    Special Attack

    Awful Shape: 20 ft, save Wis Mind, fail save roll 1d6+1 psychic and the target is Repelled while it can still see the bogey, cooldown 2 rounds. Snatch: bludgeoning, melee 5 ft, +2 to hit, 1d6+1, and it prefers the smallest creature present.

    Special Defense

    Borrowed Shape: it appears differently to each creature that sees it, and no two descriptions match. Named Plainly: a creature that describes the bogey aloud, accurately and without flinching, strips it of 5 HP and its Awful Shape for one round. Each creature can do this once.