Echo Hound

Layer 1 · Habitat: Dim Galleries

An eyeless, lean hunter with huge cupped ears and grey, hairless skin

Description

An eyeless, lean hunter the size of a wolf, with grey, hairless skin and huge cupped ears that turn toward every sound. Packs of them sweep the galleries in silence, then howl all at once to find each other. They hunt anything that makes noise, and in the galleries, everything does.

Echo Hound

Medium Monstrosity, Unaligned

AC 13 Initiative +3 (13)

HP 33 (6d8 + 6)

Speed 40 ft., Climb 20 ft.

Ability scores
STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
14 (+2)	16 (+3)	13 (+1)	3 (−4)	14 (+2)	5 (−3)

Skills Perception +4, Stealth +5

Vulnerabilities Thunder

Condition Immunities Blinded

Senses Blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius), Passive Perception 14

Languages None

CR 1 (XP 200; PB +2)

Traits

Pack Tactics. The hound has Advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the hound's allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally doesn't have the Incapacitated condition.

Sound Hunter. The hound knows the location of any creature within 120 feet of it that made a sound louder than a whisper since the end of the hound's last turn.

Actions

Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +5, reach 5 ft. Hit: 8 (1d10 + 3) Piercing damage.

Bonus Actions

Echo Call. The hound howls. Every other Echo Hound within 300 feet learns the location of every creature the hound can perceive.