Original generation · R21 Media Group
The Assessor
Medium fiend, lawful evil
Saltspire's harbour law is enforced by clerks, and the clerks are enforced by this. It arrives at a counting-house with the duty already calculated, states the figure once, and collects it — in coin where there is coin, and otherwise in whatever the debtor is carrying that comes to the same sum. It has never been recorded making an arithmetic error, and the port's merchants have concluded from that fact that arguing with it is a category mistake.
Armor Class 16 (natural armor)
Hit Points 142 (19d8 + 57)
Speed 30 ft.
- STR
- 14 (+2)
- DEX
- 16 (+3)
- CON
- 16 (+3)
- INT
- 18 (+4)
- WIS
- 16 (+3)
- CHA
- 18 (+4)
Saving Throws Cha +7, Dex +6, Wis +6
Skills Insight +6, Persuasion +7, Investigation +10
Damage Resistances cold; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks that aren't silvered
Damage Immunities fire, poison
Condition Immunities poisoned
Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 13
Languages Common, Infernal, telepathy 60 ft.
Challenge 8
Traits
Magic Resistance. The assessor has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Devil's Sight. Magical darkness doesn't impede the assessor's darkvision.
The Ledger Is Not Wrong. The assessor knows the exact sum owed by any creature it can see, to whom, and how long it has stood unpaid. It cannot be deceived about a debt by any means short of a wish, and it does not recognise bankruptcy, jurisdiction, or death as discharging one.
Actions
Multiattack. The assessor uses Name the Debt and makes two writ attacks.
Writ. Melee Attack Roll: +6, reach 5 ft. Hit: 16 (3d8 + 3) Piercing damage. The assessor carries a rolled schedule of duty and uses it the way a bailiff uses a baton.
Name the Debt. The assessor states aloud what one creature it can see within 60 feet owes. That creature must make a DC 15 Charisma saving throw, taking 21 (6d6) Psychic damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one. A creature that owes nothing to anyone automatically succeeds, and the assessor does not name it a second time.
Reactions
Lien. When a creature whose debt the assessor has named regains hit points, the assessor can reduce the amount regained by 10 (3d6).
