Hooden Horse

Hooden Horse is a medium undead (Challenge Rating 6).

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AC: 14

HP: 117

Speed: walk 30 ft.

STR: 18

DEX: 14

CON: 14

INT: 12

WIS: 15

CHA: 19

The creature stands amid a baying crowd, swathed in rags topped by a horse’s skull. It brandishes a halberd made of shadow and hisses, “Come forth and be judged!”_
Strange Great Sins. In small villages on a festival eve, one villager plays the village’s “sin eater.” Bearing a horse’s skull on a pole and covered by a draping of tattered skins, the sin eater goes door to door with its crew, seeking payment for the householders’ wrongs. The payment usually takes the form of alcohol. As the evening wanes, a drunken procession staggers toward the tavern behind the sin eater. Dark tales relate how, where a terrible wrong has gone unpunished and unpaid, such folk rituals can go awry. The unfortunate sin eater, overwhelmed by a spirit of vengeance, melds with the skull to become a ghastly undead being bent on retribution, a hooden horse.
The Madness of The Crowd. If the sin eater has drunken hangers-on when it is transformed, the mob also becomes filled with vengeful spite and swarms around the hooden horse, assaulting any who interfere. When this occurs, use the statistics of a Open Game License

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Further reading

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The Game Master's Book of Random Encounters
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Last updated 7/27/2026·Tags: monster, undead, medium