Cockatrice Regent
Monster Manual (2025) p. 75
- Size
- Large
- Type
- monstrosity
- Alignment
- unaligned
- AC
- 15
- Initiative
- 2
- Hit Points
- 136 (16d10+48)
- Speed
- walk 30 ft., fly 60 ft.
- Saving Throws
- Wis +6
- Condition Immunities
- petrified
- Senses
- darkvision 120 ft.
- Passive Perception
- 13
- Challenge
- 8
- Lineage
- Cockatrice
- Environment
- grassland
Traits
Proficiency Bonus
+3
Flyby
The cockatrice doesn't provoke an Opportunity Attack when it flies out of an enemy's reach.
Actions
Multiattack
The cockatrice makes one Petrifying Bite attack and two Talons attacks.
Petrifying Bite
Melee Attack Roll: +7, reach 5 ft. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) Piercing damage. If the target is a creature, it is subjected to the following effect. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 14. First Failure: The target has the Restrained condition and repeats the save at the end of its next turn if it is still Restrained, ending the effect on itself on a success. Second Failure: The target has the Petrified condition instead of the Restrained condition.
Talons
Melee Attack Roll: +7, reach 5 ft. Hit: 18 (4d6 + 4) Slashing damage.
Reactions
Magical Backlash
Trigger: A creature within 120 feet of the cockatrice deals damage to it. Response: dDexterity Saving Throw: DC 14, the triggering creature. Failure: 13 (3d6 + 3) Force damage.
Other data
description
Cockatrices combine the features of irate roosters and starving reptiles. They petrify those they bite, their slightest peck turning their prey to stone. Bolder than their smaller cousins, cockatrice regents brim with unstable magical energy they use to restrain distant foes.