b'Vengeful Spirit, Beheaded \n'b'  Medium   undead ,  any  \n'b'  Armor Class  15 (Angry Defiance)  Hit Points  54 (12d8)  Speed  0 ft., fly 60 ft. (hover)\n'b' STATS STR: 7 (-2) DEX:  13 (+1)  CON:  11 (+0)  INT:  10 (+0)  WIS:  10 (+0)  CHA:  19 (+4)  \n'b'\n'b'\n'b'\n'b'\n'b'\n'b'\n'b'  Saving Throws   Wis  +2,  Cha  +6  Damage Resistances  acid, fire, lightning, thunder; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks  Damage Immunities  cold, necrotic, poison  Condition Immunities   charmed ,  exhaustion ,  grappled ,  paralyzed ,  petrified ,  poisoned ,  prone ,  restrained   Senses   darkvision  60 ft., passive  Perception  10  Languages  the languages it knew in life  Challenge  4 (1,100 XP)  Proficiency Bonus  +2 \n'b' SPECIAL TRAITS \n'b'\n'b'  Angry Defiance . The vengeful spirit adds its Charisma modifier to its AC (included above). \n'b'  Incorporeal Movement . The vengeful spirit can move through other creatures and objects as if they were  difficult terrain . It takes 5 (1d10) force damage if it ends its turn inside an object. \n'b'  Undead Nature . The vengeful spirit doesn\xe2\x80\x99t require air, food, drink, or sleep. \n'b'\n'b' ACTIONS \n'b'\n'b'  Essence of Rage .  Melee or Ranged Spell Attack : +6 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 30 ft., one creature.  Hit : 22 (4d8 + 4) psychic damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 14 Charisma saving throw or be enraged until the end of its next turn. While enraged, the target has advantage on  melee attack  rolls and must move to and  attack  the nearest creature other than the spirit. In addition,  attack  rolls against the enraged target have advantage. \n'b'  Decapitation (1/Day) . The vengeful spirit makes a quick, cutting gesture at one creature it can see within 30 feet of it that has a head and that is below half its  hp  maximum. The target must make a DC 14  Constitution  saving throw, taking 28 (8d6) slashing damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. A target that fails the saving throw also has one of its heads cut off. The creature dies if it can\xe2\x80\x99t survive without the lost head. \n'b'\n'b' ABOUT \n'b' The statistics presented here are for a beheaded vengeful spirit.\xc2\xa0Other types of vengeful spirits use these statistics, except as defined below. \n'b'  Immolated . This spirit was burned at the stake, perished in a building set alight by angry villagers, or similarly killed by fire.\xc2\xa0An immolated vengeful spirit has immunity to fire damage, and its Decapitation action is renamed to Conflagration.\xc2\xa0Conflagration can target any creature, and it deals fire damage instead of slashing damage. In addition, a target that fails the saving throw is ignited, instead of losing its head, and takes 5 (1d10) fire damage at the start of each of its turns until another creature takes an action to douse the fire. \n'b'  Strangled . This spirit was the victim of strangulation or an ill-performed hanging. Its Decapitation action is renamed to Asphyxiation. Asphyxiation can target only a creature that needs to breathe, and it deals bludgeoning damage instead of slashing damage. In addition, a target that fails the saving throw is suffocating, instead of losing its head, until the spirit dies or until lifted by the  remove curse  or  dispel magic  (DC 13) spell.\xc2\xa0The ghostly humanoid floats through the air, its head hovering several inches above its severed neck. \n'b' A vengeful spirit is created when a strong-willed humanoid with magical talent is killed by relatively mundane means wielded by angry or fearful people. The victim\xe2\x80\x99s angry spirit returns, looking for retribution against those involved in its death\xe2\x80\x94whether that death was wrongful murder or justified execution. These spirits inflict punishment on the living with the rage that animates them, and they mete out their revenge in poetic fashion. \n'b'  Varied Vengeance . A vengeful spirit is defined by its means of death. Regardless of the cause of death, each vengeful spirit seeks to have its killer or killers die in like fashion.'