b'Splinter Matron \n'b'  Medium   fey ,  chaotic evil  \n'b'  Armor Class  16 (natural armor)  Hit Points  136 (16d8 + 64)  Speed  40 ft.\n'b' STATS STR: 14 (+2) DEX:  18 (+4)  CON:  19 (+4)  INT:  11 (+0)  WIS:  9 (\xe2\x80\x931)  CHA:  14 (+2)  \n'b'\n'b'\n'b'\n'b'\n'b'\n'b'\n'b'  Saving Throws   Con  +7,  Cha  +5  Skills   Perception  +2,  Stealth  +5  Damage Resistances  bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks  Senses   darkvision  60 ft., passive  Perception  12  Languages  Elvish, Sylvan  Challenge  7 (2,900 XP)  Proficiency Bonus  +3 \n'b' SPECIAL TRAITS \n'b'\n'b'  Magic Resistance . The splinter matron has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects. \n'b'  Protective Frenzy . For 1 minute after a splinter matron\xe2\x80\x99s tree takes damage, she has advantage on  attack  rolls against any creature that damaged her tree, and when she hits such a creature with her Claw, the Claw deals an extra 1d8 slashing damage. \n'b'\n'b' ACTIONS \n'b'\n'b'  Multiattack . The splinter matron makes two Claw or Splinter attacks. \n'b'  Claw .  Melee Weapon Attack : +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.  Hit : 14 (3d6 + 4) slashing damage plus 7 (2d6) poison damage. If the target is a creature other than an Undead or Construct, it must succeed on a DC 15  Constitution  saving throw or take 4 (1d8) piercing damage at the start of each of its turns as splinters break off from the claws and dig into the wound. Any creature can take an action to remove the splinters with a successful DC 14  Wisdom  ( Medicine ) check. The splinters fall out of the wound if the target receives magical  healing . \n'b'  Splinter .  Ranged Weapon Attack : +7 to hit, range 30/120 ft., one target.  Hit : 22 (4d8 + 4) piercing damage. \n'b'  Splinter Spray (Recharge 6) . The splinter matron blasts a spray of splinters in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in the area must make a DC 15  Dexterity  saving throw. On a failure, a creature takes 45 (10d8) piercing damage and is  blinded  for 1 minute. On a success, a creature takes half the damage and isn\xe2\x80\x99t  blinded . A  blinded  creature can make a DC 15  Constitution  saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. \n'b'\n'b' ABOUT \n'b' This woman\xe2\x80\x99s form is twisted, gnarled, and woody, with cracked and pitted skin. Her hands split into long, branch-like claws. \n'b' Splinter matrons are survivors, dryads from trees in areas that were once lush and green forests but have\xe2\x80\x94due to shifting rains or magical catastrophes\xe2\x80\x94become barren wastelands. The  dryad  and her tree cling to life, but as the tree becomes more withered, twisted, and diseased, so too does the  dryad  change, becoming a mad, desperate thing that focuses upon survival above all else. Over decades, even centuries, they turn into feral beasts that view any creatures near their tree as a possible attacker and respond mercilessly to repel the intruder. \n'b'  Hatred of Fey . While they view all creatures as enemies, splinter matrons particularly despise other fey, who they despite for as having abandoned them. A splinter matron will go out of her way to kill any fey she meets. \n'b'  Sought by Night Hags . While night hags create tree skinners from dryads driven mad by the death of their trees, they view happening upon a splinter matron as a true gift. A splinter matron that has undergone the tree skinner transformation ritual becomes an unholy terror that makes common tree skinners look harmless by comparison.'