Bloodoak Brambles

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Uniquely vampiric plants with a hungering cunning, bloodoaks form through dark rituals when plant matter absorbs animal blood. The rituals that create these horrors are relatively easy to learn and implement, so cultists and unscrupulous mages often use bloodoaks as bodyguards and sentinels.

Bloodoak Brambles

Bloodoak brambles are, in essence, animated hedges that can serve as both a wall and a sentry. Bloodoak brambles are commonly implemented to guard lairs or keep watch over the perimeter of a spellcaster’s territory. Bloodoak brambles gain as much nutrition from blood as from water, allowing them to grow during combat.

Bloodoak Brambles
Monster Level: 2
Large (Long). Abominable Plant (Occult)
STR	DEX	END	AWR	INT	CHA
2	3	0	-1	-3	-2
	Ref: 13	Fort: 10	Ant: 9	Log: 7	Will: 8
Armor Rating 12			Resist Primal 2
Hit Points 30			Vulnerable Fire 2
Speed 0 ft			Senses Tremorsense 60 ft
			Traits Immovable, Steel Mind, Vigilant
Actions
The Bloodoak Brambles can take the following action TWICE.
Thorn Lash. Reach 15 ft Natural Weapon. +3 vs AR. Hit: 6 (1d6+3) sharp and the creature is Slowed until the end of its next turn.
OR the Bloodoak Brambles can take the following action.
Blood Sprout. If any creature lost HP within 20 ft of the Bloodoak Brambles during the previous round and is Bloodied, the Bloodoak Brambles may expand to occupy an additional unoccupied space within 5 ft. The Bloodoak Brambles regains 10 HP.