Basilisk

Early modern illustration of a basilisk.
Basilisk (1640), Historic basilisk illustration / Wikimedia Commons.
Armor Class
4 [15]
Hit Dice
6
Attacks
Bite
Special
Petrifying gaze
Move
6
HDE/XP
8/800

Description

Basilisks are great lizards whose gaze turns to stone anyone meeting its eye (fighting without looking incurs a -4 penalty “to-hit”). If the basilisk’s own gaze is reflected back at it, it has a 10% chance to force the basilisk into a saving throw against being turned to stone itself.