Medusa

Caravaggio painting of Medusa.
Medusa, Caravaggio / Wikimedia Commons.
Armor Class
8 [11]
Hit Dice
6
Attacks
Poisoned bite or weapon
Special
Petrifying gaze
Move
9
HDE/XP
8/800

Description

Medusae are horrid creatures from Greek mythology with a female face but hair of writhing snakes; they have no legs, but the body of a serpent.The gaze of a medusa turns anyone looking upon it into stone. In addition to the medusa’s relatively weak meleeweapon attack, the snake-hair makes one attack per round, causing no damage but lethally poisonous with a successful hit (saving throw applies).