monster

Baphomet

CR 23

Huge Fiend (demon), Chaotic Evil

Reveal Stat Block

Armor Class

22 (natural armor)

Hit Points

275 (19d12 + 152)

Speed

40 ft.

str

+10

dex

con

int

wis

cha

Traits

Charge.If Baphomet moves at least 10 feet straight toward a target and then hits it with a gore attack on the same turn, the target takes an extra 16 (3d10) piercing damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a 25 Strength saving throw or be pushed up to 10 feet away and knocked prone.

Labyrinthine Recall.Baphomet can perfectly recall any path he has traveled, and he is immune to the maze spell.

Legendary Resistance (3/Day).If Baphomet fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.

Magic Resistance.Baphomet has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Magic Weapons.Baphomet's weapon attacks are magical.

Reckless.At the start of his turn, Baphomet can gain advantage on all melee weapon attack rolls during that turn, but attack rolls against him have advantage until the start of his next turn.

Actions

Multiattack.Baphomet makes three attacks: one with Heartcleaver, one with his bite, and one with his gore attack.

Heartcleaver.mw 17 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. ({@damage 2d10 + 10) slashing damage.

Bite.mw 17 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. ({@damage 2d8 + 10) piercing damage.

Gore.mw 17 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. ({@damage 2d6 + 10) piercing damage.

Frightful Presence.Each creature of Baphomet's choice within 120 feet of him and aware of him must succeed on a 18 Wisdom saving throw or become frightened for 1 minute. A frightened creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. These later saves have disadvantage if Baphomet is within line of sight of the creature. If a creature succeeds on any of these saves or the effect ends on it, the creature is immune to Baphomet's Frightful Presence for the next 24 hours.

Legendary Actions.The creature can take 3 legendary actions...

Heartcleaver Attack.Baphomet makes a melee attack with Heartcleaver.

Charge (Costs 2 Actions).Baphomet moves up to his speed, then makes a gore attack.

Baphomet

Civilization is weakness and savagery is strength in the credo of Baphomet, the Horned King and the Prince of Beasts. He rules over minotaurs and others with savage hearts. He is worshiped by those who want to break the confines of civility and unleash their bestial natures, for Baphomet envisions a world without restraint, where creatures live out their most savage desires.

Cults devoted to Baphomet use mazes and complex knots as their emblems, creating secret places to indulge themselves, including labyrinths of the sort their master favors. Bloodstained crowns and weapons of iron and brass decorate their profane altars.

Over time, Baphomet's cultists become tainted by his influence, gaining bloodshot eyes and coarse, thickening hair. Small horns eventually sprout from the forehead. In time, a devoted cultist might transform entirely into a minotaur—considered the greatest gift of the Prince of Beasts.

Baphomet appears as a great, black-furred minotaur, 20 feet tall with six iron horns. An infernal light burns in his red eyes. Although he is filled with bestial blood lust, there lies within him a cruel and cunning intellect devoted to subverting all of civilization.

Baphomet wields a great glaive called Heartcleaver. He sometimes casts this deadly weapon aside so that he can charge his enemies and gore them with his horns, trampling them into the earth and rending them with his teeth like a beast.

Baphomet's Lair

Baphomet's lair is his palace, the Lyktion, which is on the layer of the Abyss called the Endless Maze. Nestled within the twisting passages of the plane-wide labyrinth, the Lyktion is immaculately maintained and surrounded by a moat constructed in the fashion of a three-dimensional maze. The palace itself is a towering structure whose interior is as labyrinthine as the plane on which it resides, populated by minotaur||minotaurs, goristro||goristros, and quasit||quasits.