monster

Two-Headed Cerberus

Two-Headed Cerberus

Two-Headed Cerberus

CR 2

Medium Monstrosity, Lawful Evil

Reveal Stat Block

Armor Class

12

Hit Points

39 (6d8 + 12)

Speed

40 ft.

str

15

+2

dex

14

+2

con

14

+2

int

3

-4

wis

13

+1

cha

6

-2

Traits

Aggressive.As a bonus action, the cerberus can move up to its speed toward a hostile creature that it can see.

Multiheaded.The cerberus can't be surprised, and it has advantage on saving throws against being knocked unconscious.

Pack Tactics.The cerberus has advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the cerberus's allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated.

Actions

Multiattack.The cerberus makes two bite attacks.

Bite.mw 4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. ({@damage 1d6 + 2) piercing damage plus 2 (1d4) fire damage.

Breath Weapon 5.The cerberus exhales a 15-foot cone of molten rock. Each creature in the cone must make a 12 Dexterity saving throw, taking 10 (3d6) fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. On a failed save, a creature is also restrained by the hardening rock. A creature can make a 12 Strength (Athletics) check as an action, freeing itself or a creature within reach from the rock on a success. The rock has AC 17 and 10 hit points, and it is immune to fire, poison, and psychic damage.

Two-Headed Cerberus

Thought to be a lesser breed of cerberi that have interbred with mortal wolves, two-headed cerberi typically roam the mortal side of the Tartyx River. There they generally ignore—or only modestly menace—the souls of the dead. Such isn't the case for mortals, though, and they eagerly set upon those who tread too close to the Underworld's borders.

Feared by the living and the dead, cerberi patrol both banks of the Tartyx River. These multiheaded hounds of the Underworld breathe gouts of molten rock that sear and imprison those who trespass upon the borders of life and death. Most cerberi have a boundless hunger for fresh meat, especially the flesh of humanoids. Villains have been known to exploit that hunger by luring cerberi away from the river and setting them loose on mortal settlements.