Barubal
bat-winged lasher with a long barbed tail
Barubal — The Encounter
bat-winged lasher with a long barbed tail · a boss your table can run with almost no prep. SRD 5.1-compatible.
Who Is Barubal
Barubal's degraded blood gave him a long serpentine tail tipped with a venomed barb, and he has made it the cruelest tool in the warband. He was sired in the old watcher-lord's defiance and inherited a hunter's patience for the kill. In the host he is the snatcher, lashing out from the second rank to hook an enemy's vulnerable backline and haul it into the heart of the flight, where his kin tear it apart. His venom slows and weakens whatever he stings, softening even the strongest foe. He never wades in alone; he positions behind the brutes, picks off the prey his kin cannot reach, and reels the broken in. Where his tail strikes, the enemy formation loses a piece.
Run Barubal in Sixty Seconds
- Reach past the front then sting the enemy backline with the 15-ft. tail.
- Pull them in then Yank or grapple a fragile caster and drag it into the flock.
- Poison the tough ones then Venom of the Fall softens champions with ongoing damage.
- Stay second rank then keep him behind the brutes, picking off the targets they cannot reach.
- Drag, don't duel then reel broken prey into the warband rather than standing and trading.
Barubal
Medium fiend, chaotic evil
CR 6 · 2,300 XP · GUIDELINEBarbed Tail (Signature). Barubal's tail has 15-foot reach. When he hits a Large or smaller creature with his Stinger, he can grapple it (escape DC 15). While grappling, he can drag the creature with him when he flies.
Venom of the Fall. A creature that fails the save against Barubal's Stinger is poisoned until the end of its next turn; while poisoned this way it takes 5 (2d4) poison damage at the start of its turn.
Actions
Multiattack. Barubal makes one Claw attack and one Stinger attack.
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8+4) slashing damage.
Stinger. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6+4) piercing damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution save or be poisoned (see Venom of the Fall).
Bonus Actions & Reactions
Yank. When Barubal hits a creature with his Stinger, he can pull that creature up to 10 feet toward him.
His tail reaches where his claws cannot, hooking a foe from the rear rank and dragging it screaming into the waiting flock.
Guideline numbers — formula-tuned and read from the miniature's design, not yet table-proven. Tell us how it ran in the comments.
How It Fights — by Tier
Same creature, scaled threat. The traits never change; only the numbers move.
Use Barubal as the snatcher of a small fallen band. Strike the enemy backline with his 15-ft. stinger, Yank a fragile caster forward, and let his kin finish it. Keep him behind heavier Watchers, picking off isolated prey.
His native tier; run him as the flight's grappler. Each turn sting a backline target, Yank or grapple it, and drag it into the brood. Venom of the Fall softens tough foes while kin converge. He works the second rank, never the front.
Field him in a larger warband as the puller. He hooks the enemy's healer or commander from range, drags it into the killing center, and poisons it for the flock to destroy. He is a support striker who fights behind the line, never alone.
Put Barubal on the table
Download the presupported STL and run the fight tonight — the model, and the encounter that comes with it.
Get the STL on MyMiniFactory →Clay Cyanide Companion Rules v1
How a bound creature acts
- A companion acts on its owner's initiative, immediately after the owner.
- It uses the Companion block above — roughly ×0.6 HP and damage, no recharge abilities, and at most one reaction trait.
- It moves freely; it takes its Action only while its owner is conscious.
- At 0 HP a companion is broken, not dead — restored on a long rest unless your table rules otherwise.
Original Clay Cyanide material © Clay Cyanide LLC — explicitly not the non-SRD official sidekick rules.
Questions, Asked at the Table
What CR is Barubal?
Barubal is CR 6 (2,300 XP) at his native Tier 2, with Tier 1 (~CR 2) and Tier 3 (~CR 11) lines so he can snatch for weaker or stronger Fallen Watcher flights.
How does Barubal fight alongside the rest of the Fallen Watchers?
He is the warband's snatcher. From the second rank his barbed tail hooks the enemy's exposed backline, poisons it, and drags it into the heart of the flight where his kin tear it apart.
Can Barubal carry a fight alone?
No. He has no legendary actions and his whole role is pulling isolated prey into the flock, which requires kin to capitalize, so he fights as part of the warband.
Tell Us How It Ran
This work includes material taken from the System Reference Document 5.1 ("SRD 5.1") by Wizards of the Coast LLC and available at dnd.wizards.com/resources/systems-reference-document. The SRD 5.1 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License available at creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.
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