Buwang
roaring bat-winged brute of the fallen front line
Buwang — The Encounter
roaring bat-winged brute of the fallen front line · a boss your table can run with almost no prep. SRD 5.1-compatible.
Who Is Buwang
Where his kin grew lean and cunning, Buwang inherited only the brute strength of his Watcher sire and a fury that drowned out everything finer. The taint in his blood swelled his frame and dulled his mind, leaving a slab of muscle and rage that the host points like a battering ram. In the warband he is the anchor of the front line, charging headlong to flatten the enemy's strongest and break their nerve when they answer. He cannot scheme, so the cleverer brood steer him: they mark a target, and Buwang runs it down. Even at the edge of death he refuses to fall quietly, roaring loud enough to scatter the courage of all who pressed him.
Run Buwang in Sixty Seconds
- Always charge then move 10+ ft. straight in so a Slam triggers Brutal Charge for prone plus a free bite.
- Run down the priority then point him at whatever the smarter kin have marked.
- Hold the line then keep him planted as the anchor while lighter Watchers flank around him.
- Refuse to die quietly then on the first drop he stays at 1 HP and roars to frighten nearby foes.
- Let others think then never expect tactics from him, just steer his fury at the right target.
Buwang
Medium fiend, chaotic evil
CR 6 · 2,300 XP · GUIDELINEBrutal Charge (Signature). If Buwang moves at least 10 feet straight toward a creature and hits it with a Slam this turn, the target must succeed on a DC 15 Strength save or be knocked prone, and Buwang can make one Rending Bite against it as part of the same action.
Savage Resilience. The first time Buwang would drop to 0 hit points each combat, he instead drops to 1 hit point and roars; each enemy within 10 feet must succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom save or be frightened until the end of its next turn.
Actions
Multiattack. Buwang makes two Slam attacks.
Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 15 (2d10+4) bludgeoning damage.
Rending Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6+4) piercing damage.
He does not circle or feint. Buwang simply roars, lowers his horns, and runs the nearest enemy down beneath his fists.
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.
Run Buwang as the front-line bruiser of a small fallen band. Point him at the enemy's heaviest fighter, charge to knock it prone, and let lighter kin swarm the downed foe. His roar buys the pack a round when he is finally felled.
His native tier; use him as the warband's battering ram. Each turn Brutal Charge the marked target to prone-and-bite it, holding the line while the flight wheels around him. Savage Resilience keeps him swinging one extra round and frightens those who thought him dead.
Field him as the brute anchor of a larger warband. The cleverer kin mark the kill-priority; Buwang charges it down, knocks it prone, and holds it there. He is the wall the host forms behind, never a lone duelist.
Put Buwang 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 Buwang?
Buwang 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 anchor weaker or stronger Fallen Watcher bands.
How does Buwang fight alongside the rest of the Fallen Watchers?
He is the warband's battering ram and front-line anchor. The cunning kin mark a target; Buwang charges it down, knocks it prone, and holds the line while the flight maneuvers and finishes the foe.
Is Buwang a solo threat?
No. He has no legendary actions and no subtlety, only raw charging power, so he must be aimed and supported by the rest of the host to be effective.
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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