Moon
Moon — The Encounter
Feathered serpent of the pale moon-shrine, oracle of tides · a boss your table can run with almost no prep. SRD 5.1-compatible.
Who Is Moon
The feathered serpents are reckoned among the oldest of the sky-powers, born where moonlight first touched still water and learned to ripple. This one keeps a shrine of pale moonstone, and the tides answer to its breath: when it floods, the floor runs to brine and silt; when it ebbs, its wounds close like sand smoothing over a footprint. Petitioners climb to the shrine at the dark of the moon to read fortunes in the serpent's coils, for it remembers every tide that ever rose and can speak the shape of the next. It does not hunger as beasts hunger, nor hate as the fallen hate; it weighs the balance of water and light and keeps it, and any who break the rhythm of its shrine, by greed or by violence, find the tide turned against them. To win its favor one brings a true secret, freely given, and asks only what the moon already knows.
Run Moon in Sixty Seconds
- Hold until the party enters the shrine ring; the serpent guards its moonstone and will not chase far from it.
- Open with Tide Pull the moment two or more PCs bunch up in a 30-foot cone, then grapple the toughest melee with Constrict to drag them off the casters.
- Each turn pick flood or ebb: flood while you are healthy to mire their footing, ebb when bloodied to claw hit points back and stall.
- Kill-priority is anyone standing inside the shrine to loot or desecrate it, then the party healer.
- Three ways to run it: a temple guardian that only fights desecrators, a tide-puzzle boss where players must dodge flood/ebb, or a paired enforcer that pins strikers for a bigger caster.
Moon
Large celestial, lawful neutral
CR 6 · 2,300 XP · GUIDELINELunar Tides (signature). The moon-shrine ebbs and floods around the serpent. At the start of each of the serpent's turns, choose flood or ebb. During flood, the ground within 20 feet is difficult terrain for creatures other than the serpent. During ebb, the serpent regains 5 hit points if it is below half its maximum hit points.
Moonlit Coils. A creature that starts its turn within 5 feet of the serpent must succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw or have disadvantage on the next attack roll it makes before the end of its turn, dazzled by the shrine's pale light.
Actions
Multiattack. The serpent makes one Bite attack and one Constrict attack.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6+4) piercing damage plus 7 (2d6) cold damage.
Constrict. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 10 ft., one Large or smaller target. Hit: 13 (2d8+4) bludgeoning damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 14). Until the grapple ends, the target is restrained and the serpent cannot constrict another target.
Tide Pull (Recharge 5-6). The serpent calls a surge of lunar tide in a 30-foot cone. Each creature in the area must make a DC 14 Strength saving throw, taking 21 (6d6) cold damage and being pulled 10 feet toward the serpent on a failure, or half as much damage and no pull on a success.
Bonus Actions & Reactions
Riptide Recoil (reaction). When a creature the serpent can see ends its movement within 10 feet of it, the serpent slides that creature 5 feet in any direction along the ground.
A great feathered serpent rears above a crystalline moon-shrine, its horned head crowned in pale plumes, its scaled coils spilling down a lattice of blue moonstone marked with the sign of the Moon.
Moon, Bound
Companion · acts on your initiative
Bound · GUIDELINEMoonlit Step (signature). The wisp and one ally within 5 feet can swap places as part of the wisp's move without provoking opportunity attacks.
Actions
Brine Lash. Melee Spell Attack: +5 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d6+3) cold damage.
Reactions
Ebbing Veil. When an ally within 10 feet is hit by an attack, the wisp grants that ally resistance to the triggering damage.
A drifting ribbon of moonlit spray broken from the serpent's tide, it shields those the oracle has judged worthy.
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.
Open with Tide Pull to scatter a clustered party, then Constrict the strongest melee fighter to pin it away from the squishy backline. Kill-priority is whoever stands in the shrine to loot it. Pair it with a bigger threat; this is the guardian piece, not the boss.
Open in flood to wreck enemy footing, then Multiattack the front-liner and grapple it with Constrict. Save Tide Pull for when two or more PCs cluster in the cone. When bloodied, switch to ebb to heal and stall while allies close. Pairs with a caster boss as the bodyguard that drags strikers off the back line.
Lead with Tide Pull to yank ranged attackers into bite range, then Constrict and chew on the grappled target each turn. Use Riptide Recoil to reposition flankers into your allies' threat. Kill-priority is the party's healer; it is an add-on enforcer, so let a flagship caster control the room while it isolates and pins.
Put Moon 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 Moon?
Its home tier is CR 6 (2,300 XP), tuned for a party of levels 5-10. Scaled stat lines for tiers 1 (CR ~2) and 3 (CR ~11) are provided so you can drop it into lower or higher games without rebuilding it.
Can Moon be a companion or ally?
Yes. As a lawful, judging sky-power it allies with parties who bring it a freely given secret or who defend its shrine. Use the bound Pale Tide-Wisp as a lighter allied stat block, or run the serpent itself as a temporary patron that grants tide control in one set-piece fight.
Is Moon a solo boss?
No. It has no legendary actions, so a full party will action-economy it down in a straight fight. Run it as the centerpiece guardian of a tide encounter, or pair it with a flagship caster boss where it isolates and pins strikers while the boss controls the room.
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.
Clay Cyanide Miniatures is not affiliated with, endorsed, sponsored, or specifically approved by Wizards of the Coast LLC. This content is compatible with the fifth edition of the world's most popular fantasy roleplaying game. Companion rules, lore, names, and original mechanics © Clay Cyanide LLC.
Technical Specifications
32mm, 75mm
STL, Pre-supported STL
Standard or ABS-like resin, 0.05mm layer height
Yes — ready to print, optimized supports included
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