Rosales
Rosales — The Encounter
Horned reaver who rides a fanged steed over a field of broken swords · a boss your table can run with almost no prep. SRD 5.1-compatible.
Who Is Rosales
They name him Rosales, the Reaper of the Drowned Field, a sworn rider of an infernal legion who collects the weapons of those he kills and plants them in the earth as trophies. The grimoires hold that he was once a mortal champion who bargained his soul for a steed that would never tire and a blade that would never break; the pact warped both. His mount no longer breathes, only hungers, its jaw fanged like a beast's, its eyes lit with cold fire. The greatsword he carries is no longer steel but living muscle and bone, a wound given an edge, and it feeds upon the dying to keep its bearer standing. Where Rosales rides, the ground is left thick with shattered armaments and the marrow of the fallen. He answers to a captain of the burning ranks, charging ahead of the line to break formations and harvest the slow.
Run Rosales in Sixty Seconds
- He is a charger, not a stander. Always lead with a 20+ ft. straight-line move; the Charge adds 2d8 and knocks prone on a failed DC 14 Strength save.
- Kill-priority: the rider. Drop Rosales and the steed loses Multiattack support and Trample; the mount alone is a far softer problem.
- Watch the feeding blade. Carrion Hunger heals him 2d8 on a kill or crit, so deny him low-HP targets to finish and burst him down instead of trading blows.
- When bloodied, he disengages on the mount's speed, circles, and Charges back in on a fresh angle rather than standing to die.
- Three ways to run it: lone shock-trooper flanking a bigger boss; lance-tip of a mounted legion; or a hunter who corners one isolated character on open ground.
Rosales
Large fiend (devil), lawful evil
CR 6 · 2,300 XP · GUIDELINECharge. If the mount moves at least 20 ft. straight toward a target and Rosales hits it with the cleaver greatsword on the same turn, the target takes an extra 9 (2d8) slashing damage and must succeed on a DC 14 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.
Carrion Hunger. Signature. Rosales's greatsword is a living wound of red flesh and bone. Whenever Rosales reduces a creature to 0 hit points or scores a critical hit with it, he regains 9 (2d8) hit points as the blade feeds.
Actions
Multiattack. Rosales makes two attacks with his cleaver greatsword. His mount makes one Hooves attack.
Cleaver Greatsword. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8+4) slashing damage plus 4 (1d8) fire damage.
Hurled Blade. Ranged Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6+4) piercing damage. Rosales draws one of the swords planted around his steed.
Bonus Actions & Reactions
Trample (Reaction). When a creature within 5 ft. of his mount is knocked prone, Rosales can command the steed to make one Hooves attack against that creature.
A horned reaver in battered plate sits astride a rearing, hollow-eyed warhorse with a fanged maw, brandishing a serrated greatsword whose blade is raw red sinew. Beneath the hooves lies a churned field of bone shards and the planted swords of the slain.
Rosales, Bound
Companion · acts on your initiative
Bound · GUIDELINETireless (signature). The steed is immune to exhaustion and the frightened condition, and can Dash as a bonus action.
Actions
Hooves. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6+4) bludgeoning damage.
Reactions
Veer. When the steed or its rider is hit by an attack, the steed can impose disadvantage on that attack roll by surging aside; if the attack then misses, the steed may move up to half its speed without provoking opportunity attacks.
A hollow-eyed warhorse with a predator's fanged maw, never resting, never sated, carrying its master into the thickest of the slaughter.
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 a Charge into the softest body, knocking it prone, then ride past so the party must chase. Pair him with a bigger threat or a pack of foot soldiers; let the mount's speed deny the melee characters a clean turn. Kill-priority: drop the rider and the steed becomes a manageable beast.
Open with a 60 ft. mounted Charge into a clustered backline, knock the target prone, then Trample it with the reaction. Carrion Hunger means finishing low targets heals him, so feed him stragglers last. Pair Rosales with a bigger threat or his legion minions; with terrain to run, he is a relentless flanking hammer that never wants to stand still.
Run him as the cavalry of a lair or warhost, charging in from a flank while a captain holds the center. Use the planted swords for Hurled Blade when ranged characters kite, and Charge the casters to break concentration. He is an add-on shock-trooper, not a lone act; with minions to pin the party he carves a lane and feeds the whole fight.
Put Rosales 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 Rosales?
Rosales is built at CR 6 (Tier 2, levels 5-10) in his native band: AC 16, 127 HP, +7 to hit, save DC 14. Tier 1 and Tier 3 stat columns are provided to scale him to CR 2 or roughly CR 11 without changing his traits or actions.
Can Rosales be a companion or ally?
Rosales himself is a lawful evil fiend and reads as an adversary, but his Fanged Steed is statted as a bound companion (AC 14, 76 HP) with the Tireless trait and a Veer reaction, so a party that defeats or frees Rosales could claim the mount.
Is Rosales a solo boss?
No. He is an elite add-on cavalier with no legendary actions, so a full party will out-act him alone. Run him alongside a flagship boss, a captain, or a unit of minions, and let his mounted speed and Charge make him the shock-trooper that breaks formation.
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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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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