Oaken Bolter

D&D 2024 monster: Oaken Bolter. Source: Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes. challenge rating 5, creature type Construct, Medium size, speed 30 ft. Never depend on something built by a gnome. You can always rely on a gnome to take a good idea and make it impractical. Oaken Bolter No ordinary ballista, an oaken bolter is a construct capable of striking at long distances. The bolts it launches can rend flesh, destroy armor, or drag enemies toward traps or melee-oriented clockworks-and at shorter ranges, burst with explosive force. The gnomes' efforts to invent and tinker with magic and mechanical devices produce many failed constructs, but also result in genuine advances, such as clockworks. Since their discovery, the methods used to craft clockworks have passed from one community of gnomes to another and down the generations. Constructed Nature A clockwork doesn't require air, food, drink, or sleep. Individual Designs A gnome artisan values an individualized clockwork more highly than a perfectly functioning one that copies too much from another creation. For that reason, even clockworks that fit established designs, such as those described here, are seldom identical. A clockwork can be customized by adding one of the following enhancements and one potential malfunction to its stat block. You can select randomly or choose a pair of modifications that fit the temperament of the clockwork's builder. 1 Camouflaged. The clockwork gains proficiency in Stealth if it doesn't already have it. While motionless, it is indistinguishable from a stopped machine. 2 Sensors. The range of the clockwork's darkvision becomes 120 feet, unless it is higher, and it gains proficiency in Perception if it doesn't already have it. 3 Improved Armor. The clockwork's AC increases by 2. 4 Increased Speed. The clockwork's speed increases by 10 feet. 5 Reinforced Construction. The clockwork has resistance to force, lightning, and thunder damage. 6 Self-Repairing. If the clockwork starts its turn with a...