Blighttide Waste · area boss

Famine, the Black Rider

the Black Rider

A named threat of Blighttide Waste, encountered rarely and never in numbers - real Dungeons & Dragons statistics, no auto-computed shortcuts.

CR 32 Human · Wizard 14 / Pale_Master 18 resref btw_blkridr

Stat block

STR
8
-1
DEX
12
+1
CON
16
+3
INT
30
+10
WIS
14
+2
CHA
12
+1
Hit points
210
Natural AC
11
Skills
Concentration 30 · Lore 20 · Spellcraft 32
Feats
SkillFocusLore, IronWill, Toughness, CmbtCast, SpellFocusNec, GrSpllFcsNec, MaxSpell, LightngRef

Prepared spells

LevelKnown / Prepared
1Magic Missile, Ray of Enfeeblement
2Death Armor, Melfs Acid Arrow
3Negative Energy Burst, Stinking Cloud
4Contagion, Enervation
5Animate Dead, Cloudkill
6Circle of Death, Greater Spell Breach, Undeath to Death
7Finger of Death
8Horrid Wilting

Combat sequence

Layered on top of the module's own combat AI, which still picks targets and positioning. The fight below moves through real hit-point-gated phases; every save DC and attack bonus computes from the stat block above at runtime.

I

Withering Grasp

Every round

Her nearest foe loses a little more Strength and Constitution than they had a moment ago, permanently.

II

The Hunger

Two consecutive rounds with no blood spilled, by anyone

Nothing dying starves her worse than anything dying - a Starvation stack banks the instant the party's own damage output goes quiet.

III

Horrid Wilting

Once, below 25% hp

A real nova torn from her own spellbook, then a lifesteal that never turns back off.

Why these numbers

CR 32 is set against Blighttide Waste's own real ambient ceiling, not auto-computed from level alone - a genuine Wizard 14 / Pale_Master 18 build at 32 total levels.

Hit points (210) follow this project's own average-hit-dice convention, and every save/attack bonus derives from the ability scores above at runtime - nothing here is hardcoded past the phase gates themselves.

How it's wired

Boss-flagged (bypasses the drop-rate roll, two loot-generation passes) and gated to a single spawn - only one Famine is ever up in Blighttide Waste at a time.