---
obsidianUIMode: preview
cssclasses: json5e-monster
tags:
- compendium/src/5e/mm
- monster/size/large
- monster/type/fiend
aliases: ["Nightmare"]
---
# Nightmare
*Source: SRD / Basic Rules*  

```ad-statblock
title: Nightmare
![](compendium/bestiary/fiend/token/nightmare.png#token)
*Large fiend, Neutral Evil*

- **Armor Class** 13  (natural armor)
- **Hit Points** 68 (`8d10 + 24`)
- **Speed** 60 ft., fly 90 ft.

|STR|DEX|CON|INT|WIS|CHA|
|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
|18 (+4)|15 (+2)|16 (+3)|10 (+0)|13 (+1)|15 (+2)|

- **Proficiency Bonus** +2
- **Saving Throws** ⏤
- **Skills** ⏤
- **Senses** passive Perception 11
- **Damage Immunities** fire
- **Languages** understands Abyssal, Common, and Infernal but can't speak 
- **Challenge** 3

## Traits

***Confer Fire Resistance.*** The nightmare can grant resistance to fire damage to anyone riding it.

***Illumination.*** The nightmare sheds bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet.

## Actions

***Hooves.*** *Melee Weapon Attack:* +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. *Hit:* 13 (`2d8 + 4`) bludgeoning damage plus 7 (`2d6`) fire damage.

***Ethereal Stride.*** The nightmare and up to three willing creatures within 5 feet of it magically enter the Ethereal Plane from the Material Plane, or vice versa.
```
^statblock