Beshaba, Maid of Misfortune — CR 32 Avatar Stat Block

The Avatar of Beshaba

Huge fiend (avatar), chaotic evil

Armor Class: 29 (natural armor)
Hit Points: 780 (40d12 + 360)
Speed: 60 ft.

STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
24 (+7)	30 (+10)	28 (+9)	25 (+7)	24 (+7)	30 (+10)

Saving Throws: Dex +19, Con +18, Wis +16, Cha +19
Skills: Deception +19, Intimidation +19, Religion +16
Damage Resistances: cold, necrotic; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks
Damage Immunities: poison, psychic
Condition Immunities: charmed, frightened, poisoned, stunned
Senses: truesight 120 ft., passive Perception 25
Languages: all, telepathy 120 ft.
Challenge: 32 (150,000 XP (epic benchmark))
Proficiency Bonus: +9

Traits

Aura of Misfortune. Creatures of the avatar’s choice within 60 feet have disadvantage on attack rolls, saving throws, and ability checks. A creature that rolls a 1 on a d20 is frightened until the end of its next turn.

Twisting Luck. Once per round, when a creature within 120 feet succeeds on an attack roll, saving throw, or ability check, the avatar can force it to reroll and use the lower result.

Immutable Form. The avatar is immune to any spell or effect that would alter her form.

Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the avatar fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.

Magic Resistance. The avatar has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Magic Weapons. The avatar’s weapon attacks are magical.

Actions

Multiattack. The avatar makes three attacks: two with her Scourge and one with her Goad.

Scourge. Melee Weapon Attack: +19 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 21 (3d8 + 8) slashing damage plus 13 (3d8) psychic damage.

Goad. Melee Weapon Attack: +19 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 18 (2d10 + 7) piercing damage. The target must succeed on a DC 27 Wisdom saving throw or use its reaction to attack one randomly determined creature within reach.

Maddening Gaze. One creature within 30 feet that can see the avatar’s eyes makes a DC 27 Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, roll 1d4: 1, charmed until the end of its next turn; 2, frightened until the end of its next turn; 3, it attacks the nearest creature until the end of its next turn; 4, stunned until the end of its next turn.

Misfortune Blast (Recharge 5–6). Chosen creatures within 60 feet make a DC 27 Charisma saving throw, taking 72 (16d8) necrotic damage and having disadvantage on all d20 tests until the end of their next turn on a failure, or taking half damage on a success.

Reactions

Wrong Place, Wrong Time. When an attack misses the avatar, she redirects it against another creature within the attack’s range. The attacker rerolls against the new target.

Legendary Actions

The avatar can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. It regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.

Scourging Strike. The avatar makes one Scourge attack.

Gaze of Ruin. The avatar uses Maddening Gaze.

Twist Fate (Costs 2 Actions). One creature within 120 feet rerolls a d20 and uses the lower result.

Lair Actions

On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), the avatar uses one lair action. It cannot use the same option two rounds in a row.

Sudden Failure. One non-artifact object or structure within 120 feet breaks. The DM determines the immediate mechanical consequence, which cannot directly deal more than 35 (10d6) damage to one creature.

Friendly Fire. Up to three creatures within 120 feet must succeed on a DC 27 Wisdom saving throw or use their reaction to make one attack against the nearest creature.

Treacherous Ground. A 30-foot-radius area within 120 feet becomes hazardous until initiative count 20 on the next round. It is difficult terrain, and a creature entering it or starting there must succeed on a DC 27 Dexterity saving throw or fall prone and take 14 (4d6) bludgeoning damage.

The Light Goes Out. All non-artifact lights within 120 feet fail until initiative count 20 on the next round. Magical darkness fills one 20-foot-radius sphere the avatar chooses.

Mythic Actions

The avatar can take 3 mythic actions per day, using one option at a time. It regains spent uses at dawn.

Calamity Finds You. Each creature the avatar can see rolls a d20. The creature with the lowest result takes 99 (18d10) force damage, is knocked prone, and loses concentration. Ties affect every tied creature.

Borrowed Fortune. The avatar turns one successful attack, saving throw, or ability check made within the last round into a failure and regains 75 hit points.

Perfect Disaster (Costs 2 Actions). For 1 minute, creatures other than the avatar within 300 feet treat a natural roll of 2 or lower as a 1. The threshold increases by 1 at the end of each round, to a maximum of 5.

Introduction

Beshaba, the Maid of Misfortune and Lady of Misrule, is the goddess of bad luck, accidents, and calamity. She arose from the division of Tyche and stands opposite Tymora’s good fortune. Mortals invoke Beshaba during ceremonies not from affection but from fear that exclusion will draw her notice.

Her doommasters teach that disaster is inevitable and can only be diverted through service and offerings. Underground temples, painful rites, horns, red paint, and deliberately unsettling ceremonies make appeasement feel like participation in the next accident.

Physical Appearance

The avatar is a tall, impossibly thin but graceful woman with snow-white hair and a disturbing resemblance to old images of Tyche. Her skin slowly ripples from dead white to muted mauve. Her eyes are bright with unstable attention.

She carries a barbed scourge and hooked goad. Small failures accumulate around her: straps loosen, stone chips underfoot, lamps sputter, and trusted hands close around the wrong object.

Roleplaying the Avatar

Beshaba is capricious, malicious, and quick to turn false sympathy into humiliation. She should seem entertained by causation itself.

Offer help in a form that creates a worse choice later.
Change emotional direction without warning.
Notice tiny accidents before anyone else and treat them as punch lines.
Never explain whether a failure was her work or ordinary bad luck.

Use in a Campaign

Cascade Failure

A sequence of unrelated accidents points toward a single public rite that failed to appease Beshaba.

The Assassins’ Patron

Doommasters or Black Fingers rely on improbable timing, missed signals, and equipment failures to hide divine involvement.

Fortune’s Rivalry

A contest between Beshaba and Tymora turns wagers, rescues, and heroic risks into moves in a divine argument.

The Cost of Certainty

The avatar offers to guarantee one outcome if the party accepts catastrophic uncertainty everywhere else.

Lairs

Beshaba’s lairs are designed so that every object can fail, every route can become a trap, and every ally can make the wrong decision at the worst moment.

Hall of Black Antlers

An underground shrine whose branching passages catch clothing, packs, weapons, and fleeing creatures.

The Collapsing Palace

A ruined court that remains standing only because each falling stone happens to support another.

Festival of Misrule

A cheerful public celebration in which games, stages, animals, and fireworks become divine hazards.

The Crooked Coin

A gambling hall where every table pays out correctly while the building’s owners lose everything else.

Shared References

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