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Volume III · Monster ManualBuild 25

Brambling

Creatures of the Crooked Mile

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Brambling
Implemented development through Build 25Reviewed 28 October 2026

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Woodland creature · Physical

A knot of thorns with somewhere to be. It is easy to mistake a Brambling for undergrowth, right up until the undergrowth objects.

Reference statistics

Basic difficulty · ordinary profile before temporary states and encounter adjustments

HP
7
Armor class
12
Attack
+3
Damage
d4+0
Initiative
5
Strikes
1

Weaknesses Fire

Resistances Earth

Polymorph immunity No authored immunity

Traits and special behavior

Entangling strike. A damaging hit against a surviving target has a 30% base chance to inflict Entangled with magnitude 2. The shared difficulty bonus for these effects applies.

See the condition reference for the shared effects, and enemy tuning for difficulty-wide chance adjustments.

Statistics by difficulty

DifficultyHPACAttackDamageStrikes
Basic712+3d4+01
Advanced1617+7d4+41
Expert2423+10d4+81
Master3225+12d4+101
Master+4227+13d4+141

Includes explicit tier overrides and the final maximum-HP multiplier. Damage is the ordinary die and bonus, before final outgoing multipliers. Rage, growth, buffs, encounter adjustments and special action damage are not baked into this table.

Current appearances

AdventureLocationEncounter roster
The Forsaken WoodsThe Old RoadBrambling × 2

Detailed reference

These panels retain the exact authored configuration, including unscaled base values. For tier overrides, −1 Attack or damage bonus and zero HP or strikes mean “inherit”; tier indices run from 0 (Basic) to 4 (Master+). Field values and message templates are shown as reference data, not additional rules.

Creature configuration
Stable identifier
brambling
Attack Text
{actor} lashes out with thorny branches.
Name
Brambling
Plate Name
Bramble
Role
Woodland creature
HP
7
Armor class
12
Attack
3
Damage die
4
Damage bonus
0
Initiative
5
Artwork registry index
12
Visual Scale
1
Weaknesses
  1. Fire
Resistances
  1. Earth
On Hit Debuff
Kind
entangled
Chance
30
Amount
2
Attack Sound
combat.rootLash
Encounter configurations (1)

Whole encounter rewards and modifiers are shown here; they are not rewards for defeating this creature alone. Legacy fields remain visible for configuration audits.

  1. Stable identifier
    roadBriars
    Enemies
    1. stumpCrawler
    2. brambling
    3. brambling
    Gold
    10
    Xp
    15
    Opening
    A rotten stump lurches upright. Two bramblings tear free of the hedge.
Artwork and presentation
Resource
JournalArt/Adventures/ForsakenWoods/Creatures/Brambling
Registrations
  1. Resource
    JournalArt/Adventures/ForsakenWoods/Creatures/Brambling
    Height Units
    1
    Body Height
    0.9276315789473685
    Ground Y
    0.023026315789473683
    Center X
    0.49420289855072463

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