A nauseating stench and puff of brimstone herald the arrival of a loathsome, drooling dretch.

Daily   ✦     Arcane, Implement, Summoning
Minor Action      Ranged 10

Effect: You summon a Small dretch in an unoccupied space within range. The dretch has speed 5. If the dretch is reduced to 0 hit points, creatures adjacent to it take 5 poison damage. You can give the dretch the following special command.

  Standard Action: Melee 1; targets one or two creatures; Intelligence vs. Reflex; 2d6 + Intelligence modifier damage.

Intrinsic Nature: If you haven't given the dretch any commands by the end of your turn, it attacks or charges the nearest creature and makes its listed attack (above) in place of a melee basic attack. If it cannot attack or charge, it moves 5 squares toward the nearest creature. In addition, you take 1d6 damage each time you take a standard or move action before the end of your next turn.

Symbiosis: While the summoned dretch is present, each creature you hit with a basic or at-will attack takes 5 damage if it makes an attack before the end of its next turn, after it makes the attack.

Published in Dragon Magazine 385, page(s) 54.