---
title: "Greater Nightmare"
obsidianUIMode: preview
noteType: pf2eMonster
cssClasses: pf2e
aliases: "Actor.9dT7M7OZzKv0xslJ" 
tags:
  - pf2e/creature/type/beast
  - pf2e/creature/type/fiend
  - pf2e/creature/type/unholy
  - pf2eMonster
  - pf2e/creature/level/11
  - remaster
statblock: inline
name: "Greater Nightmare"
level: 11
license: ORC
---

```statblock
columns: 2
forcecolumns: true
layout: Basic Pathfinder 2e Layout
source: "Pathfinder Monster Core"
name: "Greater Nightmare"
level: "Creature 11"

alignment: ""
size: "huge"
trait_01: [[beast]]
trait_02: [[fiend]]
trait_03: [[unholy]]
modifier: 22
perception:
  - name: "Perception"
    desc: "+22; Darkvision"
languages: "Chthonian, Daemonic, Diabolic"
skills:
  - name: "Skills"
    desc: "Acrobatics: +23, Athletics: +24, Intimidation: +22, Survival: +20"
abilityMods: [7, 4, 5, 2, 5, 3]
speed: 60 feet,  fly 120 feet
sourcebook: "_Pathfinder Monster Core_"
ac: 31
armorclass:
  - name: AC
    desc: "31; __Fort__ +25, __Ref__ +24, __Will__ +21"
hp: 200
health:
  - name: ""
  - name: HP
    desc: "200; __Resistances__ fire 15"
abilities_top:
  - name: ""

abilities_mid:
  - name: ""
  - name: "Smoke"
    desc: " (aura) 20 feet.\n\nThe nightmare continually exhales black smoke. Creatures within the aura are [[Conditions/Concealed|Concealed]] to those outside it, and creatures outside the aura are concealed to creatures within it. Nightmares and their riders can see through this smoke.\n\nA creature that begins its turn in the area must succeed at a DC 28 Fortitude check save or be [[Conditions/Sickened|Sickened 2]]. It's then temporarily immune to being sickened by the smoke for 1 minute. This is an inhaled poison, and the nightmare and its rider are immune to it."

attacks:
  - name: ""

  - name: "**Melee** `pf2:1` Jaws"
    desc: "+24 (magical, unholy)\n__Damage__  3d10 + 13 piercing"

  - name: "**Melee** `pf2:1` Hoof"
    desc: "+24 (agile, fire, magical, unholy)\n__Damage__  2d8 + 10 bludgeoning 2d6 fire"

  - name: "Divine Innate Spells"
    desc: "DC 30, attack +22; __7th __  _[[Spells/Interplanar Teleport|Interplanar Teleport (Self and Rider Only)]]_"

  - name: "Flaming Gallop"
    desc: "`pf2:2` (divine,fire,unholy) The nightmare Strides or Flies up to triple its Speed. Its hooves burst with intense flame, dealing 6d6 fire damage with a DC 30 Reflex check save to each creature other than the nightmare's rider that the nightmare moves adjacent to during its gallop. Each creature can be affected only once during a single use of Flaming Gallop."

  - name: "[[Bestiary Ability Glossary/Trample|Trample]]"
    desc: "`pf2:3`  Large or smaller, hoof, DC 30 Reflex check\n* * *\n\nThe monster Strides up to double its Speed and can move through the spaces of creatures of the listed size, Trampling each creature whose space it enters. The monster can attempt to Trample the same creature only once in a single use of Trample. The monster deals the damage of the listed Strike, but trampled creatures can attempt a basic Reflex save at the listed DC (no damage on a critical success, half damage on a success, double damage on a critical failure)."
 
```

```encounter-table
name: Greater Nightmare
creatures:
  - 1: Greater Nightmare
```



The enormous greater nightmare is valued for its ability to invade other realities with its rider.

* * *

Nightmares are flaming equine harbingers of death.
