Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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hi,
I but up to me how many monsters of each Typ are on D&D Beyond because i Wanted t know how many are there
This is the Stand of 25.04.2026
if you want recounting after a new Release be my Guest
my personal Fazit about these Numbers :
Ooze, Plant and Celestial are very under numbered and Humanoids have a very huch number.
What do you guys think of these Numbers? Would you want some more of some specific Typ?
Edit.: thanks for the correction not a typo it was a miss calculation i corrected it should be 228 not 230 at partnered content by Monstrosities my mistake.
Just an edit suggestion - you have Monstrosities that 386 Official, Partnered 230, total 614, which is two short. Given that all the others balance, I'm guessing there's a typo there somewhere?
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No, Humanoids would be the vast majority of encounters in "standard" campaigns.
Also depending on how you counted them, Humanoids may be many times larger than that as Bandit for example could be an Orc Bandit, Human Bandit, Goblin Bandit and so forth.
Oozes, Plants and Celestials would be vary rare in most campaigns, and if that's the case you wouldn't need a huge variety of them.
I have seen campaigns where there were worlds covered in Oozes, or where plant creatures were abundant, but it wouldn't be that common.
Actually, Oozes are the ones that stand out here. Celestials wouldn't usually be considered a "monster" as in something to fight so there wouldn't need to be very many.
It is interesting though, thank you for counting them up!
https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters
this is the place i counted them in, and yes most of the NPC have there own stat blocks there also if someone had a Legacy variant i also counted it so you not only have different variants of Bandit Species but also Leader or Worrier Variants who often have Legacy variants as well.
I'd be interested to see the same limiting to the 2024 stuff. Many of the official ones are affected by what campaigns were strongest, like Descent Into Avernus bumping the Fiends, and Strahd buping the Undead.
151 Aberration: 40 Official, 111 Partnered
218 Beast: 93 Official, 125 Partnered
21 Celestial: 20 Official, 1 Partnered
57 Construct: 35 Official, 22 Partnered
71 Dragon: 60 Official, 11 Partnered
48 Elemental: 35 Official, 13 Partnered
56 Fey: 32 Official, 24 Partnered
93 Fiend: 67 Official, 26 Partnered
30 Giant: 16 Official, 14 Partnered
218 Humanoid: 96 Official, 122 Partnered
147 Monstrosity: 92 Official, 55 Partnered
11 Ooze: 7 Official, 4 Partnered
38 Plant: 23 Official, 15 Partnered
137 Undead: 49 Official, 88 Partnered
1296 Total: 645 Official, 651 Partnered
Method: I filtered the Library by every source tagged 5.5e, filtered for only those sources in the Monsters page, then counted the number on the last page of the searches and added 20 per page before it. I did this with Partnered turned off for official, then on for total, then subtracted official from total for partnered counts. I did NOT check for duplicate entries, such as variants of the same monster.
that is, without the filtering for 5.5e sources, the same method i used
good job on the count, and post. It is interesting to diplay the numbers like that.
I also feel that the differant types are not unbalanced. You want more Humaniod Villians not less, you don't need a lot of Oozes as long as you can use the ones we have. Also the Celestuals could have a few more, but honestly they shouldn't be the main villains in D&D.
If anything, the category that has too few is Dragons. The game is called Dungeons and Dragons, and in the past we had so many wonderful types of dragons, and the current era of D&D has retconned some of the most interesting types of Dragons out of the game. ie Song Dragongs and Spirit Dragons aka Lung Dragons, not to be confused with Spirit Dragons in the recent book, which are a cool dragon but are not the OG Spirit Dragons, or Song Dragons.
incoming Dragon Rant. (will post a new tread on this.)