Do you already have the Tome of Beasts from Kobold press? (1 & 2) That certainly expands on general monsters, including many with high CR ratings and multi-actions.
Kobold Press also has the Creature Codex, which follows the same vein.
Epic Legacy Tome of Titans by 2CGaming has boss monsters designed for the hypothetical level 21-30 range but also have notes to use them in normal play.
Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy in DM Guild also has a list of possible campaign villains.
You can fairly easily alter 4th edition solo monsters for 5th edition -- you need to rescale attack bonuses and ac, and you might want to most some of their specialized mechanics over to legendary actions, but the core is pretty straightforward.
You can fairly easily alter 4th edition solo monsters for 5th edition -- you need to rescale attack bonuses and ac, and you might want to most some of their specialized mechanics over to legendary actions, but the core is pretty straightforward.
Thank you Pentagruel, I thought about that and actually do have the 4e MM 1+2 at home. Will think about that.
You can fairly easily alter 4th edition solo monsters for 5th edition -- you need to rescale attack bonuses and ac, and you might want to most some of their specialized mechanics over to legendary actions, but the core is pretty straightforward.
Thank you Pentagruel, I thought about that and actually do have the 4e MM 1+2 at home. Will think about that.
It works better with MM3/Essentials (or revised for Essentials, which was done for a lot of MM in dragon magazine but is hard to find nowadays) -- all monsters got more damage, solos got a bunch more actions but fewer hit points.
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Hello fellow DMs!
I am searching the web for 3rd party sourcebooks that have nicely designed solo monsters for 5e.
Until now, to no avail.
Specifically, I am looking for monsters with a lot of bonus actions, reactions, legendary actions, or, like Matt Colville proposed, "villain actions".
Has someone any recommendations? Print or pdf works.
Thank you for your support! :)
PS: yes, I am lazy and don't want to design the monsters by myself... ;)
Do you already have the Tome of Beasts from Kobold press? (1 & 2) That certainly expands on general monsters, including many with high CR ratings and multi-actions.
Kobold Press also has the Creature Codex, which follows the same vein.
Epic Legacy Tome of Titans by 2CGaming has boss monsters designed for the hypothetical level 21-30 range but also have notes to use them in normal play.
Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy in DM Guild also has a list of possible campaign villains.
If you like Matt Coleville's approach, give Flee Mortals a try. It's on Kickstarter, currently on pre-order, and there is a functioning preview PDF.
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Great suggestions thus far. Thank you all! :)
Love the Matt Colville Kickstarter... great!
You can fairly easily alter 4th edition solo monsters for 5th edition -- you need to rescale attack bonuses and ac, and you might want to most some of their specialized mechanics over to legendary actions, but the core is pretty straightforward.
Thank you Pentagruel, I thought about that and actually do have the 4e MM 1+2 at home. Will think about that.
It works better with MM3/Essentials (or revised for Essentials, which was done for a lot of MM in dragon magazine but is hard to find nowadays) -- all monsters got more damage, solos got a bunch more actions but fewer hit points.