Do y’all know any way to cross-reference monsters with certain resistances? Like if I wanted to look for a monster that resisted bludgeoning/piercing/slashing from non-magical attacks, but also wanted that monster to resist Radiant damage, for example.
I tried using the search function here on dnd beyond, but for some reason it shows me monsters with either/or, not both. Which is rather frustrating, because it’s rather unintuitive; usually your search results should get *smaller* with more specific criteria, not wider.
There are some databases that do that, but they are not official. Not even sure if they are legal due to copyright issues.
With a few exceptions, radiant resistance is mostly celestial and most celestials are also resistant to non-magical weapon attacks. So basially you are describing celestials plus things like Zariel who is a fiend that used to be a celestial (fallen angel).
Mog_Dracov is correct. Your choices for radient damage resistance is sparce. It's probably easier to find a creature that fits your encounter and just give them the resistances you want. You can justify this however you'd like as a DM (magic item, spell, ability, mystical spring of water that provides protection for X amount of hours, etc.) It also keeps your players from metagaming a bit.
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Do y’all know any way to cross-reference monsters with certain resistances? Like if I wanted to look for a monster that resisted bludgeoning/piercing/slashing from non-magical attacks, but also wanted that monster to resist Radiant damage, for example.
I tried using the search function here on dnd beyond, but for some reason it shows me monsters with either/or, not both. Which is rather frustrating, because it’s rather unintuitive; usually your search results should get *smaller* with more specific criteria, not wider.
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Beyond's search features aren't that cool. Sorry.
There are some databases that do that, but they are not official. Not even sure if they are legal due to copyright issues.
With a few exceptions, radiant resistance is mostly celestial and most celestials are also resistant to non-magical weapon attacks. So basially you are describing celestials plus things like Zariel who is a fiend that used to be a celestial (fallen angel).
Mog_Dracov is correct. Your choices for radient damage resistance is sparce. It's probably easier to find a creature that fits your encounter and just give them the resistances you want. You can justify this however you'd like as a DM (magic item, spell, ability, mystical spring of water that provides protection for X amount of hours, etc.) It also keeps your players from metagaming a bit.