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Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Multiattack. The carrion stalker makes three Tentacle attacks. If it is attached to a creature, it can replace one Tentacle attack with Larval Burst, if available.
Tentacle. Melee Weapon Attack: +5
","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage, and the carrion stalker attaches to the target and pulls itself into the target’s space. While attached, the carrion stalker moves with the target and has
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
":"damage","rollAction":"Bite","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage.A creature that has the body of an ogre and the head of a carrion crawler.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
of carrion, and wallowing in mire. A catoblepas might be found with the one mate it chooses for life and, on occasion, with a calf. A catoblepas attacks anyone that moves too close, especially if
tail is a club that can rattle body and soul if it strikes true, leaving a victim unable to act while the catoblepas feasts on its body.
Blighted Territory
A catoblepas’s nature as a creature of
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Monsters
Out of the Abyss
, emulating their dread master.
Orcus is a bestial creature of corruption with a diseased, decaying look. He has the lower torso of a goat, and a humanoid upper body with a corpulent belly swollen with rot
stench of rotting flesh, and buzzing flies grow thick within the region, even when there is no carrion to be found.
If a humanoid spends at least 1 hour within 1 mile of the lair, that creature must
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
in combat, Rak Tulkhesh roars in rage as new weapons are spawned from his body, called forth by the Rage of War to slaughter all who dare stand before him.
Khyber Shards. Rak Tulkhesh's soul is
fosters hatred unwittingly serves Rak Tulkhesh, and countless soldiers in the Five Nations are devoted to the Rage of War. Many of the Carrion Tribes of the Demon Wastes likewise serve Rak Tulkhesh
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
30. Hideous Transmutation Carrion Ogre. Lying on the floor in the middle of the room, held down with chains, is a creature that has the body of an ogre and the head of a carrion crawler.
Body Parts
. The ogre’s severed head and the carrion crawler’s decapitated body lie discarded in the northern corner of the room, where they have begun to putrefy and emit a dreadful stench.
Key Ring. Hanging
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Carrion Stalker A carrion stalker begins life as a pale larva that infests a corpse. Over the course of weeks, this grub burrows, feeds, and grows, ultimately developing into a chitinous mass of
pincers and tentacles. When an adult carrion stalker detects movement, it bursts from its corpse-cradle to attack, intent on implanting its young into the living and starting its species’ life cycle anew
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
(Perception) checks. However, they draw carrion to their roots, so characters might smell a dead body nearby. Because assassin vines can move, an encounter in the evening or at night might involve the vines creeping into the characters’ camp and strangling them as they sleep.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
creatures with unusual digestive systems or weird reproductive cycles. Body Horror Monsters Challenge Creature Source
1 Carrionette VGR
2 Gibbering mouther MM
3 Carrion stalker VGR
Body Horror Monsters Any monster might be the focus of body horror plots. Know what your players are anticipating so you can distort those expectations. A poised elf revealed to be a husk puppeted by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
expanding labyrinth that grows to protect the evil imprisoned at its heart
2 A forest where every tree grows from the body of a mummified hero
3 A magical factory that distills living beings
into the reagents of a wish-granting elixir
4 A criminal consortium’s lavish sewer-academy, where recruits are transformed to be perfectly suited to enacting one near-impossible heist
5 The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Carrion Crawler clings to the hall’s ceiling. It is Hostile toward all other creatures and fights them on sight. C5: Wizard’s Laboratory Luca Bancone Esoteric apparatuses and strange reagents line
and indecipherable formulas. Eye for an Eye. The nothic wants to research in peace, which it can’t do as long as the carrion crawler threatens its lair. If the characters don’t fight the nothic, it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Alchemist
Alchemist with Homunculus Servant
An Alchemist is an expert at combining reagents to produce mystical effects. Alchemists use their creations to give life and to leech it away. Alchemy
feet for 10 minutes.
6 Transformation. The drinker’s body is transformed as if by the alter self spell. The drinker determines the transformation caused by the spell, the effects of which last for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Otyugh An otyugh is a grotesque, bulbous creature borne along on three sturdy legs, its eyes and nose set along a vine-like stalk that snakes from the top of its bloated body. Two rubbery tentacles
end in spiky, leaf-like appendages that the otyugh uses to shovel food into its gaping maw.
An otyugh buries itself under mounds of offal and carrion, leaving only its sensory stalk exposed. When an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
a third arm on the right side of its body, and its left leg splits into two at the knee, giving it three feet. The transformation drove the poor creature insane, and it regards all other creatures as
of fungus sprout from mounds of offal on the uneven floor. The fungi release clouds of dimly luminescent spores that fill the cave like a fine, hanging mist.
Carrion Crawlers. Four carrion crawlers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Alchemist An Alchemist is an expert at combining reagents to produce mystical effects. Alchemists use their creations to give life and to leech it away. Alchemy is the oldest of artificer traditions
body is transformed as if by the alter self spell. The drinker determines the transformation caused by the spell, the effects of which last for 10 minutes. Alchemical Savant At 5th level, you develop
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Alchemist The magic of both alchemists and witches relies on a powerful multiversal truth: mortals can’t resist anything with bubbles.
Tasha
An Alchemist is an expert at combining reagents to
flying speed of 10 feet for 10 minutes. 6 Transformation. The drinker’s body is transformed as if by the alter self spell. The drinker determines the transformation caused by the spell, the effects of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
into its body and feeds on carrion to repair itself. The plant has a malevolent bent and despises the living. Horrible Odor. With or without humanoid corpses nested in its body, a corpse flower exudes
corpse flower dies, the corpses within it can be pulled free.
While it has at least one humanoid corpse in its body, the corpse flower can use a bonus action to do one of the following:
The corpse
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
, and other parts of the body. Injury. Injury poison can be applied to weapons, ammunition, trap components, and other objects that deal piercing or slashing damage and remains potent until delivered
Ingested 150 gp Burnt othur fumes Inhaled 500 gp Carrion crawler mucus Contact 200 gp Drow poison Injury 200 gp Essence of ether Inhaled 300 gp Malice Inhaled 250 gp Midnight tears Ingested 1,500 gp
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
from a rudimentary, barely humanoid shape to a small, winged body so lifelike that it almost appears to be a real creature that is merely asleep. A character who makes a successful DC 13 Intelligence
(Arcana) check can tell that these are figures used for creating homunculi. Treasure. Several of the reagents here are quite valuable. By searching the room, the characters can gather 50 gp of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
catoblepas resembles a natural animal in its behavior, ambling through its marshy home, munching choice vegetation, eating the occasional bit of carrion, and wallowing in mire. A catoblepas might be
creature’s serpentine neck has trouble lifting its head, but one glare from its bloodshot eyes can rot flesh. At the end of its tail is a club that can rattle body and soul if it strikes true, leaving
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
, replace him with a carrion crawler feeding on the dead remains. Development When the monsters are defeated, the ghost of a deep gnome named Pelek pokes its head up out of the ground, blinks, and then
emerges fully. The ghost is friendly and tells the adventurers that Buppido killed him not too long ago, then chopped him into pieces to join the other body parts in the shrine. Pelek explains how he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
takes it back to its nest to be devoured.
The peryton is a bizarre creature that blends the body and wings of a bird of prey with the head of a stag. Its strangest feature is its shadow, which appears
until the woman’s villainy was exposed. She was hanged for her crime, but the lingering magic of her foul ritual caused the carrion birds that feasted on her corpse to transform into the first
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
marshy home, munching choice vegetation, eating the occasional bit of carrion, and wallowing in mire. A catoblepas might be found with the one mate it chooses for life and, on occasion, a calf
glare from its bloodshot eyes can rot flesh. At the end of its tail is a club that can rattle body and soul if it strikes true, leaving a victim unable to act. If the target of its attacks dies, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
to use these remains in a ritual to summon the demon lord Baphomet. If the characters fought any minotaurs in area 7b, Maku and his followers cannot be surprised here. 8a. Keep Calm and Carrion The
. The fog swirls through this cavern, agitated by the dancing of eleven chanting minotaurs.
Offal Pile. Low stone barriers constrain a massive pile of rotting, dismembered body parts.
Altar. Behind
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Monsters (C) Carrion Crawler Large Monstrosity, Unaligned
AC 13 Initiative +1 (11)
HP 51 (6d10 + 18)
Speed 30 ft., Climb 30 ft.
Ability Score Mod Save
Str 14 +2 +2
Dex 13
Languages None
CR 2 (XP 450; PB +2)
Traits
Spider Climb. The carrion crawler can climb difficult surfaces, including along ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.
Actions
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
. Zilch lost his spellbook during his escape from Menzoberranzan, and an unfortunate encounter with a black pudding left him with acid scars covering the left side of his body, including his face. In
Dungeon Master’s Guide), and 2d6 vials of carrion crawler mucus (see “Poisons” in chapter 8 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide). Characters also find 1d10 × 10 pounds of food and 1d10 × 5 gallons of water stored in each building.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
courses into their body. On a failure, the character takes 5 (1d10) poison damage and gains vulnerability to poison damage. On a successful save, the character takes no damage and gains resistance to
of the rough-sided pit is a trivial task. 5. Death The next chamber contains the body of Constable Yander Boot. Caught in a web when fleeing from a giant spider, Boot succumbed to the spider’s poison
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
the coffin lies the astrologer’s body. Treasure. A bronze tube in one of the brass jars contains a crudely drawn map of this tier of the ziggurat. Two stars on the map denote the locations of the
carrion crawler clings to the ceiling in this room, waiting to ambush entrants. Characters who have a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 13 or higher notice the carrion crawler before it attacks. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
weird reagents and components. An iron cage is set against one wall, its door open.
Two more tables surrounded by chairs stand in the center of the room. The first contains a variety of humanoid body
odd-looking construct with an even more oddly placed spigot at the base of its barrel-shaped body. A gnome dressed in garishly colorful clothes sits on a stool nearby, his eyes blank. Another gnome
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
+ 2) burying a body that rises as 1 frostmourn* (attitude: 1d4 + 1) in the process
5 2d4 giant goats (attitude: 1d6 + 4) wandering about with chewed tethers
6 1 troll (attitude: 1d10 + 2
surface peoples hunt for truffles
2 1 stone giant rockspeaker* conferring with 2 galeb duhrs (attitude for all: 1d8 + 4)
3 1 stone giant (attitude: 1d12) playing fetch with 1 carrion
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
treatment and protect loved ones held captive. A carrion crawler ridden by several goblins in a row and directed by a lead goblin using a long pole to suspend a lantern just out of reach of its tentacles
, behind, and on both sides of the main group. The ravens can distinguish between individuals from a great height and navigate over long distances. Thus, a raven can fly back to the main body when it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
combat, Rak Tulkhesh roars in rage as new weapons are spawned from his body, called forth by the Rage of War to slaughter all who dare stand before him. Khyber Shards. Rak Tulkhesh’s soul is divided
fosters hatred unwittingly serves Rak Tulkhesh, and countless soldiers in the Five Nations are devoted to the Rage of War. Many of the Carrion Tribes of the Demon Wastes likewise serve Rak Tulkhesh and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
stands open, its stone slab held ajar by the decaying body of a hobgoblin. A crossbow bolt protrudes from the corpse’s chest.
The corpse is that of an explorer who reached the ziggurat several weeks ago
the body and succeeds on a DC 13 Wisdom (Medicine) check learns the corpse is fresh but bereft of blood. Sleeping Stirges. Four stirges, their bellies engorged with the corpse’s blood, hang asleep
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
blights in area 5. Treasure The corpse of an unfortunate adventurer is cocooned in spider silk in the western half of the building. The body is shriveled up and sucked dry, but appears to have been a
male elf. The body wears studded leather armor and a shortsword in the scabbard at its hip. A careful search also yields a potion of healing in a belt pouch, along with 23 gp and 35 sp. Awarding
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
hyena skulls that bite into the flesh of a screaming devil with sharp spines covering its thin, man-sized body. Jabbing the chained fiend with their long proboscises are three droning flies as big as
Manual.) Yiggleblight also kept a collection of poisons in six small, stoppered tubes made from human finger bones. Each flask holds a single dose of a different kind of poison: burnt othur fumes, carrion






