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Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
boss around smaller, weaker creatures can easily end up in positions of power, surrounded by loyal underlings, sycophants, and would-be usurpers. A plasmoid boss might be the master of a guild, the
creatures is the original, and the other is a physical duplicate that lacks the experience and knowledge of its parent.
A plasmoid talks by forcing air through tubular cavities in its body, giving its voice a whistling quality.Acid, Poison
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
the gremishka’s initiative.Gremishkas are the vicious products of mistakes made by novice spellcasters seeking to create life. The results are cat-sized, magically unstable creatures with
gave them life as they infest the walls of spellcasters’ homes or the surrounding lands.
Despite their feral appearances, gremishkas are cunning creatures. They might imitate the sounds of
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
by novice spellcasters seeking to create life. The results are cat-sized, magically unstable creatures with a taste for the trappings of magic—particularly spellbooks, spell components
.
Despite their feral appearances, gremishkas are cunning creatures. They might imitate the sounds of whimpering children or wounded animals to coax victims into tight quarters. While they favor
Goblin
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
opportunity to supervise and dominate such creatures, which have no status at all.
WHO'S THE BOSS?
Goblins pattern the rule of their tribes after the whip-cracking rule of their god, Khurgorbaeyag
the symbols used are rarely the same between different tribes and often make little sense to other creatures. Some possible status symbols are given in the Status Symbols table. A caste or a boss
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
All-Around Vision. The quori can't be surprised while it isn't incapacitated.
Incorporeal Movement. The quori can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. It takes
eyebinders — entities formed of pure shadow that is outlined by a nimbus of energy. A host of disembodied eyes whirl around a kalaraq, each reflecting a consciousness the creature has consumed.
Kalaraq quori
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
’s grim energy.
Shadar-kai have ashen skin tones, and while they’re in the Shadowfell, they also become wizened, reflecting the somber nature of that gloomy plane.
Like other elves
, Beast, Celestial, Construct, Dragon, Elemental, Fey, Fiend, Giant, Humanoid, Monstrosity, Ooze, Plant, Undead. These types don’t have rules themselves, but some rules in the game affect creatures
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
attack roll is rerolled against the chosen creature.Ancient and devious, morkoths are voracious collectors. Each one floats through the planes on a strange, mobile island, amassing the valuables
deal or try to steal from it. A morkoth knows every person and object in its collection.
A morkoth’s island has the qualities of a dreamscape. It holds a jumble of objects and creatures the
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
pouch, stitched with images of heroes and whimsical creatures. Where the teeth fall, they bring legends to life.
Using the Teeth. While you are holding the pouch, you can use an action to draw one tooth
tooth, roll a die at the end of your turn. On an even number, the tooth vanishes, and creatures appear as if you sowed the tooth, but they are hostile to you and your allies. On an odd number, the
Magic Items
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
expend the charge to cast the spell.
Drain Magic. This property affects only creatures that use spell slots. When you hit such a creature with a melee attack using the Blackstaff, you can expend 1 of the
personality among them. Like Khelben, the staff is extremely devious and manipulative. It prefers to counsel its owner without exerting outright control. The staff’s primary goal is to protect
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
boss around smaller, weaker creatures can easily end up in positions of power, surrounded by loyal underlings, sycophants, and would-be usurpers. A plasmoid boss might be the master of a guild, the
Plasmoid Boss On occasion, due to some biological anomaly, a plasmoid balloons in size upon reaching adulthood (around the age of twenty years). Plasmoids who use their increased size and strength to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Flee, Mortals! Rule Primer
dominate the battlefield. These actions make the boss creatures dynamic and formidable. Whether fought as an exciting solo challenge or alongside a few easy-to-run underlings, action-oriented creatures challenge the characters with dramatic and powerful actions in combat.
Action-Oriented Creatures The solo and leader creatures presented in this book are designed to be bosses: enemies who can take on an entire party by themselves or with a handful of underlings. Rather
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
demonstrating just how superior a giant’s strength is compared to smaller creatures. Such a boss might run a protection racket, a group of highway robbers, or a kidnapping ring. A giant boss might even take to
. Giant Patrons Giant Role Group Patron Type Boss Criminal Syndicate Financier Aristocrat Seer Ancient Being Sovereign Sovereign Tutor Academy Warleader Military Force Boss A giant boss wields
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Humans and Dragonmarks Five different dragonmarks appear among humans, reflecting their dominant status among the races of Khorvaire: The Mark of Making is found in House Cannith, which has used it
House Vadalis, which uses it to breed fine mounts and other creatures. Humans also number among House Tharashk and manifest the Mark of Finding with their half-orc kin.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Monsters in This Book The Stat Blocks by Challenge Rating table sorts the creatures in this book by challenge rating. Stat Blocks by Challenge Rating CR Stat Block Creature Type Chapter 1/4
10 7 Talon beast Monstrosity 21 9 Boss Augustus Monstrosity 11 9 Boss Delour Monstrosity 11 9 Gremorly’s ghost Undead 15 9 Solar Bastion knight Humanoid 10 11 Enchanting infiltrator Fey 6 11
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
gathered here. Most of the assembled creatures are deep gnomes, but some have ratlike features — including a fat specimen standing in front of the others, smiling at you with jagged buckteeth. “Peace
Blingdenstone”) are gathered here, making combat a dangerous proposition and likely inspiring the characters to accept Chipgrin’s peaceful parley. The wererat boss climbs a set of stairs to the top of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Combat Though it’s possible to avoid combat with many of the caves’ occupants, the characters eventually will clash with creatures that can’t be reasoned with. The text states when a monster might
Copper Dragon Wyrmling Cultist Gelatinous Cube Giant Centipede Giant Fire Beetle Giant Spider Gnoll Warrior Goblin Boss Goblin Warrior Gray Ooze Glob Hobgoblin Warrior Ivlis Kobold Warrior Kuo-Toa
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
overwhelming — numbers. They crave power and regularly abuse whatever authority they obtain. Goblinoids. Goblins belong to a family of creatures called goblinoids. Their larger cousins, hobgoblins
celebrate the few times they have the upper hand. They dance, caper with sheer joy when victory is theirs. Once their revels have ended, goblins delight in the torment of other creatures and embrace
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Doppelganger Doppelgangers are devious shapeshifters that take on the appearance of other humanoids, throwing off pursuit or luring victims to their doom with misdirection and disguise. Few creatures
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
magical creatures this land is home to. But Valachan is fiercely protected by its Darklord, the devious and immortal hunter Chakuna. She roams the jungles hunting dangerous beasts—and when she grows
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
boulder out of the way requires a successful DC 11 Strength (Athletics) check. The sound of the rolling boulder is loud enough to be heard by the creatures in area 9. The cave has an 8-foot-high
the treasure that Boss Hark has amassed in his short lifetime: 12 gp, 55 sp, and 87 cp (loose) A matching pair of silver salt and pepper shakers (worth 10 gp apiece or 25 gp for the pair) A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
the opportunity to supervise and dominate such creatures, which have no status at all. WHO'S THE BOSS?
Goblins pattern the rule of their tribes after the whip-cracking rule of their god
used are rarely the same between different tribes and often make little sense to other creatures. Some possible status symbols are given in the Status Symbols table. A caste or a boss might display
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
mingle together as they do in the Material Plane, forming land, sea, and sky. But the dominant element exerts a strong influence on the environment, reflecting its fundamental qualities. The
elemental spirits barely recognizable as creatures. The creatures usually called elementals dwell here, including the Elemental Princes of Evil (primordial beings of pure elemental fury) and elemental
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
nefarious activity happening in an adventure, having the dragon’s minions mention the nature of their boss sets up the coming climactic encounter. Although the climax must hinge on the successes and
betrays the adventurers as they’re about to achieve their goal. (Use this climax carefully, and don’t overuse it.) 7 A portal opens to another plane of existence. Creatures on the other side spill out
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
some significant overlap. Substance and Theory Quandrix’s two deans carry the titles Dean of Substance and Dean of Theory, reflecting the philosophical division within the college. Is mathematics a
substance-theory conflict a scholar more likely aligns with. Quandrix Scholars d8 Scholar Principle 1 Abstractor, using magic to stretch the possibilities of space Theory 2 Augmenter, making creatures
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Flumph The mysterious flumphs drift through the Underdark, propelled through the air by the jets whose sound gives them their name. A flumph glows faintly, reflecting its moods in its color. Soft
creatures. If a creature’s thoughts suggest goodness, a flumph seeks that creature out. When facing creatures that exude evil, a flumph flees. Psionic Siphons. Flumphs feed by siphoning mental energy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
levels afflicting the creature are removed. Hades Adventures Hades embodies despair manifested as apathy. Pure, undiluted evil is like an inescapable force of gravity, dragging all creatures down—not in
body, but in spirit. Even the consuming rage of the Abyss and the devious plotting of the Nine Hells are subjugated to hopelessness in the Gray Wastes of Hades. The plane slowly kills dreams and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Abominable Yeti Devious mountain folk sometimes use the yetis as unwitting weapons. A warlord might lay down slaughtered sheep or goats to draw yetis into an enemy’s camp, sowing chaos and thinning
yetis might live together long enough to raise young. These towering yetis are highly territorial and savage, attacking and devouring any warm-blooded creatures they encounter, then scattering the bones
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
offers new race and class options, reflecting the unique character of Ravnica as a Magic setting, and the creatures and characters seen on Magic cards. You can also use this material in any other D&D
of the cards. Chapter 6 presents new monsters and NPCs, again reflecting the creatures seen on Magic cards as well as the nature of each guild. The guildmaster of each guild is detailed in this chapter, as are a variety of guild members.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Gremishka Gremishkas are the vicious products of mistakes made by novice spellcasters seeking to create life. The results are cat-sized, magically unstable creatures with a taste for the trappings of
walls of spellcasters’ homes or the surrounding lands. Despite their feral appearances, gremishkas are cunning creatures. They might imitate the sounds of whimpering children or wounded animals to coax
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Doppelganger Doppelgangers are devious shapeshifters that take on the appearance of other humanoids, throwing off pursuit or luring victims to their doom with misdirection and disguise. Few creatures
form allows it to blend into almost any group or community, but its transformation doesn’t impart languages, mannerisms, memory, or personality. Doppelgangers often follow or capture creatures they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
the creatures in this book by challenge rating. Stat Blocks by Challenge Rating CR Stat Block Name Creature Type 0 Chwinga astronaut Elemental 0 Dohwar Fey 0 Space guppy Beast 0 Space mollymawk
Monstrosity 4 Gaj Aberration 4 Neh-thalggu Aberration 4 Neogi void hunter Aberration 4 Plasmoid boss Ooze 5 Astral elf honor guard Humanoid 5 Astral elf star priest Humanoid 5 Feyr Aberration 5 Mercane
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Sea Maidens Faire on the pier. Early the following morning, the docks are a hive of activity as performers practice their routines and caged creatures are offloaded one by one. An hour before highsun
feather of diatryma summoning (see appendix A). For Jarlaxle, the parade is a chance to show off and be cheered; he has no ulterior motive for participating in the event. While the Boss Is Away As the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
series of such creatures. Like its predecessors, the beholder uses “the Xanathar” as a title rather than its personal name (which is Zushaxx). The guild has been in operation for nearly two hundred years
, with a different beholder taking over every few decades. Paranoid Megalomania The Xanathar, like its forerunners, is an eye tyrant — a type of beholder that chooses to live among other creatures in a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
. Ramshackle structures, built from the same junk as the outer wall, provide shelter.
A platoon of small fey creatures mills about, all looking like feral gnomes. Several them sport tall red caps
waves in your direction as if telling you to remain where you are. “What a deal! Patience is a virtue! Can’t keep the boss waiting!” He runs off into one of the trash structures.
Moments later he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
heights vary, ranging from as low as ten feet to as high as one hundred feet in the tallest towers. The Avowed use floating disks, each one large enough to hold three Medium creatures, to reach the
of the tallest chambers, reflecting sunlight by day or a continual flame spell on cloudy days or at nights. Modrons. Candlekeep is a haven for thirteen rogue modrons (monodrones) that escaped from