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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Amphibious. The crab can breathe air and water.Multiattack. The crab makes two Claw attacks and one Stinger attack.
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +10;{"diceNotation":"1d20+10", "rollType":"to hit
target is a Huge or smaller creature, it has the grappled condition (escape DC 16). The crab has four claws, each of which can grapple one target.
Stinger. Melee Weapon Attack: +10;{"diceNotation":"1d20
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Scintillating Spray"}. The phisarazu expels shimmering webs in a 60-foot cone. Creatures and objects in that area are outlined by the glittering webs for 1 minute
, during which time they emit dim light for 10 feet and can’t benefit from the invisible condition. Additionally, creatures in that area must succeed on a DC 16 Wisdom saving throw or have the stunned
Apparatus of the Crab
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the catch unlocks a hatch at one end of the barrel, allowing two Medium or smaller creatures to crawl inside. Ten levers are set in a row at the far end, each in a neutral position, able to move either
up or down. When certain levers are used, the apparatus transforms to resemble a giant lobster. The apparatus of the Crab is a Large object with the following statistics:
Armor Class: 20 Hit Points
Conjure Animals
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disappears when it drops to 0 hit points or when the spell ends.
The summoned creatures are friendly to you and your companions. Roll initiative for the summoned creatures as a group, which has its own
turns. They obey any verbal commands that you issue to them (no action required by you). If you don't issue any commands to them, they defend themselves from hostile creatures, but otherwise take no
Conjure Fey
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Frog, Sea Horse, Baboon, Badger, Bat, Cat, Crab, Deer, Eagle, Giant Fire Beetle, Goat, Hawk, Hyena, Jackal, Lizard, Octopus, Owl, Quipper, Rat
defends itself from hostile creatures but otherwise takes no actions.
If your concentration is broken, the fey creature doesn't disappear. Instead, you lose control of the fey creature, it becomes
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
hone them on other creatures.
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I secretly enjoy conversing with lesser beings, although I usually do so only to find their weaknesses.
Topaz Dragon Ideals
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Solitude. My own company obviates the need for others in my life, whether they are dragons or lesser creatures. (Any)
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Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
forms. They coax new morphologies from existing creatures or combine traits from multiple organisms into one, producing the creatures known as krasis. Some krasis are unique creatures that can’t
shark and a powerfully built beast), the crocanura (a crocodile-frog), the drakewing krasis (a lizard-drake), the teratosuchus (a crocodile-crab), the shambleshark (a shark-crab), and the sharktocrab
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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
method to create novel life forms. They coax new morphologies from existing creatures or combine traits from multiple organisms into one, producing the creatures known as krasis. Some krasis are unique
creatures that can’t reproduce. A few multiply and become part of the guild’s standard menagerie.
Creating a Krasis
To create a krasis, choose the appropriate stat block: category 1
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
method to create novel life forms. They coax new morphologies from existing creatures or combine traits from multiple organisms into one, producing the creatures known as krasis. Some krasis are unique
creatures that can’t reproduce. A few multiply and become part of the guild’s standard menagerie.
Creating a Krasis
To create a krasis, choose the appropriate stat block: category 1
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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
retain their basic physical form. All are augmented with characteristics of animals, mostly aquatic, reptilian, or amphibian creatures. These include crab claws, squid tentacles, wings or fins like
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
prey and creatures such as explorers or travelers occasionally moving through the area.
Valuable Parts
Nearly every part of a cave fisher is useful after the creature has been dispatched. Cave
like strong liquor. Several dwarven spirits include cave fisher blood, and some dwarves, especially berserker;berserkers, drink the blood straight. Cave fisher meat is edible, tasting much like crab
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
Sea Galley The previous guardians are not the only creatures that protect the shore in the service of Talos. A huge giant crab (see appendix A), or two crabs if there are more than four characters
, including sidekicks, floats under the surface 200 feet from shore. It waits until a boat or swimming creatures pass above it, then it swims up and attacks, tipping over the boat if it is still in use. If creatures are flying, the crab waits until they land on shore, then rushes out to attack.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Storm Crab Storm crabs are colossal crustaceans with four monstrous claws and a poisonous stinger. Equally adept underwater or on shore, they can exhale a jet of pressurized water to crush foes
’ mastery of the sky, storm crabs were meant to battle dragon turtles, bronze dragons, and other aquatic foes. On many worlds, these creatures fiercely guard the underwater strongholds of storm giants
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Apparatus of the Crab Wondrous item, legendary This item first appears to be a Large sealed iron barrel weighing 500 pounds. The barrel has a hidden catch, which can be found with a successful DC 20
Intelligence (Investigation) check. Releasing the catch unlocks a hatch at one end of the barrel, allowing two Medium or smaller creatures to crawl inside. Ten levers are set in a row at the far end
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Thassa God of the Sea Thassa is the god of the sea, aquatic creatures, and the unknown depths. She also holds sway over less tangible concepts such as ancient knowledge, long voyages, and gradual
appears to mortals in the form of a female triton-like being with octopus-tentacle hair and a crown of crab legs. She seldom adopts the same size as her followers, preferring to be seen from a distance
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
and the landing at its top are strewn with bits of crab shell. If any character touches or inspects the door, read: A monstrous mouth forms on the door’s surface, calling out with a deep drawl: “I’m
with a knock spell. The mouth isn’t programmed to say anything else, but its words (and the crab shells underfoot) provide the characters with a clue regarding how to open the door. If the mouth is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
saving throw should be made before attacks are made. Creatures encountered here are unaffected by the mud. Guardian. The creature at the base of the boulder is a giant crayfish (see appendix B). If it
companion. Creature. The boulder is in reality a huge shell inhabited by Kalka-Kylla (see appendix B), a giant hermit crab. The bamboo staff is one of its legs; a successful DC 15 Intelligence (Nature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Crab Maze Columns of stone with platforms built around them, connected by rickety-looking gangways that touch the sea or disappear beneath the frothing waves, are arrayed before you. In the distance
. Between the characters and the village is a network of cages where the grippli have kept, captured, and bred giant crabs for centuries. The crab maze is a collection of low-to-the-water walkways, ranging
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Phisarazu Spyder-Fiend Phisarazu spyder-fiends have a pair of muscular arms sprouting beneath their wolf heads. They are resentful and suspicious of all other creatures, which makes them useful for
(4d8 + 4) slashing damage.
Scintillating Spray (Recharge 5–6). The phisarazu expels shimmering webs in a 60-foot cone. Creatures and objects in that area are outlined by the glittering webs for 1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dragon is building a tableau of desiccated creatures and has grown obsessed with catching one treasure hunter who escaped the dragon’s clutches.
7 A topaz dragon has developed a taste for merfolk
, and the merfolk community near the dragon’s lair is desperate for help.
8 A topaz dragon is intent on destroying the homes of all intelligent creatures in the dragon’s territory, and desperate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
the offspring of a giant, blue-carapaced crab and an irate squid. The Simic squad was rounded out by a host of mages clad in scale armor, and improbable hybrid fusions of scaled, finned, and shelled
creatures.
— Doug Beyer, Return to Ravnica: The Secretist
The secrets of life are revealed in the laboratories of the Simic, and their research notes plumb and catalog nature’s wonders. Their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Challenge Ratings Creatures by Challenge Rating CR Creature 1/2 Giant lynx 1 Bag jelly 1 Giant ram 1 Grinning cat 2 Giant tick 3 Giant goose 3 Giant ox 3 Goliath giant-kin 3 Mud hulk 3 Spotted
Yeenoghu 11 Firegaunt 11 Fire hellion 11 Frost giant of Evil Water 11 Storm crab 12 Cloud giant of Evil Air 12 Death giant reaper 12 Fomorian warlock of the dark 12 Hill giant avalancher 12 Stalker of
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Denizens The Maelstrom Roster table summarizes the locations of the inhabitants when the characters approach and indicates how those creatures react when intruders are detected. Loud noises in one
disturbance in area 11 and otherwise obey Serissa’s or Uthor’s commands. 14 Mirran, Nym, 1 hulking crab (pipe organ), 2 storm giants, 1 cloud giant, 1 fire giant, 1 frost giant, 1 stone giant The storm
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
Domain Denizens The Feywild Creatures table can help you populate a Domain of Delight. Stat blocks for the listed creatures appear in the Monster Manual or The Wild Beyond the Witchlight (WW). Just
because a creature doesn’t appear on the Feywild Creatures table doesn’t mean that it can’t appear in a Domain of Delight. Any D&D creature can find its way to the Feywild, and sometimes it’s fun to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
have become less and less active, and the supply of food has been all but cut off. To make things worse, rumors have arisen about serpent creatures being seen near the Cloakwood and the grippli
village.”
Pelk tells the characters that this news came by way of Mitor Jans, a ship captain who makes a living transporting crab meat to Candlekeep. Pelk also reveals that Jans, eager for shipments to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
in her head and pull her tentacles up into the shell protectively, like a strange hermit crab. Whymsee (Kraken Priest Variant)
Medium humanoid (human), neutral evil
Armor Class 17 (natural armor
corners, and that area is heavily obscured to creatures other than kraken priests or a kraken. Each creature other than a kraken priest or a kraken that ends its turn there must succeed on a DC 14
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
creatures such as explorers or travelers occasionally moving through the area. Valuable Parts Nearly every part of a cave fisher is useful after the creature has been dispatched. Cave fisher filaments
. Several dwarven spirits include cave fisher blood, and some dwarves, especially berserkers, drink the blood straight. Cave fisher meat is edible, tasting much like crab cooked in strong wine. While
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
much climbing as crawling. At the end of this time, the adventurers emerge onto a shelf 15 feet up the wall of a broad, straight tunnel some 20 feet high. A curious procession of creatures marches along
the tunnel below your position. Twelve of the creatures are identical. Each has a round body, spindly arms and legs, a pair of fluttering wings rising above its arms, and a single eye staring out over
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
native animal prey and creatures such as explorers or travelers occasionally moving through the area. A cave fisher instinctively knows that larger targets such as humanoids are more difficult to
overcome, so the creatures shy away from attacking such prey unless they come across a solitary target. They might try to pick off a scout moving ahead of a group of travelers or a straggler lagging
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
, though most hybrids retain their basic physical form. All are augmented with characteristics of animals, mostly aquatic, reptilian, or amphibian creatures. These include crab claws, squid tentacles
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Connected Creatures The encounter tables in this section include a variety of monsters grouped according to themes that might flavor a giant enclave or encounter. Combined with the encounters from
d8 if you don’t have that book.
*See chapter 6.
Quintin Gleim Giants and dinosaurs are both ancient creatures
belonging to a long-forgotten time
A place where giants and dinosaurs live
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
creatures moving about. These aquatic creatures mind their own business and pay little heed to surface-dwellers. The coral on the outside of the royal spires can be harvested and sold. Someone who can
Adventurers who earn the giants’ trust are quartered here during their stay. Each of these rooms contains furnishings sized for Medium and Small creatures: five comfortable beds, a circular rug, a barrel of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
sphere is free of such debris. Several weapons on the ground seem like they might still be serviceable, although all are badly worn.
If the orb is disturbed, all creatures within 10 feet of it must
another creature from the whirlwind, assuming it has the ability to reach a target 20 feet in the air. The whirlwind lasts 1 minute and then collapses, releasing creatures caught within it. While the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Scions of Elemental Evil
Cultist Fanatics of the Order of Falling Ash camp here. All ten are ashen creatures (see the “Ashen Creatures” sidebar). Ashen Creatures
Many Humanoids involved with the Order of Falling Ash are
keyhole. Portal. When a cult leader’s key (see areas T6, T8, and T10) is turned in this lock, the altar’s flames roar to the ceiling and form a burning archway that acts as a portal. Creatures who climb
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
patterns on the walls. Under the crystal window is a hulking crab (see appendix C) with colored nodules and hollow flutes of beautiful coral growing out of its shell. This creature is a living
instrument. When one of the nodules on its shell is tapped, the motion tickles the crab and causes it to exhale a burst of air through one of its coral pipes, producing a deep tone similar to that of a pipe