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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Creating a Monster The Monster Manual contains hundreds of ready-to-play monsters, but it doesn’t include every monster that you can imagine. Part of the D&D experience is the simple joy of creating
the concept for your monster. What makes it unique? Where does it live? What role do you want it to serve in your adventure, your campaign, or your world? What does it look like? Does it have any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
Appendix A: Creature statistics This appendix details creatures that are encountered in this adventure.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
What Is a Monster? A monster is defined as any creature that can be interacted with and potentially fought and killed. Even something as harmless as a frog or as benevolent as a unicorn is a monster
levels, and for nearly every climate and terrain imaginable. Whether your adventure takes place in a swamp, a dungeon, or the outer planes of existence, there are creatures in this book to populate that environment.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Modifying a Monster Once you have an idea for a monster, you’ll need statistics to represent it. The first question you should ask yourself is: Can I use statistics that already exist? A stat block
in the Monster Manual might make a good starting point for your monster. Imagine, for example, that you want to create an intelligent arboreal predator that hunts elves. There is no such monster in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Creating a Monster The Monster Manual contains hundreds of ready-to-play monsters, but it doesn’t include every monster that you can imagine. Part of the D&D experience is the simple joy of creating
the concept for your monster. What makes it unique? Where does it live? What role do you want it to serve in your adventure, your campaign, or your world? What does it look like? Does it have any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Modifying a Monster Once you have an idea for a monster, you’ll need statistics to represent it. The first question you should ask yourself is: Can I use statistics that already exist? A stat block
in the Monster Manual might make a good starting point for your monster. Imagine, for example, that you want to create an intelligent arboreal predator that hunts elves. There is no such monster in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
What Is a Monster? A monster is defined as any creature that can be interacted with and potentially fought and killed. Even something as harmless as a frog or as benevolent as a unicorn is a monster
levels, and for nearly every climate and terrain imaginable. Whether your adventure takes place in a swamp, a dungeon, or the outer planes of existence, there are creatures in this book to populate that environment.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Knocking Out a Creature When you would reduce a creature to 0 Hit Points with a melee attack, you can instead reduce the creature to 1 Hit Point. The creature then has the Unconscious condition and
starts a Short Rest. The creature remains Unconscious until it regains any Hit Points or until someone uses an action to administer first aid to it, which requires a successful DC 10 Wisdom (Medicine) check.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Knocking a Creature Out Sometimes an attacker wants to incapacitate a foe, rather than deal a killing blow. When an attacker reduces a creature to 0 hit points with a melee attack, the attacker can
knock the creature out. The attacker can make this choice the instant the damage is dealt. The creature falls unconscious and is stable.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Knocking Out a Creature When you would reduce a creature to 0 Hit Points with a melee attack, you can instead reduce the creature to 1 Hit Point. The creature then has the Unconscious condition and
starts a Short Rest. The creature remains Unconscious until it regains any Hit Points or until someone uses an action to administer first aid to it, which requires a successful DC 10 Wisdom (Medicine) check.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Knocking a Creature Out Sometimes an attacker wants to incapacitate a foe, rather than deal a killing blow. When an attacker reduces a creature to 0 hit points with a melee attack, the attacker can
knock the creature out. The attacker can make this choice the instant the damage is dealt. The creature falls unconscious and is stable.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Creating a Creature Randy Vargas Baba Yaga invents a new creature—a fire-breathing Giant Toad! Use the approaches and examples in the following sections to build custom creatures for your game.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Creating a Creature Randy Vargas Baba Yaga invents a new creature—a fire-breathing Giant Toad! Use the approaches and examples in the following sections to build custom creatures for your game.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Knocking Out a Creature When you would reduce a creature to 0 Hit Points with a melee attack, you can instead reduce the creature to 1 Hit Point. The creature then has the Unconscious condition and
starts a Short Rest. The creature remains Unconscious until it regains any Hit Points or until someone uses an action to administer first aid to it, which requires a successful DC 10 Wisdom (Medicine) check.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Knocking Out a Creature When you would reduce a creature to 0 Hit Points with a melee attack, you can instead reduce the creature to 1 Hit Point. The creature then has the Unconscious condition and
starts a Short Rest. The creature remains Unconscious until it regains any Hit Points or until someone uses an action to administer first aid to it, which requires a successful DC 10 Wisdom (Medicine) check.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Knocking a Creature Out Sometimes an attacker wants to incapacitate a foe, rather than deal a killing blow. When an attacker reduces a creature to 0 hit points with a melee attack, the attacker can
knock the creature out. The attacker can make this choice the instant the damage is dealt. The creature falls unconscious and is stable.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Knocking a Creature Out Sometimes an attacker wants to incapacitate a foe, rather than deal a killing blow. When an attacker reduces a creature to 0 hit points with a melee attack, the attacker can
knock the creature out. The attacker can make this choice the instant the damage is dealt. The creature falls unconscious and is stable.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
Appendix A: Creature statistics This appendix details creatures that are encountered in this adventure.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
bonus to saving throws tied to a particular ability. A saving throw bonus is best used to counteract a low ability score. For example, an undead monster with a low Wisdom score might need a Wisdom
score is 10 + its Wisdom (Perception) bonus. Step 20. Languages Whether a monster can speak a language has no bearing on its challenge rating. A monster can master as many spoken languages as you want
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
bonus to saving throws tied to a particular ability. A saving throw bonus is best used to counteract a low ability score. For example, an undead monster with a low Wisdom score might need a Wisdom
score is 10 + its Wisdom (Perception) bonus. Step 20. Languages Whether a monster can speak a language has no bearing on its challenge rating. A monster can master as many spoken languages as you want
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
How to Use a Monster Every monster is a font of adventure. In this bestiary, you’ll discover the weird, the whimsical, the majestic, and the macabre. Choose your favorites, and make them part of your D&D play.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
How to Use a Monster Every monster is a font of adventure. In this bestiary, you’ll discover the weird, the whimsical, the majestic, and the macabre. Choose your favorites, and make them part of your D&D play.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Introduction: How to Use a Monster Every monster is a font of adventure. In this bestiary of Dungeons & Dragons monsters, you’ll discover the weird, the whimsical, the majestic, and the macabre
grouped together.
Expanded Lists. Appendix B collects and expands lists of monster details that appeared in the 2014 Dungeon Master’s Guide.
Every monster in the 2014 Monster Manual appears in this book or has a CR-appropriate replacement detailed in appendix B.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Introduction: How to Use a Monster Every monster is a font of adventure. In this bestiary of Dungeons & Dragons monsters, you’ll discover the weird, the whimsical, the majestic, and the macabre
grouped together.
Expanded Lists. Appendix B collects and expands lists of monster details that appeared in the 2014 Dungeon Master’s Guide.
Every monster in the 2014 Monster Manual appears in this book or has a CR-appropriate replacement detailed in appendix B.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024)
You gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with this magic weapon.
The weapon has 5 charges. You can expend 1 charge and make a ranged attack with the weapon, hurling it as if it had
the Thrown property with a normal range of 20 feet and a long range of 60 feet.
If the attack hits, the weapon unleashes a thunderclap audible out to 300 feet. The target and every creature within 30
Magic Items
D&D Free Rules (2024)
You gain a +3 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. It has the Thrown property with a normal range of 20 feet and a long range of 60 feet. When you hit with a ranged
attack using this weapon, it deals an extra 1d8 Force damage, or an extra 2d8 Force damage if the target is a Giant. Immediately after hitting or missing, the weapon flies back to your hand.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024)
Whelm is a powerful weapon forged by dwarves and lost in the dungeon of White Plume Mountain.
You gain a +3 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with this magic weapon.
Hurl. Whelm has the
Whelm and send a shock wave out from the point of impact. Each creature of your choice on the ground within 60 feet of that point must succeed on a DC 20 Constitution saving throw or have the Stunned
Monsters
Monster Manual
.
Rapport Spores. The myconid expels spores in a 30-foot Emanation originating from itself. Creatures in that area with an Intelligence score of 2 or higher that aren’t Constructs, Elementals, or Undead gain telepathy with a range of 30 feet for 1 hour.
);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Slam", "rollDamageType":"Poison"} Poison damage.
Pacifying Spores (1/Day). Constitution Saving Throw: DC 11, one creature the myconid can see
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. Creatures in that area with an Intelligence score of 2 or higher that aren’t Constructs, Elementals, or Undead gain telepathy with a range of 30 feet for 1 hour.
(1d4);{"diceNotation":"1d4", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Slam", "rollDamageType":"Poison"} Poison damage.
Rapport Spores. The myconid expels spores in a 30-foot Emanation originating from itself
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"}. The target dies if this reduces that score to 0. If a Humanoid is slain by this attack, a Shadow rises from the corpse 1d4;{"diceNotation":"1d4", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Draining Swipe"} hours
Amorphous. The shadow can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch without expending extra movement to do so.
Sunlight Weakness. While in sunlight, the shadow has Disadvantage on d20 test;D20
Spells
Player’s Handbook
).
As a Bonus Action on each of your turns, you can mentally command any creature you animated with this spell if the creature is within 120 feet of you (if you control multiple creatures, you can
You can cast this spell only at night. Choose up to three corpses of Medium or Small Humanoids within range. Each one becomes a Ghoul under your control (see the Monster Manual for its stat block
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024)
An alchemical process has bonded silver to this magic weapon. When you score a Critical Hit with it against a creature that is shape-shifted, the weapon deals one additional die of damage.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024)
magical nature or translate the benefits it offers to those pure of heart and firm of purpose.
A heavy clasp, wrought to look like angel wings, keeps the book’s contents secure. Only a creature
that tries to read from the book takes 24d6 Radiant damage. This damage ignores Resistance and Immunity, and it can’t be reduced or avoided by any means. A creature reduced to 0 Hit Points by
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Monster Manual
"} Piercing damage.
Antennae. The rust monster targets one nonmagical metal object—armor or a weapon—worn or carried by a creature within 5 feet of itself. Dexterity Saving Throw: DC 11, the
creature with the object. Failure: The object takes a −1 penalty to the AC it offers (armor) or to its attack rolls (weapon). Armor is destroyed if the penalty reduces its AC to 10, and a weapon
Monsters
Monster Manual
Intelligence score of 2 or higher that aren’t Constructs, Elementals, or Undead gain telepathy with a range of 30 feet for 1 hour.
Spores (3/Day). The myconid releases spores at a Medium or Small corpse within 5 feet of it that wasn’t a Construct or an Undead. In 24 hours, the corpse rises as a Myconid Spore Servant. The corpse