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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
"} necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
Beguiling Hex (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"recharge","rollAction":"Beguiling Hex"}. The horror
Formed by the Mists. When created, the horror’s body composition takes one of four forms: Aberrant Armor, Loathsome Limbs, Malleable Mass, or Oozing Organs. This form determines certain traits
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Formed by the Mists. When created, the horror’s body composition takes one of four forms: Aberrant Armor, Loathsome Limbs, Malleable Mass, or Oozing Organs. This form determines certain traits
in this stat block.
Bile Body (Oozing Organs Only). Any creature that touches the horror or hits it with a melee attack takes 5 (1d10);{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Bile
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Formed by the Mists. When created, the horror’s body composition takes one of four forms: Aberrant Armor, Loathsome Limbs, Malleable Mass, or Oozing Organs. This form determines certain traits
in this stat block.Multiattack. The horror makes two Limbs attacks.
Limbs. Melee Weapon Attack: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Limbs"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target
Monsters
Keys from the Golden Vault
Multiattack. The eldritch horror makes two attacks: one with its bite and one to constrict.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +10;{"diceNotation":"1d20+10","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Bite"} to hit
target is grappled (escape DC 16) if the eldritch horror isn’t already constricting a creature, and the target is restrained until this grapple ends.
Lightning Breath (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Formed by the Mists. When created, the horror’s body composition takes one of four forms: Aberrant Armor, Loathsome Limbs, Malleable Mass, or Oozing Organs. This form determines certain traits
in this stat block.
Amorphous (Malleable Mass Only). The horror can move through any opening at least 1 inch wide without squeezing.
Bile Body (Oozing Organs Only). Any creature that touches the
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Formed by the Mists. When created, the horror’s body composition takes one of four forms: Aberrant Armor, Loathsome Limbs, Malleable Mass, or Oozing Organs. This form determines certain traits
in this stat block.
Amorphous (Malleable Mass Only). The horror can move through any opening at least 1 inch wide without squeezing.Multiattack. The horror makes two Limbs attacks.
Limbs. Melee
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Keys from the Golden Vault
or smaller creature, it is grappled (escape DC 13). Until this grapple ends, the eldritch horror hatchling can bite only the grappled creature and has advantage on attack rolls to do so.
Acid Spray
(Recharge 6);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"recharge","rollAction":"Acid Spray"}. The eldritch horror hatchling spits acid in a line that is 30 feet long and 5 feet wide, provided that it has no
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
":"damage","rollAction":"Psychic Whispers","rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.The horror can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from
","rollAction":"Crushing Tentacle","rollDamageType":"force"} force damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
Poison Jet (Costs 2 Actions). Foul gas squirts from the horror in a
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
", "rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. In either case, the sorrowsworn pulls each of those creatures up to 30 feet straight toward it.The sorrow
melancholy sometimes gives rise to strange incarnations of the plane’s bleak nature. Sorrowsworn embody the forms of suffering inherent to the shadowy landscape and visit horror on those who
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage if the swarm has half of its hit points or fewer.
Grasping Limbs. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Grasping Limbs"} to hit
, or the swarm dies.Among the undead, a lone zombie ranks far from the most menacing. The horror of the shambling dead lies not in their individual menace, though, but their numbers, their persistence
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
":"poison"} poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. A Humanoid reduced to 0 hit points by this damage dies and rises as a zombie (see its stat block in the Monster
Manual) 1 minute later. The zombie acts immediately after the plague spreader in the initiative count.Among the undead, a lone zombie ranks far from the most menacing. The horror of the shambling dead lies
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
shade’s next turn. On a successful save, the target takes half as much damage only.
“She was great at picking locks but had a terrible cruel streak. When the cloaker got her, we were glad we
’d never see her again—then, to our horror, we did.”
—Hopewell Lightfinger, Sword Coast Adventurer
When the spirit of a malevolent trickster or callous rogue refuses to
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
falls into a magical slumber. On a successful save, the target takes half as much damage only. The honks can be heard up to 300 feet away.
A creature under magical slumber has the unconscious
days, the Goose Mother grew to prodigious size, and the witch grew fearful. One night, while the Goose Mother slept, the witch took to its neck with a cleaver, but to her horror, two more heads
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
, the creature takes half as much damage only.
Spellcasting. The baernaloth casts one of the following spells, requiring no material components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell
":"damage", "rollAction":"Inescapable Pain", "rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.Baernaloths are tall, gaunt yugoloths who keep to the
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
attacks.A mangler is a low-slung, creeping horror with multiple gangly arms—it most often has six arms but can have any number from four to eight. Manglers creep along the ground or the walls
", "rollDamageType":"radiant"} radiant damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
PsychicColdShadow Stealth. While in dim light or darkness, the mangler takes the Hide action.
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
, or half as much damage on a successful one.The demon lord Aurnozci is a wormlike horror of fiery flesh and toxic seepage. In its present form, Aurnozci can’t leave Xulregg, the Abyssal layer
failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
Spellcasting. Aurnozci casts one of the following spells, requiring no material components and using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability (spell
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
);{"diceNotation":"1d6+1","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Silvered Sword","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage (silvered sword).Several months ago, a colorfully dressed half-elf bard came to Barovia in a
in search of new actors, he began regaling locals with tales of distant lands.
Monster Hunter. The half-elf ringmaster is, in fact, a legendary human vampire hunter named Rudolph van Richten. Van
Monsters
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
);{"diceNotation":"10d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Cataclysmic Fire", "rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
Additionally, any
Constitution saving throw, taking 100 necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. If this damage reduces the target to 0 hit points, the target dies.Soth can take 3
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
23 Dexterity saving throw, taking 55 (10d10);{"diceNotation":"10d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Unearthly Bile","rollDamageType":"acid"} acid damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on
amalgamating the meat and voices of every form the emissary has ever mimicked. Manifestations of alien hunger erupt from this horror in waves of ravenous organs and mind-breaking psychic assaults
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
save, it takes half as much damage.Zargon the Returner is an elder evil—an undying abomination from eons past with an insatiable appetite. A tentacled, slime-covered horror with a cyclopic red
successful save, the creature takes half as much damage only. A poisoned creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
A creature reduced to
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
","rollDamageType":"poison"} poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. If the damage reduces the target to 0 hit points, the target is stable but poisoned for 1 hour, even
ground ripples and bursts over the monster, revealing itself as a wave of countless spiders. The tiny arachnids swarm the larger horror, girding it in skittering bodies.
Fighting Arasta as a mythic
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
often encountered as the leader of a cult dedicated to one or more Elder Evils. Usually, the seer is the only cult member that grasps the full extent of the horror the cult is venerating. The seer
a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 16 (3d10);{"diceNotation":"3d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Radiant Flames", "rollDamageType":"radiant"} radiant damage on a failed save, or half as
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Boundless Horror. When Shub-Niggurath drops to 0 hit points or would be killed outright, it instead transforms into a swarm of insects that fill its space. At the start of each of Shub-Niggurath
’s turns, it gains one recovery point but otherwise cannot use actions or legendary actions other than Relentless Horror. When it gains its fourth recovery point, its maximum hit points return to
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the house. Failure: 36 (8d8);{"diceNotation":"8d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Agonized Souls", "rollDamageType":"Necrotic"} Necrotic damage. Success: Half damage.Houses of horror are living
timber.
Houses of horror jealously covet the true life that its former inhabitants enjoyed, or they carry echoes of the suffering that bodies and souls experienced within them. The houses vent this
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. of it; Failure: The target takes 66 (12d10);{"diceNotation":"12d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Horrid Tongue Lash", "rollDamageType":"acid"} acid damage. Success: Half damage.
Shape-Shift
following actions. Nyarlathotep regains all expended uses at the start of each of its turns. If Nyarlathotep is unable to use legendary actions for any reason, it automatically uses Relentless Horror
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lost half our number to the blizzard, but not a one of us would have survived had we stayed to face the creature that brought that storm.
—Barabos Tollnek
The gnoph-keh is a six-limbed horror
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’s next turn, the worm takes 50 Psychic damage and Devour Mind ends.
Tunneler. The worm can burrow through solid rock at half its Burrow Speed and leaves a 10-foot-diameter tunnel in its
the Frightened condition until the start of the worm’s next turn. Success: Half damage only.
Devour Mind (1/Day). The worm vanishes and magically enters the mind of a creature it can see within
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
to take only half damage, it instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw, and only half damage if it fails. 2 Damage Resistances. The horror has resistance to necrotic and psychic
Customizing a Horror Horrors share some common body types but vary wildly in other characteristics. A particular horror’s form might incorporate elements that resemble fiendish, insectile, or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
isn’t an Aberration must make a DC 21 Wisdom saving throw, taking 33 (6d10) psychic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
Legendary Actions
The horror can take 3
failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
Poison Jet (Costs 2 Actions). Foul gas squirts from the horror in a 30-foot line that is 5 feet wide. Each creature in the line must succeed on a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
to take only half damage, it instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw, and only half damage if it fails. 2 Damage Resistances. The horror has resistance to necrotic and psychic
Customizing a Horror Horrors share some common body types but vary wildly in other characteristics. A particular horror’s form might incorporate elements that resemble fiendish, insectile, or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
isn’t an Aberration must make a DC 21 Wisdom saving throw, taking 33 (6d10) psychic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
Legendary Actions
The horror can take 3
failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
Poison Jet (Costs 2 Actions). Foul gas squirts from the horror in a 30-foot line that is 5 feet wide. Each creature in the line must succeed on a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
4. Hook Horror Nest The sandy floor of this cavern holds a clutch of four 1-foot-diameter eggs with rocky outer shells, all half-buried in a shallow pit. These are hook horror eggs, and any character
that touches an egg can feel it trembling. Each hour, there is a 10 percent chance that one of the eggs hatches. The infant hook horror that emerges imprints on the first creature it sees. It
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
(6d10) psychic damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.
Legendary Actions
The horror can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary
Cosmic Horror Cosmic horrors are colossal, malevolent entities that occasionally slip the bonds of the Far Realm and find themselves adrift on the Astral Plane. Drawn to the light of distant stars
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
(6d10) psychic damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.
Legendary Actions
The horror can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary
Cosmic Horror Cosmic horrors are colossal, malevolent entities that occasionally slip the bonds of the Far Realm and find themselves adrift on the Astral Plane. Drawn to the light of distant stars
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
4. Hook Horror Nest The sandy floor of this cavern holds a clutch of four 1-foot-diameter eggs with rocky outer shells, all half-buried in a shallow pit. These are hook horror eggs, and any character
that touches an egg can feel it trembling. Each hour, there is a 10 percent chance that one of the eggs hatches. The infant hook horror that emerges imprints on the first creature it sees. It