minds spring with only advanced family for like

Halfling

Species Player’s Handbook

Cherished and guided by gods who value life, home, and hearth, halflings gravitate toward bucolic havens where family and community help shape their lives. That said, many halflings possess a brave

). Halfling communities come in all varieties. For every sequestered shire tucked away in an unspoiled part of the world, there’s a crime syndicate like the Boromar Clan in the Eberron setting or a

Goliath

Species Player’s Handbook

to quickly grow and temporarily approach the height of goliaths’ gigantic kin. Goliaths have physical characteristics that are reminiscent of the giants in their family lines. For example, some

goliaths look like stone giants, while others resemble fire giants. Whatever giants they count as kin, goliaths have forged their own path in the multiverse—unencumbered by the internecine

Moonblade

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

of these weapons have faded from the world, their magic lost as family lines have become extinct. Others have vanished with their bearers during great quests. Thus, only a few of these weapons remain

functions like a nonmagical weapon of its kind for anyone other than its chosen bearer. A Moonblade has one rune on it for each bearer it has willingly served (typically 1d6 + 1). The first rune grants a

Rosie Beestinger

Monsters Acquisitions Incorporated

enough to hold in one hand and she has a hand free.Weighing in at just under 30 pounds and with a grandmotherly demeanor befitting her advanced age, Rosie Beestinger is easily mistaken for someone on the

complex than merely seeking after adventure. She has long sought for ultimate meaning in the stars, and to seek justification for her belief that her bonds to her expansive family are reflected in the

Crag Cat

Monsters Storm King's Thunder

prey is asleep, exhausted, or otherwise weakened. Although crag cats are typically encountered singly, they can be found in family groups of two parents and 1d4;{"diceNotation":"1d4","rollType":"roll"} Small noncombatant cubs in the spring, or in hungry packs in severe winter weather.

Ox

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

, some of them domesticated and others feral. In many cultures, cattle are almost like family to the folk who tend to them.

Vegepygmy Thorny Hunter

Monsters Quests from the Infinite Staircase

saving throw or have the prone condition.Thorny hunters are bestial vegepygmies derived from the corpses of bears, dogs, and other quadrupedal Beasts. Thorny hunters act like bloodhounds, following

their master’s orders to hunt prey with deadly ferocity. Vegepygmies Also called mold folk, vegepygmies are fungal creatures that spring forth from the body of a Humanoid or Giant killed by

Aurochs

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

. Cattle Many kinds of cattle roam the multiverse, some of them domesticated and others feral. In many cultures, cattle are almost like family to the folk who tend to them.

Black Viper

Monsters Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

who died a century ago, after a long and nefarious career. Esvele Rosznar, a brash young noble, has recently adopted the Black Viper's persona to lead a secret life of crime. Like many other nobles

, Esvele gossips about the Black Viper's exploits to lend credence to the villain's mystique. The Rosznar family was convicted of slave trading — highly illegal in Waterdeep — and banished over a hundred

Stench Kow

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

multiverse, some of them domesticated and others feral. In many cultures, cattle are almost like family to the folk who tend to them.Cold, Fire, Poison

Tortle

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

action it can take is a bonus action to emerge.The tortle here represents a warrior, especially the sort who travels far and wide. Tortles Tortles are omnivorous, turtle-like bipeds with shells that

cover most of their bodies. Because they carry their homes on their backs, tortles feel little need to stay put for long. Most tortles like to see how other folk live. A tortle can spend decades away

Mister Witch

Monsters The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

that the work gave him a sliver of joy. When the old keeper died years later, Naeryx replaced him. The wealthy family that owned the clock tower didn’t pay Naeryx a lot of money for his work

, but they occasionally had him over for dinner. He owned one fine suit that he wore on such occasions, and though he didn’t care for the family’s matriarch or patriarch, he enjoyed the

Deep Rothé

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

sages attribute the ability to the centuries rothé have spent in the Underdark, where ambient magic slowly transforms everything. Cattle Many kinds of cattle roam the multiverse, some of them domesticated and others feral. In many cultures, cattle are almost like family to the folk who tend to them.

Neogi Hatchling

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.A neogi lives about a century. When an individual is rendered weak by advanced age, the other neogi in the group overpower it and inject

, and each one starts its training by gaining mastery over an umber hulk. Neogi A neogi looks like an outsize spider with an eel’s neck and head. It can poison the body and the mind of its

Neogi Hatchling Swarm

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.A neogi lives about a century. When an individual is rendered weak by advanced age, the other neogi in the group overpower it and inject it with a special

few of the strongest newborns are left. Sometimes the newborns, united by a singular evil purpose, coalesce into a skittering swarm instead. Neogi A neogi looks like an outsize spider with an eel

Mister Light

Monsters The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

again until the next dawn), ray of frostLight, formerly known as Urmius Umbrage, belonged to a filthy rich shadar-kai family that haunted a crumbling mansion in Gloomwrought. Although he wanted for

nothing as a child, Urmius found himself surrounded by family members, caretakers, and teachers who were uniformly cold, callous, and mean-spirited. He grew tired of being seen as nothing more than the

Dragonborn of Tiamat

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

their draconic heritage—chromatic, metallic, or gem—something like a large extended family. But for dragonborn champions, this bond is spiritual as much as biological, and they devote

Animated Coffin

Monsters Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary

skitter along steep inclines, walls, and ceilings, and the coffin’s spacious interior bristles with retractable spikes. Like their inanimate counterparts, animated coffins range from plain wooden

. Natural ambushers and tireless sentries, animated coffins guard ancient necropolises, family crypts, and the lairs of powerful Undead. A cautious vampire might sleep in an animated coffin to evade hunters

Goon Balloon

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures

":"1d12","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Scintillating Eye","rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.A goon balloon looks like a 5-foot

tears at the minds of the goon balloon’s foes. A goon balloon speaks by pumping air through a hidden orifice on its underside. When the goon balloon dies, the air in its sac transforms into a

Tortle Druid

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

long. Most tortles like to see how other folk live. A tortle can spend decades away from their native land without feeling homesick, often viewing their current companions as their family.

around them. Tortles Tortles are omnivorous, turtle-like bipeds with shells that cover most of their bodies. Because they carry their homes on their backs, tortles feel little need to stay put for

Memory Web

Monsters Quests from the Infinite Staircase

hours in a telepathic deluge. Hazy, dreamlike visions of these discharged memories lodge in the minds of creatures up to 120 feet from the memory web.Ensnare. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation

draws close, the web springs at the creature and wraps it in sticky, cord-like fibers. The web then drains its victim’s memories, sapping the creature’s life force in the process. A memory web

Foresworn

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures

weaponry, a foresworn maintains the martial prowess it had in life and can call on magic and its fallen brethren for aid. Like revenant;revenants, foresworn fixate on a singular purpose, and they

refuse to abandon their undead state until the duty they had in life is fulfilled. For example, a foresworn might be pledged to protect a family’s bloodline from harm or guard a dangerous artifact

Nightmare Haunt

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures

minds of Eldraine’s sleeping citizens, made tangible by the planeswalker Ashiok. These creatures can hurt the body and also attack the minds of dreamers afflicted by the Wicked Slumber. Nightmare

where the Wicked Slumber is prominent. Purple tendrils of wispy nightmares spread like vines across those areas and surround the bodies of those who sleep. Heroes throughout Eldraine have ventured

Alhoon

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

their own safety. Once they taste freedom from the colony, some prize their privacy, others seek to commune with similar minds, and still others seek to dominate a colony by elevating themselves to the

position of leadership normally held by an elder brain. Regardless, all such arcanists face the same stark fact: when they die, they will not join the host of minds in the elder brain—deviant

Hag of the Fetid Gaze

Monsters Candlekeep Mysteries

like another creature of her general size and humanoid shape. The illusion ends if the hag takes a bonus action to end it or if she dies. The changes wrought by this effect fail to hold up to physical

decade ago, during a time when the boundaries between the planes thinned, the hags became aware of the magic spring controlled by Sylvarie—and decided to control and corrupt it for their own purposes

Daemogoth

Monsters Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

by their consumption of anguish. They trade magical influence over the lives and minds of others to ambitious mortals in exchange for the mortal’s agony. Daemogoths are alien-looking in the

extreme. Their eyes are insectile or smooth and bulbous like gleaming jewels, and they have five arms. They typically wear long robes, which drape low over their forms, and they sport a halo of horns, antlers, or floating stones or crystals.Psychic

Burnished Hart

Monsters Mythic Odysseys of Theros

, their minds filled with tales of how life's splendor continues to develop. The first anvilwroughts were created by the god of the forge, Purphoros. He gave the secret of breathing life into these

and messengers, and a few were created to emulate beauty found among the animals of the mortal world. Each exhibits abilities suited to its role, with some behaving like companionable creatures or

Ezmerelda d'Avenir

Monsters Curse of Strahd

was a little girl, her family kidnapped van Richten’s teenage son, Erasmus, and delivered him into the clutches of a vampire. Even today, years later, she can still hear Erasmus’s pleas

for mercy. That event haunted her childhood. Van Richten tracked down Ezmerelda’s family soon after the kidnapping, but not before the Vistani had sold the boy. Though van Richten could have done

Dragonborn of Bahamut

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

consider their draconic heritage—chromatic, metallic, or gem—something like a large extended family. But for dragonborn champions, this bond is spiritual as much as biological, and they devote

Barrowghast

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

a barrowghast. Though it looks like little more than an animated corpse, a barrowghast is filled with necrotic energy and driven by spite and malice. Its blood is a thick and toxic ichor that gives

the barrowghast a noxious stench. Barrowghasts no longer hunger for physical food and instead crave life energy drained from living creatures. They often target former family members and allies, but

Death's Head

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

or animal swoops down to rip apart victims with its gnashing teeth. One with the head of monster like a nothic or medusa, though, retains a measure of the power it had in life and can befuddle the

minds or petrify the bodies of its victims. Death’s Head Tree In cursed wilds grow death’s head trees, awakened tree;awakened trees from which 2d6;{"diceNotation":"2d6","rollType":"roll

Ironscale Hydra

Monsters Mythic Odysseys of Theros

, from the bog-dwelling hydras known across the multiverse to massive ironscale hydras that lurk in deep wildernesses. Beyond even these exist serpentine horrors born of the whims of foul gods, like the

hibernation during which it continues to grow. When it awakens, it goes on a feeding rampage, so beginning the cycle once again. These rhythms of destruction sometimes become so ingrained in the minds and

The Abbot

Monsters Curse of Strahd

some much-needed light to Barovia. His efforts worked for a while, but then the Dark Powers began to corrupt him. Imperfections. The Abbot's fall from grace started when the Belviews—a family of sickly

present since birth. The Abbot became consumed with a prideful, obsessive desire to rid the poor Belviews of their lingering imperfections. The Belview family, however, had strange ideas of what it

Donaar Blit'zen

Monsters Acquisitions Incorporated

. When the young dragonborn left his clan and family to adventure in foreign climes, he realized that doing so provided the perfect opportunity to reinvent himself for folk who had no idea what he was

once like. As such, Donaar has learned that no amount of bravado and compensation is too much — provided he leaves no openings for strangers to call him on it. By the same token, strangers quickly

Dragonborn of Sardior

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

, metallic, or gem—something like a large extended family. But for dragonborn champions, this bond is spiritual as much as biological, and they devote themselves to their divine ancestor. Dragonborn champions advance the cause of their dragon god among draconic creatures and other folk alike.Psychic

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