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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Swarm of Insects Swarm of Insects
Medium swarm of Tiny beasts, unaligned
Armor Class 12 (natural armor)
Hit Points 22 (5d8)
Speed 20 ft., climb 20 ft.
STR
3(−4)
DEX
13(+1
, prone, restrained, stunned
Senses blindsight 10 ft., passive Perception 8
Languages —
Challenge 1/2 (100 XP)
Swarm. The swarm can occupy another creature’s space and vice versa, and the swarm
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Swarm of Insects VARIANT: INSECT SWARMS
Different kinds of insects can gather in swarms, and each swarm has the special characteristics described below.
Swarm of Beetles. A swarm of beetles gains
movement restrictions caused by webbing.
Swarm of Wasps. A swarm of wasps has a walking speed of 5 feet, a flying speed of 30 feet, and no climbing speed.
Swarm of Insects
Medium swarm of Tiny beasts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Giant Dragonfly A giant dragonfly has a 20-foot wingspan. It drones loudly as it hovers and darts through the air, searching for smaller insects to consume. Giant Dragonfly
Large Beast, Unaligned
(–4)
Senses passive Perception 10
Languages —
Challenge 1/2 (100 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Drone. When it beats its wings, the dragonfly emits a loud droning sound that can be heard out to a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Frog A frog has no effective attacks. It feeds on small insects and typically dwells near water, in trees, or underground. The frog’s statistics can also be used to represent a toad. Frog
Tiny
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Skills Perception +1, Stealth +3
Senses darkvision 30 ft., passive Perception 11
Languages —
Challenge 0 (0 XP)
Amphibious. The frog can breathe air and water.
Standing Leap. The frog’s long jump is up to 10 feet and its high jump is up to 5 feet, with or without a running start.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Harrow’s three leaders, the Grim Champion of Pestilence is nonetheless a fearsome entity of sickness and blight. A swarm of insects surrounds him in a mockery of a halo, and debilitating plagues flow from
, frightened, poisoned, stunned, unconscious
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 17
Languages Common, Infernal
Challenge 15 (13,000 XP) Proficiency Bonus +5
Halo of Pestilence. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
, flowers, and small animals such as insects, mice, and frogs — things they can swallow whole. They would be no threat to anything else if not for their fierce and frenzied response to even a hint of
)
CON
12 (+1)
INT
2 (−4)
WIS
13 (+1)
CHA
5 (−3)
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11
Languages —
Challenge 1/2 (100 XP)
Actions
Bite. Melee Weapon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
, faerie dragons, and the like, but they hate stirges and evil flying monsters such as manticores. They also enjoy teasing dogs. Tressym feed on small rodents, birds, and insects, stalking and pouncing
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 15
Languages understands Common but can’t speak
Challenge 0 (10 XP)
Detect Invisibility. Within 60 feet of the tressym, magical invisibility fails
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
for food. Troglodytes consume almost anything, including bones, giant insects, and other subterranean dwellers. They prey on subterranean communities and those near entrances to the Underdark, stealing
Cha 6 −2 −2
Skills Stealth +4
Senses Darkvision 60 ft.; Passive Perception 10
Languages Troglodyte
CR 1/4 (XP 50; PB +2)
Traits
Stench. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 12, any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
passive Perception 13
Languages Abyssal, Common, Draconic, Dwarvish, Giant
Challenge 11 (7,200 XP)
Shapechanger. Baba Lysaga can use an action to polymorph into a swarm of insects (flies), or
target. Hit: 7 (1d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage, or 8 (1d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage if wielded with two hands.
Summon Swarms of Insects (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). Baba Lysaga summons 1d4
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
bats, faerie dragons, and the like, but they hate stirges and evil flying monsters such as manticores. They also enjoy teasing dogs. Tressym feed on small rodents, birds, and insects, stalking and
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Skills Perception +5, Stealth +4
Damage Immunities poison
Condition Immunities poisoned
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 15
Languages understands Common but can’t speak
Challenge 0
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
fiendish power commands it. Individually, nupperibos are weak, but they’re rarely alone and can be dangerous when gathered into packs. Clouds of stinging insects, stirges (see the Monster Manual), and
Resistances acid, cold
Damage Immunities fire, poison
Condition Immunities blinded, charmed, frightened, poisoned
Senses blindsight 20 ft. (blind beyond this radius), passive Perception 11
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Immunities Acid
Senses Blindsight 60 ft., Darkvision 120 ft.; Passive Perception 26
Languages Common, Draconic
CR 21 (XP 33,000, or 41,000 in lair; PB +7)
Traits
Amphibious. The dragon can breathe
creature’s turn, the dragon can expend a use to take one of the following actions. The dragon regains all expended uses at the start of each of its turns.
Cloud of Insects. Dexterity Saving Throw: DC 21
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
a vital passage or an entire valley. Clouds of stinging insects, stirges, and other vermin surround them in a terrifying, reeking sheath that torments any non-devil that draws near. Hunger Unending
, poison
Condition Immunities blinded, charmed, frightened, poisoned
Senses blindsight 10 ft. (blind beyond this radius),
passive Perception 11
Languages understands Infernal but can’t speak
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
umber hulk or a troglodyte. 7 Someone caught in a comic pose or making a regrettable face. 8 A victim now being used as a nest for insects or other vermin. Basilisk Medium Monstrosity, Unaligned
AC
Darkvision 60 ft.; Passive Perception 9
Languages None
CR 3 (XP 700; PB +2)
Actions
Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +5, reach 5 ft. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) Piercing damage plus 7 (2d6) Poison damage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Caverns filled with smoke or gas. 3 Dead magic* or wild magic* zones. 4 The lair of a creature it is trying to bait out. 5 A nest of rats, insects, or other vermin. 6 Patches of brown mold* or green
Mod Save Int 7 −2 −2 Wis 16 +3 +3 Cha 6 −2 −2
Skills Perception +6, Stealth +5
Senses Darkvision 60 ft.; Passive Perception 16
Languages None
CR 5 (XP 1,800; PB +3)
Traits
Spider
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Swarms Base creatures are among the first to respond to sinister forces at work in a land. As nefarious powers grip an area, populations of maggots, scarabs, and similar scavenging insects explode
, petrified, prone, restrained, stunned
Senses blindsight 10 ft., passive Perception 8
Languages —
Challenge 2 (450 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Swarm. The swarm can occupy another creature’s space and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
the starboard side of the room. At the same time, four swarms of insects (spiders) crawl through the deck from below. Any character who has a passive Perception score of 14 or lower is surprised. (In
maps, gaining surprise unless the creature has a passive Perception score of 17 or higher. Combat in this area arouses the hungry vermin in the decks below. Beginning 1d4 rounds after the giant spider’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Acid
Senses Blindsight 10 ft., Darkvision 60 ft.; Passive Perception 14
Languages Draconic
CR 2 (XP 450; PB +2)
Traits
Amphibious. The dragon can breathe air and water.
Actions
Wis 11 +0 +3
Cha 15 +2 +2
Skills Perception +6, Stealth +5
Immunities Acid
Senses Blindsight 30 ft., Darkvision 120 ft.; Passive Perception 16
Languages Common, Draconic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
)
CHA
8 (–1)
Skills Perception +0
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
Languages Common, Draconic
Challenge 1/4 (50 XP)
Pack Tactics. The kobold has advantage on an attack
feet of it. A swarm of insects (centipedes) with 11 hit points emerges from the basket and rolls initiative. At the end of each of the swarm’s turns, there’s a 50 percent chance that the swarm disperses
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
(+2)
WIS
10 (+0)
CHA
8 (−1)
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
Languages Common, Draconic
Challenge 1/4 (50 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Pack Tactics. The kobold
-foot-square space within 20 feet of it. A swarm of insects (centipedes; see the Monster Manual) with 11 hit points emerges from the basket and rolls initiative. At the end of each of the swarm’s turns
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
insects such as ants. They are divided into worker and warrior castes; choldriths, when present, occupy the top levels of a colony’s hierarchy. Each chitine has a social position that comes with
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
Languages Undercommon
Challenge 1/2 (100 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Fey Ancestry. The chitine has advantage on saving throws against being charmed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Ability Score Mod Save
Int 14 +2 +2
Wis 13 +1 +6
Cha 19 +4 +4
Skills Perception +11, Stealth +7
Immunities Acid
Senses Blindsight 60 ft., Darkvision 120 ft.; Passive
expended uses at the start of each of its turns.
Cloud of Insects. Dexterity Saving Throw: DC 17, one creature the dragon can see within 120 feet. Failure: 22 (4d10) Poison damage, and the target has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks
Damage Immunities psychic
Condition Immunities charmed, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, restrained
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive
death
Return to Worms. When the larva mage is reduced to 0 hit points, it breaks apart into a swarm of insects in the same space. Unless the swarm is destroyed, the larva mage reforms from it 24 hours
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
a minor curse on the group and attempts to flee. For the rest of the characters’ journey, their rations taste like ash and any camping spots are infested with lice and biting insects. Each character
.
STR
4(−3)
DEX
19(+4)
CON
13(+1)
INT
12(+1)
WIS
14(+2)
CHA
13(+1)
Skills History +3, Perception +4, Stealth +8
Senses darkvision 30 ft., passive
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
. A forest infested with ettercaps transforms into a gloomy place, choked with webs and infested with giant spiders, giant insects, and other sinister predators. Creatures that wander too far into such
, Stealth +4, Survival +3
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13
Languages —
Challenge 2 (450 XP)
Spider Climb. The ettercap can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
, at which point he tries to flee the castle. 5 A dead Barovian that serves as host to a swarm of insects (spiders). The baby giant spiders (each one the size of a tarantula) crawl out of the
approaches quietly. A character whose passive Wisdom (Perception) score meets or exceeds Rahadin’s Dexterity (Stealth) check hear him. “The master wishes to see you,” intones a grim voice in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Ankheg Burrowing Insectile Predator Habitat: Forest, Grassland; Treasure: None Oversize insects, ankhegs burrow close to the surface, creating sprawling underground labyrinths. From these tunnels
Cha 6 −2 −2
Senses Darkvision 60 ft., Tremorsense 60 ft.; Passive Perception 11
Languages None
CR 2 (XP 450; PB +2)
Traits
Tunneler. The ankheg can burrow through solid rock at half its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
Kaynen for a few minutes, a Venomous Snake slithers toward the tree, partially hidden by its roots. A character with a Passive Perception of 13+ notices the snake, which is a spy for Marilissa, the yuan-ti
by fetid undergrowth.
The forest’s corruption has attracted a nest of deadly centipedes that hide in the tree’s bark. When a character moves next to the tree, a Swarm of Insects (centipedes) and a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
denying that death giants can make excellent use of it.
—Bigby
Death Giant Reaper Death giant reapers wield massive scythes and wear armor that resembles the carapaces of giant insects. They wield the
Throws Con +9, Int +8, Wis +7, Cha +7
Skills Arcana +8, History +8, Perception +7, Stealth +6
Damage Immunities necrotic
Condition Immunities frightened
Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
spins its cocoon, each leaf and branch upon which a bright butterfly rests its tired wings.
In a unicorn’s forest, a sense of calm pervades. From wolves and foxes to birds, squirrels, and tiny insects
Condition Immunities charmed, paralyzed, poisoned
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13
Languages Celestial, Elvish, Sylvan, telepathy 60 ft.
Challenge 5 (1,800 XP)
Charge. If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
warped by her presence, which creates one or more of the following effects: Spiders and insects within 1 mile of Arasta’s lair serve as her eyes and ears. Birds and other flying creatures are absent
walls or trees). The webs are flammable. Any webs exposed to fire burn away in 1 round. Any destroyed webs are magically repaired at the next dawn. If Arasta dies, the spiders and insects lose their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Damage Resistances see Dragon’s Resistance below
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11
Languages Common, Draconic
Challenge 1 (200 XP)
Dragon’s Resistance. The kobold has
)
INT
8(−1)
WIS
7(−2)
CHA
8(−1)
Skills Perception +0
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
Languages Common, Draconic
Challenge 1/4 (50 XP)
Pack Tactics
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
)
INT
10(+0)
WIS
10(+0)
CHA
7(−2)
Skills Athletics +4, Stealth +4
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
Languages Undercommon
Challenge 1/2 (100 XP)
Fey
more like social insects such as ants. Chitines are divided into worker and warrior castes, and choldriths occupy the top levels of a colony’s hierarchy. Each chitine has a social position that comes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
+ 3)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
13(+1)
DEX
12(+1)
CON
12(+1)
INT
10(+0)
WIS
11(+0)
CHA
11(+0)
Skills Perception +2, Athletics +3
Senses passive Perception 12
Condition Immunities charmed, frightened
Senses truesight 120 ft., passive Perception 25
Languages Common, Sphinx
Challenge 21 (33,000 XP)
Innate Spellcasting. Isperia’s innate spellcasting ability
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
west end of area 5 (at the point marked with a dotted line). This freshly spun web is difficult to spot. A character who probes ahead with a pole or a weapon, or who has a passive Perception score of 17
giant wolf spiders are perched on either side of the doorway from area 4. They attack, gaining surprise over any creature with a passive Perception score of 16 or lower, when any creature is caught by the