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Returning 35 results for 'prey'.
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Player’s Handbook
from public house to watering hole, you learned to prey on unfortunates who were in the market for a comforting lie or two—perhaps a sham potion or forged ancestry records.
Monsters
Monster Manual
", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Animal Spirit", "rollDamageType":"Radiant"} Radiant damage. Success: Half damage. Failure or Success: The following effect occurs:
Marked as Prey (Hunter
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Monster Manual
). The animal lord gains 20 Temporary Hit Points. Marked as Prey (Hunter Only). The animal lord has Advantage on attack rolls against the target until the start of the animal lord’s next turn
Magic Items
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
occurred. If the check is successful, you learn the species of the creature and you can immediately use your Imprint Prey ability to target this creature.
Magic Items
Curse of Strahd
vampires: he slept during the day and hunted at night, he drank the blood of his prey, and he lived underground. In battle, he wielded a spear stained with blood. His was the first blood spear, a weapon
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
territory. It remains motionless as it waits for prey to come close. When a target is within its reach, it peels itself away from the surface and wraps around its prey, crushing, smothering, and then
stay in one place, making them a threat along well-traveled dungeon corridor and on routes through the wilderness that see a lot of traffic. When prey is scarce, a trapper enters a state of
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, which the creature uses to snag prey.
A cave fisher usually hunts small animals and is particularly fond of bat;bats, so it stretches a filament over an opening that such prey might travel through. It
then climbs to a hiding spot and adheres itself to the surface to rest and wait. When prey blunders into the filament, the cave fisher reels in its meal. A group of cave fishers might work together to
Monsters
Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
halved.Early in life, aurumvoraxes cooperate with siblings and their den leader parents, digging tunnels in search of metal and other burrowing prey. As they grow to adulthood, aurumvoraxes hunt on their
own, carving out territories they viciously defend.
Aurumvorax
An aurumvorax is an eight-legged, badger-like hunter. These aggressive omnivores attack any prey they think they can best, ambushing
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
enables them to easily slip into narrow fissures and niches in the walls of their cavern homes. They lurk in these spots, silent and unseen, waiting for prey to happen by.
A choker’s usual
method for luring prey involves positioning the body of its latest catch just outside its hiding spot. Whenever it gets hungry, it tears off a few chunks of flesh to feed itself. In the meantime, the
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
, the beast might rise again as an Undead. Falcons, ravens, and other birds of prey that suffer this fate are known as harrow hawks, and they prowl abandoned battlefields and cemeteries, looking for
search for Deck of Many Things;Decks of Many Things. On harrowing hunts, harrow hawks scout for the prey and accompany the Grim Harrow in battle.PoisonShadow Dash. When the hawk is in dim light or
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
to its prey with one or more of its tentacles and drains blood until the prey collapses. If it’s in a superior position and its foe poses no threat, it might toy with its food, drawing out its
prey’s death.
A death kiss prefers to hunt alone. If it meets another of its kind, it might fight, flee, or team up, depending on its health and pride.Lightning
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
shell protects a soft, slug-like upper body that lets the piercer move across cavern walls and ceilings to position itself for prey. With its eye and mouth closed, the piercer is difficult to distinguish
gather in colonies to maximize the effectiveness of their attacks, dropping simultaneously to increase the odds of striking prey. After a piercer successfully slays a creature, the others slowly creep toward the corpse to join in the feast.Cold
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
plunders the creature’s mind, leaving its prey befuddled and confused—or dead.
When oblexes feed on thoughts, they can form weird copies of their prey to use as lures, which helps them harvest even more victims for their mind flayer masters.
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
withered flowers, rootlike tentacles, and a fleshy growth atop its body that it uses to lure prey toward its fang-filled maw.
Wolves-in-sheep’s-clothing can reshape their lures to mimic the
appearance of various small‚ often adorable creatures to entice their prey. The Lure Forms table suggests some forms the lure might take.
Lure Forms
d6
Lure Appearance
1
Clumsy
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
for sap and is so saturated with blood that it doesn’t catch fire easily.
Vicious Carnivore. A tree blight feeds on warm-blooded prey and takes perverse delight in causing carnage. It strikes
with its heavy branches and crushes prey to death with its roots. It can open its gaping, tooth-filled mouth and bite a creature caught in its roots. The roots of a tree blight can be severed, though
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
","rollAction":"Stone Club","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage.Fanatics are often part of a cult's leadership, using their charisma and dogma to influence and prey on those of weak will. Most are interested in personal power above all else.
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
damage.This feathered dinosaur is about the size of a large turkey. It is an aggressive predator and often hunts in packs to bring down larger prey.
Dinosaurs
The Monster Manual has statistics for several kinds of dinosaurs.
Monsters
Keys from the Golden Vault
"} slashing damage.The allosaurus is a predatory dinosaur of great size, strength, and speed. It can run down almost any prey over open ground, pouncing to pull creatures down with its wicked claws.Poison, Psychic
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
as dragonnes, liondrakes rely on their ferocity and their frightful roar to overcome prey and drive off rivals.
Liondrakes are voracious hunters that range across well-established territories. They
don’t typically seek out people as prey, but those folk who encroach into liondrake territory are fair game—which feeds the creature’s reputation as hungering for Humanoid flesh.
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
suitable only to become nupperibos. These pitiful creatures shuffle across the landscape, driven to purposeful action only when the clouds of swarming vermin that surround them find them prey to destroy or
. Once a nupperibo’s vermin cloud senses a potential meal, any nearby nupperibos pursue that prey tirelessly until it or the nupperibos are slain, or some other potential victim crosses the devils
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
and elders, have eaten so many memories that they can form duplicates of the creatures they have devoured from the substance of their bodies, sending these copies off to lure prey into their clutches
lead prey into danger or to infiltrate settlements so they can feed on superior victims.
Oblexes
By experimenting on the slimes, jellies, and puddings that infest the depths of the Underdark, mind
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
these tendrils to drain the moisture and life force from their prey.
Purple Blossom
The purple blossom is a treelike plant with cup-shaped purple flowers. Tubules within the plant’s branches
connect the flowers to reserves of acidic sap in the plant’s trunk. Purple blossoms squirt this sap at prey through the flowers’ pistils.
Snapper Saw
Snapper saws resemble ordinary bushes
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
bodies, sending these copies off to lure prey into their clutches while remaining tethered to the slime by long tendrils of goo. These duplicated creatures are indistinguishable from their victims
except for a faint sulfurous smell. Oblexes use these duplicates to lead prey into danger or to infiltrate settlements so they can feed on superior victims.
Oblexes
By experimenting on the slimes
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
success.Disgorged from the Far Realm, Gaj are hideous hunters that prey on other life forms. They crawl on six insectile legs and attack with their mandibles. They ambush prey by burying themselves under sand or
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
foot soldiers, but they prefer to avoid more powerful Fiends, who boss them around. Left on their own, kakkuus lurk in ambush and use their webs to snare prey.
Spyder-Fiends
Demonic beasts that
is their favorite pursuit. They spin durable webs and are ingenious in how they employ their webs against prey.
Spyder-fiends are organized into a hierarchy based on might and cunning, with higher
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
quadrapod ambulates by flinging its mucus-covered tentacles out and dragging itself along, creating a horrid slurping sound as it advances relentlessly toward its prey.
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
bounds away in search of its prey. It senses the location of its target across planar boundaries, but such detection is accurate only to within a thousand yards; to close the remaining distance, the steel
predator locates its prey by sight and smell.
Once battle is joined, the predator ignores every other threat to attack its target, unless other creatures prevent it from reaching the target. In that
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
spotted lion has a dusky coat and mane, both speckled with charcoal-colored spots. Spotted lions gather in prides to hunt enormous prey ranging from giant elk to mammoth;mammoths. Stone and cloud giants often keep these massive beasts as pets and hunting companions.
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
or a dretch, fears vargouilles only if they appear in great numbers. In the Lower Planes, vargouilles rarely get the chance to eat live prey other than vermin. More often, they lap up the ichor left
behind when one Fiend kills another.
Because of their hunger for living prey, vargouilles are eager to escape the Lower Planes. On rare occasions, summoning a demon to another plane can bring a
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
themselves, they are willful creatures motivated by the desire for food and entertainment. In the wild, they are picky eaters with mercurial moods, inclined to toy with their prey before going in for the
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
rank are the death’s heads, who can take on the skull-faced guise of their deity to terrify their prey. In combat, they intimidate foes by shrugging off the deadliest attacks with ease, showing that resisting Bhaal’s schemes is futile.
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
imposing creatures, about the size of a tall human, and are fierce enough to take down even larger prey.
In the wild, an untrained clawfoot can easily hold its own in combat, but they are even fiercer
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
with opposable thumbs. The creature walks upright on two legs.
Braxats hunt alone or in pairs, prowling deserts, dry canyons, desolate wastelands, and lonely asteroids in search of prey. Braxats
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
half as much damage on a successful one.Fanatics are often part of a cult’s leadership, using their charisma and dogma to influence and prey on those of weak will. Most are interested in personal power above all else.Fire
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Storm King's Thunder
.
Tressym feed on small rodents, birds, and insects, stalking and pouncing on prey much as normal cats do, but with the added advantage of flight. Tressym don’t, however, attack nestlings or despoil