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Basic Rules (2014)
must succeed on a DC 11 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.Mastiffs are impressive hounds prized by humanoids for their loyalty and keen senses. Mastiffs can be trained as guard dogs, hunting dogs, and war dogs. Halflings and other Small humanoids ride them as mounts.
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kill.
Gazer (Familiar Variant);Variant: Gazer Familiar
Spellcasters who are interested in unusual familiars find that gazers are eager to serve someone who has magical power. Unless its master is
familiar, forming a telepathic bond with its willing master, provided that the master is at least a 3rd-level spellcaster. While the two are bonded, the master can sense what the gazer senses as long as
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
sands of time or are guarded by ancient monsters.
Constructed Nature. An anvilwrought doesn't require air, food, drink, or sleep.
VARIANT: ANVILWROUGHT RAPTOR FAMILIAR
Some anvilwrought raptors are
. While the two are bonded, the master can sense what the anvilwrought senses, as long as they are within 1 mile of each other.
Fire, Poison
monsters
, and their adoration gradually soothes the violent, magical outbursts that follow her failures.
Lorinda’s walking tower of bones, the Gurgyl, ranges across Tepest. Those who seek her here find a
Mother can take a Magic action and pray to her. When they do so, Lorinda can perceive through the creature’s senses as well as her own until the end of the creature’s next turn. When
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
hound in the Border Ethereal can return to the Material Plane as an action.
Telepathic Bond. While the yeth hound is on the same plane of existence as its master, it can magically convey what it senses
hunting dogs. They race in pursuit of their prey, running it down until it’s too exhausted to fight back. Only the threat of dawn drives the pack back into hiding.
A pack of yeth hounds can be
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, the master can sense what the gazer senses as long as they are within 1 mile of each other. If its master causes it physical harm, the gazer will end its service as a familiar, breaking the
’t kill.
Variant: Gazer Familiar
Spellcasters who are interested in unusual familiars find that gazers are eager to serve someone who has magical power. Unless its master is strict, a gazer
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
exuberance with them and learning new languages as they went.
Harengons are bipedal, with the characteristic long feet of the rabbits they resemble and fur in a variety of colors. They share the keen senses
for centuries. Fairies and harengons, however, have a life span of about a century.
Height and Weight
Player characters, regardless of race, typically fall into the same ranges of height and weight
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Mastiff Mastiffs are impressive hounds prized by humanoids for their loyalty and keen senses. Mastiffs can be trained as guard dogs, hunting dogs, and war dogs. Halflings and other Small humanoids
12 (+1)
CHA
7 (−2)
Skills Perception +3
Senses passive Perception 13
Languages —
Challenge 1/8 (25 XP)
Keen Hearing and Smell. The mastiff has advantage on Wisdom (Perception
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Death Dog Two-Headed Spreader of Disease Habitat: Desert; Treasure: None Daren Bader ...and his sorrows will stalk your land like hungry dogs until the seas turn to sand and the sun burns to cinders
.
—Tablet fragment from the Bright Desert
Death dogs are plagues on the arid lands they inhabit. These vicious, two-headed canines ambush creatures they perceive as weaker than themselves
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Blink Dog Elusive Feywild Canine Habitat: Forest, Planar (Feywild); Treasure: None Blink dogs glimmer with a magic that allows them to teleport, “blinking” from one spot to another. These dogs use
Ability Score Mod Save
Int 10 +0 +0
Wis 13 +1 +1
Cha 11 +0 +0
Skills Perception +5, Stealth +5
Senses Darkvision 60 ft.; Passive Perception 15
Languages Blink Dog
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Hell Hound Monstrous, fire-breathing fiends that take the form of powerful dogs, hell hounds are found on the battlefields of Acheron and throughout the Lower Planes. On the Material Plane, hell
fire
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 15
Languages understands Infernal but can’t speak it
Challenge 3 (700 XP)
Keen Hearing and Smell. The hound has advantage on Wisdom
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Blink Dog A blink dog takes its name from its ability to blink in and out of existence, a talent it uses to aid its attacks and to avoid harm. Blink dogs harbor a long-standing hatred for displacer
10 (+0)
WIS
13 (+1)
CHA
11 (+0)
Skills Perception +3, Stealth +5
Senses passive Perception 13
Languages Blink Dog, understands Sylvan but can’t speak it
Challenge 1/4 (50 XP
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
are slender, tawny-skinned folk with brown hair that ranges from almost blond to almost black. Most are tall and have green or brown eyes, but these traits are hardly universal. Humans of Chondathan
, Lackman, Stormwind, Windrivver Mulan Dominant in the eastern and southeastern shores of the Inner Sea, the Mulan are generally tall, slim, and amber-skinned, with eyes of hazel or brown. Their hair ranges
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
remembering where you are in the list can bog the game down. If you want quicker combats, at the risk of those combats becoming unbalanced, try using the side initiative rule. Under this variant, the
is complete. This variant encourages teamwork and makes your life as a DM easier, since you can more easily coordinate monsters. On the downside, the side that wins initiative can gang up on enemies
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
always do exactly as asked—never any more, never any less. With senses sharp enough to pinpoint the locations of nearby invisible creatures, canoloths respond unfailingly to any threat to their charges
limb from limb. Canoloths are glorified guard dogs. If you must engage one, just find out exactly what it’s been assigned to do. I’ve often found I can waltz right past them by taking advantage of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Vegepygmy Thorny Hunter 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
13 (+1)
INT
2 (−4)
WIS
10 (+0)
CHA
6 (−2)
Skills Perception +4, Stealth +4, Survival +4
Damage Resistances lightning, piercing
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 14
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->Locathah Rising
webbed and, like a shark, she has an angular dorsal fin that protrudes from the middle of her back. Fhenimore (Kraken Priest Variant)
Medium humanoid (human), neutral evil
Armor Class 13 (natural
+5
Damage Resistances bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks
Senses passive Perception 15
Languages Aquan, Common
Challenge 5 (1,800 XP)
Amphibious. Fhenimore can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
(+1)
CHA
7 (−2)
Senses passive Perception 11
Languages —
Challenge 1/2 (100 XP)
Trampling Charge. If the horse moves at least 20 feet straight toward a creature and then hits it with
as a bonus action.
Actions
Hooves. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage.
VARIANT: WARHORSE ARMOR
An armored warhorse has an AC
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Nightgaunt Faceless Fearmonger from the Far Realm Habitat: Mountain, Underdark; Treasure: Implements, Individual Inscrutable, gargoyle-like fiends, nightgaunts soar over subterranean mountain ranges
Senses Blindsight 60 ft.; Passive Perception 13
Languages Understands Deep Speech but can’t speak
CR 8 (XP 3,900; PB +3)
Traits
Flyby. The nightgaunt doesn’t provoke an Opportunity Attack when it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
rolls and Dexterity saving throws. Attack rolls against the creature have advantage while it's in the smaller space. VARIANT: PLAYING ON A GRID If you play out a combat using a square grid and
enter a square of difficult terrain.
Corners. Diagonal movement can’t cross the corner of a wall, large tree, or other terrain feature that fills its space.
Ranges. To determine the range on a grid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
13 (+1)
INT
2 (−4)
WIS
10 (+0)
CHA
5 (−3)
Senses darkvision 30 ft., passive Perception 10
Languages —
Challenge 1/4 (50 XP)
Actions
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +4
to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d8 + 2) piercing damage.
VARIANT: GIANT LIZARD TRAITS
Some giant lizards have one or both of the following traits.
Hold Breath. The lizard can hold its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
)
INT
2 (−4)
WIS
13 (+1)
CHA
7 (−2)
Skills Perception +3
Senses passive Perception 13
Languages —
Challenge 2 (450 XP)
Keen Smell. The bear has advantage on Wisdom
. Hit: 9 (1d8 + 5) piercing damage.
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d6 + 5) slashing damage.
VARIANT: CAVE BEAR
Some bears have adapted to life underground
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
12 (+1)
CHA
7 (–2)
Senses passive Perception 11
Languages —
Challenge 1/2 (100 XP)
Trampling Charge. If the horse moves at least 20 feet straight toward a creature right before
hooves against the target.
Actions
Hooves. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage.
VARIANT: WARHORSE ARMOR
An armored warhorse has an AC
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
-oriented clockworks — and at shorter ranges, burst with explosive force. Oaken Bolter
Medium construct, unaligned
Armor Class 16 (natural armor)
Hit Points 58 (9d8 + 18)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
12
adamantine
Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
Languages understands one language of its creator
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Points 7 (2d6)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
7 (−2)
DEX
15 (+2)
CON
11 (+0)
INT
2 (−4)
WIS
10 (+0)
CHA
4 (−3)
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
) piercing damage.
VARIANT: DISEASED GIANT RATS
Some giant rats carry vile diseases that they spread with their bites. A diseased giant rat has a challenge rating of 1/8 (25 XP) and the following
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Hell Hound Monstrous, fire-breathing fiends that take the form of powerful dogs, hell hounds are found on the battlefields of Acheron and throughout the Lower Planes. On the Material Plane, hell
)
DEX
12 (+1)
CON
14 (+2)
INT
6 (−2)
WIS
13 (+1)
CHA
6 (−2)
Skills Perception +5
Damage Immunities fire
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 15
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
)
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->Monster Manual (2014)
11 (+0)
INT
17 (+3)
WIS
12 (+1)
CHA
11 (+0)
Saving Throws Int +6, Wis +4
Skills Arcana +6, History +6
Senses passive Perception 11
Languages any four languages
to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2) piercing damage.
VARIANT: FAMILIARS
Any spellcaster that can cast the find familiar spell (such as an archmage or mage) is
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
)
CHA
1 (−5)
Damage Resistances bludgeoning, piercing, slashing
Condition Immunities charmed, frightened, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, prone, restrained, stunned
Senses blindsight 10 ft
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Camp You see two tents pitched in the snow near an icy outcropping that acts as a natural windbreaker. Between the tents is an overturned sled. Still harnessed to the sled are five howling dogs
.
Garret’s dog, Boy, tore free of its harness and ran back to Targos to get help, leaving the other five sled dogs (use the wolf stat block) behind. The dogs are friendly, cold, hungry, and miserable. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
assume canine forms, allowing them to inconspicuously guard peaceable communities as dogs and wolves. Hound Archon Medium Celestial, Typically Lawful Good
Armor Class 15 (natural armor)
Hit Points
, Stealth +3
Damage Immunities lightning
Condition Immunities exhaustion, paralyzed
Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 16
Languages all
Challenge 4 (1,100 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Yeth Hound Granted by mighty Fey to individuals who please them, yeth hounds serve their masters like hunting dogs. They race in pursuit of their prey, running it down until it’s too exhausted to
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 15
Languages understands Common, Elvish, and Sylvan but can’t speak
Challenge 4 (1,100 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Sunlight Banishment. If the yeth
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
dogsleds, each one pulled by six friendly sled dogs. One sled carries provisions and supplies for Torrga, her team, and her dogs. It flies a flag bearing the company’s emblem, a gold wolf’s paw on a
, puts the dogs in a kennel and the sleds in a secure shed, and pays for the team’s lodgings. After Torrga retires for the night, Sephek is free to do as he pleases until the following morning. If he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
)
WIS
12 (+1)
CHA
10 (+0)
Skills Perception +3, Stealth +4
Senses blindsight 10 ft., darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13
Languages understands Common and Draconic but
can’t speak
Challenge 1/4 (50 XP)
Keen Senses. The pseudodragon has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight, hearing, or smell.
Magic Resistance. The pseudodragon has advantage