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Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
fight off the inevitable transformation. A human transformed into a broodguard loses all semblance of who they once were. A broodguard is hairless and emaciated, with scaly skin. They have a forked
tongue, and they smell faintly of rotting meat. Broodguards can speak but rarely do so, preferring to communicate via snakelike hisses and guttural noises.
Making a Broodguard
Yuan-ti create broodguards
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
has leathery wings and a flying speed of 40 feet.11–15: Keen Hearing and Smell. The mongrelfolk has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing or smell.16–17: Spider
a cloven hoof. Another might have the skin and horns of a cow, the eyes of a spider, frog’s legs, and a scaly lizard’s tail. Each mongrelfolk’s mad combination of humanoid and animal
Species
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
, choose 1d4 + 1 of the following features: small horns; fangs or sharp teeth; a forked tongue; catlike eyes; six fingers on each hand; goat-like legs; cloven hoofs; a forked tail; leathery or scaly skin; red or dark blue skin; cast no shadow or reflection; exude a smell of brimstone.
Boggle
Legacy
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Monsters
Volo's Guide to Monsters
Boggle Oil. The boggle excretes nonflammable oil from its pores. The boggle chooses whether the oil is slippery or sticky and can change the oil on its skin from one consistency to an other as a
of the boggle's next turn.
Uncanny Smell. The boggle has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.Pummel. Melee Weapon Attack: +1;{"diceNotation":"1d20+1","rollType":"to hit
Water Genasi
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Species
Elemental Evil Player's Companion
consider you selfish.
Most water genasi look as if they just finished bathing, with beads of moisture collecting on their skin and hair. They smell of fresh rain and clean water. Blue or green skin is
Species
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
; cloven hoofs; a forked tail; leathery or scaly skin; red or dark blue skin; cast no shadow or reflection; exude a smell of brimstone.
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
Keen Smell. The assassin bug has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.Multiattack. The assassin bug makes two bite attacks.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4
the bite wound before the end of the target's next turn deals 1 fire damage to the target and kills these assassin bug maggots. After this time, the maggots are too far under the skin to be burned. If
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
skin.
3
You have exceptionally large ears.
4
A glittering mist constantly surrounds you.
5
You have a small spectral horn on your forehead, like a little unicorn horn.
6
Your
legs are insectile.
7
You smell like fresh brownies.
8
A noticeable, harmless chill surrounds you.
Creating Your Character
At 1st level, you choose whether your character is a
Species
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
, leathery skin. Each of their hands has four thick digits, and their feet are the flat-bottomed, oval-shaped feet of elephants.
Like that of an elephant, a loxodon’s trunk is a useful
appendage. In addition to providing a keen sense of smell, the trunk can be used to lift and carry even heavy objects. The trunk can be used to carry both food and liquid to the mouth and can even act as a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
and cool dungeons. The shed skin of the jaculi is coveted for use in crafting boots of striding and springing and cloak of invisibility. Jaculi
Large beast, unaligned
Armor Class 14 (natural armor
.
Keen Smell. The jaculi has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.
Actions
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (2d6 + 2) piercing damage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Girallon A girallon looks like an oversized, four-armed ape with gray skin and white fur. Its fangs and claws set it apart from a normal ape, revealing it to be a monstrous predator. Girallon
Large
speed toward a hostile creature that it can see.
Keen Smell. The girallon has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.
Actions
Multiattack. The girallon makes five attacks: one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Girallon A girallon looks like an oversized, four-armed ape with gray skin and white fur. Although they are adept climbers, these half-ton creatures shy away from scaling trees that can’t support
creature that it can see.
Keen Smell. The girallon has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.
Actions
Multiattack. The girallon makes five attacks: one with its bite and four
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Second Skin There is another side of you that most people never see. When you show this side of yourself, you might become another person entirely, a celestial-like avenger, or a walking nightmare
second form remains after the spell ends. This visibly marks you unless you actively hide or disguise it. The mark is a perceptible change such as scaly skin, stunted wings, eyes without pupils, or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
characteristic if none of the suggestions below fit your character.
Fey Characteristics d8 Characteristic
1 Your wings are like those of a bird.
2 You have shimmering, multicolored skin
are insectile.
7 You smell like fresh brownies.
8 A noticeable, harmless chill surrounds you.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
Viantha Found When the characters find Viantha, read the following boxed text aloud to set the scene: A strange, mystical chanting in a dry, crackling voice and a rank smell come from a small
clearing ahead. At the center of this area, a robed woman with gray, cracked skin and red points of light where her eyes should be waves a wand made of bone in the air.
Viantha Cruelhex is a deathlock
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
—and Tarto knows it. Never one to mince words (even when those words are directed toward those who outrank her), this old, grizzled hadozee has light-tan skin and ebon-black fur graying at the temples
. She’s perpetually shrouded in a thick haze of cigar smoke, the smell of which often signals her imminent arrival.
Quote: “Listen to what I tell you; it might just save your life.”
Saerthe
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
covered by thick, leathery skin. Each of their hands has four thick digits, and their feet are the flat-bottomed, oval-shaped feet of elephants. Like that of an elephant, a loxodon’s trunk is a useful
appendage. In addition to providing a keen sense of smell, the trunk can be used to lift and carry even heavy objects. The trunk can be used to carry both food and liquid to the mouth and can even act as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
scaly skin; red or dark blue skin; cast no shadow or reflection; exude a smell of brimstone.
Feral. Your Intelligence score increases by 1, and your Dexterity score increases by 2. This trait replaces
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
inevitable transformation. A human transformed into a broodguard loses all semblance of who they once were. A broodguard is hairless and emaciated, with scaly skin. They have a forked tongue, and they smell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
hadozee has light-tan skin and ebon-black fur graying at the temples. She’s perpetually shrouded in a thick haze of cigar smoke, the smell of which often signals her imminent arrival.
Quote: “Listen to what I tell you; it might just save your life.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
arm that ends in a crab’s pincer, and one leg that ends in a cloven hoof. Another might have the skin and horns of a cow, the eyes of a spider, frog’s legs, and a scaly lizard’s tail. Each
thin dwarves. They are fond of camouflage, attaching leaves and twigs to their cloaks, making brown paint to cover their skin, and weaving grass nets under which they can hide. They use such
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
oil on its skin from one consistency to an other as a bonus action.
Slippery Oil: While coated in slippery oil, the boggle gains advantage on Dexterity (Acrobatics) checks made to escape bonds
. Only the boggle can use the rift, and it lasts until the end of the boggle’s next turn.
Uncanny Smell. The boggle has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.
Actions
Pummel
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
, multicolored skin.
3 You have exceptionally large ears.
4 A glittering mist constantly surrounds you.
5 You have a small spectral horn on your forehead, like a little unicorn horn.
6 Your
legs are insectile.
7 You smell like fresh brownies.
8 A noticeable, harmless chill surrounds you.
Fairy Traits As a fairy, you have the following racial traits. Creature Type
Equipment
energy erupts in a 20-foot radius. Creatures in the area must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 28 (8d6) radiant damage and become Blinded for 1 round. The smell of ozone fills the area, and
a reflection, and the feeling gnaws at the back of their minds forevermore.
45–46
The skin, flesh, and hair sloughs off all living humanoid creatures within a 30-foot-radius in a horrific
Equipment
erupts in a 20-foot radius. Creatures in the area must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 28 (8d6) radiant damage and become Blinded for 1 round. The smell of ozone fills the area, and
reflection, and the feeling gnaws at the back of their minds forevermore.
45–46
The skin, flesh, and hair sloughs off all living humanoid creatures within a 30-foot-radius in a horrific
Equipment
erupts in a 20-foot radius. Creatures in the area must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 28 (8d6) radiant damage and become Blinded for 1 round. The smell of ozone fills the area, and nearby
reflection, and the feeling gnaws at the back of their minds forevermore.
45–46
The skin, flesh, and hair sloughs off all living humanoid creatures within a 30-foot-radius in a horrific
Equipment
energy erupts in a 20-foot radius. Creatures in the area must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 28 (8d6) radiant damage and become Blinded for 1 round. The smell of ozone fills the area, and
simply a reflection, and the feeling gnaws at the back of their minds forevermore.
45–46
The skin, flesh, and hair sloughs off all living humanoid creatures within a 30-foot-radius in a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Girallon A girallon looks like an oversized, four-armed ape with gray skin and white fur. Its fangs and claws set it apart from a normal ape, revealing it to be a monstrous predator.
Girallon
its speed toward a hostile creature that it can see.
Keen Smell. The girallon has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.
Actions
Multiattack. The girallon makes five attacks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
can’t speak
Challenge 3 (700 XP)
Keen Smell. The assassin bug has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.
Actions
Multiattack. The assassin bug makes two bite attacks.
Bite
maggots are too far under the skin to be burned.
If a target infested by assassin bug maggots ends its turn with 0 hit points, it dies as the maggots burrow into its heart and kill it. Any effect that cures disease kills all assassin bug maggots infesting the target.
Equipment
erupts in a 20-foot radius. Creatures in the area must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 28 (8d6) radiant damage and become Blinded for 1 round. The smell of ozone fills the area, and
reflection, and the feeling gnaws at the back of their minds forevermore.
45–46
The skin, flesh, and hair sloughs off all living humanoid creatures within a 30-foot-radius in a horrific
Equipment
burst of energy erupts in a 20-foot radius. Creatures in the area must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 28 (8d6) radiant damage and become Blinded for 1 round. The smell of ozone fills the
or simply a reflection, and the feeling gnaws at the back of their minds forevermore.
45–46
The skin, flesh, and hair sloughs off all living humanoid creatures within a 30-foot-radius in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
disappearing into separate tunnels. Pale purple sludge flows slowly through the grooves from two passages opposite the rift. A bitter smell like scorched sugar fills the room.
The sludge is flavorless
Eatery Three long troughs filled with burbling purple sludge fill from a pool at the bottom of a steep passage. A delicious, sweet smell emanates from the viscous fluid. Three enormous, beaked
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Cloud Giant Cloud giants live extravagant lives high above the world, showing little concern for the plights of other races except as amusement. They are muscular with light skin and have hair of
Languages Common, Giant
Challenge 9 (5,000 XP)
Keen Smell. The giant has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.
Innate Spellcasting. The giant’s innate spellcasting ability is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
whether the oil is slippery or sticky and can change the oil on its skin from one consistency to an other as a bonus action.
Slippery Oil: While coated in slippery oil, the boggle gains advantage on
portion of its body) emerges at the destination. Only the boggle can use the rift, and it lasts until the end of the boggle’s next turn.
Uncanny Smell. The boggle has advantage on Wisdom
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
W9. Fermentation Vats The rich smell of fermenting wine fills this large, two-story chamber, which is dominated by four enormous wooden casks, each one eight feet wide and twelve feet tall. A wooden
vat neutralizes the poison, but it also spoils the taste of the wine. Casting a purify food and drink spell on a vat neutralizes the poison without spoiling the wine. In addition to her animal skin






