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CREDITSMONSTER MANUALDESIGNMONSTER MANUAL REVISIONSkip WilliamsRich Baker, Skip WilliamsM O N S T E RM A N U A LD & DD E S I G NT E A MMonte Cook, Jonathan Tweet,Skip WilliamsD & DDavid Eckelberry, Jennifer ClarkeWilkes, Gwendolyn F.M. Kestrel,Bill SlavicsekWilliam W. Connors, Sean K ReynoldsDITORSJennifer Clarke Wilkes, Jon PickensE D I T O R I A LPROOFA S S I T A N C EE D I T O RO FD I R E C T O RR P GR & DARTRECTORD&D CONCEPTUAL ARTISTSTodd Lockwood, Sam WoodL O G OD E S I G NMatt Adelsperger, Sherry FloydCOVERARTHenry HigginbothamI N T E R I O RA R T I S T SGlen Angus, Carlo Arellano, DarenBader, Tom Baxa, Carl Critchlow, BrianDespain, Tony Diterlizzi, Larry Elmore,Scott Fischer, Rebecca Guay, PaulJaquays, Michael Kaluta, Dana Knutson,Todd Lockwood, David Martin,Matthew Mitchell, Monte Moore, rkpost, Adam Rex, Wayne Reynolds, RichardSardinha, Brian Snoddy, Mark Tedin,Anthony WatersG R A P H I CYPOGRADPICOVEOTOGRARECRTAHEI N T E R I O RORRTPA R T I S T SGlen Angus, Carlo Arellano, DarenBader, Tom Baxa, Carl Critchlow, BrianDespain, Tony Diterlizzi, Scott Fischer,Rebecca Guay-Mitchell, Jeremy Jarvis,Paul Jaquays, Michael Kaluta, DanaKnutson, Todd Lockwood, DavidMartin, Raven Mimura, MatthewMitchell, Monte Moore, Adam Rex,Wayne Reynolds, Richard Sardinha,Brian Snoddy, Mark Tedin, AnthonyWaters, Sam WoodG R A P H I CD E S I G N E RDawn MurinGRAPHIC PRODUCTION SPECIALISTSErin Dorries, Angelika LokotzPHOTOGRAPHERCraig CudnohufskyRSC A T E G O R YM A N A G E RAnthony ValterraP R O J E C THR & DMary KirchoffErin Dorries, Angelika Lokotz,Nancy WalkerPR P GVICE PRESIDENT OF PUBLISHINGD E S I G N E RSean Glenn, Sherry FloydTO FHenry HigginbothamDawn MurinD & DE D I T O RDawn MurinJon SchindehetteIRBill SlavicsekVISUAL CREATIVE DIRECTORDED & D C R E AT I V E D I R E C T O RBill SlavicsekTDKim MohanEd StarkRAEd StarkCORE D&D CREATIVE DIRECTORAEM A N A G I N GKim MohanD I R E C T O RRPenny WilliamsJulia Martin, Jeff Quick, Rob Heinsoo,David Noonan, Penny WilliamsM A N A G I N GT E A MADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENTA D D I T I O N A L D E S I G NPeter Adkison, Richard Baker, Jason Carl,ER E V I S I O NRich Baker, Andy Collins, David Noonan,Rich Redman, Skip WilliamsHERGERM A N A G E RMartin DurhamCraig CudnohufskyP R O D U C T I O NBRANDMANAM A N A G E RChas DeLongRyan DanceyC A T E G O R YM A N A G E RKeith StrohmP R O J E C TM A N A G E R SLarry Weiner, Josh FischerD I G I - T E C HS P E C I A L I S TJoe FernandezP R O D U C T I O NPaul Barclay, Michele Carter, BruceCordell, Mike Donais, Skaff Elias,Andrew Finch, Jeff Grubb, Rob Heinsoo,Christopher Perkins, Charles Ryan,Michael Selinker, Jonathan Tweet,James WyattM A N A G E RChas DeLongS P E C I A LOTHER WIZARDS OF THE COASTR&D CONTRIBUTORST H A N K SCindi Rice, Jim Lin, Richard Garfield,Skaff Elias, Andrew FinchS P E C I A LT H A N K SMary Elizabeth Allen, JeffersonDunlap, Stephen Radney-McFarland,Liz Schuh, Andy Smith, Mat Smith,Alex Weitz
TABLE OF CONTENTSIntroduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Chapter 1: Monsters A to Z . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Chapter 2: Animals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268Chapter 3: Vermin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284Chapter 4: Improving Monsters . . . . . . . . 290Chapter 5: Making Monsters . . . . . . . . . . . 295Chapter 6: Monster Skills and Feats . . . . 303Chapter 7: Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305ALPHABETICALLISTING OF MONSTERSBralani (eladrin) . . . . . . . . . . . 93Brass dragon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79Bronze dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80Bugbear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Bulette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Cachalot whale . . . . . . . . . . . 283Camel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270Carrion crawler . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Cat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270Cauchemar (nightmare) . . . 195Celestial charger (unicorn). 250Celestial creature. . . . . . . . . . . 31Centaur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32Chain devil (kyton) . . . . . . . . 53Chaos beast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Cheetah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271Chimera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Choker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Chromatic dragons . . . . . . . . . 70Chuul. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35Clay golem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134Cloaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36Cloud giant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120Cockatrice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Constrictor snake . . . . . . . . . 279Copper dragon. . . . . . . . . . . . . 82Couatl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Crocodile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271Criosphinx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233Cryohydra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157Dark naga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191Darkmantle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38Death slaad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231Deep dwarf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92Deep halfling . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150Deinonychus (dinosaur) . . . . 60Delver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Demon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Derro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49Destrachan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49Devil. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50Devourer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Digester . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Dinosaur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Dire animal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62Displacer beast. . . . . . . . . . . . . 66Djinni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114Dog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271Dog, riding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272Donkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272Doppelganger . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67Dragon, true . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68Dragon turtle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88Dragonne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89Dread wraith . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258Dretch (demon). . . . . . . . . . . . 42Drider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89Drow (elf ). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103Dryad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90Duergar (dwarf ) . . . . . . . . . . . 92Dust mephit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181Dwarf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91Eagle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272Eagle, giant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93Earth elemental. . . . . . . . . . . . 98Earth mephit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182Efreeti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115Eladrin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93Elasmosaurus (dinosaur) . . . . 60Elder black pudding. . . . . . . 201Elemental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95Elephant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272Elf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101Erinyes (devil) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Ethereal filcher . . . . . . . . . . . 104Ethereal marauder . . . . . . . . 105Ettercap. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Ettin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Fiendish creature . . . . . . . . . 107Fire elemental . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98Fire giant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121Fire mephit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182Flesh golem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135Forest gnome . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132Formian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108Frost giant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122Frost giant jarl . . . . . . . . . . . . 123Frost worm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111Fungus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112Gargoyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113Gauth (beholder). . . . . . . . . . . 26Gelatinous cube . . . . . . . . . . 201Genie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114Ghaele (eladrin). . . . . . . . . . . . 94Ghast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Ghost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116Ghoul. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118Giant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Giant ant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284Giant bee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284Giant bombardier beetle . . . 284Giant constrictor snake . . . . 280Giant crocodile . . . . . . . . . . . 271Giant eagle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93Giant fire beetle . . . . . . . . . . 285Giant octopus. . . . . . . . . . . . . 276Giant owl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205Giant praying mantis . . . . . . 285Giant squid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281Giant stag beetle . . . . . . . . . . 285Giant wasp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285Gibbering mouther . . . . . . . 126Girallon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126Githyanki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127Githzerai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129Glabrezu (demon) . . . . . . . . . . 43Gnoll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130Gnome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131Goblin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133Gold dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84Golem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134Gorgon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137Gray elf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104Gray ooze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202Gray render . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138Gray slaad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231Greater barghest . . . . . . . . . . . 23Green dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74Green hag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143Green slaad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230Grick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139Griffon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139Grig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235Grimlock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140Guardian naga . . . . . . . . . . . . 192Guardinal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141Gynosphinx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233Hag. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143Half-celestial . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144Half-dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146Half-elf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Half-fiend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147Half-orc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204Halfblood (yuan-ti). . . . . . . . 264Halfling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149Harpy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150Hawk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273Hell hound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151Hellcat (devil) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Hezrou (demon) . . . . . . . . . . . 44Hieracosphinx. . . . . . . . . . . . 234Hippogriff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152Hill giant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123Hill giant dire wereboar(lycanthrope) . . . . . . . . . . 174Hobgoblin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153Homunculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154Horned devil (cornugon) . . . 55Horse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273Hound archon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Hound archon hero . . . . . . . . 17Howler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154Hydra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155Hyena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274Ice devil (gelugon) . . . . . . . . . 56Ice mephit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182Imp (devil) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Inevitable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158TABLE OFCONTENTSAasimar (planetouched) . . . 209Aboleth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Aboleth mage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Abomination (yuan-ti). . . . . 264Abyssal greater basilisk . . . . . 24Achaierai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Air elemental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95Air mephit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181Allip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Androsphinx . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232Angel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Animated object . . . . . . . . . . . 13Ankheg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Annis (hag). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143Ape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268Ape, dire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62Aquatic elf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103Aranea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Archon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Arrowhawk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Assassin vine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Astral deva (angel) . . . . . . . . . 11Athach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Avoral (guardinal). . . . . . . . . 141Azer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Babau (demon) . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Baboon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268Badger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268Badger, dire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62Baleen whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282Balor (demon) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Barbed devil (hamatula) . . . . 51Barghest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Barghest, greater . . . . . . . . . . . 23Basilisk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Bat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268Bat, dire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62Bear, black . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269Bear, brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269Bear, dire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63Bear, polar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269Bearded devil (barbazu) . . . . . 52Bebilith (demon). . . . . . . . . . . 42Behir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Beholder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Belker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Bison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269Black dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70Black pudding . . . . . . . . . . . . 201Blink dog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Blue dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72Blue slaad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229Boar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270Boar, dire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63Bodak. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Bone devil (osyluth) . . . . . . . . 523
TABLE OFCONTENTSInvisible stalker. . . . . . . . . . . 160Iron golem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136Janni. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116Kobold. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161Kolyarut (inevitable) . . . . . . 159Kraken. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162Krenshar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163Kuo-toa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163Lamia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165Lammasu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165Lantern archon . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Lemure (devil) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57Leonal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142Leopard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274Lich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166Lillend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168Lion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274Lion, dire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63Lizard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274Lizardfolk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169Locathah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169Lycanthrope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170Magma mephit . . . . . . . . . . . 183Magmin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179Manta ray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275Manticore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179Marilith (demon) . . . . . . . . . . 44Marut (inevitable). . . . . . . . . 159Medusa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180Megaraptor (dinosaur) . . . . . . 60Mephit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180Merfolk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185Metallic dragons . . . . . . . . . . . 79Mimic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186Mind flayer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186Mind flayer sorcerer . . . . . . 187Minotaur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188Mohrg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189Monitor lizard . . . . . . . . . . . . 275Monkey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276Monstrous centipede . . . . . . 287Monstrous scorpion . . . . . . . 287Monstrous spider . . . . . . . . . 288Mountain dwarf . . . . . . . . . . . 93Mule. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276Mummy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190Mummy lord . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191Naga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191Nalfeshnee (demon). . . . . . . . 45Nessian warhound (hellhound) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151Night hag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193Nightcrawler . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195Nightmare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194Nightshade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195Nightwalker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196Nightwing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197Nixie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235Nymph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197Ochre jelly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202Octopus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276Ogre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198Ogre barbarian. . . . . . . . . . . . 198Ogre mage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200Ooze. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201Ooze mephit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183Orc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203Orca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283Otyugh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204Owl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277Owl, giant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205Owlbear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206Pack lord (displacer beast) . . 66Pegasus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206Phantom fungus . . . . . . . . . . 207Phase spider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207Phasm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208Pit fiend (devil) . . . . . . . . . . . . 57Pixie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236Planetar (angel) . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Planetouched . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209Pony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277Porpoise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278Pseudodragon . . . . . . . . . . . . 210Pureblood (yuan-ti) . . . . . . . 263Purple worm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211Pyrohydra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156Quasit (demon) . . . . . . . . . . . . 46Rakshasa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211Rast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213Rat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278Rat, dire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64Raven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278Ravid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213Red dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75Red slaad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228Remorhaz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214Retriever (demon) . . . . . . . . . 46Rhinoceros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278Roc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215Roper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215Rust monster . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216Sahuagin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217Salamander. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218Salt mephit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184Satyr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219Sea cat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220Sea hag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144Shadow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221Shadow mastiff . . . . . . . . . . . 222Shambling mound . . . . . . . . 222Shark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279Shark, dire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64Shield guardian . . . . . . . . . . . 223Shocker lizard . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Shrieker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113Silver dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86Skeleton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225Skum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228Slaad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228Snake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279Solar (angel) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Spectre. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232Sphinx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232Spider eater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234Spirit naga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192Sprite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235Squid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281Steam mephit . . . . . . . . . . . . 184Stirge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236Stone giant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124Stone golem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137Storm giant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125Succubus (demon) . . . . . . . . . 47Svirfneblin (gnome). . . . . . . 132Swarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237Tallfellow (halfling) . . . . . . . 149Tarrasque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240Tendriculos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241Thoqqua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242Tiefling (planetouched). . . . 209Tiger. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281Tiger, dire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65Titan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242Toad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282Tojanida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243Treant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244Triceratops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61Triton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245Troglodyte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246Troll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247Troll hunter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248Truly horrid umber hulk. . . 249Trumpet archon. . . . . . . . . . . . 18Tyrannosaurus (dinosaur) . . . 61Umber hulk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248Unicorn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249Vampire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250Vampire spawn . . . . . . . . . . . 253Vargouille . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254Violet fungus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113Viper snake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281Vrock (demon). . . . . . . . . . . . . 48Water elemental . . . . . . . . . . . 98Water mephit. . . . . . . . . . . . . 185Water naga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193Weasel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282Weasel, dire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65Werebear (lycanthrope). . . . 170Wereboar (lycanthrope) . . . 171Wererat (lycanthrope) . . . . . 171Weretiger (lycanthrope) . . . 172Werewolf (lycanthrope) . . . 173Werewolf lord (lycanthrope) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282White dragon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77Wight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255Wild elf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104Will-o’-wisp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255Winter wolf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256Wolf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283Wolf, dire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65Wolverine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283Wolverine, dire . . . . . . . . . . . . 66Wood elf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104Worg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256Wraith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257Wyvern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259Xill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259Xorn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260Yeth hound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260Yrthak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262Yuan-ti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262Zelekhut (inevitable) . . . . . . 160Zombie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265pqqqqrsMONSTERS BY TYPE (AND SUBTYPE)4Aberration: aboleth, athach, beholders, carrion crawler, choker, chuul,cloaker, delver, destrachan, drider, ethereal filcher, ettercap, gauth,ghaur, gibbering mouther, grick, mimic, mind flayer, nagas, otyugh,phasm, rust monster, skum, umber hulk, will-o’-wisp.(Air): air mephit, arrowhawk, cloud giant, dust mephit, green dragon,ice mephit, will-o’-wisp.Animal: animals, bat swarm, dinosaurs, dire animals, rat swarm,roc.(Aquatic): aboleth, aquatic elf, chuul, dire shark, dragon turtle, giantoctopus, kraken, kuo-toa, locathah, merfolk, merrow, octopus, sahuagin, sea cat, sea hag, sharks, skum, squids, water naga.(Cold): cryohydra, frost giant, frost worm, ice mephit, silver dragon,white dragon, winter wolf.Construct: animated objects, golems, homunculus, inevitables,retriever, shield guardian.Dragon: dragons, dragon turtle, pseudodragon, wyvern.(Earth): blue dragon, copper dragon, earth mephit, gargoyle, saltmephit, stone giant.Elemental: belker, elementals, invisible stalker, magmin, thoqqua.Elemental (Air): belker, air elementals, invisible stalker.Elemental (Earth): earth elementals, thoqqua.Elemental (Fire): fire elementals, magmin, thoqqua.Elemental (Water): water elementals.Fey: dryad, grig, nixie, nymph, pixie, satyr.(Fire): azer, brass dragon, fire giant, fire mephit, gold dragon, magmamephit, pyrohydra, red dragon, steam mephit.Giant: ettin, giants, ogre, ogre mage, troll.pqqqqrs
INTRODUCTIONThis is the D&D Roleplaying Game, the gameUNGEONSRAGONSHit DiceThis line gives the creature’s number and type of Hit Dice, andlists any bonus hit points. A parenthetical note gives the averagehit points for a creature of the indicated number of Hit Dice.A creature’s Hit Dice total is also treated as its level for determining how spells affect the creature, its rate of natural healing,and its maximum ranks in a skill.InitiativeThis line gives the creature’s modifier on initiative checks.SpeedREADING THE ENTRIESEach monster description is organized in the same general format,as outlined below. For complete information about the characteristics of monsters, consult Chapter 7: Glossary (starting on page305), the Player’s Handbook, or the Dungeon Master’s Guide.STATISTICS BLOCKThis portion of a monster description contains basic game information on the creature.NameThis is the name by which the creature is generally known. Thedescriptive text may provide other names.Size and TypeThis line describes the creature’s size (Huge, for example). Size categories are defined in the Glossary. A size modifier applies to thecreature’s Armor Class (AC) and attack bonus, as well as to certainskills. A creature’s size also determines how far it can reach tomake a melee attack and how much space it occupies in a fight(see Space/Reach, below).The size and type line continues with the creature’s type (giant,for example). Type determines how magic affects a creature; forThis line gives the creature’s tactical speed on land (the amount ofdistance it can cover in one move action). If the creature wearsarmor that reduces its speed, the creature’s base land speed follows.If the creature has other modes of movement, these are givenafter (or in place of ) the land speed. Unless noted otherwise,modes of movement are natural (not magical). See the Glossary forinformation on movement modes.INTRODUCTIONthat defines the genre and has set the standard for fantasy roleplaying for more than 30 years.Specifically, this is the Monster Manual. This book containsentries for hundreds of creatures, both hostile and benign, for usein DUNGEONS & DRAGONS adventures. This book, the Player’s Handbook, and the Dungeon Master’s Guide comprise the core rules forthe D&D game.This introduction explains how to read each creature’s write-up.It often refers to the Glossary, located in Chapter 7 at the back ofthis book (starting on page 305), for more details on attack formsand the special qualities associated with monsters.A list of monsters organized by Challenge Rating appears onpages 318 and 319 to make it easy for the Dungeon Master to tailorencounters to the party level of the player characters.example, the hold animal spell affects only creatures of the animaltype. Type determines certain features, such as Hit Dice size, baseattack bonus, base saving throw bonuses, and skill points. Forquick reference, the Glossary gives a full description of the features and traits of each type and subtype.Armor ClassThe Armor Class line gives the creature’s AC for normal combatand includes a parenthetical mention of the modifiers contributing to it (usually size, Dexterity, and natural armor). The creature’stouch and flat-footed ACs follow the combat-ready AC.A creature’s armor proficiencies (if it has any) depend on itstype, but in general a creature is automatically proficient with anykind of armor it is described as wearing (light, medium, or heavy),and with all lighter kinds of armor.Base Attack/GrappleThe number before the slash on this line is the creature’s baseattack bonus (before any modifiers are applied). The DM usuallywon’t need this number, but it can be handy sometimes, especiallyif the creature has the Power Attack or Combat Expertise feats.The number after the slash is the creature’s grapple bonus, whichpqqqqrscontinued from page 4(Goblinoid): bugbear, goblin, hobgoblin.Humanoid: bugbear, dwarf, elf, githyanki, githzerai, gnoll, gnome,goblin, halfling, hobgoblin, kobold, lizardfolk, locathah, merfolk, orc,troglodyte.(Incorporeal): allip, ghost, shadow, spectre, wraith.(Lawful): inevitable.Magical Beast: ankheg, aranea, basilisk, behir, bulette, blink dog,chimera, cockatrice, darkmantle, digester, displacer beast, dragonne,ethereal marauder, fiendish dire rat, frost worm, giant eagle, giant owl,girallon, gorgon, gray render, griffon, hellwasp swarm, hippogriff, hydras,kraken, krenshar, lamia, lammasu, manticore, owlbear, pegasus, phasespider, purple worm, remorhaz, roper, shocker lizard, sea cat, sphinxes,spider eater, stirge, tarrasque, unicorn, winter wolf, worg, yrthak.Monstrous Humanoid: centaur, derro, doppelganger, gargoyle, grimlock, hags, harpy, kuo-toa, medusa, minotaur, sahuagin, yuan-ti.Ooze: black pudding, gelatinous cube, gray ooze, ochre jelly.Outsider: ravid.Outsider (Air): air mephit, arrowhawk, djinni, dust mephit, ice mephit.Outsider (Chaotic): chaos beast, demons, eladrins, howler, lillend,slaadi, titan.Outsider (Evil): achaierai, barghest, demons, devils, hell hound,howler, night hag, nightmare, rakshasa, shadow mastiff, vargouille, xill,yeth hound.Outsider (Earth): earth mephit, salt mephit, xorn.Outsider (Fire): azer, efreeti, hell hound, fire mephit, magma mephit,steam mephit, rast, salamanders.Outsider (Good): angels, archons, eladrins, guardinals, lillend, titan.Outsider (Lawful): achaierai, archons, barghest, devils, formians, hellhound, rakshasa, xill.Outsider (Native): aasimar, couatl, janni, tiefling, rakshasa, triton.Outsider (Water): ooze mephit, water mephit, tojanidas, triton.Plant: assassin vine, phantom fungus, shambling mound, shrieker,tendriculos, treant, violet fungus.(Reptilian): kobold, lizardfolk, troglodyte.(Shapechanger): aranea, barghest, doppelganger, lycanthropes,mimic, phasm.Undead: allip, bodak, devourer, ghast, ghost, ghoul, lich, mohrg,mummy, nightshades, shadow, skeletons, spectre, vampire, vampirespawn, wight, wraith, zombie.Vermin: centipede swarm, giant insects, locust swarm, monstrouscentipedes, monstrous scorpions, monstrous spiders, spider swarm.(Water): black dragon, bronze dragon, ooze mephit, water mephit.pqqqqrs5
is used when the creature makes a grapple attack or when someonetries to grapple the creature. The grapple bonus includes all modifiers that apply to the creature’s grapple checks (base attack bonus,Strength modifier, special size modifier, and any other applicablemodifier, such as a racial bonus on grapple checks).INT
MONSTER MANUAL DESIGN Skip Williams MONSTER MANU AL D&D DESIGN TEAM Monte Cook, Jonathan Tweet, Skip Williams ADDITIONAL DESIGN Peter Adkison, Richard Baker, Jason Carl, William W. Connors, Sean K Reynolds EDITORS Jennifer Clarke Wilkes, Jon Pickens EDITORIAL ASSITANCE Jul
