CREDITS

CREDITS

MONSTER MANUAL DESIGN

Skip Williams

MONSTER MANUAL 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

Julia Martin, Jeff Quick, Rob Heinsoo, David Noonan, Penny Williams

MANAGING EDITOR

Kim Mohan

CORE D&D CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Ed Stark

DIRECTOR OF RPG R&D

Bill Slavicsek

VISUAL CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Jon Schindehette

ART

DIRECTOR

Dawn Murin

D&D CONCEPTUAL ARTISTS

Todd Lockwood, Sam Wood

D&D LOGO DESIGN

Matt Adelsperger, Sherry Floyd

COVER

ART

Henry Higginbotham

INTERIOR ARTISTS

Glen Angus, Carlo Arellano, Daren Bader, Tom Baxa, Carl Critchlow, Brian Despain, Tony Diterlizzi, Larry Elmore,

Scott Fischer, Rebecca Guay, Paul Jaquays, Michael Kaluta, Dana Knutson,

Todd Lockwood, David Martin, Matthew Mitchell, Monte Moore, rk post, Adam Rex, Wayne Reynolds, Richard Sardinha, Brian Snoddy, Mark Tedin,

Anthony Waters

GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Sean Glenn, Sherry Floyd

TYPOGRAPHERS

Erin Dorries, Angelika Lokotz, Nancy Walker

PHOTOGRAPHER

Craig Cudnohufsky

BRAND MANAGER

Ryan Dancey

CATEGORY MANAGER

Keith Strohm

PROJECT MANAGERS

Larry Weiner, Josh Fischer

DIGI-TECH SPECIALIST

Joe Fernandez

PRODUCTION MANAGER

Chas DeLong

SPECIAL THANKS

Cindi Rice, Jim Lin, Richard Garfield, Skaff Elias, Andrew Finch

MONSTER MANUAL REVISION

Rich Baker, Skip Williams

D&D REVISION TEAM

Rich Baker, Andy Collins, David Noonan, Rich Redman, Skip Williams

ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT

David Eckelberry, Jennifer Clarke Wilkes, Gwendolyn F.M. Kestrel,

Bill Slavicsek

PROOFREADER

Penny Williams

MANAGING EDITOR

Kim Mohan

D&D CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Ed Stark

DIRECTOR OF RPG R&D

Bill Slavicsek

ART

DIRECTOR

Dawn Murin

COVER

ART

Henry Higginbotham

INTERIOR ARTISTS

Glen Angus, Carlo Arellano, Daren Bader, Tom Baxa, Carl Critchlow, Brian Despain, Tony Diterlizzi, Scott Fischer, Rebecca Guay-Mitchell, Jeremy Jarvis,

Paul Jaquays, Michael Kaluta, Dana Knutson, Todd Lockwood, David Martin, Raven Mimura, Matthew

Mitchell, Monte Moore, Adam Rex, Wayne Reynolds, Richard Sardinha, Brian Snoddy, Mark Tedin, Anthony

Waters, Sam Wood

GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Dawn Murin

GRAPHIC PRODUCTION SPECIALISTS

Erin Dorries, Angelika Lokotz

PHOTOGRAPHER

Craig Cudnohufsky

VICE PRESIDENT OF PUBLISHING

Mary Kirchoff

CATEGORY MANAGER

Anthony Valterra

PROJECT MANAGER

Martin Durham

PRODUCTION MANAGER

Chas DeLong

OTHER WIZARDS OF THE COAST R&D CONTRIBUTORS

Paul Barclay, Michele Carter, Bruce Cordell, Mike Donais, Skaff Elias, Andrew Finch, Jeff Grubb, Rob Heinsoo, Christopher Perkins, Charles Ryan, Michael Selinker, Jonathan Tweet,

James Wyatt

SPECIAL THANKS

Mary Elizabeth Allen, Jefferson Dunlap, Stephen Radney-McFarland, Liz Schuh, Andy Smith, Mat Smith,

Alex Weitz

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Chapter 1: Monsters A to Z . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Chapter 2: Animals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268 Chapter 3: Vermin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Chapter 4: Improving Monsters . . . . . . . . 290 Chapter 5: Making Monsters . . . . . . . . . . . 295 Chapter 6: Monster Skills and Feats . . . . 303 Chapter 7: Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

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Aasimar (planetouched) . . . 209 Bralani (eladrin) . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Drider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Girallon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Aboleth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Brass dragon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Drow (elf ). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Githyanki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Aboleth mage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Bronze dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Dryad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Githzerai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Abomination (yuan-ti). . . . . 264 Bugbear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Duergar (dwarf ) . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Glabrezu (demon) . . . . . . . . . . 43

Abyssal greater basilisk . . . . . 24 Bulette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Dust mephit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Gnoll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Achaierai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Cachalot whale . . . . . . . . . . . 283 Dwarf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Gnome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Air elemental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Camel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270 Eagle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272 Goblin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Air mephit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Carrion crawler . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Eagle, giant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Gold dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Allip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Cat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270 Earth elemental. . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Golem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Androsphinx . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 Cauchemar (nightmare) . . . 195 Earth mephit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 Gorgon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Angel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Celestial charger (unicorn). 250 Efreeti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Gray elf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Animated object . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Celestial creature. . . . . . . . . . . 31 Eladrin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Gray ooze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Ankheg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Centaur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Elasmosaurus (dinosaur) . . . . 60 Gray render . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Annis (hag). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Chain devil (kyton) . . . . . . . . 53 Elder black pudding. . . . . . . 201 Gray slaad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Ape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268 Chaos beast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Elemental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Greater barghest . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Ape, dire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Cheetah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 Elephant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272 Green dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Aquatic elf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Chimera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Elf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Green hag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Aranea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Choker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Erinyes (devil) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Green slaad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Archon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Chromatic dragons . . . . . . . . . 70 Ethereal filcher . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Grick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Arrowhawk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Chuul. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Ethereal marauder . . . . . . . . 105 Griffon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Assassin vine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Clay golem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Ettercap. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Grig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Astral deva (angel) . . . . . . . . . 11 Cloaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Ettin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Grimlock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Athach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Cloud giant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Fiendish creature . . . . . . . . . 107 Guardian naga . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Avoral (guardinal). . . . . . . . . 141 Cockatrice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Fire elemental . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Guardinal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Azer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Constrictor snake . . . . . . . . . 279 Fire giant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Gynosphinx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Babau (demon) . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Copper dragon. . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Fire mephit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 Hag. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Baboon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268 Couatl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Flesh golem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Half-celestial . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Badger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268 Crocodile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 Forest gnome . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Half-dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Badger, dire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Criosphinx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Formian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Half-elf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Baleen whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282 Cryohydra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Frost giant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Half-fiend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Balor (demon) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Dark naga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Frost giant jarl . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Half-orc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Barbed devil (hamatula) . . . . 51 Darkmantle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Frost worm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Halfblood (yuan-ti). . . . . . . . 264

Barghest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Death slaad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 Fungus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Halfling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Barghest, greater . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Deep dwarf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Gargoyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Harpy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Basilisk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Deep halfling . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Gauth (beholder). . . . . . . . . . . 26 Hawk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Bat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268 Deinonychus (dinosaur) . . . . 60 Gelatinous cube . . . . . . . . . . 201 Hell hound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Bat, dire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Delver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Genie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Hellcat (devil) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Bear, black . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 Demon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Ghaele (eladrin). . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Hezrou (demon) . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Bear, brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 Derro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Ghast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Hieracosphinx. . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Bear, dire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Destrachan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Ghost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Hippogriff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Bear, polar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 Devil. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Ghoul. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Hill giant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Bearded devil (barbazu) . . . . . 52 Devourer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Giant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Hill giant dire wereboar

Bebilith (demon). . . . . . . . . . . 42 Digester . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Giant ant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

(lycanthrope) . . . . . . . . . . 174

Behir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Dinosaur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Giant bee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284 Hobgoblin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Beholder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Dire animal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Giant bombardier beetle . . . 284 Homunculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Belker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Displacer beast. . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Giant constrictor snake . . . . 280 Horned devil (cornugon) . . . 55

Bison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 Djinni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Giant crocodile . . . . . . . . . . . 271 Horse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Black dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Dog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 Giant eagle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Hound archon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Black pudding . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Dog, riding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272 Giant fire beetle . . . . . . . . . . 285 Hound archon hero . . . . . . . . 17

Blink dog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Donkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272 Giant octopus. . . . . . . . . . . . . 276 Howler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Blue dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Doppelganger . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Giant owl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 Hydra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Blue slaad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 Dragon, true . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Giant praying mantis . . . . . . 285 Hyena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Boar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270 Dragon turtle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Giant squid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 Ice devil (gelugon) . . . . . . . . . 56

Boar, dire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Bodak. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Dragonne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Dread wraith . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Giant stag beetle . . . . . . . . . . 285 Giant wasp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Ice mephit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 Imp (devil) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

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Bone devil (osyluth) . . . . . . . . 52 Dretch (demon). . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Gibbering mouther . . . . . . . 126 Inevitable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

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Invisible stalker. . . . . . . . . . . 160 Iron golem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Janni. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Kobold. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Kolyarut (inevitable) . . . . . . 159 Kraken. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Krenshar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Kuo-toa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Lamia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Lammasu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Lantern archon . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Lemure (devil) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Leonal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Leopard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 Lich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Lillend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 Lion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 Lion, dire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Lizard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 Lizardfolk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Locathah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Lycanthrope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Magma mephit . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Magmin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Manta ray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 Manticore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Marilith (demon) . . . . . . . . . . 44 Marut (inevitable). . . . . . . . . 159 Medusa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Megaraptor (dinosaur) . . . . . . 60 Mephit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Merfolk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Metallic dragons . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Mimic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Mind flayer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Mind flayer sorcerer . . . . . . 187 Minotaur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Mohrg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Monitor lizard . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 Monkey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276 Monstrous centipede . . . . . . 287 Monstrous scorpion . . . . . . . 287 Monstrous spider . . . . . . . . . 288 Mountain dwarf . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Mule. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276 Mummy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Mummy lord . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Naga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Nalfeshnee (demon). . . . . . . . 45

Nessian warhound (hell hound) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Night hag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Nightcrawler . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Nightmare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Nightshade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Nightwalker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 Nightwing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 Nixie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 Nymph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 Ochre jelly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 Octopus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276 Ogre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 Ogre barbarian. . . . . . . . . . . . 198 Ogre mage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Ooze. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Ooze mephit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Orc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Orca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283 Otyugh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Owl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 Owl, giant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 Owlbear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 Pack lord (displacer beast) . . 66 Pegasus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 Phantom fungus . . . . . . . . . . 207 Phase spider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Phasm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 Pit fiend (devil) . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Pixie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 Planetar (angel) . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Planetouched . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 Pony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 Porpoise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 Pseudodragon . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Pureblood (yuan-ti) . . . . . . . 263 Purple worm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Pyrohydra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Quasit (demon) . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Rakshasa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Rast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Rat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 Rat, dire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Raven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 Ravid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Red dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Red slaad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 Remorhaz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Retriever (demon) . . . . . . . . . 46

Rhinoceros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 Roc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Roper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Rust monster . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 Sahuagin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Salamander. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 Salt mephit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 Satyr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Sea cat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 Sea hag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Shadow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Shadow mastiff . . . . . . . . . . . 222 Shambling mound . . . . . . . . 222 Shark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 Shark, dire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Shield guardian . . . . . . . . . . . 223 Shocker lizard . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 Shrieker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Silver dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Skeleton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 Skum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 Slaad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 Snake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 Solar (angel) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Spectre. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 Sphinx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 Spider eater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 Spirit naga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Sprite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 Squid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 Steam mephit . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 Stirge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 Stone giant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Stone golem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Storm giant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Succubus (demon) . . . . . . . . . 47 Svirfneblin (gnome). . . . . . . 132 Swarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 Tallfellow (halfling) . . . . . . . 149 Tarrasque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 Tendriculos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Thoqqua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242 Tiefling (planetouched). . . . 209 Tiger. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 Tiger, dire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Titan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242 Toad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282 Tojanida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 Treant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Triceratops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Triton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 Troglodyte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246 Troll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Troll hunter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 Truly horrid umber hulk. . . 249 Trumpet archon. . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Tyrannosaurus (dinosaur) . . . 61 Umber hulk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 Unicorn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 Vampire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 Vampire spawn . . . . . . . . . . . 253 Vargouille . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 Violet fungus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Viper snake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 Vrock (demon). . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Water elemental . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Water mephit. . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Water naga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Weasel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282 Weasel, dire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Werebear (lycanthrope). . . . 170 Wereboar (lycanthrope) . . . 171 Wererat (lycanthrope) . . . . . 171 Weretiger (lycanthrope) . . . 172 Werewolf (lycanthrope) . . . 173 Werewolf lord (lycan-

thrope) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282 White dragon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Wight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Wild elf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Will-o'-wisp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Winter wolf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 Wolf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283 Wolf, dire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Wolverine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283 Wolverine, dire . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Wood elf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Worg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 Wraith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Wyvern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Xill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Xorn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 Yeth hound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 Yrthak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 Yuan-ti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 Zelekhut (inevitable) . . . . . . 160 Zombie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

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MONSTERS BY TYPE (AND SUBTYPE)

Construct: animated objects, golems, homunculus, inevitables,

Aberration: aboleth, athach, beholders, carrion crawler, choker, chuul, retriever, shield guardian.

cloaker, delver, destrachan, drider, ethereal filcher, ettercap, gauth, Dragon: dragons, dragon turtle, pseudodragon, wyvern.

ghaur, gibbering mouther, grick, mimic, mind flayer, nagas, otyugh, (Earth): blue dragon, copper dragon, earth mephit, gargoyle, salt

phasm, rust monster, skum, umber hulk, will-o'-wisp.

mephit, stone giant.

(Air): air mephit, arrowhawk, cloud giant, dust mephit, green dragon, Elemental: belker, elementals, invisible stalker, magmin, thoqqua.

ice mephit, will-o'-wisp.

Elemental (Air): belker, air elementals, invisible stalker.

Animal: animals, bat swarm, dinosaurs, dire animals, rat swarm, Elemental (Earth): earth elementals, thoqqua.

roc.

Elemental (Fire): fire elementals, magmin, thoqqua.

(Aquatic): aboleth, aquatic elf, chuul, dire shark, dragon turtle, giant Elemental (Water): water elementals.

octopus, kraken, kuo-toa, locathah, merfolk, merrow, octopus, sahua- Fey: dryad, grig, nixie, nymph, pixie, satyr.

gin, sea cat, sea hag, sharks, skum, squids, water naga.

(Fire): azer, brass dragon, fire giant, fire mephit, gold dragon, magma

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(Cold): cryohydra, frost giant, frost worm, ice mephit, silver dragon, mephit, pyrohydra, red dragon, steam mephit.

white dragon, winter wolf.

Giant: ettin, giants, ogre, ogre mage, troll.

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INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION

example, the hold animal spell affects only creatures of the animal type. Type determines certain features, such as Hit Dice size, base

This is the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS? Roleplaying Game, the game

attack bonus, base saving throw bonuses, and skill points. For

that defines the genre and has set the standard for fantasy role- quick reference, the Glossary gives a full description of the fea-

playing for more than 30 years.

tures and traits of each type and subtype.

Specifically, this is the Monster Manual. This book contains

entries for hundreds of creatures, both hostile and benign, for use Hit Dice

in DUNGEONS & DRAGONS adventures. This book, the Player's Handbook, and the Dungeon Master's Guide comprise the core rules for

This line gives the creature's number and type of Hit Dice, and lists any bonus hit points. A parenthetical note gives the average

the D&D? game.

hit points for a creature of the indicated number of Hit Dice.

This introduction explains how to read each creature's write-up.

A creature's Hit Dice total is also treated as its level for deter-

It often refers to the Glossary, located in Chapter 7 at the back of mining how spells affect the creature, its rate of natural healing,

this book (starting on page 305), for more details on attack forms and its maximum ranks in a skill.

and the special qualities associated with monsters.

A list of monsters organized by Challenge Rating appears on Initiative

pages 318 and 319 to make it easy for the Dungeon Master to tailor This line gives the creature's modifier on initiative checks.

encounters to the party level of the player characters.

Speed

READING THE ENTRIES

This line gives the creature's tactical speed on land (the amount of distance it can cover in one move action). If the creature wears

Each monster description is organized in the same general format, armor that reduces its speed, the creature's base land speed follows.

as outlined below. For complete information about the character-

If the creature has other modes of movement, these are given

istics of monsters, consult Chapter 7: Glossary (starting on page after (or in place of ) the land speed. Unless noted otherwise,

305), the Player's Handbook, or the Dungeon Master's Guide.

modes of movement are natural (not magical). See the Glossary for

information on movement modes.

STATISTICS BLOCK

This portion of a monster description contains basic game infor- Armor Class

mation on the creature.

The Armor Class line gives the creature's AC for normal combat

Name

and includes a parenthetical mention of the modifiers contributing to it (usually size, Dexterity, and natural armor). The creature's

This is the name by which the creature is generally known. The touch and flat-footed ACs follow the combat-ready AC.

descriptive text may provide other names.

A creature's armor proficiencies (if it has any) depend on its

Size and Type

type, but in general a creature is automatically proficient with any kind of armor it is described as wearing (light, medium, or heavy),

This line describes the creature's size (Huge, for example). Size cat- and with all lighter kinds of armor.

egories are defined in the Glossary. A size modifier applies to the

creature's Armor Class (AC) and attack bonus, as well as to certain Base Attack/Grapple

skills. A creature's size also determines how far it can reach to The number before the slash on this line is the creature's base

make a melee attack and how much space it occupies in a fight attack bonus (before any modifiers are applied). The DM usually

(see Space/Reach, below).

won't need this number, but it can be handy sometimes, especially

The size and type line continues with the creature's type (giant, if the creature has the Power Attack or Combat Expertise feats.

for example). Type determines how magic affects a creature; for

The number after the slash is the creature's grapple bonus, which

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(Goblinoid): bugbear, goblin, hobgoblin.

howler, night hag, nightmare, rakshasa, shadow mastiff, vargouille, xill,

Humanoid: bugbear, dwarf, elf, githyanki, githzerai, gnoll, gnome, yeth hound.

goblin, halfling, hobgoblin, kobold, lizardfolk, locathah, merfolk, orc, Outsider (Earth): earth mephit, salt mephit, xorn.

troglodyte.

Outsider (Fire): azer, efreeti, hell hound, fire mephit, magma mephit,

(Incorporeal): allip, ghost, shadow, spectre, wraith.

steam mephit, rast, salamanders.

(Lawful): inevitable.

Outsider (Good): angels, archons, eladrins, guardinals, lillend, titan.

Magical Beast: ankheg, aranea, basilisk, behir, bulette, blink dog, Outsider (Lawful): achaierai, archons, barghest, devils, formians, hell

chimera, cockatrice, darkmantle, digester, displacer beast, dragonne, hound, rakshasa, xill.

ethereal marauder, fiendish dire rat, frost worm, giant eagle, giant owl, Outsider (Native): aasimar, couatl, janni, tiefling, rakshasa, triton.

girallon, gorgon, gray render, griffon, hellwasp swarm, hippogriff, hydras, Outsider (Water): ooze mephit, water mephit, tojanidas, triton.

kraken, krenshar, lamia, lammasu, manticore, owlbear, pegasus, phase Plant: assassin vine, phantom fungus, shambling mound, shrieker,

spider, purple worm, remorhaz, roper, shocker lizard, sea cat, sphinxes, tendriculos, treant, violet fungus.

spider eater, stirge, tarrasque, unicorn, winter wolf, worg, yrthak.

(Reptilian): kobold, lizardfolk, troglodyte.

Monstrous Humanoid: centaur, derro, doppelganger, gargoyle, grim- (Shapechanger): aranea, barghest, doppelganger, lycanthropes,

lock, hags, harpy, kuo-toa, medusa, minotaur, sahuagin, yuan-ti.

mimic, phasm.

Ooze: black pudding, gelatinous cube, gray ooze, ochre jelly.

Undead: allip, bodak, devourer, ghast, ghost, ghoul, lich, mohrg,

Outsider: ravid.

mummy, nightshades, shadow, skeletons, spectre, vampire, vampire

Outsider (Air): air mephit, arrowhawk, djinni, dust mephit, ice mephit. spawn, wight, wraith, zombie.

Outsider (Chaotic): chaos beast, demons, eladrins, howler, lillend, Vermin: centipede swarm, giant insects, locust swarm, monstrous

slaadi, titan.

centipedes, monstrous scorpions, monstrous spiders, spider swarm.

Outsider (Evil): achaierai, barghest, demons, devils, hell hound, (Water): black dragon, bronze dragon, ooze mephit, water mephit.

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