Monster List
list: API endpoint for returning a list of monsters.
retrieve: API endpoint for returning a particular monster.
GET /monsters/?format=api&ordering=-subtype&page=29
{ "count": 3207, "next": "https://api.open5e.com/monsters/?format=api&ordering=-subtype&page=30", "previous": "https://api.open5e.com/monsters/?format=api&ordering=-subtype&page=28", "results": [ { "slug": "gypsosphinx", "desc": "_With black wings and a body pale as alabaster, the vulture-beaked gypsosphinx is easy to identify. As powerful servants of the gods of death and the desert, their riddles and obsessions all hinge on death and carrion. Their eyes can spot prey miles away, and the distance they climb into the sky hides their enormous size._ \nThe pale gypsosphinx shines in the desert sun and stands out in underground tombs and caverns, yet it can conceal itself when it flies in moonlit clouds. Gypsosphinxes are found anywhere bodies are buried or left to rot, and they harvest corpses from battlefields of warring desert tribes. \n_**Gossips and Riddlers.**_ Gypsosphinxes converse with intelligent undead, priests of death gods, and with other sphinxes, but they rarely gather among their own kind. They guard their territory jealously, typically claiming a necropolis as the heart of their region. \nLike all sphinxes, gypsosphinxes enjoy riddles. They rely on magic to solve challenging riddles they can’t solve on their own. \n_**Night Flyers.**_ Unlike most of their cousins, gypsosphinxes are gifted fliers capable of diving steeply from the night sky to snatch carrion or a sleeping camel. The stroke of midnight has a special but unknown significance for the beasts. \n_**Foretell Doom.**_ Occasionally, a paranoid noble seeks out a gypsosphinx and entreats the creature to reveal the time and place of his or her death, hoping to cheat fate. A gypsosphinx demands a high price for such a service, including payment in corpses of humans, unusual creatures, or near-extinct species. Even if paid, the gypsosphinx rarely honors its side of the bargain; instead, it turns its death magic against the supplicant, bringing about his or her death then and there.", "name": "Gypsosphinx", "size": "Large", "type": "Monstrosity", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 17, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 171, "hit_dice": "18d10+72", "speed": { "walk": 40, "fly": 70 }, "strength": 20, "dexterity": 14, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 18, "wisdom": 18, "charisma": 18, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 9, "skills": { "arcana": 9, "history": 9, "perception": 9, "religion": 9 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "psychic, poison", "condition_immunities": "poisoned", "senses": "truesight 90 ft., passive Perception 19", "languages": "Abyssal, Common, Darakhul, Sphinx", "challenge_rating": "14", "cr": 14.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The sphinx makes one bite attack and two claw attacks." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 21 (3d10 + 5) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 10, "damage_dice": "3d10" }, { "name": "Claws", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 32 (6d8 + 5) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 10, "damage_dice": "6d8" }, { "name": "Rake", "desc": "If the sphinx succeeds with both claw attacks, it automatically follows up with a rake attack. If the target fails a DC 17 Dexterity check, it is knocked prone and takes 14 (2d8 + 5) slashing damage." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "The sphinx can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. It regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.", "legendary_actions": [ { "name": "Bite Attack", "desc": "The sphinx makes one bite attack." }, { "name": "Teleport (Costs 2 Actions)", "desc": "The sphinx magically teleports, along with any equipment it is wearing or carrying, up to 120 feet to an unoccupied space it can see." }, { "name": "Cast a Spell (Costs 3 Actions)", "desc": "The sphinx casts a spell from its list of prepared spells, using a spell slot as normal." } ], "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Inscrutable", "desc": "The sphinx is immune to any effect that would sense its emotions or read its thoughts, as well as any divination spell that it refuses. Wisdom (Insight) checks made to ascertain the sphinx's intentions or sincerity have disadvantage." }, { "name": "Magic Weapons", "desc": "The sphinx's weapon attacks are magical." }, { "name": "Mystic Sight", "desc": "A gypsosphinx sees death coming and can foretell the manner of a person's death. This ability does not come with any urge to share that information. Gypsosphinxes are notorious for hinting, teasing, and even lying about a creature's death (\"If we fight, I will kill you and eat your heart. I have seen it,\"is a favorite bluff)." }, { "name": "Spellcasting", "desc": "the sphinx is a 9th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 17, +9 to hit with spell attacks). It requires no material components to cast its spells. The sphinx has the following wizard spells prepared:\n\ncantrips: (at will): mage hand, mending, minor illusion, poison spray\n\n1st level (4 slots): comprehend languages, detect magic, identify\n\n2nd level (3 slots): blur, darkness, locate object\n\n3rd level (3 slots): dispel magic, glyph of warding, major image\n\n4th level (3 slots): blight, greater invisibility\n\n5th level (1 slot): cloudkill" } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 359, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_gypsosphinx/" }, { "slug": "haugbui", "desc": "_A thick swirl of dust rises, settles, and forms the vague outline of a man—two points of yellow light shine where its eyes should be, staring malevolently._ \n**Mound Haunter.** A haugbui is an undead spirit tied to its burial mound or barrow. It serves as a familiar, protective spirit to nearby farmsteads or villages, so long as tribute is regularly paid to the haugbui. Traditional offerings may include pouring the first beer from a barrel, leaving portions of meals out overnight, sacrificing blood or livestock, or burying a portion of any income in the mound. A freshly-woken haugbui devours the remains of creatures it was buried with, such as a hawk, hound, or horse. \n**Milder Spirits.** Haugbuis are related to vaettir, but much older. They are more humble and less prone to taking umbrage, and indeed, a great many haugbui have long since forgotten their own names. They are not quick to spill blood when irritated, and thus are viewed with greater tolerance by the living. \n**Scrye and Watch.** They prefer to watch over their people from within their mound, and only come forth over the most grievous insults or injuries. They can do a great deal from within their mounds thanks to their scrying ability. \n**Undead Nature.** A haugbui doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Haugbui", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "lawful neutral", "armor_class": 18, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 136, "hit_dice": "16d8+64", "speed": { "hover": true, "walk": 0, "fly": 40 }, "strength": 18, "dexterity": 17, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 15, "wisdom": 20, "charisma": 16, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 8, "constitution_save": 9, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 10, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 10, "skills": { "arcana": 7, "history": 7, "intimidation": 8, "perception": 10, "religion": 12 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "cold, lightning, necrotic", "damage_immunities": "poison; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned", "senses": "truesight 60 ft., passive Perception 20", "languages": "the languages it spoke in life; telepathy 120 ft.", "challenge_rating": "13", "cr": 13.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The haugbui makes two psychic claw attacks." }, { "name": "Psychic Claw", "desc": "Ranged Magical Attack: +10 to hit, range 40 ft., one target. Hit: 32 (6d8 + 5) psychic damage.", "attack_bonus": 10, "damage_dice": "6d8" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Incorporeal Movement", "desc": "The haugbui can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. It takes 5 (1d10) force damage if it ends its turn inside an object." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the haugbui's innate spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 18). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nconstant: detect thoughts, invisibility, mage hand, scrying\n\nat will: dancing lights, druidcraft, mending, spare the dying\n\n7/day each: bane, create or destroy water, fog cloud, purify food and drink\n\n5/day each: blindness/deafness, gust of wind, locate object, moonbeam, shatter\n\n3/day each: bestow curse, dispel magic, plant growth, remove curse, telekinesis\n\n1/day each: blight, contagion, dream\n\n1/week each: geas, hallow" }, { "name": "Legendary Resistance (3/Day)", "desc": "If the haugbui fails a saving throw it can choose to succeed instead." }, { "name": "Sepulchral Scrying (1/Day)", "desc": "An invisible magical eye is created under the haugbui's control, allowing it to watch its territory without leaving the burial mound. The eye travels at the speed of thought and can be up to 5 miles from the haugbui's location. The haugbui can see and hear as if it were standing at the eye's location, and it can use its innate spellcasting abilities as if it were at the eye's location. The eye can be noticed with a successful DC 18 Wisdom (Perception) check and can be dispelled as if it were 3rd-level spell. Spells that block other scrying spells work against Sepulchral Scrying as well. Unless dismissed by its creator or dispelled, lasts for up to 12 hours after its creation; only one can be created per 24-hour period." }, { "name": "Sunlight Sensitivity", "desc": "While in sunlight, the haugbui has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight." }, { "name": "Turn Resistance", "desc": "The haugbui has advantage on saving throws against any effect that turns undead." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 247, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_haugbui/" }, { "slug": "herald-of-blood", "desc": "_The heralds of blood are 20-foot-tall giants with bruised purple skin, and wart-like blood blisters that deform their features. They often wear cowled robes over golden armor streaked with black or green, and their staves of power are always ebony and mithral, embedded with precious stones._ \nAs powerful sorcerers and blood mages, heralds of blood are without peer. They enjoy enslaving ogres and giants whenever possible, though they make do with lesser slaves when they must. \n**Dark Prophets.** Their stirring speeches proclaim that the end times are fast approaching, and their followers must prepare for a bloody reckoning. Behind their charismatic preaching, the heralds of blood serve elder earth gods that demand blood sacrifices, especially dark druid orders devoted to human hunts and the murder of innocents. They have the power to grant strength, lust, and vitality—or to wither those who cross them. \n**Blood Magic Vortexes.** In their true form, which they keep hidden except in battle, heralds of blood are swirling vortexes of blood, bone, and raw magical power. They feed on ley line magic and the black blood of the earth as much as on flesh and blood.", "name": "Herald Of Blood", "size": "Huge", "type": "Fiend", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 115, "hit_dice": "10d12+50", "speed": { "walk": 30, "swim": 30, "fly": 50 }, "strength": 22, "dexterity": 12, "constitution": 20, "intelligence": 14, "wisdom": 17, "charisma": 16, "strength_save": 10, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": 9, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 7, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 7, "skills": { "arcana": 6, "perception": 7 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "piercing, lightning", "damage_immunities": "fire, poison", "condition_immunities": "exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 240 ft., passive Perception 17", "languages": "Common, Draconic, Infernal, Void Speech", "challenge_rating": "12", "cr": 12.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Engulfing Protoplasm", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 19 (2d12 + 6) slashing damage and the target must make a successful DC 17 Dexterity saving throw or be grappled by the herald of blood (escape DC 16). While grappled this way, the creature takes 39 (6d12) acid damage at the start of each of the herald's turns. The herald can have any number of creatures grappled this way.", "attack_bonus": 10, "damage_dice": "2d12" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "A herald of blood can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. A herald of blood regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.", "legendary_actions": [ { "name": "Move", "desc": "The herald of blood moves up to half its speed." }, { "name": "Call of Blood (Costs 2 Actions)", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack. +10 to hit, reach 5 ft., all creatures in reach. Hit: 39 (6d12) necrotic damage and each target must make a successful DC 17 Constitution saving throw or gain 1 level of exhaustion." }, { "name": "Majesty of Ragnarok (Costs 3 Actions)", "desc": "The herald of blood emits a terrifying burst of eldritch power. All creatures within 100 feet and in direct line of sight of the herald take 32 (5d12) necrotic damage, gain 2 levels of exhaustion, and are permanently blinded. Targets that make a successful DC 15 Charisma saving throw are not blinded and gain only 1 level of exhaustion." } ], "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Blood Armor", "desc": "The herald of blood takes no damage from the first attack against it each round and ignores any nondamaging effects of the attack." }, { "name": "Gift of Blood", "desc": "As an action, the herald of blood can transform any fey, human, or goblin into a red hag, if the target willingly accepts this transformation." }, { "name": "Grant Blood Rage", "desc": "As a bonus action, the herald of blood can grant a single living creature blood rage, giving it advantage on attacks for 3 rounds. At the end of this time, the target gains 1 level of exhaustion and suffers 13 (2d12) necrotic damage from blood loss." }, { "name": "Humanoid Form", "desc": "A herald of blood can assume a humanoid form at will as a bonus action, and dismiss this form at will." }, { "name": "Melting Touch", "desc": "When a herald of blood scores a critical hit or starts its turn with a foe grappled, it can dissolve one metal or wood item of its choosing in that foe's possession. A mundane item is destroyed automatically; a magical item survives if its owner makes a successful DC 17 Dexterity saving throw." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 248, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_herald-of-blood/" }, { "slug": "herald-of-darkness", "desc": "_Stunningly tall and beautiful fiends, the heralds of darkness resemble dark-haired fey wearing cloaks and armor glittering with dark light and often surrounded by a nimbus of pale green fire._ \nHeralds of darkness speak in fluid tones and sing with the voices of angels, but their hearts are foul and treacherous. \n**Vision of Evil.** Indeed, the heralds of darkness can take on another appearance entirely, disappearing into insubstantial shadows and unveiling an evil majestic form that leaves those who see it shaken and weak—and often blind. Speaking of this form is difficult, but poets and bards trying to describe it have said it resembles an apocalyptic horror built of chained souls and the slow death of children carried along in a glacial river, rushing to an inevitable doom. \n**Sword and Cloak.** The black sword and star-scattered cloak of a herald of darkness are part of its magical substance and cannot be parted from it. Some believe the cloak and blade are true visions of its body; the smiling face and pleasing form are entirely illusory. \n**Corruptors of the Fey.** The heralds of darkness are companions and sometimes masters to the shadow fey. They seek to draw many others into their orbit with wild promises of great power, debauchery, and other delights. They are rivals to the heralds of blood and bitter foes to all angels of light.", "name": "Herald Of Darkness", "size": "Large", "type": "Fiend", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "chain shirt", "hit_points": 105, "hit_dice": "10d10+50", "speed": { "walk": 30, "swim": 30, "fly": 50 }, "strength": 20, "dexterity": 14, "constitution": 20, "intelligence": 12, "wisdom": 15, "charisma": 20, "strength_save": 8, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": 8, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": 8, "perception": 5, "skills": { "athletics": 8, "deception": 8, "perception": 5 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, thunder", "damage_immunities": "cold, lightning, necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 200 ft., passive Perception 15", "languages": "Common, Elvish, Goblin, Infernal, Sylvan", "challenge_rating": "7", "cr": 7.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The herald of darkness uses Majesty of the Abyss, if it is available, and makes one melee attack." }, { "name": "Embrace Darkness", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack. +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., all creatures in reach. Hit: 6 (1d12) necrotic damage and targets are paralyzed until the start of the herald's next turn. Making a DC 17 Constitution saving throw negates the paralysis." }, { "name": "Majesty of the Abyss (Recharge 4-6)", "desc": "The herald of darkness emits a sinister burst of infernal power. All creatures within 30 feet and in direct line of sight of the herald take 19 (3d12) necrotic damage and must make a DC 17 Constitution saving throw. Those who fail the saving throw are blinded for 2 rounds; those who succeed are frightened for 2 rounds." }, { "name": "Shadow Sword", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 18 (2d12 + 5) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "2d12" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Corrupting Touch", "desc": "A herald of darkness can destroy any wooden, leather, copper, iron, or paper object by touching it as a bonus action. A mundane item is destroyed automatically; a magical item survives if its owner makes a successful DC 16 Dexterity saving throw." }, { "name": "Gift of Darkness", "desc": "A herald of darkness can transform any fey, human, or goblin into one of the shadow fey, if the target willingly accepts this transformation." }, { "name": "Shadow Form", "desc": "A herald of darkness can become incorporeal as a shadow as a bonus action. In this form, it has a fly speed of 10 feet; it can enter and occupy spaces occupied by other creatures; it gains resistance to all nonmagical damage; it has advantage on physical saving throws; it can pass through any gap or opening; it can't attack, interact with physical objects, or speak. It can return to its corporeal form also as a bonus action." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 249, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_herald-of-darkness/" }, { "slug": "hoard-golem", "desc": "_A hoard golem is a pile of gold, jewelry, and weapons that can rise on its own like a tidal wave of riches, with a cold and determined face. A hoard golem can crash down with the weight of a fortune, flattening everything in its path._ \n**Dragon Fears Made Real.** The hoard golems were born from the paranoia of dragons. Despite their great physical and intellectual power, dragons are always suspicious of any creature willing to work for them. The first hoard golem was created when a dragon realized that there could be no guardian more trustworthy with its hoard than the hoard itself. Since then, the secret of hoard golem construction has emerged, and rich nobles have followed suit, enchanting their wealth to defend itself from thieves. \n**Patient Homebodies.** As constructs, hoard golems are mindless, lying in wait for anyone other than their creator to come within striking distance. In the case of evil dragons, this may include the wyrmlings of dragon parents looking to establish dominance in the family. Hoard golems fight to the death, but they rarely leave the rooms they inhabit for fear that clever treasure hunters might trick the hoard into walking itself right out of the owner’s den. \n**Silent and Wealthy.** Hoard golems cannot speak. A hoard golem is 25 feet tall and weighs 20,000 lb. A hoard golem’s body is composed of items—copper, silver, gold, works of art, armor, weapons, and magical items—worth at least 5,000 gp. \n**Constructed Nature.** A golem doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Hoard Golem", "size": "Huge", "type": "Construct", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 18, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 161, "hit_dice": "14d12+70", "speed": { "walk": 40 }, "strength": 22, "dexterity": 15, "constitution": 20, "intelligence": 3, "wisdom": 11, "charisma": 1, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": 9, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 4, "skills": { "athletics": 10, "perception": 4 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "poison, psychic; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks not made with adamantine weapons", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhausted, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 14", "languages": "understands the language of its creator but can't speak", "challenge_rating": "12", "cr": 12.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The golem makes two slam attacks." }, { "name": "Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 39 (6d10 + 6) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 10, "damage_dice": "6d10" }, { "name": "Thieving Whirlwind (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "The hoard golem transforms into a 20-foot radius whirlwind of the treasures of which it is composed. In this form, it has immunity to all slashing and piercing damage. As a whirlwind, it can enter other creatures' spaces and stop there. Every creature in a space the whirlwind occupies must make a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw. On a failure, a target takes 40 (6d10 + 7) bludgeoning damage and the whirlwind removes the most valuable visible item on the target, including wielded items, but not armor. If the saving throw is successful, the target takes half the bludgeoning damage and retains all possessions. The golem can remain in whirlwind form for up to 3 rounds, or it can transform back to its normal form on any of its turns as a bonus action." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Strike with Awe", "desc": "Creatures within 120 feet of an immobile hoard golem suffer disadvantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks. A creature's sheer glee on discovering a vast hoard of treasure distracts it from its surroundings." }, { "name": "Immutable Form", "desc": "The golem is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form." }, { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The golem has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." }, { "name": "Magic Weapons", "desc": "The golem's weapon attacks are magical." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 234, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_hoard-golem/" }, { "slug": "horakh", "desc": "_Resembling a cave cricket the size of a dog, this beast wraps its victim in spiny legs and claws when it attacks. A horakh’s black, chitinous thorax is topped by a translucent digestive sac—often containing half-digested eyeballs of varying sizes, colors, and species._ \n**Leaping Claws.** Insectoid killing machines with a penchant for consuming their victim’s eyes, the bloodthirsty horakhs travel in small packs and make lightning-fast attacks against the weak or vulnerable. Their powerful rear legs enable enormous bounding leaps, while the sharp hooks at the end of their powerful claws help them to climb and latch onto prey. Heads dominated by scooped mandibles that can shoot forward like pistons, shearing meat from bone. \n**Leaping Screech.** When attacking, a horakh leaps from its hiding spots while making a deafening screech. Horakhs are highly mobile on the battlefield. If threatened, horakhs return to the shadows to attack from a more advantageous position. \n**Herd the Blinded.** After blinding their prey, horakh often herd the blind like sheep until they are ready to consume them and even use them as bait to capture other creatures. Many an explorer has been ambushed, blinded, and condemned to death in the bowels of the earth by these predators.", "name": "Horakh", "size": "Medium", "type": "Monstrosity", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral", "armor_class": 17, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 161, "hit_dice": "19d8+76", "speed": { "walk": 40, "climb": 30 }, "strength": 18, "dexterity": 19, "constitution": 19, "intelligence": 8, "wisdom": 15, "charisma": 10, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 12, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 6, "skills": { "athletics": 8, "perception": 6, "stealth": 8 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., tremorsense 30 ft., passive Perception 20", "languages": "understands Undercommon", "challenge_rating": "9", "cr": 9.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The horakh makes two claw attacks and one bite attack." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 22 (4d8 + 4) slashing damage. If the bite attack hits a target that's grappled by the horakh, the target must make a successful DC 16 Dexterity saving throw or one of its eyes is bitten out. A creature with just one remaining eye has disadvantage on ranged attack rolls and on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight. If both (or all) eyes are lost, the target is blinded. The regenerate spell and comparable magic can restore lost eyes. Also see Implant Egg, below.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "4d8" }, { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 17 (3d8 + 4) piercing damage. If both attacks hit the same Medium or smaller target in a single turn, the target is grappled (escape DC 14).", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "3d8" }, { "name": "Implant Egg", "desc": "If a horakh's bite attack reduces a grappled creature to 0 hit points, or it bites a target that's already at 0 hit points, it implants an egg in the creature's eye socket. The deposited egg grows for 2 weeks before hatching. If the implanted victim is still alive, it loses 1d2 Constitution every 24 hours and has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks. After the first week, the victim is incapacitated and blinded. When the egg hatches after 2 weeks, an immature horakh erupts from the victim's head, causing 1d10 bludgeoning, 1d10 piercing, and 1d10 slashing damage. A lesser restoration spell can kill the egg during its incubation." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Shadow Stealth", "desc": "A horakh can hide as a bonus action if it's in dim light or darkness." }, { "name": "Standing Leap", "desc": "As part of its movement, the horakh can jump up to 20 feet horizontally and 10 feet vertically, with or without a running start." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 250, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_horakh/" }, { "slug": "hound-of-the-night", "desc": "_These enormous black hounds are most commonly seen panting in the moonlight, wisps of steam rising from their muzzles, while they accompany a nocturnal hunting party._ \n**Fey Bloodhounds.** Hounds of the night are bred by the shadow fey for use as hunting companions and guardians, and they excel at both tasks. Far more intelligent than other hounds, they are difficult to evade once they are on a quarry’s trail, because they can think their way past problems that would throw their lesser kin off the trail. Their shadow fey masters claim that hounds of the night can smell a shadow on running water and can sniff out a ghost passing through a wall. \n**Cousins to Winter.** Somewhere in their early existence as a breed, some enterprising hunter interbred them with winter wolves. Every trace of their white fur is long gone, but the cold breath of those dread canines remains. \n**Dimensional Stepping.** Hounds of night excel at distracting prey while some of their pack uses dimension door to achieve some larger goal, such as dragging off a treasure or overwhelming a spellcaster in the back ranks.", "name": "Hound Of The Night", "size": "Large", "type": "Monstrosity", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 16, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 112, "hit_dice": "15d10+30", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 20, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 14, "intelligence": 9, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 10, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 6, "constitution_save": 5, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 5, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 5, "skills": { "intimidation": 3, "perception": 5, "stealth": 6 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "fire", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "cold", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 15", "languages": "understands Elvish and Umbral but can't speak", "challenge_rating": "5", "cr": 5.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 21 (3d10 + 5) piercing damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 15 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "3d10" }, { "name": "Frost Breath (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "The hound exhales a 15-foot cone of frost. Those in the area of effect take 44 (8d10) cold damage, or half damage with a successful DC 13 Dexterity saving throw." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Blood Scent", "desc": "A hound of the night can follow a scent through phase shifts, ethereal movement, dimension door, and fey steps of any kind. Teleport and plane shift are beyond their ability to follow." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the hound's innate spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 13). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nat will: dimension door" } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 251, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_hound-of-the-night/" }, { "slug": "hundun", "desc": "_A toothless mouth adorns the headless shoulders of this oversized, four-armed, doughy humanoid. Colors and half-formed phantasmal shapes appear and vanish around it, to the creature’s obvious delight._ \n**Creative Chaos.** Wise yet child-like creatures of chaos, hunduns are four-armed, headless humanoids that embody spontaneous creation and the confusion that precedes enlightenment. Taking delight in creation of all kinds, they bring change to the staid and stagnant, spin revelation from confusion, and inspire moments of great creation—from works of art to new nations and faiths, and even the formation of planets and planes. \n**Nonsense Speech.** Although not mindless, hunduns rarely seem to act out of conscious thought, yet their actions seem wise and usually benevolent. They communicate only in nonsense words, but have no trouble communicating among themselves or acting in coordination with other hunduns. \n**Flesh of Creation.** Hundun blood is a powerful catalyst, and their spittle a potent drug. Each hundun’s heart is an Egg of Worlds—an artifact that can give birth to new concepts, powers, or even worlds. Obviously, the hundun must die for its heart to be used this way, but this is a sacrifice one might make willingly under the right circumstances.", "name": "Hundun", "size": "Large", "type": "Celestial", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic good", "armor_class": 18, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 153, "hit_dice": "18d10+54", "speed": { "walk": 40, "fly": 40 }, "strength": 20, "dexterity": 14, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 4, "wisdom": 20, "charisma": 18, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": 7, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 9, "charisma_save": 8, "perception": 9, "skills": { "athletics": 9, "insight": 9, "perception": 9 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "lightning, thunder; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "acid, psychic", "condition_immunities": "blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, stunned, unconscious", "senses": "blindsight 60 ft., passive Perception 20", "languages": "understands Celestial and Primordial, but cannot speak intelligibly", "challenge_rating": "10", "cr": 10.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The hundun makes four slam attacks." }, { "name": "Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 15 (3d6 + 5) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 9, "damage_dice": "3d6" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Brainless", "desc": "Hunduns are immune to any spell or effect that allows an Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma saving throw. Trying to contact or read a Hundun's mind confuses the caster as the spell for 1 round." }, { "name": "Dance of Creation", "desc": "Hunduns can perform an act of magical creation almost unlimited in scope every 1d8 days. The effect is equivalent to a wish spell, but it must create something." }, { "name": "Enlightening Befuddlement", "desc": "when a hundun's confusion spell affects a target, it can elect to use the following table rather than the standard one:\n\n1d100 Result" }, { "name": "01-10 Inspired:", "desc": "Advantage on attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws" }, { "name": "11-20 Distracted:", "desc": "Disadvantage on attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws" }, { "name": "21-50 Incoherent:", "desc": "The target does nothing but babble or scribble incoherent notes on a new idea" }, { "name": "51-75 Obsessed:", "desc": "Target is recipient of geas to create a quality magical object" }, { "name": "76-100 Suggestible:", "desc": "Target receives a suggestion from the hundun" }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the hundun's innate spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 17). It can cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nconstant: confusion (always centered on the hundun), detect thoughts\n\nat will: create or destroy water, dancing lights, mending, prestidigitation\n\n3/day each: compulsion, dimension door, black tentacles, irresistible dance\n\n1/day each: awaken, creation, heroes' feast, magnificent mansion, plant growth, reincarnate, stone shape" }, { "name": "Magic Weapons", "desc": "The hundun's weapon attacks are magical." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 253, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_hundun/" }, { "slug": "ice-maiden", "desc": "_This alluring beauty has flesh and hair as white as snow and eyes blue as glacial ice._ \n**Born of the Ice.** Ice maidens are the daughters of powerful creatures of the cold. Some are descendants of Boreas or the Snow Queen (a few having both parents), but they are also born to frost giants and thursir. A few result from tearful pleas by pregnant women lost in the snows, desperate to keep their newborn child from freezing to death—the fraughashar carry these infants away and raise them as ice maidens. \n**Solitary Lives.** Most ice maidens live solitary existences save for a servant or two under their thrall. They’re lonely creatures, desperate for love but condemned to know companionship only through their magical kiss. If genuine love ever fills an ice maiden’s heart, she’ll melt into nothingness. \n**Killing Dilemma.** An ice maiden’s hunger for affection and human contact leads them to harm those they approach, which only drives them harder to seek for warmth, love, and approval. Some claim an ice maiden can become a swan maiden or a dryad if she keeps a lover’s heart warm for a full year.", "name": "Ice Maiden", "size": "Medium", "type": "Fey", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "lawful evil", "armor_class": 16, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 84, "hit_dice": "13d8+26", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 12, "dexterity": 17, "constitution": 15, "intelligence": 19, "wisdom": 13, "charisma": 23, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": 5, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": 9, "perception": null, "skills": { "deception": 9, "persuasion": 9, "stealth": 6 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "fire", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "cold", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11", "languages": "Common, Giant, Sylvan", "challenge_rating": "6", "cr": 6.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The frost maiden makes two ice dagger attacks." }, { "name": "Ice Dagger", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d4 + 3) piercing damage plus 3 (1d6) cold damage.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "1d4" }, { "name": "Flurry-Form", "desc": "The ice maiden adopts the form of a swirling snow cloud. Her stats are identical to an air elemental that deals cold damage instead of bludgeoning." }, { "name": "Icy Entangle", "desc": "Ice and snow hinder her opponent's movement, as the entangle spell (DC 17)." }, { "name": "Kiss of the Frozen Heart", "desc": "An ice maiden may kiss a willing individual, freezing the target's heart. The target falls under the sway of a dominate spell, his or her alignment shifts to LE, and he or she gains immunity to cold. The ice maiden can have up to three such servants at once. The effect can be broken by dispel magic (DC 17), greater restoration, or the kiss of someone who loves the target." }, { "name": "Snowblind Burst", "desc": "In a snowy environment, the ice maiden attempts to blind all creatures within 30 feet of herself. Those who fail a DC 17 Charisma saving throw are blinded for 1 hour. Targets that are immune to cold damage are also immune to this effect." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Chilling Presence", "desc": "Cold air surrounds the ice maiden. Small non-magical flames are extinguished in her presence and water begins to freeze. Unprotected characters spending more than 10 minutes within 15 feet of her must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or suffer as if exposed to severe cold. Spells that grant protection from cold damage are targeted by an automatic dispel magic effect." }, { "name": "Cold Eyes", "desc": "Ice maidens see perfectly in snowy conditions, including driving blizzards, and are immune to snow blindness." }, { "name": "Ice Walk", "desc": "Ice maidens move across icy and snowy surfaces without penalty." }, { "name": "Snow Invisibility", "desc": "In snowy environments, the ice maiden can turn invisible as a bonus action." }, { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The ice maiden has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the ice maiden's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 17). She can innately cast the following spells:\n\nat will: chill touch, detect magic, light, mage hand, prestidigitation, resistance\n\n5/day each: endure elements (cold only), fear, fog cloud, misty step\n\n3/day each: alter self, protection from energy, sleet storm\n\n1/day: ice storm" } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 254, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_ice-maiden/" }, { "slug": "idolic-deity", "desc": "_This small demonic idol fade into and out of reality. Its elemental will presses on those near as a near-physical pressure._ \n**Relics of Dark Gods.** Idolic deities are found in ancient temples and deserted tombs. They are relics of an elder age and all that remains of the favored children of deceiving dark god— mighty lordlings like Akoman the Evil Thought, Nanghant the Discontented, and Sarvar the Oppressor. Sent to consume the souls of those worshiping gods of light, these beings of shadow and sand labored slowly through corruption of the soul rather than outright war. \n**Imprisoned Shadow Demons.** The corrupted ancient tribes and their priests began worshiping them as gods, and they forsook their master’s purpose to revel in their pride and vanity until they were struck down for their treachery. They have since wasted to a shadow remnant and been imprisoned in stony idols that barely cling to solidity. \n**Constructed Nature.** An idolic deity doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Idolic Deity", "size": "Small", "type": "Construct", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 17, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 90, "hit_dice": "12d6+48", "speed": { "walk": 0, "fly": 30 }, "strength": 14, "dexterity": 20, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 10, "wisdom": 11, "charisma": 20, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 3, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "deception": 8, "stealth": 8 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "fire", "damage_resistances": "cold; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10", "languages": "telepathy 60 ft.", "challenge_rating": "8", "cr": 8.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The idolic deity uses Seduce the Righteous and makes two slam attacks." }, { "name": "Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d6 + 5) bludgeoning damage plus 18 (4d8) psychic damage.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "1d6" }, { "name": "Seduce the Righteous", "desc": "The idolic deity targets one creature it can see within 30 feet. The target has disadvantage on attack rolls, saving throws, or ability checks (the idolic deity chooses which) until the end of its next turn. A protection from evil and good spell cast on the target prevents this effect, as does a magic circle." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Stealth in darkness", "desc": "The idolic diety gains an additional +3 to Stealth (+11 in total) in dim light or darkness." }, { "name": "Apostasy Aura", "desc": "The idolic deity's presence causes devout followers to doubt their faith. A cleric or paladin that can see the idolic deity and wishes to cast a spell or use a class feature must make a DC 16 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the spell or class feature is spent as if it was used, but it has no effect." }, { "name": "Incorporeal Movement", "desc": "The idolic deity can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. It takes 5 (1d10) force damage if it ends its turn inside an object." }, { "name": "Shadow Stealth", "desc": "While in dim light or darkness, the idolic deity can take the Hide action as a bonus action." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 255, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_idolic-deity/" }, { "slug": "imy-ut-ushabti", "desc": "_These tomb guardians walk their rounds silently, an ornate sword in its hand. Glittering scarabs scurry from under their deformed and yellowed linen wrappings._ \n**Willing Sacrifices.** The undying servants of the god‑kings and queens of ancient times, the imy-ut ushabti guard the tombs of their masters and shepherd them toward their eventual awakening. Generals, trusted advisors, and close allies of their god-king willingly accompanied their dying lords into the afterlife through a horrifying transformation. Still alive, they are tightly bound in linens and sealed within a sarcophagus among a swarm of flesh‑eating scarabs that, over a period of days to weeks, fully consumed their bodies. The servant’s devotion to their task and the anguish of their passing transforms the scarab colony and animates the funerary wrappings to carry on the imy-ut’s duty. \n**Scarab Mummies.** From a distance, the imy-ut ushabti are indistinguishable from the mummified form of their master, betrayed only by the reserved ornamentation of their lacquered armor and the ripples of movement beneath their wrappings from the mass of scarabs beneath it. \n**Warding Triads.** Traditionally, imy‑ut ushabti appear only in triads—the warden, charged with ensuring the death sleep of their god‑queen is uninterrupted; the steward, tasked with escorting their master back from the land of the dead; and the herald, proclaiming their lord’s return to the world of the living.", "name": "Imy-Ut Ushabti", "size": "Medium", "type": "Monstrosity", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "chain shirt", "hit_points": 97, "hit_dice": "15d8+30", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 17, "dexterity": 14, "constitution": 15, "intelligence": 6, "wisdom": 10, "charisma": 5, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 2, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "fire", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "exhaustion, frightened", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10", "languages": "Common (Ancient Nurian)", "challenge_rating": "3", "cr": 3.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Ceremonial Greatsword", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) slashing damage, and the target must make a successful DC 13 Constitution saving throw or take 5 (2d4) poison damage at the start of each of its turns. The target repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "2d6" }, { "name": "Vomit Swarm (1/Day)", "desc": "The imy-ut ushabti parts its wrappings voluntarily and releases a swarm of scarab beetles that follow its mental commands. The statistics of this swarm are identical to a swarm of insects, but with the following attack instead of a swarm of insects' standard bite attack:" }, { "name": "Bites", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 0 ft., one creature. Hit: 10 (4d4) piercing damage, or 5 (2d4) piercing damage if the swarm has half of its hit points or fewer, and the target must make a successful DC 13 Constitution saving throw or take 5 (2d4) poison damage at the start of each of its turns. A poisoned creature repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.", "attack_bonus": 3, "damage_dice": "4d4" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Regeneration", "desc": "The imy-ut ushabti regains 5 hit points at the start of its turn if it has at least 1 hit point." }, { "name": "Rent wrappings", "desc": "A creature that touches or deals slashing or piercing damage to an imy-ut ushabti while within 5 feet of the creature shreds its delicate linen wrappings, releasing a flurry of skittering scarabs. The attacking creature must make a DC 12 Dexterity saving throw to avoid them. On a failure, these beetles flow onto the attacker and deal 3 (1d6) piercing damage to it at the start of each of its turns. A creature can remove beetles from itself or from another affected creature within reach by using an action and making a successful DC 12 Dexterity saving throw. The beetles are also destroyed if the affected creature takes damage from an area effect." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 256, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_imy-ut-ushabti/" }, { "slug": "isonade", "desc": "_The isonade’s gargantuan thrashing tail is lined with cruelly hooked barbs, and it delights in destruction. When it approaches a coastal village, its tail shoots high into the air from beneath the waves, and it smashes all ships, docks, and nets in its path._ \n**Coastal Destroyer.** The isonade is a beast of destruction, sweeping away entire islands and villages. It wrecks seaside communities with battering winds and carves coastlines with its powerful magic. Though not very intelligent, it singles out a community and tries to lure residents into the waves with its animal messenger ability, sending gulls bearing confused riddles, grand promises, and eerie noises to the townsfolk. \n**Ocean Sacrifices.** When coastal villagers suffered from a hurricane or tsunami, they fell back on folklore and blamed the stirrings of the dreaded isonade. To some, appeasing a leviathan such as this makes sense. Some say that a degenerate group seeks to draw the beast forth by sailing from sight of land and dumping a long chain of bound and screaming sacrifices into the lightless depths of the sea. \n**Enormous Age and Size.** The isonade is more than 45 feet long. The beast’s age is unknown, and many coastal bards tell some version of the legend—some believe it is the last of its kind, others believe that a small group of isonade remains.", "name": "Isonade", "size": "Gargantuan", "type": "Monstrosity", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic neutral", "armor_class": 18, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 222, "hit_dice": "12d20+96", "speed": { "swim": 100 }, "strength": 30, "dexterity": 14, "constitution": 26, "intelligence": 6, "wisdom": 18, "charisma": 8, "strength_save": 14, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": 12, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 8, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 8, "skills": { "athletics": 14, "perception": 8 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "ability damage/drain", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 90 ft., passive Perception 18", "languages": "understands Aquan and Elvish, but cannot speak", "challenge_rating": "14", "cr": 14.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The isonade makes one tail slap attack and one bite attack." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +14 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 42 (5d12 + 10) piercing damage and the target is grappled (escape DC 20). If the target was already grappled from a previous bite, it's also swallowed whole (see below).", "attack_bonus": 14, "damage_dice": "5d12+10" }, { "name": "Tail Slap", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +14 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 31 (6d6 + 10) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 14, "damage_dice": "6d6" }, { "name": "Breach", "desc": "The isonade leaps out of the water to crash down onto a target with devastating effect. The isonade must move 30 feet in a straight line toward its target before jumping. When jumping, the isonade travels up to 30 feet through the air before landing. Any creature occupying the space where the isonade lands takes 76 (12d10 + 10) bludgeoning damage and becomes submerged 10 feet below the surface of the water. Targets that make a successful DC 20 Strength saving throw take half damage and are not submerged, but are moved to the nearest unoccupied space. Boats and structures are not immune to this attack." }, { "name": "Swallow Whole", "desc": "When the isonade's bite attack hits a target grappled from a previous bite attack, the target is also swallowed. The grapple ends, but the target is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside the isonade, and it takes 36 (8d8) acid damage at the start of each of the isonade's turns. An isonade can have two Large, four Medium, or six Small creatures swallowed at a time. If the isonade takes 40 damage or more from a swallowed creature in a single turn, it must succeed on a DC 20 Constitution saving throw or regurgitate all swallowed creatures, which fall prone within 10 feet of the isonade. If the isonade dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained by it and can escape by using 20 feet of movement, exiting prone." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Atmospheric Immunity", "desc": "The isonade can comfortably exist at any level of the sea and suffers no penalties at any depth." }, { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The isonade has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." }, { "name": "Water Breathing", "desc": "The isonade can breathe only underwater." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the isonade's innate spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 16). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nat will: animal messenger\n\n3/day each: control water, earthquake\n\n1/day each: control weather, storm of vengeance, tsunami" } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 257, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_isonade/" }, { "slug": "jaculus", "desc": "_This small dragon has feathered wings on its forearms and powerful legs it uses to cling to trees._ \nThe jaculus (plural jaculi), is a draconic predator that roams the forest and jungle looking for valuable objects it can add to its hoard. Also called the javelin snake, a jaculus loves shiny or reflective items, and it is clever enough to identify items of real value. It will fight and kill to take items it desires, which it stashes inside hollow trees far from any forest trail. \n**Leapers.** Jaculi are far better jumpers than flyers. They can jump 18 feet horizontally or 12 feet vertically after taking a single 2-foot step. They even climb faster than they fly, so they use their wings to flap clumsily back into the trees only when necessary. \n**Teamwork Thievery.** Jaculi are among the least intelligent of the dragons—but they’re still smarter than most humans, and they’re known to pursue cunning and complicated plots to build their hoards. Many traditional tales tell of jaculi in the southern forests working as teams to separate merchants and other travelers from their wealth, figuring out ways to abscond with gems and jewelry before the owners even know they’ve been robbed. Some jaculi may feign docility or even pretend to be friendly and helpful, but wise travelers know that the creatures drop such ruses as soon as they can steal what they’re really after.", "name": "Jaculus", "size": "Small", "type": "Dragon", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 18, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 65, "hit_dice": "10d6+30", "speed": { "walk": 20, "climb": 20, "fly": 10 }, "strength": 14, "dexterity": 18, "constitution": 17, "intelligence": 13, "wisdom": 13, "charisma": 13, "strength_save": 4, "dexterity_save": 6, "constitution_save": 5, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 3, "charisma_save": 3, "perception": 3, "skills": { "acrobatics": 6, "perception": 3, "stealth": 6 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "acid, lightning", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "blindsight 10 ft., darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13", "languages": "Common, Draconic", "challenge_rating": "3", "cr": 3.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The jaculus makes one jaws attack and one claws attack." }, { "name": "Jaws", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (2d4 + 2) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "2d4" }, { "name": "Claws", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 2) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "2d6" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Spearhead", "desc": "If the jaculus moves at least 10 feet straight toward a target and hits that target with a jaws attack on the same turn, the jaws attack does an extra 4 (1d8) piercing damage." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 258, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_jaculus/" }, { "slug": "jba-fofi-spider", "desc": "_A large, brown spider that resembles a tarantula with exaggeratedly long legs gracefully emerges from the bushes, followed by similar arachnids that are smaller and yellow in color._ \nThe j’ba fofi resembles an oversized tarantula with very long legs, although a flicker of intelligence indicates this species evolved above mere vermin. \n**Spider Pack Leaders.** The youngest are yellow in color, but their hairs turn brown as they age. Immature j’ba fofi pull ordinary spiders into their fellowship in teeming masses that follow along wherever they roam. \n**Fond of Camouflage.** The natural coloring of a j’ba fofi, along with its proficiency at camouflage—their hair-like bristles are usually covered in a layer of leaves—makes it virtually invisible in its natural environment. They weave leaves and other forest litter into their webs to create well-hidden, enclosed lairs.", "name": "J'ba Fofi Spider", "size": "Large", "type": "Beast", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 18, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 75, "hit_dice": "10d10+20", "speed": { "walk": 40, "climb": 40 }, "strength": 17, "dexterity": 17, "constitution": 15, "intelligence": 4, "wisdom": 13, "charisma": 6, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "stealth": 5 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "blindsight 10 ft., darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11", "languages": "", "challenge_rating": "3", "cr": 3.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 8 (1d10 + 3) piercing damage plus 22 (5d8) poison damage, or half as much poison damage with a successful DC 12 Constitution saving throw. A target dropped to 0 hit points by this attack is stable but poisoned and paralyzed for 1 hour, even after regaining hit points.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1d10" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Jungle Stealth", "desc": "The j'ba fofi spider gains an additional +2 to Stealth (+7 in total) in forest or jungle terrain." }, { "name": "Camouflaged Webs", "desc": "It takes a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check to spot the j'ba fofi's web. A creature that fails to notice a web and comes into contact with it is restrained by the web. A restrained creature can pull free from the web by using an action and making a successful DC 12 Strength check. The web can be attacked and destroyed (AC 10; hp 5; vulnerable to fire damage; immune to bludgeoning, poison, and psychic damage)." }, { "name": "Spider Climb", "desc": "The j'ba fofi can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check." }, { "name": "Spider Symbiosis", "desc": "No ordinary spider will attack the j'ba fofi unless magically controlled or the j'ba fofi attacks it first. In addition, every j'ba fofi is accompanied by a swarm of spiders (a variant of the swarm of insects), which moves and attacks according to the j'ba fofi's mental command (commanding the swarm does not require an action by the j'ba fofi)." }, { "name": "Web Sense", "desc": "While in contact with a web, the j'ba fofi knows the exact location of any other creature in contact with the same web." }, { "name": "Web Walker", "desc": "The j'ba fofi ignores movement restrictions caused by webbing." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 362, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_jba-fofi-spider/" }, { "slug": "jotun-giant", "desc": "_The earth shudders with every footfall of a Jotun giant, the immortal enemies of the gods. Tall enough to look a titan in the eye and strong enough to wrestle a linnorm, Jotun gaints are the lords of giantkind. Their enormous halls are carved in mountains and glaciers throughout the frozen wastes._ \n**Foes of the Gods.** As foes of the northern gods, they plot to regain their former status as lords of Creation. Many know ancient secrets and snippets of antediluvian arcane lore, and so may have abilities beyond those listed below. More powerful Jotun giants straddle the line between mortal and demigod. \n**Contests and Challenges.** Like many giants, the Jotun enjoy a challenge, even from tiny little humans. Only the mightiest heroes can challenge a Jotun giant’s might in physical combat. Using cunning or trickery is a safer bet—though being too cunning is also angers them, and Jotun giants are no fools. \n**Seekers of Ragnarok.** The Jotun giants know great magic, and strive to bring about end times of Ragnarok.", "name": "Jotun Giant", "size": "Gargantuan", "type": "Giant", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic neutral", "armor_class": 20, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 407, "hit_dice": "22d20+176", "speed": { "walk": 60 }, "strength": 30, "dexterity": 8, "constitution": 26, "intelligence": 18, "wisdom": 20, "charisma": 14, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": 14, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 11, "charisma_save": 8, "perception": null, "skills": { "arcana": 10, "history": 10, "nature": 10, "stealth": 5 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 15", "languages": "Common, Giant", "challenge_rating": "22", "cr": 22.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The giant makes two greatclub attacks and a frightful presence attack, or one rock throwing attack." }, { "name": "Greatclub", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +16 to hit, reach 30 ft., one target. Hit: 55 (10d8 + 10) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 16, "damage_dice": "10d8" }, { "name": "Rock", "desc": "Ranged Weapon Attack: +16 to hit, range 90/240 ft., one target. Hit: 49 (6d12 + 10) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 16, "damage_dice": "6d12" }, { "name": "Frightful Presence", "desc": "Each creature of the giant's choice that is within 120 feet of the giant and aware of it must succeed on a DC 19 Wisdom saving throw or become frightened for 1 minute. A creature repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. Once a creature's saving throw is successful, it is immune to the giant's Frightful Presence for the next 24 hours." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": [ { "name": "Rock Catching", "desc": "If a rock or similar object is hurled at the giant, the giant can, with a successful DC 10 Dexterity saving throw, catch the missile and take no bludgeoning damage from it." } ], "legendary_desc": "The Jotun giant can take 1 legendary action, and only at the end of another creature's turn. The giant regains the spent legendary action at the start of its turn.", "legendary_actions": [ { "name": "Detect", "desc": "The Jotun giant makes a Wisdom (Perception) check." }, { "name": "Planar Return", "desc": "If banished, a Jotun giant can return to the plane it departed 2/day. If banished a third time, it cannot return." }, { "name": "Sweeping Blow", "desc": "The Jotun giant can sweep its greatclub in an arc around itself. The sweep affects a semicircular path 30 feet wide around the giant. All targets in that area take 46 (8d8 + 10) bludgeoning damage, or no damage with a successful DC 19 Dexterity saving throw." } ], "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Immortality", "desc": "Jotuns suffer no ill effects from age, and are immune to effects that reduce ability scores and hit point maximum." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the Jotun giant's innate spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 19). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nat will: earthquake, shapechange, speak with animals\n\n3/day: bestow curse, gust of wind\n\n1/day: divination" }, { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The giant has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." }, { "name": "Magic Weapons", "desc": "The giant's weapon attacks are magical." }, { "name": "Too Big to Notice", "desc": "The sheer size of the Jotun giant often causes those near it to confuse one at rest for part of the landscape. The jotun has advantage on Stealth checks when not moving." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 222, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_jotun-giant/" }, { "slug": "kalke", "desc": "_Combining the head of a goat and the body of a monkey makes the creature odd enough; combining the social grace of a baboon with pretensions of a scholar makes it more comical than threatening._ \nFiendish pests that infest derelict wizards’ towers and laboratories, the kalkes are either the by-product of botched gates into the lower realms or the personification of an evil deity’s contempt for wizards. All kalkes act with the arrogance of magi while having the social characteristics of baboons. Being of fiendish blood, kalkes do not age and require neither food nor drink. Though lacking any formal spellcasting ability, all kalkes can produce magical effects through the dramatic mumming of largely spontaneous and unstudied rituals. \n**Hoard Magical Paraphernalia.** The drive to produce ever more fanciful rituals gives a kalke the compulsion to accumulate spell components, magical foci, and other occult paraphernalia. Although these objects serve no purpose, the kalkes seek out spellcasters in their vicinity and steal any paraphernalia they can find. Because they have no ability to distinguish what’s magically useful from what isn’t, they grab any jewelry, pouches, sticks, or ornate objects they uncover. Sometimes children, animals, or other small humanoids are taken to be used as sacrifices, if they can be easily carried away. \n**Perform Rituals.** Troops of kalkes inhabit trees, caverns, and ruins around sites of significant magical activity. Twice a month, or more during major astrological and seasonal events, the kalkes gather to perform—by way of dance, chant, and sacrifice—an imagined rite of great magic. The effort has an equal chance of achieving nothing whatsoever, causing dangerous but short-lived misfortunes (snakes raining on the countryside, creatures summoned from the lower planes), or triggering calamities (great fires or floods). \nAn additional side effect of these rituals is that the troop may gain or lose members magically. If the troop numbers less than 13, a new kalke appears as if from nowhere; if it contains 13 or more members, then 3d4 of them find themselves mysteriously gated to the nearest location of magical activity—often hundreds of miles away. Those teleported arrive in a state of hysteria, with individuals extinguishing flames, grabbing frippery, and running in all directions. Because kalkes have no control over their displacement, it’s not surprising to find them in abandoned dungeons or keeps, clutching the property of some long-lost wizard. \n**Hagglers.** The kalkes will return the goods they've taken, in exchange for a ransom or fee. These exchanges need to have the outward appearance of being impressively in the kalke’s favor. A particularly generous (or devious) spellcaster may be able to reach an accommodation with a persistent local troop of kalkes.", "name": "Kalke", "size": "Small", "type": "Fiend", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 9, "hit_dice": "2d6+2", "speed": { "walk": 30, "climb": 30 }, "strength": 8, "dexterity": 17, "constitution": 12, "intelligence": 13, "wisdom": 7, "charisma": 13, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 0, "skills": { "perception": 0, "stealth": 5 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 10", "languages": "Abyssal, Common, Infernal", "challenge_rating": "1/4", "cr": 0.25, "actions": [ { "name": "Dagger", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d4 + 3) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1d4" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Extinguish Flames", "desc": "Kalkes can extinguish candles, lamps, lanterns and low-burning campfires within 120 feet as a bonus action." }, { "name": "Detect Spellcasting", "desc": "Kalkes can sense spellcasting in a 5-mile radius, as long as the effect is not innate." }, { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "Kalkes have advantage on saving throws against spells and magical effects." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 259, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_kalke/" }, { "slug": "kikimora", "desc": "_This strange-looking humanoid combines the features of an old crone and some manner of bird. A shawl covers her head but cannot contain her prominent beak and clawed hands. Her skirt reveals bird-like feet._ \n**Filthy Illusions.** Kikimoras are devious house spirits who torment those they live with unless they are catered to and cajoled. They delight in harassing homeowners with their illusions, making a house look much filthier than it actually is. Their favored illusions include mold, filth, and scuttling vermin. \nThey love secretly breaking things or making such destruction seem like an accident. They then convince the house’s residents to leave gifts as enticement for making repairs in the night. \n**Brownie Hunters.** Kikimoras hate brownies. While brownies can be mischievous, kikimoras bring pain and frustration on their housemates instead of remaining hidden and helping chores along. Some brownies seek out kikimora‑infested homes with the intention of evicting them. \nIf homeowners refuse to appease the kikimora (or cannot rid themselves of her devious presence), the kikimora sends a swarm of spiders, rats, or bats. Many times inhabitants in a home plagued by a kikimora believe it is haunted. \n**Fast Talkers.** While they try to avoid notice and aren’t great talespinners, kikimoras are convincing and use this influence to gain an upper hand—or to evade capture or avoid violence.", "name": "Kikimora", "size": "Medium", "type": "Fey", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic neutral", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 65, "hit_dice": "10d8+20", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 13, "dexterity": 18, "constitution": 15, "intelligence": 12, "wisdom": 16, "charisma": 21, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "deception": 7, "persuasion": 7, "stealth": 6 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13", "languages": "Common, Sylvan", "challenge_rating": "5", "cr": 5.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The kikimora makes two claw attacks." }, { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "2d6" }, { "name": "Hidey-Hole", "desc": "When a kikimora chooses a house to inhabit, she scrawls a symbol on a wall, baseboard, cupboard, or semi-permanent object (like a stove) to be her tiny domain. This ability creates a hidden extra-dimensional dwelling. After creating a hidey-hole, a kikimora can teleport herself and up to 50 lb of objects to the designated location instead of making a normal move. This extradimensional space can only be entered by the kikimora or by a creature using a plane shift spell or ability. The location can be determined by casting detect magic in the area of the sigil, but it takes a successful DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check to plane shift into the space. Inside the hidey-hole, a kikimora can see what is going on outside the space through a special sensor. This sensor functions like a window, and it can be blocked by mundane objects placed in front of the sigil. If she leaves an item in her space, it remains there even if she removes the sigil and places it in another location. If someone else removes the sigil, all contents are emptied into the Ethereal Plane (including any beings within her hidey-hole at the time). In this case, the kikimora can attempt a DC 15 Charisma saving throw to instead eject herself (but none of her possessions) into a space adjacent to the sigil." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The kikimora has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the kikimora's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 15). She can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nat will: invisibility (self only), mage hand, mending, minor illusion, prestidigitation\n\n3/day each: animal friendship, blinding smite, sleep\n\n1/day each: insect plague, major image" } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 260, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_kikimora/" }, { "slug": "kobold-trapsmith", "desc": "More than anything, kobolds are survivors. Their scaly skin and keen night vision as well as their dextrous claws and sensitive snouts make them quick to sense danger, and their clawed feet move them out of danger with cowardly speed. They are small but fierce when fighting on their own terms, and their weight of numbers helps them survive in places where larger but less numerous races can’t sustain a settlement. Kobolds are great miners, good gearsmiths, and modest alchemists, and they have a curiosity about the world that frequently gets them into trouble. \n_**Underworld Merchants.**_ Kobolds are merchants to both the surface world and the world beneath it, with their greatest cities hidden deep below the earth. Their enemies are the diabolical gnomes, the dwarves, and any other mining races that seek dominance of dark, rich territories. \nKobolds are closely allied with and related to dragonborn, drakes, and dragons. The kobold kings (and there are oh‑so‑many kobold kings, since no kobold ruler is satisfied with being merely a chieftain) admire dragons as the greatest sources of wisdom, power, and proper behavior. \n_This kobold is bedecked in satchels, pouches, sacks, and bandoliers. All of these are bursting with tools, bits of scrap, wire, cogs and twine. Impossibly large eyes blink through the lenses of its goggles._ \nSome kobolds hatch a bit cleverer than their counterparts. These sharp-witted creatures feel driven to fiddle with the world, and those that don’t meet an early demise through accident or violence often take up tinkering. Trapsmiths make a kobold lair into a deadly gauntlet of hidden pain. \n_**Shifting Peril.**_ Trapsmiths aren’t warriors; they avoid direct confrontation with enemies that aren’t mired in traps or engaged with other foes. If the trapsmith senses that invaders in its lair are likely to get past its traps, it tries to hide or escape. \nA trapsmith delights in laying traps and snares behind invaders, along tunnels and paths they’ve already cleared and believe to be safe, then luring them back through its handiwork.", "name": "Kobold Trapsmith", "size": "Small", "type": "Humanoid", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "lawful neutral", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "leather", "hit_points": 36, "hit_dice": "8d6+8", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 7, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 12, "intelligence": 16, "wisdom": 13, "charisma": 8, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "stealth": 5 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11", "languages": "Common, Draconic", "challenge_rating": "1", "cr": 1.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Dagger", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d4 + 3) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1d4" }, { "name": "Light Crossbow", "desc": "Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, range 80/320 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) piercing damage plus 7 (2d6) poison damage, or one-half poison damage with a successful DC 13 Constitution saving throw.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1d8" }, { "name": "Shredder (Recharge 6)", "desc": "The kobold trapsmith primes and throws a device at a point within 30 feet. The device explodes when it hits something solid, flinging razor-sharp spikes in a 15-foot-radius sphere. Every creature in the area takes 14 (4d6) piercing damage, or half damage with a successful DC 13 Dexterity saving throw. The ground inside the spherical area is littered with spikes; it becomes difficult terrain, and a creature that falls prone in the area takes 7 (2d6) piercing damage." }, { "name": "Stunner (1/Day)", "desc": "Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d4 + 3) bludgeoning damage, and the target is restrained (escape DC 13). While restrained, the target takes 7 (2d6) lightning damage at the start of its turn and falls prone. The trapsmith has advantage on the attack roll if the target is wearing metal armor. A stunner is a bola made of metal wire, magnets, and static electricity capacitors. A kobold trapsmith can recharge it during a long rest.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1d4+3" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Sunlight Sensitivity", "desc": "While in sunlight, the kobold trapsmith has disadvantage on attack rolls and on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight." }, { "name": "Pack Tactics", "desc": "The kobold trapsmith has advantage on attack rolls against a creature if at least one of the trapsmith's allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated." }, { "name": "Thief's Tools", "desc": "The kobold trapsmith has proficiency with thief's tools and is seldom without them. If its tools are taken away or lost, it can cobble together a new set from wire, bits of metal, and other junk in 30 minutes." }, { "name": "Traps and Snares", "desc": "The kobold trapsmith excels at setting mechanical traps. Detecting, disarming, avoiding, or mitigating its traps require successful DC 13 checks or saving throws, and the traps have +5 attack bonuses. With thief's tools and basic construction materials, a trapsmith can set up one of the simple but effective traps listed below in 5 minutes. Triggers involve pressure plates, tripwires, small catches in a lock, or other simple mechanisms." }, { "name": "Choke Bomb", "desc": "This small incendiary device burns rapidly and releases choking smoke in a 20-foot sphere. The area is heavily obscured. Any breathing creature that's in the affected area when the cloud is created or that starts its turn in the cloud is poisoned. Once a poisoned creature leaves the cloud, it makes a DC 13 Constitution saving throw at the end of its turns, ending the poisoned condition on a success. The smoke dissipates after 10 minutes, or after 1 round in a strong wind." }, { "name": "Poisoned Sliver", "desc": "A poisoned sliver or needle can be hidden almost anywhere: inside a lock or a box, in a carpeted floor, on the underside of a door handle, in a cup of liquid or a bowl of gems. When someone meets the conditions for being jabbed by the sliver, the trap makes a melee weapon attack with advantage: +5 to hit, reach 0 ft., one target; Hit: 2 (1d4) piercing damage plus 14 (4d6) poison damage, or one-half poison damage with a successful DC 13 Constitution saving throw." }, { "name": "Skullpopper", "desc": "This trap consists of either a heavy weight, a spike, or a blade, set to fall or swing into a victim. When triggered, a skullpopper makes a melee weapon attack against the first target in its path: +5 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target; Hit: 11 (2d10) damage. The type of damage depends on how the skullpopper is built: a stone or heavy log does bludgeoning damage, a spiked log does piercing damage, a scything blade does slashing damage, etc." }, { "name": "Slingsnare", "desc": "A concealed loop of rope or wire is affixed to a counterweight. When a creature steps into the snare, it must make a successful DC 13 Dexterity saving throw or be yanked into the air and suspended, upside down, 5 feet above the ground. The snared creature is restrained (escape DC 13). The cord is AC 10 and has 5 hit points." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 264, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_kobold-trapsmith/" }, { "slug": "kongamato", "desc": "_The kongamato is an evolutionary holdover, a large pterodactyl with avian traits, such as emergent feathers and long, beaklike jaws._ \n**Boat Breaker.** Its name means \"breaker of boats,\" and as that implies, this creature systematically destroys the small vessels of those who come too close to its perch. No one knows what motivates this form of attack, although some sages suppose that the kongamato mistakes canoes for large prey like hippopotami or crocodiles. \n**Spoken in Whispers.** For some tribes, kongamatos present a terrible threat, and they speak in whispers about them, fearing that mention of the beasts could attract their wrath. In some cases, evil priests and cultists summon these beasts as their servitors and use them to terrify villagers. \n**Maneaters.** Kongamatos that have eaten human flesh develop a preference for it. These maneaters perform nightly raids on small towns, snatching children and Small humanoids with their claws and flying away.", "name": "Kongamato", "size": "Large", "type": "Beast", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 16, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 112, "hit_dice": "15d10+30", "speed": { "walk": 10, "fly": 60 }, "strength": 19, "dexterity": 18, "constitution": 14, "intelligence": 2, "wisdom": 10, "charisma": 7, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 3, "skills": { "perception": 3 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "passive Perception 13", "languages": "-", "challenge_rating": "5", "cr": 5.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The kongamato makes one bite attack and two claw attacks." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 18 (4d6 + 4) piercing damage. If the target is a Medium or smaller creature, it is grappled (escape DC 14). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained and the kongamato can't bite another target. When the kongamato moves, any target it is grappling moves with it.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "4d6" }, { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (3d6 + 4) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "3d6" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Flyby", "desc": "The kongamato doesn't provoke an opportunity attacks when it flies out of an enemy's reach." }, { "name": "Breaker of Boats", "desc": "The kongamato deals double damage to objects and structures made of wood or lighter materials." }, { "name": "Carry Off", "desc": "A single kongamato can carry away prey up to 50 lbs, or a single rider under that weight. A grouo of them can carry up to 100 lbs." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 265, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_kongamato/" }, { "slug": "koschei", "desc": "", "name": "Koschei", "size": "Medium", "type": "Fiend", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 18, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 135, "hit_dice": "18d8+54", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 22, "dexterity": 12, "constitution": 17, "intelligence": 17, "wisdom": 13, "charisma": 21, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 7, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 7, "charisma_save": 11, "perception": 7, "skills": { "arcana": 9, "insight": 7, "perception": 7 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "cold, lightning", "damage_immunities": "necrotic; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 17", "languages": "Abyssal, Common, Celestial, Dwarvish, Infernal", "challenge_rating": "17", "cr": 17.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "Koschei makes two longsword attacks and one drain life attack." }, { "name": "Longsword", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (1d8 + 6) slashing damage or 11 (1d10 + 6) slashing damage if used in two hands plus 14 (4d6) necrotic damage.", "attack_bonus": 12, "damage_dice": "1d8" }, { "name": "Drain Life", "desc": "Melee Spell Attack: +11 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 20 (4d6 + 6) necrotic damage. The target must succeed on a DC 19 Constitution saving throw or its hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the damage taken from this attack, and Koschei regains an equal number of hit points. This reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest. The target dies if this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0.", "attack_bonus": 11, "damage_dice": "4d6" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "Koschei can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. Koschei regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.", "legendary_actions": [ { "name": "Attack", "desc": "Koschei makes one attack with his longsword." }, { "name": "Teleport", "desc": "Koschei teleports to an unoccupied space he can see within 40 feet." }, { "name": "Drain (2 actions)", "desc": "Koschei makes one attack with Drain Life." } ], "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Hidden Soul", "desc": "A creature holding the egg containing Koschei's soul can use an action to compel Koschei as if a dominate monster spell were cast on him and Koschei failed his saving throw. As long as the soul is within the needle, Koschei can't permanently die. If he is killed, his body reforms in his lair in 1d10 days. If the needle is broken, Koschei can be killed like any other creature." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "koschei's innate spellcasting attribute is Charisma (spell save DC 19, +11 to hit with spell attacks). He can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components.\n\nat will: detect magic, phantom steed, scorching ray, sending\n\n3/day each: invisibility, magic missile, shield\n\n2/day each: animate objects, cone of cold, hypnotic pattern\n\n1/day each: disintegrate, meteor swarm, true polymorph" }, { "name": "Legendary Resistance (3/day)", "desc": "If Koschei fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead." }, { "name": "Magic Weapons", "desc": "Koschei's weapon attacks are magical and do an extra 14 (4d6) necrotic damage (included below)." }, { "name": "Koschei's Lair Actions", "desc": "on initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), Koschei takes a lair action to cause one of the following effects; Koschei can't use the same effect two rounds in a row:\n\n- Koschei creates a whirlwind centered on a point he can see within 100 feet. The whirlwind is 10 feet wide and up to 50 feet tall. A creature in the area of the whirlwind when it's created, or who enters the area for the first time on a turn, must make a DC 15 Strength saving throw. On a failed save, the creature is restrained and takes 18 (4d8) bludgeoning damage from the buffeting wind. A restrained creature can escape from the whirlwind by using its action to repeat the saving throw; on a success, it moves 5 feet outside the area of the whirlwind. The whirlwind lasts until Koschei uses this action again or dies.\n\n- Tortured spirits appear and attack up to three creatures Koschei can see within the lair. One attack is made against each targeted creature; each attack has +8 to hit and does 10 (3d6) necrotic damage.\n\n- Koschei disrupts the flow of magic in his lair. Until initiative count 20 on the following round, any creature other than a fiend who targets Koschei with a spell must make a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, the creature still casts the spell, but it must target a creature other than Koschei." }, { "name": "Regional Effects", "desc": "the region containing Koschei's lair is warped by Koschei's magic, which creates one or more of the following effects:\n\n- Rabbits, ducks, and other game animals become hostile toward intruders within 5 miles of the lair. They behave aggressively, but only attack if cornered. Foraging for food by hunting is difficult and only yields half the normal amount of food.\n\n- Wind and snowstorms are common within 5 miles of the lair.\n\n- Koschei is aware of any spell cast within 5 miles of his lair. He knows the source of the magic (innate, the caster's class, or a magic item) and knows the direction to the caster.\n\nif Koschei dies, conditions in the area surrounding his lair return to normal over the course of 1d10 days." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 266, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_koschei/" }, { "slug": "kot-bayun", "desc": "_This oddly colored cat appears at first to be a powerful panther. Its wide mouth pulls into something like a human grin, and its knowing eyes hint at intelligence beyond that of a typical predator._ \nEnemies of elves and blink dogs, kot bayuns are magical hunting cats gifted with eloquent speech and cunning abilities. \n**Speaking Fey Cats.** These brutal and temperamental creatures get along well with cruel-minded fey. More gentle fey rightfully find the creatures to be a menace. A kot bayun measures six feet long and weighs over 200 lb. They are long-lived, and some stories record the same kot bayun in a region for over 400 years. \n**Sing to Sleep.** In addition to their stealthy natures and physical prowess, kot bayun have the ability to put prey to sleep with song. They carefully choose victims and stalk them for a time, learning their strengths and weaknesses before making their attack. They lay in wait until their prey is vulnerable and then begin their slumbering song. Those resisting the call to slumber are always the kot bayun’s first victims as they launch from cover and attempt to disembowel their prey. In forests with a thick canopy, a kot bayun stealthily creeps among tree limbs, tracking the movement of its prey below. \n**Healing Poetry.** If discovered by intelligent prey, a kot bayun opens with a parley instead of claws. In rare cases, a kot bayun finds something in its prey it likes and cold predation turns to a lukewarm association. \nBefriending a kot bayun has benefits as the creature’s poems, tales, and sagas have the magical ability to heal negative conditions. A kot bayun tells its stories in the form of strange epics and poetry, ranging from simple rhyming folk poems to complex sonnets. This ability is not widely known (a secret the creatures intend to keep), but, as folktales spread, more and more adventurers and sages seek out these elusive beasts.", "name": "Kot Bayun", "size": "Medium", "type": "Monstrosity", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 44, "hit_dice": "8d8+8", "speed": { "walk": 40, "climb": 20 }, "strength": 16, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 13, "intelligence": 12, "wisdom": 16, "charisma": 17, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 5, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13", "languages": "Common, Sylvan", "challenge_rating": "2", "cr": 2.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The kot bayun makes one bite attack and one claws attack." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1d8" }, { "name": "Claws", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d10 + 3) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "2d10" }, { "name": "Slumbering Song", "desc": "The kot bayun puts creatures to sleep with its haunting melody. While a kot bayun sings, it can target one hearing creature within a 100-foot radius. This target must succeed on a DC 13 Charisma saving throw or fall asleep. The target repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. Each round the kot bayun maintains its song, it can select a new target. A creature that successfully saves is immune to the effect of that kot bayun's song for 24 hours. The slumbering song even affects elves, but they have advantage on the Charisma saving throw." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Folk Cure", "desc": "A kot bayun's tales have the effect of a lesser restoration spell at will, and once per week it can have the effect of greater restoration. The kot bayun designates one listener to benefit from its ability, and that listener must spend one uninterrupted hour listening to the cat's tales. Kot bayuns are reluctant to share this benefit and must be bargained with or under the effect of domination to grant the boon." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the kot bayun's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 13). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\n3/day each: fog cloud, invisibility (self only)\n\n1/day: blink" } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 268, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_kot-bayun/" }, { "slug": "krake-spawn", "desc": "_This twisted, unnatural beast looks like the unholy union of squid and spider. Its shell-covered core has six small rubbery legs, peculiar antennae, and six tentacles around a squid’s enormous beak. Unlike krakens and giant squid, krake spawn can scuttle onto land._ \n**Demonic Crossbreeds.** Some believe krake spawn are demonic crossbreeds created by the aboleth, fusing kraken blood with demonic souls. Others say that krake spawn are the horrible creation of a long-forgotten meddling god, summoned to the mortal world by deep ones. Certainly krake spawn do respond to summoning magic, and sorcerers do summon krake spawn through blood sacrifices to work evil in the world. However, they do so at considerable peril: unlike demons and devils, krake spawn are seldom bound by pacts of any kind. \n**Outwit Humans.** Though enormous and carrying an armored green shell on their six spindly legs, krake spawn are surprisingly quick and agile. Worse, they have a malicious and bloodthirsty intellect. A krake spawn is considerably smarter than most humans, who mistake them for dumb beasts—an error that can often prove fatal. \n**Iceberg Fortresses.** Krake spawn live in remote, icy regions, where they fashion elaborate iceberg fortresses. When they venture into warmer climes in search of magic or slaves, they can preserve their icebergs with ice storms. These fortresses are stocked with frozen creatures (an emergency food supply), the krake spawn’s treasure and library, slaves or prisoners of many races, and a hellish nest filled with the krake spawn’s offspring. \nA krake spawn measures 40 feet in length and weighs 2,000 lb.", "name": "Krake Spawn", "size": "Huge", "type": "Monstrosity", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 16, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 150, "hit_dice": "12d12+72", "speed": { "walk": 20, "swim": 30 }, "strength": 24, "dexterity": 12, "constitution": 22, "intelligence": 17, "wisdom": 15, "charisma": 18, "strength_save": 11, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": 10, "intelligence_save": 7, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": 8, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "cold, poison, psychic", "condition_immunities": "charmed, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12", "languages": "Common, Infernal, Primordial, Void Speech", "challenge_rating": "9", "cr": 9.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The krake spawn makes eight tentacle attacks and one bite attack. It can substitute one constrict attack for two tentacle attacks if it has a creature grappled at the start of the krake spawn's turn, but it never constricts more than once per turn." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (1d10 + 7) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 11, "damage_dice": "1d10+7" }, { "name": "Tentacle", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (1d6 + 7) necrotic damage. If two tentacle attacks hit the same target in one turn, the target is also grappled (escape DC 17).", "attack_bonus": 11, "damage_dice": "1d6+7" }, { "name": "Constrict", "desc": "The constricted creature takes 26 (3d12 + 7) bludgeoning damage and is grappled (escape DC 17) and restrained." }, { "name": "Ink Cloud (Recharge 6)", "desc": "The krake spawn emits black, venomous ink in a 30-foot cloud as a bonus action while underwater. The cloud affects vision as the darkness spell, and any creature that starts its turn inside the cloud takes 10 (3d6) poison damage, or half damage with a successful DC 18 Constitution saving throw. The krake spawn's darkvision is not impaired by this cloud. The cloud persists for 1 minute, then disperses." }, { "name": "Vomit Forth the Deeps (1/Day)", "desc": "The krake spawn sprays half-digested food from its maw over a 15-foot cone. This acidic slurry causes 3 (1d6) acid damage and targets must make a successful DC 18 Constitution saving throw or be incapacitated until the end of their next turn." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Amphibious", "desc": "The krake spawn can breathe air and water." }, { "name": "Jet", "desc": "While underwater, the krake spawn can take the withdraw action to jet backward at a speed of 140 feet. It must move in a straight line while using this ability." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the krake spawn's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 16). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nat will: protection from energy, ray of frost\n\n1/day each: ice storm, wall of ice" } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 269, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_krake-spawn/" }, { "slug": "lake-troll", "desc": "", "name": "Lake Troll", "size": "Large", "type": "Giant", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 126, "hit_dice": "12d10+60", "speed": { "walk": 20, "swim": 40 }, "strength": 20, "dexterity": 13, "constitution": 20, "intelligence": 8, "wisdom": 10, "charisma": 6, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 3, "skills": { "perception": 3 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13", "languages": "Common, Giant", "challenge_rating": "7", "cr": 7.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The lake troll makes one bite attack and two claw attacks." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (1d8 + 5) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "1d8" }, { "name": "Claws", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5) piercing damage. If the lake troll hits a creature with both claw attacks in the same turn, the target creature must make a successful DC 16 Dexterity saving throw or its weapon (if any) gains a permanent and cumulative -1 penalty to damage rolls. If the penalty reaches -5, the weapon is destroyed. A damaged weapon can be repaired with appropriate artisan's tools during a long rest.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "2d8+5" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Amphibious", "desc": "The lake troll can breathe air and water." }, { "name": "Keen Smell", "desc": "The lake troll has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell." }, { "name": "Regeneration", "desc": "The lake troll regains 10 hit points at the start of its turn. If the lake troll takes cold or fire damage, it regains only 5 hit points at the start of its next turn; if it takes both cold and fire damage, this trait doesn't function at the start of the lake troll's next turn. The lake troll dies only if it starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesn't regenerate." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 389, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_lake-troll/" }, { "slug": "lantern-dragonette", "desc": "_This cat-sized drake with a waxy appearance and a glow emanating from its belly can hover in midair, filling a small area with a warm glow._ \nThe lantern drake is named for its belly, which glows with a warm light. The beast's yellow, waxy scales darken with age, though lantern drakes rarely live more than 50 years or so. They weigh from 5 to 10 pounds and are 18 inches long. Most believe they are the result of an arcane fusion of a radiant spirit with a paper drake. \n**Eat Candle Wax.** The drake devours four ounces of candle wax per day, plus four more ounces if it uses its belly lantern. A lantern dragonette’s unusual diet leads it to lair in libraries, abbeys, and other places of study. Even though the dragonettes eat candles essential for study during dark hours, they still provide light and protect their adopted homes. Residents and caretakers consider them good luck and enjoy conversing with them. \n**Telepathic Chatterbox.** This gregarious drake prefers to speak with its companions but uses telepathy if necessary, and the creature hisses when surprised or displeased. It loves nothing more than discussing magic and history with an intelligent and informed individual. \n**Adventurous Companions.** Occasionally, a dragonette wishing to learn more about the world finds a spellcaster or adventuring party to travel with, purely for the sake of learning or to acquire new sources of knowledge. Most parties enjoy the traveling light source and the abilities these companions bring to bear. A lantern dragonette avoids combat and uses its abilities only to escape or to defend its lair, family, and friends. \nA dragonette lives up to 30 years. A mated pair produces one clutch of two to five eggs every five years, and one parent raises the young dragonettes until they mature after a year and leave to search for their own lairs. A cloister of lantern dragonettes taxes their lair’s resources, so the other parent often ventures out to retrieve more candles.", "name": "Lantern Dragonette", "size": "Tiny", "type": "Dragon", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "lawful neutral", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 28, "hit_dice": "8d4+8", "speed": { "hover": true, "walk": 15, "fly": 40 }, "strength": 7, "dexterity": 12, "constitution": 13, "intelligence": 16, "wisdom": 13, "charisma": 12, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 3, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 3, "charisma_save": 3, "perception": 3, "skills": { "arcana": 5, "history": 5, "nature": 5, "perception": 3, "religion": 5 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "paralyzed, unconscious", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13", "languages": "Common, Draconic, Elvish, Primordial; telepathy 60 ft.", "challenge_rating": "1/2", "cr": 0.5, "actions": [ { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d4 + 1) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 3, "damage_dice": "1d4" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Lantern Belly (1/Day)", "desc": "If the dragonette has eaten 8 ounces of candle wax in the last 24 hours, it can emit a continual flame for 3d20 minutes. The continual flame can be dispelled, but the dragonette can resume it with a bonus action except in areas of magical darkness, if the time limit hasn't expired." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the lantern dragonette's innate spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 13, +5 to hit with spell attacks). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\n1/day each: burning hands, color spray, scorching ray" }, { "name": "Vulnerable to Magical Darkness", "desc": "A lantern dragonette in an area of magical darkness loses its lantern belly ability and its ability to fly. It also suffers 1d6 radiant damage for every minute of exposure." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 270, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_lantern-dragonette/" }, { "slug": "leshy", "desc": "_A leshy is a strange man wearing loose scraps of clothing and covered in bark and root-like growths. The hair and beard that frame his piercing green eyes writhe like living vines._ \n**Expanding the Wild.** Solitary leshy tend plants and animals in groves around great forests, and they are the self-proclaimed protectors of the forest outskirts. Leshy have little patience for interlopers and often kill, abduct, or frighten off trailblazers and guides. With their plant growth ability, they sabotage cultivated land, wipe out trails, and create weed walls and thickets to keep civilization at bay. Using speak with plants, they transplant dangerous plant creatures to discourage new settlements. Some have wrangled rabid animals to the same purpose. \n**Ax Thieves.** Leshy prefer trickery to combat, particularly enjoying leading interlopers astray through use of their mimicry. If challenged, they use their ability to change size to scare intruders away, but they never hesitate to fight to the death in service to the forest if necessary. Leshy hate metal, especially axes, and they go out of their way to steal metal items and lead those who use them astray. \n**Accept Bribes.** With careful courting and appropriate gifts, it is possible to gain a leshy’s capricious assistance. This can be risky, because leshy love mischief. Still, at times a leshy’s help is essential to a group traversing ancient woodlands.", "name": "Leshy", "size": "Medium", "type": "Monstrosity", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic neutral", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 84, "hit_dice": "13d8+26", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 16, "dexterity": 12, "constitution": 14, "intelligence": 14, "wisdom": 15, "charisma": 16, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 4, "skills": { "deception": 5, "perception": 4, "stealth": 3, "survival": 4 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 14", "languages": "Common, Elvish, Sylvan", "challenge_rating": "1", "cr": 1.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The leshy makes two club attacks." }, { "name": "Change Size", "desc": "The leshy appears to change its size, becoming as tall as a massive oak (Gargantuan) or as short as a blade of grass (Tiny). The change is entirely illusory, so the leshy's statistics do not change." }, { "name": "Club", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1d6" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the leshy's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 13). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nat will: animal friendship, pass without trace, speak with animals\n\n1/day each: entangle, plant growth, shillelagh, speak with plants, hideous laughter" }, { "name": "Camouflage", "desc": "A leshy has advantage on Stealth checks if it is at least lightly obscured by foliage." }, { "name": "Mimicry", "desc": "A leshy can mimic the calls and voices of any creature it has heard. To use this ability, the leshy makes a Charisma (Deception) check. Listeners who succeed on an opposed Wisdom (Insight) or Intelligence (Nature)-DM's choice-realize that something is mimicking the sound. The leshy has advantage on the check if it's mimicking a general type of creature (a crow's call, a bear's roar) and not a specific individual's voice." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 272, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_leshy/" }, { "slug": "library-automaton", "desc": "_The humming of servos, ticking of gears, and petite discharges of steam alert you to the presence of this library’s diminutive custodian._ \nThese small constructs were created to fulfill organizational responsibilities of huge libraries with staffing problems, but some invariably learn enough about the wider world to seek out adventure and new knowledge, rather than tending the items in their care. \n**Eyes of the Past.** While largely constructed with mechanical components, the automatons include a single human eyeball that is mounted at the end of an articulated appendage. The eye is usually donated by one of the institution’s scholars (prescribed in their will) so that they can continue serving the repositories of knowledge that were their life’s work. \n**Telekinetic.** While the automatons have no arms, they can move and manipulate written materials telekinetically. Powered by keen analytical engines, the library automaton tirelessly pores through tomes, translates ancient texts, catalogs the institution’s volumes, fetches texts for visitors, and occasionally rids the vast halls of uninvited pests. \n**Sought by Wizards.** Wizards have discovered that these clockwork bureaucrats make particularly effective caretakers for their spellbooks and scrolls while on adventure. \n**Constructed Nature.** A library automaton doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Library Automaton", "size": "Small", "type": "Construct", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "lawful neutral", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 7, "hit_dice": "2d6", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 8, "dexterity": 13, "constitution": 10, "intelligence": 14, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 8, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "history": 4, "investigation": 4 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, poisoned", "senses": "blindsight 60 ft., truesight 10 ft., passive Perception 11", "languages": "Common, Machine Speech", "challenge_rating": "1/2", "cr": 0.5, "actions": [ { "name": "Gaze of Confusion", "desc": "The library automaton chooses one creature it can see within 40 feet. The target must succeed on a DC 12 Intelligence saving throw or take 9 (3d4 + 2) psychic damage and have disadvantage on Intelligence-based checks, saving throws, and attacks until the end of its next turn. If the saving throw succeeds, then the target takes half damage and suffers no other effect." }, { "name": "Bibliotelekinesis", "desc": "This ability functions as the cantrip mage hand but can be used only on books, scrolls, maps, and other printed or written materials." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Extra-Dimensional Book Repository", "desc": "A small door on the chest of the library automaton opens into an extra-dimensional bookcase. This bookcase functions exactly as a bag of holding except that it can store only written materials such as books, scrolls, tomes, parchment, folders, notebooks, spellbooks, and the like." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 273, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_library-automaton/" }, { "slug": "lich-hound", "desc": "_Their howls echoing from another plane, lich hounds always arrive wreathed in mist. Half bone, half purple fire, they are creatures of hunger and the hunt. Nothing makes them happier than taking down creatures larger than themselves—or racing through the air to catch a surprised bat in mid-flight. All cruelty and fang, lich hounds are most satisfied when praised by their great undead lords._ \n**Fiery Bones.** Bright white skulls with a heavy jaw and thick, robust skeletal bodies define the ferocious lich hounds. Their eyes burn green or blue, and their tongues resemble black fire. Fueled by necromantic power, these creatures are loyal servants of either ghoul high priests or liches. \n**Echoing Howls.** Even on their own, lich hounds are relentless hunters, pursuing their prey with powerful senses and a keen ability to find the living wherever they may hide. Lich hound howls fade into and out of normal hearing, with strangely shifted pitch and echoes. \n**Murdered Celestials.** The dark process of creating a lich hound involves a perverse ritual of first summoning a celestial canine and binding it to the Material Plane. The hound’s future master then murders the trapped beast. Only then can the creature be animated in all its unholy glory. Hound archons have long been outraged by the creation of lich hounds, and they occasionally band together to rid the world of those who practice this particular dark magic. \n**Undead Nature.** A lich hound doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Lich Hound", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 119, "hit_dice": "14d8+56", "speed": { "walk": 30, "fly": 50 }, "strength": 10, "dexterity": 18, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 6, "wisdom": 10, "charisma": 16, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 4, "constitution_save": 4, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": 3, "perception": 4, "skills": { "acrobatics": 6, "perception": 4 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "piercing and bludgeoning from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "exhaustion, poisoned", "senses": "blindsight 100 ft., passive Perception 14", "languages": "understands Darakhul", "challenge_rating": "4", "cr": 4.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (1d12 + 4) piercing damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 14 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "1d12" }, { "name": "Ethereal Jaunt", "desc": "As a bonus action, the lich hound can magically shift from the Material Plane to the Ethereal Plane, or vice versa." }, { "name": "Gut Rip", "desc": "As a bonus action, the lich hound tears into any adjacent prone creature, inflicting 19 (3d12) slashing damage. The target must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or be incapacitated for 1d4 rounds. An incapacitated creature repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns; a successful save ends the condition early." }, { "name": "Howl", "desc": "The eerie howl of lich hounds as they close in on their prey plays havoc on the morale of living creatures that hear it. Howling requires and action, and creatures that hear the howl of a lich hound within 100 feet must succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw or become frightened for 5 rounds. Creatures that successfully save against this effect cannot be affected by a lich hound's howl for 24 hours." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Keen Hearing and Smell", "desc": "The lich hound has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing or smell." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 274, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_lich-hound/" }, { "slug": "likho", "desc": "_Malformed like a goblin, this creature bears one large, strange eye in the middle of its face. It wears dark and dirty rags, and its spindly claws and arms match its hunched torso._ \n**Ferocious Attitude.** Likho are scrappy fighters; they weaken foes from afar with their magical attacks to curse and enfeeble enemies, then rush forward in a blazing charge and jump onto their foes, shredding them with their claws. Once a likho has leapt onto a creature, it shreds flesh using the claws on both its hands and feet. \n**Jeers and Insults.** A likho uses its message spells to taunt and jeer its target from a distance during the hunt. In addition, to flinging curses and ill luck, likho frustrate and infuriate their enemies because they are difficult to hit. A likho enjoys stalking intelligent humanoids and tormenting them from hiding until discovered or when it grows tired of the hunt. \n**Organ Eaters.** Likho thrive when they drain away luck and aptitude. Once the likho immobilizes a creature, it gnaws at the creature’s abdomen with its jagged teeth, devouring the organs of its still-living prey. A likho consumes only a humanoid’s organs and leaves the rest of the carcass behind.", "name": "Likho", "size": "Medium", "type": "Monstrosity", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 90, "hit_dice": "12d8+36", "speed": { "walk": 40 }, "strength": 16, "dexterity": 18, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 13, "wisdom": 16, "charisma": 21, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": 7, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": 8, "perception": 6, "skills": { "acrobatics": 7, "perception": 6, "stealth": 10 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 16", "languages": "Common, Goblin, Void Speech", "challenge_rating": "6", "cr": 6.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The likho makes two claw attacks." }, { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "2d6" }, { "name": "Disruptive Gaze", "desc": "As a bonus action, the likho directs its gaze at any single creature it can see and afflicts it with a temporary bout of bad luck. The targeted creature has disadvantage on attack rolls, saving throws, and skill checks until the end of its next turn." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Pounce", "desc": "If the likho moves at least 20 feet straight toward a creature and then hits it with a claw attack on the same turn, that target must succeed on a DC 14 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone. If the target is prone, the likho can use a bonus action to make two additional claw attacks against it." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the likho's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 16). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nat will: message\n\n3/day each: crown of madness, mirror image, ray of enfeeblement\n\n1/day: bestow curse" }, { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The likho has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 275, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_likho/" }, { "slug": "lindwurm", "desc": "_Coiling like a living corkscrew, moving with a scraping hiss, a lindwurm’s serpentine form skates nimbly across ice on long curving claws, maw agape and stinking of a hundred graves._ \n**Swift and Smooth as Ice.** Lindwurms have long bodies and crocodilian jaws, but they skitter overland on spindly limbs. Their talons are long and curved, acting as skates or short skis when moving over ice. Few things are swifter on the ice. \n**Sea Hunters.** In the wild, lindwurms hunt in groups, looking for breaching whales, seals, or incautious fishermen. They employ wolf-pack tactics and enjoy surprising foes. With their considerable cunning, they may skate by their prey at speed, snapping a bite as they pass or snatching them up with their constricting tails.", "name": "Lindwurm", "size": "Large", "type": "Dragon", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 136, "hit_dice": "16d10+48", "speed": { "walk": 40, "swim": 20 }, "strength": 18, "dexterity": 20, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 6, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 8, "strength_save": 7, "dexterity_save": 8, "constitution_save": 6, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 4, "skills": { "acrobatics": 8, "athletics": 8, "perception": 4, "stealth": 9 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "fire", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "cold", "condition_immunities": "paralyzed, prone, unconscious", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., tremorsense 120 ft. on ice, passive Perception 14", "languages": "", "challenge_rating": "5", "cr": 5.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The lindwurm makes one bite attack, one claw attack, and one constrict attack." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) piercing damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or contract lindwurm fever.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "2d8" }, { "name": "Claws", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 17 (3d8 + 4) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "3d8" }, { "name": "Constrict", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 14). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, and the lindwurm can constrict only this target.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "2d8" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Lindwurm Fever", "desc": "A creature infected with this disease by a lindwurm's bite gains one level of exhaustion an hour after being infected. The creature must make a DC 14 Constitution saving throw after each long rest. On a failure, the creature gains one level of exhaustion and recovers no hit dice from the long rest. On a success, the creature recovers from one level of exhaustion and regains hit dice normally. If the infected creature reduces itself to zero exhaustion by making successful saving throws, the disease is cured." }, { "name": "Skittering Skater", "desc": "Lindwurms suffer no penalties from difficult terrain on ice and are immune to the effects of the grease spell." }, { "name": "Snake Belly", "desc": "When lying with its sensitive stomach on the ice, a lindwurm can sense approaching creatures by the vibrations they cause, granting them tremorsense." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 276, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_lindwurm/" }, { "slug": "liosalfar", "desc": "_The curtain of rippling colors assumes a humanoid form. Its kaleidoscope body shifts and glitters with mesmeric patterns._ \nSometimes known as “light elves” because they assume a vaguely elfish shape, these enigmatic shapeshifters make their home at the edge of the world, where reality bends and physical laws unravel. Their mutable bodies are composed entirely of shifting colors. Among themselves they communicate through flashing patterns and hues, but they talk to other races in an echoing, choral tone that seems to emanate from everywhere and nowhere around them. \n**Servants of Fate.** Their aims often seem inconsequential or simply baffling, but they’ve also sundered mountains and toppled kingdoms. Many believe they’re agents of Fate, others that their motivation is an alien aesthetic or their own amusement. \n**Pattern Vision.** Those who’ve spoken with liosalfar say they talk as if all existence was a sea of patterns and colors to be set in pleasing shapes. They barely understand mortal concerns. \n**Enemies of the Ramag.** The liosalfar have a longstanding rivalry with the portal-making ramag, whom they despise as “corruptors of the patterns.” \n**Elemental Nature.** A liosalfar doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Liosalfar", "size": "Large", "type": "Elemental", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral", "armor_class": 17, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 110, "hit_dice": "20d10", "speed": { "fly": 60, "hover": true }, "strength": 10, "dexterity": 25, "constitution": 10, "intelligence": 18, "wisdom": 18, "charisma": 12, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 10, "constitution_save": 3, "intelligence_save": 7, "wisdom_save": 7, "charisma_save": 4, "perception": 7, "skills": { "arcana": 7, "insight": 7, "perception": 7 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "acid, cold, fire, lightning, thunder; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "poison, psychic, radiant", "condition_immunities": "blinded, charmed, exhaustion (see Lightform special ability), grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained, unconscious", "senses": "blindsight 120 ft., truesight 60 ft., passive Perception 17", "languages": "Common, Celestial, Primordial, Elvish, Giant", "challenge_rating": "8", "cr": 8.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The liosalfar makes two Disrupting Touch attacks." }, { "name": "Disrupting Touch", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 26 (4d12) radiant damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or become stunned for 1 round.", "attack_bonus": 10, "damage_dice": "4d12" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Alien Mentality", "desc": "A liosalfar's exotic consciousness renders it immune to psychic effects, and any attempt to read their thoughts leaves the reader confused for 1 round." }, { "name": "Darkness Vulnerability", "desc": "Magical darkness is harmful to a liosalfar: They take 2d10 necrotic damage, or half damage with a successful DC 14 Constitution saving throw, each time they start their turn inside magical darkness. Natural darkness is unpleasant to them but not harmful." }, { "name": "Incorporeal Movement", "desc": "The liosalfar can move through other creatures and objects as difficult terrain. It takes 5 (1d10) force damage if it ends its turn inside an object." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the liosalfar's innate spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 15, +7 to hit with spell attacks). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nat Will: augury, color spray, dancing lights, detect magic, flare, light, silent image, spare the dying\n\n2/day each: alter self, blur, divination, hypnotic pattern, prismatic spray, scorching ray\n\n1/day each: hallucinatory terrain, plane shift, sunbeam" }, { "name": "Lightform", "desc": "Liosalfar are composed entirely of light. They are incorporeal and not subject to ability damage, polymorph, petrification, or attacks that alter their form." }, { "name": "Prismatic Glow", "desc": "Liosalfar shed rainbow illumination equal to a daylight spell. They cannot extinguish this glow without perishing but can reduce it to the level of torchlight at will. Even when using alter self they have a faint, diffused glow that's visible in dim light or darkness." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 277, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_liosalfar/" }, { "slug": "living-wick", "desc": "_A living wick is a small, rough wax sculpture of a human that stands at attention, a halo of light flickering around its head from some source behind it._ \n**Enchanted Wicks.** Living wicks are obedient wax statues brought to life by an enchanted wick that runs from the nape of their neck to their lower back. When new, a living wick looks and moves like a human, but as the wick burns, the wax features melt and the statue takes on a twisted, hunchbacked appearance. \n**Short-Lived as a Candle.** Living wicks are powered by flames, and therefore they have a predetermined life cycle. They are typically reduced to formless lumps in a month, but some say a living wick’s affordability more than makes up for its inevitable obsolescence. Individuals looking to quickly construct a building or fortification without the expense of paid labor or the questionable ethics of necromancy find living wicks obedient and efficient, as do those needing an army for a single battle. \nLiving wicks are active only when their wicks are lit, and only respond to the telepathic commands of whoever lit them. This makes it easy to transfer living wicks between owners, even those not well-versed in the use of magic. \n**Explosive Ends.** The amount of magical energy contained within a living wick, paired with the manner in which it is released, gives them a remarkable capability for selfdestruction. If their controller demands it, all living wicks can release the magic contained within their form all at once, engulfing themselves and anyone nearby in flames. This can make storing them a gamble, but many see it as an asset, especially those seeking to destroy evidence or anonymously attack their enemies. \n**Constructed Nature.** A living wick doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Living Wick", "size": "Small", "type": "Construct", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 28, "hit_dice": "8d6", "speed": { "walk": 20 }, "strength": 10, "dexterity": 10, "constitution": 10, "intelligence": 5, "wisdom": 5, "charisma": 5, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "fire", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "poison, psychic", "condition_immunities": "blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, unconscious", "senses": "sight 20 ft. (blind beyond the radius of its own light), passive Perception 10", "languages": "shares a telepathic link with the individual that lit its wick", "challenge_rating": "1/4", "cr": 0.25, "actions": [ { "name": "Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d6) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 2, "damage_dice": "1d6" }, { "name": "Consume Self", "desc": "A living wick can be commanded to rapidly burn through the remains of its wick, creating a devastating fireball. All creatures within 20 feet of the living wick take 7 (2d6) fire damage, or half damage with a successful DC 13 Dexterity saving throw. The fire spreads around corners and ignites flammable objects in the area that aren't being worn or carried. The wick is reduced to a lifeless puddle of wax." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Controlled", "desc": "Living wicks cannot move, attack, or perform actions when they are not lit. Living wicks only respond to the telepathic commands of the individual that lit them." }, { "name": "Light", "desc": "Activated living wicks produce light as a torch." }, { "name": "Melting", "desc": "A living wick loses one hit point for every 24 hours it remains lit." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 278, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_living-wick/" }, { "slug": "lorelei", "desc": "_Lounging on large river rocks or within swirling eddies untouched by the rush of the current, these breathtakingly fey call plaintively to travelers and knights errant. They seek nothing less than the last breath of a drowning man._ \n**Death to Men.** These callous river sirens compete with one another in manipulating and destroying male travelers. A lorelei often taunts her prey for days before finally turning on it. When the opportunity presents itself, it quickly draws heavily armored warriors into deep water and kisses them as they drown. \n**Voluptuous Humanoids.** Although legends describe the lorelei as golden-haired and fair-skinned, they come in all varieties, each more voluptuous than the next. While most resemble sensual humans, a lorelei’s form can also include elves, dwarves, and in some recorded cases even orcs and hobgoblins—a lorelei mimics her most frequent prey. \n**Ignore Women.** Women travelers are vexing for the lorelei. While the siren’s powers affect women as readily as men, the lorelei lacks the urge to destroy them. Women traveling alone or in all-female groups may pass through a lorelei’s territory safely, and might even make peaceful contact. However, women who protect male companions are viewed as traitors, inspiring wrath.", "name": "Lorelei", "size": "Medium", "type": "Fey", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "18 mage armor", "hit_points": 76, "hit_dice": "9d8+36", "speed": { "walk": 30, "swim": 30 }, "strength": 10, "dexterity": 21, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 16, "wisdom": 16, "charisma": 23, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": 8, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": 9, "perception": null, "skills": { "deception": 9, "performance": 9, "persuasion": 9 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13", "languages": "Common, Sylvan", "challenge_rating": "5", "cr": 5.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Dagger", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d4 + 5) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "1d4" }, { "name": "Charm", "desc": "The lorelei targets one humanoid she can see within 30 feet of her. If the target can see or hear the lorelei, it must succeed on a DC 17 Wisdom saving throw against this magic or be charmed by the lorelei. The charmed target regards the lorelei as its one, true love, to be heeded and protected. Although the target isn't under the lorelei's control, it takes the lorelei's requests or actions in the most favorable way it can. Each time the lorelei or her companions cause the target to take damage, directly or indirectly, it repeats the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success. Otherwise, the effect lasts 24 hours or until the lorelei is killed, is on a different plane of existence than the target, or takes a bonus action to end the effect." }, { "name": "Stunning Glance", "desc": "The lorelei mentally disrupts a creature within 30 feet with a look. The target must succeed on a DC 17 Wisdom saving throw or be stunned for 2 rounds. Anyone who successfully saves against this effect cannot be affected by it from the same lorelei for 24 hours." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Alluring Presence", "desc": "All humanoids within 30 feet of a lorelei who look directly at her must succeed on a DC 17 Charisma saving throw or be drawn to her in the most direct path, regardless of the danger. This compulsion fades once the person gets within 5 feet of the lorelei. A creature can avoid this effect for one full round by choosing to avert its eyes at the start of its turn, but it then has disadvantage on any attacks or other rolls directed against the lorelei until the start of its next turn. A lorelei can suppress or resume this ability as a bonus action. Anyone who successfully saves against this effect cannot be affected by it from the same lorelei for 24 hours." }, { "name": "Unearthly Grace", "desc": "A lorelei applies her Charisma modifier to all of her saving throws in place of the normal ability modifier." }, { "name": "Water Spirit", "desc": "The lorelei is under the effect of freedom of movement whenever she is in contact with a body of water." }, { "name": "Spellcasting", "desc": "the lorelei is an 8th-level spellcaster. Her spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 17, +9 to hit with spell attacks). She requires no material components to cast her spells. The lorelei has the following sorcerer spells prepared:\n\ncantrips (at will): detect magic, guidance, light, mending, poison spray, prestidigitation\n\n1st level (4 slots): comprehend languages, fog cloud, mage armor, ray of sickness\n\n2nd level (3 slots): hold person, misty step, suggestion\n\n3rd level (3 slots): hypnotic pattern, gaseous form, water walk\n\n4th level (2 slots): dominate beast, ice storm" } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 279, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_lorelei/" }, { "slug": "loxoda", "desc": "_Often called elephant centaurs by humans and gnolls, loxodas are massive creatures that combine the torso of an ogre and the body of an elephant. Hating and fearing all strangers, they live in open plains and scrubland._ \n**Nomadic Families.** Loxodas live in small herds of 2-3 extended families. Several of these communities will usually cluster together, allowing members to move between groups as they get older. They have no permanent settlements, and instead loxoda families travel to new areas when they deplete the available food. Voracious eaters, a family of loxodas will quickly strip trees bare of leaves, or hunt and cook an entire elephant. They devour both meat and vegetation. \n**Often Underestimated.** Many people assume that loxodas are as dull witted as the ogres they resemble. This is often a fatal mistake, as the elephant centaurs are quite intelligent. Their simple equipment and straightforward living comes not from a lack of skill or knowledge, but their own isolationism and xenophobia. Their immense size and quadruped body makes it difficult for them to mine metal ore, and they violently reject communications and trade with other people. The little metal they can gather is either taken from the bodies of their prey or stolen in raids on dwarven, human, or gnoll settlements. \n**Vestigial Tusks.** All loxodas have curved tusks. While they are too small for use in even ritual combat, they are often decorated with intricate carvings, inlays or dyed in a pattern developed by their family. Each individual also adapts the patterns with their own individual marks, often inspired by important events in their lives. Some loxodas put golden rings or jewelled bracelets stolen from humanoids onto their tusks as trophies—a loxoda matriarch may have long dangling chains of such ornaments, indicating her high status and long life. They stand 18 feet tall and weigh nearly 20,000 pounds.", "name": "Loxoda", "size": "Huge", "type": "Monstrosity", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 147, "hit_dice": "14d12+56", "speed": { "walk": 40 }, "strength": 19, "dexterity": 12, "constitution": 19, "intelligence": 12, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 10, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "survival": 5 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "passive Perception 12", "languages": "Loxodan", "challenge_rating": "6", "cr": 6.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The loxoda makes two attacks, but no more than one of them can be a maul or javelin attack." }, { "name": "Maul", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 25 (6d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "6d6" }, { "name": "Stomp", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 20 (3d10 + 4) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "3d10" }, { "name": "Javelin", "desc": "Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 30/120 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (3d6 + 4) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "3d6" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Trampling Charge", "desc": "If the loxoda moves at least 20 feet straight toward a Large or smaller creature it then attacks with a stomp, the stomp attack is made with advantage. If the stomp attack hits, the target must also succeed on a DC 15 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 280, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_loxoda/" }, { "slug": "mahoru", "desc": "_“I saw no more terrible beast on all my journeys north than the mahoru. The white bears had their aloof majesty, the lindwurm serpentine grace, but the monster that gnawed away the pack ice beneath our feet and savaged any who fell into the water was a thing of nightmare. The men it snatched were torn apart, like rags in the mouth of a rabid dog.”_ \nA hybrid of fish and mammal, a mahoru is eight feet long and looks like a small orca with a serpentine neck and seal-like head. \n**Valuable Teeth and Fur.** Their heavy jaws are filled with triangular, serrated teeth adept at tearing flesh and sundering bone. Their white and black fur is highly prized for its warmth and waterproof qualities. Their pectoral fins feature stubby, claw-tipped paws. Skraeling use the mahoru’s fangs to make arrowheads or tooth-studded clubs, and the mahoru is a totem beast for many northern tribes. \n**Iceberg Hunters.** Relatives of the bunyip, mahoru prowl northern coasts and estuaries, hunting among the fragmenting pack ice each summer. They lurk beneath the surface, catching swimmers chunks or lurching up onto the ice to break or tilt it and send prey tumbling into the water. When necessary, they stalk beaches and riverbanks in search of carrion or unwary victims. \n**Work in Pairs and Packs.** Mahoru work together in mated pairs to corral everything from fish and seals to larger prey like kayaking humans and even polar bears. They gnaw at ice bridges and the frozen surface of lakes and rivers to create fragile patches that plunge unwary victims into their waiting jaws.", "name": "Mahoru", "size": "Large", "type": "Monstrosity", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 91, "hit_dice": "14d8+28", "speed": { "walk": 10, "swim": 60 }, "strength": 18, "dexterity": 19, "constitution": 14, "intelligence": 3, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 7, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 3, "skills": { "perception": 3, "stealth": 6 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13", "languages": "-", "challenge_rating": "3", "cr": 3.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 20 (3d10 + 4) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "3d10" }, { "name": "Roar", "desc": "When a mahoru roars all creatures with hearing within 30 feet of it must succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw or become frightened until the end of the mahoru's next turn. If the target fails the saving throw by 5 or more, it's also paralyzed for the same duration. A target that succeeds on the saving throw is immune to the Roar of all mahoru for the next 24 hours." }, { "name": "Vorpal Bite", "desc": "a mahoru's saw-like jaws are excel at dismembering prey. When the mahoru scores a critical hit, the target must succeed on a DC 14 Strength saving throw or lose an appendage. Roll on the following table for the result:\n\n1-2: right hand\n\n3-4: left hand\n\n5-6: right food\n\n7-8: left foot\n\n9: right forearm\n\n10: left forearm\n\n11: right lower leg\n\n12: left lower leg" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Amphibious", "desc": "The mahoru can breathe air and water." }, { "name": "Keen Sight and Smell", "desc": "The mahoru has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight or smell." }, { "name": "Pack Tactics", "desc": "The mahoru has advantage on attack rolls against a creature if at least one of the mahoru's allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated." }, { "name": "Blood Frenzy", "desc": "The mahoru has advantage on melee attack rolls against any creature that isn't at maximum hit points." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 281, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_mahoru/" }, { "slug": "mallqui", "desc": "_With skin stretched like vellum over wizened limbs, a desiccated humanoid form clad in splendid regalia emerges from a funerary tower. Suddenly, the air becomes so dry as to make the eyes sting and lips crack. The imposing figure has yellow points of light for eyes._ \n**Cold Plateau Mummies.** The people of the cold, rainless, mountain plateaus take advantage of their dry climes to mummify their honored dead, but without the embalming and curing of the corpse practiced in hotter lands. To preserve the knowledge and the place of their ancestors in the afterlife, their dead remain among them as counsellors and honorees on holy days. \n**Undead Judges.** The mallqui are not seen as malevolent, though at times they are severe judges against transgressors of their culture’s ideals. \n**Icons of Growth.** Through their ability to draw the very moisture from the air, they are seen as conduits to the fertility of the earth. “Mallqui” also means “sapling” in the language of the people who create them. \n**Undead Nature.** A mallqui doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Mallqui", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "lawful neutral", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 120, "hit_dice": "16d8+48", "speed": { "walk": 20 }, "strength": 16, "dexterity": 9, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 11, "wisdom": 16, "charisma": 14, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": 3, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": 5, "perception": null, "skills": { "history": 3, "insight": 6, "religion": 3 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "cold, lightning; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13", "languages": "the languages it knew in life", "challenge_rating": "8", "cr": 8.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The mallqui can use its xeric aura and makes two attacks with its desiccating touch." }, { "name": "Desiccating Touch", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 20 (5d6 + 3) necrotic damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "5d6" }, { "name": "Xeric Aura", "desc": "All creatures within 20 feet of the mallqui must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 11 (2d10) necrotic damage and gain a level of exhaustion. A creature becomes immune to the mallqui's xeric aura for the next 24 hours after making a successful save against it." }, { "name": "Xeric Blast", "desc": "Ranged Spell Attack: +7 to hit, range 30/90 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (3d6 + 3) necrotic damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "3d6" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Regeneration", "desc": "The mallqui regains 10 hit points at the start of its turn. If the mallqui takes damage from its Water Sensitivity trait, its regeneration doesn't function at the start of the mallqui's next turn. The mallqui dies only if it starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesn't regenerate." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the mallqui's innate spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 15, +7 to hit with spell attacks). It can cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nat will: druidcraft, produce flame\n\n4/day each: create or destroy water, entangle\n\n2/day: locate animals or plants\n\n1/day each: dispel magic, plant growth, wind wall" }, { "name": "Water Sensitivity", "desc": "the flesh of a mallqui putrefies and dissolves rapidly when soaked with water in the following ways:\n\n- Splashed with a waterskin or equivalent: 1d10 damage\n\n- Attacked by creature made of water: Normal damage plus an extra 1d10 damage\n\n- Caught in rain: 2d10 damage per round (DC 11 Dexterity saving throw for half)\n\n- Immersed in water: 4d10 damage per round (DC 13 Dexterity saving throw for half)\n\nalternatively, the saving throw and DC of the spell used to conjure or control the water damaging the mallqui can be used in place of the saving throws above" } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 282, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_mallqui/" }, { "slug": "malphas-storm-crow", "desc": "", "name": "Malphas (Storm Crow)", "size": "Medium", "type": "Fey", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 16, "armor_desc": "studded leather", "hit_points": 120, "hit_dice": "16d8+48", "speed": { "walk": 40, "fly": 30 }, "strength": 19, "dexterity": 19, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 14, "wisdom": 13, "charisma": 14, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 7, "constitution_save": 6, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 4, "charisma_save": 5, "perception": 4, "skills": { "perception": 4 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 14", "languages": "Common, Giant, Ravenfolk, Sylvan", "challenge_rating": "6", "cr": 6.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The malphas makes three longsword attacks." }, { "name": "Longsword", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d8 + 4) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "1d8" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": [ { "name": "Shadow Call", "desc": "A malphas can cast magic missile as a reaction when it is hit by a ranged weapon attack." } ], "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the storm crow's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 13). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nat will: magic missile\n\n1/day: haste" }, { "name": "Sunlight Sensitivity", "desc": "While in sunlight, the malphas has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight." }, { "name": "Night Terror (1/round)", "desc": "As a bonus action immediately after making a successful melee attack, a malphas storm crow can cast magic missile through his or her sword at the same target." }, { "name": "Swordtrained", "desc": "Malphas are trained from youth in combat. They are proficient with all martial melee and ranged weapons." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 283, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_malphas-storm-crow/" }, { "slug": "mask-wight", "desc": "_The frame of this withered demon’s corpse barely fills the ash-colored plate armor that encases it. It carries a serrated khopesh sword in spiked gauntlets that hiss with violet smoke, and a horned ivory mask devoid of features is nailed to its face._ \n**Children of Fiends.** Long ago, a demon lord of shadow and deceit fell in love with a demon goddess of destruction. At the base of a crater left by a meteor that destroyed a civilization, the two devised a plan to not merely slay their peers, but wholly expunge them from time itself, leaving only each other. Shortly thereafter, the mask wights were conceived. \n**Rites of Annihilation.** To create these undead, the lord of shadows stole the bodies of death knights from beneath the necropolis of an arch-lich. Then, the goddess of the underworld sacrificed a million condemned souls and drained their essence into ivory masks—one for each fiend the couple sought to annihilate. Finally, the masks were hammered onto the knights with cold iron nails, and their armored husks were left at the bottom of the memory-draining River Styx for 600 years. \nWhen they rose, the mask wights marched out into the planes to bury knowledge, conjure secrets, and erase their quarry from memory and history. \n**Ready for Betrayal.** Kept secret from one another, though, the two each created an additional mask wight, a safeguard for in case betrayal should cross their lover’s mind. \n**Undead Nature.** A mask wight doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Mask Wight", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 19, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 207, "hit_dice": "18d8+126", "speed": { "walk": 40 }, "strength": 22, "dexterity": 18, "constitution": 24, "intelligence": 15, "wisdom": 16, "charisma": 18, "strength_save": 11, "dexterity_save": 9, "constitution_save": 12, "intelligence_save": 7, "wisdom_save": 8, "charisma_save": 9, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "radiant", "damage_resistances": "acid, fire, lightning, cold; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, stunned, unconscious", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., truesight 30 ft., passive Perception 13", "languages": "Common, Giant, Infernal", "challenge_rating": "13", "cr": 13.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The mask wight makes one Khopesh of Oblivion attack and one Enervating Spiked Gauntlet attack." }, { "name": "Khopesh of Oblivion", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 19 (3d8 + 6) slashing damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 17 Wisdom saving throw or some cherished material thing disappears from the universe, and only the target retains any memory of it. This item can be as large as a building, but it can't be a living entity and it can't be on the target's person or within the target's sight.", "attack_bonus": 11, "damage_dice": "3d8" }, { "name": "Enervating Spiked Gauntlet", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 19 (2d12 + 6) bludgeoning damage plus 11 (2d10) necrotic damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 17 Wisdom saving throw or gain 1 level of exhaustion. The target recovers from all exhaustion caused by the enervating spiked gauntlet at the end of its next long rest.", "attack_bonus": 11, "damage_dice": "2d12" }, { "name": "Wail of the Forgotten (Recharge 6)", "desc": "The mask wight emits an ear-piercing wail. All creatures within 30 feet of the wight take 65 (10d12) thunder damage and are permanently deafened; a successful DC 17 Charisma saving throw reduces damage to half and limits the deafness to 1d4 hours. Targets slain by this attack are erased from the memories of every creature in the planes, all written or pictorial references to the target fade away, and its body is obliterated-the only exception is those who personally witnessed the death. Restoring such a slain creature requires a wish or divine intervention; no mortal remembers the creature's life or death." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the wight's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 17). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nat will: alter self\n\n1/day each: counterspell, dispel magic, enlarge/reduce, spider climb, tongues\n\n1/week: gate" }, { "name": "Single-minded Purpose", "desc": "The wight has advantage on attack rolls against followers of the fiend it is tasked to destroy and those in its target's employ (whether or not they are aware of their employer), as well as the fiend itself." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 285, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_mask-wight/" }, { "slug": "mavka", "desc": "_These twisted dryads have been turned into vampiric monstrosities by undead warlocks and vampiric experiments._ \n**Charred Dryads.** With burnt and blackened skin, burnt twigs for hair, and clawed hands and feet that resemble burnt and twisted roots, mavkas seem scorched and even frail. Pupil-less red eyes gleam in their eye sockets with a hellish green flame. \n**Death Riders.** All mavkas ride Open Game License", "name": "Mavka", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 17, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 170, "hit_dice": "20d8+80", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 20, "dexterity": 15, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 13, "wisdom": 13, "charisma": 18, "strength_save": 9, "dexterity_save": 6, "constitution_save": 8, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": 8, "perception": 5, "skills": { "athletics": 9, "nature": 5, "perception": 5 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "acid, fire, necrotic; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "cold, lightning", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 90 ft., passive Perception 15", "languages": "Common, Infernal, Sylvan", "challenge_rating": "12", "cr": 12.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The mavka makes two slam attacks." }, { "name": "Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 23 (4d8 + 5) bludgeoning damage plus 11 (2d10) necrotic damage.", "attack_bonus": 9, "damage_dice": "4d8" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the mavka's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 16, +8 to hit with spell attacks). She can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nconstant: protection from evil and good\n\nat will: create or destroy water, dancing lights, ray of frost, resistance, witch bolt\n\n3/day each: darkness, hold person, inflict wounds, invisibility, silence\n\n1/day each: animate dead, bestow curse, blindness/deafness, contagion, dispel magic, vampiric touch" }, { "name": "Nightmare Mount", "desc": "A mavka is bonded to a nightmare when it is created. Mavkas are encountered with their mounts 95% of the time." }, { "name": "Sunlight Hypersensitivity", "desc": "The mavka takes 20 radiant damage when she starts her turn in sunlight. While in sunlight, she has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 286, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_mavka/" }, { "slug": "mbielu", "desc": "_This lumbering saurian quadruped has large, oblong plates of bone covered in greenish slime protruding from its back and its thick, club-like tail._ \n_**Large Plates.**_ People describe this reptilian herbivore as “the animal with planks growing out of its back.” The mbielu is a large dinosaur akin to a stegosaurus, with square dorsal plates that support symbiotic colonies of toxic, green algae. The plates themselves are as large as shields. \n_**Aquatic Herbivore.**_ An mbielu spends most of its life underwater, feeding on aquatic plants and avoiding the withering glare of the harsh sun, but it comes onto land frequently to sun itself for a few hours before immersing itself once again. \n_**Toxic Alchemy.**_ Its dorsal plate algae undergo an alchemical reaction in the continual transition between water and sky, especially during mbielu migrations to new watery dens. The algae produce a hallucinogenic contact poison that clouds the minds of most creatures. Mbielus themselves are immune to the toxin.", "name": "Mbielu", "size": "Huge", "type": "Beast", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 95, "hit_dice": "10d12+30", "speed": { "walk": 30, "swim": 20 }, "strength": 19, "dexterity": 14, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 2, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 6, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 3, "skills": { "perception": 3 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "passive Perception 13", "languages": "-", "challenge_rating": "3", "cr": 3.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Tail", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 20 (3d10 + 4) bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 14 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "3d10" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": [ { "name": "Rollover", "desc": "If the mbielu is grappled by a Large creature, it rolls on top of the grappler and crushes it. The mbielu automatically escapes from the grapple and the grappler takes 20 (3d10 + 4) bludgeoning damage." } ], "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Toxic Skin", "desc": "A creature that touches the mbielu or hits it with a melee attack exposes itself to the mbielu's poisonous skin. The creature must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 minute. While poisoned in this way, a creature also suffers disadvantage on Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 114, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_mbielu/" }, { "slug": "mi-go", "desc": "_Mi-go have been described as “vaguely insectlike,” but the emphasis belongs on “vaguely.” They have stubby wings, multiple limbs, and nightmarish heads, but the resemblance ends there._ \nThe mi-go are a space-faring race of great skill and vast malevolence. They travel in large numbers between worlds, somehow folding space to cover astronomical distances in months rather than decades. \n**Alien Technology.** Their technology includes mastery of living things, powerful techniques to implant mi-go elements and even minds in alien bodies (or to extract them), and an unparalleled mastery of living tissue in both plant and animal form. While they have their own secrets and goals, they also serve ancient powers from between the stars and carry on an interstellar effort to conquer and spread their species. \n**World Colonizers.** The mi-go are devoted followers of Shub-Niggurath, the goddess of fecundity and growth, and take their evangelical mission extremely seriously. They colonize entire worlds in Shub-Niggurath’s name, and they plant and harvest entire species according to her will. \n**Brain Cylinders.** One of the apexes of mi-go technology is the brain cylinder, a device that permits the extraction and maintenance of a living brain outside the body. Safely isolated in a mi-go cylinder, a human brain can be transported between the stars, sheltered—mostly—from the psyche-crushing effects of interstellar space. They deploy, fill, and retrieve these cylinders according to schedules and for purposes mysterious to others. Indeed, most of their technology appears either revolting or simply bizarre to humanoids (plant folk are less disquieted by their functioning). \nMi-go merchants exchange psychic tools, surgical instruments, and engineered materials such as solar wings, illuminating lampfruit, and purple starvines (which induce sleep).", "name": "Mi-Go", "size": "Medium", "type": "Plant", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 17, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 76, "hit_dice": "8d8+40", "speed": { "walk": 30, "fly": 60 }, "strength": 16, "dexterity": 19, "constitution": 21, "intelligence": 25, "wisdom": 15, "charisma": 13, "strength_save": 6, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": 8, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": 4, "perception": 5, "skills": { "arcana": 10, "deception": 7, "medicine": 5, "perception": 5, "stealth": 7 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "radiant, cold", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "blindsight 30 ft., darkvision 240 ft., passive Perception 15", "languages": "Common, Mi-go, Void Speech", "challenge_rating": "5", "cr": 5.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The mi-go makes two attacks with its claws." }, { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (3d6 + 4) slashing damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 13). If both claw attacks strike the same target in a single turn, the target takes an additional 13 (2d12) psychic damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "3d6" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": [ { "name": "Spore Release", "desc": "When a mi-go dies, it releases its remaining spores. All living creatures within 10 feet take 14 (2d8 + 5) poison damage and become poisoned; a successful DC 16 Constitution saving throw halves the damage and prevents poisoning. A poisoned creature repeats the saving throw at the end of its turn, ending the effect on itself with a success." } ], "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Astral Travelers", "desc": "Mi-go do not require air or heat to survive, only sunlight (and very little of that). They can enter a sporulated form capable of surviving travel through the void and returning to consciousness when conditions are right." }, { "name": "Sneak Attack (1/Turn)", "desc": "The mi-go does an extra 7 (2d6) damage when it hits a target with a claw attack and has advantage on the attack roll, or when the target is within 5 feet of an ally of the mi-go that isn't incapacitated and the mi-go doesn't have disadvantage on the attack roll." }, { "name": "Disquieting Technology", "desc": "The mi-go are a highly advanced race, and may carry items of powerful technology. Mi-go technology can be represented using the same rules as magic items, but their functions are very difficult to determine: identify is useless, but an hour of study and a successful DC 19 Arcana check can reveal the purpose and proper functioning of a mi-go item." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 287, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_mi-go/" }, { "slug": "millitaur", "desc": "_The millitaur is a purplish-black segmented worm the size of a horse, with hundreds of legs, black multifaceted eyes and thick powerful mandibles. They wield crude stone axes._ \n**Mulch Eaters.** Millitaurs roam jungles and woodlands, where dense undergrowth rots beneath the canopy and piles high; leaves and plants provide much of the millitaur diet. Though millitaurs are territorial, they sometimes chase away threats rather than kill intruders. However, they also are good hunters and supplement their diet with squirrel, monkey, and even gnome or goblin. \n**Poisonous Drool.** As formidable as they appear, millitaurs are the preferred prey of some dragons and jungle giants, and tosculi often hunt them for use as slaves and pack animals. In defense, they’ve developed a mild poison. Millitaur handaxes often drip with this substance, smeared onto them from the beast’s mandibles. They use their axes for breaking up mulch for easier digestion, as well as using them for hunting and self-defense. \n**Clicking Speech.** Millitaurs communicate via body language, antennae movements, scent, and clicking sounds. Although they have no voice boxes, millitaurs can make sounds by artfully clicking and grinding their mandibles, and they can mimic the sounds of Common in a peculiar popping tone. They can be good sources for local information so long as they are treated with respect and their territory is not encroached.", "name": "Millitaur", "size": "Large", "type": "Monstrosity", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 85, "hit_dice": "10d10+30", "speed": { "walk": 40, "burrow": 20, "climb": 30 }, "strength": 18, "dexterity": 14, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 8, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 10, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "acrobatics": 4 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "poison; bludgeoning and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "prone", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., tremorsense 30 ft., passive Perception 11", "languages": "Common", "challenge_rating": "3", "cr": 3.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The millitaur makes two handaxe attacks." }, { "name": "Handaxe", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) slashing damage plus 2 (1d4) poison damage.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "2d6" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": null, "spell_list": [], "page_no": 288, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_millitaur/" }, { "slug": "mindrot-thrall", "desc": "_A heavily cloaked figure reeks of decay and spreads a floating cloud of spores with every step._ \n**Fungal Rot.** Mindrot fungus is an intelligent hive-mind parasite that consumes creatures from the inside out. When inhaled, mindrot spores enter the brain through the bloodstream. As the fungus grows, it dissolves the host’s body and slowly replaces the creature’s flesh with its own. \nThe fungus’s first target is the motor function of the brain. It takes control of the creature’s movement while the victim is still alive and fully conscious—but no longer controls his or her own body! Indeed, sensory awareness may be the last function that the fungus attacks. Eventually, even the victim’s skin and muscle are replaced with fungal fibers. At that point, the affected creature no longer looks like its former self. Such a newly-born mindrot thrall conceals its alarming appearance under heavy robes or cloaks so it can travel without causing alarm. \n**Spore Blisters.** A thrall’s skin is taut and waxy. Blisters form just beneath the surface, and when they grow as large as a child’s fist they burst, releasing a spray of spores. It seeks to infect as many new victims as possible during the few weeks that it survives in humanoid form. At the end of that time, the thrall shrivels to a dried, vaguely humanoid husk. Even a dead mindrot thrall, however, is still dangerous because its half-formed spore blisters can remain infectious for months. Disturbing the husk can burst these blisters and trigger a Mindrot Spores attack. \n**Dimensional Horrors.** Wizards hypothesize the fungus was brought to the mortal world by a shambling horror crossing through a dimensional portal. The remoteness of that wasteland is likely whythe mindrot fungus hasn’t destroyed whole cities, though someday it may find a more fertile breeding ground.", "name": "Mindrot Thrall", "size": "Medium", "type": "Plant", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 82, "hit_dice": "11d8+33", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 15, "dexterity": 14, "constitution": 17, "intelligence": 11, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 6, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": 5, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning and piercing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "acid, poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, frightened, poisoned", "senses": "tremorsense 30 ft., passive Perception 12", "languages": "understands Common but cannot speak", "challenge_rating": "3", "cr": 3.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The mindrot thrall makes two claw attacks." }, { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (2d6 + 2) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "2d6" }, { "name": "Acid Breath (Recharge 4-6)", "desc": "The thrall exhales a blast of acidic spores from its rotten lungs in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in that area takes 36 (8d8) acid damage, or half damage with a successful DC 13 Dexterity saving throw. If the saving throw fails, the creature is also infected with mindrot spores." }, { "name": "Mindrot Spores", "desc": "Infection occurs when mindrot spores are inhaled or swallowed. Infected creatures must make a DC 13 Constitution saving throw at the end of every long rest; nothing happens if the saving throw succeeds, but if it fails, the creature takes 9 (2d8) acid damage and its hit point maximum is reduced by the same amount. The infection ends when the character makes successful saving throws after two consecutive long rests, or receives the benefits of a lesser restoration spell or comparable magic. A creature slain by this disease becomes a mindrot thrall after 24 hours unless the corpse is destroyed." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Fungal Aura", "desc": "A creature that starts its turn within 5 feet of a mindrot thrall must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or become infected with mindrot spores." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 290, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_mindrot-thrall/" }, { "slug": "miremal", "desc": "_The creature emerging from the shadows of the swamp is short and lean. Its pale-skinned body is covered in fungus and moss that seems to grow directly in its flesh, and its green eyes weep bloody tears._ \nMiremals are savage, degenerate fey who delight in crafting seemingly safe paths through treacherous swamps—though these paths are, instead, riddled with traps and ambush points. \n**Unreliable Guides.** Miremals hunt in packs of three to six and often serve a more powerful creature, especially one that commands potent magic. As a result, many of these paths lead unwary travelers into the grove of a green hag coven or into the lair of a black dragon. \n**Swamp.** Miremals have adapted from sylvan forests to the swamps: patches of red and green fungus sprout from their skin, mushrooms and branches grow haphazardly out of their bodies, and moss hangs from beneath their arms. Their eyes are forest green and are perpetually wet with bloody tears—their legends say their tears come from rage over their banishment and agony from knowing they can never return. \n**Hate Moss Lurkers.** Miremals are occasionally confused with moss lurkers, but the two despise one another and both consider the comparison odious.", "name": "Miremal", "size": "Small", "type": "Fey", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 22, "hit_dice": "5d6+5", "speed": { "walk": 30, "swim": 30 }, "strength": 10, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 12, "intelligence": 10, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 8, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 3, "skills": { "perception": 3, "stealth": 5, "survival": 3 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13", "languages": "Sylvan, Umbral", "challenge_rating": "1/2", "cr": 0.5, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The miremal makes two attacks, one of which must be a claw attack." }, { "name": "Claws", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1d6" }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1d6" }, { "name": "Bog Spew (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "The miremal spews a noxious stream of bog filth mixed with stomach acid at a target up to 20 feet away. Target must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw or be blinded for 1d4 rounds." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": [ { "name": "Muddled Escape (1/Day)", "desc": "If an attack would reduce the miremal's hit points to 0, it collapses into a pool of filth-laden swamp water and its hit points are reduced to 1 instead. The miremal can move at its normal speed in this form, including moving through spaces occupied by other creatures. As a bonus action at the beginning of the miremal's next turn, it can reform, still with 1 hit point." } ], "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Amphibious", "desc": "The miremal can breathe air and water." }, { "name": "Swamp Camouflage", "desc": "The miremal has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide in swampy terrain." }, { "name": "Savage Move", "desc": "If the miremal surprises a creature, it gets a bonus action it can use on its first turn of combat for a claw attack, a bite attack, or a Bog Spew attack." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 292, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_miremal/" }, { "slug": "mirror-hag", "desc": "_A mirror hag forces an unsuspecting creature to reflect on its own superficiality by gazing into the hag’s horrible face._ \n**Hideous Hex.** Until a creature can see past the hag’s deformities, it suffers the pain of a disfigured life. Some mirror hags do this for the betterment of all, but most do it because causing pain amuses them. \n**Warped Features.** Mirror hags are hunchbacked, with growths and lesions covering their skin. Their joints misalign, and the extremities of their bones press against their skin. However, it is their faces that inspire legends: the blackest moles sprouting long white hairs, noses resembling half-eaten carrots, and eyes mismatched in size, color, and alignment. If a creature recoils from a mirror hag’s looks, she bestows her reconfiguring curse on it. \n**Mirror Covens.** Mirror hags can form a coven with two other hags. Generally, mirror hags only form covens with other mirror hags, but from time to time a mirror hag will join a coven of witches or green hags.", "name": "Mirror Hag", "size": "Medium", "type": "Fey", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic neutral", "armor_class": 16, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 168, "hit_dice": "16d8+96", "speed": { "walk": 30, "fly": 10 }, "strength": 15, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 22, "intelligence": 12, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 19, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "thunder", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "charmed, frightened", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12", "languages": "Common", "challenge_rating": "6", "cr": 6.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "A mirror hag can use its Reconfiguring Curse and make one melee attack." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 21 (4d8 + 3) piercing damage, or 39 (8d8 + 3) piercing damage against a stunned target.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "4d8" }, { "name": "Quarterstaff", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1d6" }, { "name": "Reconfiguring Curse", "desc": "The mirror hag curses a living creature within 60 feet, giving it beastly or hideous features. The target of the reconfiguring curse must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 1d6 Charisma damage. A successful save renders the target immune to further uses of that hag's curse for 24 hours." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the hag's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 15, +7 to hit with spell attacks). She can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nat will: disguise self, inflict wounds (4d10), message, ray of enfeeblement\n\n1/day each: detect thoughts, dispel magic, lightning bolt, locate creature, shillelagh, stinking cloud, teleport" }, { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The hag has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." }, { "name": "Confounding Ugliness", "desc": "When confronting a mirror hag at any range, a creature must make a choice at the start of each of its turns: either avert its eyes so that it has disadvantage on attack rolls against the hag until the start of its next turn, or look at the hag and make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw. Failure on the saving throw leaves the character stunned until the start of its next turn." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 243, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_mirror-hag/" }, { "slug": "mngwa", "desc": "_Tiny wisps of grayish smoke ooze from the slate-colored coat of this leonine beast._ \n**Ethereal Lions.** The elusive mngwa (MING-wah; “the strange ones”) are the offspring of a sentient feline beast from the Ethereal Plane that mated with a lioness long ago. Also called nunda (“smoke-cats”), mngwas are strong and cunning hunters that can elude pursuit or approach their prey unnoticed by disappearing into the ether for a brief time. \n**Rocky Terrain.** Mngwas choose their hunting ground carefully, avoiding flatlands where competing predators are plentiful. They favor rocky and treacherous terrain where their talent for dancing along the veil between worlds allows them to easily outmaneuver their prey. \n**Feline Allies.** The strongest mngwa recruit other great cats into their prides, though these associations tend to be shortlived. They hunt with especially savage groups of nkosi, though only a great pridelord can command one during a hunt. When the hunt is over, the mngwa move on, and sometimes they take one of the young nkosi with them to become a shaman.", "name": "Mngwa", "size": "Medium", "type": "Aberration", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 16, "armor_desc": "", "hit_points": 91, "hit_dice": "14d8+28", "speed": { "walk": 40 }, "strength": 19, "dexterity": 17, "constitution": 15, "intelligence": 11, "wisdom": 17, "charisma": 17, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 5, "skills": { "perception": 5, "stealth": 7 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 15", "languages": "Common, Sylvan, can speak with felines", "challenge_rating": "4", "cr": 4.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The mngwa makes one bite attack and two claw attacks." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d8 + 4) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "1d8" }, { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d6 + 4) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "1d6" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Keen Smell", "desc": "The mngwa has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell." }, { "name": "Pack Tactics", "desc": "The mngwa has advantage on attack rolls against a creature if at least one of the mngwa's allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated." }, { "name": "Running Leap", "desc": "With a 10-foot running start, the mngwa can long jump up to 25 feet." }, { "name": "Feline Empathy", "desc": "The mngwa has advantage on Wisdom (Animal Handling) checks to deal with felines." }, { "name": "Ethereal Coat", "desc": "The armor class of the mngwa includes its Charisma modifier. All attack rolls against the mngwa have disadvantage. If the mngwa is adjacent to an area of smoke or mist, it can take a Hide action even if under direct observation." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 293, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_mngwa/" }, { "slug": "monolith-champion", "desc": "_This suit of armor stands motionless, its visor raised to reveal a black skull with eyes cold as a winter moon. A cloak of owl feathers hangs from its shoulders, and a greatsword is slung across its back._ \n**Beautiful Constructs.** Monolithic servitors are constructs designed to serve the courts of the shadow fey. As constructs go, these are uncommonly beautiful; they are meant to be as pleasing to the eyes as they are functional. Beauty, of course, is in the eye of the beholder, and what’s beautiful in the eyes of the shadow fey might be considered strange, disturbing, or even alarming by mortal folk. \n**Expensive Armor.** Regardless of a viewer’s esthetic opinion, it’s obvious that a monolith champion incorporates amazing workmanship. Every fitting is perfect; every surface is masterfully burnished and etched with detail almost invisible to the naked eye or decorated with macabre inlays and precious chasing. The skull in the helmet is mere decoration, meant to frighten the weak of heart and mislead opponents into thinking the champion is some form of undead rather than a pure construct. \n**Keeping Out the Rabble.** As its name implies, the monolith champion serves as a guardian, warrior, or sentry. In those roles, it never tires, never becomes distracted or bored, never questions its loyalty, and never swerves from its duty. It delights in throwing non-fey visitors out of fey settlements and buildings. \n**Constructed Nature.** A monolith champion doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Monolith Champion", "size": "Large", "type": "Construct", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 17, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 102, "hit_dice": "12d10+36", "speed": { "walk": 40 }, "strength": 19, "dexterity": 12, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 10, "wisdom": 10, "charisma": 10, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "poison, bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks not made with adamantine weapons", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10", "languages": "Elvish, Umbral", "challenge_rating": "8", "cr": 8.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The champion makes two greatsword attacks or two slam attacks." }, { "name": "Greatsword", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (3d6 + 4) slashing damage plus 11 (2d10) cold or fire damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "3d6" }, { "name": "Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage plus 11 (2d10) cold or fire damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "2d6" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Blatant Dismissal", "desc": "While in a fey court or castle, a monolith champion that scores a successful hit with its greatsword can try to force the substitution of the target with a shadow double. The target must succeed at a DC 14 Charisma saving throw or become invisible, silent, and paralyzed, while an illusory version of itself remains visible and audible-and under the monolith champion's control, shouting for a retreat or the like. Outside fey locales, this ability does not function." }, { "name": "Fey Flame", "desc": "The ritual powering a monolith champion grants it an inner flame that it can use to enhance its weapon or its fists with additional fire or cold damage, depending on the construct's needs." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 294, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_monolith-champion/" }, { "slug": "monolith-footman", "desc": "_A suit of elven parade armor, beautifully ornate but perhaps not terribly functional, stands at attention._ \n**Beautiful Construct.** Like the Open Game License", "name": "Monolith Footman", "size": "Large", "type": "Construct", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 60, "hit_dice": "8d10+16", "speed": { "walk": 40 }, "strength": 18, "dexterity": 12, "constitution": 14, "intelligence": 10, "wisdom": 10, "charisma": 10, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "poison, bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks not made with adamantine weapons", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10", "languages": "Elvish, Umbral", "challenge_rating": "3", "cr": 3.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Longsword", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) slashing damage plus 9 (2d8) cold or fire damage.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "2d6" }, { "name": "Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage plus 9 (2d8) cold or fire damage.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "1d8" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Blatant Dismissal", "desc": "While in the courts or castles of the fey, a monolith footman that scores a successful hit with its longsword can try to force the substitution of the target with a shadow double. The target must succeed at a DC 10 Charisma saving throw or become invisible, silent, and paralyzed, while an illusory version of itself remains visible and audible-and under the monolith footman's control, shouting for a retreat or the like. Outside fey locales, this ability does not function." }, { "name": "Fey Flame", "desc": "The ritual powering a monolith footman grants it an inner flame that it can use to enhance its weapon or its fists with additional fire or cold damage, depending on the construct's needs." }, { "name": "Simple Construction", "desc": "Monolith footmen are designed with a delicate fey construction. They burst into pieces and are destroyed when they receive a critical hit." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 295, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_monolith-footman/" }, { "slug": "mordant-snare", "desc": "_Mordant snares were created by war mages of ancient times. Each resembles an immense, dark gray, 11-armed starfish weighing eight tons, and yet a mordant snare is never obvious. Instead, it controls a few humanoids shuffling about aimlessly, their skin glistening with moisture, occasionally forming loose groups near the snare. These puppets pay little attention to their surroundings._ \n**Starfish Puppet Masters.** Snares bury themselves under loose soil to attack creatures walking above them. They attack by extruding filaments that inject acid into victims; this liquefies organs and muscle while leaving the skeleton, tendons, and skin intact. With the body thus hollowed out and refilled with acid and filaments, the mordant snare can control it from below like a puppet, creating a group of awkward, disoriented people. New victims fall prey to mordant snares when they approach to investigate. \n**Brains Preferred.** The mordant snare prefers intelligent food. With its tremorsense, it can easily distinguish between prey; it prefers Small and Medium bipeds. A mordant snare hunts an area until it is empty, so a village can suffer tremendous losses or even be wiped out before discovering what’s happening. However, a mordant snare is intelligent enough to know that escaped victims may come back with friends, shovels, and weapons, ready for battle. When this occurs, the snare abandons its puppets, burrows deeper underground, and seeks a new home. \n**Cooperative Killers.** Mordant snares are few in number and cannot reproduce. Since the secret of their creation was lost long ago, eventually they will disappear forever—until then, they cooperate well with each other, using puppets to lure victims to one another. A team is much more dangerous than a lone snare, and when three or more link up, they are especially deadly.", "name": "Mordant Snare", "size": "Gargantuan", "type": "Aberration", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 18, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 264, "hit_dice": "16d20+96", "speed": { "walk": 10, "burrow": 20 }, "strength": 23, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 22, "intelligence": 15, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 6, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "deception": 8 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "acid", "condition_immunities": "prone", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., tremorsense 60 ft., passive Perception 12", "languages": "Common, Primordial", "challenge_rating": "15", "cr": 15.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The mordant snare makes four melee attacks, using any combination of tentacle attacks, spike attacks, and filament attacks. No creature can be targeted by more than one filament attack per turn." }, { "name": "Spike", "desc": "Ranged Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d8 + 3) piercing damage plus 3 (1d6) acid damage.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "2d8" }, { "name": "Tentacle", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 17 (2d10 + 6) bludgeoning damage plus 7 (2d6) acid damage.", "attack_bonus": 11, "damage_dice": "2d10" }, { "name": "Filaments", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 22 (3d10 + 6) bludgeoning damage plus 10 (3d6) acid damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 16) and restrained.", "attack_bonus": 11, "damage_dice": "3d10" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The mordant snare has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." }, { "name": "Absorb Channeled Energy", "desc": "If a mordant snare is in the area of effect of a turn undead attempt, it gains temporary hit points. For each mordant puppet that would have been affected by the turning if it were a zombie, the mordant snare gains 10 temporary hit points, to a maximum of 60." }, { "name": "Buried", "desc": "Until it does something to reveal its presence, a buried mordant snare is treated as if it's invisible." }, { "name": "Mordant Puppets", "desc": "A mordant snare can control up to four bodies per tentacle. These \"puppets\"look and move like zombies. Treat each one as a zombie, but limited in movement to the 30-foot-by-30-foot area above the buried snare. Unlike normal zombies, any creature within 5 feet of a mordant puppet when the puppet takes piercing or slashing damage takes 3 (1d6) acid damage (spray from the wound). All puppets attached to a particular tentacle are destroyed if the mordant snare attacks with that tentacle; this does 9 (2d8) acid damage per puppet to all creatures within 5 feet of any of those puppets, or half damage with a successful DC 16 Dexterity saving throw. Damage done to puppet zombies doesn't affect the mordant snare. If the snare is killed, all of its puppets die immediately without causing any acid damage." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 296, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_mordant-snare/" }, { "slug": "moss-lurker", "desc": "_Somewhat like the cruel crossbreed of troll and gnome, the moss lurkers are a primitive race of forest and cavern dwellers with long, greenish beards and hair. Their hides are mossy green or peaty amber, and a vaguely fungal scent surrounds them at all times._ \nLike their trollish relatives, moss lurkers have large and often grotesque noses. Their claws are bright red when unsheathed, and their teeth tend toward the long and snaggly. They wear simple clothes of homespun wool or leather, or go naked in the summer. Their hats are sometimes festooned with toadstools or ferns as primitive camouflage. \n**Rocks and Large Weapons.** Moss lurkers have a fondness for throwing stones onto enemies from a great height, and they often employ enormous axes, warhammers, and two-handed swords that seem much larger than such a small creature should be able to lift.", "name": "Moss Lurker", "size": "Small", "type": "Humanoid", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic neutral", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 45, "hit_dice": "10d6+10", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 14, "dexterity": 14, "constitution": 12, "intelligence": 12, "wisdom": 10, "charisma": 10, "strength_save": 4, "dexterity_save": 4, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 2, "skills": { "perception": 2, "stealth": 4 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "fire, poison", "condition_immunities": "blind, poisoned", "senses": "blindsight 60 ft., passive Perception 12", "languages": "Giant, Sylvan, Trollkin", "challenge_rating": "1", "cr": 1.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "1d6+2" }, { "name": "Great Sword or Maul", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (2d6 + 2) slashing or bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "2d6" }, { "name": "Mushroom-Poisoned Javelin", "desc": "Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 30 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage plus 6 (1d12) poison damage and the target is poisoned until the start of the moss lurker's next turn. A successful DC 11 Constitution save halves the poison damage and prevents poisoning.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "1d6" }, { "name": "Dropped Boulder", "desc": "Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 100 ft. (vertically), one target. Hit: 10 (3d6) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "3d6" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Camouflage", "desc": "A moss lurker has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks to hide in forested or swampy terrain." }, { "name": "Love of Heavy Weapons", "desc": "While moss lurkers can use heavy weapons, they have disadvantage while wielding them." }, { "name": "Keen Hearing and Smell", "desc": "The moss lurker has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing or smell." }, { "name": "Poisoned Gifts", "desc": "A moss lurker can contaminate liquids or food with poison. Someone who consumes the contaminated substance must make a successful DC 11 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 1 hour. When the poison is introduced, the moss lurker can choose a poison that also causes the victim to fall unconscious, or to become paralyzed while poisoned in this way. An unconscious creature wakes if it takes damage, or if a creature uses an action to shake it awake." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 298, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_moss-lurker/" }, { "slug": "myling", "desc": "_Mylings are the souls of the unburied, those who died in the forest from abandonment or exposure and can find no peace until their bodies are properly interred. Given the circumstances around their deaths, mylings tend to be solitary. They haunt the places where they died. When some tragedy resulted in multiple deaths, the resulting mylings stay together and hunt as a pack._ \n**Attack in a Rage.** Mylings prefer to attack lone wanderers, but they target a group when desperate or when there’s more than one myling in the pack. They shadow a target until after dark, then jump onto the target’s back and demand to be carried to their chosen burial ground. They cling tightly to a victim with arms and legs locked around the victim’s shoulders and midsection, begging, threatening, and biting until the victim gives in to their demands. Mylings will bite victims to death if they are unable or unwilling to carry them, or if a victim moves too slowly. \n**Ungrateful Rest.** While all mylings seek a creature to carry them to their final resting place, even when a chosen “mount” is willing to carry the myling, the creature’s body grows immensely heavier as it nears its burial place. Once there, it sinks into the earth, taking its bearers with it. Being buried alive is their reward for helping the myling. \n**Urchin Rhymes and Songs.** Some mylings maintain traces of the personalities they had while alive— charming, sullen, or sadistic—and they can speak touchingly and piteously. Dressed in ragged clothing, their skin blue with cold, they sometimes reach victims who believe they are helping an injured child or young adult. They hide their faces and sing innocent rhymes when they aren’t screeching in fury, for they know that their dead eyes and cold blue skin cause fright and alarm. \n**Undead Nature.** A myling doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Myling", "size": "Small", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 45, "hit_dice": "10d6+10", "speed": { "walk": 30, "burrow": 10 }, "strength": 15, "dexterity": 10, "constitution": 12, "intelligence": 10, "wisdom": 12, "charisma": 10, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "stealth": 4 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks not made with silvered weapons", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, frightened, poisoned, stunned, unconscious", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11", "languages": "Common", "challenge_rating": "2", "cr": 2.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The myling makes one bite and two claw attacks." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (2d4 + 2) piercing damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 12). If the target was grappled by the myling at the start of the myling's turn, the bite attack hits automatically.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "2d4" }, { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (2d6 + 1) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "2d6" }, { "name": "Buried Alive", "desc": "If the myling starts its turn on its chosen burial ground, it sinks into the earth. If it has a creature grappled, that creature sinks with the myling. A Medium or larger creature sinks up to its waist; a Small creature sinks up to its neck. If the myling still has the victim grappled at the start of the myling's next turn, both of them disappear into the earth. While buried this way, a creature is considered stunned. It can free itself with a successful DC 20 Strength (Athletics) check, but only one check is allowed; if it fails, the creature is powerless to aid itself except with magic. The creature must also make a DC 10 Constitution saving throw; if it succeeds, the creature has a lungful of air and can hold its breath for (Constitution modifier + 1) minutes before suffocation begins. Otherwise, it begins suffocating immediately. Allies equipped with digging tools can reach it in four minutes divided by the number of diggers; someone using an improvised tool (a sword, a plate, bare hands) counts as only one-half of a digger." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": null, "spell_list": [], "page_no": 301, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-for-5th-edition-print/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob_myling/" } ] }