Monster List
list: API endpoint for returning a list of monsters.
retrieve: API endpoint for returning a particular monster.
GET /monsters/?format=api&ordering=armor_desc&page=46
{ "count": 3207, "next": "https://api.open5e.com/monsters/?format=api&ordering=armor_desc&page=47", "previous": "https://api.open5e.com/monsters/?format=api&ordering=armor_desc&page=45", "results": [ { "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": "hraesvelgr-the-corpse-swallower", "desc": "", "name": "Hraesvelgr The Corpse Swallower", "size": "Huge", "type": "Giant", "subtype": "shapechanger", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral", "armor_class": 19, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 241, "hit_dice": "21d12+105", "speed": { "walk": 50 }, "strength": 25, "dexterity": 10, "constitution": 20, "intelligence": 16, "wisdom": 17, "charisma": 20, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 6, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": 9, "wisdom_save": 9, "charisma_save": 11, "perception": 9, "skills": { "athletics": 13, "perception": 9, "survival": 9 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "lightning, thunder", "damage_immunities": "cold; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "condition_immunities": "exhaustion", "senses": "passive Perception 19", "languages": "Auran, Common, Giant (can't speak in roc form)", "challenge_rating": "19", "cr": 19.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "Hraesvelgr makes two attacks." }, { "name": "Beak (Roc Form Only)", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +13 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 25 (4d8 + 7) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 13, "damage_dice": "4d8+7" }, { "name": "Fist (Giant Form Only)", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +13 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 20 (3d8 + 7) bludgeoning damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 21 Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the start of Hraesvelgr's next turn.", "attack_bonus": 13, "damage_dice": "3d8+7" }, { "name": "Talons (Roc Form Only)", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +13 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 21 (4d6 + 7) slashing damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 17). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained and Hraesvelgr can't use his talons against another target.", "attack_bonus": 13, "damage_dice": "4d6+7" }, { "name": "Gale Blast (recharge 5-6)", "desc": "Hraesvelgr unleashes a gale-force blast of wind in a line 60 feet long and 10 feet wide. Creatures in the area take 35 (10d6) bludgeoning damage and are pushed 15 feet directly away from Hraesvelgr, or they take half damage and are not pushed with a successful DC 19 Strength saving throw." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "Hraesvelgr 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. Hraesvelgr regains spent legendary actions at the start of his turn.", "legendary_actions": [ { "name": "Attack", "desc": "Hraesvelgr makes a fist or talon attack." }, { "name": "Move (2 actions)", "desc": "Hraesvelgr moves half his speed. If in roc form, all creatures within 10 feet of Hraesvelgr at the end of this move must succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or take 10 (3d6) bludgeoning damage and fall prone." }, { "name": "Swallow (3 actions, Roc Form Only)", "desc": "Hraesvelgr makes a bite attack against a creature he has grappled. If he hits, he swallows the creature. A swallowed creature is no longer grappled, but is blinded, restrained, and has advantage against attacks and effects originating from outside Hraesvelgr. A swallowed creature takes 14 (4d6) acid damage at the start of each of Hraesvelgr's turns. If Hraesvelgr returns to giant form, or takes 40 damage or more in a single turn from a swallowed creature, he must succeed on a DC 20 Constitution saving throw or regurgitate all swallowed creatures, which land prone within 10 feet of the giant. If Hraesvelgr dies, swallowed creatures are no longer restrained and can escape the corpse by spending 30 feet of movement, exiting prone." } ], "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "hraesvelgr's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 19). He can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material or somatic components:\n\nat will: feather fall, light\n\n3/day: control weather" }, { "name": "Keen Sight (Roc Form Only)", "desc": "Hraesvelgr has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight." }, { "name": "Legendary Resistance (3/day)", "desc": "If Hraesvelgr fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead." }, { "name": "Shapechanger", "desc": "Hraesvelgr can use a bonus action to change into a roc. Any equipment he wears or carries melds into his new form. It keeps its game statistics except as noted. He reverts to his giant form if it is reduced to 0 hit points or when it uses a bonus action to change back." }, { "name": "Hraesvelgr's Lair", "desc": "on initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), Hraesvelgr takes a lair action to cause one of the following effects; Hraesvelgr can't use the same effect two rounds in a row:\n\n- Hraesvelgr unleashes a blast of wind in a 60-foot cone. All creatures in the area must succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or be knocked prone.\n\n- One creature within 60 feet that Hraesvelgr can see must succeed on a DC 15 Strength saving throw or be swept up in a pillar of wind. The creature is restrained and suspended 15 feet off the ground. If the creature has something to pull on, it can pull itself out of the wind by using an action and making a successful DC 15 Strength check; another creature who can reach the suspended creature can pull it free in the same way. Alternatively, a flying creature can repeat the saving throw as an action. On a success, it moves 5 feet out of the pillar of wind. This effect lasts until Hraesvelgr takes this action again or dies.\n\n- Hraesvelgr lets out a thunderous bellow in giant form or an ear-splitting shriek in roc form. All creatures within 30 feet must make a successful DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be frightened for 1 minute. A frightened creature repeats the saving throw at the end of its turn, ending the effect on itself on a success." }, { "name": "Regional Effects", "desc": "the region containing Hraesvelgr's lair is warped by the corpse swallower's magic, which creates one or more of the following effects:\n\n- Strong windstorms are common within 6 miles of the lair.\n\n- Giant avian beasts are drawn to the lair and fiercely defend it against intruders.\n\n- The wind within 10 miles of the lair bears a pungent carrion stench.\n\nif Hraesvelgr dies, conditions in the area surrounding the lair return to normal over the course of 1d10 days." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 224, "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_hraesvelgr-the-corpse-swallower/" }, { "slug": "hulking-whelp", "desc": "_This gray-skinned dog-like creature seems pathetically eager to please but fantastically skittish, its ears alerting at every nearby sound, and its large oval eyes following anything that passes by._ \n**Emotional Giant.** A hulking whelp is a tightly wound ball of emotion, extremely private and defensive of its personal space, and terrified of the world around it. When it feels its personal space violated, or its fragile concentration is broken, the small, quivery fey grows into a muscled beast of giant proportions. \n**Calm Friend.** When its emotions are under control, a hulking whelp is friendly and even helpful, although this has more to do with its guilt over past actions and fear of what it might do if it feels threatened than a true desire to help others. In its calm form, a hulking whelp is just over three feet tall at the shoulder and weighs 50 lb. Unleashed, it is 20 feet tall and 4,000 lb.", "name": "Hulking Whelp", "size": "Small", "type": "Fey", "subtype": "shapechanger", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic neutral", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 94, "hit_dice": "9d12+36", "speed": { "walk": 40 }, "strength": 21, "dexterity": 10, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 7, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 9, "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": "bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "impaired sight 30 ft., passive Perception 12", "languages": "-", "challenge_rating": "5", "cr": 5.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The hulking whelp makes two slam attacks." }, { "name": "Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 18 (3d8 + 5) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "3d8" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": [ { "name": "Quick Step", "desc": "A hulking whelp can move 20 feet as a reaction when it is attacked. No opportunity attacks are triggered by this move." } ], "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Calm State", "desc": "When a hulking whelp is calm and unafraid, it uses the following statistics instead of those listed above: Size Small; HP 9 (6d6 - 12); Speed 20 ft.; STR 8 (-1); CON 6 (-2); Languages Common, Sylvan" }, { "name": "Poor Senses", "desc": "A hulking whelp has poor hearing and is nearsighted. It can see in normal or dim light up to 30 feet and hear sounds from up to 60 feet away." }, { "name": "Unleashed Emotion", "desc": "When a hulking whelp feels threatened - it's touched, intimidated, cornered, attacked, or even just if a stranger moves adjacent to the whelp - it immediately grows from size Small to Huge as a reaction. If the whelp was attacked, this reaction occurs after the attack is made but before damage is done. Nearby creatures and objects are pushed to the nearest available space and must make a successful DC 15 Strength saving throw or fall prone. Weapons, armor, and other objects worn or carried by the hulking whelp grow (and shrink again) proportionally when it changes size. Overcome by raw emotion, it sets about destroying anything and everything it can see (which isn't much) and reach (which is quite a lot). The transformation lasts until the hulking whelp is unaware of any nearby creatures for 1 round, it drops to 0 hit points, it has 5 levels of exhaustion, or it's affected by a calm emotions spell or comparable magic. The transformation isn't entirely uncontrollable; people or creatures the whelp knows and trusts can be near it without triggering the reaction. Under the wrong conditions, such as in a populated area, a hulking whelp's Unleashed Emotion can last for days." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 252, "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_hulking-whelp/" }, { "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": "iaaffrat", "desc": "", "name": "Ia'affrat", "size": "Large", "type": "Elemental", "subtype": "Swarm", "group": null, "alignment": "lawful evil", "armor_class": 17, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 170, "hit_dice": "20d10+60", "speed": { "hover": true, "walk": 5, "fly": 40 }, "strength": 3, "dexterity": 21, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 20, "wisdom": 18, "charisma": 23, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 10, "constitution_save": 8, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 9, "charisma_save": 11, "perception": 9, "skills": { "arcana": 10, "deception": 11, "insight": 9, "perception": 9, "persuasion": 11 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "cold", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "fire, poison; bludgeoning, piercing, slashing", "condition_immunities": "charmed, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, prone, poisoned, restrained, stunned", "senses": "blindsight 10 ft., darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 19", "languages": "Common, Draconic, Infernal, Primordial", "challenge_rating": "15", "cr": 15.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Bites", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 0 ft., one creature in the swarm's space. Hit: 21 (6d6) piercing damage plus 14 (4d6) fire damage plus 14 (4d6) poison damage, or 10 (3d6) piercing damage plus 7 (2d6) fire damage plus 7 (2d6) poison damage if Ia'Affrat has half of its hit points or fewer. The target must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 minute. 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": 10, "damage_dice": "6d6" }, { "name": "Smoke Jump", "desc": "Ia'Affrat can travel instantly to a space in sight where there's smoke." }, { "name": "Whirlwind (Recharge 4-6)", "desc": "Each creature in Ia'Affrat's space must make a DC 18 Strength saving throw. Each creature that fails takes 28 (8d6) bludgeoning damage plus 14 (4d6) fire damage plus 14 (4d6) poison damage and is flung up 20 feet away from Ia'Affrat in a random direction and knocked prone. If the saving throw is successful, the target takes half the bludgeoning damage and isn't flung away or knocked prone. If a thrown target strikes an object, such as a wall or floor, the target takes 3 (1d6) bludgeoning damage for every 10 feet it traveled. If the target collides with another creature, that creature must succeed on a DC 18 Dexterity saving throw or take the same damage and be knocked prone." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Elemental Swarm", "desc": "Ia'Affrat can occupy another creature's space\n\nand vice versa, and the swarm can move through any opening\n\nlarge enough for a Tiny insect" }, { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "Ia'Affrat has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects" }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "Ia'Affrat's spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 19, +11 to hit with spell attacks). Ia'Affrat can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nat will: fire bolt, poison spray\n\n3/day each: burning hands, invisibility, ray of enfeeblement, ray of sickness\n\n1/day each: bestow curse, contagion, harm, insect plague, fireball" }, { "name": "Inhabit", "desc": "Ia'Affrat can enter the body of an incapacitated or dead creature by crawling into its mouth and other orifices. Inhabiting requires 1 minute, and the victim must be Small, Medium, or Large. If Ia'Affrat inhabits a dead body, it can animate it and control its movements, effectively becoming a zombie for as long as it remains inside. Ia'Affrat can abandon the body as an action. Attacks against the host deal half damage to Ia'Affrat as well, but Ia'Affrat's resistances and immunities still apply against this damage. In a living victim, Ia'Affrat can control the victim's movement and actions as if using dominate monster (save DC 19) on the victim. Ia'Affrat can consume a living victim; the target takes 5 (2d4) necrotic damage per hour while Ia'Affrat inhabits its body, and Ia'Affrat regains hit points equal to the damage dealt. When inhabiting a body, Ia'Affrat can choose to have any spell it casts with a range of self, target the inhabited body rather than itself. The skin of a creature inhabited by Ia'Affrat crawls with the forms of the insects inside. Ia'Affrat can hide this telltale sign with a Charisma (Deception) check against a viewer's passive Insight. A greater restoration spell or comparable magic forces Ia'Affrat to abandon the host." }, { "name": "Smoke Shroud", "desc": "Ia'Affrat is shrouded in a 5-foot-radius cloud of dark smoke. This area is lightly obscured to creatures other than Ia'Affrat. Any creature that needs to breathe that begins its turn in the area must make a successful DC 16 Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the end of its turn." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 98, "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_iaaffrat/" }, { "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": "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": "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": "koralk-harvester-devil", "desc": "_The fiendish hulk bears features taken from a nightmare scorpion, with three stinging tails and four limbs, and wields a massive scythe._ \n_**Transforming Poison.**_ Poison from any one of the koralk’s three stingers liquefies the target’s insides in an agonizing transformation. The stung creature swells as its organs, muscle, and skeleton rapidly break down and reform. When the skin casing pops, it releases a spray of gelatinous goo and reveals the form of a lemure, the lowest form of devil. The new lemure is subject to the will of more powerful devils, and its fate from that moment on is the same as any lemure’s. Eventually it will be remolded into a higher form of devil and become another warrior in service to the arch-devils. Astoundingly, the koralk’s poison can even work this transformation on demons, converting them to the lowest form of devil. \n_**Infernal Mounts.**_ A koralk is large and strong enough for Medium-size devils to ride as a mount. They don’t like being used this way, but being devils, they do what they’re told by their betters or suffer the consequences.", "name": "Koralk (Harvester Devil)", "size": "Large", "type": "Fiend", "subtype": "devil", "group": null, "alignment": "lawful evil", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 136, "hit_dice": "16d10+48", "speed": { "walk": 40 }, "strength": 16, "dexterity": 13, "constitution": 17, "intelligence": 10, "wisdom": 11, "charisma": 13, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": 7, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 4, "charisma_save": 5, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "cold; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks not made with silvered weapons", "damage_immunities": "fire, poison", "condition_immunities": "poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 10", "languages": "Infernal, telepathy 120 ft.", "challenge_rating": "11", "cr": 11.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The koralk can make three stinger attacks and two scythe attacks. It can also make a bite attack if it has a target grappled." }, { "name": "Scythe", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 16 (2d12 + 3) slashing damage, OR a Medium-sized or smaller target can be grappled by the koralk's smaller, vestigial arms instead (no damage, escape DC 13).", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "2d12" }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one grappled target. Hit: 19 (3d10 + 3) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "3d10" }, { "name": "Stinger", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d8 + 3) piercing damage and the target must make a successful DC 15 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned. While poisoned this way, the target takes 10 (3d6) poison damage at the start of each of its turns, from liquefaction of its innards. A successful save renders the target immune to the koralk's poison for 24 hours. If a creature dies while poisoned by a koralk, its body bursts open, spewing vile liquid and a newly-formed lemure devil. The lemure is under the command of any higher-order devil nearby. The poison can be neutralized by lesser restoration, protection from poison, or comparable magic. If the lemure is killed, the original creature can be restored to life by resurrection or comparable magic.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "2d8" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Devil's Sight", "desc": "Magical darkness does not impair the koralk's darkvision." }, { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The koralk has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." }, { "name": "Steadfast", "desc": "The koralk cannot be frightened while it can see an allied creature within 30 feet of it" } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 108, "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_koralk-harvester-devil/" }, { "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": "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": "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": "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": "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": "lunar-devil", "desc": "_A hulking figure floats in the air, a winged horror painted in mist and moonlight._ \n**Corruptors of the Moon.** Always standing a bit apart from the machinations of the Dukes of Hell due to their dependence on moonlight, lunar devils can be found subverting druidical orders or leading packs of werewolves. They are a lazy breed of devil, and prefer lounging in the light of the moon over any more vigorous activity. The only exception is an opportunity to corrupt druids and moon-worshippers, pitting them against followers of sun gods. \n**Vain and Boastful.** Lunar devils are as vain as they are indolent, and tales the fey tell of them involve thwarting them by appealing to their vanity. Lunar devils frequently befriend the dark fey. \n**Flying in Darkness.** In combat, lunar devils sometimes cast fly on allies to bring them along, and they stay in areas of moonlight whenever they can. Lunar devils have excellent vision in total darkness as well, though, and are happy to use that against foes. At range, they use hurl moonlight and lightwalking to frustrate enemies. In melee, they use wall of ice to split foes, the better to battle just half at a time.", "name": "Lunar Devil", "size": "Large", "type": "Fiend", "subtype": "devil", "group": null, "alignment": "lawful evil", "armor_class": 16, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 94, "hit_dice": "9d10+45", "speed": { "walk": 40, "fly": 60, "hover": true, "lightwalking": 80 }, "strength": 21, "dexterity": 21, "constitution": 20, "intelligence": 16, "wisdom": 15, "charisma": 18, "strength_save": 8, "dexterity_save": 8, "constitution_save": 8, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 5, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 5, "skills": { "perception": 5 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "cold; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks not made with silvered weapons", "damage_immunities": "fire, poison", "condition_immunities": "poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 15", "languages": "Celestial, Draconic, Elvish, Infernal, Sylvan, telepathy 120 ft.", "challenge_rating": "8", "cr": 8.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The devil makes three attacks: one with its bite, one with its claws, and one with its tail. Alternatively, it can use Hurl Moonlight twice." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (1d12 + 5) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "1d12" }, { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d6 + 5) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "2d6" }, { "name": "Tail", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (1d8 + 5) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "1d8" }, { "name": "Hurl Moonlight", "desc": "Ranged Spell Attack: +7 to hit, range 150 ft., one target. Hit: 19 (3d12) cold damage and the target must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or become blinded for 4 rounds.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "3d12" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Devil's Sight", "desc": "Magical darkness doesn't impede the devil's darkvision." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the devil's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 15). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nat will: fly, major image, planar binding\n\n3/day: greater invisibility\n\n1/day: wall of ice" }, { "name": "Light Incorporeality", "desc": "The devil is semi-incorporeal when standing in moonlight, and is immune to all nonmagical attacks in such conditions. Even when hit by spells or magic weapons, it takes only half damage from a corporeal source, with the exception of force damage. Holy water can affect the devil as it does incorporeal undead." }, { "name": "Lightwalking", "desc": "Once per round, the lunar devil magically teleports, along with any equipment it is wearing or carrying, from one beam of moonlight to another within 80 feet. This relocation uses half of its speed." }, { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The devil has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." }, { "name": "Variant: Devil Summoning", "desc": "Summon Devil (1/Day): The devil can attempt a magical summoning. The devil has a 40 percent chance of summoning either 2 chain devils or 1 lunar devil." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 110, "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_lunar-devil/" }, { "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": "malakbel", "desc": "_Within a blinding wave of heat and glare strides a long-limbed, misshapen form. The creature scorches everything in its path as it strides forward._ \nWhat most people recall most vividly from an encounter with a malakbel is the blinding light and blistering heat surrounding them. Rippling distortion obscures the creature’s body, which is roughly the size and shape of an adult human. \n_**Demonic Messengers.**_ Malakbel demons are contradictory creatures. They are both messengers and destroyers who carry the words of demon lords or even dark gods to the mortal realm. Paradoxically, once their message is delivered, they often leave none of its hearers alive to spread the tale. \n_**Where Virtue Cannot Look.**_ The malakbel is the embodiment of all that is forbidden and destructive. Despite its vital role as a messenger, its destructive nature always comes to the fore. A malakbel descends upon settlements and travelers with the merciless and relentless onslaught of the raging sun, burning all it sees to cinders before vanishing like heat shimmers at dusk.", "name": "Malakbel", "size": "Medium", "type": "Fiend", "subtype": "demon", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 102, "hit_dice": "12d8+48", "speed": { "walk": 40 }, "strength": 14, "dexterity": 17, "constitution": 19, "intelligence": 13, "wisdom": 16, "charisma": 20, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 7, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 7, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 7, "skills": { "perception": 7 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "cold, lightning; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "fire, radiant, poison", "condition_immunities": "blinded, poisoned", "senses": "truesight 30 ft., passive Perception 17", "languages": "Abyssal, telepathy 120 ft.", "challenge_rating": "9", "cr": 9.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The malakbel makes two scorching blast attacks." }, { "name": "Scorching Blast", "desc": "Ranged Spell Attack: +9 to hit, range 120 ft., one target. Hit: 18 (3d8 + 5) fire damage.", "attack_bonus": 9, "damage_dice": "3d8" }, { "name": "Searing Flare (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "The malakbel intensifies its Blistering Radiance to withering levels. All creatures in the malakbel's aura take 31 (7d8) radiant damage and gain a level of exhaustion; a successful DC 16 Constitution saving throw reduces damage by half and negates exhaustion." }, { "name": "Teleport", "desc": "The malakbel magically teleports to an unoccupied space it can see within 100 feet." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Blistering Radiance", "desc": "The malakbel generates a 30-foot-radius aura of searing light and heat. A creature that starts its turn in the aura, or who enters it for the first time on a turn, takes 11 (2d10) radiant damage. The area in the aura is brightly lit, and it sheds dim light for another 30 feet. The aura dispels magical darkness of 3rd level or lower where the areas overlap." }, { "name": "Distortion", "desc": "Ranged attacks against the malakbel have disadvantage." }, { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The malakbel has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 78, "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_malakbel/" }, { "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": "mamura", "desc": "_This tiny monstrosity combines the worst elements of a dead frog and a rotting fish. Its slimy, scaly, vaguely humanoid form has three clawed arms arranged radially about its body. Its slimy green bat‑like wings seem too small to work, yet it flies very well._ \n**Twisted Field Sprites.** Mamuras are the twisted faeries of magical wastelands and barren plains. They were once goodaligned, pixie-like fey called “polevoi,” or “field sprites,” but at some point they swore their souls to a dark goddess and were corrupted by her foul magic. Now they are twisted, alien things. \n**Cross-Dimensional.** The mamura is one degree out of phase with the usual five dimensions. As a result, it always appears blurry and indistinct even in bright light, and it seems translucent in dim light. \nMamuras babble constantly, but their talk is mostly nonsense. Their minds operate in multiple dimensions in time as well as space, and this allows them to talk to creatures of the Realms Beyond. Because of this, their babble may be prophetic, but only few can decipher it. \n**Prophetic Followers.** They occasionally align themselves with powerful goblin tribes or evil wasteland sorcerers for their own unknowable purposes.", "name": "Mamura", "size": "Small", "type": "Aberration", "subtype": "fey", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 16, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 97, "hit_dice": "13d6+52", "speed": { "walk": 20, "fly": 30 }, "strength": 8, "dexterity": 18, "constitution": 19, "intelligence": 17, "wisdom": 11, "charisma": 16, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 7, "constitution_save": 7, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": 6, "perception": 6, "skills": { "acrobatics": 7, "perception": 6, "stealth": 7 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 16", "languages": "Common, Elvish, Goblin, Sylvan, Void Speech", "challenge_rating": "6", "cr": 6.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The mamura makes three claw attacks and one whiptail sting attack." }, { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, range 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d8 + 4) slashing damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 round. The poison duration is cumulative with multiple failed saving throws.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "1d8" }, { "name": "Whiptail Stinger", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, range 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d8 + 4) piercing damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 1d6 poison damage. If the target is also poisoned by the mamura's claws, it takes another 1d6 poison damage at the start of each of its turns while the poisoning remains in effect.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "1d8" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "All-Around Vision", "desc": "Attackers never gain advantage on attacks or bonus damage against a mamura from the presence of nearby allies." }, { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The mamura has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." }, { "name": "Friend to Darkness", "desc": "In darkness or dim light, the mamura has advantage on Stealth checks. It can attempt to hide as a bonus action at the end of its turn if it's in dim light or darkness." }, { "name": "Distraction", "desc": "Because of the mamura's alien and forbidding aura, any spellcaster within 20 feet of the mamura must make a successful DC 14 spellcasting check before casting a spell; if the check fails, they lose their action but not the spell slot. They must also make a successful DC 14 spellcasting check to maintain concentration if they spend any part of their turn inside the aura." }, { "name": "Flyby", "desc": "The mamura doesn't provoke an opportunity attack when it flies out of an enemy's reach." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 284, "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_mamura/" }, { "slug": "manabane-scarab-swarm", "desc": "_These clicking, turquoise-colored beetles have faintly luminescent golden glyphs on their backs, which grow brighter as they draw near._ \nManabane scarabs are vermin infused with the ancient magic of fallen desert empires. \n_**Devour Magic.**_ Whether from gnawing on the flesh of the undead or nesting in areas rife with lingering enchantment, these beetles have developed a taste for the power of magic even as its power has marked them. The graven glyphs on their carapaces resemble the priestly cuneiform of long-dead kingdoms, and the more magical energy they consume, the brighter they glow, up to the equivalent of a torch. \nManabane scarabs pursue magic without hesitation or fear, tirelessly seeking to drain it for sustenance.", "name": "Manabane Scarab Swarm", "size": "Medium", "type": "Beast", "subtype": "Swarm", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 75, "hit_dice": "10d8+30", "speed": { "walk": 20, "burrow": 5, "climb": 20 }, "strength": 3, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 1, "wisdom": 13, "charisma": 2, "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 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, piercing, slashing", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "charmed, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, prone, restrained, stunned", "senses": "blindsight 10 ft., darkvision 30 ft., tremorsense 30 ft., passive Perception 13", "languages": "-", "challenge_rating": "4", "cr": 4.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Bites", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 0 ft., one creature in the swarm's space. Hit: 14 (4d6) piercing damage, or 7 (2d6) piercing damage if the swarm has half of its hit points or fewer. The target must succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or one randomly determined magic item in its possession is immediately affected by the Mana Erosion trait. A spellcaster hit by this attack must succeed on a DC 15 Charisma saving throw or one of its lowest-level, unused spell slots is expended.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "4d6" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Swarm", "desc": "The swarm can occupy another creature's space and vice versa, and the swarm can move through any opening large enough for a Tiny insect. The swarm can't regain hit points or gain temporary hit points." }, { "name": "Magic Immunity", "desc": "The manabane scarab swarm is immune to spells and other magical effects." }, { "name": "Scent Magic", "desc": "The manabane scarab swarm can detect the presence of magical creatures, active spells or spell effects, and magical items within 120 feet." }, { "name": "Mana Erosion", "desc": "The manabane scarab swarm consumes magic. Unattended magic items in the swarm's space at the end of the swarm's turn have their effects suppressed for 1 minute. Additionally, charged items in the swarm's space lose 1d6 charges at the start of each of the swarm's turns; items with limited uses per day lose one daily use instead, and single-use items such as potions or scrolls are destroyed. Magical effects in the swarm's space are dispelled (as if affected by dispel magic cast with +5 spellcasting ability)." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 374, "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_manabane-scarab-swarm/" }, { "slug": "map-mimic", "desc": "", "name": "Map Mimic", "size": "Tiny", "type": "Aberration", "subtype": "shapechanger", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 32, "hit_dice": "5d8+10", "speed": { "walk": 30, "fly": 15 }, "strength": 10, "dexterity": 15, "constitution": 14, "intelligence": 13, "wisdom": 15, "charisma": 16, "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": "acid", "condition_immunities": "prone", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 14", "languages": "-", "challenge_rating": "1/4", "cr": 0.25, "actions": [ { "name": "Pseudopod", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) bludgeoning damage. If the mimic is in object form, the target is subjected to its Constrict Face trait.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "1d6" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Shapechanger", "desc": "The mimic can use its action to polymorph into an object or back into its true, amorphous form. Its statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies." }, { "name": "Constrict Face", "desc": "When a map mimic touches a Medium or smaller creature or vice versa, it adheres to the creature, enveloping the creature's face and covering its eyes and ears and airways (escape DC 13). The target creature is immediately blinded and deafened, and it begins suffocating at the beginning of the mimic's next turn." }, { "name": "False Appearance (Object Form Only)", "desc": "While the mimic remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from an ordinary object." }, { "name": "Mimic Page", "desc": "The mimic can disguise itself as any tiny, flat object-a piece of leather, a plate-not only a map. In any form, a map mimic can make a map on its skin leading to its mother mimic." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 289, "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_map-mimic/" }, { "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": "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": "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/" }, { "slug": "naina", "desc": "_These drakes are resplendent in their natural form, plumed and scaled in glittering, multicolored hues. In humanoid form, they appear as elderly homespun human crones or as young, beautiful elvish women._ \n**Drakes in Human Form.** These faerie drakes can take the shape of wise, old, human women. They retain full use of their sorcerous powers in their humanoid forms, and they can retain that form indefinitely. \n**Difficult to Spot.** A naina shapeshifted into human form is nearly impossible to spot as anything but human unless she makes a mistake that gives away her true nature, and they seldom do. Draconic roars, a flash of scales, a fondness for raw meat, and a flash of wrathful dragon breath are the most common tells. \n**Hunted by Rumor.** When rumors of a naina circulate, any woman who is a stranger may be persecuted, ostracized, or even tortured unless she can prove that she’s entirely human.", "name": "Naina", "size": "Large", "type": "Dragon", "subtype": "shapechanger", "group": null, "alignment": "lawful evil", "armor_class": 17, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 231, "hit_dice": "22d10+110", "speed": { "walk": 40, "fly": 120 }, "strength": 20, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 21, "intelligence": 15, "wisdom": 18, "charisma": 18, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 7, "constitution_save": 9, "intelligence_save": 6, "wisdom_save": 8, "charisma_save": 8, "perception": 8, "skills": { "arcana": 6, "deception": 8, "insight": 8, "perception": 8 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "paralyzed, poisoned, unconscious", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 18", "languages": "Common, Darakhul, Draconic, Elvish, Sylvan", "challenge_rating": "11", "cr": 11.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The naina makes two claw attacks and one bite attack." }, { "name": "Bite (drake form only)", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 24 (3d12 + 5) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 9, "damage_dice": "3d12" }, { "name": "Claw (drake form only)", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 24 (3d12 + 5) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 9, "damage_dice": "3d12" }, { "name": "Poison Breath (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "While in drake form (only), the naina breathes a 20-foot cone of poison gas, paralytic gas, or sleep gas." }, { "name": "Poison", "desc": "A creature caught in this poison gas takes 18 (4d8) poison damage and is poisoned; a successful DC 17 Constitution saving throw reduces damage to half and negates the poisoned condition. While poisoned this way, the creature must repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns. On a failure, it takes 9 (2d8) poison damage and the poisoning continues; on a success, the poisoning ends." }, { "name": "Paralysis", "desc": "A creature caught in this paralytic gas must succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw or be paralyzed for 2d4 rounds. A paralyzed creature repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns; a successful save ends the paralysis." }, { "name": "Sleep", "desc": "A creature caught in this sleeping gas must succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw or fall unconscious for 6 rounds. A sleeping creature repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns; it wakes up if it makes the save successfully." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Magic Sensitive", "desc": "The naina detects magic as if it were permanently under the effect of a detect magic spell." }, { "name": "Spellcasting", "desc": "the naina is a 9th-level spellcaster. Her spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 16, +8 to hit with spell attacks). The naina has the following sorcerer spells prepared:\n\ncantrips (at will): dancing lights, mage hand, mending, ray of frost, resistance, silent image\n\n1st level (4 slots): charm person, thunderwave, witch bolt\n\n2nd level (3 slots): darkness, invisibility, locate object\n\n3rd level (3 slots): dispel magic, hypnotic pattern\n\n4th level (3 slots): dimension door\n\n5th level (1 slot): dominate person" }, { "name": "Shapechanger", "desc": "The naina can use her action to polymorph into one of her two forms: a drake or a female humanoid. She cannot alter either form's appearance or capabilities (with the exception of her breath weapon) using this ability, and damage sustained in one form transfers to the other form." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 302, "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_naina/" }, { "slug": "ngobou", "desc": "_This ill-tempered, six-horned creature resembles a triceratops the size of an ox, with pairs of horns atop its nose and brows, as well as great tusks jutting from each side of its mouth._ \n_**Hatred of Elephants.**_ Ngobous are ox-sized dinosaurs often at war with elephants over territory. Ngobous are irascible and suspicious by nature, prone to chasing after any creature that stays too long inside its territory. They also become aggressive when they can see or smell elephants. Even old traces of elephants’ scent are sufficient to trigger an ngobou’s rage. \n_**Poor Beasts of War.**_ Grasslands tribes sometimes try to train ngobous as beasts of burden or war, but most have given up on the ill-tempered animals; their behavior is too erratic, especially if elephants are nearby or have been in the area recently. \n_**Trample Crops.**_ Ngobou herds can smash entire crops flat in minutes—and their horns can tear through a herd of goats or cattle in little time as well.", "name": "Ngobou", "size": "Large", "type": "Beast", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 85, "hit_dice": "10d10+30", "speed": { "walk": 40 }, "strength": 20, "dexterity": 9, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 2, "wisdom": 9, "charisma": 6, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 5, "skills": { "perception": 5 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "passive Perception 15", "languages": "-", "challenge_rating": "5", "cr": 5.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Gore", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 38 (6d10 + 5) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "6d10" }, { "name": "Stomp", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one prone creature. Hit: 18 (3d8 + 5) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "3d8" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Trampling Charge", "desc": "If the ngobou moves at least 20 feet straight toward a creature and then hits it with a gore attack on the same turn, that target must succeed on a DC 13 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone. If the target is prone, the ngobou can make one stomp attack against it as a bonus action." }, { "name": "Elephants' Bane", "desc": "The ngobou has advantage on attacks against elephants. It can detect by scent whether an elephant has been within 180 feet of its location anytime in the last 48 hours." }, { "name": "Spikes", "desc": "A creature that grapples an ngobou takes 9 (2d8) piercing damage." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 115, "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_ngobou/" }, { "slug": "nichny", "desc": "_These ancient creatures resemble nothing so much as black cats dressed in sumptuous, if archaic, clothing._ \n**Xenophobic.** The nichny are highly xenophobic and gleefully carnivorous fey who dwell in deep, primeval forests. \n**True and False Prophets.** They can dispense luck to those they like and they certainly have oracular powers, but they rarely share their prophecies with outsiders. Their prophecies are always delivered in triples, and legend holds that two inevitably prove true and one proves false. \n**Answer Three Questions.** One final legend claims that if a nichny can be bound with gold or orichalcum chains, it must answer three questions. As with their prophecies, two answers will be true and one will be a lie. All three questions must be posed before any will be answered. When the third answer is given, the nichny and the chains disappear.", "name": "Nichny", "size": "Medium", "type": "Fey", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 17, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 112, "hit_dice": "15d8+45", "speed": { "walk": 30, "climb": 30 }, "strength": 17, "dexterity": 19, "constitution": 17, "intelligence": 18, "wisdom": 18, "charisma": 19, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 7, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 7, "skills": { "acrobatics": 7, "insight": 7, "perception": 7 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "acid, cold, fire, lightning; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks not made with silvered weapons", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned, unconscious", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 17", "languages": "Elvish, Primordial, Sylvan, Void Speech", "challenge_rating": "6", "cr": 6.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The nichny makes two claw attacks." }, { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 17 (2d12 + 4) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "2d12" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Freedom of Movement", "desc": "A nichny ignores difficult terrain and cannot be entangled, grappled, or otherwise impeded in its movements as if it is under the effect of a constant freedom of movement spell. This ability is negated for grapple attempts if the attacker is wearing gold or orichalcum gauntlets or using a gold or orichalcum chain as part of its attack." }, { "name": "Imbue Luck (1/Day)", "desc": "Nichny can enchant a small gem or stone to bring good luck. If the nichny gives this lucky stone to another creature, the bearer receives a +1 bonus to all saving throws for 24 hours." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the nichny's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 15, +7 to hit with spell attacks). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nat Will: detect magic, invisibility, magic missile, ray of frost\n\n3/day each: blink, dimension door, haste, polymorph (self only)\n\n1/day each: teleport, word of recall" }, { "name": "Luck Aura", "desc": "A nichny is surrounded by an aura of luck. All creatures it considers friends within 10 feet of the nichny gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls, saving throws, and ability checks. Creatures that it considers its enemies take a -1 penalty to attack rolls, saving throws, and ability checks. The nichny can activate or suppress this aura on its turn as a bonus action." }, { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The nichny has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." }, { "name": "Soothsaying", "desc": "Once per week, a nichny can answer up to three questions about the past, present, or future. All three questions must be asked before the nichny can give its answers, which are short and may be in the form of a paradox or riddle. One answer always is false, and the other two must be true." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 303, "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_nichny/" }, { "slug": "night-scorpion", "desc": "", "name": "Night Scorpion", "size": "Large", "type": "Beast", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 90, "hit_dice": "12d10+24", "speed": { "walk": 40 }, "strength": 15, "dexterity": 14, "constitution": 14, "intelligence": 1, "wisdom": 9, "charisma": 3, "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": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "blindsight 60 ft., passive Perception 9", "languages": "-", "challenge_rating": "3", "cr": 3.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The scorpion makes three attacks: two with its claws and one with its sting." }, { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d8 + 2) bludgeoning damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 12). The scorpion has two claws, each of which can grapple one target.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "1d8+2" }, { "name": "Sting", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 7 (1d10 + 2) piercing damage, and the target takes 7 (2d6) poison damage and is blinded for 1d3 hours; a successful DC 12 Constitution saving throw reduces damage by half and prevents blindness. If the target fails the saving throw by 5 or more, the target is also paralyzed while poisoned. The poisoned target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself with a successful save.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "1d10" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": null, "spell_list": [], "page_no": 340, "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_night-scorpion/" }, { "slug": "nightgarm", "desc": "_These humanoid creatures work with their lupine mother and their worg and winter wolf brothers and sisters to destroy human and dwarvish settlements. Their howls are songs of vengeance, and their fangs and jaws seem ready to swallow the world._ \n**Champions of the Northern Packs.** Created in a magical ritual performed over a pregnant worg by her packmates, nightgarms are always female and are always loyal followers of Fenris. They are dedicated to harassing servants of the gods, especially the northern gods of the sky, thunder, or wisdom. Their spawn infiltrate settlements to bring them down—treachery that always ends with a massed attack by wolves. \n**Carry Off Plunder.** Nightgarms resemble enormous wolves, but up close their wide mouths, hate-filled eyes, and half-formed fingers give them away as something different from—and much worse than— worgs. They can wield items in their front paws and can walk on their hind limbs when necessary, though they are far swifter on four legs. \n**Impossibly Wide Jaws.** A nightgarm’s jaws can open to swallow corpses, living creatures, and items larger than themselves, a magical trick that happens in a matter of seconds.", "name": "Nightgarm", "size": "Large", "type": "Monstrosity", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 114, "hit_dice": "12d10+48", "speed": { "walk": 20 }, "strength": 20, "dexterity": 14, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 10, "wisdom": 15, "charisma": 16, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 5, "skills": { "perception": 5, "stealth": 5 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "radiant; silvered weapons", "damage_resistances": "lightning, thunder; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks not made with silvered weapons", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 15", "languages": "Common, Giant, Goblin, telepathy 200 ft. (with falsemen only)", "challenge_rating": "6", "cr": 6.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 27 (4d10 + 5) piercing damage, and a Medium or smaller target must succeed on a DC 15 Strength saving throw or be swallowed whole. A swallowed creature is blinded and restrained and has total cover against attacks and other effects outside the nightgarm. It takes 21 (6d6) acid damage at the start of each of the nightgarm's turns. A nightgarm can have only one creature swallowed at a time. If the nightgarm takes 25 damage or more on a single turn from the swallowed creature, the nightgarm must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw at the end of that turn or regurgitate the creature, which falls prone within 5 feet of the nightgarm. If the nightgarm dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained by it and can escape from the corpse by using 10 feet of movement, exiting prone.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "4d10+5" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Spawn Falseman", "desc": "If a nightgarm spends an entire round consuming a humanoid corpse, it immediately becomes pregnant. Nine hours later, it gives birth to a duplicate of the devoured creature. Known as a \"falseman,\"this duplicate has all the memories and characteristics of the original but serves its mother loyally, somewhat similar to a familiar's relationship to a wizard. A nightgarm can have up to 14 falsemen under her control at a time. A nightgarm can communicate telepathically with its falsemen at ranges up to 200 feet." }, { "name": "Quadruped", "desc": "The nightgarm can drop any objects it is holding to run on all fours. When it does so, its speed increases to 40ft." }, { "name": "Distending Maw", "desc": "Like snakes, nightgarms can open their mouths far wider than other creatures of similar size. This ability grants it a formidable bite and allows it to swallow creatures up to Medium size." }, { "name": "Superstitious", "desc": "A nightgarm must stay at least 5 feet away from a brandished holy symbol or a burning sprig of wolf's bane, and it cannot touch or make melee attacks against a creature holding one of these items. After 1 round, the nightgarm can make a DC 15 Charisma saving throw at the start of each of its turns; if the save succeeds, the nightgarm temporarily overcomes its superstition and these restrictions are lifted until the start of the nightgarm's next turn." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "the nightgarm's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 14). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\n3/day each: darkness, dissonant whispers, hold person\n\n1/day each: conjure woodland beings (wolves only), dimension door, scrying (targets falsemen only)" } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 304, "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_nightgarm/" }, { "slug": "nihilethic-zombie", "desc": "", "name": "Nihilethic Zombie", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 9, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 22, "hit_dice": "3d8+9", "speed": { "walk": 20, "swim": 30 }, "strength": 13, "dexterity": 6, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 3, "wisdom": 6, "charisma": 5, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 0, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "cold, necrotic, poison; bludgeoning, piercing and slashing from nonmagical attacks (only when in ethereal form)", "condition_immunities": "poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 8", "languages": "understand Void Speech and the languages it knew in life but can't speak", "challenge_rating": "1", "cr": 1.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Slam (Material Form Only)", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d6 + 1) bludgeoning damage and the target must make a successful DC 13 Constitution saving throw or become diseased. The disease has little effect for 1 minute; during that time, it can be removed by bless, lesser restoration, or comparable magic. After 1 minute, the diseased creature's skin becomes translucent and slimy. The creature cannot regain hit points unless it is at least partially underwater, and the disease can only be removed by heal or comparable magic. Unless the creature is either fully submerged or frequently doused with water, it takes 6 (1d12) acid damage every 10 minutes. If a creature dies while diseased, it rises in 2d6 rounds as a nihilethic zombie. This zombie is permanently dominated by the nihileth that commands the attacking zombie.", "attack_bonus": 3, "damage_dice": "4d6+1" }, { "name": "Withering Touch (Ethereal Form)", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d6 + 1) necrotic damage.", "attack_bonus": 3, "damage_dice": "1d6+1" }, { "name": "Form Swap", "desc": "As a bonus action, the nihilethic zombie can alter between its material and ethereal forms at will." }, { "name": "Sacrifice Life", "desc": "A nihilethic zombie can sacrifice itself to heal a nihileth within 30 feet of it. All of its remaining hit points transfer to the nihileth in the form of healing. The nihilethic zombie is reduced to 0 hit points and it doesn't make an Undead Fortitude saving throw. A nihileth cannot be healed above its maximum hit points in this manner." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": [ { "name": "Void Body", "desc": "The nihilethic zombie can reduce the damage it takes from a single source by 1d12 points. This reduction cannot be applied to radiant damage." } ], "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Undead Fortitude", "desc": "If damage reduces the nihileth to 0 hit points, it must make a Constitution saving throw with a DC of 5 + the damage taken, unless the damage is radiant or from a critical hit. On a success, the nihileth drops to 1 hit point instead." }, { "name": "Dual State", "desc": "Like its nihileth creator, a nihilethic zombie can assume either a material or ethereal form. When in its material form, it has resistance to nonmagical weapons. In its ethereal form, it is immune to nonmagical weapons. Its ethereal form appears as a dark purple outline of its material form, with a blackish-purple haze within." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 9, "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_nihilethic-zombie/" } ] }