Monster List
list: API endpoint for returning a list of monsters.
retrieve: API endpoint for returning a particular monster.
GET /v1/monsters/?format=api&ordering=wisdom&page=41
{ "count": 3207, "next": "https://api-beta.open5e.com/v1/monsters/?format=api&ordering=wisdom&page=42", "previous": "https://api-beta.open5e.com/v1/monsters/?format=api&ordering=wisdom&page=40", "results": [ { "slug": "night-hag", "desc": "", "name": "Night Hag", "size": "Medium", "type": "Fiend", "subtype": "", "group": "Hags", "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 17, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 112, "hit_dice": "15d8+45", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 18, "dexterity": 15, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 16, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 16, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 6, "skills": { "deception": 7, "insight": 6, "perception": 6, "stealth": 6 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "cold, fire; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks not made with silvered weapons", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "charmed", "senses": "darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 16", "languages": "Abyssal, Common, Infernal, Primordial", "challenge_rating": "5", "cr": 5.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Claws (Hag Form Only)", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "2d8", "damage_bonus": 4 }, { "name": "Change Shape", "desc": "The hag magically polymorphs into a Small or Medium female humanoid, or back into her true form. Her statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment she is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. She reverts to her true form if she dies." }, { "name": "Etherealness", "desc": "The hag magically enters the Ethereal Plane from the Material Plane, or vice versa. To do so, the hag must have a heartstone in her possession." }, { "name": "Nightmare Haunting (1/Day)", "desc": "While on the Ethereal Plane, the hag magically touches a sleeping humanoid on the Material Plane. A protection from evil and good spell cast on the target prevents this contact, as does a magic circle. As long as the contact persists, the target has dreadful visions. If these visions last for at least 1 hour, the target gains no benefit from its rest, and its hit point maximum is reduced by 5 (1d10). If this effect reduces the target's hit point maximum to 0, the target dies, and if the target was evil, its soul is trapped in the hag's soul bag. The reduction to the target's hit point maximum lasts until removed by the greater restoration spell or similar magic." } ], "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 14, +6 to hit with spell attacks). She can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\n\nAt will: detect magic, magic missile\n2/day each: plane shift (self only), ray of enfeeblement, sleep" }, { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The hag has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." }, { "name": "Night Hag Items", "desc": "A night hag carries two very rare magic items that she must craft for herself If either object is lost, the night hag will go to great lengths to retrieve it, as creating a new tool takes time and effort.\nHeartstone: This lustrous black gem allows a night hag to become ethereal while it is in her possession. The touch of a heartstone also cures any disease. Crafting a heartstone takes 30 days.\nSoul Bag: When an evil humanoid dies as a result of a night hag's Nightmare Haunting, the hag catches the soul in this black sack made of stitched flesh. A soul bag can hold only one evil soul at a time, and only the night hag who crafted the bag can catch a soul with it. Crafting a soul bag takes 7 days and a humanoid sacrifice (whose flesh is used to make the bag)." }, { "name": "Hag Coven", "desc": "When hags must work together, they form covens, in spite of their selfish natures. A coven is made up of hags of any type, all of whom are equals within the group. However, each of the hags continues to desire more personal power.\nA coven consists of three hags so that any arguments between two hags can be settled by the third. If more than three hags ever come together, as might happen if two covens come into conflict, the result is usually chaos." }, { "name": "Shared Spellcasting (Coven Only)", "desc": "While all three members of a hag coven are within 30 feet of one another, they can each cast the following spells from the wizard's spell list but must share the spell slots among themselves:\n\n* 1st level (4 slots): identify, ray of sickness\n* 2nd level (3 slots): hold person, locate object\n* 3rd level (3 slots): bestow curse, counterspell, lightning bolt\n* 4th level (3 slots): phantasmal killer, polymorph\n* 5th level (2 slots): contact other plane, scrying\n* 6th level (1 slot): eye bite\n\nFor casting these spells, each hag is a 12th-level spellcaster that uses Intelligence as her spellcasting ability. The spell save DC is 12+the hag's Intelligence modifier, and the spell attack bonus is 4+the hag's Intelligence modifier." }, { "name": "Hag Eye (Coven Only)", "desc": "A hag coven can craft a magic item called a hag eye, which is made from a real eye coated in varnish and often fitted to a pendant or other wearable item. The hag eye is usually entrusted to a minion for safekeeping and transport. A hag in the coven can take an action to see what the hag eye sees if the hag eye is on the same plane of existence. A hag eye has AC 10, 1 hit point, and darkvision with a radius of 60 feet. If it is destroyed, each coven member takes 3d10 psychic damage and is blinded for 24 hours.\nA hag coven can have only one hag eye at a time, and creating a new one requires all three members of the coven to perform a ritual. The ritual takes 1 hour, and the hags can't perform it while blinded. During the ritual, if the hags take any action other than performing the ritual, they must start over." } ], "spell_list": [ "https://api-beta.open5e.com/v2/spells/detect-magic/?format=api", "https://api-beta.open5e.com/v2/spells/magic-missile/?format=api", "https://api-beta.open5e.com/v2/spells/plane-shift/?format=api", "https://api-beta.open5e.com/v2/spells/ray-of-enfeeblement/?format=api", "https://api-beta.open5e.com/v2/spells/sleep/?format=api", "https://api-beta.open5e.com/v2/spells/identify/?format=api", "https://api-beta.open5e.com/v2/spells/ray-of-sickness/?format=api", "https://api-beta.open5e.com/v2/spells/hold-person/?format=api", "https://api-beta.open5e.com/v2/spells/locate-object/?format=api", "https://api-beta.open5e.com/v2/spells/bestow-curse/?format=api", "https://api-beta.open5e.com/v2/spells/counterspell/?format=api", "https://api-beta.open5e.com/v2/spells/lightning-bolt/?format=api", "https://api-beta.open5e.com/v2/spells/phantasmal-killer/?format=api", "https://api-beta.open5e.com/v2/spells/polymorph/?format=api", "https://api-beta.open5e.com/v2/spells/contact-other-plane/?format=api", "https://api-beta.open5e.com/v2/spells/scrying/?format=api", "https://api-beta.open5e.com/v2/spells/eye-bite/?format=api" ], "page_no": 319, "environments": [ "Forest", "Ruin", "Jungle", "Feywild", "Shadowfell", "Caverns", "Swamp", "Settlement", "Hell" ], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "wotc-srd", "document__title": "5e Core Rules", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/systems-reference-document-srd", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/srd_night-hag/" }, { "slug": "noble", "desc": "**Nobles** wield great authority and influence as members of the upper class, possessing wealth and connections that can make them as powerful as monarchs and generals. A noble often travels in the company of guards, as well as servants who are commoners.\nThe noble's statistics can also be used to represent **courtiers** who aren't of noble birth.", "name": "Noble", "size": "Medium", "type": "Humanoid", "subtype": "any race", "group": "NPCs", "alignment": "any alignment", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "breastplate", "hit_points": 9, "hit_dice": "2d8", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 11, "dexterity": 12, "constitution": 11, "intelligence": 12, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 16, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "deception": 5, "insight": 4, "persuasion": 5 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "passive Perception 12", "languages": "any two languages", "challenge_rating": "1/8", "cr": 0.125, "actions": [ { "name": "Rapier", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d8 + 1) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 3, "damage_dice": "1d8", "damage_bonus": 1 } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": [ { "name": "Parry", "desc": "The noble adds 2 to its AC against one melee attack that would hit it. To do so, the noble must see the attacker and be wielding a melee weapon." } ], "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": null, "spell_list": [], "page_no": 401, "environments": [ "Urban", "Grassland", "Hills", "Settlement" ], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "wotc-srd", "document__title": "5e Core Rules", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/systems-reference-document-srd", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/srd_noble/" }, { "slug": "panther", "desc": "", "name": "Panther", "size": "Medium", "type": "Beast", "subtype": "", "group": "Miscellaneous Creatures", "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 12, "armor_desc": null, "hit_points": 13, "hit_dice": "3d8", "speed": { "walk": 50, "climb": 40 }, "strength": 14, "dexterity": 15, "constitution": 10, "intelligence": 3, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 7, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 4, "skills": { "perception": 4, "stealth": 6 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "passive Perception 14", "languages": "", "challenge_rating": "1/4", "cr": 0.25, "actions": [ { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "1d6", "damage_bonus": 2 }, { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "1d4", "damage_bonus": 2 } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Keen Smell", "desc": "The panther has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell." }, { "name": "Pounce", "desc": "If the panther moves at least 20 ft. straight toward a creature and then hits it with a claw attack on the same turn, that target must succeed on a DC 12 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone. If the target is prone, the panther can make one bite attack against it as a bonus action." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 385, "environments": [ "Hill", "Jungle", "Grassland", "Forest" ], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "wotc-srd", "document__title": "5e Core Rules", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/systems-reference-document-srd", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/srd_panther/" }, { "slug": "spy", "desc": "Rulers, nobles, merchants, guildmasters, and other wealthy individuals use **spies** to gain the upper hand in a world of cutthroat politics. A spy is trained to secretly gather information. Loyal spies would rather die than divulge information that could compromise them or their employers.", "name": "Spy", "size": "Medium", "type": "Humanoid", "subtype": "any race", "group": "NPCs", "alignment": "any alignment", "armor_class": 12, "armor_desc": null, "hit_points": 27, "hit_dice": "6d8", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 10, "dexterity": 15, "constitution": 10, "intelligence": 12, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 16, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 6, "skills": { "deception": 5, "insight": 4, "investigation": 5, "perception": 6, "persuasion": 5, "stealth": 4 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "passive Perception 16", "languages": "any two languages", "challenge_rating": "1", "cr": 1.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The spy makes two melee attacks." }, { "name": "Shortsword", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "1d6", "damage_bonus": 2 }, { "name": "Hand Crossbow", "desc": "Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 30/120 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "1d6", "damage_bonus": 2 } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Cunning Action", "desc": "On each of its turns, the spy can use a bonus action to take the Dash, Disengage, or Hide action." }, { "name": "Sneak Attack (1/Turn)", "desc": "The spy deals an extra 7 (2d6) damage when it hits a target with a weapon attack and has advantage on the attack roll, or when the target is within 5 ft. of an ally of the spy that isn't incapacitated and the spy doesn't have disadvantage on the attack roll.", "attack_bonus": 0, "damage_dice": "2d6" } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 402, "environments": [ "Urban", "Sewer", "Ruin", "Settlement" ], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "wotc-srd", "document__title": "5e Core Rules", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/systems-reference-document-srd", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/srd_spy/" }, { "slug": "will-o-wisp", "desc": "", "name": "Will-o'-Wisp", "size": "Tiny", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 19, "armor_desc": null, "hit_points": 22, "hit_dice": "9d4", "speed": { "hover": true, "walk": 0, "fly": 50 }, "strength": 1, "dexterity": 28, "constitution": 10, "intelligence": 13, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 11, "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": "acid, cold, fire, necrotic, thunder; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "lightning, poison", "condition_immunities": "exhaustion, grappled, paralyzed, poisoned, prone, restrained, unconscious", "senses": "darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 12", "languages": "the languages it knew in life", "challenge_rating": "2", "cr": 2.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Shock", "desc": "Melee Spell Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 9 (2d8) lightning damage.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "2d8" }, { "name": "Invisibility", "desc": "The will-o'-wisp and its light magically become invisible until it attacks or uses its Consume Life, or until its concentration ends (as if concentrating on a spell)." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Consume Life", "desc": "As a bonus action, the will-o'-wisp can target one creature it can see within 5 ft. of it that has 0 hit points and is still alive. The target must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw against this magic or die. If the target dies, the will-o'-wisp regains 10 (3d6) hit points." }, { "name": "Ephemeral", "desc": "The will-o'-wisp can't wear or carry anything." }, { "name": "Incorporeal Movement", "desc": "The will-o'-wisp 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": "Variable Illumination", "desc": "The will-o'-wisp sheds bright light in a 5- to 20-foot radius and dim light for an additional number of ft. equal to the chosen radius. The will-o'-wisp can alter the radius as a bonus action." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 355, "environments": [ "Urban", "Swamp", "Forest" ], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "wotc-srd", "document__title": "5e Core Rules", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/systems-reference-document-srd", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/srd_will-o-wisp/" }, { "slug": "wraith", "desc": "", "name": "Wraith", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": null, "hit_points": 67, "hit_dice": "9d8+27", "speed": { "hover": true, "walk": 0, "fly": 60 }, "strength": 6, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 12, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 15, "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": "acid, cold, fire, lightning, thunder; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks not made with silvered weapons", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12", "languages": "the languages it knew in life", "challenge_rating": "5", "cr": 5.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Life Drain", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 21 (4d8 + 3) necrotic damage. The target must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or its hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the damage taken. 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": 6, "damage_dice": "4d8", "damage_bonus": 3 }, { "name": "Create Specter", "desc": "The wraith targets a humanoid within 10 feet of it that has been dead for no longer than 1 minute and died violently. The target's spirit rises as a specter in the space of its corpse or in the nearest unoccupied space. The specter is under the wraith's control. The wraith can have no more than seven specters under its control at one time." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Incorporeal Movement", "desc": "The wraith 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": "Sunlight Sensitivity", "desc": "While in sunlight, the wraith has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 355, "environments": [ "Underdark" ], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "wotc-srd", "document__title": "5e Core Rules", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/systems-reference-document-srd", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/srd_wraith/" }, { "slug": "a-mi-kuk", "desc": "Crimson slime covers this ungainly creature. Its tiny black eyes sit in an abnormally large head, and dozens of sharp teeth fill its small mouth. Its limbs end in large, grasping claws that look strong enough to crush the life out of a bear._ \n**Hidden Terror.** The dreaded a-mi-kuk is a terrifying creature that feasts on any who venture into the bleak and icy expanses of the world. A-mi-kuks prowl the edges of isolated communities, snatching those careless enough to wander too far from camp. They also submerge themselves beneath frozen waters, coming up from below to grab and strangle lone fishermen. \n**Fear of Flames.** A-mi-kuks have a deathly fear of fire, and anyone using fire against one has a good chance of making it flee in terror, even if the fire-user would otherwise be outmatched. A-mi-kuks are not completely at the mercy of this fear, however, and lash out with incredible fury if cornered by someone using fire against them. \n**Unknown Origins.** A-mi-kuks are not natural creatures and contribute little to the ecosystems in which they live. The monsters are never seen together, and some believe them to be a single monster, an evil spirit made flesh that appears whenever a group of humans has angered the gods. A-mi-kuks have no known allies and viciously attack any creatures that threaten them, regardless of the foe’s size or power.", "name": "A-mi-kuk", "size": "Huge", "type": "Aberration", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 115, "hit_dice": "10d12+50", "speed": { "swim": 40, "burrow": 20, "walk": 30 }, "strength": 21, "dexterity": 8, "constitution": 20, "intelligence": 7, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 10, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 5, "skills": { "athletics": 10, "perception": 5, "stealth": 2 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "acid; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "cold", "condition_immunities": "paralyzed, restrained", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., tremorsense 30 ft., passive Perception 15", "languages": "understands Common but can’t speak", "challenge_rating": "7", "cr": 7.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The a-mi-kuk makes two attacks: one with its bite and one with its grasping claw." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d6 + 5) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "2d6+5" }, { "name": "Grasping Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 18 (3d8 + 5) bludgeoning damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 16). The a-mi-kuk has two grasping claws, each of which can grapple only one target at a time.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "3d8+5" }, { "name": "Strangle", "desc": "The a-mi-kuk strangles one creature grappled by it. The target must make a DC 16 Strength saving throw. On a failure, the target takes 27 (6d8) bludgeoning damage, can't breathe, speak, or cast spells, and begins suffocating. On a success, the target takes half the bludgeoning damage and is no longer grappled. Until this strangling grapple ends (escape DC 16), the target takes 13 (3d8) bludgeoning damage at the start of each of its turns. The a-mi-kuk can strangle up to two Medium or smaller targets or one Large target at a time." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Hold Breath", "desc": "The a-mi-kuk can hold its breath for 30 minutes." }, { "name": "Fear of Fire", "desc": "The a-mi-kuk is afraid of fire, and it won't move toward any fiery or burning objects. If presented forcefully with a flame, or if it is dealt fire damage, the a-mi-kuk must succeed on a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw or become frightened until the end of its next turn. After it has been frightened by a specific source of fire (such as the burning hands spell), the a-mi-kuk can't be frightened by that same source again for 24 hours." }, { "name": "Icy Slime", "desc": "The a-mi-kuk's body is covered in a layer of greasy, ice-cold slime that grants it the benefits of freedom of movement. In addition, a creature that touches the a-mi-kuk or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of it takes 7 (2d6) cold damage from the freezing slime. A creature grappled by the a-mi-kuk takes this damage at the start of each of its turns." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 15, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_a-mi-kuk/" }, { "slug": "aniwye", "desc": "The ogre shifts and contorts, dropping to all fours as it takes the form of a vicious bear-sized skunk with razor-sharp claws and teeth._ \n**Noxious Terrors.** The aniwye is a magical monstrosity that resembles a cross between an enormous skunk and a wolverine. They go out of their way to hunt humans and gnomes, particularly those tied to the natural world. Aside from their savage claws and teeth, the aniwye can also spray a deadly musk at opponents, the poison burning the eyes and lungs of those who inhale it. Aniwye also use this musk to mark their territory—a tree trunk or boulder covered in fresh musk is a sure sign an aniwye is not far away. \n**Unsubtle Shapeshifters.** Aniwye can shapeshift into an Open Game License", "name": "Aniwye", "size": "Large", "type": "Monstrosity", "subtype": "shapechanger", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 102, "hit_dice": "12d10+36", "speed": { "climb": 20, "walk": 40 }, "strength": 19, "dexterity": 14, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 8, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 9, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 6, "skills": { "perception": 6, "stealth": 6 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 16", "languages": "Common, Giant", "challenge_rating": "5", "cr": 5.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "In ogre or giant form, the aniwye makes two slam attacks. In skunk form, it makes three attacks: one with its bite and two with its claws." }, { "name": "Slam (Giant or Ogre Form Only)", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (3d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "3d6+4" }, { "name": "Bite (Skunk Form Only)", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "2d8+4" }, { "name": "Claw (Skunk Form Only)", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d6 + 4) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "1d6+4" }, { "name": "Rock (Giant Form Only)", "desc": "Ranged Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, range 60/240 ft., one target. Hit: 20 (3d10 + 4) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "3d10+4" }, { "name": "Deadly Musk (Recharge 5-6; Skunk Form Only)", "desc": "The aniwye releases a cloud of highly poisonous musk from its tail in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw. On a failure, a creature takes 24 (7d6) poison damage and is stunned until the end of its next turn. On a success, a creature takes half the damage and isn't stunned." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Shapechanger", "desc": "The aniwye can use its action to polymorph into a Large ogre or Huge hill giant, or back into its true form, which is a skunk-like monstrosity. Its statistics, other than its size, are the same in each form, with the exception that only the aniwye's skunk form retains its burrowing and climbing speeds. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies." }, { "name": "Unstable Form", "desc": "If the aniwye takes 30 or more points of damage on a single turn while in ogre or giant form, it can immediately shift to its skunk form." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 25, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_aniwye/" }, { "slug": "arachnocrat", "desc": "A portly gentleman with slender arms and legs keeps his face and hands carefully concealed._ \nArachnocrats are spider-like fiends who enjoy masquerading as members of high society. They eat haute cuisine and drink fine wine in the company of humans. \n**Finer Tastes.** Viewing the wealth and standing of their victims as the greatest measure of taste, these devils delight in aristocratic prey, though they most often feed on the liquefied innards of servants of the aristocracy to avoid detection. They use local spiders as spies and informants to get closer to their quarries or discover dark secrets their quarries would rather keep hidden. Ever patient in their schemes of corruption, arachnocrats often court their quarries over months of theatre, dinner parties, and elaborate balls. \n**Hidden in Plain Sight.** Arachnocrats are adept at disguising themselves as aristocrats. Their most noticeable features are their clawed hands and their spider-like faces, which they cover with gloves, masks, scarves, voluminous robes, and similar attire. The eccentricities of the well-to-do help to cast off any suspicion over their odd coverings. \n**As Good As Gold.** The arachnocrat’s preferred prey comes at a high price. Blessed by the Arch-Devil of Greed, Mammon, arachnocrats have a second stomach that can turn common rocks into faux gemstones. The fiends vomit up the gemstones after digesting the rocks for a few months, and they use the gemstones to fund their endeavors. The counterfeit nature of the gems is detectable by only true craftsmen.", "name": "Arachnocrat", "size": "Medium", "type": "Fiend", "subtype": "devil", "group": null, "alignment": "lawful evil", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 93, "hit_dice": "17d8+17", "speed": { "walk": 30, "climb": 40 }, "strength": 13, "dexterity": 17, "constitution": 12, "intelligence": 16, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 18, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 5, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": 4, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": 6, "perception": null, "skills": { "deception": 8, "insight": 4, "persuasion": 6, "stealth": 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": "blindsight 10 ft., darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12", "languages": "Common, Infernal, telepathy 120 ft.", "challenge_rating": "5", "cr": 5.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The arachnocrat makes two claw attacks. If both claws hit a Medium or smaller target, the target is restrained in gilded webbing. As an action, the restrained target can make a DC 13 Strength check, bursting the webbing on a success. The webbing can also be attacked and destroyed (AC 12; hp 8; immunity to bludgeoning, poison, and psychic damage)." }, { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d8 + 3) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "2d8+3" }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage, and the target must make a DC 14 Constitution saving throw, taking 21 (6d6) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. If the poison damage reduces the target to 0 hp, the target is stable but poisoned for 1 hour, even after regaining hp, and is paralyzed while poisoned in this way. The skin of a creature that dies while poisoned takes on a golden hue.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "1d6+3" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Aristocratic Disguise", "desc": "An arachnocrat in a prepared disguise has advantage on Charisma (Deception) checks made to pass as a humanoid aristocrat." }, { "name": "Devil's Sight", "desc": "Magical darkness doesn't impede the arachnocrat's darkvision." }, { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The arachnocrat has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." }, { "name": "Speak with Spiders", "desc": "The arachnocrat can communicate with spiders and other arachnids as if they shared a language." }, { "name": "Spider Climb", "desc": "The arachnocrat can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 102, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_arachnocrat/" }, { "slug": "ash-phoenix", "desc": "A massive raptor made of ash and shadow screeches as it dives, its eyes like glowing coals. Impossibly, it stops its dive mere feet from the ground, and its powerful wings whip up ash that carries the chill of the grave._ \nAsh phoenixes are the animated ashes of mass funerary pyres, which seek the eradication of all life around their birth pyres. \n**Cremated Birth.** For an ash phoenix to be created, a group of humanoids must be burned in a mass pyre in an area tainted with necrotic energy, and the blood of a magical avian, such as an Open Game License", "name": "Ash Phoenix", "size": "Large", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": null, "hit_points": 105, "hit_dice": "14d10+28", "speed": { "fly": 90, "hover": true, "walk": 0 }, "strength": 17, "dexterity": 20, "constitution": 15, "intelligence": 8, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 9, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 5, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 5, "skills": { "perception": 5, "stealth": 8 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "radiant", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "exhaustion, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone", "senses": "darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 15", "languages": "—", "challenge_rating": "9", "cr": 9.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The ash phoenix makes two ash talon attacks. If both attacks hit the same target, the phoenix plunges its beak into the target, and the target must succeed on a DC 16 Strength saving throw or take 7 (2d6) necrotic damage. The ash phoenix regains hp equal to half the necrotic damage dealt." }, { "name": "Ash Talons", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5) slashing damage plus 7 (2d6) fire damage.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "2d8+5" }, { "name": "Ash Storm (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "The ash phoenix furiously beats its wings, throwing clinging ash into a 30-foot cone. Each creature in the area must make a DC 16 Dexterity saving throw. On a failure, a creature takes 28 (8d6) necrotic damage and is blinded until the end of its next turn. On a success, a creature takes half the damage and isn't blinded." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "False Appearance", "desc": "While the ash phoenix hovers and remains motionless, except for drifting on air currents, it is indistinguishable from a normal cloud of ash and smoke." }, { "name": "Rejuvenation", "desc": "If the ash phoenix's birth site hasn't been purified by holy rites, a destroyed ash phoenix gains a new body in 1d10 days, regaining all its hp and becoming active again. The new body appears within 5 feet of its birth site." }, { "name": "Shadow Stealth", "desc": "While in dim light or darkness, the ash phoenix can take the Hide action as a bonus action." }, { "name": "Wind Weakness", "desc": "While in an area of strong wind (at least 20 miles per hour), the ash phoenix has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 28, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_ash-phoenix/" }, { "slug": "aurora-horribilis", "desc": "A ribbon of light flies just above the ground, its gleam flickering in and out of view as it emits a discordant tune._ \n**Hidden Among Polar Lights.** Though auroras horribilis can manifest anywhere on a world, they prefer to dance and sing within naturally-occurring auroras. When they notice admirers of boreal lights, they descend from the sky to share their songs. Unfortunately, they are unaware of the bewilderment their songs invoke in listeners and are subsequently surprised by hostile action toward them. \n**Terrible Harbinger.** While an aurora’s direct effects on most creatures is cause for alarm, the aurora’s presence is typically a prelude to something worse. Auroras tend to attach themselves to the forefront of a wave of devastation wrought by unknowable beings. Given the nature of such beings, auroras can precede the beings by days or even centuries. \n**Lessons from the Void.** Because auroras horribilis travel with ancient beings from the Void, they hear many secrets about the universe, which they incorporate into their songs. An inability to understand the incomprehensible knowledge contained in their songs often induces madness in their listeners. This makes the auroras valuable to apocalypse cults welcoming the beings they herald, as well as to the desperate who seek to avert the coming catastrophe.", "name": "Aurora Horribilis", "size": "Large", "type": "Aberration", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic neutral", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": null, "hit_points": 119, "hit_dice": "14d10+42", "speed": { "hover": true, "walk": 0, "fly": 60 }, "strength": 8, "dexterity": 20, "constitution": 17, "intelligence": 7, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 21, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 5, "charisma_save": 8, "perception": null, "skills": { "acrobatics": 8, "performance": 8 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "force", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "cold, psychic, radiant", "condition_immunities": "exhaustion, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained", "senses": "blindsight 60 ft., passive Perception 12", "languages": "Void Speech", "challenge_rating": "9", "cr": 9.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The aurora horribilis makes two blistering touch attacks." }, { "name": "Blistering Touch", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 15 (3d6 + 5) cold damage plus 10 (3d6) radiant damage.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "3d6+5" }, { "name": "Void Song", "desc": "The aurora horribilis creates a dissonant song. Each creature within 100 feet of the aurora that can hear the song must succeed on a DC 16 Wisdom saving throw or be charmed until the song ends. This song has no effect on constructs, undead, or creatures that can speak or understand Void Speech. The aurora must take a bonus action on its subsequent turns to continue singing. It can stop singing at any time. The song ends if the aurora is incapacitated.\n\nWhile charmed by the aurora, the target suffers the effects of the confusion spell and hums along with the maddening tune. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. A target that successfully saves is immune to this aurora's song for the next 24 hours. A target that stays charmed by the aurora's song for more than 1 minute gains one long-term madness." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Incorporeal Movement", "desc": "The aurora horribilis 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": "Reality Adjacent", "desc": "The aurora horribilis does not fully exist in physical space. If the aurora is subjected to an effect that allows it to make a saving throw to take only half damage, it instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw, and only half damage if it fails. In addition, attack rolls against it have disadvantage. A creature with truesight doesn't have disadvantage on its attack rolls, but if that creature looks at the aurora, it must succeed on a DC 16 Wisdom saving throw or be incapacitated with a speed of 0 for 1 minute. An incapacitated creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success.\n\nThis trait is disrupted while the aurora is incapacitated or has a speed of 0." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 34, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_aurora-horribilis/" }, { "slug": "backup-holler-spider", "desc": "While the chitinous horn-like protrusion makes holler spiders appear comical, they can use it to release a loud sound, calling their masters when they detect trespassers. Unlike most spiders, Open Game License", "name": "Backup Holler Spider", "size": "Tiny", "type": "Beast", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic neutral", "armor_class": 12, "armor_desc": null, "hit_points": 14, "hit_dice": "4d4+4", "speed": { "climb": 25, "walk": 25 }, "strength": 7, "dexterity": 15, "constitution": 10, "intelligence": 5, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 5, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 4, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 4, "skills": { "perception": 4, "stealth": 4 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "thunder", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "blindsight 10 ft., darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 14", "languages": "understands Common but can’t speak", "challenge_rating": "1/4", "cr": 0.25, "actions": [ { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "1d4+2" }, { "name": "Hoot", "desc": "Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) thunder damage. If the holler spider scores a critical hit, it is pushed 5 feet away from the target.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "1d6+2" }, { "name": "Distressed Discharge (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "The holler spider releases a short, distressed cacophony in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in the area must make a DC 12 Constitution saving throw, taking 5 (2d4) thunder damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The holler spider is pushed 15 feet in the opposite direction of the cone." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": [ { "name": "Tune Up", "desc": "When an ally within 15 feet of the backup holler spider casts a spell that deals thunder damage, the backup holler spider chooses one of the spell's targets. That target has disadvantage on the saving throw against the spell." } ], "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Spider Climb", "desc": "The holler spider can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check." }, { "name": "Vigilant", "desc": "If the holler spider remains motionless for at least 1 minute, it has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks and Dexterity (Stealth) checks." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 395, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_backup-holler-spider/" }, { "slug": "boneshard-wraith", "desc": "A vaguely humanoid form appears, dim and hazy amid the constant swirl of wind-wracked grit and tainted dust of the magical wasteland._ \nContorted and broken, the boneshard wraith is a ghostly horror, haphazardly assembled from mismatched bones and grave-scavenged shards. Shattered eye sockets burn with the black, icy glow of eternal madness and the spiteful hunger of the Void. \n**Undead Nature.** A boneshard wraith doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Boneshard Wraith", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 16, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 127, "hit_dice": "15d8+60", "speed": { "walk": 15, "hover": true, "fly": 60 }, "strength": 16, "dexterity": 13, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 13, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 8, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 6, "skills": { "perception": 6, "stealth": 7 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "acid, cold, fire, lightning, thunder; piercing, bludgeoning, and slashing from nonmagical attacks not made with silvered weapons", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhausted, frightened, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained, stunned, unconscious", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 16", "languages": "any languages it knew in life, Void Speech", "challenge_rating": "12", "cr": 12.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The wraith makes two spectral claw attacks. If both attacks damage the same creature, the target must make a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or be paralyzed for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success." }, { "name": "Spectral Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 21 (4d8 + 3) slashing damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or suffer 1 level of exhaustion. A creature can suffer no more than 2 levels of exhaustion from the wraith's Spectral Claws.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "4d8+3" }, { "name": "Boneshard Cyclone (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "The wraith chooses a creature it can see within 60 feet of it. The target must make a DC 16 Strength saving throw. On a failure, a creature takes 20 (3d12) slashing damage and 27 (6d8) necrotic damage and is enveloped in a whirlwind of sharp bone fragments for 1 minute or until the wraith dies. On a success, a creature takes half the damage and isn't enveloped. While enveloped, a creature is blinded and deafened and takes 18 (4d8) necrotic damage at the start of each of its turns. It can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a creature dies while enveloped, it rises as a boneshard wraith on the next new moon unless it is restored to life or the bless spell is cast on the remains." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Incorporeal Movement", "desc": "The boneshard wraith can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. 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Some humanoids are born with runic symbols designating them as creatures blessed by the North Wind, but most must undergo several trials before the first wintry rune scrawls itself into their flesh. The trials include surviving the highest mountain peaks in the dead of winter, defeating a frost giant in single combat, and crafting a spear out of the fang or claw of an icy beast. Even then, Boreas may deny his favor. \n**Blood and Weapons of Ice.** A humanoid chosen by Boreas goes through a transformation to become more like its patron. Its blood freezes into ice, and its weapons become forever rimed. \n**Blessed and Loyal.** Humanoids chosen by Boreas further his goals, protect his holy sites, spread winter wherever they walk, and honor the North Wind with every fallen foe.", "name": "Boreas’ Chosen", "size": "Medium", "type": "Humanoid", "subtype": "any race", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "leather armor, shield", "hit_points": 102, "hit_dice": "12d8+48", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 17, "dexterity": 14, "constitution": 19, "intelligence": 8, "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": { "athletics": 6, "intimidation": 3, "survival": 5 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "cold", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened", "senses": "passive Perception 12", "languages": "Common, Giant", "challenge_rating": "7", "cr": 7.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "Boreas' chosen makes two ice spear attacks." }, { "name": "Spear", "desc": "Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage, or 7 (1d8 + 3) piercing damage if used with two hands to make a melee attack, plus 9 (2d8) cold damage.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "1d6+3" }, { "name": "Breath of the North Wind", "desc": "(Recharge 5-6). Boreas' chosen exhales freezing breath in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw. On a failure, a creature takes 28 (8d6) cold damage and its speed is reduced by 10 feet until the end of its next turn. On a success, a creature takes half the damage and its speed isn't reduced. A creature that fails the saving throw by 5 or more is petrified in ice until the end of its next turn instead." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Frozen Blood", "desc": "A creature that hits the chosen with a melee attack while within 5 feet of it takes 4 (1d8) cold damage." }, { "name": "Ice Runes", "desc": "The chosen's weapon attacks are magical. When the chosen hits with any weapon, the weapon deals an extra 2d8 cold damage (included in the attack)." }, { "name": "Ice Walk", "desc": "The chosen can move across and climb icy surfaces without needing to make an ability check. Additionally, difficult terrain composed of ice or snow doesn't cost it extra movement." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 48, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_boreas-chosen/" }, { "slug": "chatterlome", "desc": "When the oaken box is found on your stoop, run—for the box devil is soon to come._ \nChatterlomes have featureless grey heads with large, round eyes, and their circular mouths are filled with needlelike teeth. They have misshapen torsos and short, bandy legs. Their most notable feature, though, is their four arms, which always wield woodworking tools. \n**Vengeance Seekers.** Chatterlomes prey on scorned lovers, offering violent revenge for those who have been wronged. When a person calls upon the chatterlome, they soon receive an intricately carved oaken box with an obsidian inlay of a humanoid heart. Upon touching the box, the supplicant immediately knows that the box must be delivered to the home of the person who wronged the supplicant. When the victim opens the box, the chatterlome springs forth, claiming the heart of the victim and fulfilling the supplicant’s request. Whether or not the box is opened, a chatterlome whose box has been delivered knows the location of the victim and tracks the person relentlessly. After the victim dies, the supplicant must then deliver the chatterlome’s box to nine more victims or forfeit their own life. A string of deaths occurring shortly after victims received mysterious boxes is a sure sign that a chatterlome is in the area. \n**Box Devils.** Chatterlomes are often called “box devils” due to their peculiar ability to magically travel between boxes and other enclosed, wooden objects. Though chatterlomes can travel between boxes, each chatterlome has its original box, created when it was summoned by a supplicant who was scorned. If the chatterlome’s original box is destroyed, the chatterlome returns to the Hells, where it waits for another scorned lover to call it back to the Material Plane.", "name": "Chatterlome", "size": "Medium", "type": "Fiend", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "lawful evil", "armor_class": 16, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 93, "hit_dice": "11d8+44", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 15, "dexterity": 18, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 11, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 10, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 5, "charisma_save": 3, "perception": 5, "skills": { "perception": 5, "stealth": 7 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "cold, fire; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 15", "languages": "Abyssal, Common, Infernal, telepathy 60 ft.", "challenge_rating": "7", "cr": 7.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The chatterlome makes four chisel attacks." }, { "name": "Chisel", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "2d6+4" }, { "name": "Box Teleport", "desc": "The chatterlome magically teleports up to 120 feet into a box, chest, wardrobe, or other wooden container with a lid or door. The chatterlome can hide inside the container as a bonus action after teleporting. If the chatterlome uses this action while inside a container, it can teleport into another container within range or it can teleport back to the Hells. If it teleports to the Hells, it can't return to the Material Plane until it is summoned." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The chatterlome has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 60, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_chatterlome/" }, { "slug": "cherufe", "desc": "A humanoid torso rises from a long, arthropod body made from overlapping plates of obsidian. The creature’s face is twisted into a grimace of rage. Four arms ending in oversized fists jut from the torso. The creature’s form radiates a red glow and a palpable heat as a fire rages within it._ \n**Corrupted Keepers.** The elemental anomaly that brings a Open Game License", "name": "Cherufe", "size": "Huge", "type": "Elemental", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 19, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 161, "hit_dice": "14d12+70", "speed": { "walk": 40, "burrow": 40 }, "strength": 22, "dexterity": 10, "constitution": 21, "intelligence": 8, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 6, "strength_save": 11, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": 10, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 7, "skills": { "perception": 7 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "acid, lightning; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "fire, poison", "condition_immunities": "exhaustion, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., tremorsense 120 ft., passive Perception 17", "languages": "Ignan, Terran", "challenge_rating": "14", "cr": 14.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The cherufe makes four slam attacks. Alternatively, it can throw two magma balls." }, { "name": "Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 20 (4d6 + 6) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 11, "damage_dice": "4d6+6" }, { "name": "Magma Ball", "desc": "Ranged Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, range 60/240 ft., one target. Hit: 22 (3d10 + 6) bludgeoning damage plus 11 (2d10) fire damage. Each creature within 5 feet of the target must succeed on a DC 18 Dexterity saving throw or take 7 (2d6) fire damage.", "attack_bonus": 11, "damage_dice": "3d10+6" }, { "name": "Fissure", "desc": "The cherufe opens a fissure in the ground within 120 feet of it that is 60 feet long, 10 feet wide, and 2d4 x 10 feet deep. Each creature standing on a spot where a fissure opens must succeed on a DC 18 Dexterity saving throw or fall in. A creature that successfully saves moves with the fissure's edge as it opens. A fissure that opens beneath a structure causes it to automatically collapse as if the structure was in the area of an earthquake spell. The cherufe can have only one fissure open at a time. If it opens another, the previous fissure closes, shunting all creatures inside it to the surface." }, { "name": "Quake (Recharge 6)", "desc": "The cherufe slams its fists into the ground, shaking the terrain within 60 feet of it. Each creature standing on the ground in that area must make a DC 18 Dexterity saving throw. On a failure, the creature takes 45 (10d8) bludgeoning damage and is knocked prone. On a success, the creature takes half the damage and isn't knocked prone." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Firewalker", "desc": "When the cherufe is subjected to fire damage, its speed doubles until the end of its next turn, and it can Dash or Disengage as a bonus action on its next turn." }, { "name": "Internal Flame", "desc": "A creature that touches the cherufe or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of it takes 7 (2d6) fire damage. In addition, the cherufe sheds dim light in a 30-foot radius." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 61, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_cherufe/" }, { "slug": "chimeric-phantom", "desc": "The vague outline of a tortured being flickers, appearing as though it may have once been human. Its face is composed of many faces, and its expressions shift rapidly from madness to anger to pain. Its features change from one moment to the next, resembling one person for a short time, then someone else, or an odd combination of several at the same time._ \n**Recombined Spirits.** Chimeric phantoms are created when intelligent creatures, most often humanoid, are consumed by a Open Game License", "name": "Chimeric Phantom", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic neutral", "armor_class": 11, "armor_desc": null, "hit_points": 36, "hit_dice": "8d8", "speed": { "walk": 0, "hover": true, "fly": 40 }, "strength": 12, "dexterity": 13, "constitution": 10, "intelligence": 13, "wisdom": 14, "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": "", "damage_resistances": "acid, cold, fire, lightning, thunder; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft. passive Perception 11", "languages": "any languages its constituent souls knew in life", "challenge_rating": "2", "cr": 2.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The chimeric phantom makes two Maddening Grasp attacks." }, { "name": "Maddening Grasp", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (2d6 + 2) necrotic damage.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "2d6+2" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Frightening Madness", "desc": "A chimeric phantom's madness unnerves those nearby. Any creature that starts its turn within 10 feet of the chimeric phantom must succeed on a DC 12 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened until the start of its next turn. On a successful saving throw, the creature is immune to the chimeric phantom's Frightening Madness for 24 hours." }, { "name": "Incorporeal Movement", "desc": "The chimeric phantom 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." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 62, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_chimeric-phantom/" }, { "slug": "conjoined-queen", "desc": "The torso of a pale humanoid woman melds into the thorax of a massive insect. It moves about on six pointed legs, stabbing through stone and metal alike._ \n**Born in Chaos.** The first conjoined queen was created when cultists sacrificed a captured queen to their dark insectoid god. In a ritual of chaotic magic, the human queen and an insect queen were joined, forming a chitinous chrysalis from which the conjoined queen eventually emerged. \n**Rulers of the Many-Legged.** A conjoined queen rules from a subterranean throne room, often in a burrow under the ruins of a fallen monarchy’s castle. There she commands her insectoid host and sits atop a pile of incubating eggs. \n**Hungry for Power.** The conjoined queen hungers for humanoid flesh but also for power. She seeks to rule and conquer humanoids and insects alike. Her armies consist of giant insects and the humanoids who ride them into battle.", "name": "Conjoined Queen", "size": "Large", "type": "Monstrosity", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic neutral", "armor_class": 18, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 168, "hit_dice": "16d10+80", "speed": { "burrow": 20, "climb": 30, "walk": 40 }, "strength": 18, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 21, "intelligence": 13, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 18, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 7, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 6, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 6, "skills": { "perception": 6 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, frightened, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., tremorsense 60 ft., passive Perception 16", "languages": "Common", "challenge_rating": "10", "cr": 10.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The conjoined queen makes two slam attacks and one sting attack." }, { "name": "Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "2d8+4" }, { "name": "Sting", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (1d10 + 4) piercing damage plus 14 (4d6) poison damage.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "1d10+4" }, { "name": "Queen's Wrathful Clattering (1/Day)", "desc": "The conjoined queen clacks her long chitinous legs together, inciting rage in her allies. Each ally within 60 feet of the queen who can hear her has advantage on its next attack roll, and its speed is increased by 10 until the end of its next turn." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The conjoined queen has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." }, { "name": "Pheromones", "desc": "A creature that starts its turn within 30 feet of the conjoined queen must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or be charmed for 1 minute. The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. While charmed, the creature drops anything it is holding and is stunned. If a creature's saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the creature is immune to the conjoined queen's Pheromones for the next 24 hours." }, { "name": "Tunneler", "desc": "The queen can burrow through solid rock at half her burrowing speed and leaves a 5-foot-diameter tunnel in her wake." }, { "name": "Spellcasting", "desc": "The conjoined queen is a 9th-level spellcaster. Her spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 16, +8 to hit with spell attacks). The queen has the following sorcerer spells prepared:\nCantrips (at will): acid splash, mage hand, prestidigitation, ray of frost\n1st Level (4 slots): burning hands, magic missile, shield, thunderwave\n2nd Level (3 slots): detect thoughts, misty step, web\n3rd Level (3 slots): clairvoyance, counterspell, haste\n4th Level (3 slots): banishment, confusion\n5th Level (1 slot): insect plague" } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 70, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_conjoined-queen/" }, { "slug": "corrupted-pixie", "desc": "A wrinkly, purple-skinned pixie with small black horns and bat wings flits about, chanting a violent song about harvesting organs._ \nCorrupted pixies are fey turned fiends who savor violence. \n**Corrupted by Hags.** Hags sometimes capture pixies and torture them by forcing the tiny fey beings to watch the hags commit acts of depraved violence. These acts combined with the hags’ magic drive the pixies mad, twisting their forms and turning them into corrupt versions of what they once were. The corrupted pixies become fiends that live to serve the hags who created them. Many of these pixies think of their creators as gods who exposed the world’s true joys: murder, torture, and other evil acts. \n**Mischief Makers.** Hags send corrupted pixies to cause mischief and chaos to punish their enemies, for their own entertainment, or as a distraction from the hags’ more sinister schemes. The pixies delight in these tasks, often using their magic to make people harm one another and remaining invisible as long as they can. Corrupted pixies like to make the pain last as long as possible before their tricks satisfyingly result in another creature’s death. \n**Destroy Beauty.** Corrupted pixies take a special joy in destroying anything beautiful, be it a work of art, a garden, or the face of a handsome adventurer. The fiends sometimes become distracted from their hag-assigned tasks because the opportunity to mar something perfect is too good to pass up. \n**Restored by Pixie Dust.** If a corrupted pixie is captured, it can be restored to its fey form. The captured pixie must be showered with pixie dust every day at sunrise for ten consecutive days. On the final day, the pixie reverts to its original form.", "name": "Corrupted Pixie", "size": "Tiny", "type": "Fiend", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": null, "hit_points": 5, "hit_dice": "2d4", "speed": { "walk": 10, "fly": 30 }, "strength": 2, "dexterity": 20, "constitution": 10, "intelligence": 12, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 15, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 4, "skills": { "perception": 4, "stealth": 7 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 14", "languages": "Abyssal, Infernal, Primordial, Sylvan", "challenge_rating": "1/2", "cr": 0.5, "actions": [ { "name": "Confusion Touch", "desc": "The pixie touches one creature. The target must succeed on a DC 12 Wisdom saving throw or use its reaction to make one melee attack against one of its allies within 5 feet. If it has no allies within 5 feet, the creature attacks itself." }, { "name": "Superior Invisibility", "desc": "The pixie magically turns invisible until its concentration ends (as if concentrating on a spell). Any equipment the pixie wears or carries is invisible with it." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The pixie has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "The pixie's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 12, +4 to hit with spell attacks). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\nAt will: vicious mockery\n1/day each: bestow curse, charm person, confusion, detect thoughts, dispel magic, fire bolt, hideous laughter, ray of enfeeblement, suggestion" } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 72, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_corrupted-pixie/" }, { "slug": "culicoid", "desc": "Filthy rags partially conceal this walking mosquito’s form. The hands poking out of its rags end in needle-like fingers, which resemble the proboscis on the creature’s head._ \n**Abyssal Swamp Dwellers.** Culicoid demons make their home in a fetid layer of the Abyss where they serve demon lords who value insects. When they travel to the Material Plane, they make themselves at home in insect-infested marshes. \n**Buzzing and Itching.** Though a culicoid’s wings are suitably large for its size, they produce a high-pitched drone. Their wingbeats don’t stand out from regular insects, making them difficult to detect. The culicoid’s filthy proboscis induces an irritating rash that forces its victims to ignore all else to scratch the rash. \n**Friend to Mosquitos.** The culicoid demon can communicate with mosquitos, stirges, and other similar creatures, such as Open Game License", "name": "Culicoid", "size": "Large", "type": "Fiend", "subtype": "demon", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 18, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 190, "hit_dice": "20d10+80", "speed": { "fly": 60, "hover": true, "walk": 30 }, "strength": 20, "dexterity": 15, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 11, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 9, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 6, "constitution_save": 8, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 6, "skills": { "acrobatics": 6, "perception": 6, "stealth": 6 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "cold, fire, lightning; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 16", "languages": "Abyssal, telepathy 60 ft.", "challenge_rating": "12", "cr": 12.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The culicoid makes three attacks: one with its proboscis and two with its needle claws." }, { "name": "Needle Claws", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d6 + 5) piercing damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 16). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, the culicoid can automatically hit the target with its needle claw, and it can't use the same needle claw against other targets. The culicoid has two needle claws, each of which can grapple only one target.", "attack_bonus": 9, "damage_dice": "2d6+5" }, { "name": "Proboscis", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5) piercing damage plus 7 (2d6) poison damage. The target must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 minute. While poisoned, a creature must succeed on a DC 16 Wisdom saving throw at the start of each of its turns or spend its full turn scratching the rash. A poisoned creature can repeat the Constitution saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the poisoned condition on itself on a success.", "attack_bonus": 9, "damage_dice": "2d8+5" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Blood Sense", "desc": "The culicoid can pinpoint, by scent, the location of creatures that have blood within 60 feet of it." }, { "name": "Cloud of Mosquitos", "desc": "When the culicoid is reduced to 0 hp, it transforms into a swarm of mosquitos (use the statistics of a swarm of insects). If at least one mosquito from the swarm survives for 24 hours, the culicoid reforms at the following dusk from the remaining mosquitos, regaining all its hp and becoming active again." }, { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The culicoid has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." }, { "name": "Mosquito-Proof", "desc": "The culicoid can't be subjected to blood drain from mosquitos and mosquito-like creatures." }, { "name": "Speak with Mosquitos", "desc": "The culicoid can communicate with mosquitos and other mosquito-like creatures as if they shared a language." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 94, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_culicoid/" }, { "slug": "darakhul-captain", "desc": "Leaders of law enforcement units in undead cities, darakhul captains are stoic and steely darakhul hand-selected by the city’s leadership for the role. \n_**Patrol Teams.**_ When on patrol, darakhul captains ride Open Game License", "name": "Darakhul Captain", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "lawful evil", "armor_class": 16, "armor_desc": "breastplate", "hit_points": 165, "hit_dice": "22d8+66", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 18, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 17, "intelligence": 14, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 18, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 6, "skills": { "insight": 6, "intimidation": 8, "perception": 6 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "necrotic", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 16", "languages": "Common, Darakhul, Undercommon", "challenge_rating": "9", "cr": 9.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The darakhul captain makes three attacks: one with its bite, one with its claw, and one with its longsword. Alternatively, it can make four attacks with its longsword." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) piercing damage plus 7 (2d6) necrotic damage. If the target is a humanoid, it must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or contract darakhul fever.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "2d8+4" }, { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) slashing damage plus 7 (2d6) necrotic damage. If the target is a creature other than an undead, it must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be paralyzed for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a humanoid is paralyzed for more than 2 rounds, it contracts darakhul fever.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "2d6+4" }, { "name": "Longsword", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d8 + 4) slashing damage, or 9 (1d10 + 4) slashing damage if used with two hands, plus 7 (2d6) necrotic damage.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "1d8+4" }, { "name": "Heavy Crossbow", "desc": "Ranged Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, range 100/400 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d10 + 3) piercing damage plus 7 (2d6) necrotic damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "1d10+3" }, { "name": "Imperial Conscription (Recharge 6)", "desc": "The darakhul captain targets one incapacitated creature it can see within 30 feet. The target must make a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw, taking 27 (5d10) necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The target's hp maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the damage taken. This reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest. If the victim has darakhul fever, this reduction can't be removed until the victim recovers from the disease. The target dies if this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0. A humanoid slain by this attack rises as a ghast 1d4 hours later under the darakhul captain's control, unless the humanoid is restored to life" }, { "name": "Leadership (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest)", "desc": "For 1 minute, the darakhul captain can utter a special command or warning whenever a nonhostile creature that it can see within 30 feet of it makes an attack roll or a saving throw. The creature can add a d4 to its roll provided it can hear and understand the captain. A creature can benefit from only one Leadership die at a time. This effect ends if the captain is incapacitated." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Master of Disguise", "desc": "A darakhul in a prepared disguise has advantage on Charisma (Deception) checks made to pass as a living creature. While using this ability, it loses its Stench." }, { "name": "Necrotic Weapons", "desc": "The darakhul captain's weapon attacks are magical. When the captain hits with any weapon, the weapon deals an extra 2d6 necrotic damage (included in the attack)." }, { "name": "Stench", "desc": "Any creature that starts its turn within 5 feet of the darakhul must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned until the start of its next turn. On a successful saving throw, the creature is immune to the darakhul's Stench for 24 hours." }, { "name": "Sunlight Sensitivity", "desc": "While in sunlight, the darakhul has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight." }, { "name": "Turning Defiance", "desc": "The darakhul and any ghouls within 30 feet of it have advantage on saving throws against effects that turn undead." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 166, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_darakhul-captain/" }, { "slug": "death-barque", "desc": "Necromancers, both living and dead, sometimes come together to make massive undead creatures known collectively as “necrotech”. In nations ruled by undead, these massive creations often act as siege weapons or powerful modes of transportation._ \n**Bone Colossuses.** In a tome of deranged ramblings, the writer theorized how “posthumes”— the tiny skeletal creatures used to make up the bone collectives—might be gathered in even greater numbers to form bigger, stronger creatures. Thus was born the Open Game License", "name": "Death Barque", "size": "Gargantuan", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 17, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 198, "hit_dice": "12d20+72", "speed": { "swim": 50, "walk": 0 }, "strength": 20, "dexterity": 18, "constitution": 23, "intelligence": 8, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 12, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 8, "constitution_save": 10, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 6, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 6, "skills": { "perception": 6, "stealth": 7 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "psychic", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 16", "languages": "Darakhul, Deep Speech", "challenge_rating": "12", "cr": 12.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The death barque makes three attacks: one with its bite and two with its tail smash." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 21 (3d10 + 5) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 9, "damage_dice": "3d10+5" }, { "name": "Tail Smash", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 15 (3d6 + 5) bludgeoning damage and must succeed on a DC 17 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.", "attack_bonus": 9, "damage_dice": "3d6+5" }, { "name": "Shrapnel Burst", "desc": "The death barque launches a ball of bone shards from its tail at a point it can see within 120 feet of it. Each creature within 10 feet of that point must make a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw. On a failure, a creature takes 28 (8d6) piercing damage and is blinded for 1 minute. On a success, a creature takes half the damage and isn't blinded. A blinded creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success." }, { "name": "Necrotic Breath (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "The death barque exhales a dark cloud of necrotic energy in a 60-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 17 Constitution saving throw, taking 54 (12d8) necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Immutable Form", "desc": "The death barque is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form." }, { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The death barque has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." }, { "name": "Siege Monster", "desc": "The death barque deals double damage to objects and structures." }, { "name": "Turn Resistance", "desc": "The death barque has advantage on saving throws against any effect that turns undead." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 268, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_death-barque/" }, { "slug": "derendian-moth-abomination", "desc": "The creature’s multicolored moth wings slow to a flutter as it lands. The tentacles surrounding its mouth wriggle at the prospect of a new meal._ \n**Cursed Origins.** A dark tree resides in the depths of a forest where the veil between the Material and Shadow Realms is thin. Once a year, a heart-shaped growth on the tree beats, imbuing a nearby creature with shadow. The creature grows in size and power and becomes the tree’s avatar in the mortal world. It spends its short life tending to and protecting its parent and the other shadow-touched trees of the forest.", "name": "Derendian Moth Abomination", "size": "Huge", "type": "Monstrosity", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 210, "hit_dice": "20d12+80", "speed": { "walk": 30, "fly": 40 }, "strength": 14, "dexterity": 20, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 16, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 10, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 9, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "stealth": 9 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "cold, necrotic", "condition_immunities": "frightened", "senses": "darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 16", "languages": "—", "challenge_rating": "12", "cr": 12.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The Derendian moth abomination makes a number of tentacle attacks equal to the number of tentacles it currently possesses, and one beak attack." }, { "name": "Tentacle", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 20 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d8 + 1) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 9, "damage_dice": "1d8+1" }, { "name": "Beak", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 17 (3d10) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 9, "damage_dice": "3d10" }, { "name": "Wings of the Primal Tender (1/Day)", "desc": "The Derendian moth abomination teleports to an unoccupied location within 100 feet, leaving a shimmering outline of its wings in its former location. The shimmering wings flap violently before exploding in a rainbowcolored dust cloud covering a 60-foot radius. Any creature caught in the dust cloud must make a successful DC 16 Wisdom saving throw or be reduced to 0 hit points. Creatures reduced to 0 hit points from this effect regenerate 10 hit points at the beginning of their next three turns." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "The Derendian moth abomination can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time, and only at the end of another creature’s turn. Spent legendary actions are regained at the start of each turn.", "legendary_actions": [ { "name": "Detect", "desc": "The abomination makes a Perception check." }, { "name": "Pursue", "desc": "The abomination moves its flying speed." }, { "name": "Lay Eggs (Costs 2 Actions)", "desc": "The Derendian moth abomination ejects a sticky mass of eggs within 5 feet of itself. At the beginning of the abomination's next turn, the eggs hatch as a swarm of insects that attacks the abomination's enemies." } ], "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Antennae", "desc": "The Derendian moth abomination has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell." }, { "name": "Assimilation", "desc": "The Derendian moth abomination has six tentacles. Whenever it takes 30 or more damage in a single turn, one of its tentacles is shorn from its body. Whenever a non-undead creature drops to 0 hit points within 200 feet of the Derendian moth abomination, it can use its reaction to sprout one additional tentacle, up to a maximum of ten. Additional tentacles atrophy after one day." }, { "name": "Legendary Resistance (3/Day)", "desc": "If the Derendian moth abomination fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead." }, { "name": "Magic Weapons", "desc": "The Derendian moth abomination's weapon attacks are magical." }, { "name": "Unbound", "desc": "The Derendian moth abomination's movement is unaffected by difficult terrain, and spells and other magical effects can neither reduce the moth's speed nor cause it to be paralyzed or restrained." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 96, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_derendian-moth-abomination/" }, { "slug": "egret-harpy", "desc": "This winged female has a short torso and long, gangly legs. Her wingspan is wider than her body is tall. Despite her awkward appearance, she moves with incredible grace._ \n**Protectors of the Marsh.** Egret harpies look after marshland flora and fauna, often allying themselves with druids and rangers who occupy the same area. \n**Uncommonly Hospitable.** While most harpies have a reputation for sadism and bloodlust, egret harpies are considerably more welcoming. They possess the same alluring song all harpies have, but they can modulate the song to allow their captivated targets safe passage toward them. They often use their songs to prevent intruders from harming their home marshes. They can end their song in a mighty crescendo, imposing their will on those charmed by the song. The harpies typically coerce intruders to repair damages wreaked upon the marsh or to merely leave and never return. If a harpy suspects the intruders are unrepentant, she stops playing nice and allows her victims to fall prey to the marsh’s hazards. \n**Powerful Yet Graceful.** The wings that hold the egret harpy’s larger frame aloft also serve as weapons. A powerful buffet from the harpy’s wing can knock down weaker foes. The harpy’s gawky build belies a fluidity to her movements, allowing her to balance on one leg even while engaged in battle.", "name": "Egret Harpy", "size": "Medium", "type": "Monstrosity", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral", "armor_class": 12, "armor_desc": null, "hit_points": 75, "hit_dice": "10d8+30", "speed": { "fly": 60, "walk": 30 }, "strength": 16, "dexterity": 14, "constitution": 17, "intelligence": 11, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 15, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "acrobatics": 4, "nature": 2 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "passive Perception 12", "languages": "Common, Sylvan", "challenge_rating": "2", "cr": 2.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The egret harpy makes two attacks: one with its spear and one with its talons." }, { "name": "Spear", "desc": "Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage, or 7 (1d8 + 3) piercing damage if used with two hands to make a melee attack.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1d6+3" }, { "name": "Talons", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1d6+3" }, { "name": "Wing Buffet (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "The egret harpy beats its wings rapidly. Each Medium or smaller creature within 5 feet of the harpy must make a DC 13 Strength saving throw. On a failure, a creature takes 10 (3d6) bludgeoning damage and is knocked prone. On a success, a creature takes half the damage and isn't knocked prone." }, { "name": "Guiding Song", "desc": "The egret harpy sings a magical melody. Each humanoid and giant of the harpy's choice within 300 feet of the harpy has advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks to navigate marshes, and difficult terrain composed of mud, standing water, or other features of a marsh doesn't cost it extra movement. The harpy must take a bonus action on its subsequent turns to continue singing. It can stop singing at any time. The song ends if the harpy is incapacitated.\n\nThe harpy can use an action to end the song and cast mass suggestion. Each creature that can hear the harpy's song must succeed on a DC 12 Wisdom saving throw or be affected by the spell for 8 hours. If the harpy chooses to end the song this way, it can't use Guiding Song again until it finishes a long rest." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Innate Spellcasting (3/Day)", "desc": "The egret harpy can innately cast suggestion, requiring no material components. Its innate spellcasting ability is Charisma." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 122, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_egret-harpy/" }, { "slug": "empusa", "desc": "A monstrous woman with claws and hooves of shining copper, the creature stalks the roads and tracks between towns, seeking to kill and devour any who stumble across her path._ \n**Bane of Travelers.** Distant kin to lamias, the dreadful empusae are exclusively female. They use their supernatural abilities to hunt down and devour the flesh of those traveling along deserted roads and byways between settlements. While empusae aren’t afraid of sunlight, they tend to hunt at night, returning to caves and ruins during the day to feast on those they have killed. When travelers aren’t available, empusae target shepherds and farmers, disguising themselves as goats or donkeys to get close to their targets. \n**Copper Hooves.** The legs and hooves of an empusa are extremely powerful and are sheathed in magically-hardened copper, allowing her to deliver swift and powerful kicks and move at great speed. This copper can be harvested when the empusa is slain and is often used in the construction of magical boots and staffs.", "name": "Empusa", "size": "Medium", "type": "Monstrosity", "subtype": "shapechanger", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 16, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 102, "hit_dice": "12d8+48", "speed": { "walk": 40 }, "strength": 20, "dexterity": 13, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 10, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 19, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 6, "charisma_save": 7, "perception": 5, "skills": { "deception": 7, "perception": 5, "stealth": 4 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 15", "languages": "Common", "challenge_rating": "5", "cr": 5.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The empusa makes two claw attacks, or one claw attack and one kick attack." }, { "name": "Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "2d8+5" }, { "name": "Kick", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d6 + 5) bludgeoning damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 15 Strength saving throw or be pushed up to 10 feet away from the empusa and knocked prone.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "2d6+5" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Ambusher", "desc": "In the first round of combat, the empusa has advantage on attack rolls against any creature she has surprised." }, { "name": "Magical Copper", "desc": "The empusa's claw and kick attacks are magical." }, { "name": "Nimble Fighter", "desc": "The empusa can take the Dash or Disengage action as a bonus action on each of her turns." }, { "name": "Shapechanger", "desc": "The empusa can use her action to polymorph into a Small or Medium beast that has a challenge rating no higher than her own, or back into her true form. Her statistics, other than her size, are the same in each form. While transformed, at least one of her limbs has a coppery color. Any equipment she is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. She reverts to her true form if she dies." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 136, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_empusa/" }, { "slug": "fennec-fox", "desc": "Fennec foxes are tiny canids which make their homes in the shallow parts of the Underworld and the deserts of the Southlands. Their huge semi-erect ears and wide eyes give them a disarmingly friendly appearance.", "name": "Fennec Fox", "size": "Tiny", "type": "Beast", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 11, "armor_desc": null, "hit_points": 7, "hit_dice": "2d4+2", "speed": { "burrow": 5, "walk": 40 }, "strength": 6, "dexterity": 12, "constitution": 12, "intelligence": 2, "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": { "stealth": 3 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12", "languages": "—", "challenge_rating": "1/8", "cr": 0.125, "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+1" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Keen Hearing and Sight", "desc": "The fennec fox has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing or sight." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 0, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_fennec-fox/" }, { "slug": "fey-revenant", "desc": "An amalgam of shadow fey and spider, the thorn-covered fey appears out of the shadows and envelops its victim in icy tendrils of darkness._ \n**Will of the Fey Queen.** Shadow fey who have proven themselves most loyal to the commands and desires of the fey courts catch the eye of the Queen. She calls them to her court and blesses them with a measure of her power. \n**Fey Transformation.** A fey revenant retains the upper torso of its shadow fey body, its skin becomes thorny and bark-like, and its lower body changes into that of an arachnid or insect. Spiders, scorpions, and beetles are the most common, but many fey revenants have lower bodies resembling dragonflies, wasps, and locusts. Fey revenants with insect bodies that can fly have a flying speed of 30 feet.", "name": "Fey Revenant", "size": "Large", "type": "Fey", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "lawful evil", "armor_class": 19, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 161, "hit_dice": "17d10+68", "speed": { "walk": 30, "climb": 30 }, "strength": 14, "dexterity": 18, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 10, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 14, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 7, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 5, "skills": { "perception": 5, "stealth": 7 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, piercing", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 15", "languages": "Common, Elvish, Umbral", "challenge_rating": "7", "cr": 7.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The fey revenant makes three attacks, either with its shortsword or longbow. It can use its Queen's Grasp in place of one shortsword or longbow attack." }, { "name": "Shortsword", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 7 (1d6 + 4) piercing damage plus 3 (1d6) poison damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "1d6+4" }, { "name": "Longbow", "desc": "Ranged Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, range 120/600 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d8 + 4) piercing damage plus 3 (1d6) poison damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "1d8+4" }, { "name": "Queen's Grasp", "desc": "Ranged Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, ranged 30/60 ft., one target. Hit: The target is restrained by icy wisps of shadow. While restrained, the creature takes 7 (2d6) cold damage at the start of each of its turns. As an action, the restrained creature can make a DC 15 Strength check, bursting through the icy shadow on a success. The icy shadow can also be attacked and destroyed (AC 10; 5 hp; resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage; immunity to cold, necrotic, poison, and psychic damage)." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The fey revenant has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." }, { "name": "Shadow Sight", "desc": "Magical darkness doesn't impede the fey revenant's darkvision." }, { "name": "Shadow Traveler (4/Day)", "desc": "As a bonus action while in shadows, dim light, or darkness, the fey revenant disappears into the darkness and reappears in an unoccupied space it can see within 30 feet. A tendril of inky smoke appears at its origin and destination when it uses this trait." }, { "name": "Spider Climb", "desc": "The fey revenant can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check." }, { "name": "Sunlight Sensitivity", "desc": "While in sunlight, the fey revenant has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight." }, { "name": "Thorn Body", "desc": "A creature that touches the fey revenant or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of it takes 4 (1d8) piercing damage." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 150, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_fey-revenant/" }, { "slug": "fleshspurned", "desc": "This horrifying apparition is the disturbing amalgam of a funerary shroud and a set of absurdly large floating teeth. The creature has a roughly humanoid form and clacks its teeth together with terrible ferocity._ \n**Ghosts with Teeth.** A fleshspurned is created when a humanoid is eaten alive or dies while swallowed by a creature such as a purple worm. These people are driven insane by their horrible deaths and arise as monstrous spirits that crave the flesh of other creatures to replace the bodies they lost. However, in a twist of fate, the fleshspurned cannot stomach corporeal flesh, leading it to consume the ectoplasm of Open Game License", "name": "Fleshspurned", "size": "Medium", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": null, "hit_points": 75, "hit_dice": "10d8+30", "speed": { "fly": 40, "walk": 0, "hover": true }, "strength": 1, "dexterity": 18, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 10, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 16, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 4, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 4, "skills": { "perception": 4, "stealth": 6 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "acid, cold, fire, lightning, thunder; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "necrotic, poison", "condition_immunities": "charmed, exhaustion, frightened, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 14", "languages": "any languages it knew in life", "challenge_rating": "4", "cr": 4.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Phantasmal Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 18 (4d6 + 4) necrotic damage. If the target is a creature other than a construct or an undead, it must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or become ghostly for 1 minute. While ghostly, it has the Incorporeal Movement trait and is susceptible to the fleshspurned's Ghost Eater trait. The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the ghostly effect on itself on a success.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "4d6+4" }, { "name": "Chatter", "desc": "The fleshspurned clashes its oversized teeth together to create a clattering din. Each creature within 30 feet of the fleshspurned must succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw or be confused for 1 minute. While confused, a creature acts as if under the effects of the confusion spell. A confused creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a creature's saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the target is immune to the fleshspurned's Chatter for the next 24 hours." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Ghost Eater", "desc": "The fleshspurned has advantage on attack rolls against ghosts, wraiths, and other undead with the Incorporeal Movement trait, and such creatures aren't immune to the necrotic damage dealt by the fleshspurned's bite. When the fleshspurned kills one of these creatures, the fleshspurned gains temporary hp equal to double the creature's challenge rating (minimum of 1)." }, { "name": "Incorporeal Movement", "desc": "The fleshspurned 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. 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The falcon strikes in a diving ambush and can even run down prey on foot.", "name": "Forest Falcon", "size": "Medium", "type": "Beast", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": null, "hit_points": 13, "hit_dice": "3d6+3", "speed": { "walk": 20, "fly": 60 }, "strength": 6, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 12, "intelligence": 3, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 5, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 5, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 4, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 4, "skills": { "perception": 4 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "passive Perception 14", "languages": "—", "challenge_rating": "1/4", "cr": 0.25, "actions": [ { "name": "Beak", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (2d4 + 3) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "2d4+3" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Falcon Dive", "desc": "If the falcon is flying and dives at least 20 feet straight toward a target, it has advantage on the next attack roll it makes against that target before the end of its turn. If the attack hits, it deals an extra 2 (1d4) damage to the target." }, { "name": "Keen Sight", "desc": "The falcon has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 390, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_forest-falcon/" }, { "slug": "giant-mongoose", "desc": "The giant mongoose slinks through the woods, searching out rodents and other small animals to prey upon. Like their smaller cousins, giant mongooses are notoriously resistant to venoms, and their distinctive “dance” in battle helps them avoid deadly strikes.", "name": "Giant Mongoose", "size": "Medium", "type": "Beast", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": null, "hit_points": 13, "hit_dice": "2d8+4", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 10, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 14, "intelligence": 3, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 7, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": 4, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 4, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "athletics": 2, "stealth": 5 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "poison", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "poisoned", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10", "languages": "—", "challenge_rating": "1/4", "cr": 0.25, "actions": [ { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1d6+3" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": [ { "name": "Defensive Roll", "desc": "The mongoose adds its Athletics bonus to its AC against one attack that would hit it. To do so, the mongoose must see the attacker." } ], "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Keen Hearing and Smell", "desc": "The mongoose has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing or smell." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 393, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_giant-mongoose/" }, { "slug": "glacier-behemoth", "desc": "A depression in the ground trails in the wake of this six-legged creature. Aged ice, appearing more like granite, covers the creature’s body._ \n**Slow but Steady.** Glacier behemoths earn their name from their resemblance to glaciers, including their slow, relentless pace. Their squat frames help conceal their six legs, reinforcing the notion that they are calved glaciers. Short of chasms blocking its way or the intervention of other glacier behemoths, nothing can stop a glacier behemoth when it moves. Its tough hide combined with its primal intellect render it fearless as it lumbers after its foes. \n**Bulettekin.** Glacier behemoths are arctic relatives to Open Game License", "name": "Glacier Behemoth", "size": "Huge", "type": "Beast", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 18, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 172, "hit_dice": "15d12+75", "speed": { "burrow": 20, "walk": 20 }, "strength": 24, "dexterity": 3, "constitution": 21, "intelligence": 4, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 7, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": 9, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 6, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 6, "skills": { "athletics": 11, "perception": 6 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "cold", "condition_immunities": "grappled, prone, restrained", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., tremorsense 60 ft., passive Perception 16", "languages": "—", "challenge_rating": "12", "cr": 12.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The glacier behemoth makes two bite attacks." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 33 (4d12 + 7) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 11, "damage_dice": "4d12+7" }, { "name": "Inexorable Charge", "desc": "If the glacier behemoth moves at least 10 feet, it can then use this action to continue moving in a 40-foot line that is 15 feet wide. Each creature in this line must make a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw. On a failure, a creature takes 35 (10d6) bludgeoning damage and is knocked prone. On a success, a creature takes half the damage and isn't knocked prone. The glacier behemoth's movement along this line doesn't provoke opportunity attacks." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Ground Disruptor", "desc": "When the glacier behemoth moves, it can choose to make the area it moves through difficult terrain. When it uses Inexorable Charge, it automatically makes the ground difficult terrain." }, { "name": "Unstoppable", "desc": "Difficult terrain composed of ice, rocks, sand, or natural vegetation, living or dead, doesn't cost the glacier behemoth extra movement. Its speed can't be reduced by any effect." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 177, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_glacier-behemoth/" }, { "slug": "great-gray-owl", "desc": "Great gray owls are stealthy predators, and the largest of the non-giant varieties of owls. Unlike other owls, great grays aren’t territorial—with the exception of females raising young—and don’t flush or spook when other creatures approach. Rather, they remain still on their low perches, often going overlooked.", "name": "Great Gray Owl", "size": "Small", "type": "Beast", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 13, "armor_desc": null, "hit_points": 10, "hit_dice": "3d6", "speed": { "walk": 5, "fly": 60 }, "strength": 5, "dexterity": 16, "constitution": 11, "intelligence": 3, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 7, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 5, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 4, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 4, "skills": { "perception": 4, "stealth": 5 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 14", "languages": "—", "challenge_rating": "1/4", "cr": 0.25, "actions": [ { "name": "Talons", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1d6+3" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Flyby", "desc": "The owl doesn't provoke opportunity attacks when it flies out of an enemy's reach." }, { "name": "Keen Hearing and Sight", "desc": "The owl has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing or sight." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 284, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_great-gray-owl/" }, { "slug": "holler-spider", "desc": "While the chitinous horn-like protrusion makes holler spiders appear comical, they can use it to release a loud sound, calling their masters when they detect trespassers. Unlike most spiders, holler spiders are easy to domesticate, as they have a friendly disposition toward humanoids. They can be trained to act as sentries that recognize certain colors or livery, or they can be trained to respond to a certain person and sound alarms only when instructed. Open Game License", "name": "Holler Spider", "size": "Tiny", "type": "Beast", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic neutral", "armor_class": 12, "armor_desc": null, "hit_points": 14, "hit_dice": "4d4+4", "speed": { "climb": 25, "walk": 25 }, "strength": 7, "dexterity": 15, "constitution": 10, "intelligence": 5, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 5, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 4, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 4, "skills": { "perception": 4, "stealth": 4 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "thunder", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "blindsight 10 ft., darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 14", "languages": "understands Common but can’t speak", "challenge_rating": "1/4", "cr": 0.25, "actions": [ { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "1d4+2" }, { "name": "Hoot", "desc": "Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) thunder damage. If the holler spider scores a critical hit, it is pushed 5 feet away from the target.", "attack_bonus": 4, "damage_dice": "1d6+2" }, { "name": "Distressed Discharge (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "The holler spider releases a short, distressed cacophony in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in the area must make a DC 12 Constitution saving throw, taking 5 (2d4) thunder damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The holler spider is pushed 15 feet in the opposite direction of the cone." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": [ { "name": "Sound Alarm", "desc": "When the holler spider detects a creature within 60 feet of it, the spider can emit a hoot or trumpet audible within 300 feet of it. 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Ice elementals emerge from the core of ancient glaciers or rise from foot-thick patches of permafrost. They are aware of portals to their demiplane, but they often choose to traverse terrestrial lands as long as the temperatures remain below freezing. Though not inherently malevolent, they enjoy enclosing warmblooded foes in ice and watching as the creatures freeze. Some ice elementals even decorate their lairs with these “sculptures.” \n**Rivals to Water Elementals.** Open Game License", "name": "Ice Elemental", "size": "Large", "type": "Elemental", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 114, "hit_dice": "12d10+48", "speed": { "burrow": 30, "climb": 20, "walk": 30 }, "strength": 18, "dexterity": 9, "constitution": 19, "intelligence": 5, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 6, "strength_save": 7, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "fire", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "cold, poison", "condition_immunities": "exhaustion, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, unconscious", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12", "languages": "Aquan", "challenge_rating": "5", "cr": 5.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The ice elemental makes two ice claw attacks." }, { "name": "Ice Claw", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (4d8 + 4) slashing damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "4d8+4" }, { "name": "Encase in Ice", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 10 ft. one creature. Hit: 14 (4d6) cold damage, and the target must make a DC 14 Constitution saving throw. On a failure, ice begins to form around the creature, and it is restrained. The restrained creature must repeat the saving throw at the end of its next turn, becoming petrified in ice on a failure or ending the effect on a success. The petrification lasts until the creature spends at least 1 hour in a warm environment. Alternatively, a creature can be freed of the restrained or petrified conditions if it takes at least 10 fire damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "4d6" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Ice Glide", "desc": "The elemental can burrow through nonmagical ice. While doing so, the elemental doesn't disturb the material it moves through." }, { "name": "Ice Walk", "desc": "The ice elemental can move across and climb icy surfaces without needing to make an ability check. Additionally, difficult terrain composed of ice or snow doesn't cost it extra movement." }, { "name": "Splinter", "desc": "A creature that hits the ice elemental with a melee weapon attack that deals bludgeoning damage while within 5 feet of the elemental takes 3 (1d6) piercing damage as shards of ice fly out from the elemental's body." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 133, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_ice-elemental/" }, { "slug": "illhveli-kembingur", "desc": "A bright-red crest runs along the back of this monstrous whale._ \n**Demon of the Deep.** Belonging to a race of evil giant whales known as the illhveli, the kembingur is a terror to behold. It rapaciously hunts down ships to sink them and gorge itself on the crew, and many seagoing humanoids believe it to be some sort of demon or evil spirit. \n**Blood on the High Seas.** The kembingur’s ability to smell blood is legendary, and the beast has been known to track bleeding targets for days without rest. A kembingur typically thrashes around in the water to founder smaller vessels it cannot easily overturn, then it focuses on mauling anyone who falls into the water. Eternally cruel, the kembingur enjoys taking small nips out of a creature to prolong its death, letting the victim slowly bleed out.", "name": "Illhveli, Kembingur", "size": "Gargantuan", "type": "Monstrosity", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 17, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 210, "hit_dice": "12d20+84", "speed": { "swim": 60, "walk": 5 }, "strength": 27, "dexterity": 12, "constitution": 24, "intelligence": 7, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 12, "strength_save": 12, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": 11, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 10, "skills": { "athletics": 12, "perception": 10 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "cold", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "prone", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 20", "languages": "understands Common but can’t speak", "challenge_rating": "12", "cr": 12.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The kembingur makes one bite attack and one tail attack." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 29 (6d6 + 8) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 12, "damage_dice": "6d6+8" }, { "name": "Tail", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 20 ft., one target. Hit: 26 (4d8 + 8) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 12, "damage_dice": "4d8+8" }, { "name": "Churn Water (Recharge 4-6)", "desc": "The kembingur thrashes violently. Each creature within 20 feet of the kembingur must make a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw, taking 36 (8d8) bludgeoning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.\n\nThe water within 60 feet of the kembingur becomes difficult terrain for 1 minute. Each creature that starts its turn on the deck of a ship in this area must succeed on a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw or fall overboard." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Blood Frenzy", "desc": "The kembingur has advantage on melee attack rolls against any creature that doesn't have all its hp." }, { "name": "Blood Scent", "desc": "The kembingur can smell blood in the water within 5 miles of it. It can determine whether the blood is fresh or old and what type of creature shed the blood. In addition, the kembingur has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) and Wisdom (Survival) checks to find or track a creature that doesn't have all its hp." }, { "name": "Hold Breath", "desc": "The kembingur can hold its breath for 1 hour." }, { "name": "Siege Monster", "desc": "The kembingur deals double damage to objects and structures." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 211, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_illhveli-kembingur/" }, { "slug": "infernal-centaur", "desc": "This composite creature combines a ruddy-skinned gnome’s upper body and a hell hound’s reddish black body. Stitches and glowing runes where the gnome and hell hound are fused demonstrate the creature’s unnaturalness._ \nInfernal centaurs are a response by various cults to the physical might possessed by the centaurs of the nearby plains. Rather than a melding of human and horse, though, these centaurs combine hell-bound gnomes with hell hounds. The composite creature combines gnome cunning with the speed and fiery breath belonging to hell hounds. The ritual that creates an infernal centaur infuses the creature with a peculiar brutality. \n**Unnatural.** Infernal centaurs are not naturally occurring. However, as the ritual to create these centaurs improves and spreads among cults, more gnomes who desire hellish power submit to the ritual, increasing the number of these centaurs.", "name": "Infernal Centaur", "size": "Medium", "type": "Fiend", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "lawful evil", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 60, "hit_dice": "8d8+24", "speed": { "walk": 40 }, "strength": 17, "dexterity": 12, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 11, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 13, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 4, "skills": { "intimidation": 3, "perception": 4 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "fire", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 14", "languages": "Common, Gnomish, Infernal", "challenge_rating": "4", "cr": 4.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The infernal centaur makes two dagger attacks." }, { "name": "Dagger", "desc": "Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d4 + 3) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1d4+3" }, { "name": "Fiery Breath (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "The infernal centaur exhales fire in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw, taking 28 (8d6) fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Cruelty", "desc": "If the infernal centaur scores a critical hit with a melee attack, it can make a second attack against the same target as a bonus action. It has advantage on this attack roll." }, { "name": "Hell Hound Affinity", "desc": "Hell hounds view infernal centaurs as leaders of their packs. A hell hound refuses to attack an infernal centaur unless the centaur attacks it first. If magically coerced, the hell hound has disadvantage on attack rolls against the centaur. The centaur has advantage on Charisma (Persuasion) checks against hell hounds." }, { "name": "Pack Tactics", "desc": "The centaur has advantage on attack rolls against a creature if at least one of the centaur's allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 214, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_infernal-centaur/" }, { "slug": "jack-of-strings", "desc": "Clad in fine clothes of black and red, the tall, slim figure steps forward. With a clawed hand grasping a crossbar, it makes its eyeless marionette dance. A chuckle of cruel delight escapes its fanged maw as a nearby observer suddenly rises and spasmodically mimics the dance._ \n**Court Entertainers and Punishers.** A jack of strings uses its collection of marionettes to amuse shadow fey courts. It is adept at tailoring its performances to the crowd, switching effortlessly between charming plays, ribald performances, satirical pantomimes, and terrifying tales. During these performances, the jack of strings can take control of a creature in the audience to enact justice in the form of humiliation, torture, or even death. The jack is sometimes hired by fey nobility to enact such justice on rivals. \n**Uncanny Valley.** The jack of strings takes control of its victims by establishing a link between the victim and one of its marionettes. When it establishes the link, the marionette becomes lifelike while the jack’s victim takes on a wooden appearance. The puppet gains the victim’s eyes, which disappear from the victim’s face. \n**Masters of Puppets.** Jacks of strings have several marionettes at their disposal. Aside from the first, which it painstakingly crafts itself, the jack’s puppets derive from victims who perish while linked to the jack’s puppet. Jacks harvest their prey in the mortal realm under the guise of a traveling entertainer and typically target people who won’t be missed.", "name": "Jack of Strings", "size": "Medium", "type": "Fey", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic neutral", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": null, "hit_points": 90, "hit_dice": "12d8+36", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 14, "dexterity": 19, "constitution": 17, "intelligence": 15, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 20, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 7, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "acrobatics": 10, "performance": 8 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical weapons not made with cold iron weapons", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "charmed, frightened", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12", "languages": "Common, Sylvan, Umbral", "challenge_rating": "5", "cr": 5.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The jack of strings makes two mocking slap attacks." }, { "name": "Mocking Slap", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage plus 3 (1d6) psychic damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "2d6+3" }, { "name": "Animate Puppet", "desc": "The jack of strings animates up to three wooden puppets it can see within 60 feet of it. This works like the animate objects spell, except the wooden puppet uses the statistics of a Small object, regardless of the puppet's actual size. The jack can have no more than five puppets animated at one time." }, { "name": "Puppet Link", "desc": "One humanoid or beast the jack of strings can see within 60 feet of it must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or become magically linked to the jack's marionette. This link appears as a barely perceptible string between the jack's marionette and the target. A linked creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the link on a success.\n\nWhile a target is linked, the jack of strings can use its reaction at the start of the target's turn to control the linked target. The jack of strings can make the target move, manipulate objects, attack, or take other purely physical actions. The jack can't make the target cast spells. While controlled, the target moves awkwardly and has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks. If the target receives a suicidal command from the jack of strings, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on a success.\n\nThe jack of strings can have only one target linked at a time. If it links another, the effect on the previous target ends. If a creature dies while linked to the jack's marionette, the creature's body becomes a wooden puppet that resembles the creature." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Magic Resistance", "desc": "The jack of strings has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 218, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_jack-of-strings/" }, { "slug": "kirikari", "desc": "Blanketed in a veil of mist, an enormous, centipede-like creature sifts its way through the swamp, the severed tail of a wyvern gripped tightly within its jaws._ \nWhenever an unnatural mist suddenly arises, some believe it to be the sign of a kirikari. Though they’re rare and solitary creatures, kirikari are considered highly dangerous due to their heightened aggression and territorial behavior. \n**Ambush Predators.** Few can spot a kirikari in hiding, as it appears as little more than a collapsed tree concealed in fog. It then waits patiently for its prey to draw near—before striking out at them with its lightning-fast bite. \n**Symbiotic Relationship.** The mist that covers a kirikari’s body comes from a unique type of mold that adheres to its carapace. The mold secretes an acid that evaporates harmlessly shortly after being exposed to air. The kirikari uses this mist to conceal itself and disorient its prey. Despite being natural-born swimmers, kirikari tend to avoid swimming in ocean waters, as exposure to salt quickly kills its mold. \n**Wyvern Hunters.** Though unusual for its behavior, kirikari have been known to travel incredible distances to hunt down wyverns. Some scholars theorize that the toxins within a wyvern’s body are a necessary component in the maintenance of a kirikari’s mold.", "name": "Kirikari", "size": "Huge", "type": "Monstrosity", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 16, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 142, "hit_dice": "15d12+45", "speed": { "walk": 30, "swim": 30 }, "strength": 21, "dexterity": 17, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 4, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 4, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 6, "skills": { "perception": 6, "stealth": 11 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "acid, poison", "condition_immunities": "poisoned", "senses": "tremorsense 60 ft., passive Perception 16", "languages": "—", "challenge_rating": "9", "cr": 9.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The kirikari makes two slam attacks." }, { "name": "Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 16 (2d10 + 5) bludgeoning damage plus 9 (2d8) acid damage.", "attack_bonus": 9, "damage_dice": "2d10+5" }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 31 (4d12 + 5) piercing damage plus 10 (3d6) poison damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 15). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, and the kirikari can't bite another target.", "attack_bonus": 9, "damage_dice": "4d12+5" }, { "name": "Blinding Veil (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "The kirikari expels a cloud of intensified mist, heavily obscuring everything within 30 feet of it. The mist thins back to lightly obscuring the area at the end of the kirikari's next turn." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Corrosive Mold", "desc": "A creature that starts its turn grappled by the kirikari must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 9 (2d8) acid damage." }, { "name": "Misty Veil", "desc": "The kirikari emits a light fog within 30 feet of itself. The mist moves with the kirikari, lightly obscuring the area around it. If dispersed by a wind of moderate or greater speed (at least 10 miles per hour), the mist reappears at the start of the kirikari's next turn." }, { "name": "Unseen Attacker", "desc": "On each of its turns, the kirikari can use a bonus action to take the Hide action. If the kirikari is hidden from a creature and hits it with an attack, the target takes an extra 7 (2d6) damage from the attack." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 230, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_kirikari/" }, { "slug": "luck-leech", "desc": "The elf-like creature rises, its bright green eyes flashing with menace. Short, impish horns peek out from its inky hair, and green smoke oozes out of the numerous circular mouths lining its arms._ \nWhen a humanoid who earned wealth through violence and duplicity gets lost in the Shadow Realm, its body becomes corrupted by the dark realm, turning it into a luck leech. These fey have arms covered in lamprey-like mouths that drain the luck out of their victims. They return to the Material Plane and stalk gambling houses and criminal underbellies for exceptionally lucky targets. \n**Amassing fortune.** Luck leeches obsess over gathering as much wealth and luck as possible, referring to both collectively as “fortune.” They rarely notice and never care if their acquisition of fortune harms others. \n**Self-Serving.** A luck leech cares first and foremost about itself. If it thinks its life is in danger, it expends any fortune it has to escape, knowing it can’t enjoy its fortune if it’s dead.", "name": "Luck Leech", "size": "Medium", "type": "Fey", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral evil", "armor_class": 17, "armor_desc": "studded leather", "hit_points": 150, "hit_dice": "20d8+60", "speed": { "walk": 30 }, "strength": 14, "dexterity": 21, "constitution": 16, "intelligence": 17, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 19, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 9, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": 6, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 6, "skills": { "deception": 8, "perception": 6, "stealth": 9 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "necrotic", "condition_immunities": "frightened", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 16", "languages": "Common, Sylvan, Umbral", "challenge_rating": "10", "cr": 10.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The luck leech makes two biting arm attacks." }, { "name": "Biting Arms", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 18 (3d8 + 5) piercing damage plus 9 (2d8) necrotic damage.", "attack_bonus": 9, "damage_dice": "3d8+5" }, { "name": "Feast of Fortune (Recharge 6)", "desc": "Each creature the luck leech can see within 30 feet of it must make a DC 16 Charisma saving throw. On a failure, the creature takes 27 (6d8) psychic damage, becomes blinded until the end of its next turn, and is cursed with falling fortunes. On a success, a creature takes half the damage and isn't blinded or cursed. For each creature that fails this saving throw, the luck leech gains 1 luck point." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Leech Luck", "desc": "If a creature within 60 feet of the luck leech rolls a 20 on an ability check, attack roll, or saving throw, the luck leech gains 1 luck point. It can't have more than 4 luck points at a time." }, { "name": "Reserve of Fortune", "desc": "If the luck leech doesn't have 4 luck points at sunset, it gains 2 luck points. It can't have more than 4 luck points at a time. In addition, if the luck leech rolls a 1 on the d20 for an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw while it has at least 1 luck point, it can reroll the die and must use the new roll. This trait doesn't expend luck points." }, { "name": "Turn Luck", "desc": "As a bonus action, the luck leech can spend 1 luck point to: \n* Gain advantage on its next attack or saving throw \n* Cast misty step\n* Increase the necrotic damage of its next successful biting arms attack by an extra 9 (2d8) \n* Force each creature that is concentrating on a spell within 60 feet of it to make a DC 16 Constitution saving throw, losing its concentration on the spell on a failure." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 241, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_luck-leech/" }, { "slug": "mari-lwyd", "desc": "A skeletal mare speaks in constant rhyme, its jaws moving as if something were puppeteering it._ \n**Unwelcome Lodger.** A mari lwyd seeks entry into a home, where it demands to be treated as if it were a guest. Though it doesn’t require food, drink, or sleep, it consumes as much as a horse of its size and requires bedding that is comfortable, clean, and large enough to suit its frame. Despite its apparently baleful nature, the mari lwyd does not seek to harm its hosts, physically or financially, and demands only what they can comfortably provide. It defends itself if attacked, reciting rhymes beseeching its hosts to calm themselves. \nA mari lwyd may accompany itself with a “retinue” of skeletons. It refuses to animate zombies, because it doesn’t wish to trouble its hosts with the smell of rotting flesh. It also politely refuses hospitality on the behalf of its cohorts. \n**Expelled by Rhyme.** Other than through its physical destruction, the only way to rid oneself of a mari lwyd is to win a rhyming battle. It speaks only in rhyme, often changing languages for the best rhyme scheme between verses, which may provide a clue to those inconvenienced by the mari lwyd. It is especially appreciative of clever rhymes. The mari lwyd usually incorporates winning rhymes into its repertoire. Should a mari lwyd revisit a location, the inhabitants must come up with an even better rhyme to oust the creature. \nThe mari lwyd takes more conventional methods of turning away undead as an affront. If affected by a cleric’s turning attempt, it leaves for the duration and waits for the cleric to exit the premises before returning and increasing its demands for hospitality. \n**Undead Nature.** A mari lwyd doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.", "name": "Mari Lwyd", "size": "Large", "type": "Undead", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "neutral", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 66, "hit_dice": "7d10+28", "speed": { "walk": 40 }, "strength": 16, "dexterity": 13, "constitution": 19, "intelligence": 10, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 15, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": 4, "perception": null, "skills": { "intimidation": 4, "performance": 6 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "necrotic", "damage_immunities": "poison", "condition_immunities": "exhaustion, frightened, poisoned, unconscious", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12", "languages": "Common, Draconic, Elvish, Giant, Primordial", "challenge_rating": "4", "cr": 4.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The mari lwyd makes one bite attack and one hooves attack." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 12 (2d8 + 3) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "2d8+3" }, { "name": "Hooves", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "2d6+3" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Turn Resistance", "desc": "The mari lwyd has advantage on saving throws against any effect that turns undead." }, { "name": "Turned by Rhyme", "desc": "A creature can use its action to formally challenge the mari lwyd to a duel of rhymes. If no creature attacks the mari lwyd until the beginning of its next turn, it uses its action to recite a rhyme. The challenger must respond to the rhyme and succeed on a DC 14 Charisma (Performance) check. On a success, the mari lwyd is treated as if it is turned for 1 minute or until it takes damage." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting", "desc": "The mari lwyd's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 12, +4 to hit with spell attacks). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:\nAt will: chill touch, mage hand\n3/day each: animate dead, hideous laughter, suggestion" } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 257, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_mari-lwyd/" }, { "slug": "minor-malleable", "desc": "A pile of red, gooey flesh slurps along the ground. The meat climbs upon itself, squishing as it creates a formidable, hungry wall._ \nMalleables are malevolent, formless piles of flesh that absorb psychic energy and grow smarter and stronger when combined together. \n**Consumers of Psychic Power.** Creatures that consume psychic energy can become so infused with it that their bodies implode. The power lingers in the grotesque mass of flesh, warping the creature’s mind even more than its body and creating a hunter that hungers to consume and grow. Malleables do not remember their personal lives before implosion, but they do retain facts and lore. They think themselves superior to all other creatures, which are simply prey. Their goals are simple: drain every creature they can of psychic energy and rule the world as a massive, roiling meat puddle. Malleables have infinite patience and can wait centuries until they feel the time is right to go on a psychic energy binge. \n**Many Shapes.** Malleables have no set form, but they can stretch and alter their forms easily, moving on appendages or flowing like an ooze. They might form a face (or many faces at once) if they wish to convey an emotion to another creature, or take the shape of a truly terrifying beast (like a giant spider) if they wish to create panic. No matter the shape they take, malleables always appear to be a fleshy creature turned inside out. \n**Our Powers Combined.** Malleables can join together, creating a larger, more powerful creature that shares the intellect of all the combined intelligences. These bigger malleables can separate into smaller aberrations when it suits them. \n**Ancient Knowledge Hoarders.** It is said that malleables have perfect memories and the oldest of these creatures remember ancient lore other creatures have long forgotten. Many sages have tried and failed to capture malleables to prod their minds for secrets, but the creatures almost always find a way to escape. Adventurers are often given the dangerous tasks of capturing, guarding, or questioning a malleable.", "name": "Minor Malleable", "size": "Medium", "type": "Aberration", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 11, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 32, "hit_dice": "5d8+10", "speed": { "climb": 30, "walk": 30 }, "strength": 16, "dexterity": 8, "constitution": 14, "intelligence": 15, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 10, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": 4, "wisdom_save": 4, "charisma_save": 2, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "psychic", "condition_immunities": "blinded, prone", "senses": "blindsight 30 ft. (blind beyond this radius), passive Perception 12", "languages": "all, telepathy 60 ft.", "challenge_rating": "1", "cr": 1.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Flesh Tendril", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage. If the target is a Medium or smaller creature, it is grappled (escape DC 12).", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "2d6+3" }, { "name": "Psychic Drain", "desc": "One creature grappled by the malleable must make a DC 12 Intelligence saving throw, taking 4 (1d8) psychic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The target's hp maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the damage taken. This reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest. The target dies and becomes a minor malleable if this effect reduces its hp maximum to 0." }, { "name": "Join Malleables", "desc": "As long as the malleable is within 10 feet of at least three other minor malleables, each minor malleable in range can use this action option at the same time to join together and create a larger malleable. The new malleable's hp total is equal to the combined hp total of all the minor malleables. and it is affected by any conditions, spells, and other magical effects that affected any of the minor malleables. The new malleable acts on the same initiative count as the malleables that formed it and occupies any unoccupied space that previously contained at least one of the malleables that formed it. \n* Four minor malleables can join to create one moderate malleable. \n* Eight minor malleables can join to create one major malleable. \n* Sixteen minor malleables can join to create one massive malleable." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Amorphous", "desc": "The malleable can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing." }, { "name": "Controlled Mutability", "desc": "Any spell or effect that would alter the malleable's form only alters it until the end of the malleable's next turn. Afterwards, the malleable returns to its amorphous form. In addition, the malleable can use its action to change itself into any shape, but it always looks like an inside-out fleshy creature no matter the shape it takes. If it changes into the shape of a creature, it doesn't gain any statistics or special abilities of that creature; it only takes on the creature's basic shape and general appearance." }, { "name": "Psychic Absorption", "desc": "Whenever the malleable is subjected to psychic damage, it takes no damage and instead regains a number of hp equal to the psychic damage dealt." }, { "name": "Spider Climb", "desc": "The malleable can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 254, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_minor-malleable/" }, { "slug": "mountain-strider", "desc": "These large creatures stand upright, with exceptionally powerful legs that end in cloven hooves. Their upper bodies are muscular beneath their snowy-white fur, and their heads resemble those of goats._ \n**Dwellers of Mountains.** Mountain striders are most at home in the mountains. They live among the peaks, climbing seemingly impossible slopes to make their homes in the caves and burrows they dig near the tops. Ages ago, they had amicable relations with nearby settlements, but their aggressive behavior and boorish attitudes led to conflicts with the populace. They were subsequently made to withdraw from civilization as a result. In the years since, they have become an insular people, fearful of outsiders and resentful of civilization. \n**Communal.** Mountain striders live in communal groups that travel the mountains, moving with the seasons. They are highly protective of each other and go into a brief rage when one of their number falls. Their nomadic and overly protective natures occasionally bring them into conflict with dwarves, though the two don’t actively hunt each other. \n**Bleating Communication.** The weather on the highest mountain peaks can turn at a moment’s notice, separating family groups within minutes. The mountain striders adapted to such dangers by developing complex bleating calls. Over time, these calls became part of the mountain striders’ culture, seeing use outside of emergency situations. The calls range from simple notifications of an individual’s location or health to short songs identifying family affiliation and lineage.", "name": "Mountain Strider", "size": "Large", "type": "Monstrosity", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic neutral", "armor_class": 12, "armor_desc": null, "hit_points": 34, "hit_dice": "4d10+12", "speed": { "walk": 30, "climb": 30 }, "strength": 16, "dexterity": 14, "constitution": 17, "intelligence": 8, "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": { "survival": 4 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "cold", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12", "languages": "Common", "challenge_rating": "1", "cr": 1.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Headbutt", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (2d4 + 3) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "2d4+3" }, { "name": "Spear", "desc": "Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage, or 7 (1d8 + 3) piercing damage if used with two hands to make a melee attack.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1d6+3" }, { "name": "Thunderous Bleat (Recharge 6)", "desc": "The mountain strider releases a loud bleat in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in the area must make a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw, taking 7 (2d6) thunder damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": [ { "name": "Revenge for the Fallen", "desc": "When an ally the mountain strider can see is reduced to 0 hp within 30 feet of the mountain strider, the strider can move up to half its speed and make a headbutt attack." } ], "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Charge", "desc": "If the mountain strider moves at least 15 feet straight toward a target and then hits it with a headbutt attack on the same turn, the target takes an extra 5 (2d4) bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 13 Strength saving throw or be pushed up to 10 feet away from the mountain strider and knocked prone." }, { "name": "Sure-Footed", "desc": "The mountain strider has advantage on Strength and Dexterity saving throws made against effects that would knock it prone." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 261, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_mountain-strider/" }, { "slug": "murgrik", "desc": "This reptilian creature is built like an alligator with two extra mouths: one affixed to a stalk between its eyes and one toothy maw stretched over its belly. A batlike membrane connects its forelimbs to its body, and a tail made up of a dozen spinning tentacles propels the abomination in flight._ \n**Marshy Nightmares.** Murgriks are consummate hunters and prefer to prey on intelligent creatures. They relish the fear their appearance provokes, and they augment this fear by generating terrifying wails from the stalks on their heads. Once they smell blood, they relentlessly attack and pursue prey until they or their prey die. \n**Corrupted Alligators.** Occasionally, deep parts of swamps cross planar boundaries into the Abyss. Those who study murgriks believe the creatures are ordinary alligators warped by their proximity to that plane. Their cruelty and preference for intelligent prey both lend credence to the notion that the Abyssa has influenced their mutations. \n**Afraid of Herons.** The only known way to deter a murgrik from attacking is to introduce a heron, real or illusory. The reason a murgrik retreats from herons is a mystery, but it may point to the existence of a demonic bird that preys on murgriks.", "name": "Murgrik", "size": "Large", "type": "Aberration", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 18, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 152, "hit_dice": "16d10+64", "speed": { "swim": 40, "fly": 20, "walk": 40 }, "strength": 23, "dexterity": 10, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 6, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 9, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 6, "skills": { "athletics": 10, "perception": 6 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 16", "languages": "understands Deep Speech but can’t speak", "challenge_rating": "9", "cr": 9.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The murgrik makes three attacks: one with its bite and two with its tentacles." }, { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 15 (2d8 + 6) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 10, "damage_dice": "2d8+6" }, { "name": "Tentacles", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (1d6 + 6) bludgeoning damage. The target is grappled (escape DC 18) if it is a Medium or smaller creature and the murgrik doesn't have two other creatures grappled. Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained.", "attack_bonus": 10, "damage_dice": "1d6+6" }, { "name": "Stomach Maw", "desc": "The murgrik makes one bite attack against a Medium or smaller target it is grappling. If the attack hits, the target is also swallowed, and the grapple ends. While swallowed, the target is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside the murgrik, and it takes 14 (4d6) acid damage at the start of each of the murgrik's turns. The murgrik can only have one creature swallowed at a time.\n\nIf the murgrik takes 20 damage or more on a single turn from the swallowed creature, the murgrik must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw at the end of that turn or regurgitate the creature, which falls prone in a space within 5 feet of the murgrik. If the murgrik dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained by it and can escape from the corpse by using 10 feet of movement, exiting prone." }, { "name": "Unsettling Ululations (Recharge 6)", "desc": "The stalk on the murgrik's head unleashes a dispiriting wail. Each creature within 30 feet of the murgrik that can hear it must make a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, a creature takes 21 (6d6) psychic damage and is frightened for 1 minute. On a success, a creature takes half the damage and isn't frightened. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Blood Frenzy", "desc": "The murgrik has advantage on melee attack rolls against any creature that doesn't have all its hp." }, { "name": "Hold Breath", "desc": "The murgrik can hold its breath for 30 minutes." }, { "name": "Keen Scent", "desc": "The murgrik has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell." }, { "name": "Tentacle Flight", "desc": "The murgrik flies by spinning its tentacles. If it is grappling a creature with its tentacles, its flying speed is halved." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 263, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_murgrik/" }, { "slug": "narshark", "desc": "Almost blending in with the sky, this creature looks like a large shark with cerulean-hued skin and incredibly long pectoral fins that it uses to sail through the air like a bird. Its mouth is filled with several rows of vicious teeth, and an ivory horn emerges from the top of its head._ \n**Aerial Predators.** A narshark is a creature that resembles a cross between a shark and a narwhal with dark blue skin, long serrated teeth, and a horn growing from its brow. Like many sharks, the narshark is a rapacious predator, hunting birds through the sky as a shark hunts fish. While it lacks the keen nose of most predators, the narshark has excellent eyesight and can pick out details at great distances. While narsharks are dangerous predators, they are seldom top of the aerial food chain and face fierce competition from Open Game License", "name": "Narshark", "size": "Large", "type": "Monstrosity", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 25, "hit_dice": "3d10+9", "speed": { "fly": 40, "walk": 10, "hover": true }, "strength": 16, "dexterity": 12, "constitution": 15, "intelligence": 2, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 4, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 6, "skills": { "perception": 6, "stealth": 3 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "prone", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 18", "languages": "—", "challenge_rating": "1/2", "cr": 0.5, "actions": [ { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) piercing damage. If the creature isn't an undead or a construct, it must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or lose 2 (1d4) hp at the start of each of its turns as one of the shark's teeth chips off into the wound. Any creature can take an action to stanch the wound by removing the tooth. The wound also closes and the tooth pops out if the target receives magical healing.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1d8+3" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Magical Horns", "desc": "The narshark gains its ability to fly from its magical horn. The horn can be severed from a living narshark, but doing so drives it into a panicked rage as it attempts to slay all those around it. Strangely, narsharks never use their horns in combat, possibly in fear of accidentally breaking them. A narshark's horn is commonly used in the creation of magic items that grant flight, and narsharks are often the target of hunters seeking to turn a profit." }, { "name": "Keen Sight", "desc": "The narshark has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight." }, { "name": "Magical Horn", "desc": "The narshark's horn can be attacked and severed (AC 18; hp 5; immunity to bludgeoning, poison, and psychic damage) or destroyed (hp 15). If its horn is severed, the narshark loses its flying speed, loses 4 (1d8) hp at the start of each of its turns, and goes into a frenzy. While in a frenzy, the narshark has advantage on bite attack rolls and attack rolls against it have advantage." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 266, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_narshark/" }, { "slug": "nharyth", "desc": "A hideous mass of coiling intestines undulates, ejecting thin, transparent spears of some resinous material from its many orifices. The creature makes a wet slithering sound as it moves unsettlingly through the air._ \n**Foulness in Motion.** The nharyth defies gravity with its every movement, as it pulls itself through the air with its mass of intestine-like appendages. The creature does not seem to possess any natural means of propulsion and can even fly through areas where there is no magic. \n**Creations of Madness.** Most scholars believe nharyth were created in some insane magical experiment. Others believe they are the spawn of some yet-unknown horror between the stars. Whatever the case, they are clearly not part of the natural ecosystem.", "name": "Nharyth", "size": "Huge", "type": "Aberration", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 17, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 168, "hit_dice": "16d12+64", "speed": { "hover": true, "walk": 0, "fly": 40 }, "strength": 20, "dexterity": 15, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 5, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 7, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 6, "skills": { "perception": 6, "stealth": 6 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "bludgeoning, psychic", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "blinded, deafened, paralyzed", "senses": "blindsight 120 ft. (blind beyond this radius), passive Perception 16", "languages": "understands Deep Speech but can’t speak", "challenge_rating": "9", "cr": 9.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The nharyth makes two spined slap attacks. Alternatively, it can use Spine Shot twice." }, { "name": "Spined Slap", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (1d8 + 5) bludgeoning damage plus 8 (1d6 + 5) piercing damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or be paralyzed until the end of its next turn.", "attack_bonus": 9, "damage_dice": "1d8+5" }, { "name": "Spine Shot", "desc": "Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, range 30/120 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (3d6 + 2) piercing damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or its speed is halved until the end of its next turn. If the nharyth scores a critical hit, the target doesn't make a saving throw and is paralyzed until the end of its next turn instead.", "attack_bonus": 6, "damage_dice": "3d6+2" } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Spine Trap", "desc": "With 10 minutes of work, the nharyth can create a web of nearly transparent spines in a 20-foot cube. The web must be anchored between two solid masses or layered across a floor, wall, or ceiling. A web of spines layered over a flat surface has a depth of 5 feet. The web is difficult terrain, and the spines forming it are nearly transparent, requiring a successful DC 20 Wisdom (Perception) check to notice them.\n\nA creature that starts its turn in the web of spines or that enters the web during its turn must succeed on a DC 16 Dexterity saving throw or 1d4 spines stick to it. At the start of each of its turns, the creature takes 1d4 piercing damage for each spine stuck to it. A creature, including the target, can take its action to remove 1d4 spines. If a creature starts its turn with more than 4 spines stuck to it, the creature must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or be paralyzed for 1 minute. The paralyzed creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.\n\nThe nharyth can plant up to 24 spines in a web when creating it. Once it has used 24 spines in webs, it must finish a long rest before it can use this trait again." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 269, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_nharyth/" }, { "slug": "noth-norren", "desc": "A massive upside-down tornado races along the ground, its mouth swallowing everything around it and its tail spiraling off into the air. The interior of the whirlwind is lined with thousands of jagged teeth, ready to devour all in its path._ \n**Epitomes of Destruction.** The noth-norren is one of the most destructive and malicious of all elemental creatures and joyfully indulges in the rampant destruction of anything it can fit into its churning vortex. Noth-norrens are typically found in the wildest regions of the Elemental Plane of Air, where their presence often goes overlooked until they strike. They are rare on the Material Plane, though they can be summoned by Open Game License", "name": "Noth-norren", "size": "Gargantuan", "type": "Elemental", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": null, "hit_points": 203, "hit_dice": "14d20+56", "speed": { "hover": true, "walk": 0, "fly": 90 }, "strength": 21, "dexterity": 18, "constitution": 18, "intelligence": 8, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 10, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": 8, "constitution_save": 8, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": {}, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "lightning; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks", "damage_immunities": "poison, thunder", "condition_immunities": "deafened, exhaustion, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained, unconscious", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12", "languages": "Auran", "challenge_rating": "13", "cr": 13.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Multiattack", "desc": "The noth-norren makes two slam attacks. Alternatively, it uses Throw Debris twice." }, { "name": "Slam", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 27 (4d10 + 5) bludgeoning damage. A creature struck by the slam attack must succeed on a DC 16 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.", "attack_bonus": 9, "damage_dice": "4d10+5" }, { "name": "Throw Debris", "desc": "Ranged Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, range 60/180 ft., one target. Hit: 22 (4d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "4d8+4" }, { "name": "Fling Victim", "desc": "One Large or smaller creature caught in the nothnorren's vortex is thrown up to 60 feet in a random direction and knocked prone. If a thrown target strikes a solid surface, the target takes 3 (1d6) bludgeoning damage for every 10 feet it was thrown. If the target is thrown at another creature, that creature must succeed on a DC 16 Dexterity saving throw or take the same damage and be knocked prone." }, { "name": "Vortex (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "The noth-norren pulls nearby creatures into its central vortex to be torn apart by its jagged teeth. Each creature within 5 feet of the noth-norren must succeed on a DC 16 Strength saving throw or be pulled into the vortex. A creature in the vortex is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside the vortex, and it takes 21 (6d6) slashing damage at the start of each of the noth-norren's turns.\n\nIf the noth-norren takes 30 damage or more on a single turn from a creature inside the vortex, the noth-norren must succeed on a DC 18 Constitution saving throw at the end of that turn or release all creatures caught in its vortex, which fall prone in a space within 10 feet of the noth-norren. If the noth-norren dies, it becomes a pile of teeth, its windy form dissipating, and releases all trapped creatures." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Air Turbulence", "desc": "A flying creature that enters or starts its turn within 60 feet of the noth-norren must land at the end of its turn or fall. In addition, ranged attack rolls against the noth-norren have disadvantage." }, { "name": "Magic Weapons", "desc": "The noth-norren's weapon attacks are magical." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 270, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_noth-norren/" }, { "slug": "nyctli", "desc": "A diminutive ball of sickly-looking flesh with an elven face clings to the underside of a rotting log, its body covered in barbed stingers._ \n**Lurking Terrors.** Nyctli dwell in moist, dark places, where their coloration and size enable them to easily hide. They delight in torturing other creatures, and nothing makes a nyctli giggle more than seeing its victim flounder about under the effects of its venom. \n**Hag-Born Horrors.** The first nyctli were born from the boils of Open Game License", "name": "Nyctli", "size": "Tiny", "type": "Fey", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic evil", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": null, "hit_points": 7, "hit_dice": "3d4", "speed": { "fly": 40, "hover": true, "walk": 10 }, "strength": 2, "dexterity": 18, "constitution": 10, "intelligence": 6, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 12, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": 4, "skills": { "perception": 4, "stealth": 6 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 14", "languages": "Sylvan", "challenge_rating": "1/4", "cr": 0.25, "actions": [ { "name": "Stingers", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 1 piercing damage plus 3 (1d6) necrotic damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw or be blinded until the end of its next turn." }, { "name": "Douse Light", "desc": "The nyctli magically dispels or douses a single magical or nonmagical light source within 30 feet of it. 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Hit: 21 (6d6) piercing damage, or 10 (3d6) piercing damage if the swarm has half of its hp or fewer. The target must make a DC 16 Constitution saving throw. On a failure, a creature takes 42 (12d6) necrotic damage and is blinded for 1 minute. On a success, a creature takes half the damage and isn't blinded. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.", "attack_bonus": 8, "damage_dice": "6d6" }, { "name": "Douse Light", "desc": "As the nyctli, except the swarm can't dispel light created by a spell of 6th level or higher." } ], "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 nyctli. The swarm can't regain hp or gain temporary hp." }, { "name": "Innate Spellcasting (1/Day)", "desc": "The nyctli swarm can innately cast fear, requiring no material components. Its innate spellcasting ability is Charisma." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 271, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_nyctli-swarm/" }, { "slug": "otterfolk", "desc": "Brown fur covers the entire surface of this humanoid, which also has the black nose and small ears of an otter. Its piecemeal leather armor and weapon at the ready give the impression it is prepared for a fight._ \n**Foe to Reptilians.** While generally peaceful creatures, otterfolk bear an enmity for reptilians, owing to their near extinction in the jaws of giant alligators and other large swamp predators. They are wary of intelligent reptilian creatures, such as lizardfolk and naga, who regularly prey on their people. Otterfolk pass this animosity on to future generations through tales of heroic otterfolk overcoming ferocious snakes and mighty alligators. From the time an otterfolk kit can walk, it learns how to wield the atlatl and to be mindful of the presence of their hated foes. Otterfolk are wary of reptilian visitors or those accompanied by reptiles, but they are cordial to all others. \n**Swamp Guides.** Otterfolk are excellent sources of information about the territory surrounding their homes, and they often escort friendly visitors through the swamp. The price for this service depends on the combat capabilities of those they escort. Their overwhelming martial outlook causes them to value visitors who can prove themselves in combat. If a group seems capable of protecting itself, the otterfolk reason they don’t have to defend the group in addition to guiding it. They often ask such groups for a pittance in rations or monetary value (preferring pearls to other valuable items). Otterfolk greatly increase their fees for groups apparently incapable of fighting off potential swamp hazards. However, they pride themselves on never abandoning their charges. \n**Otter Trainers.** Otterfolk often raise river otters as guard animals and pets, which serve the same function in their society as dogs in human societies. Otterfolk regard the animals warmly and become sad when favored pets die. They rarely allow their otters to engage in combat. They regularly hold contests where otter owners show off their training prowess by directing their otters in feats of strength, cunning, and dexterity. These contests never involve pitting the otters against each other in combat. The rare few otterfolk who choose to become wizards take otters as familiars. Otterfolk rangers often raise larger river otter specimens (use the statistics of a Open Game License", "name": "Otterfolk", "size": "Small", "type": "Humanoid", "subtype": "otterfolk", "group": null, "alignment": "chaotic good", "armor_class": 14, "armor_desc": "leather armor", "hit_points": 18, "hit_dice": "4d6+4", "speed": { "swim": 30, "walk": 25, "climb": 15 }, "strength": 12, "dexterity": 17, "constitution": 12, "intelligence": 10, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 11, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "stealth": 5, "survival": 4 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "darkvision 30 ft., passive Perception 12", "languages": "Common", "challenge_rating": "1/4", "cr": 0.25, "actions": [ { "name": "Dagger", "desc": "Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d4 + 3) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1d4+3" }, { "name": "Atlatl Dart", "desc": "Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 5, "damage_dice": "1d6+3" }, { "name": "Secrete Oil (Recharge 4-6)", "desc": "The otterfolk secretes an oil that makes it slippery until the end of its next turn. It has advantage on ability checks and saving throws made to escape a grapple. 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The catastrophe also shunted the surviving serpents to swamps with connections to the Plane of \n**Earth.** The creatures adapted to their new environments and lost many of their elemental traits. They still understand the language of earth elementals and typically avoid attacking the elementals. A handful of powerful elementals that remember the snakes have attempted to reintegrate them to the Plane of Earth with mixed results. \n**Ambusher from Below.** A quickserpent, like many terrestrial constrictor snakes, ambushes its prey. However, it waits below the surface where it picks up the vibrations of creatures traveling above it. If the terrain is suitable, the serpent churns the ground into quicksand to pull unsuspecting prey into the earth. While its victim struggles to escape the mire, the serpent takes advantage of its prey’s helplessness to wrap itself around and crush its prey. If the serpent manages to ensnare more than one creature, it targets the one with the most success emerging from the quicksand.", "name": "Quickserpent", "size": "Large", "type": "Beast", "subtype": "", "group": null, "alignment": "unaligned", "armor_class": 15, "armor_desc": "natural armor", "hit_points": 102, "hit_dice": "12d10+36", "speed": { "burrow": 20, "climb": 20, "walk": 40 }, "strength": 20, "dexterity": 12, "constitution": 17, "intelligence": 5, "wisdom": 14, "charisma": 7, "strength_save": null, "dexterity_save": null, "constitution_save": null, "intelligence_save": null, "wisdom_save": null, "charisma_save": null, "perception": null, "skills": { "stealth": 3 }, "damage_vulnerabilities": "", "damage_resistances": "", "damage_immunities": "", "condition_immunities": "", "senses": "tremorsense 60 ft., passive Perception 12", "languages": "understands Terran but can’t speak", "challenge_rating": "4", "cr": 4.0, "actions": [ { "name": "Bite", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 8 (1d6 + 5) piercing damage.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "1d6+5" }, { "name": "Constrict", "desc": "Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5) bludgeoning damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 15) if it is Large or smaller. Until this grapple ends, the creature is restrained, and the quickserpent can't constrict another target.", "attack_bonus": 7, "damage_dice": "2d8+5" }, { "name": "Quicksand Pit (Recharge 5-6)", "desc": "The quickserpent turns a 10-foot cube of natural mud or loose stone into a pit of quicksand. Each creature in the area when the quickserpent creates the pit must succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or sink 1d4 feet into the quicksand and become restrained. A creature that successfully saves moves to the pit's edge as it is formed. A creature that enters the quicksand for the first time on a turn or starts its turn in the quicksand it sinks 1d4 feet and is restrained. A creature that is completely submerged in quicksand can't breathe.\n\nA restrained creature can try to escape by taking an action to make a DC 15 Strength check. On a success, the creature escapes and enters a space of its choice within 5 feet of the edge of the quicksand. A creature within 5 feet of the quicksand can take an action to pull a creature out of the quicksand. Doing so requires a successful DC 15 Strength check, and the quickserpent has advantage on attack rolls against the creature until the end of the creature's next turn." } ], "bonus_actions": null, "reactions": null, "legendary_desc": "", "legendary_actions": null, "special_abilities": [ { "name": "Swamp Camouflage", "desc": "The quickserpent has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide in swampy terrain." } ], "spell_list": [], "page_no": 303, "environments": [], "img_main": null, "document__slug": "tob2", "document__title": "Tome of Beasts 2", "document__license_url": "http://open5e.com/legal", "document__url": "https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition/", "v2_converted_path": "/v2/creatures/tob2_quickserpent/" } ] }