Monster Manual (5th Edition)

The Monster Manual is one of the three core rulebooks for the 5th Edition of Dungeons and Dragons, featuring monsters to be used as opponents and sometimes allies for the game.

Blurb

A menagerie of deadly monsters for the world’s greatest roleplaying game

The Monster Manual presents a horde of classic Dungeons & Dragons creatures, including dragons, giants, mind flayers, and beholders—a monstrous feast for Dungeon Masters ready to challenge their players and populate their adventures.

The monsters contained herein are culled from the D&D game’s illustrious history, with easy-to-use game statistics and thrilling stories to feed your imagination.

The leader in providing contemporary fantasy entertainment, Dungeons & Dragons is the wellspring for the entire modern game industry, digital as well as analog. This newest edition draws from every prior edition to create a universally compelling play experience, and exemplifies the true spirit of a game that holds captive the hearts and minds of millions of players worldwide.


The second of three core rulebooks, this book details all manner of creatures that characters might encounter over the course of their adventures. An essential resource for Dungeon Masters to use in populating any type of challenge they might contrive for their players.

Created as part of a massive public playtest involving more than 170,000 fans of the game.

Index

Creatures

Aarakocra Aboleth Abominable yeti Acolyte Adult Black dragon Adult Blue Dracolich Adult Blue Dragon Adult Brass Dragon Adult Bronze Dragon Adult Copper Dragon Adult Gold Dragon Adult Green Dragon Adult Red Dragon Adult Silver Dragon Adult White Dragon Air elemental Allosaurus Ancient Black Dragon Ancient Blue Dragon Ancient Brass Dragon Ancient Bronze Dragon Ancient Copper Dragon Ancient Gold Dragon Ancient Green Dragon Ancient Red Dragon Ancient Silver Dragon Ancient White Dragon Androsphinx Ankheg Ankylosaurus Ape Arcanaloth Archmage Assassin Awakened Shrub Awakened tree Axe beak Azer Baboon Badger Balor Bandit Bandit Captain Banshee Barbed Devil Barlgura Basilisk Bat Bearded devil Behir Beholder Beholder zombie Berserker Black bear Black Dragon Wyrmling Black pudding Blink dog Blood hawk Blue Dragon Wyrmling Blue slaad Boar Bone devil Bone naga Brass Dragon Wyrmling Bronze Dragon Wyrmling Brown bear Bugbear Bugbear Chief Bulette Bullywug Cambion Camel Carrion crawler Cat Cave bear Centaur Chain devil Chasme Chimera Chuul Clay golem Cloaker Cloud giant Cockatrice Commoner Constrictor snake Copper Dragon Wyrmling Couatl Crab Crawling claw Crocodile Cult Fanatic Cultist Cyclops Dao Darkmantle Death dog Death knight Death slaad Death tyrant Deep gnome Deer Demilich Deva Dire wolf Displacer beast Djinni Doppelganger Dracolich Draft Horse Dragon turtle Dretch Drider Drow Drow elite warrior Drow mage Drow priestess of Lolth Druid Dryad Duergar Duodrone Dust mephit Eagle Earth elemental Efreeti Elephant Elk Empyrean Erinyes Ettercap Ettin Faerie dragon Fire elemental Fire giant Fire snake Flameskull Flesh golem Flumph Flying snake Flying sword Fomorian Frog Frost giant Galeb duhr Gargoyle Gas spore Gelatinous cube Ghast Ghost Ghoul Giant ape Giant badger Giant bat Giant boar Giant centipede Giant constrictor snake Giant crab Giant crocodile Giant eagle Giant elk Giant fire beetle Giant frog Giant goat Giant hyena Giant lizard Giant octopus Giant owl Giant poisonous snake Giant rat Giant scorpion Giant sea horse Giant shark Giant spider Giant toad Giant vulture Giant wasp Giant weasel Giant wolf spider Gibbering mouther Githyanki knight Githyanki warrior Githzerai monk Githzerai zerth Glabrezu Gladiator Gnoll Gnoll Fang of Yeenoghu Gnoll pack lord Goat Goblin Goblin boss Gold dragon wyrmling Gorgon Goristro Gray ooze Gray slaad Green dragon wyrmling Green hag Green slaad Grell Grick Grick alpha Griffon Grimlock Guard Guardian naga Gynosphinx Half-dragon Half-ogre Harpy Hawk Hell hound Helmed horror Hezrou Hill giant Hippogriff Hobgoblin Hobgoblin captain Hobgoblin warlord Homunculus Hook horror Horned devil Hunter shark Hydra Hyena Ice devil Ice mephit Imp Incubus Intellect devourer Invisible stalker Iron golem Jackal Jackalwere Kenku Killer whale Knight Kobold Kraken Kuo-toa Kuo-toa archpriest Kuo-toa whip Lamia Lemure Lich Lion Lizard Lizard king/queen Lizardfolk Lizardfolk shaman Mage Magma mephit Magmin Mammoth Mane Manticore Marid Marilith Mastiff Medusa Merfolk Merrow Mezzoloth Mimic Mind flayer Mind flayer arcanist Minotaur Minotaur skeleton Monodrone Mud mephit Mule Mummy Mummy lord Myconid adult Myconid sovereign Myconid sprout Nalfeshnee Needle blight Night hag Nightmare Noble Nothic Nycaloth Ochre jelly Octopus Ogre Ogre zombie Oni Orc Orc eye of Gruumsh Orc war chief Orog Otyugh Owl Owlbear Panther Pegasus Pentadrone Peryton Phase spider Piercer Pirate Pirate captain Pit fiend Pixie Planetar Plesiosaurus Poisonous snake Polar bear Poltergeist Pony Priest Pseudodragon Psychic gray ooze Pteranodon Purple worm Quadrone Quaggoth Quaggoth spore servant Quaggoth thonot Quasit Quipper Rakshasa Rat Raven Red dragon wyrmling Red slaad Reef shark Remorhaz Revenant Rhinoceros Riding horse Roc Rogue modron Roper Rug of smothering Rust monster Saber-toothed tiger Sahuagin Sahuagin baron Sahuagin priestess Salamander Satyr Scarecrow Scorpion Scout Sea hag Seahorse Shadow Shadow demon Shadow dragon Shambling mound Shield guardian Shrieker Silver dragon wyrmling Skeleton Slaad tadpole Smoke mephit Solar Spectator Specter Spider Spined devil Spirit naga Spore servant Sprite Spy Steam mephit Stirge Stone golem Stone giant Storm giant Succubus Swarm of bats Swarm of beetles Swarm of centipedes Swarm of insects Swarm of poisonous snakes Swarm of quippers Swarm of rats Swarm of ravens Swarm of spiders Swarm of wasps Tarrasque Thri-kreen Thug Tiger Toad Treant Tribal warrior Triceratops Tridrone Troglodyte Troll Twig blight Tyrannosaurus rex Ultroloth Umber hulk Unicorn Vampire Vampire spawn Veteran Vine blight Violet fungus Vrock Vulture Warhorse Warhorse skeleton Water elemental Water weird Weasel Werebear Wereboar Wererat Weretiger Werewolf White dragon wyrmling Wight Will-o'-wisp Winged kobold Winter wolf Wolf Worg Wraith Wyvern Xorn Yeti Yochlol Young black dragon Young blue dragon Young bronze dragon Young copper dragon Young Green dragon Young gold dragon Young Red dragon Young remorhaz Young silver dragon Young white dragon yuan-ti abomination yuan-ti malison yuan-ti pureblood Zombie

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