Category: Best of the Bestiary

  • Best of the Bestiary: Zombies (Monster Manual FINALE)

    Zombies? On today of all days? What a fitting way for this to end. Best of the Bestiary first started way back in 2019. I started it not too long after I moved into my first apartment. Since then, I’ve lost that apartment, several jobs, and moved to a completely different state. Throughout all of…

  • Yugoloths Part 3: Stats and Placement

    We’re in the home stretch now, everyone. Let’s see if these monsters can stick the landing. Arcanaloth An arcanaloth is surprisingly durable for a bookworm. Its AC is just shy of 20 and its HP just breaks the triple digits. On top of that, it’s resistant to cold, fire, lightning, and all nonmagical melee. Plus,…

  • Yugoloths Part 2: Designs

    Power. We all crave it, but only a select few of us deserve it. Shemeshka the marauder, arcanaloth in Sigil Buckle up, folks. We’ve got four designs to talk about here. None of which have anything in common with the others. What fun! Arcanaloth Alright, our first yugoloth. What have we got? Ah, the nerd.…

  • Yugoloths Part 1: Lore

    Here we are. The penultimate entry in Best of the Bestiary. One with so much going on that it’s gotta be split into not two, but three parts! Lore: Fiends For a Fine Inhabiting the planes of Acheron, Gehenna, Hades, and Carceri, yugoloths are fickle mercenaries that embody avarice. Legends claim that they were first…

  • Yuan-ti Part 2: Stats and Placement

    Stats: Slithering Spell Slingers It’s not enough that there are three of them. No, the malison has to have three different types as well! Five for the price of three today, everyone! The yuan-ti abomination is the strongest of the lot. Its AC isn’t bad and its HP is in the triple digits. On top…