Tag: Best of the Bestiary

I want to know who made this monster. I want to know who sat down, took a sip of their coffee and said: “WHAT ABOUT A BEAR THAT IS ALSO A BUG BUT IT IS ALSO A GOBLIN?!” I want to sit that man down for an interview and ask him as many questions as…

Behold the legacy of Gulthias the vampire: plants with a taste for blood. Compared to many monsters in this book, Blights aren’t the most creative in terms of design. Evil plant people, that’s all you’re looking at. Their lore is pretty neat, their stats are perfect for first level parties, and putting them to use…

Are you just too excited for your players to fight a Beholder? Are your friends too low-level to handle one, but you just want to use the iconic monster? Then the Spectator is just the monster for you! The Spectator takes everything that the Beholder and Death Tyrant had and cranks it down. Their stats…

A cluster of tiny lights descended from a dark crevice in the ceiling. These motes cast an eerie glow on the great, alien skull that hung beneath them. -From the journal of Jastus Hollowquill, Explorer of Undermountain This is a follow up to last weeks ‘Best of the Bestiary’, in which we reviewed the most…

Every Beholder thinks it is the epitome of Beholderkind, and the only thing it fears is that it may be wrong. -Valkara Ironfell, Dwarf Sage Out of all the monsters in Dungeons and Dragons, there is no question that the Beholder is the most iconic, as well as the most terrifying. They’re also the most…