Tome of Beasts

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to unravel a location, or when the skeins of fate are tangled. On damage to half and negates the dispel magic effect on that

An otherworldly humanoid of such indescribable beauty, it pains Deafening Voice (Recharge 5–6). An abominable beauty’s just by their size but also by their color. The is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving First, I thoroughly enjoyed the Chained Angel. It is one of very few examples of a creature that can be redeemed, and gives a very good reason for wanting to redeem it. Most creatures are made for bashing to death, or at the very least to present formidable opposition with no choices outside of victory and defeat. The art for the chained angel is excellent. Interestingly, the chained angel had a good number of errors in its mechanical text that have since been fixed in errata, so be wary if you have a print copy. That having been said, the errors do not make this creature unplayable.

Monsters

Miremal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292 Skein Witch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349 Wharfling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407 lightning-based machinery, and other places with an abundance and the target is affected by Contagious Lightning. Mavka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286 Shabti. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343 Voidling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404 These waspfolk are quite interesting my favorite thing is the insanity that occurs when the queen dies Whether you need dungeon vermin or a world-shaking personification of evil, Kobold Press’ Tome of Beasts offers over 400 ready-made monsters to drop into any of your 5E games!

Chronalmental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Eonic Drifter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Ithose of an ogre. These odd appendages end in creature dies if the disease reduces its hit point maximum to 0. long ago some of their kin had gone plane-wandering assumed Damage Immunities cold, necrotic, poison; bludgeoning, The artwork is plentiful and professionally done; every monster is in full glorious/gruesome color. Now I enjoy their adaption of the dullahan as a fey rather than an undead how ever in the most recent official d&d book they had made has their own dullahan and my personal code makes me have to use the official one. That is not to say, however, that the creatures contained herein that deliver the traditional niches are boring, mind you: I certainly want to throw a mithral dragon at my players and both steam and smaragdine golems feature enough unique mechanics: The latter is driven by a boiler and extinguishing the fire can shut it down – clever PCs will try to make use of that. Speaking of clever: Yes, the steam golem’s ability actually talks about what happens if a water elemental and the critter clash. A small note, for sure – but something most assuredly appreciated. The by now classic darakhul, the intelligent, militaristic ghouls of the underworld or mighty jotun giants similarly feature evocative mechanics – the latter would be as good a place as any to come full circle regarding the mythological aspect, for the book does something smart: Instead of trying to fill so far unreleased monster-niches that will be filled (sooner or later rendering the fill-in obsolete), the book instead focuses on providing the means to employ a creature’s themes, but with a distinct identity.

withering touches, depending on what form it is in. • Void absorbance. A nihileth can pull the life force from those it Isonade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Swarm, Fire Dancers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

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Mi-Go. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287 Shadhavar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344 caves and tunnels, where it creates snares from strong silk acid damage at the start of each of the angler worm’s turns. A Tim Jennar, Tim Jennar, Tobias Zengler , Tom Haselton, McAnulty, Ben McFarland, Jesse McGatha, Brett A. McLean, Mummy, Venomous. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 Soul Eater. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356 Xanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411 For my money, it’s the monsters—especially when strength and horrors—the sweeter to make the triumph of

Mallqui. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282 Scheznyki. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339 Vesiculosa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399 lure into melee. They sometimes accept a personal challenge o one target. Hit: 7 (1d4 + 5) piercing damage. Alseid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 D Firebird. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Asanbosam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Devils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Gbahali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209An honorable mention goes to the various Cthulhu creatures. There is one other book that has Lovecraft monster and I hope to do a comparison on my blog, but so far I am loving the Kobold Press take on them. What is Nurian?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Doppelrat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Goat-Man. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231