Goblinoids

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At a Glance

A category of mostly humanoids.

Source

  • Various sources; see individual descriptions

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Fire

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At a Glance

Monsters of the fire subtype.


Sources

See individual monster types.


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Extraplanar

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At a Glance

A

abyssal drake, abyssal eviscerator, abyssal maw, abyssal ravager, abyssal skulker, achaierai, adaru, advespa, air avatar, air demon, air element creature, air elemental, primal air elemental, air elementite swarm, air mephit, air monolith, air weird, lesser air weird, akuma no oni, alkilith, amnizu, anaxim, aoa droplet, aoa sphere, araton, arcadian avenger, arcanaloth, arctine, formian armadon, armanite, arrow demon, arrowhawk, artaaglith, ash demon, ashi no oni, ash mephit, aspect of Asmodeus, assassin devil, astral deva, astral dreadnought, astral stalker, asura, atropal, aurumach, avoral, ayperobos swarm, azer, Anzu

B

aspect of Baalzebul, babau, bacchae, balor, barbazu, barbed devil, barghest, bariaur, bar-lgura, bearded devil, bebilith, aspect of Bel, aspect of Belial, belker, bezekira, black abishai, black rock triskelion, black slaad, bladeling, blazewyrm, bloodbag imp, blue abishai, blue slaad, bone devil, brachina, bralani, breathdrinker, broodswarm, bueroza, bulezau, byoki no oni

C

caller from the deeps, cambion, canoloth, carnage demon, carnevus demon, cataboligne demon, cerebrilith, cervidal, chaggrin grue, chain devil, chaos beast, chasme, chichimec, chraal, cinder swarm, cold element creature, concordant killer, cornugon, corruptor of fate, coure, crysmal, cuprilach, cyclonic ravager

D

daelkyr, dao, deathdrinker, death slaad, aspect of Demogorgon, demonet swarm, demonhive attendant, demonhive queen, desert devil, aspect of Dispater, djinni, noble djinni, doc cu’o’c, dogai, draudnu, dream larva, dretch, dune stalker, dusk beast, dust mephit, dust twister, du’ulora quori, dwarf einherjar, dybbuk

E

behemoth eagle, earth avatar, earth demon, earth element creature, earth elemental, primal earth elemental, earth elementite swarm, earth glider, earth mephit, earth monolith, earth weird, lesser earth weird, earth whisper, ecalypse, echinoloth, efreeti, ekolid, elf einherjar, half-elemental, ember guard, emberling, equinal, erinyes, ether scarab, ethereal slayer, euphoric imp, excruciarch

F

falxugon, farastu, fensir, ferrumach, fetch, filth imp, fire avatar, fire bat, fire demon, fire element creature, fire elemental, primal fire elemental, fire elementite swarm, fire mephit, fire monolith, fire weird, lesser fire weird, firre, formian armadon, formian myrmarch, formian observer, formian queen, formian taskmaster, formian warrior, formian winged warrior, formian worker

G

gadacro, galeb duhr, gekido no oni, gelugon, geodite, ghaele, ghargatula, ghirrash, ghour, glabrezu, glass mephit, aspect of Glasya, glimmerskin, behemoth gorilla, goristro, gray slaad, aspect of Graz’zt, green abishai, green slaad, guecubu, gulthir

H

haino no oni, hakeashar, hamatula, hammer archon, haraknin, harginn grue, harvester devil, hashalaq quori, hecatoncheires, hellcat, hell hound, aspect of Hextor, hezrou, hobyah, hollyphant, holocaust disciple, horned devil, hound archon, howler, human einherjar

I

ice demon, ice devil, ice element creature, ice mephit, ice monolith, ice paraelemental, ice serpent, ice weird, ildriss grue, illurien, immoth, imp, infernal, inferno spider, invisible stalker

J

jarilith, Jotunheim frost giant, jovoc, spawn of Juiblex, justicator, justice archon

K

kalabon, kalaraq quori, kalareem, kamu no oni, kaorti, kastighur, keeper, kelubar, kelvezu, khayal, khumat, klurichir, kocrachon, aspect of Kord, kyoso no oni, kyton

L

lantern archon, laraken, legion devil, lemure, leonal, aspect of Levistus, lightning mephit, lilitu, lillend, living holocaust, logokron, aspect of Lolth, envoy of Lolth, lumi, lupinal

M

maelephant, magma element creature, magma hurler, magma mephit, magma monolith, magma paraelemental, magmin, malebranche, aspect of Mammon, mane, marid, marilith, marraenoloth, marrash, maurezhi, aspect of Mephistopheles, mercane, merregon, mezzoloth, mineral mephit, mirror mephit, molydeus, monadic deva, moon dog, movanic deva, mud slaad, Muspelheim fire giant, musteval, myrlochar, formian myrmarch, myrmyxicus

N

nabassu, nalfeshnee, narzugon, nashrou, aspect of Nerull, Nessian warhound, night hag, nightmare, lesser nightmare, nishruu, nupperibo, nycaloth

O

aspect of Obox-Ob, formian observer, oculus demon, omnimental, ooze element creature, ooze mephit, ooze monolith, ooze paraelemental, aspect of Orcus, orthon, osyluth, owl archon

P

paeliryon, pain devil, palrethee, petitioner, phaethon, phane, piscoloth, pit fiend, planetar, pleasure devil, protectar, pseudonatural creature

Q

quasit, formian queen, qorrashi

R

radiance mephit, rakka, ramadeen, rast, ravid, red abishai, red slaad, rejkar, remmanon, reth dekala, ruin elemental, rukarazyll, rutterkin

S

salamander, salt mephit, sanru no oni, minion of Set, shadow demon, shadow elemental, shadow fet, shadow mastiff, shadurakul, shator, shikibu no oni, shiradi, shirokinu-katsukami, shocker, sibriex, sibyllic guardian, sillit, skeroloth, skulvyn, smoke element creature, smoke mephit, smoke monolith, smoke paraelemental, snow weird, solamith, solar, sorrowsworn demon, souleater, soulmarauder, soulscaper, soulsipper, soul spider, spawn of Juiblex, spinagon, spined devil, spirit centipede, steam mephit, steel devil, steel predator, stitched devil, stonechild, stone spike, storm elemental, succubus, sulfur mephit, sunfly swarm, sword archon, sylph

T

taint elemental, formian taskmaster, tempestan, thaskor, thoqqua, throne archon, thought eater, titan, elder titan, tojanida, trilloch, trumpet archon, tsuburu no oni, tsucora quori, tulani

U

ugulu no oni, ultroloth, unraveler, uridezu, ursinal, uvuudaum

V

vaath, valkyrie, vaporighu, vardigg grue, vargouille, varoot, visilight, vivacious creature, void mephit, voor, vorr, vrock, vultivor

W

walking wall, warden archon, formian warrior, wastrilith, water avatar, water demon, water element creature, water elemental, primal water elemental, water elementite swarm, water mephit, water monolith, waterveiled assassin, water weird, lesser water weird, whisper demon, white abishai, white slaad, windrazor, windscythe, formian winged warrior, word archon, formian worker, wrackspawn

X

xac-yel, xac-yij, xag-ya, xeg-yi, xerfilstyx, xill, xixecal, xong-yong, xorn, xor-yost

Y

yagnoloth, yattoko no oni, aspect of Yeenoghu, yeth hound, yochlol

Z

zovvut

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Evil

Earth

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At a Glance

Monsters of the earth subtype.

Omissions

The following creatures are considered part of the earth subtype in official sources, but were removed for the purposes of this campaign because these giants and dragons are not summonable: amethyst dragon, blue dragon, brown dragon, copper dragon, deep dragon, li lung, maur, mountain giant, phaerlin giant, sand dragon, sapphire dragon, stone drake, and stone giant.
I also removed rukarazyll, for reasons discussed in that creature’s description.


Sources

See individual monster types.


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Cool

This subtype contains creatures which are immune to cold-based attacks, and vulnerable to heat-based attacks.  Creatures in this group include white dragons, for example.

It is essentially identical to the Cold subtype in official sources, but I renamed it for the Xaeyruudh campaign so that it would more accurately mirror the Warm subtype which I invented to disambiguate the Fire subtype.  Confused?  Don’t be.  Just replace Cold with Cool.

Chaotic

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At a Glance

Monsters of the Chaotic subtype.

Omissions

I removed native outsiders (draegloth, krathbairn) and elementals (marid) from the Chaotic subtype.


Sources

See individual monster types.


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Air

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At a Glance

Monsters of the air subtype.

Omissions

The following creatures are considered part of the air subtype in official sources, but were removed for the purposes of this campaign because giants and dragons are not summonable: cloud giant, crystal dragon, emerald dragon, fang dragon, fog giant, green dragon, steel dragon, storm drake, t’ien lung.


Sources

See individual monster types.


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The Monster List, Redux

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The Monster List

This is intended to be a listing of every monster that stands a chance of appearing in my Xaeruudh campaign, as a tool for constructing random encounter tables and as a way to make me think of interesting ways to incorporate as many creatures as possible. However, every monster I find —whether or not I choose to throw it at the PCs— will eventually appear here, so it may serve as an index of creatures found in sourcebooks published by Wizards of the Coast and others. Check the Sources page for which books have already been integrated into this list.

WotC keeps their own index of monsters, but this one will be more complete (by virtue of including monsters from earlier editions and potentially other publishers) and the notes will be tailored to this particular campaign. Those facts will keep the lists from being redundant.

The Xaeyruudh campaign is centered in the Forgotten Realms. It may venture into other Primes and other planes, and any monster may be considered for inclusion in the campaign.

Most of the information on this page is considered campaign notes and may not be as readily available to player characters as it is to the players themselves. If you’re participating as a player in the Xaeyruudh campaign and reading behind–the–scenes information spoils the surprise for you, you may wish to stop here.

A couple of points to bear in mind, regarding this blog as a whole.

  1. This blog is about the Forgotten Realms, a campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons.  More specifically, I explore a tweaked and tuned version of the 1e-2e setting, backed by a slow probable transitioning of 3.5e-to-5e rules.  If I just confused you, then… hopefully you’ll find my prose charming and witty.  Otherwise you should anticipate disappointment while browsing my pages.
  2. I’m just a guy.  I’m not a corporation with dozens of employees and a multimillion dollar budget to play with.  I like to think this makes me less susceptible to contradictions but it also means that sometimes I’m a little slower to develop and upload things than 20 or 30 people working together would be.  Then again, I don’t have to get approval from an idiot boss or a Board of Nincompoops.

I actually don’t know how many versions of the monsterlist I’ve started on at this point, but I think this is the second one that will see the interwebs.  I’m relying on the blog infrastructure, especially tags, to do most of the organizing for me, so we’ll see how well that works out.  This will be some kind of hopefully-helpful index page.

Speaking of helpful, here are some hints on what to call groups of monsters… “collective nouns” if you prefer, or more properly terms of venery.

Navigation

There are a few different ways to sort the monsters. Note that all of these are works-in-progress, and in some cases not very much progress has been made so far.

First, by type or subtype; this method lists all Undead together, for example, or all Shapechangers.

Second, by habitat; this groups everything that lives in a particular climate/habitat — all forest-dwelling creatures, for example.

Lastly, by source; this will be an index of monsters listed in each book.

Special Categories

Hazards

These are things which are dangerous but can’t be classified with types and subtypes. So they’re challenges, but they’re not really monsters, but they are alternatives to monsters, which makes them relevant to this list.

Absurd Adversaries

I don’t mean to be judgey, but here’s the thing: if I can’t keep a straight face while describing the monster to players, then I can’t expect them to keep a straight face either. If I can’t take the monster seriously, then I can’t expect players to take it seriously… and killing the party with an absurd adversary is absurd.

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