Monster Manual 5E

CREDITS

D&D Lead Designers: Mike Mearls, Jeremy Crawford

Monster Manual Lead: C.hristopher Perkins
Stat Block Development: Chris Sims, Rodney Thompson,
'• Peter Lee
Story Development: Robert J. Schwalb, Matt Sernett,
Steve Townshend, James Wyatt
Editing: Scott Fitzgerald Gray
Managing Editor: Jeremy Crawford
Producer: Greg Bilsland

Art Directors: Kate Irwin, Dan Gelon, Jon Schindehette,

Mari Kolkowsky, Melissa Rapier, Shauna Narciso

Graphic Designers: Bree Heiss, Emi Tanji, Barry Craig

Cover Illustrator: Raymond Swanland

Interior Illustrators: Tom Babbey, Daren Bader, John-Paul

Balmet, Mark Behm, Eric Belisle, Michael Berube, Zoltan

Boros, Christopher Bradley, Aleksi Briclot, Filip Burburan,

Christopher Burdett, Sam B-urley, Mike Burns, Wesley Burt,

Milivoj Ceran, Jedd Chevrier, Conceptopolis, Adam Danger

Cook, Julie Dillon, Dave Dorman, Jesper Ejsing, Emrah

Elmasli, Wayne England, Mike Faille, Toma Feizo Gas,

Emily Fiegenschuh, Tomas Giorello, E.M. Gist, Lars Grant-

West, E.W. Hekaton, jD, Jo·n Hodgson, Ralph Horsley, Kurt

Huggins and Zelda Devon, Lake Hurwitz, Tyler Jacobson,

Vance Kovacs, Daniel Landerman, Lindsey Look, Daniel

Ljunggren, Raphael Lubke, Titus Lunter, Slawomir Maniak,

Andrew Mar, Brynn Metheney, Christopher Moeller, Mark

Molnar, Marco Nelor, Jim Nelson, Mark A. Nelson, Hector

Ortiz, Ryan Pancoast, Adam Paquette, Jim Pavelec, Kate

Pfeilschiefter, Steve Prescott, Vincent Proce, Darrell Riche,

Ned Rogers, Scott Roller, Jasper Sandner, Mike Sass, Marc

Sasso, llya Shkipin, Carmen Sinek, Craig J Spearing, Annie

Stegg, Zack Stella, Matt Stewart, Raymond Swan land,

Justin Sweet, Anne Stokes, Matias Tapia, Cory Trego-

Erdner, Autumn Rain Turkel, Cyril Van Der Haegen, David

Vargo, Franz Vohwinkel, Richard Whitters, Sam Wood, Ben

Wootten, Kieran Yanner, Min Yum, Mark Zug

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Additional Co~tri'Butors: Bruce R. Cordell, Kim 'Mohan, Chris

Dup1:1is, Tom La Pille, Miranda Horner, Jennifer Clarke Wilkes,

Steve Winter, Chris Youngs, Ben Petrisor, Tom Olsen,

R.A. Salvatore

Project Management: Neil Shinkle, Kim Graham, John Hay

Production Services: Cynda Callaway, Brian Dumas, ·

Jefferson Dunlap, David Gershman, Matt Knannlein,

Anita Williams

Brand and Marketing: Nathan Stewart, Liz Schuh,

Chris Lindsay, Shelly Mazzanoble, Hilary Ross,

Laura Tommervik, Kim Lundstrom, Trevor Kidd

Based on the original game created by

E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson,

with Brian Blume, Rob Kuntz, James Ward, and Don Kaye

Drawing from further development by

J. Eric Holmes, Tom Moldvay, Frank Mentzer, Aaron Allston,

Harold Johnson, David "Zeb" Cook, Ed Greenwood,

Keith Baker, Tracy Hickman, Margaret We is, Douglas Niles,

Jeff Grubb, Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams,

Richard Baker, Peter Adkison, Bill Slavicsek, Andy Collins,

and Rob Heinsoo

Playtesting provided by

over 175,000 fans of D&D. Thank you!

Additional feedback provided by

Robert Alaniz, Anthony Caroselli, Josh Dillard, Curt Duval,

Sam E. Simpson Jr., Adam Hennebeck, Sterling Hershey,

Paul Hughes, Doug Irwin, Ken J. Breese, Yan Lacharite, Tom

Lommel, Jonathan Longstaff, Rory Madden, Matt Maranda,

Paul Melamed, Mike Mihalas, David Milman, Daren Mitchell,

Claudio Pozas, John Proudfoot, Karl Resch, M. Sean Molley,

Sam Sherry, Pieter Sleijpen, David "Oak" Stark, Vincent

Venturella, Fredrick Wheeler, Arthur Wright

ON THE COVER

Raymond Swan land illustrates the Xanathar

ambushing explorers in the darkest depths

of Undermountain, proving that the beholder

crime lord's interests run deep beneath the

city ofWaterdeep.

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ISBN: 978-0-7869-6561-

First Printing: September 2014

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Disclaimer: Any similarities between monsters depicted in this book and monsters that actually exist are purely

coincidental. That goes double for mind jlayers, which absolutely, utterly, and completely do not exist, nor do they

secretly run the Da[D team. Do we really need a disclaimer to tell you that? You shouldn't use your brain to consider

such irrational thoughts. They only make the mind cluttered, c~nfused, and unpleasantly chewy. A good brain is nice,

tender, and barely used. Go ahead, put down this book and watch some reality TV or Internet cat videos. They're really

funny these days. You won't regret it. We say this only because we love you and your juicy, succulent gamer brain.

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