Volo's Guide to Monsters

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CREDITS Lead Designer: Mike Mearls Lead Rules Developer: Jeremy Crawford Designers: Adam Lee, Kim Mohan, Christopher Perkins, Se ...

CONTENTS pp. : Monster Lists ............ ·-············ Preface 4 Ch. 2: Character Races 103 App. A: Assorted Beasts Ch. 1: Mo ...

PREFACE Well met, adventurer. You seem likea curious sort who enjoys the finer things.Permit me to thrust upon you my latest mas ...

OLO HAS ENCOUNTERED MANY MONSTERS in his day, few as odious or as ornery as the ones described herein. This chapter takes severa ...

THINK VE weave cunning SCHEMES and ELABORATE intrigues with FALLBACK plans and positions? BEHOLDER S change, refine, DISCARD, an ...

When beholders dream whentle realtrouble ofbeholders,that's starts. s -Volo only from the twisted imagination of a beholder, wit ...

8 over something, such as a treasure hoard. A gauth hails from the same plane as spectators, or one that overlaps it enough that ...

plishments or claim to be mighty. Such creatures are seen as threats or fools, and are dealt with mercilessly. Each beholder thi ...

and shoot any creature it can see within the range of its darkvision. A dark room with a 120-foot ceiling allows it to use this ...

USE TRAPS AND MINIONS A beholder in its lair has access to so many resources that it can often vanquish invaders without directl ...

PETRIFICATION RAY The most mundane function of the petrification ray is as a means of decorating a beholder's lair with statues. ...

BEHOLDER LAIRS The lair of a beholder is a reflection of the creature's mind-set- designed to anticipate, and thwart, any plan t ...

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wall. A typical simple door trap is a pivoting spiked arm that swings downward to impale an intruder when the door is opened. Ce ...

holder (or any parts it can recover from a battle) would certainly be a prized trophy, as would be the skull of a defeated drago ...

the beholder uses "the Xanathar" as a title rather than its personal name (which is Zushaxx). The guild has been in operation fo ...

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to the ordning. Storm giants ruled all from both below and above. They held sway over the oceans from under- sea fortresses and ...