Volo's Guide to Monsters

NOTABLE BEHAVIOR 6R TACTICS d8 Notable Behavior or Tactics Use of flaming arrows and burning pitch 2 Use of drums and screeching ...

Virtually any kind of creature that can be browbeaten into service might be found with a goblin tribe, but rats and wolves are n ...

STATUS SYMBOLS Goblins love symbols of authority, and thus the tribe's boss often has such trappings wherever he or she goes. Su ...

NILBOCiS: PRANKSTERS WITH POWER A nilbog ("goblin" spelled backward) is a goblin possessed by the spirit of a mischievous pranks ...

them. Any tunnel in the lair, whether dug by goblins or not, is likely to be trapped, typically in a way that not only injures t ...

Skiggaret is the bugbear version of the bogeyman, as hateful and terrifying to them as bugbears are in the eyes of many other ra ...

art. They leave little space for joy"or leisure in their lives, and thus have no reserves of faith to call upon when in dire str ...

name and colors along with them, and assuming places of leadership in the group. Uphold the Lesion. Hobgoblins care more for the ...

double as a school and training facility for spellcasters. If a hobgoblin lair has a prison, it's usually a small one- miscreant ...

highest status, and warlords of lower status are demoted to the title of general. A member of the lowest-ranked banner in the wa ...

THE WARBORN While a host pursues conquest, it is taboo for its mem- bers to copulate. Such proclivities must be suppressed so th ...

crisscross it, running from each gate through the center of the camp and out the other side. This configuration enables all the ...

ME ~EE TIMES Tt<REE, AND Tt<E t<AGS PUT A SPELL ON • NG E F OR A Tt<OUSAND DAVS, l WAS A VOU MADE ME Tt<EIR SLAV ...

Hags make bargains differently from how devils op- erate. A devil might approach a mortal to make a deal because it wants the in ...

..... HAGS OFTEN IIPPEIIR UNLOOKEO·FOR, IN MOMENTS OF GREAT NEED, BECAUSE THEV H/IVE BEEN SPVING /IND SEE /IN OPPORTUNITV TO 111 ...

HAC PERSONALITY TRAITS d8 Personality Trait 2 3 4 5 I have made subtle insults into an art form. I always act unpleasant so othe ...

..... emotions. At the other end of the spectrum, even a hag without lofty status is likely to have strange, single-use items th ...

HAG VEHICLES that she and her sisters are kindred souls, like the mem- bers of a dark sorority or sisterhood. Even though hags d ...

..... Want to know a dark aecret? A,k a ha,. The trick lies in l•ttin, truth out of her. -Volo but later on the surrounding regi ...

TREASURE, TREASURE EVERYWHERE A hag's home is cluttered with mundane items, caged creatures, oddities, objects that hint of a ma ...