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''[[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreatures Creatures]]'': [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreatureTypes Creature Types]] ([[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesA A]] | '''B''' | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesC C]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesD D]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesE E]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesF F]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesG G]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesH H]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesIToJ I to J]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesK K]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesL L]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesM M]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesNtoQ N to Q]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesR R]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesSPartOne Sa-Sn]], [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesSPartTwo So-Sy]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesT T]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesUToV U to V]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesWToZ W to Z]]) | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsBeholderkin Beholderkin]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsFiendsDemons Demons]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsFiendsDevils Devils]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsDragons Dragons]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsGiants Giants]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsMindFlayers Mind Flayers]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsFiendsYugoloths Yugoloths]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCrossoverCreatures Crossover Creatures]] \\

->'''Classification:''' Undead (3E)\\

* ThreateningShark: While not true sharks, bulettes are in many ways a terrestrial version of this. They're voracious predators that specialize in preying on helpless creatures on top of the medium they move through, unseen except for their triangular dorsal fin cutting through the surface, and are often referred to as land sharks for this reason.

[[folder:Bloodthorn]]
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->'''Classification:''' Plant (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 3 (3E)\\

Briar-like, blood-drinking plants found in arid parts of the Lower Planes and the Outlands, though rarely a specimen will survive being transplanted to Material Plane wastelands.

* CombatTentacles: Bloodthorns attack and feed by lashing out with their tendrils, trying to grapple opponents to drain blood.
* DeathTrap: A bloodthorn produces succulet, bright red berries year-round, whose appealing fragrance lures in prey for the plant to attack. Any who survive the plant's attacks will be disappointed to find that the fruits are bitter and provide no sustenance.
* EerilyOutOfPlaceObject: Since bloodthorns sustain themselves on blood rather than water or sunlight, one big clue about their nature is that they're flourishing where a normal plant should not survive.
* VampiricDraining: Anyone grappled by a bloodthorn takes [[NonHealthDamage Constitution damage]] as its three-inch-long, hollow thorns pierce their flesh and drain their blood. Even if the victim tears themselves free with an opposed Strength check, one of the thorny tendrils comes lose from the bloodthorn, resulting in a bleeding wound that deals 1 point of DamageOverTime until healed.

* BeastWithAHumanFace: This trait makes them quite similar to nagas, enough so that 4th Edition classified the creatures as "banelar nagas."

''[[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreatures Creatures]]'': [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreatureTypes Creature Types]] ([[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesA A]] | '''B''' | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesC C]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesD D]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesE E]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesF F]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesG G]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesH H]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesIToJ I to J]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesK K]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesL L]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesM M]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesNtoQ N to Q]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesR R]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesSPartOne Sa-Sn]], [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesSPartTwo So-Sy]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesT T]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesUToZ U to Z]]) | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsBeholderkin Beholderkin]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsFiendsDemons Demons]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsFiendsDevils Devils]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsDragons Dragons]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsGiants Giants]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsMindFlayers Mind Flayers]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsFiendsYugoloths Yugoloths]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCrossoverCreatures Crossover Creatures]] \\

See also the [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsBeholderkin Beholderkin]], [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsFiendsDemons Demons]], [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsFiendsDevils Devils]], [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsDragons Dragons]], [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsGiants Giants]], [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsMindFlayers Mind Flayers]], [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsUndead Undead]], and [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsFiendsYugoloths Yugoloths]] subpages for information about those respective creatures.

A demonic form of undead native to the Abyss. Normally, undead are impossible on the Outer Planes (since they are the afterlife), but the fastest way to find something in the Abyss is to claim that it shouldn't exist.

* GoneHorriblyWrong: They are the result of a botched ritual of Lichhood.

* {{Retcon}}: Their origins vary by setting and edition. 4th edition depicted them as Frankensteinian monsters built by evil necromancers to serve as assassins and bodyguards, whereas 5th edition paints them as a failed form of lich.

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[[folder:Banelar]]
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'''Classification:''' Magical Beast (3E), Immortal Magical Beast (4E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 5 (3E), 18 (4E)\\
'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil, Evil (4E)

Huge, human-headed serpents with "beards" of dextrous tentacles, named for their alliances with the priesthood of [[Characters/ForgottenRealmsGods Bane]].

* BeastWithAHumanFace: This trait makes them quite similar to nagas, enough so that 4th Edition classified the creatures as "banelar nagas."
* BewareMyStingerTail: Their tail attacks carry a poison that causes both [[NonHealthDamage Constitution damage]] and [[ForcedSleep unconsciousness]] for several hours, with the side effect of turning the victim's skin blue.
* {{Hermaphrodite}}: According to their ''AD&D'' entry, banelars mate whenever two of them encounter each other, and each then goes their separate ways to give birth to a single offspring in the winter, which they raise until the new banelar can fend for itself.
* NoSell: They're immune to acid and poison, the latter of which allows banelars to dine upon venomous serpents.
* TheParanoiac: Though banelars are willing to form alliances with other creatures, they're always concerned about betrayal and sneak attacks, and obsessed with shoring up their defenses and overcoming personal weaknesses. To this end they'll hoard magical items for use or barter, try to twist agreements to their advantage by following the letter of a deal while ignoring its intent, and will think nothing of ordering their minions to break their bargains.
* TheRedMage: Banelars have the spellcasting abilities of both mid-level wizards and clerics with the Evil, Magic and Water domains.
* TentacleHair: They have "beards" of thin tentacles around their mouths, which aren't strong enough to wield weapons, but can handle food, wear enchanted rings, or wield magic wands.

[[folder:Banshrae]]
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->'''Classification:''' Fey (3E), Fey Humanoid (4E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 8 (3E), 11 (4E)\\
'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil (3E), Unaligned (4E)

Spiteful and cruel fey who use their supernatural music to torment other creatures, despite their lack of mouths with which to play their flutes.

* {{Curse}}: Banshraes can ''curse'' a victim once per day, causing them to inspire irrational anger in other creatures, which translates into a penalty on social interaction rolls and Armor Class.
* EatingOptional: Banshraes don't eat in a conventional sense, they absorb nutriants from the earth and nearby plants when they rest. But they'll try to ruin any food or drink they come across, to ensure that other creatures can't enjoy it either.
* FlechetteStorm: Once per day, a banshrae can use its blowgun-flute to fire a whole cone of darts for extra damage.
* InstrumentOfMurder: Their flutes also double as {{blowgun}}s.
* MagicMusic: They can conjure up a masterwork flute at will, and use it to [[SupernaturalFearInducer frighten creatures with a dreadful dirge]], start a sing-along that forces listeners to babble along, or play a tune that compels creatures to move at least 20 feet during their turn.
* TheNoseless: Banshares breathe through holes in the sides of their heads, hidden by their hair.
* {{Retcon}}: 4th Edition turned banshraes from sinister fey musicians into sometimes-sadistic, sometimes-trickster blowgun warriors who are explicitly incapable of playing music, [[MusicSoothesTheSavageBeast but might be calmed by a performance on a wind instrument.]]
* {{Sadist}}: Even among the evil fey, banshraes are notoriously cruel to their weaker underlings, and in combat they'll quickly dispose of powerful foes so they can take their time toying with weaker opponents.
* SpawnBroodling: Banshraes can also, once each day, fire a special dart that causes a swarm of locusts to erupt from the victim's body, sickening them and dealing damage. The swarm then hangs around for a few rounds, following the banshrae's commands.
* WipeThatSmileOffYourFace: In ages past, a treacherous banshrae elder made the mistake of betraying a fey queen, who retaliated by cursing all banshraes, stealing their mouths. While a verdant prince was later able to restore the banshraes' musical ability, their faces remain [[TheBlank blank]] save for their insectile eyes.

[[folder:Barghest]]
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->'''Classification:''' Outsider (3E), Natural Humanoid (4E), Fiend (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 4 (3E-5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil, Evil (4E)

Lupine fiends that can assume the forms of ordinary goblins, and are feared for consuming the very souls of their victims.

* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: They often use the power of their fiendish forms to conquer goblin tribes. For their part, the goblins suck up to them in hopes of convincing the barghest they're of better use as slaves, or at least too pathetic to make a good meal.
* {{Retcon}}: In past editions, barghests were fiends native to Gehenna that sent their whelps to hunt on the Material Plane, consuming souls and growing in power until they were able to ''plane shift'' home. 5th Edition instead has barghests be spontaneously grown to goblin parents as part of a yugoloth revenge plot.
* RevengeByProxy: According to ''Volo's Guide to Monsters'', barghests were created by the General of Gehenna to get revenge on the goblin god Maglubiyet for stiffing him on payment for services rendered. They do this by devouring the souls of goblinoids, preventing them from joining Maglubiyet's armies in the afterlife.
* SoulEating: Barghests devour their victims whole, body and soul. It takes a barghest an entire day to digest a devoured soul, and killing it before then will free the soul, but once it's fully consumed, there's even odds that the soul is gone forever, beyond the reach of mortal magic.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: They can change between their natural form, some sort of horrible goblin-wolf hybrid, into one indistinguishable from an ordinary goblin, and in previous editions could take the form of normal wolves as well.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Barghests inherently fear being banished to their home plane of Gehenna before they fulfil their purpose, as a stronger yugoloth is likely to slay or enslave them for their failure.

[[folder:Bariaur]]
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->'''Classification:''' Outsider (3E), Celestial (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2 (3E), 3 (5E)\\
'''Playable:''' 2E-3E\\
'''Alignment:''' ChaoticGood

Natives of the Heroic Domains of Ysgard, these tauric beings possess the upper bodies of humanoids and the lower bodies of mountain sheep or goats

* AllThereInTheManual: Very little information was provided about the bariaur in the original ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'' run; instead, their creator went on to write two sourcebooks all about them and made them freely available online, fleshing out their culture and their spirituality.
* AnimalGenderBender: A small minority of females are born with horns like a ram, whilst an even smaller minority of males are born hornless.
* GenderRestrictedAbility: Cultural more than physical, but in bariaur society, only ewes (or hornless rams) practice magic, whilst rams (and horned ewes) practice martial combat.
* IResembleThatRemark: Literally! Bariaur ''hate'' to be compared to centaurs, and regard it as quite insulting, but they share the exact same body structure, the same herbivorous appetite, and even many cultural traits.
* NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: Horned ewes are considered very unlucky and unappealing in bariaur culture, which actually drives many of them to study martial combat; they're outcasts anyway, so they may as well gain the strength to force others to respect them.
* OurCentaursAreDifferent: They're extraplanar beings who resemble mountain sheep or goats with the torso of a humanoid being growing from where the head should be.
* SpiritedCompetitor: Bariaur flocks often meet on Ysgard's plains to engage in singing or tale-telling contests, or play a game much like polo. "Human observers often mistake the rivalry for pride or pettiness, and are often completely flabbergasted when, at the end of a festival, the bariaur depart on the friendliest terms." It's not unknown for two questing bariaur who happen to meet to abandon their mission for a few hours (or days) to have a good-natured race or other contest.
* UseYourHead: It goes without saying that horned bariaur can deliver killer headbutts, especially if they can build up ramming speed first.
* WanderingCulture: Bariaurs' natural wanderlust keeps them from establishing permanent settlements (with the exception of the town of Steadfast), and most don't bother constructing houses for themselves.

[[folder:Basilisk]]
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->'''Classification:''' Magical Beast (3E), Natural Beast (4E), Monstrosity (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 5 (3E), 10 (4E), 3 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' Unaligned

Hulking, eight-legged reptiles with deadly gazes.

* BasiliskAndCockatrice: Large, many-legged lizards whose gaze turns people to stone.
* DragonAncestry: Dracolisks are {{Hybrid Monster}}s thought to be descended from a black dragon. They have six legs and a pair of wings that are only capable of short bursts of flight, and on top of their petrifying glares can use an acidic BreathWeapon a few times per day.
* EatDirtCheap: Basilisks are robust omnivores, and can feed upon the statues of creatures killed by their gaze.
* PoisonousPerson: ''AD&D''[='s=] greater basilisks not only retain the petrifying stare of their lesser cousins, their foul breaths are so poisonous that adjacent creatures have to save or die.
* TakenForGranite: Meeting a basilisk's supernatural gaze can be enough to rapidly transform a victim into porous stone, and their lairs are often strewn with the petrified remnants of other creatures.
* UndergroundMonkey:
** Venom-eye basilisks inflict poisoning with their gaze rather than causing petrification.
** Greater basilisks kill victims outright with their gaze.
** Abyssal greater basilisks are a fiendish version of regular greater basilisks, are found in the Abyss and can smite good once per day.
* VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: They typically have eight legs despite looking like lizards.

!!Swavain Basilisk
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->'''Origin:''' ''WebVideo/CriticalRole''\\
'''Classification:''' Monstrosity (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 7 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' Unaligned

Distant oceanic cousins of the terrestrial basilisk.
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* SeaSerpents: Whereas terrestrial basilisks are eight-legged reptiles, the oceanic Swavain basilisks are limbless, serpentine creatures resembling giant eels. They are in fact amphibious, and capable of slithering to slowly move across land.
* SewerGator: These basilisk are known to explore inland waterways in search of food, and might end up in a community's underground sewage system.
* TakenForGranite: Like their land-dwelling cousins, Swavain basilisks can turn enemies to stone, albeit by secreting a thick oil.

[[folder:Battlebriar]]
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->'''Classification:''' Plant (3E), Natural Animate (4E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 7 (lesser), 15 (standard) (3E); 14 (4E)\\
'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral (3E), Unaligned (4E)

Plant creatures created for war, and named for the deadly thorns covering their bodies.

* BioweaponBeast: The original battlebriars were intended to be living siege engines, and while the Large-sized, "lesser" battlebriars are often found serving other creatures, most Huge battlebriars have gone rogue. A single full-sized battlebriar is more than capable of wiping out a village by itself.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Hence the nickname "warbound impaler." Battlebriars can attempt to impale a grappled opponent upon the thorns covering their bodies, allowing them to carry on fighting while their foe is pinned.
* ItCanThink: Downplayed; battlebriars only possess a rudimentary intelligence, and can't speak. Druids and other spellcasters who use magical means to communicate with them have found battlebriars to be intractable and uncaring. They're just smart enough to use their combat abilities to the fullest advantage, by trampling masses of small enemies, firing thorns at fleeing opponents, wading into melee to expose as many creatures as possible to their spines, etc.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Battlebriars have six limbs, and typically rear up onto their hind legs in combat so they can attack with both pairs of forelimbs.
* SpikeShooter: Against distant opponents, battlebriars can rear up and snap their bodies forward, launching a volley of thorns that hits everything in a 10-foot radius around the impact site.
* TheSpiny: The long thorns that cover these creatures give them additional attacks of opportunity each round, and make it harder for opponents to Tumble through their threatened area.
* TrampledUnderfoot: Battlebriars are large enough to deal trample damage to anything they move over.

[[folder:Beguiler]]
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->'''Origin:''' ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms''\\
'''Classification:''' Magical Beast (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 1 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' Unaligned

Intelligent, magical creatures resembling dog-sized rodents, much sought by mages and poachers alike. Not to be confused with the 3rd Edition mindbending character class.

* ChameleonCamouflage: Beguilers can freely alter the coloration of their fur (so long as it's dry), allowing them to blend in with their surroundings or create colorful patterns, even turning plaid if they wish. It's rumored that a beguiler pelt retains or can recover this trait with the proper treatment, leading alchemists to pay good sums for them.
* EyeOfNewt: Their eyes, as well as the frontal lobes of a beguiler's brain, can be used as material components to cast ''true sight'', ''detect invisibility'', ''locate object'' and ''vision.''
* {{Familiar}}: Wizards prize them as such for their magical abilities, though beguilers are often captured and raised as "ordinary" pets as well, [[SapientPet despite their sapience.]]
* ItCanThink: They're highly-intelligent and capable of speaking Common and their own language.
* PrehensileTail: Their two-foot-long, hairless tails are strong and dexterous enough to use items, or even wield weapons.
* TrueSight: Beguilers benefit from a constant ''true seeing'' effect, allowing them to pierce illusions and detect invisible foes. It's thought that this, along with their camouflage ability, is a defense against their natural predator, the ethereal marauder.

[[folder:Behir]]
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->'''Origin:''' ''TabletopGame/{{Greyhawk}}''\\
'''Classification:''' Magical Beast (3E), Natural Magical Beast (4E), Monstrosity (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 8 (3E), 14 (4E), 11 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil (1E-2E, 5E), TrueNeutral (3E), Unaligned (4E)

40-foot-long, twelve-legged serpents who breathe lightning and hate dragons.

* ArchEnemy: Behirs loathe dragons, and will attempt to drive off any dragon that enters their territory. 5E explains this as due to behirs' origin as {{Bioweapon Beast}}s created by the giants to fight in their war against the dragons.
* CraftedFromAnimals: Their scales are valued for their color and hardness, and can be used to make an ornate set of scale mail armor.
* EyeOfNewt: Their ''AD&D'' entry explains that a behir's horns, talons and heart can be rendered into ink to pen scrolls of ''lightning bolt'', ''neutralize poison'' and ''protection from poison'', respectively.
* ItCanThink: They're no geniuses, but behirs are more than intelligent enough to speak, despite their monstrous appearance.
* PetMonstrosity: In [[TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms the Realms]], the people of Halruaa have bred Medium-sized behirs with colorful hides -- including green, coral and rose-colored scales -- as exotic pets and guard beasts. They're not quite as dangerous as "wild" behirs (CR 6 compared to CR 8 in that edition), and the creatures' intelligence has suffered from this forced breeding, leaving them incapable of speech.
* ShockAndAwe: Behirs' BreathWeapon is a line of lightning that can incinerate most creatures.
* UndergroundMonkey: "The Ecology of the Behir" describes two environmental variants of the species -- the desert behir, with yellow-orange scales and a fiery red belly, which breathes fire, and the green-scaled, acid-spitting jungle behir.
* VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: They have twelve legs.

[[folder:Beholderkin]]
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Beholderkin are strange creatures resembling floating heads with a single central eye, an additional set of eyestalks capable of projecting magical beams, and a very alien, hostile and often insane outlook on life. See [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsBeholderkin the beholderkin subpage]] for more information.

[[folder:Belgoi]]
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->'''Origin:''' ''TabletopGame/DarkSun''\\
'''Classification:''' Humanoid (3E), Fey Humanoid (4E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 2 (3E), 7 (4E)\\
'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil (2E, 3E), ChaoticEvil (4E)

Murderous demihumans who use bone bells to lure victims into the wastes to be devoured.

* DesertBandits: They live in the most forlorn parts of the desert wastes, raiding caravans and unprotected villages for plunder and food.
* TheFairFolk: Their 4th Edition lore paints belgoi as proud but evil fey, who ended up stranded in Athas' barrens after the destruction of their homeland, which they blame on the eladrin. The belgoi have since degenerated into despoiling marauders that scour the land around them of life and prey upon intelligent beings.
* ForDoomTheBellTolls: They carry bells made by shamans from their tribe's own dead. The dissonant chiming of these macabre instruments will herald either some lone victim's death, or accompany an all-out attack by a belgoi tribe.
* LuringInPrey: A belgoi can use one of their bone bells to make a psionic attack, collapsing their mental defenses so the creature can use powers like ''domination'' or ''attraction'' to make the victim leave their camp and move towards the belgoi. 4th Edition simplifies things so that the bell can shift a target around on the battlefield.
* ToServeMan: Belgoi are omnivores, but particularly savor the flesh of intelligent beings. 4th Edition elaborates that they don't just prefer a meal "seasoned with the terror that a sentient creature feels when it faces impending death," belgoi also believe that they [[CannibalismSuperpower gain some of the power of those whose flesh they consume.]]

[[folder:Belker]]
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->'''Origin:''' ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}''\\
'''Classification:''' Elemental (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 6 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

Reclusive but malicious creatures from the Paraelemental Plane of Smoke.

* AchillesHeel: As per their ''AD&D'' rules, belkers are particularly vulnerable to the ''gust of wind'' spell, which can send them flying up to a mile away, while a ''wind wall'' holds them in place.
* OrificeInvasion: A belker's signature attack is to engulf opponents with their gaseous forms, so that their victim inhales part of the belker. It then solidifies a claw within their victim's lungs and rips them apart from the inside, dealing damage until said victim succeeds in coughing out the semivaporous claw.
* {{Sadist}}: If a belker is hungry, its prey dies quickly. Otherwise, the belker might play with its food and see just how loud it can make something scream in pain.
* SuperSmoke: Belkers are mostly-solid monsters that can temporarily transform into smoke. Incidentally, their nature means that they can attack creatures with a similar ability that might normally be immune to damage, such as a vampire trying to flee in mist form.

[[folder:Berbalang]]
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->'''Origin:''' ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms''\\
'''Classification:''' Immortal Humanoid (4E), Aberration (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 10 (4E), 2 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil (2E), Evil (4E), NeutralEvil (5E)

Winged humanoids that dwell upon the petrified carcasses of deities that drift across the Astral Plane. They're obsessed with gathering secrets from the living and dead.
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* AstralProjection: They can create a "spectral duplicate" to explore other planes and spy on other creatures, though the berbalang's body is unconscious and vulnerable while it's perceiving the multiverse through its spectral form.
* CreepySouvenir: They collect the bones of the creatures whose spirits they call up, and record what they've learned on them.
* DeadPersonConversation: Berbalangs prefer talking to the dead over the living, and can freely use ''speak with dead'' to converse with spirits.
* KnowledgeBroker: They're willing to share some of what they've learned, but will only exchange knowledge for other knowledge... or the bones of interesting creatures.

[[folder:Bhuka]]
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->'''Classification:''' Humanoid (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2 (3E)\\
'''Playable:''' 3E\\
'''Alignment:''' LawfulGood

Goblinoids who are much more benign and peaceful than their kin, and have several adaptations to help them thrive in arid lands.

* BodyPaint: They use this to signify social position, ranging from simple stripes on a young bhuka's neck frill to elaborate patterns covering a matriarch's upper body.
* HiddenElfVillage: Bhukas are not a violent people, and have learned to avoid conflict by simply not being seen by potential threats. They prefer to watch strangers from hiding while gauging their intent, and even if a bhuka does make contact, they'll never reveal anything about their kin and their settlement.
* {{Matriarchy}}: Bhuka settlements are led by a Grandmother, who serves as a link between them and their mother deity Kikanuti.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: They're the only goblinoids who aren't on board with murder, thuggery or conquest, and have nothing to do with their distant kin.
* NatureHero: The bhuka have several adaptations to help them thrive in the desert -- broad feet to help them balance on sand, dark skin around their eyes to fight the glare of the sun, frills on their necks to dissipate heat -- as well as a racial bonus on Knowledge (Nature) checks, and the extraordinary ability to locate drinkable water within 100 feet.
* UndergroundCity: Distinctly averted; bhuka culture holds that their ancestors emerged from underground, a Lower World that is also considered the Second Womb. As such, the bhuka make their dwellings in cliffs that require ladders or lifts to reach, while each village contains a single ceremonial pit decorated with depictions of the Emergence. The bhuka consider the fact that other goblinoids dwell in caves as evidence that they're not yet mature enough to live on the surface, while conversely, the sand-swimming asherati's habit of building settlements beneath the desert surface disturbs the bhuka's entire conception of reality.

[[folder:Bi-nou]]
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->'''Origin:''' ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms''\\
'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

Subterranean creatures that resemble natural stone columns, a trait they use to ambush prey.

* AchillesHeel: As rock creatures, ''passwall'' stuns them for several rounds, while ''rock to mud'' can instantly kill them. On the upside, ''stone shape'' will heal them of nearly all their hit points.
* BioweaponBeast: No one knows for sure where the bi-nou came from, though the prevailing theories are that they're the result of drow experiments, or were created by the mad mage Halaster Blackcloak to serve as guardians. At any rate, and despite their innate hostility towards warm-blooded life, bi-nou have been known to ally with drow, guarding the borders of their settlements from intruders.
* CraftedFromAnimals: Bi-nou eggs look like gemstones and are valued as such, leading other races to snatch and chill the things so they never hatch. Some dwarves also hunt the largest rockworms, the so-called "rocklords," to convert their stony hides into naturally-enchanted maces.
* DishingOutDirt: They can cast ''dig'', ''stone shape'' and ''wall of stone'' each once per day.
* HeWasRightThereAllAlong: Bi-nou are all but indistinguishable from a natural rock formation when at rest, and intelligent enough to take advantage of this fact.
* KillerBearHug: They hunt by grabbing victims and crushing them against the bi-nou's stony bodies until they suffocate, then the creatures move over the corpses to absorb their flesh.
* RockMonster: Bi-nou look like columns of rock with a pair of craggy arms.
* SnakePeople: Comparatively-speaking; "rockworms" are creatures closely related to bi-nou but aren't capable of an upright stance, leaving them to crawl on cave floors on their bellies and arms. Rockworms don't bother with ambushes and simply move to attack any prey they see.
* SuperSenses: Bi-nou are blind ([[UnreliableIllustrator their creature art notwithstanding]]), but can perceive their surroundings through a mixture of echolocation and infravision, foiling both magical darkness and ''invisibility'' spells.

[[folder:Bisan]]
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->'''Origin:''' ''TabletopGame/KaraTur''\\
'''Classification:''' Fey (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 5 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

Female nature spirits bound to a camphor, teak or mahogany tree, known for preferring the shape of wasps.

* CantLiveWithoutYou: Much like bajangs and dryads, bisan will die if their tree is destroyed.
* GreenThumb: They can cast ''animate wood'', ''plant growth'' and ''wood shape'' at will.
* MorphicResonance: A bisan's natural, human form looks as old as their tree, they often wear flowers from their tree in their hair, and sometimes their skin tone will reflect the coloration of their tree.
* OurNymphsAreDifferent: Bisan are a spin on the classic dryad, though they're appropriately more waspish than charming. They'll act as protectors for any trees of the same type as their "home" tree in an area, but bisan are willing to let humans harvest sap, fruit, leaves or branches from those trees, or even cut down trees near the end of their lifespan, so long as humans leave an appropriate offering in exchange. Anyone who touches a bisan's trees without her permission is sure to feel her wrath.
* {{Reincarnation}}: If a bisan's tree dies of natural causes, and the gods are pleased with her behavior, her essence will take up residence in a newly-grown tree. In some cases, a bisan's essence will be divided four ways, each assigned to a new sapling, to create a new generation of the nature spirits.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: They can use ''polymorph self'' at will, typically to assume the form of a normal or giant wasp.
* WordsCanBreakMyBones: Bisans can use ''castigate'' every turn, belittling opponents with enough supernatural force to stun and damage them based on how far their alignment is from True Neutral.

[[folder:Black Willow]]
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->'''Origin:''' ''TabletopGame/{{Dragonlance}}''\\
'''Classification:''' Plant (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 13 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

Intelligent and malevolent dark-barked willow trees, which relish killing helpless creatures.

* CombatTentacles: They can make a whopping twelve attacks each round with their tendrils, which they also use to [[TentacleRope grapple prey]].
* ForcedSleep: Before attacking with its lashing tendrils, a black willow generates an aura of drowsiness that replicates a ''sleep'' spell -- and in their 2nd Edition rules, anyone who was already in the process of taking a nap beneath the tree automatically fails their saving throw.
* ManEatingPlant: Black willows get only a portion of their nourishment from soil, water and photosynthesis, the rest comes from eating live prey, particularly humans, elves and gnomes.
* SwallowedWhole: Once they get their tendrils around something, a black willow stuffs their victim into a large internal cavity filled with digestive juices that both [[TheParalyzer paralyze]] and deal [[AcidAttack acid damage]] to their prey. A swallowed victim who resists the paralysis effect can try to cut their way out with a small, sharp weapon.
* WhenTreesAttack: They're slow but mobile trees out to stuff other creatures into their gullets for digestion. Naturally, black willows are easy to mistake for a normal plant, and can even disguise themselves as ordinary willow trees.

[[folder:Blackroot Marauder]]
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->'''Classification:''' Construct (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 5 (3E)\\

Dark, thorny saplings the size and shape of humanoids, created by evil clerics or druids as sentinels and hunters.

* HeWasRightThereAllAlong: They are expectedly good at blending into wooded surroundings, and cunning and patient enough to make the most of their natural camouflage. "A swarm of marauders might slowly creep up on an encampment or castle, shifting into position so slowly that their prey fails to notice the gradual rise in the number of trees and the density of the underbrush in the area."
* PoisonousPerson: Their claws and thorns carry a damaging poison.
* SpikeShooter: They can fire volleys of thorns from their bodies as a ranged attack, which does more damage than their claws.
* SupernaturalSensitivity: Beyond [[SuperSenses tremorsense]], blackroot marauders can ''detect good'' at will, helping them spot and stalk any do-gooders who might trouble their creators.
* WhenTreesAttack: Blackroot marauders are made in a fairly simple ritual in which a wild sapling no more than seven feet tall is kept out of direct sunlight for a month, over which time it's watered with the blood of an intelligent creature at sunrise and sunset. At the end of the month, the spells ''animate plants'', ''command plants'', ''detect good'' and ''poison'' are cast on the sapling, and 5,000 gp of crushed rubies are scattered around it, turning it into an intelligent, ambulatory guardian. The catch is that this procss creates a woody, thorny ''construct'', not a plant monster, though blackroot marauders retain enough vitality to be able to slowly recover hit points if they rest in loamy soil.

[[folder:Blackstone Gigant]]
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->'''Classification:''' Construct (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 18 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' Unaligned

Gargantuan statues of fearsome, eight-armed women usually created to guard a sacred site.

* CreepySouvenir: Blackstone gigants often take trophies from their victims, wearing belts of petrified arms or necklaces of petrified heads.
* {{Flight}}: Despite their size and weight, they have a perfect 40-foot flight speed.
* LivingStatue: Not only is the blackstone gigant one, it can animate any victims of its petrification attacks, which serve as its minions for 20 rounds, after which point they can't be animated again. The blackstone gigant usually takes the time to smash any useless statues, to prevent any applications of ''stone to flesh'' mid-fight.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: They have eight limbs, and thus fearlessly wade into combat, flailing about with their arms to try and petrify as many foes as possible.
* SnakePeople: Some blackstone gigants are carved with serpentine lower torsos, specifically in imitation of demonic mariliths.
* TakenForGranite: Anything hit by a blackstone gigant's slam attack has to save or be turned to stone.
* TrampledUnderfoot: They're large and heavy enough to deal trample damage to creatures they move over.

[[folder:Bladeling]]
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->'''Origin:''' ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}''\\
'''Classification:''' Outsider (3E), Humanoid (4E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 1 (3E), 6 (4E)\\
'''Playable:''' 4E\\
'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil or LawfulNeutral (3E), Any (4E)

Spiny, metal-skinned humanoids who have settled on Ocanthus, fourth layer of the Infinite Battlefield of Acheron.

* AbsoluteXenophobe: Downplayed; bladelings encountered on other planes or outside their home city of Zoronor can be courteous and amiable among strangers. But they're superstitious and xenophobic beings at heart, and anyone who intrudes upon their city is swiftly slain.
-->'''Velassi Shade's Doom:''' I suppose you might call us a little "prickly" on some matters.
* AchillesHeel: Though bladelings normally resist fire damage, the ''heat metal'' spell deals double damage to them.
* AlienBlood: Theirs is the color and consistency of oil.
* ArtEvolution: Bladelings have gotten less spiky across the editions, from being nothing ''but'' spikes in ''AD&D'' to being majority smooth-skinned in 4E. They were also noted to be made of wood, ice and steel in 2E, before becoming metallic in subsequent editions.
* ChromeChampion: Bladelings' skin has a dull metallic color and is studded with patches of metal spines.
* EnemyMine: Bladeling society is characterized by infighting and politicking, but this ends immediately in the face of an external danger.
* FlechetteStorm: Once per day they can fire a short, conical blast of shrapnel from their skin, though this reduces their natural armor bonus for the next 24 hours.
* NoSell: They resist cold and fire damage, as well as slashing and piercing damage from non-magical weapons, and they're fully immune to acid damage and rusting effects. The latter is the result of magical experimentation, as shortly after the bladelings' arrival on Acheron, they were nearly wiped out by the native rust dragons.
* TheTheocracy: What little is known about bladeling society is that it's ruled by a priest-king who directs the worship of their unknown gods.

[[folder:Blazewyrm]]
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->'''Classification:''' Elemental (3E), Elemental Magical Beast (4E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 5 (3E), 4 (4E)\\
'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil (3E), Unaligned (4E)

Dragon-shaped fire elementals that delight in immolating everything they come across.

* AchillesHeel: Like anything with the fire subtype, they take extra damage from cold attacks.
* DanceBattler: A variant; a blazewyrms' signature "Tumbling Flame" attack has them whirling and crackling through an opponent's square on the battle map, dealing heavy fire damage. They do have a bite attack they can fall back on, but it's not nearly as effective.
* EvilLivingFlames: Blazewyrms are creatures of living fire in the shape of dragons, and spend their time seeking out things and creatures to burn to ashes for no other reason than that they like doing it.
* ForTheEvulz: Blazewyrms don't require any sort of sustenance, but they still enjoy attacking other creatures.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: Blazewyrms have been likened to the Elemental Plane of Fire's version of wyverns, and as such, some more intelligent beings of fire like salamanders sometimes tame blazewyrms as mounts.

[[folder:Blight]]
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->'''Classification:''' Plant (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/8 (twig blight), 1/4 (needle blight), 1/2 (vine blight) (5E)\\

Blights are malevolent humanoid plants which spring up in forests tainted by evil. They carry out the whims of whatever dark force spawned them, spreading their corruption throughout the land.

* BotanicalAbomination: The first blights came into being when a particularly evil vampire named Gulthias was staked through the heart. His foul blood seeped into the stake, and in time it grew into a sapling called the Gulthias tree. The seeds of this tree became the first blights. Any sufficiently evil force can contaminate an ordinary tree and turn it into a new Gulthias tree, from which new blights emerge.
* CombatTentacles: Vine blights, as you might imagine, attack by constricting enemies with their vines.
* TheCorruption: A Gulthias tree taints its surroundings with its evil presence. Nearby trees which are not killed by this corruption are transformed into blights, which spread the corruption further throughout the forest.
* GreenThumb: Vine blights can make roots and vines erupt from the ground in their immediate vicinity. They use this power to ensnare and slow down their enemies.
* KillItWithFire: Twig blights are vulnerable to fire damage on account of how dry and brittle they are. Needle and vine blights do not share this vulnerability.
* MonsterProgenitor: The Gulthias trees which spawn blights are named after Gulthias, the vampire whose blood gave rise to the first such tree.
* MouthOfSauron: Vine blights have a direct connection to their Gulthias tree and speak on its behalf, using the voice of whatever evil entity gave rise to the tree.
* PlantPerson: They resemble humanoids made of twigs, needles, or vines.
* SpikeShooter: Needle blights can launch their needles at distant enemies like crossbow bolts. They pack quite a punch.
* ThatsNoMoon: Twig and vine blights look like ordinary plants while they aren't moving. Twig blights exploit this fact to conceal themselves near places frequented by travelers and ambush unwary victims.

[[folder:Blightspawned]]
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->'''Origin:''' ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms''\\
'''Classification:''' Plant (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' As base creature +1 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

Creatures or plants corrupted by a magical disease that eventually reduces them to undead horrors. They're unrelated to the various blights above.

* BodyHorror: As the plague runs its course, a blightspawned creature's flesh or wood blackens, their hair or leaves clot and fall out, and their blood or sap turns black and oily, running from open sores.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: An infected creature's eyes, assuming they had any, become sunken "black pits, lit by an evil green light."
* PoisonousPerson: Blightspawned's natural attacks spread a supernatural disease that deals both Constitution and Charisma damage, and unlike other plagues that deal NonHealthDamage, this "blight touch" ''can'' reduce a victim's Constitution score to 0, [[StatDeath killing them.]] Alternatively, if a victim's Charisma hits 0 before their Constitution does, [[TheVirus they transform into a new blightspawned creature.]]
* TerminalTransformation: Every month, a blightspawned creature has to make an increasingly difficult saving throw or immediately die, turning into a [[OurZombiesAreDifferent juju zombie.]]
* {{Transflormation}}: Any animals or beasts that succumb to the blight touch are considered plant creatures, at least until they become undead monsters.

[[folder:Blindheim]]
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->'''Origin:''' ''TabletopGame/{{Greyhawk}}''\\
'''Classification:''' Monstrous Humanoid (3E), Humanoid (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 3 (3E), 2 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil (2E-3E), ChaoticNeutral (5E)

Froglike creatures that lurk in watery subterranean areas, blinding prey with their luminous eyes.

* AdaptationalIntelligence: While in most editions blindheims are only slightly more intelligent than animals, 5E bumps their Intelligence up to a near-baseline 8. and gives them a racial legend about how their ancestors lived on the surface
* BlindedByTheLight: Blindheims' eyes shine like searchlights when their two sets of eyelids are fully opened, potentially blinding other creatures for a minute or so. Creatures with infravision or sensitivity to bright light, such as goblins or drow, are particularly susceptible to this attack.
* EyeBeams: "Advanced" blindheims have eyes with additional or alternate effects than normal. Amber- and blue-eyed blindheims can't blind foes with their eye beams, but can replicate a ''hypnotic pattern'' or ''faerie fire'' effect, respectively. White-eyed blindheims can use a ''sunburst'' every few rounds in addition to blinding foes.
* FireStolenFromTheGods: 5th Edition gives its blindheims a racial backstory in which they stole a piece of the sun, after which they fled into the Underdark and ate the stolen sunlight, [[JustSoStory explaining their eye beams.]] Now blindheims live in fear of the sun's vengeance, and will subject explorers to "endless questions about the sun's actions, its anger, and its attitudes." Those who fail to take the blindheims' concerns seriously will incur their wrath.
* FrogMen: A barely-sapient example in 2E and 3E, in which most blindheims are primitive even compared to bullywugs, with an animal intelligence that leaves them unable to use even simple tools. "Advanced" blindheims are those who live in crude villages, croak a rudimentary language, and throw darts in combat; such tribes are known to worship slaadi.
* TheHorde: Blindheims usually dwell in small groups, but every so often will gather into ravening hordes that can number in the hundreds, overrunning and consuming everything in their path before suddenly dispersing.
* PlayingWithFire: Gold-eyed blindheims can spit small ''fireballs'' every few rounds.
* SwallowedWhole: Their bite attacks can snap up Tiny creatures such as jermlaine, which at least keeps the little gremlins' numbers down.

[[folder:Blink Dog]]
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->'''Classification:''' Magical Beast (3E), Fey (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 2 (3E), 1/4 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' LawfulGood

Intelligent canines named for their ability to teleport short distances.

* AnimalJingoism: Blink dogs harbor a long-standing hatred for displacer beasts and attack them on sight -- the classic cat/dog rivalry, it seems, extends even to magical canine and feline beasts.
* HitAndRunTactics: 5th Edition lets blink dogs make bite attacks before or after a teleport.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: Blink dogs have been known to serve as mounts for halfling or gnome paladins, who they treat as the leaders of the "pack" of adventurers they've joined. With a ''ring of blinking'' a rider can take advantage of the creature's ''blink'' ability, though no known item lets a blink dog take its rider along when it uses ''dimension door''.
* LanguageBarrier: Blink dogs have human-level intelligence and their own language of barks, yips and growls, but while they can understand Sylvan, they can't speak it.
* MamaBear[=/=]PapaWolf: Blink dogs are normally playful, but ''very'' protective of their pups, due to other creatures sometimes trying to steal them to train as guard animals.
* TeleportSpam: In 3rd Edition they can use the ''blink'' spell at will to give them a chance to evade attacks, or ''dimension door'' once per round as a free action. 5th Edition instead gives them a straighforward teleport action they can combine with a bite attack.

[[folder:Blood Ape]]
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->'''Classification:''' Magical Beast (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 6 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' Unaligned

Red-furred apes that can grow in size in response to danger.

* GentleGiant: Blood apes are generally peaceful foragers, but when pressed they can be very nasty in combat.
* KingKongCopy: They start out Large and can grow to Huge size, putting them in the same size category as giants.
* MakeMyMonsterGrow: Blood ape alpha males have the ability to use the ''animal growth'' spell on themselves and others in their group, enhancing their combat capacity.

[[folder:Blood Hawk]]
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->'''Classification:''' Magical Beast (3E), Beast (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2 (3E), 1/8 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' Unaligned

Red-eyed birds of prey with 7-foot wingspans and a taste for fresh blood.

* TheBerserker: Blood hawks not only kill for pleasure, once they give into their bloodlust, they won't break off an attack until either they or their prey is dead.
* DamageOverTime: In 3rd Edition, their attacks cause ongoing bleeding damage that can only be stopped with a Heal check or curative magic. This effect is cumulative, and since blood hawks hunt in murders of up to 15 birds, the result can easily be a DeathByAThousandCuts.
* FeatheredFiend: They look like fairly ordinary gray-feathered hawks, apart from their eyes, which are the color of fresh blood. But blood hawks are literally bloodthirsty, the creatures will kill for pleasure even if they've recently fed, their murders are bold and strong enough to attack humanoids, and in fact they prefer the taste of human flesh and blood.
* ThievingMagpie: Male blood hawks will attack humanoids not just for food, but for gems they can use to attract mates.

[[folder:Bloodthorn]]
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->'''Classification:''' Plant (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 3 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' Unaligned

Briar-like, blood-drinking plants found in arid parts of the Lower Planes and the Outlands, though rarely a specimen will survive being transplanted to Material Plane wastelands.

* CombatTentacles: Bloodthorns attack and feed by lashing out with their tendrils, trying to grapple opponents to drain blood.
* DeathTrap: A bloodthorn produces succulet, bright red berries year-round, whose appealing fragrance lures in prey for the plant to attack. Any who survive the plant's attacks will be disappointed to find that the fruits are bitter and provide no sustenance.
* EerilyOutOfPlaceObject: Since bloodthorns sustain themselves on blood rather than water or sunlight, one big clue about their nature is that they're flourishing where a normal plant should not survive.
* VampiricDraining: Anyone grappled by a bloodthorn takes [[NonHealthDamage Constitution damage]] as its three-inch-long, hollow thorns pierce their flesh and drain their blood. Even if the victim tears themselves free with an opposed Strength check, one of the thorny tendrils comes lose from the bloodthorn, resulting in a bleeding wound that deals 1 point of DamageOverTime until healed.

[[folder:Bodytaker Plant]]
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->'''Origin:''' ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}''\\
'''Classification:''' Plant (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 7 (bodytaker plant), 1/2 (podling) (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil (2E)

Also known as "doppelganger plants," these strange plants abduct innocents and replace them with "podlings" that help them take over whole societies.

* AssimilationPlot: Bodytaker plants usually set up near communities and systematically go about replacing every denizen. "To their minds, a world would be healthier and more efficient were they in control. Anyone who disagrees either lacks perspective or is fit only to serve as fertilizer."
* EyeOfNewt: Their sap or pods' flesh can be used to craft mind-affecting potions and magic items, such as a superior ''potion of human control.''
* GenreRefugee: They seem out of place in GothicHorror-rich ''Ravenloft'', until you remember that the setting dabbles in ''all'' kinds of horror, even something as "sci-fi" as {{alien abduction}}s.
* KillAndReplace: 5E bodytaker plants work by grappling a victim with a lashing vine and pulling them into its pod. After a few hours soaking in enzymes, the helpless victim dies and is immediately transformed into a loyal podling; before this process is complete, a victim can be torn out of the pod with a Strength check, while killing the bodytaker plant enables an easier escape.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: Dead podlings quickly melt into a "slurry" when they or their host plant dies.
* NotQuiteDead: These malevolent plants are quite difficult to kill, since if any of its roots or pods is left intact after its main "body" is seemingly destroyed, the plant will simply regrow in a matter of months. [[SaltTheEarth Salting the earth]] or soaking the ground with poison can do the job.
* PlantAliens: They're implied to be as such, often turning up after an [[CometOfDoom "inauspicious comet or meteor shower"]] is sighted in the night sky.
* PossessionBurnout: In 2nd Edition, a doppelganger plant needs only to target a sleeping or unconscious creature with its ''mind bondage'' power to take them over, no conversion in a central pod needed. While under the plant's mental control, the new podling is fed upon by its host, losing 1d4 hit points each day as its life force is transferred into one of the plant's pods. The podling will gradually lose weight, and those who fight it with melee weapons might notice that their opponent is partially hollowed-out. By the time it's fully consumed by the doppelganger plant, a podling is little more than "a hollow shell of flesh with some muscle tissue and subcutaneous fat."
* ShoutOut: They're obviously inspired by the antagonists of ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers''.
* TheyLookLikeUsNow: Podlings are nearly indistinguishable from the originals, though they may [[ImpostorForgotOneDetail forget certain things]], and in 5E ping as plants under spells that detect creature types.

[[folder:Bog Hound]]
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->'''Origin:''' ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}''\\

Murderous canines spawned from a moor, the result of a fel curse or evil conjuring.

* TheBattleDidntCount: A moor hound can't be slain in normal circumstances -- even if reduced to 0 hit points, it won't collapse but will instead try to flee combat, leaving behind a trail of blood that disappears into a bog or pool of quicksand, and the monster will fully regenerate in time for the next night's hunt.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Moor hounds are coal-black creatures with flaming red eyes.
* KeystoneArmy: Should their moor hound be slain, the rest of a bog hound pack instantly crumbles, howling as they follow their pack leader into oblivion.
* LargeAndInCharge: The moor hound that leads a bog hound pack is a Large creature compared to its Medium-sized packmates.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: Standard bog hounds can be slain, at which point their bodies will crumble to inanimate matter as their breaths escape like wisps of marsh mist, but the creatures will continue to spawn from the bog each night, so long as their pack leader survives.
* SwampMonster: The standard bog hounds are empty-eyed beasts made from the mud and straw of their home marsh, while the moor hound that leads them is comprised from the vapors of the bog, which incidentally means that only magic weapons can hit them.
* SwampsAreEvil: In some cases, bog hounds are spawned "naturally" from swamps that have powerful curses laid upon them.
* WeakenedByTheLight: Bog hounds' bane is natural sunlight. When exposed to it, ordinary bog hounds will instantly go inert, becoming mere sculptures of mud and straw trapped in the pose the sun caught them in, statues that crumble apart at the slightest touch. In the case of the moor hound, sunlight causes any damage it sustained that evening to properly apply to it, potentially killing it outright. At any rate, a moor hound in sunlight can be slain by even mundane weapons, and will let out one last ghostly howl before fading into nothingness.

[[folder:Bog Imp]]
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->'''Classification:''' Fey (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 6 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil

These murderous little fey delight in drowning other creatures who enter their swamps, unless doing so would conflict with the imps' strange code of honor. Despite their names, they have no relation to fiendish imps.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: These fey are unusually lawful, and bound by customs and a system of honor that they are psychologically incapable of breaking. While the specifics vary between clutches of bog imps, they provide ways for would-be victims to spare themselves, such as having someone defeat the bog imp in a race through the marsh or game of wits, or successfully guessing the bog imp's family name. Bog imps who were formerly elves may also spare any elves from their former communities.
* FastTunneling: As amphibious creatures, bog imps have a swim speed, but their burrowing speed is twice as fast -- the catch is that it can only be used while moving through viscous, not-quite-liquid material like swamp muck.
* PoisonousPerson: A bog imp's claw attacks force victims to save or be sickened for several rounds.
* SupernaturalSuffocation: Bog imps can simply glance at a victim and cause a phantom force to drag them beneath the water or mud. This process can take as little as one round, though creatures with Strength bonuses can resist for correspondingly longer, but unless someone pulls the victim out, drags them to solid ground, or kills the bog imp, said victim will begin drowning.
* TheVirus: If an elf succumbs to a bog imp's signature attack, they don't die but instead enter a form of stasis, shriveling and "pickling" over 13 days before being reborn as a bog imp with an instinctive understanding of the local clutch's code of conduct.
* WalkingWasteland: Any nonmagical liquid, from water to wine to milk, becomes stagnant as soon as it comes within 60 feet of a bog imp, and will cause hours of nausea if drank. Fortunately, potions are immune to this effect.

[[folder:Boggle]]
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->'''Classification:''' Monstrous Humanoid (3E), Fey Humanoid (4E), Fey (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 3 (3E, 4E), 1/8 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral, Evil (4E)

Small humanoids that behave much like obnoxious monkeys, stealing trinkets and making nuisances of themselves.

* MischiefMakingMonkey: Their behavior fits the trope, and 4th Edition directly compares boggles' relationship to banderhobbs and goblins to that between apes and humans.
* ThePrankster: Boggles engage in petty pranks to amuse themselves. Although a boggle's antics might cause distress and unintentional harm, its intent is usually mischief, not mayhem.
* RubberMan: Boggles are noted for their rubbery skin and stretchy limbs, giving them a much longer reach than their 3-foot stature would suggest.
* SlipperySkid: They can secrete a nonflammable oil from their skin that replicates a ''grease'' effect.
* StickySituation: Alternatively, 5th Edition boggles can create a glue-like puddle to restrain other creatures.
* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: 4th Edition casts boggles as "bogeymen" that lurk in the corner of children's vision before disappearing. "Parents dismiss such stories as phantoms of an overactive imagination -- until the boggle snatches the child away."
* ThinkingUpPortals: Boggles can use existing doorways and spaces to create short-ranged dimensional rifts, allowing them to reach (or attack) something within 30 feet of it.
* {{Tulpa}}: 5th Edition casts boggles as fey born from feelings of loneliness, such as that felt by a friendless child, old widow, or hermit. Unfortunately, the boggles' attempts to amuse themselves always come at their "host"'s expense.

[[folder:Bogun]]
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->'''Classification:''' Construct (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 1 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

Tiny clumps of ambulatory compost created by druids as helpers.

* ArtificialInsolence: Since they're self-aware and sometimes willful, boguns have a 1-in-20 chance to ignore a given order. If their creator cannot pass a Diplomacy check to convince the bogun to behave, it may defiantly do the opposite of the prior order, or refuse to do anything at all for the rest of the day.
* OurHomunculiAreDifferent: Boguns are small nature servants, created by druids as an extension of themselves.
* PoisonousPerson: They aren't intended for combat, but boguns are covered in nettles that can inject a Dexterity-damaging poison.
* {{Synchronization}}: Part of the ritual to create a bogun involves the caster putting a part of themselves - a clump of hair, a few drops of blood -- into the construct to create a bond. Thus, a bogun's destruction inflicts damage to its creator, while if its creator dies, the bogun does as well.
* {{Telepathy}}: Boguns can't speak, but have a telepathic link with their creators.

[[folder:Bone Whelk]]
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->'''Classification:''' Monstrosity (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/4 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' Unaligned

Large scavenging gastropods found on Avernus, top layer of the Nine Hells of Baator.

* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: Bone whelks get their name from their habit of using the bones of other creatures in lieu of a conventional snail shell.
* StickySituation: Smaller creatures that touch their sticky bodies have to save or end up stuck (grappled).
* TakingYouWithMe: When killed, a bone whelk lets out a death scream audible from over 100 feet away, which causes organic material within 10 feet of the monster to [[MakeThemRot rot]], and deals necrotic damage to creatures.
* WallCrawl: Like less monstrous snails, bone whelks can climb up sheer surfaces or even upside-down across ceilings.

[[folder:Boneleaf]]
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->'''Classification:''' Aberration (3E)\\

'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

Creatures that use illusions to lure prey into reach of their tendrils and razor-sharp leaves.

* HiveMind: Subverted; each individual boneleaf in an area is just one part of a much larger organism, and their nerves run underground for miles between the "trees" above the surface. Practically speaking, the difference is trivial, and anything that "one" boneleaf experiences becomes known to the "rest."
* ManEatingPlant: Subverted; while boneleaves are often mistaken for plants, a DC 15 Spot check will pick up on their off-white, green-tinted coloration, and their vines' tendency to move without a breeze. Dissecting one reveals that its vines and leaves have blood vessels and cartilage, while its roots are in fact a nervous system. They feed on the blood shed by their victims more than their flesh, supplemented by nutrients from the soil.
* MasterOfIllusion: Boneleaves hunt with an illusory lure, a variant of ''major image'' that only lasts a few rounds at a time, and which typically takes the form of someone crying for aid, or a glimpse of something valuable in or next to the "tree."
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: If sorely pressed in combat, a boneleaf will use its modest burrow speed to vanish beneath the earth and soil, leading to the bizarre sight of a "tree" disappearing as if yanked down by something below.
* TentacleRope: Boneleaves attack with tendrils that can grab and constrict prey, all while their razor-sharp leaves deal a bit of additional damage.

[[folder:Bonespear]]
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->'''Origin:''' ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}''\\
'''Classification:''' Vermin (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 12 (3E)\\

Giant insects native to Acheron, though they've since spread to other planes, where their ability to harpoon prey makes them deadly hunters.

* AnchoredAttackStance: A bonespear can anchor itself to the ground with all six legs, giving it a huge bonus to opposed Strength checks and attempts to be moved against its will.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: They're insectoid predators some eight feet long.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: A bonespear hunts by using a powerful blast of compressed air from specialized bladders in its head to launch its two horns at a victim. If this attack hits, the victim is impaled and takes a minor penalty on rolls as well as damage each round until the horn is removed, though pulling the barbed horn free will deal additional damage (which can be lessened with a successful Heal check).
* PoisonousPerson: Each of their horns carries a different poison, one dealing [[NonHealthDamage Dexterity damage, the other Strength damage.]]
* YouShallNotEvadeMe: Bonespears' signature weapons are tethered by long lengths of sinew, allowing them to reel in an impaled victim at a rate of 10 feet per round with an opposed Strength check.

[[folder:Bonetree]]
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->'''Classification:''' Plant (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 5 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' Unaligned

Horrible swamp-dwelling carnivorous trees, which subsist upon their prey's bones. They're unrelated to the boneleaves above.

* BlindedByTheLight: A bonetree's trunk is charged with energy, which is released in a flash of light whenever it takes damage, forcing all nearby to save or be blinded for a round.
* BotanicalAbomination: They look something like a bulbous mangrove tree with exposed roots and leafless branches, covered in hundreds of knots and jagged holes that hide its stinging vines.
* CombatTentacles: As soon as a bonetree senses prey, a mass of tentacles erupt from the holes in its trunk, attacking everything within 30 feet of it.
* IncreasinglyLethalEnemy: After a bonetree has drained 3 points of Constitution from one or more victims, it can "sweat" a mixture of enzymes and liquified bone that instantly hardens into interlocking armored plates that double its natural armor bonus. After draining 6 points of Constitution, it can similarly add bony spurs to its vines, tripling their damage. The spurs drop off after 10 minutes (and are picked up and re-eaten by the tree), while its improved natural armor decays over the next three hours before similarly being re-absorbed.
* ManEatingPlant: Downplayed in that while they prey upon animals, bonetrees are specifically after bone, not meat. Also, unlike most ''D&D'' plant monsters, bonetrees are completely immobile.
* NonHealthDamage: Their vines can attach filaments to a paralyzed victim that excrete an enzyme that dissolves bone without harming the surrounding tissues. In gameplay terms, this means a point of Constitution drain each round (with NoSavingThrow) until the victim is torn free by an opposed Strength check.
* TheParalyzer: A bonetree's stinging vines carry a poison that deals Dexterity damage, with a secondary effect of paralyzing victims.
* RoarBeforeBeating: A variant; when a bonetree senses prey, its tentacle-branches rattle in anticipation, producing a sound similar to a nest of rattlesnakes.
* WeakToFire: Averted; unlike most plant enemies, bonetrees are resistant to fire damage.

[[folder:Bookworm]]
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->'''Alignment:''' Unaligned

Remarkably speedy inch-long worms whose hunger for paper, leather and wood makes them the bane of librarians everywhere.

* ChameleonCamouflage: Their bodies are normally gray, but bookworms can change their hue to blend in with their surroundings.
* LampreyMouth: It's just for feeding, though, they don't actually have an attack that can deal damage to a living creature.
* LiteralBookworm: They are tiny worms that, while harmless to people, can prove to be the undoing of anyone dependent on books and scrolls, such as magic users.
* NonMaliciousMonster: They just simply feed on any printed material and are relatively harmless.
* OrganDrops: The bookworms' own bane is ink, which they can't digest and which builds up in their bodies until it poisons them. On the plus side, the ink stored inside their corpses is a potent ingredient for AntiMagic.

[[folder:Brachyurus]]
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->'''Classification:''' Magical Beast (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 23 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral

Extraordinarily large and vicious wolves, who roam lost extraplanar wilderlands or walk among their lesser kin as living myths.

* CanisMajor: They're Large wolves with bristling manes and overlarge, but perfectly functional, teeth and claws.
* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: A brachyurus pelt is a tempting prize for esoteric hunters, but more often than not such would-be hunters end up in the creatures' bellies.
* KickThemWhileTheyreDown: Brachyuruses can make a special "savage" attack against any enemy that goes prone in their threatened area, dealing potentially over 100 points of damage as the beast latches onto their victim's body and tears their flesh. This combos nastily with the creature's Improved Trip feat.
* LightningBruiser: They have a blistering 80-foot movement speed, and thanks to their Blinding Speed epic feat, they can ''haste'' themselves for a total of 10 rounds per day.
* MonsterProgenitor: They're said to be "the primordial stock from which all lesser wolves and canines devolved," and their descendants include the mythical Fenris Wolf.
* SavageWolves: They are a different species of wolves and can attack any enemy in sight.
* SupernaturalFearInducer: A brachyurus' frightful howl can make even the most hardened warriors quake in their boots, an ability the beast uses to break up opponents.

[[folder:Brain Mole]]
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->'''Classification:''' Magical Beast (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' Unaligned

Burrowing mammals all but indistinguishable from their mundane cousins, but which feed upon psychic energy.

* AntiTrueSight: Brain moles can hide their minds from clairsentience powers or divination magic.
* AttackAnimal: Non-psions have been known to keep brain moles as protection against psionic attackers.
* ManaDrain: They can use ''power leech'' as an at-will psi-like ability, which they use to feed upon other psionic creatures' power points.
* PoisonousPerson: Their bite attacks at most deal 2 points of damage on a critical hit, but can infect other creatures with cascade flu, a malady that can cause them to [[PowerIncontinence inadvertantly manifest an increasing number of psionic powers until their power point reserve is completely spent.]]
* PsychicPowers: Besides ''power leech'', brain moles use ''detect psionics'' to find prey, and when pressed will use ''aversion'' or ''mind thrust'' to defend themselves.

[[folder:Branta]]
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->'''Classification:''' Magical Beast (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 2 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' Unaligned

Hardy herbivores adapted to life in the frostfell.

* FantasticLivestock[=/=]HorseOfADifferentColor: Averted; nobody's managed to domesticate brantas yet. However, some orc tribes or dragons will block off mountain valleys to trap a herd in the area, to take advantage of their tight, light-hued, nourishing meat.
* HornAttack: Brantas prefer to flee rather than fight, but when cornered will lower their heads and charge at a threat to make gore attacks, and potentially toss enemies around with their horns.
* TheNoseKnows: Downplayed; brantas' sense of smell is developed enough for them to detect the presence of other creatures within 30 feet, but they have to get right on top of them to pinpoint an unseen creature's location.

[[folder:Braxat]]
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->'''Origin:''' ''TabletopGame/DarkSun''\\
'''Classification:''' Monstrous Humanoid (3E), Humanoid (4E), Giant (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 9 (3E), 14 (4E), 9 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil, Evil (4E)

15-foot-tall psionic humanoids who relish hunting intelligent prey by moonlight.

* ApeShallNeverKillApe: Zig-zagged. Young braxats commonly fight one another as they compete for treasure, mates, lairs, etc. But once a braxat has joined a hunting warband, conflict within that group is strictly forbidden, and killing a bandmate is punished by executing both the offender and their family.
* ArtEvolution: Their 2nd Edition art mixes rhino and reptilian features, giving them leathery grey hides beneath scaly armor plates, and has them standing fully upright. Their 3rd Edition art instead depicts them hunched over, with colorful, insectoid carapaces. 4th Edition reverts to their original design, then 5th Edition depicts them as something like a Huge, bipedal mix of a ceratopian and ankylosaur.
* BreathWeapon: They can breathe a cone of [[AcidAttack acid]] (or [[AnIcePerson cold]] in 3E), but only use this attack in emergencies, since it tends to leave prey unfit for consumption.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: Braxats can eat just about anything, but only properly hunt other intelligent beings, and in fact their entire society is structured around raiding and stalking their neighbors. Sometimes other creatures [[TheHunterBecomesTheHunted try and turn this around]] and attempt to harvest braxats' shells or horns, but in most cases the braxats are more than a match for such would-be hunters of hunters.
* MixAndMatchCritters: They're towering bipeds with rhino-like bodies but beetle-like shells.
* PsychicPowers: Like most life from the world of Athas, braxats are naturally psionic. Beyond powers such as ''[[{{Intangibility}} blink]]'', ''[[{{Teleportation}} dimension door]]'' or ''[[SupernaturalFearInducer fear]]'' (the specific powers varying by edition), they can also use a ''mind blast'' to stun prey in 3rd Edition, while 4th and 5th Edition let braxats throw up a telekinetic barrier to block an incoming attack.
* {{Sadist}}: Braxats try and maximize their victims' fear as they close in, and never kill quickly.
* {{Telepathy}}: In 2nd and 3rd Edition, they can communicate psychically out to a range of a mile, and often use this power to [[HopeSpot create false hope]] for their victims, or [[ToThePain describe the grisly fate in store for their prey.]]

[[folder:Breath Drinker]]
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->'''Classification:''' Elemental (3E), Aberration (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 7 (3E), 14 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

Cruel vaporous creatures that steal the very air from their victims' lungs.

* ArtEvolution: They go from pale and misty in 3rd Edition to dark and smoky in 5E.
* AxeCrazy: In 3rd Edition, breathdrinkers are sometimes summoned to the Material Plane to assassinate a certain target, but may decide to linger after their original assignment simply because they enjoy causing death and destruction.
* FeedItWithFire: A 5E breath drinker is actually healed by radiant damage, despite its void-like nature. However, ''because'' of that void-like nature, necrotic damage serves as its AchillesHeel, amplifying the void within its core until the monster consumes itself.
* InvisibleMonsters: The breathdrinker is normally invisible until it attacks, at which point it mimics the form of its current target.
* RazorWind: In 3E, they can make "wind scythe" attacks, blasts of air from their own body that are so powerful that they deal as much damage as a metal scythe.
* {{Retcon}}: 3E breathdrinkers are elemental creatures from the Elemental Plane of Air sometimes summoned by spellcasters, while 5E breath drinkers are Far Realm entities sometimes aligned with Elder Evils, and were originally spawned by the Void card from the ''Deck of Many Things''.
* SuperPersistentPredator: Their 3rd Edition entry mentions that breathdrinkers are single-minded once they select a victim. Not only will one not rest until the monster feeds upon its prey's breath, it'll forgo using its signature attack on all but its chosen target, defending itself from other threats with its wind scythe instead.
* SupernaturalFearInducer: A 3E breathdrinker's glowing red eyes can strike fear into its prey, rendering them helpless as it steals their breath.
* SupernaturalSuffocation: They feed on air extracted from the lungs of living creatures, causing them to eventually suffocate.

[[folder:Briarvex]]
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->'''Classification:''' Plant (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 6 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

Sometimes called "vine ogres," these hulking ambulatory plants seek only to fill the woodlands with their spawn, and view all other creatures as threats to their existence.

* AbsoluteXenophobe: Briarvexes only rarely seek peaceful relations with neighboring creatures such as gnolls, and even then consider such lesser beings to be nuisances, no better than fertiliser. In most cases, the only time briarvexes don't try to kill or drive out other creatures is because said creatures are strong enough that the briarvexes are waiting to build up overwhelming numbers. They're so nasty that some sages think briarvexes originated in the Nine Hells before being transplanted to the Material Plane.
* ArchEnemy: Briarvexes and treants hate each other and fight on sight, seeing each other as their most powerful competitor for control of the forest.
* ExplosiveBreeder: There have been instances, in lush terrain, where briarvexes have planted nearly a thousand of their kind in the space of a year, and since a briarvex takes only two years to mature, the result is a mighty [[TheHorde horde]] of plant monsters that overruns settlements near their forests.
* GreenThumb: A briarvex can control the plants around it, causing them to grapple and hold its foes as per the ''entangle'' spell.
* NoSell: They can move through the thorniest of undergrowth without being slowed or taking damage, and are similarly immune to magical attempts to impede them with plants. This means groups of briarvexes can use their ''entangle'' ability without fear of hampering each other.
* PowerFist: An organic example; briarvexes' fists are studded with thorny spikes, which break off when they punch foes and embed themselves in their victims' flesh, at which point the briarvex can take a swift action to make the thorns twist and burrow deeper for additional damage. A victim can use an action to dislodge the thorns, thankfully.
* WeakToFire: Like most plant monsters, briarvexes are vulnerable to fire damage, and as such take care to appraise threats before leaping into combat, in case any are carrying sources of fire.

[[folder:Brigganock]]
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->'''Classification:''' Fey (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/8 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' NeutralGood

Tiny, mouse-like denizens of the Feywild, who make their living mining for rare gems.

* BigEater: Brigganocks never turn down a good meal and eat a lot for a creature of their size.
* HitodamaLight: These fey's souls exist outside their bodies, appearing as bulbs of pale light. [[MundaneUtility They use them to help see in the dark]], and can take a bonus action to send their soul-lights up to thirty feet to illuminate an area before returning.
* MakeAWish: Mortal wishes take physical form in the Feywild, becoming lodged in "wish stones." The brigganocks seek these out, collecting and polishing those containing good wishes into proper gems, and leaving behind malicious wishes. The resulting polished wish stones are then traded to other fey for use as scrying stones, or to power charms or animated objects.
* OurKoboldsAreDifferent: They're arguably closer to the source material than ''D&D''[='s=] draconic kobolds, as brigganocks are explicitly fey creatures that work in mines, though they're more benign than most folkloric kobolds. Their rodent-like appearance also makes brigganocks look quite similar to ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}''[='s=] take on kobolds.
* TimeMaster: A brigganock can accelerate time around itself, allowing it to finish an hour's work in mere seconds, so long as said work takes place within a single room-sized area.

[[folder:Brixashulty]]
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->'''Classification:''' Animal (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 1 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' Unaligned

Brixas for short, these goatlike creatures have long been domesticated by halflings, who boast that the beasts are "as surefooted as a mule, as loyal as a dog, as calm as a milk cow, and as tough as a badger."

* AttackAnimal: Their does are often trained for guard duty in addition to work, and are valid animal companions for classes like druids and rangers.
* FantasticLivestock: Brixas are quite useful livestock, providing wool, milk, and meat that's somewhat tough and stringy, but well-flavored (though some find the taste overpowering).
* HornAttack: They attack by goring with their horns, which can also inflict KnockBack.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: Small humanoids can easily ride brixashulties, whose bucks are often trained as combat mounts.
* SweetSheep: They're mostly even-tempered, but brixashulties are always alert and sensitive to strange sights, sounds or smells, tend to charge and gore offenders when annoyed, and a herd of agitated brixas can fend off even packs of wolves by concentrating their attacks and covering each other's flanks. Of course, these are all positive qualities for livestock in a halfling caravan traveling through potentially dangerous lands.

[[folder:B'rohg]]
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->'''Origin:''' ''TabletopGame/DarkSun''\\
'''Classification:''' Natural Humanoid (4E), Giant (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 10 (4E), 6 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' Neutral (2E), Unaligned (4E), Any (5E)

Primitive four-armed giants who are often captured for use in gladiatorial combat.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: B'rohgs' primitism and lack of intelligence makes it difficult for them to bond with other creatures, but 5th Edition mentions that if a stranger helps a b'rohg, the giant will be at first puzzled, then wary, but may eventually come to trust the smaller being, tagging along for a time and repaying their kindness by carrying heavy loads or helping their friend cross dangerous terrain, before leaving to seek out other b'rohgs.
* DumbMuscle: They're big, strong, and very stupid -- despite having the same Intelligence stat as an ogre, b'rohgs have no language beyond grunts and gestures, don't seem to grasp the concept of death (they ignore anything showing no sign of life, but will give a downed opponent a thump to keep them from getting back up), and in their home setting, haven't even discovered fire (though they at least have no irrational fear of it).
* GladiatorGames: As mentioned, b'rohgs' strength and the spectacle of their four-armed combat style make them popular in gladiatorial arenas, especially on Athas, where they tend to be treated as exotic animals rather than giant humanoids and are never given the chance to earn their freedom. B'rohgs who escape captivity do so with a new appreciation for weapons and armor, but they can never go back to their home societies, both due to the shame of being captured, and out of shame for their people's primitive lifestyle.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: They can make four attacks per round with their fists, weapons or [[BoulderBludgeon hurled rocks]]. In 5th Edition, a b'rohg can also make a special attack to grapple a foe with a "Hideous Rend," dealing damage each turn until their victim is torn into four pieces.
* TheSpeechless: The b'rohg language consists of grunts and hand signals, and their limited intellects make them incapable of learning spoken or written languages (and hamstrings attempts at telepathic communication).

[[folder:Broken One]]
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'''Challenge Rating:''' 3 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

Sometimes called "animal men," these twisted beings are the survivors of magical mishaps or scientific experiments that have left them horrid combinations of beast and humanoid.

* BarbarianTribe: Broken ones usually dwell within small communities of their own kind, occasionally raiding caravans or nearby settlements for supplies, in self-defense, or out of vengeance for real or imagined wrongs. Though given the opportunity, they'll try to hunt down and kill the person responsible for their condition.
* BeastMan: A particularly haphazard example, with asymmetrical mixes of beast and man for a generallly grotesque appearance. On the upside, broken ones enjoy SuperToughness, a HealingFactor, and often additional powers based on the animal they've been mingled with.
* CameBackWrong: Rumor has it that some broken ones are the result of ''resurrection'' or ''reincarnation'' spells gone awry.
* HumanoidAbomination: While other, "natural" bestial humanoids might be labeled Humanoids or {{Monstrous Humanoid}}s, broken ones are classified as Aberrations in 3rd Edition.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: One in ten broken ones can communicate with the type of creature they resemble.

[[folder:Bronze Serpent]]
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->'''Classification:''' Construct (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 10 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' Unaligned

Twenty-foot-long constructs originally built to guard the temples of snake-worshipping jungle cultures, until the secret of their creation spread to other lands.

* AnimalMecha: Bronze serpents are magical metal constructs consisting of bronze rings assembled in the shape of giant snakes.
* FeedItWithFire: Due to their affinity for it, bronze serpents are healed by electricity-based attacks.
* GlowingEyes: A bronze serpent's eyes glow with blue-white electricity.
* ShockAndAwe: The jaws of a bronze serpent drip electrical sparks, dealing extra damage to victims of its bite. It also gets an attack bonus against targets wearing metal armor.

[[folder:Brood Keeper]]
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->'''Classification:''' Magical Beast (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 16 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

30-foot-long insectoid monsters that unleash swarms of their voracious offspring in battle.

* AttackAnimal: While brood keepers' belligerance makes them ill-suited as guard creatures, some have used them as walking vaults by sneaking a valuable item beneath their chitin plating.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: They are Huge creatures resembling wingless beetles with six cat-like eyes.
* FoodChainOfEvil: They're strong and fearless enough to go after giants and dragons.
* ItCanThink: Brood keepers have the Intelligence score necessary to learn a language if taught, but do not speak, and view other creatures as nothing more than food.
* SupernaturalFearInducer: Any creature who sees a brood keeper rend a foe in combat, or unleash its swarm of offspring, has to save against fear.
* TheSwarm: Brood keeper larva fight in clouds of foot-long, winged grubs.
* WeaponizedOffspring: Brood keepers carry their many young within their carapaces, and can take a full-round action to lift the plates of chitin on their backs (reducing the brood keeper's Armor Class) to release a flying swarm of larva, typically so their young can feed, or to send after distant foes. Brood keepers are willing to risk their offspring in combat, since the larva don't grow while sheltering on their parent, and if the single swarm they support is destroyed, the monsters can asexually create a new one within a month.

[[folder:Brownie]]
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->'''Classification:''' Fey Humanoid (4E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 1 (4E)\\
'''Alignment:''' LawfulGood (brownie), NeutralGood (dobie), TrueNeutral (buckawn)

Two-foot-tall, friendly humanoids who live in rural areas, coexisting with larger folk.

* ArchEnemy: 4th Edition states that brownies despise goblins and boggles in particular, and will slice off the fingers of any boggle reaching into a brownie's home. This means goblins or boggles will hesitate to enter a home under a brownie's protection.
* {{Familiar}}: While most brownies prefer to work without any recognition, some brownies who have moved into the home of a good wizard are known to offer their services as familiars, helping organize arcane components, copy spells from one tome to another, and keep the wizard's robes tidy.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Watchdogs and other domestic animals know that brownies are friendly, and never bark at or attack them.
* OurGnomesAreDifferent: A type of brownie known as buckawns better fits the "forest gnome" mold than the "house fey" archtype. Buckawns dwell in forests, their clans living in single homes carved into the bowels of a great tree. They're reclusive and distrustful of outsiders, even other buckawn clans, and known for employing both [[MasterOfIllusion illusions]] and [[MasterPoisoner potent, fast-acting poisons]] against threats.
* {{Hobbits}}: Brownies are possibly related to halflings, and when they aren't inhabiting abandoned structures will dwell within burrows in pastoral areas.
* HouseFey: They usually live in or close to farms, quietly doing chores in exchange for taking a minor portion of milk and grain. "House" brownies are those who have moved into the homes of families who meet their moral standards, offering them further assistance in exchange for a bit of fruit or bread. But their etiquette demands that their hosts take no notice of them, and brownies will leave a home if its owners boast of having assistants.
* MasterOfIllusion: They can use magic like ''ventriloquism'', ''dancing lights'' and ''mirror image'' each once per day.
* StealthExpert: Brownies don't have the magical ability to hide themselves, they're just so good at blending in with their surroundings that they're practically invisible. And when they do need to escape in an emergency, they know ''dimension door.''
* UnwantedAssistance: This is the gimmick of dobies, more rustic brownies (i.e. they're depicted in denim overalls) who typically work on farms. Like normal brownies, they try to do services for the big folk, but always botch the job in some way -- if they milk the cows, they forget to close the barn door, and if they bring the cows back, they trample a garden in the process. They're also amazingly oblivious to criticism, instead redoubling their efforts in an attempt to make amends, and are next to impossible to drive away. About the only good thing about them is that they'll interrupt burglars and wild animals' attacks on their farm, albeit in a way that causes a lot of chaos and minor property damage.

[[folder:Bugbear]]
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->'''Classification:''' Humanoid (3E, 5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 2 (3E), 1 (5E)\\
'''Playable:''' 2E-5E\\
'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

The biggest of the goblinoids, and suprisingly sneaky for their size and strength. See the [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsRaces Playable Races]] subpage for details.
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[[folder:Bulette]]
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->'''Classification:''' Magical Beast (3E), Natural Beast (4E), Monstrosity (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 7 (3E), 9 (4E), 5 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' Unaligned

Armored, shark-like predators that burrow through sand and soil.

* CraftedFromAnimals: Their armored head-plates can at least be fashioned into shields, enchanted ones if a dwarven smith works with them.
* TheDreaded: As their ''AD&D'' entry explains, "Ogres, trolls, and even some giants all move off in search of greener and safer pastures when a bulette appears. A bulette can turn a peaceful farming community into a wasteland in a few short weeks, for no sane human or demihuman will remain in a region where a bulette has been sighted."
* {{Expy}}: Based on a knockoff ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'' {{kaiju}} figure found by Gary Gygax, presumably [[https://ultra.fandom.com/wiki/Gabora Gabora]] in its "burrowing form" with its head petals closed.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Bulettes are indiscriminate predators that will attack whatever they can hear moving on the surface. They will eagerly devour any other living thing (except elves and dwarves, whose taste they dislike), and their powerful stomach acids will allow them to digest even the clothing, armor and weapons of their prey -- hungry bulettes aren't above eating whatever gear and belongings their victims left scattered around.
* LandShark: Bulettes are armored, shark-shaped monsters that burrow through earth and sand, often with just their dorsal fins poking through, attacking anything they can find.
* MobySchtick: The ''Ecology of the Bulette'' article in ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' #74 focuses chiefly on a hunter named A'ahb retelling his hunt of a legendary albino bulette named Mobh Idich.
* SandWorm: Their sharklike shape aside, bulettes are classic examples of this trope. They're subterranean, burrowing predators that spend most of their time belowground, using their sensitivity to tremors in the earth to detect the presence of creatures above them. As soon as a bulette feels something walking around on the ground above, it surfaces, attacks and tries to devour it.
* ThreateningShark: While not true sharks, bulettes are in many ways a terrestrial version of this. They're voracious predators that specialize in preying on helpless creatures on top of the medium they move through, unseen except for their triangular dorsal fin cutting through the surface, and are often referred to as land sharks for this reason.

[[folder:Bullywug]]
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->'''Classification:''' Humanoid (3E, 5E), Natural Humanoid (4E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 1 (3E, 4E), 1/4 (5E)\\
'''Playable:''' 2E, 4E\\
'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil, NeutralEvil (5E)

Brutish and malicious batrachians who live in swamps, raiding nearby civilizations for both useful goods and shiny trinkets to use as status symbols.

* AxCrazy: 4th edition describes them as being "Among the [[EvilIsPetty pettiest]] and [[StupidEvil most mindlessly destructive]] of all humanoid societies."
* EnemySummoner: Their 3rd edition write-up notes that bullywug spellcasters have a dangerous enthusiasm for ''summon monster'' spells, one that outstrips their ability to control what they call up. This means there's a chance for a bullywug cleric to summon more monsters than normal with a spell, as well as a chance for said monsters to be outside the cleric's control. Which leads to some bullywug spellcasters spending more time fighting their own summoned reinforcements than the enemy.
* FrogMen: They resemble humanoid frogs, and live in wet, swampy habitats. Naturally, they're amphibious, adept at hiding in marshy terrain, and are powerful jumpers.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: Some bullywugs, particularly their nobility, ride into battle on giant toads.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Their main defining trait as of 5e is that they will always try to show off to visitors, and get very angry if insulted. On the upside, this means that captives who grovel and flatter their bullywug captors will usually be set free after providing suitable tribute to the mighty frog-monarch who captured them.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Bullywugs can communicate simple concepts with frogs and toads when speaking Bullywug.

[[folder:Buomman]]
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->'''Classification:''' Humanoid (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2 (3E)\\
'''Playable:''' 3E\\
'''Alignment:''' LawfulGood or LawfulNeutral

Humanoids known as the "moaning monks," who dwell in shrines and temples on the Astral Plane, amidst the remains of forgotten deities.

* BareFistedMonk: Their lifestyle is monastic to begin with, so most buomman characters progress as monks.
* BarrierMaiden: Neutral or Evil buommans tend to believe that the petrified deities on the Astral Plane are dead and must not be revived, and thus go through their rituals to prevent that from happening. Good buommans, on the other hand, invert this trope and sing their songs in the hope that the sleeping deities will awaken someday.
* CreepyLongFingers: Their fingers and toes are noticably elongated, adding to their otherworldly air.
* ElectiveMute: Buommans take a vow agianst speech at an early age, though not a vow of silence -- their monks get their nickname for conversing in low, throaty singing, and their proper name from the first note each learns to vocalize before learning to walk, "buomm." They're not ''constantly'' singing, but buommans sing during daily rituals, and have songs for occasions such as waking, sleeping or eating, as well as for less concrete concepts. A buomman who breaks their vow against speech takes Wisdom damage and a penalty on rolls for the next 24 hours, cumulative for each offense. For this reason, buomman spellcasters rely on metamagic feats like Silent Spell, or use the Nonverbal Spell feat to cast spells using other sounds besides speech.
* HumanSubspecies: The first buommans were human visitors to the Astral Plane, but thousands of years later they're considered natives, humanoids with the extraplanar subtype rather than the human subtype.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Buommans' names for themselves are short melodies in specific keys, so for the convenience of other races, adventuring buommans accept nicknames from their companions, as long as they aren't too harsh. "Jak" would be uncomfortable, while "Moony" is acceptable.

[[folder:Burbur]]
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->'''Origin:''' ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms''\\
'''Alignment:''' Unaligned

Strange little creatures that feed upon dangerous slimes and molds.

* BigEater: Burburs won't stop feeding until they've dealt thrice as much damage to an ooze as they had starting hit points. After feeding, the burbur will be bloated and sluggish, and retreat to its nest to rest.
* BizarreAlienReproduction: Once each year in the spring, a burbur develops a bulge on its tail that grows into a second head, then sprouts arms, until finally a second, entirely new creature splits off the end of the first.
* HelpfulMook: They're unintelligent monsters, but their ability to consume dangerous dungeon oozes make them prized by adventurers and valuable as exotic pets (though not to plasmoids, for obvious reasons).
* NoSell: They can not only safely eat the likes of green slime and russet mold, they're also immune to the effects of dangerous plants or fungi like yellow musk creepers or violet fungi, and will frequently make their nests behind such hazards.
* OurMonstersAreWeird: Burburs have foot-long, worm-like bodies, mosquito-like heads complete with a straw-like proboscis they use to slurp up prey, and pair of dextrous arms.

[[folder:Burrow Root]]
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->'''Classification:''' Plant (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 8 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' Unaligned

Carnivorous plants over 12 feet long, which burst from the soil, attack prey with their thorny maws, then retreat underground to feed on the blood seeping into the earth.

* AsteroidsMonster: Once per day, when a burrow root is reduced to half its full hit points, it splits into two creatures, each of which receives half the original's remaining hit points (the "newborn" then has to wait another day before it has a chance to split). This is in fact how burrow roots reproduce, so they'll remain in combat until they either win or split, at which point both burrow roots typically flee beneath the surface.
* DamageOverTime: Their attacks cause persistent bleeding damage.
* FastTunnelling: Their base burrow speed is only 20 feet per round, but three times per day they can use an immediate action to burrow an extra 20 feet, moving fast enough to avoid attacks of opportunity.
* SandWorm: They hit most of the beats of the trope, they're just plant monsters rather than animals.

[[folder:Buso]]
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->'''Origin:''' ''TabletopGame/KaraTur''\\
'''Classification:''' Monstrous Humanoid (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 3 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

Tigbanua buso are ghoulish, one-eyed creatures whose filthy claws curse others to transform at night into similar monsters called tagamaling buso.

* {{Cyclops}}: Buso's distinguishing characteristic is their single eye, a lurid red and yellow color.
* OurGhoulsAreDifferent: Tigbanua buso are often compared to ghouls, being filthy, feral humanoids that ambush their victims in the night, but they're not actually undead.
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: A tigbanua buso's claws carry the tagamaling curse, causing those who fail their saving throws to have a cumulative 1% chance each night of transforming into a tagamaling buso -- their eyes fuse together, their hands twist into claws, their Intelligence score falls to 2, and they attack everything they see. When dawn arrives, the victim returns to their natural form and has no memory of what they did the previous night, but is considered fatigued all day. While this condition can be cured by ''remove disease'' or ''remove curse'', if 99 days pass and the victim reaches a 100% chance of transforming, from that point on their nightly transformations can only be stopped by a ''wish'' or ''miracle''.
* SupernaturalFearInducer: Tigbanua buso are surrounded by a 10-foot aura that can cause other creatures to cower in fear.

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* {{Expy}}: Based on a knockoff ''Franchise/{{Ultraman}}'' {{kaiju}} figure found by Gary Gygax, presumably [[https://ultra.fandom.com/wiki/Gabora Gabora]] in its "burrowing form" with its head petals closed.

* AdaptationalIntelligence: While in most editions blindheims are only slightly more intelligent than animals, 5E bumps their Intelligence up to a near-baseline 8, and gives them a racial legend about how their ancestors lived on the surface before [[FireStolenFromTheGods stealing a piece of the sun]], which drove them to flee into the Underdark and eat the stolen sunlight, [[JustSoStory explaining their eye beams.]] 5E blindheims live in fear of the sun's vengeance, and will subject explorers to "endless questions about the sun's actions, its anger, and its attitudes." Those who fail to take the blindheims' concerns seriously will incur their wrath.

* SupernaturalFearInducer: A 3E breathdrinker's glowing red eyes can strike fear into its prey, rendering them helpless so it could follow up with stealing their breath.

* GlowingEyesOfDoom: An infected creature's eyes, assume they had any, become sunken "black pits, lit by an evil green light."

* {{Transflormation}}: Any animal or beast that succumb to the blight touch are considered plant creatures, at least until they become undead monsters.

* AdaptationalIntelligence: While in most editions blindheims are only slightly more intelligent than animals, 5E bumps their Intelligence up to a near-baseline 8, and gives them a racial legend about how their ancestors lived on the surface before [[FireStolenFromTheGods stealing a piece of the sun]], which drove them to flee into the Underdark and eat the stolen sunlight, [[JustSoStory explaining their eye beams.]] 5E blindheims live in fear of the sun's vengeance, and will subject explorers to "endless questions about the sun's actions, its anger, and its attitudes."
* BlindedByTheLight: Blindheims' eyes shine like searchlights when their two sets of eyelids are fully opened, potentially blinding other creatures for a minute or so -- creatures with infravision or sensitivity to bright light, such as goblins or drow, are particularly susceptible to this attack.

[[folder:Breathdrinker]]
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->'''Classification:''' Elemental (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 7 (3E)\\

Cruel elemental creatures that steal the very air from their victims' lungs.

* SupernaturalFearInducer: A breathdrinker's glowing red eyes can strike fear into its prey, rendering them helpless so it could follow up with stealing their breath.
* SupernaturalSuffocation: The breathdrinker feeds on air extracted from the lungs of living creatures, causing them to eventually suffocate.

Brutish and malicious thugs who live in swamps, raiding nearby civilizations for both useful goods and shiny trinkets to use as status symbols.

->'''Classification:''' Monstrous Humanoid (3E), Humanoid (5E)\\

* AdaptationalIntelligence: While in most editions blindheims are only slightly more intelligent than animals, 5E bumps their Intelligence up to a near-baseline 8, and gives them a racial legend about how their ancestors lived on the service before [[FireStolenFromTheGods stealing a piece of the sun]], which drove them to flee into the Underdark and eat the stolen sunlight, explaining their eye beams. 5E blindheims live in fear of the sun's vengeance, and will subject explorers to "endless questions about the sun's actions, its anger, and its attitudes."

->'''Classification:''' Outsider (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2 (3E)\\

->'''Classification:''' Monstrous Humanoid (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 3 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

* FrogMen: A barely-sapient example; most blindheims are primitive even compared to bullywugs, with an animal intelligence that leaves them unable to use even simple tools. "Advanced" blindheims are those who live in crude villages, croak a rudimentary language, and throw darts in combat; such tribes are known to worship slaadi.

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[[folder:Bloodthorn]]
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