History Characters / DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesB

* 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 ther concept of death, and in their home setting, haven't even discovered fire (though they at least have no irrational fear of it).

'''ALignment:''' Neutral (2E), Unaligned (5E), Any (5E)

* GladiatorGames: As mentioned, b'rohgs' strength and the spectacle of their four-armed combat style make them popular in gladiatorial arenas, especially on [[TabletopGame/DarkSun 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 out of shame for being captured, and out of shame for their people's primitive lifestyle.

A creature entry's listed '''Challenge Rating''' may be for "baseline" examples of the monster, rather than listing every advanced variant presented in ''Monster Manual''s. Not all '''Playable''' creatures are created equal, especially in 3rd Edition, in which MonsterAdventurers can have significant Level Adjustments for the sake of party balance. A creature's listed '''Alignment''' is typical for the race as a whole, not an absolute for every individual in it -- even supposed embodiments of Good and Evil can change their alignment. Also, if there are two alignments listed, and one is for 4th Edition, assume that the other alignment holds true for all other game editions. Finally, the "Always Neutral" alignment listed in previous editions for nonsapient creatures has been equated with the "Unaligned" alignment of recent editions.

'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil (2E-3E), Evil (4E)

'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil (3E-5E), Evil (4E)

'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral (2E-3E, 5E), Evil (4E)

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->'''Classification:''' Monstrous Humanoid (3E), Humanoid (4E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 9 (3E), 14 (4E)\\
'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil (2E-3E), Evil (4E)

* ArtEvolution: Their ''AD&D'' 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 depicts them hunched over, with colorful, insectoid carapaces. 4th Edition splits the difference, covering them in a rhino-gray, bug-like carapace with a leathery, horned texture.
* BreathWeapon: They can breathe a cone of [[AcidAttack acid]] (in 2E) or [[AnIcePerson cold]] (in 3E), but only use this attack in emergencies, since it tends to leave prey unfit for consumption.

* PsychicPowers: Like most life from the world of [[TabletopGame/DarkSun Athas]], braxats are naturally psionic. Beyond powers such as ''[[{{Intangibility}} blink]]'' and ''[[{{Teleportation}} dimension door]]'', they can also use a ''Mind Blast'' to stun prey.

* {{Telepathy}}: 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.]]

'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil (3E-4E), NeutralEvil (5E)

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->'''Classification:''' Aberration (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2 (3.5-5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

Tiny beholderkin no smarter than animals, sometimes taken as familiars. They're called eyeballs in earlier editions, and renamed to gazers in 5E.

* {{Familiar}}: Gazers can be taken as familiars by evil spellcasters, usually true beholders or humanoid wizards associated with aberrations in some way.
* AnIcePerson: Gazers can cast ''ray of frost'' through one of their eyestalks, which serves as their main weapon when hunting or fighting.
* MiniMook: They're essentially tinier, weaker beholders about eight inches across.

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'''Challenge Rating:''' 11 (3.5E)\\

Spear-tongued monsters bred to hunt other beholders.

->'''Alignment:''' LawfulGood (brownie), NeutralGood (dobie), TrueNeutral (buckawn)

* 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.
* UnwantedAssistance: This is the gimmick of dobies, more rustic (i.e. they're depicted in denim overalls) brownies 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 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.

->'''Classification:''' Plant (3E, 5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 3 (3E), 1/2 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

* SwallowedWhole: A banderhobb can stuff one Medium or smaller creature into its gaping mouth, storing its victim there until the banderhobb dies or regurgitates its victim.

* MusicSoothesTheSavageBeast: 4th Edition banshraes are incapable of playing music themselves, but might be calmed by a performance on a wind instrument.

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

* NoSell: As creatures with the cold subtype, brantas are immune to the frostfell's cold.
* SuperSenses: 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.

* CraftedFromAnimals: Their armored head-plates can at least be fashioned into shields, and dwarven smiths can make enchanted items from them.

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

* 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 let go after providing suitable tribute to the mighty frog-monarch who captured them.

* BarrierMaiden: Neutral or Evil buommans tend to believe that the petrified deities on the Astral Plane are dead and must not be awakened, 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.

* WeakenedByTheLight: Downplayed; like goblins, bakemono dislike sunlight, but unlike (2nd Edition) goblins they don't take any penalties from being in it. On the flipside, bakemono don't have darkvision to help them see in caves.

->'''Classification:''' Monstrous Humanoid (3E), Fey (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 3 (3E), 1/8 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral

* MischiefMakingMonkey: Their behavior, if not bodies, fit the trope.

* RubberMan: 3rd Edition boggles are noted for their rubbery skin and stretchy limbs, giving them an extraordinary 15-foot reach for a Small, 3-foot-tall creature.

* ThinkingUpPortals: Boggles in 5th Edition can use existing doorways and spaces to create short-ranged dimensional rifts, allowing them to reach (or attack) something within 30 feet of it.

->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

->'''Classification:''' Monstrous Humanoid (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 9 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

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

* ArtEvolution: Their ''AD&D'' 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 depicts them hunched over, with colorful, insectoid carapaces.

'''Challenge Rating:''' 7 (3E), 5 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral (1E-3.5E), Unaligned (4E-5E)

->'''Classification:''' Humanoid (3E, 5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 1 (3E), 1/4 (5E)
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil (3E-4E), NeutralEvil (5E)

->'''Classification:''' Plant (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 7 (lesser), 15 (standard) (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

'''Challenge Rating:''' 8 (3E), 11 (5E)\\

'''Challenge Rating:''' 13 (3.5E), 19 (4E), 13 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil (3.5-5E), Evil (4E)

'''Challenge Rating:''' 6 (3.5E, 5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil (2E), LawfulEvil (3.5E, 5E), Evil (4E)

->'''Classification:''' Aberration (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 2 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

'''Challenge Rating:''' 1 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil or LawfulNeutral

->'''Classification:''' Aberration (3E, 5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 10 (3E), 11 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral (3E), ChaoticEvil (5E)

* ChameleonCamouflage: In 3rd Edition, balhannoths can change the color of their skin to blend in with their surroundings. The 5th Edition balhannoths just turn invisible instead.

* {{Retcon}}: Balhannoths' abilities and habitat vary greatly by edition. Their 3rd Edition incarnation lairs in the Underdark and is feared for its anti-magic abilities, while 5th Edition balhannoths are native to the Shadowfell and are potent illusionists instead.

->'''Classification:''' Monstrosity (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 5 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
Banderhobbs are artificial creatures of flesh and shadow, brought to life by evil mages to do their bidding.

* AnimalisticAbomination: They are supernatural entities which look like oversized bipedal frogs -- the first of many, ''many'' such froglike creatures that you'll find on this list, in fact.

* SwallowedWhole: A banderhobb can stuff one Medium or smaller creature into its gaping mouth, storing its victim there until the banderhobb dies or regurgitates.

'''Challenge Rating:''' 5 (3E)\\

->'''Classification:''' Fey (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 8 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

'''Challenge Rating:''' 5 (3E), 3 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral (1E-3.5E), Unaligned (4E-5E)

* 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. 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.

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* AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder: The beholders' creator deity is the Great Mother, who they venerate so much that each chooses to remember being personally birthed by her, regardless of the actual circumstances of their creation. Sometimes her avatar appears to a crowd of beholders, which would seem to settle the question of which is the true ideal beholder form -- except for the fact that any beholder who looks upon the Great Mother only sees their own features, scaled up. In other words, [[StealthPun beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.]]

15-foot-tall psionic humanoids that relish hunting intelligent prey by the light of the moon.

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[[folder:Brain Mole]]
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'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

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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'''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.
* NoSell: As creatures with the cold subtype, brantas are immune to the frostfell's cold.
* SuperSenses: 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: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: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 with 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.
* EerilyOutOfPlaceObject: Since bloodthorns sustain themselves on blood rather than water or sunlight, one big clue about their nature is that they're plants that are flourishing where a normal plant should not survive.
* MainliningTheMonster: Subverted; a bloodthorn produces succulet, bright red berries year-round, whose appealing fragrance lures in prey for the plant to attack, but the berries are bitter and provide no sustenance.
* 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:Bog Hound]]
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->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

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 (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 3 (3E), 1/8 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral

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

* MischiefMakingMonkey: Their behavior, if not bodies, fit the trope.
* 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: 3rd Edition boggles are noted for their rubbery skin and stretchy limbs, giving them an extraordinary 15-foot reach for a Small, 3-foot-tall creature.
* 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.
* ThinkingUpPortals: Boggles in 5th Edition 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.

* SuperSenses: Bi-nou are blind ([[UnreliableIllustrator their creature art notwithstanding]]), but can perceive their surroundings through a mixture of echolocation and infravision.

[[folder:Bisan]]
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->'''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: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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->'''Classification:''' Outsider (3E), Humanoid (4E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 1 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil or LawfulNeutral

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.

* BewareMyStingerTail: Their tail attacks carry a poison that causes both [[NonHealthDamage Constitution damage]] and [[InducedSleep unconsciousness]] for several hours, with the side effect of turning the victim's skin blue.

* TheParanoiac: Though banelars are willing to form alliances with "lesser" and "greater" 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.

* TentacleBeard: 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)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 8 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

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 breath through holes in the sides of their heads, hidden by their hair.
* {{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:Basilisk]]
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->'''Classification:''' Magical Beast (3E), Natural Beast (4E), Monstrosity (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 5 (3E), 3 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral (1E-3.5E), Unaligned (4E-5E)

Hulking, eight-legged reptiles with deadly gazes.

* BasiliskAndCockatrice: Large, many-legged lizards whose gaze turns people to stone.
* EatDirtCheap: Basilisks are robust omnivores, and can feed upon the statues of creatures killed by their gaze.
* 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.

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

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:Behir]]
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->'''Classification:''' Magical Beast (3E), Natural Magical Beast (4E), Monstrosity (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 8 (3E), 11 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil (1E-2E, 5E), TrueNeutral (3E), Unaligned (4E)

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

[[folder:Bajang]]
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->'''Classification:''' Fey (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 3 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

Malicious nature spirits resembling squat, taloned, sneering humanoids, bound to a specific corrupted jungle tree.

* CantLiveWithoutYou: Much like the more benign dryads, bajangs' lives are tied to a specific tree in their home forest, and they'll die if it is destroyed. But see below.
* CombatPragmatist: Bajangs prefer weak or helpless prey, attacking from ambush or while their victims are sleeping.
* JediMindTrick: They know the spell ''transfix'', and use it to order their victims to stand still indefinitely, while the monster attacks at its leisure.
* PoisonousPerson: Their claws carry a [[NonHealthDamage Strength-damaging poison.]]
* ResurrectiveImmortality: Their ''AD&D'' rules explain that should a bajang be slain, its spirit goes dormant, waiting to be reborn in a jungle tainted by a bloody battle, dark ritual, or the burital site of an evil spellcaster. When a suitable tree reaches maturity, the next full moon, the bajang's dormant essence is absorbed by the tree, appearing as a tumor-like growth in its roots that gradually moves up its trunk. When the swelling reaches the highest limb, it bursts and the bajang is reborn, ready to cause new misery.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Bajangs can ''polymorph'' themselves into orange-eyed wildcats, and also into humans in their 2nd Edition rules.

[[folder:Bakemono]]
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->'''Classification:''' Humanoid (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2 (3E)\\

Small, misshapen humanoids that launch haphazard raids on everyone around them.

* BarbarianTribe: Everything they own, from weapons to patchwork armor, is stolen from their victims, and bakemono never bother to maintain their gear. They don't farm or build, they raid supplies from civilized people and squat in abandoned structures, or drive out a hamlet's inhabitants to convert the settlement into a crude fort.
* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: They're given the goblinoid subtype in 3rd Edition, and are repeatedly compared to standard goblins as a type of small, savage humanoid often bossed around by stronger beings (in this case oni). But they're notably dumber than proper goblins, have no affinity for living underground, and their bodies are much more variable: bakemono skin tones can range from fiery red to blue to green, some have hoofed feet or stunted wings, some have scales and others fur, some have huge noses or drooping ears, and so on.
* TookALevelInDumbass: In 2nd Edition, bakemono are still noted to be dumber than goblins, but are at least smart enough to use weapons and armor. Their 3rd Edition incarnation, in contrast, is only about as intelligent as guard dogs, and typically fight with their claws or by latching onto victims with their jaws -- only exceptional individuals are smart enough to speak.
* WeakenedByTheLight: Downplayed; like goblins, bakemono dislike sunlight, but unlike (2nd Edition) goblins they don't take any penalties from being in it. On the flipside, bakemono don't have darkvision to help them see in caves.

[[folder:Balhannoth]]
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->'''Classification:''' Aberration (3E, 5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 10 (3E), 11 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral (3E), ChaoticEvil (5E)

Tentacled horrors that use their magic to help ambush their victims.

* MindControl: Overseers can use ''dominate person'' with an eyestalk, as well as a variant of ''dominate monster'' that affects beholders and beholderkin, with the exception of other overseers and hive mothers.

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* MainliningTheMonster: Subverted; a bloodthorn produces succulet, bright red berries year-round, whose fragrance lures in prey for the plant to attack, but the berries are bitter and provide no sustenance.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Bonespears hunt 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 spear of bone free will deal additional damage (which can be lessened with a successful Heal check).

* YouShallNotEvadeMe: A bonespear's 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:Bookworm]]
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->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

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.
* 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:Bog Hound]]
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->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

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 (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 3 (3E), 1/8 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral

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

* MischiefMakingMonkey: Their behavior, if not bodies, fit the trope.
* 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: 3rd Edition boggles are noted for their rubbery skin and stretchy limbs, giving them an extraordinary 15-foot reach for a Small, 3-foot-tall creature.
* 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.
* ThinkingUpPortals: Boggles in 5th Edition 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.