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''[[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreatures Creatures]]'': [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreatureTypes Creature Types]] ([[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesA A]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesB 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]] | '''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]] \\

''[[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreatures Creatures]]'': [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreatureTypes Creature Types]] ([[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesA A]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesB 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]] | '''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.

''[[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreatures Creatures]]'': [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreatureTypes Creature Types]] ([[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesA A]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesB 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]] | '''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/DungeonsAndDragonsUndead Undead]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsFiendsYugoloths Yugoloths]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCrossoverCreatures Crossover Creatures]] \\

[[folder:Murder Comet]]
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->'''Origin:''' ''TabletopGame/{{Spelljammer}}''\\
'''Classification:''' Elemental (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 5 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

Stone heads wreathed in flame that scream through Wildspace, smashing any ships they come across.

* AntiStructure: They have the "Siege Monster" trait, letting them deal double damage to structures and objects like starships.
* DefeatEqualsExplosion: When slain, murder comets explode in a 20-foot-radius ball of fire.
* ElementalEmbodiment: Murder comets are created when an evil spellcaster combines the essences of earth and fire elementals into a single destructive creature.
* FlyingFace: They're shaped like such, flying through space. A spellcaster who chooses to bind their spirit to a murder comet will cause it to take on their own likeness.
* PlayingWithFire: Murder comets are wreathed in flame, dealing extra fire damage to whatever they slam into, and they can also spit fire as a ranged attack.
* SuperSpeed: They have an incredible 120-foot fly speed, moving so fast they don't provoke attacks of opportunity as they blaze past opponents, which makes them perfectly suited for HitAndRunTactics.
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[[folder:Mutate]]
->'''Classification:''' Aberration (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' Varies\\
'''Alignment:''' Same as base creature

* {{Mutants}}: A creature exposed to the Far Realm's energies risks developing mutations. As the powers of the Far Realm rewrite the fundamentals of the creature's existence, it transforms and exhibits physical characteristics associated with the Far Realm. Once the Far Realm influence abates, the mutate changes back.

[[folder:Myconid]]
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->'''Classification:''' Plant (3E, 5E), Fey Humanoid (4E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2 (junior worker) to 7 (sovereign) (3E); 3 (guard) to 4 (sovereign); 0 (scout), 1/2 (adult), 2 (sovereign) (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral

Also known as "fungus ones," these intelligent, mobile mushroom folk are distrustful of outsiders, but generally shy and nonviolent, making them a rarity among the Underdark's inhabitants.

* AnimateDead: One type of myconid spore infests corpses, causing them to rise as mindless servants. They do whatever work there aren't enough myconids to carry out.
* LargeAndInCharge: Myconids grow over the course of their lives, but the sovereign is always the tallest myconid (eleven feet). If it dies, another myconid will grow to eleven feet tall and take over.
* MushroomMan: Myconids are intelligent, ambulatory fungi that live in the Underdark.
* MushroomSamba: Pun aside, myconids structure their days into three parts: eight hours of work, eight hours of rest, and eight hours of a mind-melding hallucinatory state caused by their spores. They consider this hallucinatory state to be the purpose of their existence, and can only be snapped out of it by myconid distress spores.
* {{Telepathy}}: One type of spore myconids can emit allows for telepathic communication, both between themselves and with outsiders.

* MushroomSamba: Pun aside, myconids structure their days into three parts: eight hours of work, eight hours of rest, and eight hours of a mind-melding hallucinatory state caused by their spores.

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* ExtremeOmnivore: Examination of dead mooncalves reveals that their bodies are essentially alchemical laboratories, capable of distilling and dissolving nearly any substance. In effect, mooncalves can digest nearly anything that they eat.

* WindsOfDestinyChange: Moonlords can tap into their moongod heritage, creating an aura centred around them that brings bad luck to other creatures.

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'''Playable:''' 2E (rogue modron)\\

* OurImpsAreDifferent: Mephits are small, devilish elementals with long noses, batlike wings, grating personalities and very low placement on the planar pecking order and food chain.

** Ooze mephits are obnoxious flatterers, summoned to do odious jobs like cleaning sewers and garbage dumps, but they're prone to deserting and then begging for money (like a small "loan" of 100 gold pieces) they plan to pay wizards to transmute them into a humanoid form.
** Radiant mephits are perpetually dazed from their experience on the Quasiplane of Radiance, and lack the attention span to fulfil any mission, or even remember their own grandiose titles.

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

* {{Conlang}}: In ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'' lore, there's actually an established form of code language involving sending mephits, where the type(s) of mephit sent and the number of them sent conveys different responses or information. For obvious reasons, you only send mephits to rivals, enemies and other people you just don't like. For example, an ice mephit indicates that the recipient is now officially forbidden from entering the home of the sender, with the number of ice mephits sent roughly indicating just how harshly they will be punished if they try.

* {{Retcon}}: Mephits traditionally could represent one of the classical four elements or mixtures of multiple elements, resulting in a full ten subtypes just in the standard 3rd Edition ''Monster Manual''. 5th Edition pares their numbers down to six: dust, ice, magma, mud, smoke and steam mephits, born from where two or more elemental energy types interweave, which also explains why they are weaker than "pure" elementals.

Sometimes known as arcanes, these tall, blue humanoids are merchants who travel the Great Wheel, selling magical items (such as ''spelljammer helms'') and other exotic goods to anyone who can meet their prices.

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Also known as "sword slugs," these horse-sized gastropods uses their powers of magnetism to hunt red-blooded prey.

* MagnetismManipulation: Their signature ability is to generate and manipulate powerful magnetic fields, allowing metalmasters to attract or repel metal items (and metal creatures) up to 60 feet away, or [[MasterOfTheLevitatingBlades create a "metal storm" around its body]] similar to a ''blade barrier'' spell.

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''[[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreatures Creatures]]'': [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreatureTypes Creature Types]] ([[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesA A]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesB B]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesC C]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesD D]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesE E]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesF F]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesG G]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesH H]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesIToL I to L]] | '''M''' | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesNtoQ N to Q]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesR R]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesSPartOne Sa-Sl]], [[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/DungeonsAndDragonsUndead Undead]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsFiendsYugoloths Yugoloths]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCrossoverCreatures Crossover Creatures]] \\

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

''[[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreatures Creatures]]'': [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreatureTypes Creature Types]] ([[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesA A]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesB B]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesC C]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesD D]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesE E]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesF F]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesG G]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesH H]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesIToL I to L]] | '''M''' | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesNtoQ N to Q]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesR R]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesSPartOne Sa-Sl]], [[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/DungeonsAndDragonsUndead Undead]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsFiendsYugoloths Yugoloths]] \\

'''Challenge Rating:''' 10 (3E)\\

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: A maelephant's fearsome BreathWeapon is a cloud of noxious vapor that causes complete memory loss to those who fail their saves. Those afflicted can't access their prepared spells, skills, feats and class abilities, no longer know who their friends and foes are, and can't remember their pasts or their own names. The victims can create new memories, but forget them as soon as they sleep or rest. The condition is permanent until cured with spells like ''heal'' or ''neutralize poison''.

''[[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreatures Creatures]]'': [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreatureTypes Creature Types]] ([[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesA A]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesB B]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesC C]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesD D]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesE E]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesF F]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesG G]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesH H]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesIToL I to L]] | '''M''' | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesNtoQ N to Q]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesR R]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesS S]] | [[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/DungeonsAndDragonsUndead Undead]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsFiendsYugoloths Yugoloths]] \\

* 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:''' TrueNeutral, Unaligned (4E)

'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil, Evil (4E)

'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil, Evil (4E)

* InterspeciesRomance: Depending on the edition, medusas are either strictly female or female ones outnumber the males by a wide margin. In either case, they tend to rely on mating with human and elven men to reproduce.

'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral, Unaligned (4E)

'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil, Evil (4E)

'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral, Unaligned (4E)

'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil (3E), Evil (4E)

'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral, Unaligned (4E)

[[folder:Magran]]
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->'''Origin:''' ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}''\\
'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

Twenty-foot-long predators that lurk in the depths of the Ethereal Plane, using a glowing lure on their heads to attract prey.

* {{Intangibility}}: Actually averted; though native to the Ethereal Plane, magran stay exclusively in the Deep Ethereal, where they prey upon the likes of thought eaters, xill, or planeswalkers. Thus, they never attack Material Plane creatures from the Border Ethereal and appear intangible relative to them.
* InvisibleMonsters: Magran can become ''invisible'' at will, and normally hunt by leaving nothing but their glowing lure visible, though they can hide it if they need to flee. The beasts are normally only seen briefly in the instants they attack, though due to a quirk of their invisibility, any prey they've swallowed will be fully visible even if the rest of the monster is not, at least until the swallowed victim expires.
* LuringInPrey: A magran's lure emits light out to 200 feet or more, and replicates a ''hypnotic pattern'' effect that can transfix those who come too close, leaving them helpless until the monster attacks them. If this eight-inch-wide lure is cut off from a magran's corpse, the hypnotic glow doesn't immediately dim, but remains usable for a couple of weeks -- the catch is, the thing's bearer, although immune to the ''hypnotic pattern'' effect themself, can [[ArtifactOfAttraction grow obsessed with the orb]], refusing to part with it even after its magic runs out.
* MonstrousCannibalism: Newborn magran are abandoned by their parents, so the larger hatchlings typically feed upon their smaller kin until they grow large enough to hunt conventional prey.
* SwallowedWhole: Their maws are wide enough to swallow prey whole, but their gullets are so small that Medium-sized victims can't move or attempt to cut their way free, leaving them to suffer acid and crushing damage until they suffocate in a few rounds.

* ShorterMeansSmarter: Black mastyrials are half the size of their desert-dwelling cousins.

'''Classification:''' Natural Beast (4E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 10 (4E)\\

'''Classification:''' Natural Humanoid (4E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 4 (4E)\\
'''Playable:''' 2E, 4E\\

* MageSpecies: 2nd Edition states that roughly half of all muls develop a psionic wild talent.

* TrueBreedingHybrid: Explicitly averted in their original presentation, in which muls are sterile, though 4th Edition is mum on the matter.

* BlessedWithSuck: Black mastyrials have a sort of GeneticMemory, in that every encounter with a type of creature becomes information stored in the pack's collective consciousness. While this will grant the pack combat bonuses against those types of enemies in future encounters, unfortunately "This contact conflicts with their genetic desire to be independent, which has basically caused them to become insane."

[[folder:Maug]]
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->'''Classification:''' Construct (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 3 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral

Hulking creatures of living stone from the Infinite Battlefield of Acheron, who hire themselves out as mercenaries to give meaning to their existence.

* ArmorPiercingAttack: They can make a "Pulverize" action three times per day, touching an object and negating its Hardness value so the maug can more easily destroy it.
* {{Cyborg}}: There's a whole range of maug grafts they use to improve and augment themselves, such as fists that lock closed around weapons to prevent disarming, vibrating plates of shale that confer tremorsense, or stone rollers to replace their lower torsos and allow the maug to [[SquashedFlat crush enemies like a steamroller.]]
* DoubleWeapon: Maugs commonly wield Huge double-bladed swords.
* HealingFactor: Unusually for constructs, maugs slowly recover hit points while resting, and heal faster if someone helps repair them.
* NeglectfulPrecursors: As best sages can tell, the maugs were created by some ancient civilization as shock troops for a terrible war, then afterward were dumped on Thuldanin, the second layer of Acheron and the junkyard for the multiverse's wars. Since maugs are creatures of stone themselves, they were immune to Thuldanin's petrification effect, and they eventually figured out how to make more of themselves, taking on jobs as hired soldiers to get the money needed for the process.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Maugs serve any master willing to pay the price, and never care about right or wrong. They're even willing to fight other maugs employed by the opposing side, resulting in horrendous casualties as the maugs lead their troops to clash repeatedly until one or both sides is ground down to nearly nothing. Then the surviving maugs are liable to group up and go off to find a new war to fight in as if nothing happened.
* RockMonster: Maugs' bodies are cut from the stone of Acheron.
* UndyingLoyalty: In battle, maugs are unflinchingly loyal to their employer, making them perfect mercenaries.

[[folder:Maulgoth]]
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->'''Classification:''' Aberration (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 17 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil

Huge amalgamations of flesh and stone, these beings are among the most dangerous inhabitants of the Underdark.

* {{Druid}}: It's noted that maulgoths have a druid's power over the natural world, thanks to spell-like abilities such as ''[[GreenThumb control plants]]'', ''[[TheBeastmaster dominate animal]]'' and ''[[DishingOutDirt stone shape]]'', but the creatures have none of a true druid's love and respect for their environment, and callously manipulate their surroundings to aid in hunts or to protect themselves.
* DungeonBypass: Maulgoths can glide through solid stone like a xorn, which they use to launch ambushes or escape losing battles.
* SiliconBasedLife: They're roughly rhino-shaped monsters with bodies covered in rocky spikes and protrusions all but indistinguishable from stone.
* TentacleRope: They can grapple and constrict opponents with their tentacles.
* WallCrawl: Maulgoths can move at full speed up walls and across ceilings.
* WeaponizedTeleportation: They can make an "ethereal jolt" attack by striking a foe with a tentacle, potentially shunting them onto the Ethereal Plane.