History Characters / DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesNtoQ

* StupidityInducingAttack: A phthisics' bite attacks cause a ''feeblemind'' effect in 2nd Edition, and if it's able to feed in peace, the monster can cause permanent Intelligence drain. In 3rd Edition, its bite deals Intelligence damage that, should a victim reach 0 Int, becomes permanent drain.

[[folder:Pixie]]
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->'''Classification:''' Fey (3E, 5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 4 (3E), 1/4 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' NeutralGood

Diminutive fairies who delight in playing harmless tricks on people.

* CraftedFromAnimals: Pixie wings can be ground into ''dust of disappearance''. "Naturally, pixies frown on this use of their wings."
* TheDandy[=/=]TheFashionista: Pixies style themselves as the princes and princesses of the sky, and dress accordingly in sparkling silken gowns and doublets, or in outfits crafted from leaves, tree bark and small animal pelts. One of the surest ways to win a pixie over is by complimenting their fashion sense.
* FairyTrickster: They amuse themselves by leading travelers astray with ''dancing lights'', sneakily tying shoelaces together, blowing out candles, and so forth.
* HonestAxe: Pixies like to trick misers out of their treasure, accumulate it in a small hoard, and use it to taunt other greedy people. But if one of their victims takes the pixie's pranks in good humor and shows no greed when led to the treasure pile, the fey may allow the individual to choose an item from their hoard.
* OurPixiesAreDifferent: Pixies resemble diminutive elves with bright, luminous gossamer wings and an assortment of magical powers. They use their spells for harmless pranks, though their pixie dust is said to have magical properties ranging from bestowing flight to putting creatures into an enchanted slumber, leading some mages and monsters to pursue pixies to take advantage of this power.
* PaintingTheFrostOnWindows: On both the Feywild and Material Plane, pixies wake the birds for springtime, sprinkle dew on summer flowers, paint the autumn leaves, and draw frost on windows during winter.
* ShrinkingViolet: They like to spy on other creatures and can barely contain their excitement upon seeing interlopers, but their overwhelming urge to introduce themselves and strike up a friendship is only controlled by the fear of being captured or attacked. Those who wander through a pixie's glade might never see them, yet hear the occasional giggle, gasp or sigh.

[[folder:Planetouched]]
->'''Classification:''' Outsider (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' Usually 1/2 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' Varies by heritage

"Planetoched" is a catch-all term describing those whose bloodlines have been touched by powers beyond the Material Plane. Though this effect is not as pronounced as in a half-celestial or cambion, this extraplanar heritage manifests in supernatural abilities and physical traits for many generations.\\
Several of the most common planetouched, the aasimars, tieflings and genasi, are discussed on [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsRaces the Playable Races page]].

* OneHitKill: Anything engulfed by a flesh jelly has to save or die instantly as they're absorbed into its mass. While their belongings get spat out a few rounds later, only a ''wish'' or ''miracle'' can bring the victim back to life after they're absorbed.

* DishingOutDirt: They can use magic like ''spike stones'', ''stone shape'', or ''earthquake'' to drive off intruders. Oreads can also move throw solid stone as easily as a fish moves through water, without leaving a tunnel behind them.

Small humanoid elemental-kin from the Elemental Plane of Earth, who often find the depths of the Material Plane to be more hospitable home.

[[folder:Peryton]]
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->'''Classification:''' Magical Beast (3E), Monstrosity (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 5 (3E), 2 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

Stag-headed birds of prey that feed on human hearts.

* MixAndMatchCritters: They resemble enormous eagles with the heads of stags -- some early art also gives them cervine legs -- and the fangs of predatory mammals.
* OurPerytonsAreDifferent:[[invoked]] They're more bird-heavy than typical deceptions, being fully avian except for their stag heads. They're ChaoticEvil as a rule, and are gluttonous eaters of hearts -- especially human ones. There's a great deal of in-universe debate about the nature of their shadows -- some believe that a peryton casts the shadow of the last creature whose heart it ate, while others say that they always cast human shadows and yet others that they only cast their own shadow after killing a victim but before devouring it. "Ecology of the Peryton", in ''Dragon'' #82, describes a colony of perytons having invaded an island-nation named Atlantis on a far-off world before it sank beneath the waves, and as being fated to some day bring about the fall of the great city of Roma.
* PickyPeopleEater: Perytons crave humanoid hearts over everything else, as female perytons need to eat them before being able to reproduce. Their first action after making a kill is to tear out the desired organ, after which they abandon the carcass and fly off. They're also fairly picky about the provenance of these hearts; they prize human ones above all others, but never eat those of elves and fairies.

Also called "rolling graveyards," these 30-foot-wide masses of goo have dozens of partially-digested bones within their masses.

* ArchEnemy: Oreads are sworn enemies of races with a penchant for mining and tunneling, such as dwarves, gnomes or goblins, as well as creatures like xorn that might eat their gemstones.

* SchmuckBait: Rumors abound of entire libraries filled with palimpsets, in volumes with titles such as ''Manual of Bodily Health'', ''Libram of Gainful Conjuration'', and ''Elminster's Black Book''.

* LogicalWeakness: All those bones inside their pallid goo give them a lot more structure than most oozes, so while bone oozes can still squeeze through a gap as small as five by five feet square, it takes a full round for them to do so.

* OneHitKill: Their most fearsome attack is to attempt to absorb the entire skeleton of an engulfed creature, and should said creature fail their saving throw, they're instantly slain.

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[[folder:Ophidian]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d&d_ophidian_3e.png]]

->'''Classification:''' Monstrous Humanoid (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 2 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral

Snake-like humanoids with stunted arms and legs, usually found in the service of more intelligent creatures.

* ChameleonCamouflage: They can change the color of their scales to blend in with their surroundings.
* HappinessInSlavery: While they weren't deliberately created as a ServantRace, ophidians are naturally servile, and are thus almost always encountered serving yuan-ti, nagas, dragons, or even giant serpents. In some cases they'll [[GiantAnimalWorship worship their patron, providing offerings of food and treasure.]]
* SnakePeople: They have a strong serpentine appearance, though their bodies are thicker and shorter than true snakes', and of course they have arms and legs.
* TheVirus: Ophidians bear a serpentine curse, so that any humanoid they bite has to save or transform over the next two to five days -- their skin grows scaly, their tongue becomes forked, their legs fuse together, and their memories fade as they're compelled to return to the place they were bitten. Once the transformation is complete, the new ophidian is adopted by any ophidian clan in the area. Magic like ''heal'' or ''regeneration'' can reverse this transformation while it's progressing, but once it finishes, only a ''wish'' or ''miracle'' can restore the victim.
* WasOnceAMan: The first ophidians were a human tribe in the TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms setting, who devoted themselves to a snake cult, found a powerful artifact in some yuan-ti ruins, and were trasnformed into serpent people themselves.

[[folder:Orc]]
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->'''Classification:''' Humanoid (3E, 5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2 (3E); 1/2 (standard) to 4 (war chief) (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil (2E), ChaoticEvil (3E-5E)

Brutish humanoids who raid and pillage those around them, or gather into howling hordes that overrun civilization. See [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsRaces the Playable Races subpage]] for more information about them.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Orcwort]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d&d_orcwort_3e.jpg]]

->'''Classification:''' Plant (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 3 (wortling), 20 (orcwort) (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

Enormous, predatory pitcher plants that sprout humanoid minions to help capture prey. They have no relation to actual orcs, beyond a vague resemblance in the shape of their wortlings.

* ForcedSleep: A wortlings' claw attacks deliver a poison that induces ''sleep'' for up to 10 minutes.
* HiveMind: All wortlings within 15 miles of their parent tree are in constant communication with one another, and under the command of the orcwort.
* MookMaker: Orcworts can grow their wortlings from pods on their branches, which fall to the ground and "hatch" into lumpen, featureless humanoids utterly loyal to their parent tree. These wortlings are spawned about twenty at a time, and live for at most five days, but if commanded to root themselves before their lifespans are up, they'll go dormant and grow into a new orcwort over the course of a year.
* SwallowedWhole: Orcworts' maws can accomodate even Huge creatures, and anything inside their pitchers is not only subjected to [[AcidAttack acid damage]] every round, they also have to save or become [[TheParalyzer paralyazed]] by the same digestive juices, which can leave them helpless while they're digested alive.
* WhenTreesAttack: Orcworts are Colossal, carnivorous trees that can lash and grab prey with their vines for transfer to their pitchers. Though quite hard to kill, they are very slow, moving only 10 feet each round -- unfortunately, their wortling minions are much faster with a speed of 30 feet, and excel at mobbing and subduing prey for their parent to eat.
* YouShallNotEvadeMe: Orcworts can use their roots to hold any creatures within 15 feet of them in place, as per the ''entangling roots'' spell.
* ZergRush: Wortlings are adept at swarming over each other, so that three of them can occupy the same space on a battle map, and gain a bonus when working together to grapple a foe.

[[folder:Oread]]
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->'''Classification:''' Fey (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 7 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral

Stone-skinned fey embodying specific mountains, who use their magic to defend their homes from despoilers.

!!Dragonblood Ooze
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->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5 (5E)

The result of unwise alchemical experiments, these animate masses of congealed dragon blood struggle to form a coherent shape, lash out with caustic psuedopods, and instinctively attempt to use breath weapons they do not possess.

->'''Classification:''' Ooze (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 9 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' Unaligned

->'''Classification:''' Ooze (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 5 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' Unaligned

[[folder:Otyugh]]
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->'''Classification:''' Aberration (3E, 5E), Natural Beast (4E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 4 (3E), 5 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral (1E-3E, 5E), Unaligned (4E)

Sometimes called gulguthra, these carrion-eaters are often used as living garbage disposals in dungeons.

* BigEater: Otyughs require plenty of waste, carrion and meat. Would-be otyugh masters can easily underestimate the quantity of food necessary to keep an otyugh from wandering off.
* CombatTentacles: Otyughs shove food into their maw with two rubbery tentacles that end in spiky, leaf-like appendages.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Otyughs can eat almost all kinds of refuse, making them a vital if unappreciated part of dungeon ecology.
* HeWasRightThereAllAlong: They often hide by covering themselves in refuse, using their [[EyeOnAStalk eye-stalk]] to spy on their surroundings until prey comes by.
* ItCanThink: They look monstrous, but otyughs are intelligent enough to speak Common, and can even form symbiotic relationships with creatures that give them food and leave them in their refuse. If trained, they're capable of following complex instructions about who to attack and ignore, and thus make surprisingly good guard animals to prevent thieves from accessing garbage chutes or sewers.

[[folder:Owlbear]]
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->'''Classification:''' Magical Beast (3E), Fey Beast (4E), Monstrosity (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 4 (3E), 3 (5E)\\

Infamously vicious carnivores with the front half of a flightless owl and the hindquarters of a bear.

* AttackAnimal: It's ''theoretically'' possible to train an owlbear, but they don't need instructions on how to maul something, and it's not productive to try to teach them anything else. That said, if raised from chicks, owlbears will at least bond with their trainers, but they're sullen when performing most tricks, and it takes special effort to make them ''not'' attack something.
* BearsAreBadNews: Much like full bears, owlbears are known and feared for their ferocity, aggressiveness and foul tempers.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: Some brave/foolish individuals attempt to train owlbears as mounts, but this is a difficult process that requires either regular, vicious beatings or magical coercion, and in the latter case the owlbear will forget its training and revert to its savage nature the instant the spell wears off. Even if conventionally trained, owlbears are hateful mounts with a tendency to throw and attack their riders if they ever sense weakness, i.e. if their rider takes a moderate amount of damage.
* MixAndMatchCritters: They have an owl's head, wings and claws and a bear's torso and legs. This incidentally gives owlbears an odd sleep cycle - they wake at noon, hunt through nightfall, and go to sleep at midnight.
* AWizardDidIt: In-universe scholars generally believe owlbears to have been created as a result of experimentation or some long-forgotten project by ancient wizards. This point is disputed by the fey, however, who claim that owlbears have always existed in the Feywild. The [[WatsonianVersusDoylist Doylist]] explaination is that the creature is inspired by a cheap plastic toy Creator/GaryGygax picked up for his ''Chainmail'' games, a "prehistoric monster" that was a knock-off {{Kaiju}} design.

* DishingOutDirt: They can use magic like ''spike stones'', ''stone shape'', or ''earthquake'' to drive off intruders.

* MagicMusic: In ''AD&D'', oreads can sing the ''song of stone'' once per day, which sounds like "a fast mountain brook, like the rushing wind in trees, like the clatter of stones in a rockslide." Those who fail their saving throws must serve the oread for a full year, and become so devoted to their mistress that they'll lay down their lives for her -- ''dispel magic'' or ''remove curse'' is useless against this ability, only the likes of ''limited wish'' or ''holy word'' can break an oread's control over her charmed subject. Thankfully, oreads generally keep a single servant at a time, and are willing to ransom them back to their families before the year is up.

[[folder:Otyugh]]
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->'''Classification:''' Aberration (3E, 5E), Natural Beast (4E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 4 (3E), 5 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral (1E-3E, 5E), Unaligned (4E)

Sometimes called gulguthra, these carrion-eaters are often used as living garbage disposals in dungeons.

* BigEater: Otyughs require plenty of waste, carrion and meat. Would-be otyugh masters can easily underestimate the quantity of food necessary to keep an otyugh from wandering off.
* CombatTentacles: Otyughs shove food into their maw with two rubbery tentacles that end in spiky, leaf-like appendages.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Otyughs can eat almost all kinds of refuse, making them a vital if unappreciated part of dungeon ecology.
* HeWasRightThereAllAlong: They often hide by covering themselves in refuse, using their [[EyeOnAStalk eye-stalk]] to spy on their surroundings until prey comes by.
* ItCanThink: They look monstrous, but otyughs are intelligent enough to speak Common, and can even form symbiotic relationships with creatures that give them food and leave them in their refuse. If trained, they're capable of following complex instructions about who to attack and ignore, and thus make surprisingly good guard animals to prevent thieves from accessing garbage chutes or sewers.

[[folder:Owlbear]]
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->'''Classification:''' Magical Beast (3E), Fey Beast (4E), Monstrosity (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 4 (3E), 3 (5E)\\

Infamously vicious carnivores with the front half of a flightless owl and the hindquarters of a bear.

* AttackAnimal: It's ''theoretically'' possible to train an owlbear, but they don't need instructions on how to maul something, and it's not productive to try to teach them anything else. That said, if raised from chicks, owlbears will at least bond with their trainers, but they're sullen when performing most tricks, and it takes special effort to make them ''not'' attack something.
* BearsAreBadNews: Much like full bears, owlbears are known and feared for their ferocity, aggressiveness and foul tempers.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: Some brave/foolish individuals attempt to train owlbears as mounts, but this is a difficult process that requires either regular, vicious beatings or magical coercion, and in the latter case the owlbear will forget its training and revert to its savage nature the instant the spell wears off. Even if conventionally trained, owlbears are hateful mounts with a tendency to throw and attack their riders if they ever sense weakness, i.e. if their rider takes a moderate amount of damage.
* MixAndMatchCritters: They have an owl's head, wings and claws and a bear's torso and legs. This incidentally gives owlbears an odd sleep cycle - they wake at noon, hunt through nightfall, and go to sleep at midnight.
* AWizardDidIt: In-universe scholars generally believe owlbears to have been created as a result of experimentation or some long-forgotten project by ancient wizards. This point is disputed by the fey, however, who claim that owlbears have always existed in the Feywild. The [[WatsonianVersusDoylist Doylist]] explaination is that the creature is inspired by a cheap plastic toy Creator/GaryGygax picked up for his ''Chainmail'' games, a "prehistoric monster" that was a knock-off {{Kaiju}} design.

[[folder:Orc]]
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->'''Classification:''' Humanoid (3E, 5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2 (3E); 1/2 (standard) to 4 (war chief) (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil (2E), ChaoticEvil (3E-5E)

Brutish humanoids who raid and pillage those around them, or gather into howling hordes that overrun civilization. See [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsRaces the Playable Races subpage]] for more information about them.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Orcwort]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d&d_orcwort_3e.jpg]]

->'''Classification:''' Plant (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 3 (wortling), 20 (orcwort) (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

Enormous, predatory pitcher plants that sprout humanoid minions to help capture prey. They have no relation to actual orcs, beyond a vague resemblance in the shape of their wortlings.

* ForcedSleep: A wortlings' claw attacks deliver a poison that induces ''sleep'' for up to 10 minutes.
* HiveMind: All wortlings within 15 miles of their parent tree are in constant communication with one another, and under the command of the orcwort.
* MookMaker: Orcworts can grow their wortlings from pods on their branches, which fall to the ground and "hatch" into lumpen, featureless humanoids utterly loyal to their parent tree. These wortlings are spawned about twenty at a time, and live for at most 5 days, but if commanded to root themselves before their lifespans are up, they'll go dormant and grow into a new orcwort over the course of a year.
* SwallowedWhole: Orcworts' maws can accomodate even Huge creatures, and anything inside their pitchers is not only subjected to [[AcidAttack acid damage]] every round, they also have to save or become [[TheParalyzer paralyazed]] by the same digestive juices, which can leave them helpless while they're digested alive.
* WhenTreesAttack: Orcworts are Colossal, carnivorous trees that can lash and grab prey with their vines for transfer to their pitchers. Though quite hard to kill, they are very slow, moving only 10 feet each round -- unfortunately, their wortling minions are much faster with a speed of 30 feet, and excelt at mobbing and subduing prey for their parent to eat.
* YouShallNotEvadeMe: Orcworts can use their roots to hold any creatures within 15 feet of them in place, as per the ''entangling roots'' spell.
* ZergRush: Wortlings are adept at swarming over each other, so that three of them can occupy the same space on a battle map, and gain a bonus when working together to grapple a foe.

[[folder:Otyugh]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d&d_otyugh_5e.png]]
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->'''Classification:''' Aberration (3E, 5E), Natural Beast (4E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 4 (3E), 5 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral (1E-3E, 5E), Unaligned (4E)

Sometimes called gulguthra, these carrion-eaters are often used as living garbage disposals in dungeons.
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* BigEater: Otyughs require plenty of waste, carrion and meat. Would-be otyugh masters can easily underestimate the quantity of food necessary to keep an otyugh from wandering off.
* CombatTentacles: Otyughs shove food into their maw with two rubbery tentacles that end in spiky, leaf-like appendages.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Otyughs can eat almost all kinds of refuse, making them a vital if unappreciated part of dungeon ecology.
* HeWasRightThereAllAlong: They often hide by covering themselves in refuse, using their [[EyeOnAStalk eye-stalk]] to spy on their surroundings until prey comes by.
* ItCanThink: They look monstrous, but otyughs are intelligent enough to speak Common, and can even form symbiotic relationships with creatures that give them food and leave them in their refuse. If trained, they're capable of following complex instructions about who to attack and ignore, and thus make surprisingly good guard animals to prevent thieves from accessing garbage chutes or sewers.

[[folder:Owlbear]]
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->'''Classification:''' Magical Beast (3E), Fey Beast (4E), Monstrosity (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 4 (3E), 3 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral (1E-3E, 5E), Unaligned (4E)

Infamously vicious carnivores with the front half of a flightless owl and the hindquarters of a bear.

* AttackAnimal: It's ''theoretically'' possible to train an owlbear, but they don't need instructions on how to maul something, and it's not productive to try to teach them anything else. That said, if raised from chicks, owlbears will at least bond with their trainers, but they're sullen when performing most tricks, and it takes special effort to make them ''not'' attack something.
* BearsAreBadNews: Much like full bears, owlbears are known and feared for their ferocity, aggressiveness and foul tempers.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: Some brave/foolish individuals attempt to train owlbears as mounts, but this is a difficult process that requires either regular, vicious beatings or magical coercion, and in the latter case the owlbear will forget its training and revert to its savage nature the instant the spell wears off. Even if conventionally trained, owlbears are hateful mounts with a tendency to throw and attack their riders if they ever sense weakness, i.e. if their rider takes a moderate amount of damage.
* MixAndMatchCritters: They have an owl's head, wings and claws and a bear's torso and legs. This incidentally gives owlbears an odd sleep cycle - they wake at noon, hunt through nightfall, and go to sleep at midnight.
* AWizardDidIt: In-universe scholars generally believe owlbears to have been created as a result of experimentation or some long-forgotten project by ancient wizards. This point is disputed by the fey, however, who claim that owlbears have always existed in the Feywild. The [[WatsonianVersusDoylist Doylist]] explaination is that the creature is inspired by a cheap plastic toy Creator/GaryGygax picked up for his ''Chainmail'' games, a "prehistoric monster" that was a knock-off {{Kaiju}} design.

!!P

[[folder:Palimpset]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d&d_palimpset_2e.png]]
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->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

Sheets of rune-inscribed paper or parchment that have become carnivorous predators.

* AchillesHeel: Electricity attacks not only deal damage to palimpsets, they have a chance, increasing with the attack's severity, to make them spit out any creatures they're currently digesting.
* AnimateInanimateObject: Palimpsets are slow but ambulatory, moving as if blown about by a stray breeze.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: This is what makes it so difficult to resurrect someone who's been absorbed by a palimpset. If they're found while being digested, they can be restored using a specific sequence of spells: a ''remove curse'' to animate their illustration, ''abjure'' to lift them from the sheet as a colorless, lifeless paper doll, and then ''resurrection'' to restore them to normal. But if a palimpset has fully digested someone, then only a ''wish'' can bring them back.
* NoSell: Counterintuitively, palimpsets are immune to fire and attacks with edged weapons.
* PortalBook: A sinister variant. Prey that makes contact with a palimpset is in danger of being absorbed by the creature, appearing as a sketch or illumination upon it -- "mice screeching to get out, or a scribe screaming in terror among the fanciful scrollwork." After one day per Hit Dice, the victim is fully "digested" and vanishes from the paper. Fortunately, sometimes the absorption attempt fails and only deals a nasty paper cut (in which case the blood is quickly absorbed by the monster), and even if successful, absorption takes two rounds over which the monster is helpless and vulnerable to attack. For this reason, palimpsets prefer attacking lone victims.
* SchmuckBait: Rumors abound of entire libraries filled with palimpsets, in volumes with titles such as ''Manual of Bodily Health'', ''Libram of Gainful Conjuration'', and ''Elminster's Black Book''.

[[folder:Pegasus]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Behold the pegasus. It can outrace a dragon in the open sky, and only the best among us can ever hope to ride one. A fitting emblem for our great house, don't you think?"'' -- Tyllenvane d'Orien]]
->'''Classification:''' Magical Beast (3E), Celestial (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 3 (3E), 2 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' ChaoticGood

Intelligent winged horses. Pegasi are greatly prized as aerial steeds, although finding one can be quite difficult and winning its trust harder still.

* AnimalJingoism: Pegasi normally reserve their enmity for evil beings, but bear a particularly deep-seated hatred of griffins and hippogriffs due to their fondness for equine prey.
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: According to the 5th edition monster manual, [[HellishHorse Nightmares]] are pegasi that have had their wings amputated and been tortured into evil.
* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: In the 5th edition monster manual, a note contains a quote from a [[TabletopGame/{{Eberron}} House Orien scion]] who boasts that the pegasus can outrace a dragon in the open sky. True enough, the pegasus' flying speed of 90 is 10 feet faster than the fastest dragon in the book.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: Pegasi are popular flying mounts for good-aligned characters.
* {{Pegasus}}: Goodly white horses with bird wings and with feathers making up their manes and fetlocks.
* WhaleEgg: In early editions, despite being primarily mammals with a few bird parts tacked on, pegasi reproduce by laying eggs. 5th changes this to them giving live birth like normal horses.

[[folder:Peryton]]
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->'''Classification:''' Magical Beast (3E), Monstrosity (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 5 (3E), 2 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

Stag-headed birds of prey that feed on human hearts.

* MixAndMatchCritters: They resemble enormous eagles with the heads of stags -- some early art also gives them cervine legs -- and the fangs of predatory mammals.
* OurPerytonsAreDifferent:[[invoked]] They're more bird-heavy than typical deceptions, being fully avian except for their stag heads. They're ChaoticEvil as a rule, and are gluttonous eaters of hearts -- especially human ones. There's a great deal of in-universe debate about the nature of their shadows -- some believe that a peryton casts the shadow of the last creature whose heart it ate, while others say that they always cast human shadows and yet others that they only cast their own shadow after killing a victim but before devouring it. "Ecology of the Peryton", in ''Dragon'' #82, describes a colony of perytons having invaded an island-nation named Atlantis on a far-off world before it sank beneath the waves, and as being fated to some day bring about the fall of the great city of Roma.
* PickyPeopleEater: Perytons crave humanoid hearts over everything else, as female perytons need to eat them before being able to reproduce. Their first action after making a kill is to tear out the desired organ, after which they abandon the carcass and fly off. They're also fairly picky about the provenance of these hearts; they prize human ones above all others, but never eat those of elves and fairies.

[[folder:Phantom Fungus]]
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->'''Classification:''' Plant (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 3 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

Mobile, carnivorous fungus monsters that are naturally invisible, and remain so even while attacking.

* AttackAnimal: Though only as intelligent as animals, phantom fungi are trainable, and make dangerous guards since most detection magic doesn't pick them up. Their invisibility also makes training them difficult, however, leading to handlers [[SeeTheInvisible throwing flour on them or tying ribbons around them]] to keep track of their location. Phantom fungi are often trained to click their teeth after performing a trick, a habit which can give them away.
* InvisibleMonsters: They're under a constant ''greater invisibility'' effect, which allows them to remain unseen even when taking actions like attacking. Since phantom fungi are pretty quiet while stalking prey, often the only thing that gives them away is their strange, moldy odor.
* ManEatingPlant: Fungus, but close enough. They have bizarre bodies with four stumpy legs supporting a green-brown mass, a toothy mouth, and a cluster of nodules that serve as sensory organs, but are normally only visible when slain.

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

Oversized wasps with a dangerous magical attack, and a tendency to make nests from paper stolen from libraries, magical and non-magical.

* BigCreepyCrawlies: A phase wasp is 18 inches long.
* MagicMissileStorm: They can fire a pair of ''magic missiles'' every few rounds. Since phase wasps live in swarms of up to about 20 creatures, that equals a ''lot'' of [[AlwaysAccurateAttack unavoidable,]] NonElemental damage.
* SeeTheInvisible: Phase wasps can see and attack invisible and ethereal creatures (through the planar boundary in the latter case).

[[folder:Phasm]]
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->'''Classification:''' Aberration (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 7 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral

Amorphous shapeshifters that use their ablities to devote their lives to exploration, philosophical contemplation, or pure hedonism as their whims decree.

* BlobMonster: In its natural form, a phasm resembles an ooze and attacks with pseudopods.
* TheHedonist: They crave new experiences, from scents or flavors to obscure trivia and juicy gossip.
* ItAmusedMe: Phasms' fundamental motivation. This means that there's no telling how they'll react to a given situation, whether they'll attack or parley with or retreat from opponents. Sometimes phasms will team up with doppelgangers just for the fun of it, other times they'll hire out their talents as spies, except they're notoriously unreliable since they don't feel any obligation to share what they learn.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Phasms can take the form of almost any other creature or object of Large size or smaller, an ability they use in combat or to aid their infiltrations.

[[folder:Phoenix]]
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->'''Classification:''' Magical Beast (3E), Elemental Beast (4E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 24 (3E), 19 (4E)\\
'''Alignment:''' NeutralGood (1E-3E), Unaligned (4E)

Large, fiery birds capable of resurrecting themselves when slain.

For the 5E iteration of this creature, see the "Elder Elementals" section of the "Elementals" entry.

* GiantFlyer: Phoenixes are usually very large birds, with wingspans at or over the forty-foot range.
* MakeMeWannaShout: A phoenix can emit a piercing war shriek that ''slows'' opponents.
* OrganDrops: Phoenix feathers are useful additions to a ''staff of healing'' or various curative potions, while their eyes, beaks and talons can fetch up to 5000 gp apiece from buyers who aren't appalled by someone killing and butchering a firebird.
* ThePhoenix: There have been several versions and interpretations of this creature over the years. Depending on the edition, they're either NeutralGood inhabitants of the Upper Planes or destructive {{Elemental Embodiment}}s of fire. Either way, they're usually very large, with red-gold plumage, extremely powerful, and hard to keep dead.%%In-universe alignment.
** In the first edition ''Fiend Folio'', it's stated that phoenixes are based on garbled accounts of reptilian ostrich-like monsters called giant striders bathing in fire (see the "Firenewt" entry). This is immediately contradicted by the subsequent ''Monster Manual II'' introducing actual phoenixes to the game.
** 3rd Edition's ''Monster Manual II'' presents phoenixes as being powerful creatures of good and opponents of evil beings, and as being considered omens of either fortune or disasters when seen.
** The 5th Edition ''Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes'' takes the ElementalEmbodiment aspect to the extreme with an elder elemental called the phoenix. It's pretty damn intense, powerful enough to rival an ancient red dragon, and desires to see everything burn.
* PlayingWithFire: While the specifics vary between editions, phoenixes' ties to the element of fire typically allow them some control over flame in the form of spell-like abilities such as ''fire seeds'', ''incendiary cloud'' and ''pyrotechnics''.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: Famously, a dying phoenix will burn itself to ashes and then rise to new life from its own remains. In 3rd Edition, this isn't quite an AutoRevive, but a full-round action the phoenix can take when death is near.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Phoenixes use {{Telepathy}} to communicate with most creatures, but can "speak" with other avians.
* WhiteMagic: Beyond their fiery abilities, phoenixes can also wield curative magic like ''cure light wounds'', ''heal'', ''remove curse'', and even ''[[{{Reincarnation}} reincarnate]]''.

[[folder:Pixie]]
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->'''Classification:''' Fey (3E, 5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 4 (3E), 1/4 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' NeutralGood

Diminutive fairies who delight in playing harmless tricks on people.

* CraftedFromAnimals: Pixie wings can be ground into ''dust of disappearance''. "Naturally, pixies frown on this use of their wings."
* TheDandy[=/=]TheFashionista: Pixies style themselves as the princes and princesses of the sky, and dress accordingly in sparkling silken gowns and doublets, or in outfits crafted from leaves, tree bark and small animal pelts. One of the surest ways to win a pixie over is by complimenting their fashion sense.
* FairyTrickster: They amuse themselves by leading travelers astray with ''dancing lights'', sneakily tying shoelaces together, blowing out candles, and so forth.
* HonestAxe: Pixies like to trick misers out of their treasure, accumulate it in a small hoard, and use it to taunt other greedy people. But if one of their victims takes the pixie's pranks in good humor and shows no greed when led to the treasure pile, the fey may allow the individual to choose an item from their hoard.
* OurPixiesAreDifferent: Pixies resemble diminutive elves with bright, luminous gossamer wings and an assortment of magical powers. They use their spells for harmless pranks, though their pixie dust is said to have magical properties ranging from bestowing flight to putting creatures into an enchanted slumber, leading some mages and monsters to pursue pixies to take advantage of this power.
* PaintingTheFrostOnWindows: On both the Feywild and Material Plane, pixies wake the birds for springtime, sprinkle dew on summer flowers, paint the autumn leaves, and draw frost on windows during winter.
* ShrinkingViolet: They like to spy on other creatures and can barely contain their excitement upon seeing interlopers, but their overwhelming urge to introduce themselves and strike up a friendship is only controlled by the fear of being captured or attacked. Those who wander through a pixie's glade might never see them, yet hear the occasional giggle, gasp or sigh.

[[folder:Planetouched]]
->'''Classification:''' Outsider (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' Usually 1/2 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' Varies by heritage

"Planetoched" is a catch-all term describing those whose bloodlines have been touched by powers beyond the Material Plane. Though this effect is not as pronounced as in a half-celestial or cambion, this extraplanar heritage manifests in supernatural abilities and physical traits for many generations.\\
Several of the most common planetouched, the aasimars, tieflings and genasi, are discussed on [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsRaces the Playable Races page]].

* NonHumanHumanoidHybrid: In older materials, "ogrillons" are half-ogre variants produced from the union of a male ogre and female orc, and are always sterile, while "orogs" are born from male orcs and female ogres. Nowadays, "ogrillon" is just another name for "half-ogre," and can be born from ogres and humans, Medium-sized goblinoids or orcs, while orogs are orcs seemingly blessed by the goddess Luthic with enhanced strength and intelligence.

Brutish humanoids that raid and pillage those around them, or gather into howling hordes that overrun civilization. See [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsRaces the Playable Races subpage]] for more information about them.

[[folder:Otyugh]]
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->'''Classification:''' Aberration (3E, 5E), Natural Beast (4E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 4 (3E), 5 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral (1E-3E, 5E), Unaligned (4E)

Sometimes called gulguthra, these carrion-eaters are often used as living garbage disposals in dungeons.

* BigEater: Otyughs require plenty of waste, carrion and meat. Would-be otyugh masters can easily underestimate the quantity of food necessary to keep an otyugh from wandering off.
* CombatTentacles: Otyughs shove food into their maw with two rubbery tentacles that end in spiky, leaf-like appendages.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Otyughs can eat almost all kinds of refuse, making them a vital if unappreciated part of dungeon ecology.
* HeWasRightThereAllAlong: They often hide by covering themselves in refuse, using their [[EyeOnAStalk eye-stalk]] to spy on their surroundings until prey comes by.
* ItCanThink: They look monstrous, but otyughs are intelligent enough to speak Common, and can even form symbiotic relationships with creatures that give them food and leave them in their refuse. If trained, they're capable of following complex instructions about who to attack and ignore, and thus make surprisingly good guard animals to prevent thieves from accessing garbage chutes or sewers.

[[folder:Owlbear]]
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->'''Classification:''' Magical Beast (3E), Fey Beast (4E), Monstrosity (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 4 (3E), 3 (5E)\\

Infamously vicious carnivores with the front half of a flightless owl and the hindquarters of a bear.

* AttackAnimal: It's ''theoretically'' possible to train an owlbear, but they don't need instructions on how to maul something, and it's not productive to try to teach them anything else. That said, if raised from chicks, owlbears will at least bond with their trainers, but they're sullen when performing most tricks, and it takes special effort to make them ''not'' attack something.
* BearsAreBadNews: Much like full bears, owlbears are known and feared for their ferocity, aggressiveness and foul tempers.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: Some brave/foolish individuals attempt to train owlbears as mounts, but this is a difficult process that requires either regular, vicious beatings or magical coercion, and in the latter case the owlbear will forget its training and revert to its savage nature the instant the spell wears off. Even if conventionally trained, owlbears are hateful mounts with a tendency to throw and attack their riders if they ever sense weakness, i.e. if their rider takes a moderate amount of damage.
* MixAndMatchCritters: They have an owl's head, wings and claws and a bear's torso and legs. This incidentally gives owlbears an odd sleep cycle - they wake at noon, hunt through nightfall, and go to sleep at midnight.
* AWizardDidIt: In-universe scholars generally believe owlbears to have been created as a result of experimentation or some long-forgotten project by ancient wizards. This point is disputed by the fey, however, who claim that owlbears have always existed in the Feywild. The [[WatsonianVersusDoylist Doylist]] explaination is that the creature is inspired by a cheap plastic toy Creator/GaryGygax picked up for his ''Chainmail'' games, a "prehistoric monster" that was a knock-off {{Kaiju}} design.

* NightmareWeaver: These beasts' signature ability is to torment the dreams of every intelligent creature that falls asleep within 10 miles of them. Those creatures who fail their saving throws will suffer horribly vivid nightmares of being stalked and devoured, which prevents them from properly resting (and, in arcane spellcasters' cases, recovering their daily spells), as well as dealing a bit of damage.

* MagicEater: Nishruu feed on magic, though none have been observed starving for lack of magic, or suffering any effects from overfeeding. Any magic items they come in contact with [[ManaDrain lose charges every round,]] or has its power negated until a few rounds after the nishruu moves on -- the latter applies even to artifacts. This is in fact the nishruu's only way of interacting with the material world, as they have no offensive attacks or other abilities. But as a consequence of this, should a nishruu be destroyed, any magic items in contact with its body as it dissipates are empowered by the energy released, so that those that use charges gain some, and any magic weapons temporarily gain the ''spell storing'' trait for a few days.

These fey are nearly as beautiful as their relatives, but are in every other way their exact opposites, seeking to corrupt all that is good and beautiful in nature.

* ProtectThisHouse: Their ''AD&D'' entry notes that nyths can make for good guardians, should some dungeon keeper designate an area their "home" and supply them with food (both conventional as well as flames or electricity they can feed on). Afterward, a nyth will take pride in cunningly defeating those who trespass in their corner of the dungeon, and will only retreat if faced with certain death.

[[caption-width-right:334:A hakeashar variant (3e)]]

* CompositeCharacter: In 2nd Edition, nishruu and hakeashars got distinct ''Monstrous Manual'' entries, but were noted to be related and were functionally identical, differing only slightly in appearance. 3rd Edition decided hakeshars were just a subspecies of nishruu characterized by having a bunch of grasping claws, gnashing mouths and staring eyes visible within their misty forms.

* BizarreAlienReproduction: Once a nyth absorbs enough extra hit points, it splits into two nyths in an explosion of light that also barrages a 30-foot radius with ''magic missiles''.

* WillOTheWisp: They're related to such creatures, and can communicate with them via pulses of light, but nyths differ from will-o-wisps by operating in daylight (and often attacking prey with the sun behind them), and rather than absorbing a dying creature's life essence, nyths hunt and eat small game like rodents, birds and insects.

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[[folder:Oblex]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Elder oblex (5e)]]
->'''Classification:''' Ooze (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/4 (spawn), 5 (adult), 10 (elder) (5E)\\

Intelligent oozes that hunger for other creatures' memories, and can manifest copies of their victims.

* BizarreAlienReproduction: As an oblex devours memories, it grows larger and becomes able to mimic multiple distinct personalities. Eventually it reaches the point where it has to shed a personality or go insane, which spawns a new oblex.
* BlobMonster: Their amorphous bodies can squeeze through an inch-wide gap without difficulty, even the Huge elder oblexes.
* CharmPerson: Adult oblexes can cast the spell three times per day, while elder oblexes can use it at will.
* GlamourFailure: An oblex's simulacra are near-perfect copies of its victims, looking, sounding, and even feeling exactly like them. However, they do not smell like whoever they're impersonating: these duplicates always carry a faint whiff of sulfur.
* IngestingKnowledge: Oblexes feed on thoughts and memories, leaving their prey befuddled and confused. The sharper the mind, the better the meal, so oblexes hunt obviously intelligent targets.
* KillItWithFire: Oblexes have an aversion to fire, and will have disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks after taking fire damage.
* ReplicantSnatching: They can create a simulacrum of a creature whose memories they've absorbed (and thus usually, but not always, someone they've killed), which is indistinguishable from the original save for a slimy tendril extending up to 120 feet to the oblex's main body. The oozes use these simulacra to infiltrate settlements and lure in additional victims.
* StupidityInducingAttack: An oblex can eat an adjacent creature's memories, dealing psychic damage and also imposing penalties on their attack rolls and ability checks as they forget how to fight. Each time a victim suffers this effect, the penalties get worse until they ultimately lose consciousness after five attacks. Fortunately, a rest or magic like ''greater restoration'' or ''heal'' will set them right.
* UnwittingPawn: Though the oblexes don't seem aware of it, they are the result of illithid experimentation on Underdark oozes, and Mordenkainen suspects that the mind flayers' elder brains are psychically monitoring the oblexes' progress, co-opting whatever they learn through their predations.

[[folder:Ogre]]
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->'''Classification:''' Giant (3E, 5E), Natural Humanoid (4E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 3 (3E), 2 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

Hulking, dimwitted brutes with a taste for humanoid flesh. Fearsome as they may seem to humans, ogres are some of the smallest and least of the giant-kin, and occupy the absolute lowest rung of the Ordning -- lower even that the likes of hill giants and trolls -- and consequently are often found serving greater giants. When on their own, ogres mostly associate with orcs and goblinoids, where depending on the specific dynamics they may either use their size and strength to seize control of the smaller humanoids' tribes or be themselves bullied into serving as bruisers and war animals, and with their fellow low-ranking giant-kin the trolls.

* ArtEvolution: 1E and 2E ogres are essentially just big humans. 3E ogres have a much more monstrous, bestial appearance, with pronounced muzzles, thick manes, large ears, and arms dragging almost to the ground. 4E and 5E ogres take a middle road, being less animalistic than the 3E design but retaining thickly muscled bodies, hunched heads, and thick jaws filled with large fangs.
* DumbMuscle: It's mentioned that the majority of ogres can't count to ten even with their fingers in front of them. Their 5th Edition stats put them at Intelligence 5, meaning that ogres are exactly as smart as shambling mounds, non-sapient, predatory piles of compost.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: Goblins are known to use ogres as mounts, either by strapping themselves (or being strapped) to an ogre's back and wielding a crossbow as a tail gunner, or constructing a howdah on the ogre's shoulders that can hold up to four goblins at once.
* NonHumanHumanoidHybrid: In older materials, "ogrillons" are half-ogre variants produced from the union of a male ogre and female orc, and are always sterile, while "orogs" are born from male orcs and female ogres. Nowadays, "ogrillon" is just another name for "half-ogre," and can be born from ogres and humans, Medium-sized goblinoids or orcs, while orogs are orcs seemingly blessed by the goddess Luthic with enhanced strength and intelligence.
* OurOgresAreDifferent: Simple-minded, short-tempered, and always hungry. Ogre magi also exist, based on the oni; see below.
* PrimalStance: Ogres are typically depicted standing in a bow-legged, stoop-shouldered post, with their heads jutting forward and rarely above shoulder level and with their arms dragging low at their sides.
* PrimitiveClubs: Typically, when ogres are shown using any weapons at all, these tend to be giant clubs made from tree limbs or entire trees, sometimes enhanced with metal spikes and similar touches, which make good use of their wielder's immense strength without being held back by their general lack of intelligence. That said, some work out how to use more interesting weapons on the battlefield: {{battering ram}}s, [[ChainPain huge iron chains]], or a ballista carried with the ease of a crossbow.
* SmashMook: Big, strong, dim and with a marked tendency to fight smaller enemies with gigantic clubs, maces and similar blunt weapons, ogres are usually very straightforward bruisers with little tactical acumen or fancy tricks.
* WhoEvenNeedsABrain: The 3.5th Edition ''Monster Manual IV'' mentions an ogre variant dubbed a guard thrall. Ogres are in fact ''so'' stupid that the illithids discovered that an ogre can actually survive having most of its brain bitten out and eaten. While this leaves a basic ogre comatose, through breeding experiments the illithids were able to produce mindless ogre bodyguards that, with the help of a psionic crystal implanted in their mostly-empty skulls, will follow a nearby mind flayer's psychic commands. Even more dangerously, that crystal in the ogre thrall's skull will "echo" an illithid's ''mind blast'' attack (which the thrall is immune to, being mindless) if the thrall is in the area of effect, potentially stunning anything that shrugged off the initial psionic assault.

[[folder:Oni]]
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->'''Classification:''' Giant (3E, 5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 8 (3E), 7 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
Large humanoids that combine an ogre's strength with a terrible cunning and fearsome magical powers.

* EatsBabies: The 5th edition ''Monster Manual'' notes that they find human babies delicious.
* {{Flight}}: They have the power to fly.
* HealingFactor: Oni often have regenerative powers. In older editions this regeneration could be halted by acid or fire, while in 5th edition they just keep regaining hit points on each of their turns as long as they're above 0 hp.
* MagicKnight: Oni have the strength and combat prowess you'd expect of a hulking ogre, and also have potent magical abilities. A lone oni can obliterate an entire party of low-level adventurers in one turn if it decides to cast ''cone of cold''. They also covet magical items, and are willing to work for a wizard who supplies them with some.
* NonIndicativeName: Oni are sometimes called ogre mages because of their resemblance to ogres, even though they are only distantly related to true ogres.
* {{Oni}}: They have a giant's strength but are also intelligent and possess dangerous magic, and appropriately enough spent several editions classified as "ogres." 4e decided there was no point hiding the truth and created an openly "oni" monster category. While there are several types, such as the night haunter and the spirit master, they are all explicitly described as evil creatures with a vaguely ogre-like appearance and invariably some form of shapeshifting or illusion type power they used to deceive humanoids.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Oni can take on the form of humanoids of Small to Medium size or of any Large-sized giant, an ability they use to case a settlement in preparation of an attack.

[[folder:Ooze]]
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->'''Classification:''' Ooze (3E, 5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2 (gray ooze), 2 (ochre jelly, gelatinous cube), 4 (black pudding) (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' Unaligned

Whether they're labeled oozes, jellies, puddings or slimes, there is a dangerous assortment of mindless blobs to threaten adventurers in dungeons.

* BrownNoteBeing: In 2nd Edition, looking at a nymph can permanently blind you, or even ''kill you'' if she's nude at the time. In 3rd Edition, nymphs have the ability to suppress or resume this ability at will, and the effect is restricted to blindness.

While most nymphs are, if not benign, then at least not malicious, some delight in corrupting all that is beautiful and good in nature.

* EvilCounterpart: They're such to normal nymphs.

* WalkingWasteland: An unseelie nymph's presence gradually deforms and kills plants, and fouls water so that nothing can live in it, resulting in a twisted, lifeless landscape. The affected area spreads only 150 feet a week, but can eventually encompass several miles before the evil nymph moves on to befoul another site, and the effects are permanent unless a powerful druid takes charge of the area to heal it.

* SaltSolution: While nishruu mostly ignore attempts to damage them with physical objects, salt is highly disrupting to them, and a thrown handful of the stuff can deal more damage than a blow from a greatsword.

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* StarfishLanguage: Nishruu are intelligent and have their own language, but all attempts to communicate with them have failed.

* SuperSenses: For more mundane prey, nethersight mastiffs are capable of tracking creatures by scent.

* MonsterMouth: They have a formidable array of foot-long teeth, as well as a pair of tusks the length of cavalry lances, all of which it employs in combat.

[[folder:Nothic]]
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->'''Classification:''' Aberration (3E, 5E), Aberrant Humanoid (4E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 3 (3E), 2 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' Any Evil (3E), Unaligned (4E), NeutralEvil (5E)

Wretched, cyclopean creatures created when wizards delve too deeply into knowledge they shouldn't seek and powers they cannot control.

* {{Cyclops}}: A nothic's face is dominated by a single, immense, staring eye.
* DeadlyGaze: A nothic's gaze is its strongest weapon, as it's able to inflict necrosis on any creature it can fix its sight on.
* MakeThemRot: A nothic's gaze causes necrotic damage in beings caught in its line of sight, rotting away their flesh as they live.
* SeeingThroughAnothersEyes: Nothics have a strong psychic connection to Vecna that allows him to see through their eyes, and the god often uses them to keep tabs on his cults in this manner.
* {{Seers}}: A nothic can magically divine information about any creature it can see, becoming privy to a single secret or insight about them.
* WasOnceAMan: Nothics are creeping, tormented monsters transformed by Vecna's curse from wizards who devote their lives to unearthing arcane secrets. Nothics retain no awareness of their former selves, beyond a vague sense of having once been something greater.

[[folder:Nymph]]
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->'''Classification:''' Fey (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 7 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral (2E), ChaoticGood (3E)

Fey embodying the beauty of nature, and who can be quite literally drop-dead gorgeous.

* BrownNoteBeing: In 2nd Edition, looking at a nymph can permanently blind you, or even ''kill you'' if she's nude at the time. In 3rd Edition, nymphs have the ability to suppress or resume this ability at will, and the effect is restricted to blindness.
* CantLiveWithoutYou: In some tellings, a nymph will sicken and perish if their natural sanctums are despoiled, and in turn their homes will decay if the nymph is injured.
* DeadlyGaze: When they aren't inverting the trope with their blinding beauty, an angry nymph can stun a creature with a look.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Wild animals flock to a nymph's sanctum to enjoy her company and receive healing, and will ignore any natural hostility towards each other when around her.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Their old lore holds that a nymph's kiss will cause a man to forget all their painful and troubling memories for the rest of the day, which can be problematic depending on the situation.
* MagicHair: A lock of a nymph's hair can be used to brew a sleeping potion, or be enchanted and woven into a cloak that enhances the wearer's Charisma.
* OurNymphsAreDifferent: Nymphs are nature spirits with some resemblance to elven women, known for being incredibly beautiful. They dwell in and protect places of unspoiled natural beauty such as groves, pools or mountain peaks, and may in fact spontaneously form in such places to reflect their splendor. They can be kind and graceful to mortals they regard as allies of nature, particularly elves and druids, but nymphs are also wild and mercurial as nature itself.
* SwissArmyTears: A nymph's tears can be used as an ingredient in a ''philter of love''.

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[[folder:Oblex]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d&d_oblex_5e.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Elder oblex (5e)]]
->'''Classification:''' Ooze (5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/4 (spawn), 5 (adult), 10 (elder) (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil

Intelligent oozes that hunger for other creatures' memories, and can manifest copies of their victims.

* BizarreAlienReproduction: As an oblex devours memories, it grows larger and becomes able to mimic multiple distinct personalities. Eventually it reaches the point where it has to shed a personality or go insane, which spawns a new oblex.
* BlobMonster: Their amorphous bodies can squeeze through an inch-wide gap without difficulty, even the Huge elder oblexes.
* CharmPerson: Adult oblexes can cast the spell three times per day, while elder oblexes can use it at will.
* GlamourFailure: An oblex's simulacra are near-perfect copies of its victims, looking, sounding, and even feeling exactly like them. However, they do not smell like whoever they're impersonating: these duplicates always carry a faint whiff of sulfur.
* IngestingKnowledge: Oblexes feed on thoughts and memories, leaving their prey befuddled and confused. The sharper the mind, the better the meal, so oblexes hunt obviously intelligent targets.
* KillItWithFire: Oblexes have an aversion to fire, and will have disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks after taking fire damage.
* ReplicantSnatching: They can create a simulacrum of a creature whose memories they've absorbed (and thus usually, but not always, someone they've killed), which is indistinguishable from the original save for a slimy tendril extending up to 120 feet to the oblex's main body. The oozes use these simulacra to infiltrate settlements and lure in additional victims.
* StupidityInducingAttack: An oblex can eat an adjacent creature's memories, dealing psychic damage and also imposing penalties on their attack rolls and ability checks as they forget how to fight. Each time a victim suffers this effect, the penalties get worse until they ultimately lose consciousness after five attacks. Fortunately, a rest or magic like ''greater restoration'' or ''heal'' will set them right.
* UnwittingPawn: Though the oblexes don't seem aware of it, they are the result of illithid experimentation on Underdark oozes, and Mordenkainen suspects that the mind flayers' elder brains are psychically monitoring the oblexes' progress, co-opting whatever they learn through their predations.

[[folder:Ogre]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:5E]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:[=3E=]]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ogre_d&d_3e.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:[=2E=]]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ogre_d&d_2e.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->'''Classification:''' Giant (3E, 5E), Natural Humanoid (4E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 3 (3E), 2 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

Hulking, dimwitted brutes with a taste for humanoid flesh. Fearsome as they may seem to humans, ogres are some of the smallest and least of the giant-kin, and occupy the absolute lowest rung of the Ordning -- lower even that the likes of hill giants and trolls -- and consequently are often found serving greater giants. When on their own, ogres mostly associate with orcs and goblinoids, where depending on the specific dynamics they may either use their size and strength to seize control of the smaller humanoids' tribes or be themselves bullied into serving as bruisers and war animals, and with their fellow low-ranking giant-kin the trolls.

* ArtEvolution: 1E and 2E ogres are essentially just big humans. 3E ogres have a much more monstrous, bestial appearance, with pronounced muzzles, thick manes, large ears, and arms dragging almost to the ground. 4E and 5E ogres take a middle road, being less animalistic than the 3E design but retaining thickly muscled bodies, hunched heads, and thick jaws filled with large fangs.
* DumbMuscle: It's mentioned that the majority of ogres can't count to ten even with their fingers in front of them. Their 5th Edition stats put them at Intelligence 5, meaning that ogres are exactly as smart as shambling mounds, non-sapient, predatory piles of compost.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: Goblins are known to use ogres as mounts, either by strapping themselves (or being strapped) to an ogre's back and wielding a crossbow as a tail gunner, or constructing a howdah on the ogre's shoulders that can hold up to four goblins at once.
* NonHumanHumanoidHybrid: In older materials, "ogrillons" are half-ogre variants produced from the union of a male ogre and female orc, and are always sterile, while "orogs" are born from male orcs and female ogres. Nowadays, "ogrillon" is just another name for "half-ogre," and can be born from ogres and humans, Medium-sized goblinoids or orcs, while orogs are orcs seemingly blessed by the goddess Luthic with enhanced strength and intelligence.
* OurOgresAreDifferent: Simple-minded, short-tempered, and always hungry. Ogre magi also exist, based on the oni; see below.
* PrimalStance: Ogres are typically depicted standing in a bow-legged, stoop-shouldered post, with their heads jutting forward and rarely above shoulder level and with their arms dragging low at their sides.
* PrimitiveClubs: Typically, when ogres are shown using any weapons at all, these tend to be giant clubs made from tree limbs or entire trees, sometimes enhanced with metal spikes and similar touches, which make good use of their wielder's immense strength without being held back by their general lack of intelligence. That said, some work out how to use more interesting weapons on the battlefield: {{battering ram}}s, [[ChainPain huge iron chains]], or a ballista carried with the ease of a crossbow.
* SmashMook: Big, strong, dim and with a marked tendency to fight smaller enemies with gigantic clubs, maces and similar blunt weapons, ogres are usually very straightforward bruisers with little tactical acumen or fancy tricks.
* WhoEvenNeedsABrain: The 3.5th Edition ''Monster Manual IV'' mentions an ogre variant dubbed a guard thrall. Ogres are in fact ''so'' stupid that the illithids discovered that an ogre can actually survive having most of its brain bitten out and eaten. While this leaves a basic ogre comatose, through breeding experiments the illithids were able to produce mindless ogre bodyguards that, with the help of a psionic crystal implanted in their mostly-empty skulls, will follow a nearby mind flayer's psychic commands. Even more dangerously, that crystal in the ogre thrall's skull will "echo" an illithid's ''mind blast'' attack (which the thrall is immune to, being mindless) if the thrall is in the area of effect, potentially stunning anything that shrugged off the initial psionic assault.

[[folder:Oni]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d&d_oni_5e.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:5e]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:"Ogre mage" (3e)]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d&d_ogre_mage_3e.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]
->'''Classification:''' Giant (3E, 5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 8 (3E), 7 (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
Large humanoids that combine an ogre's strength with a terrible cunning and fearsome magical powers.

* EatsBabies: The 5th edition ''Monster Manual'' notes that they find human babies delicious.
* {{Flight}}: They have the power to fly.
* HealingFactor: Oni often have regenerative powers. In older editions this regeneration could be halted by acid or fire, while in 5th edition they just keep regaining hit points on each of their turns as long as they're above 0 hp.
* MagicKnight: Oni have the strength and combat prowess you'd expect of a hulking ogre, and also have potent magical abilities. A lone oni can obliterate an entire party of low-level adventurers in one turn if it decides to cast ''cone of cold''. They also covet magical items, and are willing to work for a wizard who supplies them with some.
* NonIndicativeName: Oni are sometimes called ogre mages because of their resemblance to ogres, even though they are only distantly related to true ogres.
* {{Oni}}: They have a giant's strength but are also intelligent and possess dangerous magic, and appropriately enough spent several editions classified as "ogres." 4e decided there was no point hiding the truth and created an openly "oni" monster category. While there are several types, such as the night haunter and the spirit master, they are all explicitly described as evil creatures with a vaguely ogre-like appearance and invariably some form of shapeshifting or illusion type power they used to deceive humanoids.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Oni can take on the form of humanoids of Small to Medium size or of any Large-sized giant, an ability they use to case a settlement in preparation of an attack.

[[folder:Ooze]]
[[quoteright:349:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d&d_black_pudding_5e.png]]
[[caption-width-right:349:Black pudding (5e)]]
->'''Classification:''' Ooze (3E, 5E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2 (gray ooze), 2 (ochre jelly, gelatinous cube), 4 (black pudding) (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' Unaligned

Whether they're labeled oozes, jellies, puddings or slimes, there is a dangerous assortment of mindless blobs to threaten adventurers in dungeons.

[[folder:Nightseed]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d&d_nightseed_3e.png]]

->'''Classification:''' Ooze (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 14 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' Unaligned

Huge, roving blots of hungry darkness spawned by the Far Realm, which haunt the darkest depths of the earth or the surface on moonless nights.

* AcidAttack: A nightseed secretes a digestive acid that dissolves organic material except clothing.
* BlobMonster: A nightseed is a vast sack of pulsing hunger.
* HungryMenace: Nightseeds are driven by hunger and always move toward food, except when deterred by sunlight.
* SwallowedWhole: Rather than battering foes with acidic slam attacks, a nightseed can simply engulf something smaller than it. This deals a massive amount of damage, [[LifeDrain gives the nightseed temporary hit points]], and if its victims are spellcasters or psions, [[PowerParasite lets the nightseed use their spells or powers.]]
* WeakenedByTheLight: Natural sunlight slows down nightseeds and eventually causes them to evaporate entirely.

* MasterSwordsman: In 3rd Edition, nimblewrights have feats like Improved Disarm and Expertise, their Augmented Critial ability gives them a 60% chance to score a CriticalHit with their rapiers, and they can make trip attacks with them as well.

* OurSirensAreDifferent: Nereids have notably lovely singing voices, and have been known to tempt amorous sailors to their watery deaths, but they don't have any actual supernatural singing ability -- that trait belongs to sirines, a distinctly different kind of fey. Nereids are in fact shy and would prefer to hide from a potential threat rather than draw someone into a fight.

* SupernaturalSuffocation: A nereid's kiss (i.e. touch attack) can fill an enemy's lungs with water, forcing them to save or drown. Though 2nd Edition notes that should a creature succeed his saving throw from being kissed by a nereid, "he finds total ecstasy."

* AdmiringTheAbomination: Brain collectors may attract a retinue of mind flayers who wish to study its ability to extract brains at long range, and also get to eat the brains the neh-thalggu disdains to add to its collection.
* BrainTheft: The neh-thalggu's most feared ability is to, every few rounds, attempt to use psionics to cause a victim's brain to fly out of their skull through extradimensional means, allowing the brain collector to swallow the purloined brain for storage within a bulge upon its head. Neh-thalggu can store up to 13 brains in this way, and can draw upon the captured brains' cumulative ranks in Knowledge skills (in 3rd Edition), or even cast wizard spells of up to 3rd level from them (in 2nd Edition).

* OneGenderRace: Nereids are all female; their ''AD&D'' rules let them assume male forms when interacting with groups of women, but most of the time those guises are unsuccessful at getting women to lower their guard.

* OurSirensAreDifferent: Nereids have notably lovely singing voices, and have been known to tempt sailors in pursuit of a kiss to their watery deaths, but they don't have any actual supernatural singing ability -- that trait belongs to sirines, a distinctly different kind of fey.

[[folder:Neogi]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d&d_neogi_3e.jpg]]

->'''Classification:''' Aberration (3.5E, 5E), Magical Beast (4E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/4 (hatchling), 4 (neogi), 6 (master) (3.5E); 1/8 (hatchling), 3 (neogi), 4 (master) (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil

Creatures with spider-like bodies but eel-like heads and necks, the neogi are slavers and traders who wander through and between the worlds of the Material Plane, hated by all they meet but always able to find customers.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: They cannot comprehend any social bond aside from master and slave.
* CanonImmigrant: The neogi originated in the ''TabletopGame/{{Spelljammer}}'' setting, but have since spread to more general ''D&D'' cosmology.
* CharmPerson: Neogi have the ability to control minds, allowing them to subjugate physically superior beings.
* ChestBurster: Neogi reproduce by laying their eggs within another member of their species, derisively called a "great old master" by the others. The resulting spawn gestate within the adult neogi's body, eating it from the inside out before chewing their way to freedom.
* MadeASlave: Neogi are enthusiastic slavers, and measure their place in society by how many other sapients they have forced into their service -- they can even psychically dominate other beings to aid this endeavor. This makes dealing with them extremely dangerous, as even neogi who present a reasonable and mercantile facade will attempt to enslave their trading partners as soon as opportunity arises. Neogi who are enslaved are ''not'' forbidden from owning property, including slaves of their own, so the entire neogi culture is one giant chain of masters and slaves.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Neogi resemble eels sprouting from the bodies of giant spiders.
* SuperSpit: All neogi have venomous bites, but a few develop the ability to spit this venom as a ranged attack.
* WeaponizedOffspring: When attacked, great old masters -- the neogi reproductive stage -- can release clutches of aggressive, vicious spawn as a defense mechanism.

[[folder:Nereid]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d&d_nereid_2e.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:Nereid with water weird (2e)]]
->'''Classification:''' Fey (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 4 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' Any Chaotic (2E), ChaoticNeutral (3E)

Capricious fey from the Elemental Plane of Water who sometimes explore Material Plane waters, leading to stories of them luring sailors to their dooms.

Capricious fey from the Elemental Plane of Water who sometimes explore Material Plane seas, where they infamously lure sailors to their dooms.

* MakingASplash: They can control the waters of their homes, either to amuse themselves by sculpting shapes from waves, or to impede attackers with rough surf.

* SuperSpit: 2nd Edition nerids can spit a blinding venom at opponents.
* SupernaturalSuffocation: A nereid's kiss (i.e. touch attack) can fill an enemy's lungs with water, forcing them to save or drown. Though 2nd Edition notes that should a creature succeed his saving throw from being kissed by a nereid, "he finds total ecstasy."

[[folder:Nerra]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d&d_nerra_3e.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:A varoot (left), kalareem (middle) and sillit (right) (3e)]]
->'''Classification:''' Outsider (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 1 (varoot), 3 (kalareem), 6 (sillit) (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

Enigmatic, reflective-skinned humanoids from the Plane of Mirrors, who observe the Material Plane and kidnap key individuals, presumably in preparation of an invasion. The varoots are the most common of the nerra, acting as their primary infiltrators, while kalareems are their soldiers and guardians of the Plane of Mirrors, and both defer to the leadership of the sillits.

Nagpas have appeared sporadically throughout the game's history; their lore tends to fluctuate, but they're typically former humanoids who meddled with things they shouldn't have and were cursed by angry gods. In their most recent lore, they were a cabal of wizards who betrayed the elf mage who would become the Raven Queen, and were cursed to be able to learn nothing unless they plucked it from the ruins of civilizations.

* CreativeSterility: In 5th Edition, the Raven Queen cursed them to be unable to gather, expand or create new knowledge of their own or to learn it from the living, forcing them to scavenge tidbits of lore from the ruins of fallen civilizations.

[[folder:Neogi]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d&d_neogi_3e.jpg]]

->'''Classification:''' Aberration (3.5E, 5E), Magical Beast (4E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/4 (hatchling), 4 (neogi), 6 (master) (3.5E); 1/8 (hatchling), 3 (neogi), 4 (master) (5E)\\
'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil

Creatures with spider-like bodies but eel-like heads and necks, the neogi are slavers and traders who wander through and between the worlds of the Material Plane, hated by all they meet but always able to find customers.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: They cannot comprehend any social bond aside from master and slave.
* CanonImmigrant: The neogi originated in the ''TabletopGame/{{Spelljammer}}'' setting, but have since spread to more general ''D&D'' cosmology.
* CharmPerson: Neogi have the ability to control minds, allowing them to subjugate physically superior beings.
* ChestBurster: Neogi reproduce by laying their eggs within another member of their species, derisively called a "great old master" by the others. The resulting spawn gestate within the adult neogi's body, eating it from the inside out before chewing their way to freedom.
* MadeASlave: Neogi are enthusiastic slavers, and measure their place in society by how many other sapients they have forced into their service -- they can even psychically dominate other beings to aid this endeavor. This makes dealing with them extremely dangerous, as even neogi who present a reasonable and mercantile facade will attempt to enslave their trading partners as soon as opportunity arises. Neogi who are enslaved are ''not'' forbidden from owning property, including slaves of their own, so the entire neogi culture is one giant chain of masters and slaves.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Neogi resemble eels sprouting from the bodies of giant spiders.
* SuperSpit: All neogi have venomous bites, but a few develop the ability to spit this venom as a ranged attack.
* WeaponizedOffspring: When attacked, great old masters -- the neogi reproductive stage -- can release clutches of aggressive, vicious spawn as a defense mechanism.

[[folder:Nerra]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d&d_nerra_3e.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:A varoot (left), kalareem (middle) and sillit (right) (3e)]]
->'''Classification:''' Outsider (3E)\\
'''Challenge Rating:''' 1 (varoot), 3 (kalareem), 6 (sillit) (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

Enigmatic, reflective-skinned humanoids from the Plane of Mirrors, who observe the Material Plane and kidnap key individuals, presumably in preparation of an invasion. The varoots are the most common of the nerra, acting as their primary infiltrators, while kalareems are their soldiers and guardians of the Plane of Mirrors, and both defer to the leadership of the sillits.